| Name of Horse | Owner | Description | Other Note(s) |
| Darkie | Tom Baker | 400 lb., black | Balky; sold to Gilbert Stringer, Hodge’s Cove |
| Queen | Tom Baker | 900 lb., brown | Often had bad case of lampers |
| Captain | Tom & John Baker (bro’s.) | 600 lb., white | Used to kick! |
| Star | Dan Balsom | “My grandfather (Dan Balsom) had a horse named Star. She was all white and she too was used for hauling wood. I remember one weekend when we were “around the bay” he received a call from someone about a horse that was sick and laying on the ground beside the cemetery fence out on the Point. Dad (Jim Pittman) drove him down there to take a look and sure enough it was his horse. They had to put her down. They took her body to House Cove and buried her there. (Shelly Rivard) Foal from Lewis Seward’s Moll |
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| Molly | John Butt | 450 lb., brown | |
| Floss | John Butt | Used by him and the Hiscocks, his wife’s people; balky | |
| Molly | Caleb Churchill | ||
| Prince | Clayton Churchill | white | |
| Bill | John Churchill | 350 lb., grey | Traded to someone (?) for a cow Perished one winter … John’s sons Cale and George hand-catted 4000 rind-sticks from Dodge’s Mash out to Hodge’s Cove Beach (for schooner pick up) |
| Trix | Walt & Ned Curtis | 1000 lb., black | |
| Nelson | Walt & Ned Curtis | 600 lb., white | |
| Prince | Albert Drover | 600 lb., red | |
| Beauty | Ches Drover | White | Foal of Trix, Jake Smith’s mare |
| Roy | Ches Drover | ||
| Queen | Eloil Drover | 700 lb., black | Used to jump fences; needed to have a yoke around her neck; sold to Willis Spurrell, Butter Cove |
| Bell | Jim Drover | ||
| Joe Drover | Small brown | ||
| Duke | Walt Drover | grey | |
| Obediah Higgins | Small pony | ||
| Beaut | Jim Langdon | 900 lb., black | Bought from Johnny Brown, Hatchet Cove |
| Frank | Jim Langdon | 600 lb., white | |
| Jack | Abijah Peddle | 400 lb., red | Bought from Bram Smith; foal from Jenny |
| Alex Peddle, Sr. | |||
| Traveler | Andrew Peddle, Sr. | 500 lb., red | Gen. Lee’s horses name; a foal from Bram Smith’s mare Jenny? |
| Nell | Archer Peddle | ||
| Pinky | Caleb Peddle | 350 lb., black | |
| Bon | Eugene Peddle | 600 lb., red | Quiet, obedient, gentle; hauled “dozens” of coffins to the cemetery |
| Patsy | Joe Peddle | Newfoundland pony | |
| Harry | Harvey Peddle | 400 lb., white | |
| Phil | Leander/Burt Peddle | 500 lb., black | |
| Brandy | Mark Peddle | 600 lb., black | |
| Scott | Max Peddle | 500 lb., white | While he was in the Forestry overseas (1940-45), horse was used by his brother-in-law Jake Smith |
| Smoky | Norman Peddle | ||
| Molly | Ralph Peddle | 400 lb., red | Foal of Bram Smith’s mare Jenny? |
| Spray | Wallace Peddle | 500 lb., white | Bought from Eric Stringer, Caplin Cove? |
| Kit | William Peddle, Sr. | 500 lb., black | |
| William Peddle, Sr. | |||
| Patsy | Wm. John Peddle | ||
| Clyde | Wm. John Peddle | a tall, light brown horse with a white star on his forehead. Dad sold her to someone in St. Jones’ Within around 1955. | |
| Molly | Lewis Seward | 500 lb., brown | Bought from Abe Avery, Hillview |
| Frank | Lewis Seward | Light brown | |
| Nathan Seward, Sr. | A foal from Comet, Cliff Stringer’s mare; died at L. H. Ease Pond; bought by Ches Lethbridge for Nathan | ||
| Prince | Abe Smith | 1000 lb., red | saucy |
| Bob | Abe Smith | 400 lb., dark brown | Used to jump fences |
| Bill | Smith brothers, sr. – Albert & Jacob and Tom et al | 600 lb., red | Narrow white stripe down from forehead to nose;bought from Charles Howse, Hillview |
| Jenny | Bram Smith | 550 lb., black | |
| Don | Bram Smith | 400 lb., red | A foal of Jenny’s; sold to cousin Ezekiel Smith, who later sold it to his brother Jake |
| Jack | Bram Smith | 400 lb., red | A foal of Jenny’s; sold to Abijah Peddle, Hodge’s Cove |
| Smiley | Bram Smith | 850 lb., black | Bought from Abel Hann, Alexander Bay |
| Robin | Bram Smith | 500 lb., black | |
| Barry | Ches Smith | 750 lb., white | Bought from Ben Robbins, Hatchet Cove (see Hatchet Cove) |
| Queen | Ches Smith | Fast horse; Bought from Jim Lang(don), Hodge’s Cove; later sold to Jim Howse, Bay Roberts | |
| Jerry | Ches Smith and George Churchill | 1500lb., grey | A lumberwoods horse bought in Glenwood; used in Inglewood to haul pulpwood to Random Sound for booming to Clarenville for shipping; bought by Ches Smith & George and used at Hodge’s Cove for a few years, then sold to ?? |
| Expo | Eliab Smith | Black, 500 lb. | Expo was the second foal from Jake Smith’s horse Trix. Expo could be a difficult horse at times Sold to Jim House from Corey’s Point; it jumped a fence out onto the road – the other horses followed Expo. A tractor trailer came along and wiped the four horses out. |
| Doll | Ezekiel Smith | 1100 lb., pinto | Bought from Levi Frost |
| Terry | Isaac John (& sons, Roland & Harold) Smith | 700 lb., red | A foal of Moll’sWas ‘dispatched’ c.1968 |
| Molly | Isaac John (& sons, Roland & Harold) Smith | 800 lb., dark brown | |
| Ruby | Jake Smith, Jr. | 500 lb., red | Bought from Jim Howse |
| Don | Jake Smith, Jr. | 600 lb., dark red | (see Bram Smith above) |
| Trix | Jake Smith, Jr. | 1000 lb., red | Bought from Bob Morris, Upper Island Cove |
| Bun | Nath Smith | 800 lb., grey | Bought from Sim Seward, Gooseberry Cove |
| Norman Smith | |||
| Molly | Ralph Smith | 550 lb., brown | Bought at Gin Cove, T. Bay; sold to Eldred Stringer, Hodge’s Cove? |
| Roxie | Tom Smith | 700 lb., white | |
| Captain? | Will Smith | 700 lb., white | |
| Dandy | Herbert Spurrell | 400 lb. | I remember the horse that we had his name was (Dandy) that horse was like another child in our house,as mom would say”dad got the horse made like he is” but really he was very smart, he would come in the port has all the time anything eatable it was gone, one time mom gave me a pancake and I went out around the corner of the house and there he was, he cornered me back to the corner of the house and took the pancake right out of my hand, most important dad taught the world of him and he liked dad, dad went in the woods one day for a load of wood, he was gone too long for mom,s likening then we heard dandy whinnying looked out the kitchen window and there he was with a load of wood and dad lying across the wood, dad said he fell and the load of wood some how came down on top of him breaking his ribs, dandy stayed with him until he got the sled up and he got up and brought him right to the house, some of your fathers would know all about this, now a dog is not only a man’s best friend so is a horse lol! (Elsie)Dandy had a good buddy Old Bill. Dandy could open any gate and when he did he held it open for his buddy and then slammed it close again. I swear he had a smile on his face as he an Old Bill looked out at the other horses. Happened many times. Don’t believe me ask Bill Spurrell. (Levi) |
| Gert | Cliff & Harry, and father Joseph) Stringer | 700 lb., black | Pacer; one of the faster horses around |
| Comet | Cliff Stringer | Reddish brown | A foal of Gert’s. She would knock at the door for molasses bread |
| Thumder | Cyril Stringer | ||
| Trigger | Edgar Stringer | 400 lb., drk. brown | Foal from Lewis Seward’s Moll |
| Bride | Eldred Stringer | 500 lb., black | |
| Molly | Eldred Stringer | 500 lb., brown | Bought from Ralph Smith, Hodge’s Cove |
| Shine | Eldred Stringer | 450 lb., grey | |
| Star | Eldred Stringer | 500 lb., brown | |
| Jack | Eliab & John Stringer | 500 lb., dark brown | |
| Charlie | Eliab Stringer | ||
| Darkie | Gilbert Stringer | 400 lb., black | Bought from Tom Baker; balky! |
| Scott | John Stringer | 400 lb., brown | Later sold to brother Eliab |
| Joseph Stringer | 400 lb., white | ||
| Bon | Lester Stringer | 500 lb., grey | |
| Flash | Samuel/Cecil | 700 lb., red | fast |
| Bon | George Thomas | 500 ld., brown | Got down in a crack in a cliff .. cracked off one leg; had to be put down; buried near Johnny Baker’s Mash in Hodge’s Cove |
| Lass | George Thomas | 900 lb., red | Saucy; balky; bought from ?? Eddy, North Harbour, P. Bay |
| June | Ron Thomas | 250 lb., reddish brown | A foal from Cale Churchill, Hodge’s Cove |
| Bill | Willis Thomas | 850 lbs., black | Bought in Clarke’s Beach; shipped on train to Northern Bight Station; (with bak over its head, so it wouldn’t know where to ‘back-track’, it was walked down to Hodge’s Cove |
| Nell | Willis Thomas | 400 lbs., white | When Willis lived out on the beach, he was hauling a load of wood with Nell out over the pond, when she went through the ice; he somehow got her back up on the ice, took her out to his kitchen and “goodied her up again”. |
| Barry | Willis Thomas | 800 lb., white | Bought from Ches Smith, Hodge’s Cove; used at times to pull cartful of gravel when local roads were being built. old to ?? in Hatchet Cove? |
| Old Dot | Gertrude Drover on the family horse | ||
