The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

he was present when his father made
the statement to ID. p. Thompson, and
he had frequently he lrd il from him
before. His father always spoke Of
| the horse as the original Morgan hor- :,
| the founder of the race ot horses ctled
| MDrgans, and spoke h ghy of his rae
| ing qualities; how he often ran him
races on bets and drinks for the crowd.
! he states his father atterward owned a
dark chestnut stallion, by Sherman
| Morgan, called Wicked viii, aud that
! this horse resemDled the old horse, and
! he does not know but the color of the
horse his father let Hawkins have was
chestnut. Mr. Shepard is very conf
dent ms father was not mistaken as 10
the horse he owned being the original
Morgan horse "the Justin Morgan"
The time (Feb. IL, 1870 that Mr..
Shepard sold the horse shows it could
not have been "the Justin Morgan" as
Mr.. Morgan owned him at that time
There cannot be any doubt but that Mr..
Shepard's horse was horse that Jus.
tin Morgan once owned, aud that it
was the one he advertised the seasons
of 1898 and 1894, aud was, too the one
he took from Springfield with the two.
year old colt. The fact of Mr.. Shep-
ard afterward owning Sherman Nor
gan horse Wicked Will, may have de-
ceived some in thinking that Wicked
Will was 1.-THE Justin Morgan" Mr..
Shepard says that his fathers horse
Wicked Will was fast irotter. One
old hors 9man states that Paddy, Wick
ed Will and three others were matched
to trot from Waterbury to Montpelier,
the distance being 16 miles. Paddy
won, he leading from the start. Two
of the beaten horses trotted the distance
inside of an hour.
Mr.. Charles l.. Lamb, an attorney at
South Royalton, VT, aud who is now
in practice, though at the advanced age
Of eighty-one, says that he lived with
Lemuel Heusworth of Claremont, n.
H., until sixteen; that Mr.. Hensworth
removed from Randolph, VT. to Clare
mont lin 1899 that he knew Justin Nor
gan and his horse at Randolph, knew
when Justin VI )rgan took the horse to
Randolph, and knew thai he got him
where he had lived. In the summer of
1907 John Goss came to Claremont with
the horse Justin Morgan, aid stopped
a few DAYS with his (Mr. Goss) broth
err, who lived about half mile from
Mr.. Hensworth's. The horse was bred
to some eight or ten mares at this time
and the colts were all bays. Mr.. Goss
kept the horse this season at Randolph,
as is shown by the following ADVERTISE
ment from the Weekly JVonderer, a pa
per printed at Randolph: "The Nor
gan horse will stand this season at the
stable of John Hoss, in Randolph. May
1st, 1907" This is all the advertisement
of the horse that has yet been found
1t can be inferred That the reputation
of the horse was so good that they did
not consider it OF any use to say much
about him, only to stat where he could
be found. We can understand what
value this advertisement would be
now if Mr.. Goss had told in it all he
knew in regard to the horse. Mr..
Lamb states that Samuel Stone came
to Caremont the winter of 1S13-.14
with the horse justin Morgan, and
staid several weeks with Mr.. Hens
worth, and that he (Mr. Lamb FIRE.
quently rode the horse to water. That
the seasons 18l5--l7 the horse stood at
CIaremont. At this time there was a
Mr.. Joseph Rodgers living at Clare
mont, man along in years. and vino
had lived in Connecticut. Mr. Rodgers
said then that "the Justin Morgan" sire
J was DeLancey's horse Mr.. Lamb
does not know now NJ. Rodgers knew.
but knows he said so. Mr.. Lamb SAYS
he has heard it saidsthe horses sire was
True Brilon, but who he first heard SAY
so he cannot now tell 1t may have
been Mr.. Rodgers. Messrs Hensworth,
| nd 10, /,
: horse came from, but he does not re.
= member that they said anything in re
: gard to his sire. Here it is well tonote
, that II was told in ClarPmont, \. II in
, lSl5-l7 that the horses sire was De.
Lancey's horse; so that John Morgan
: was not the first and only man to say
J so.
= Mr.. Lamb states the color of 'the
Justin Morgan" in mare time, was a
dark dappled BAY, inclining to The
brown, nose brown or mealv, had ne
. white on him, about ii hands high and
, never weighed over 900 lbs. Whoever
, has seen Mr.. Adams Flying Morgan
has probably seen the most perfect pat.
tern and likeness of the old horse that
has ever been raised, in shape, limbs
gait, carriage, bone, sinew; in fact, in
. all but color; he, to my mind, was al.
} most a fac SimHe of the old horse.
, Mr.. Lamb removed to Tunbridge
t VT, in 1926; knew Bulrush and Gif
ford there, and he knew Woodbury.
r and Revenge. Mr.. Lamb, in tai King
= with those at Tunbridge and vicinity
9 that knew in regard to the Morgans
5 and their founder, says they all agree
, as to where the old horse Justin Nor
t gan came from.-N. e. IN Turf, Fielo
t and Farm.