206 NOTED MAINE BOUSES. 



NETTIE. 



Eoan mare, with black points, foaled in 1867, bred by 

 John Andrews, Exeter, Me., got by Brown Harry, dam, 

 of Messenger descent. Owned by Samuel T. Luce, 

 Levant, Me. 



GEN. JACKSON. 

 Dapple brown stallion, with small blaze in face, 15J 

 hands high, and weighs 1000 pounds, foaled May 14, 1868, 

 bred by Ira C. Harmon, Lee, Me., got by the Humphrey 

 horse, he by Sherman Black Hawk, dam, Nellie, by Col. 

 Crockett, he by Old Col. Crockett. July 4, 1873, at the 

 Lee Trotting Park, in a race with Paddy, he won in 

 straight heats, the fastest being 2.53. Afterwards a 

 match was made between them and trotted at Bangor, in 

 which Gen. Jackson was beaten, being in an unfit condi- 

 tion. Mr. Harmon sold him, in the fall of 1873, to Fred. 

 Jordan, of Oldtown. 



KATE GILBERT. 



Brown mare, about 15 hands high, foaled in 1865, bred 

 by Ezekiel Bosworth, Hartford, Me., got by Champion 

 Black Hawk, he by Eix Black Hawk, and he by the orig- 

 inal Vermont Black Hawk. The dam of Kate Gilbert 

 was a medium size bay mare, got by a son of Trustee 

 Messenger, and out of a mare by Rising Sun. Bosworth 

 sold her, when three years old, to his brother, at Bryant's 

 Pond, Me., he to R. A. Gowell, of Canton, and he to Ear- 

 rar & Morrill, of Buckfield, and they took her to Massa- 

 chusetts. In 1872, in a race, she obtained a record of 

 2.88i. At Concord, N. H., Sept. 24, 1873, she won a race, 

 beating Dictator, Green Mountain Maid,. Flora and Silvia 



