Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

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posed to Robert Colling to buy the bull together, and on Good
Friday, 1783, the two went to Haughton Hill, and asked a price of
Fawcett for him, and ten guineas were asked. They bid him eight
guineas, and Fawcett refused, and Mr. R. Colling would give no
more. On the following Sunday my father went and bargained for
the bull, and agreed to give ten guineas. On his way home, he met
Robert Colling, and said, "I have bought Fawcett's bull at ten
• guineas
;" and Colling said, " I will take half," and so it was agreed.
My father went for the bull next day, Monday, and paid the ten
guineas. The two owned him together during the summer of 1783.
My father had eleven cows served by him, and Colling had seventeen,
in the season. In November following, Charles Colling said to
my father, that as they were done with the bull for the season, he
would give them eight guineas for him ; my father replied he was
willing, if Robert was, and so they sold ,the bull. It was a condition
of- the sale of my father's part, that he should have all his cows
served by the bull, as long as Charles Colling owned him. In February,
1784, my father wanted a cow served by the bull, and sent
her to Ketton. Mr. C. Colling sent the man, who took the cow, back
to my father, to say that the bull should serve the cow, but he would
charge five guineas for it. My father sent the man to Ketton for
the cow, and brought her away unserved ; and he had no cows
served by the bull afterwards. Charles Colling kept the bull two
years, and then sold him to Mr. Hubback, of Northumberland. The
bull was called Hubback's bull for many years after Colling sold him.
I have heard these facts many times from my father and R. Colling.
Mr. Alexander Hall, in a letter to Mr. Thomas Bates* the celebrated
breeder, under date of Feb. 14, 1820, says, "I was born in
the year 1754, and resided the most of my life at Haughton. Mr.
Thomas Hall, with whom I 'ived until his death, resided there, and
was a breeder of short-horns for thirty years, before 1778. I knew
Mr. Stephenson, of Ketton, Mr. Colling, of Skerningham, father of
Robert and Charles, Mr. Waistell, of Great Burdon, Mr. Robson, of
Dinsdale, Mr. Bamlet, of Norton, Mr. Fawcett, of Haughton Hill,
Mr. Hunter, Mr. Snowdon, and Mr. Banks of Hurworth, and I was
well acquainted with their cattle. After the death of Mr. Thomas
Hall, I was a breeder of short-horns,, and sold a cow to Charles Col-
ling and two to Robert. I used Snowdon's bull and Fawcett's bull,
(afterwards called Hubback.) Mr. Hunter got his cattle of Mr.
Stephenson, of Ketton, and Mr. Banks got his of Mr. Waistell, of
Great Burdon. Mr. Snowdon went to live at Hurworth about the
year 1773. He bred his bull, the sire of Hubback, after he went to
Hurworth, and he was got by Mr. Robson's bull.
"In that day I never heard that any of these gentlemen had Dutch
or Kyloe blood in their cattle, and they were all noted for the goodness
of their short-horns."
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