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shipped in 1809, 1810, and the early part of 1811. 
Charles Henry Hall, of Pomfret, Connecticut, (after- 
wards so well known as a breeder of horses, cattle, 
&c., in New York), who, I think, was American 
consul at Cadiz, at the time sent home about 50 
Merinos to his father, Dr. Hall. “They were 
Paulars, and good ones, too,” says a competent judge. 
Peck & Atwater, of New Haven, imported a cargo 
of Merinos into that city in 1810.* <A cargo of Infan- 
tados went into New London in 1810 or 1811. 
Abraham Heaton, of New Haven, and an associate, 
imported a cargo into that place. Mr. Heaton writes 
me (January 29, 1862): “I have no invoice of the 
particular breed of the sheep at this time, but I think 
I gave the papers regarding the breed, &., to Daniel 
Bacon, of Woodbury, of this state, since dead, he 
having been one of the principal purchasers. I well 
recollect that a part of the cargo was composed of 
what is called the Guadalupe breed.” A cargo of fine 
Paulars went into New York in 1811. 
* Mr. Jacob N. Blakeslee, of Watertown, Conn., whose flock on the 
maternal side is descended from these sheep, writes me, January 15, 
1862: “TI took them of Captain Peck, to keep one year, for half the 
wool, and half the increase; they were the same he selected in Spain; 
they had the Spanish brand on the nose of every sheep; he told me 
he selectedthem himself from the flock of the ‘Don Delle Infandado,’ 
which was the best flock in Spain.” 
Since the preceding was written, I have found a letter from Mr. 
Blakeslee, in Appendix to Mr. Morrell’s ‘‘ American Shepherd,” in 
which he says: “I began a flock of sheep, in 1815, that were imported 
by Peck & Atwater, of New Haven. A part of them were the 
Negretti, and a part Montarco. IJ let them run together till 1823.” 
There are other conflicts in the statements ofthe two letters. I men- 
tion it as a lesson to a large class of sheep breeders, of the impropriety 
of relying solely on their memory in regard to ancient pedigrees. 
