Jenny Cameron - Family 40

Jenny Cameron* (b f 1742 Quiet Cuddy)
|    Betty Blazella* (f 1751 Blaze [Panton's]) (*in utero)
|         Nonpareil 2nd (c 1767 Nonpareil 1st)
|         Yorick [Tayloe's] (ch c 1760 Traveller* [Morton's])
|    Little David [Tayloe's] (c c1756 Childers*)
|    Smiling Tom [Tayloe's] (ch c 1757 Tom Jones*)
|    Silverlegs [McCarty's] (b c c1761 Traveller* [Morton's])
|    Traveller [Lloyd's] (b c 1763 Traveller* [Morton's])
? Traveller Mare (f c1760 Traveller* [Morton's])
|         Silvereye Mare (f Silvereye*)
|              Jenny Cameron [Mann Page's] (f Whittington*)
? Childers Mare (f c1762 Childers*)
|         Yorick Mare (f Yorick [Tayloe's])
|              Clockfast Mare (f Clockfast*)
|                   Chanticleer [Wilkes's] (b c 1799 Old Chanticleer)
? Mark Anthony Mare (f Mark Anthony [Lee's])
|         Medley Mare (f Medley*)
|              Bet Bounce (f Sir Harry*)
|                   Arab (br c 1820 Sir Archy)
? Valiant Mare (f Valiant*)
     Jolly Roger Mare (f Jolly Roger*)
          Fearnought Mare (f Fearnought*)
               Pilgrim Mare (f Pilgrim [Meade's])
                    Diomed Mare (f Diomed*)
                         St Paul Mare (f St Paul*)
                              Roxana (f Madison [Wilkes'])
                                   Chesterfield (b c 1831 Pacific)

Jenny Cameron*

A possible pedigree for Jenny Cameron*, based on records in Cheny and the American Turf Register, is given by Fairfax Harrison: "b m 1742, by Appleyard's Quiet Cuddy, son of Ld Portmore's Old Fox: 'a high bred-mare of Mr Witty's' [not otherwise identified, but possibly the dam of Witty's Grenadier, b c 1746, by Blaze (GSB, i, 205) on which hypothesis the pedigree could be extended to the taproot of the No 40 Family]" [E1:83].

Jenny Cameron's pedigree, as it appears in the American Stud Book, is based on the identification of Mr Witty's Mare as "Mr Witty's famous mare Cabbage-arse", who was confused with the Duke of Rutland's, and later the Duke of Devonshire's Miss Belvoir, whom Pick noted was frequently called "the Cabbage-arsed mare".

However, George Witty never owned Miss Belvoir, and no Jenny Cameron* is attributed to her in the General Stud Book. Miss Belvoir is shown to have produced seven foals, five of them fillies. In addition, six of Miss Belvoir's progeny, whose color was recorded, are grey, and all are sired by the bay Flying Childers, which suggests that Miss Belvoir was a grey producer.

Jenny Cameron* produced only one filly, Betty Blazella*, with an authenticated pedigree. Since she foaled colts to both Childers* and Morton's Traveller* when all three horses were in residence at the Mount Airy stud of John Tayloe II, it is possible that she also produced some daughters.

Mann Page's Jenny Cameron

There is no surviving proof that Mann Page's Jenny Cameron descends from Jenny Cameron*, although in support Fairfax Harrison notes that Mann Page was a brother-in-law, and later executor, of John Tayloe 2nd [E1:87].

Valiant Mare

Although the American Stud Book says Valiant Mare was a daughter of Jenny Cameron*, this is without documentation, and she is more likely to have come from the Byrd stud, possibly Family A13, or Family a48.