The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02

of the Justin Morgan horse at the time
he was sired was owned bv Justin
Morgan himself at Springfield, where
he then lived.
The dam is described by Mr.. John
Morgan, who knew her,as Of The Wild.
air breed, of middling size heavy chest,
very light bay color, bushy name aud
tail, the hair on the legs rather long
and a smooth, handsome traveller. Her
sire was Dimond, thick, heavy horse
with heavy name and tail, hairy legs.
and a handsome traveller. Dimund was
kept by Justin Morgan at the time the
dam of the Morgan horse was sired.
Ills sire was the Wild-air known as the
Church horse; his dam, the II tied inn
ported mare Wild-aiu, owned by Capt.
Samuel Burt, of Springfield. Mass.
The Church horses sire was Wild-air
which was taken back to England"
The advertisement of Dimond shows
that Justin Morgan kept Dimond the
season OF 1888, and that his sire was
the Church horse. s. much of what
Mr.. Weir says Mr.. John Morgan wrote
him is proved true, bur the advertise
ment of Dlmond does not sustain the
Wild-air crosses and they cannot be
Considered true. Mr.. Weir claims that
John Morgan caves these Nild-air
crosses in the letters that he received
from him dated Jan. 9, 1915, and Jan.
81, 1915. Mr.. Weir declines to let any
one read these letters, or to have them
published i'll full; only extracts from
them have been published. This leads
to the belief that they do not give the
Wild-air cross as given by Mr.. Weir
and that this is the reason Mr.. Weir
does not want them published. The
May number of the Albany CHjrdtor
contains a second letter from Justin
Morgan of Stockbridge, VT, in which
he states what MIR. Weir nad already
stated, that John Morgan kept True
Briton the season that his fathers
horse was begotten.
The statements of Messrs. Morgan
and Weir satisfied the public in regard
to the origin of the Morgan horse. Mr..
Linsley published his Morgan IIur .es"
in 1857, lie restated what had been
stated. lie thought he had discovered
an error in the Weir statement that
"the dam of the Justin Morgan horse
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