MESSENBEB STOCK. 27 



BUSH MESSENGER. 



Dapple gray stallion, 16 hands high, and weighed 1,300 

 pounds; foaled in 1833, bred by William Bradbury, of 

 Byron, Me., got by Winthrop Messenger, while the latter 

 ■was owned by John M. Eustis of Dixfleld. His dam was 

 a medium size black mare, whose pedigree was unknown. 

 Mr. Bradbury let Benjamin Palmer of Eeadfield have 

 h im and he was afterwards known as the Palmer Horse. 



He had his thigh broken by a kick, which caused his 

 death in 1840, when only seven years old. It is said that 

 Mr. Bradbury was taking his mare to a Morgan horse 

 then owned by Spaulding Smith, of "Wilton, that she be- 

 came lame, and he being unable to proceed farther than 

 Dixfleld, was induced, against his wishes, to have her 

 served by Winthrop Messenger; the produce was Bush 

 Messenger. 



QUIMBY MESSENGER, 



Gray stallion, 16 hands high, and weighed about 1,200 

 pounds; foaled in 1830, bred by John Quimby of Greene, 

 got by Winthrop Messenger, dam a bay mare (called the 

 Mower mare), pedigree unknown. He was c^onsidered a 

 fine horse, and never passed out of Mr. Quimby's hands. 

 He died in 1837, of horse ail. 



HUNTON HORSE. 



Gray stallion, in his old age white as chalk, 16 hands 

 high, and weighed 1,100 pounds; foaled in 1840, bred by 

 the widow Lane, of Readfield, Me., got by Bush Messen- 

 ger, dam a large white mare, pedigree unknown. Peter 

 Eifleld bought him when two years old, and sold him 

 when three, to Wellington Plunton, of Wayne. He was 

 afterwards purchased by America Earrar of Bucklield, 



