MISCELLANEOUS. 273 



INDEPENDES"CE. 



Chestnut gelding, l^. high, foaled about 1832, bred 

 by Captain Joshua Wing, of Winthrop, got by Conqueror, 

 a horse brought from Massachusetts, pedigree unknown, 

 dam, by Old "Winthrop Messenger. Wing sold him, when 

 six years old, to Oliver Walton, of Boston. In 1839, 

 Nov. 15, he trotted a race, mile heats three in five, against 

 Lady SufEolk, beating her in 2.45J, 2.45, 2.47. He trotted 

 the same race, the next day, against Lady SufEolk, beating 

 her again. Mr. Woodruff says, " Independence was a 

 good horse. He had not great speed then, but he after- 

 wards got to be very fast." In 1848, on the 4th of July, 

 he trotted a race, mile heats, under saddle, against Lady 

 Suffolk and Beppo, on the old Beacon Course. Lady 

 Suffolk won the first heat in 2.28J, the second was a dead 

 heat between her and Beppo, in 2.28, the third heat Inde- 

 pendence won in 2.28. The fourth and fifth were won by 

 Lady Suffolk. 



POST BOY. 



Bay gelding, 15 hands high, foaled in 18 — , bred in Bel- 

 grade, Me. His pedigree is unknown, but he was said to 

 be o^Messenger descent. Oliver Walton, bought him, 

 and took him to Massachusetts, and sold him to John 

 Welch, of Boston, and he to Spencer Vinal. He was 

 afterwards taken to Kew York. Oct. 23, 1843, at Boston, 

 he beat Dying Sargeant in 2.40, 2.44, 2.46. 



DYING SARGEANT. 



Black gelding, 154 hands high, foaled about 183-, pedi- 

 gree unknown. Oiiver Walton bought him in Maine, and 

 took him to Massachusetts. He was a desperate puller. 

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