The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-09

1885, and at Springfield, Mass, by John
Morgan, the seasons of 1888 and l7o9.
1t is claimed that as True Briton was
at Springfield the seasons of 1888 and
1879 he was not there the season of
1892, the season that ii has been under
stood that the horse Justin Morgan was
sired.
This is the evidence that has been
given to disprove the pedigree. They
admit that John Morgan knew of JUS
tin Morgan taking True Briton colt
to Vermont, but they claim that it was
in 1888, the year that Justin Morgan
removed TO Vermont, that he took the
True Briton colt. They claim this with
out giving particle of evidence to
show that it was so. 1t is needless to
disprove what is not proved, and so L
shall say nothing in regard to this
claim except that Justin Morgan's
grand list at Randolph for the year 1889
land the first one he had at Randolph
shows that he owned no two-year-old
colt or horse that year. The advertise
ments of True Briton, instead of dis
proving the pedigree, help sustain it,
for they prove what John Morgan said
was true, that Justin Morgan kept True
Briton one season and that John did
two seasons. and they show that there
was mistake made in the year that
the original Morgan horse was taken to
Vermont that it was earlier than 1873.
Everyone that has had any experience
in looking up dates will admit how hard
it is to get reliable dates at times; GER
tainly when one has to trust to the
| IF nt
agree in the time. You write to one
trans action that you know he was
knowing to; he will often give you a
date that you know is wrong; you see
him, talk it over, put this and that to-
gether, and you will then be apt to get
the correct time. Justin Morgan on
the spur of the moment wrote in 1912,
some fifty years after the event had
happened, that his father took the horse
to Randolph in 1895. His son, Ii. d.
Morgan, now of Stockbridge, says he
always understood his father that his
grandfather was keeping house when
he took the horse to Randolph and that
he broke up keeping house i'll 1893.
Judge Griswold is quoted as saying
that it was in 1895 that Mr.. Morgan
took the colt to Randolph, but it turns
out that his statements come through
| Mr.. Wier. Mr.. Wier states that in q
letter that was published in the Albany
CuHirUtOr, June number for 1916
Now Mr.. Wicr says i'll letter dated
March 4, 1879, that he called on Justin
Morgan at Stockbridge and asked him
to fix the time that his father took the
horse to Randolph. Mir. Morgan sale
he could not for a certainty, as he had
no dates to refer to; after while MIR
Morgan gave it as his opinion that il
was in 1875. Mr.. Wier says, too, tina
he talked with Judge Tarbox anC
Judge Griswold in regard to the time
the horse was taken to Randolph anC
they thought it was earlier than 1875
but thought Mr.. Morgan's son would
know better than they. Mr.. Wiel
gives it as his opinion now that the
horse was taken to Randolph as early
as 1892.
1t is admitted that when Mr. Morgan
got the colt at Springfield he wen
there after money that was due him
that he had quite family to supper
and that his circumstances were limited
This is shown by his estate paving bu
J eighteen cents on the dollar. If it wa
1875 he had waited over seven year
for his pay. Do people whose mean
; are limited do so? Every one know
hey do not, and it is very unreasona
, BILE to claim that Mr.. Morgan did. Ill
was all sold out and his family broker
up in 1893. He would have wanted
! what was his due when he was keepin,
/ | Il at l,NI
: and would have gone for it then. ii
would not have waited until two year
later before going for it.
Mr.. Wier in the letter to the CuHiUO
tor that has been quoted states tina
, John Morgan wrote him that he, job
Morgan, kept True Briton the seaso
that he sired the original Morgan horse
Justin Morgan in his second letter t
the CulticdtOr gives the same state
ment. Mr.. Wier writes, April II
1879, that one of the many question
that he asked John Morgan was VIII
kept True Briton the season that tn
> Morgan horse was sired. Mr.. Morga
1 replied in Il letter dated Jan. 81, 1915
5 81 kept the True Briton or Beautifr
; Bay at the time the original Morga
b horse was sired"
a In describing the Morgan horse job
Morgan wrote Mr.. Wier that he was
bright bay with very dark name an
# tail.
3 The statement of John Morgan this
he kept True Briton the year the MOI
D., gan horse was sired shows that he ws
: sired either in 1888 or 1889, as it wa
: those seasons that John Morgan keI
e True Briton, and that he was foaled
Il 1889 or 1870 and taken to Vernon
/ either in 1871 or 1892. 1t shows b(
f yond all doubt that the True Brito
y colt that John Morgan knew JUST
d Morgan to take to Vermont was nc
b taken there in 1888. when he mOYe
e there, nor in 1875. 1t must be remem
G bered that John Morgan said the MOI
i gan horse was bright bay, and in hi
e letter that was published in the Jul
f. number of the CUltjUatOr for 1912 say s
n 81 have always understood that Mo
! gan kept the colt at Randolph, and thu
a he was very celebrated for his stock.
e Now, what bay horse but the JUST
e Morgan did Mr.. Morgan have at Raj