Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-07-23

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.lo>Er1I BATTELL. ESQ.
Dsor Nr.-Nour, of 9TH inst. add
dressed to job Potter who was an uncle
of mine and who died about year arn)
vas placed in my hands by the pu,tlna,-
ter here. and will give YOU ali the in
formation Obtainabe in regard 10 the
horse you enquire about. and will >av
that there i no known pedigree of him
! can give you a short history of the
horse. however. IL | galhrrit from others.
NOT being much of horSenan myself.
some time IN the long ago Il stranger
stopped at the hotel in O,Wcgo. Kendall
o.. over night with Il stallion ana in the
morning found hi animal So ~titl ne
he could NOT travel and soon expressed a
wish To find some one To give him Il trade
- that he might proceed on his Journey.
soon after a cousin of mine who was a
noted horse trader drove up and the
landlord told the stranger there was lust
the man to help him out of his trouble.
n he would trade for ANYTHING. In
short they soon arranged an exchange of |
animals and the stranger went his way.
and where he Went to. or where he came
from. no one has any record that | can
learn. At the time he gave some kind of |
a version verbally of the horses pedi-
gree. but that was all. Ihi, was in the
fall of the year and my cousin Darius
Finch. long since dead succeeded in ret
ting the >titlencd animal to hi, farm Il
few miles from here and turned him out
t. recover and made no use of him until
Il year from the next spring. when he
was stood for service. having thoroughly
recovered. Finch never rccollectcd what
the stranger told him in regard to pedi-
gree except that the horse was of the
Norg0n stock of horses and he always
called the horse Od .uorq. He soon
tired of keeping stallion and sold him
To job Potter (hi> uncle a. we'll a. mine),
who owned and cared for him during the
next six or seven years. during which
time he sired the horse YOU enquire in
regard 10 named. Brother Jonathan.
Finch used to think the stranger knew
little about the horse and that what he
said about the pedigree bushes, might
or might not he SO. aS the chances were he
might have been stolen property. He
was a good horse AT all events. in fact an
extra good one, and his descendants have
been much priced here.
| think there were but three of old
Morg'S colts raised a stations. one of
which j. now owned by Mr.. {. ii. Van
Olinda, farmer near here. one died a
year or two since and one went West
some years ago either To Kansas ur Col
oradO. There are quite number of
mares and geldingS colts from old Morg.
and half brothers and sisters to the
Brother Jonathan horse yet owned here
abouts and are much valued by their
owners. When the Brother Jonathan
horse was young and began to show
speed Ia attract the attention of horse
men he fell into the hands of W. II.
Fraser. "A skilled horseman, living at
Aurora. Kane county, Ill. | have been
told that he spent good deal of time and
effort endeavuriug to obtain the pedigree
of the old Morg horse without success.
\ letter addressed 10 Fraser AT his
home in Aurora might draw out some i'll
formation in regard 10 the matter that
has never reached me.
Yours truly,
THERON POTTER.
OsWEGO, y. y, Feb .. 1855.
j. BATTELL, ESQ.
Sir y ours of the Sd is received. As
10 the blood of certain horse. all | can
say is this, that my father got a horse of
+. &. Tinkem of Chicago; he represent
Ing him To be a Morgan, sired in Vermont;
nj what mart | do not know. sold him