COLONIAL HORSE HISTORY—NEW ENGLAND.
First importations to Boston and to Salem—Importations
from Holland brought high prices—They were not pacers and
not over fourteen hands—In 1640 horses were exported to
the West Indies—First American newspaper and first horse
advertisement—Average sizes—The different gaits—CONNECTICUT,
first plantation, 1636—Post horses provided for by law—All
horses branded—Sizes and Gaits—An Englishman’s experience
with pacers—Lindsay’s Arabian—RHODE ISLAND, Founded by Roger
Williams, 1636—No direct importations ever made—Horses largely
exported to other colonies 1690—Possibly some to Canada—Pacing
races a common amusement—Prohibited, 1749—Size of the
Narragansetts compared with the Virginians 128-134