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TAMMANY. 



Light gray gelding, 15| ||^nds high, foaled in 1864, 

 formerly owned by Daniel M. Atherton, Houlton, Aroos- 

 took county, Me., " got by a bay stallion with black points, 

 with deep shoulders, high withers and large stifles, show- 

 ing good breeding in every point." He was said to be by 

 Rising Sun, and is now running on a stage team in Pis- 

 cataquis county. The dam of Tammany was a gray, in- 

 bred. Messenger mare, got by "Warrior, he by Young 

 ■ Winthorp Messenger, by Winthrop Messenger. Tam- 

 many resembles his dam in color, and his sire in form and 

 general characteristics. He was afterwards owned by 0. 

 P. Jordan, of Oldtown, and when seven years old he got 

 a record of 2.27 in a race at Bangor. He was afterwards 

 sold to H. N. Smith, of New York. Warrior, the sire of 

 the dam of Tammany, was also the sire of Lady Messen- 

 ger, the dam of Crown Prince (record 2.25) , Gray Ches- 

 ter, etc. 



NABOCKLISH. 



Afterwards called John McKinney, was a dark brown 

 gelding, with narrow white stripe in the face, and white 

 stockings behind; standing 15 hands, 3 inches high, foaled 

 about 1852, bred by Osborn Baker, Carthage, Me., got by 

 Rising Sun, dam, a black mare with white stripe in the 

 face, pedigree unknown. Baker sold him, when one year 

 old, to Hiram Coburn, of Carthage. Coburn sold him, 

 and after passing through several hands, he become the 

 property of Isaiah Pompilly, of Auburn. He sold him 

 to Samuel Perley, of Brettun's Mills, Livermore, when 

 five years old, and Perley took him to Illinois in 1858 or 



1859. 



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