Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-29
SUNDRY INTERVIEWS.
HARRIS HORSE, sooTT's MORGAN,

HARRIS HORSE, SCOTS MORGAN,
CLIFFORD, FOX, PLUMLEY HORSE, GRAY
EAGLE. NEVADA CHIEF, VERMONT,
BLACK RALPH, SPARTA, GREEN NOUN
TAIN BANNER, sAR ETHAN ETC.
II. W. and Willis Peake, Esq. of
Bristol both remember the bay mare that
Fred Plumley drove and thought very
much of. They did not remember where
he got it,
Ezekiel lIanchett states that the IIar-
ris Horse was gone to Wallingford or
vicinity towards the last of his life.
Darius Severance, Esq, of Middlebury
says the first Morgan horse he remem-
bers was SCOTS. lie had two, thinks he
owned them: the best they called Gift
ford. This was about 80 years ago. 1t
was before he was married, and that was
rs years ago. Liberty came into Yale's
hands. Harvey owned Fox. one of the
proudest-stepping horses you ever see.
Scott was blacksmith. Both his horses
were chestnuts. The best was Il low
horse: seems as if they called il the Gift
ford Morgan: about the color Of
Motion: short Il hands: would weigh
near 1000 lbs. shortish neck and stocky.
The other was taller not heavier
think he had them as much as two years
He kept them at Middlebury village.
was about Is or 10 years old. (Born
1879 The Plumley Horse, owned by
| Tno1n plnp,loy- "a ahaetnttt I hn
1000 lbs. sam Nash had gray horse
when he lived where Noble Brooks does.
think it was after Scott had the horses
that Harris of New Haven had his horse.
Edward Dana, Esq. New Haven, says
/ Nevada Chief was bred by his father, Ar
thur Dana. Cornwall; foaled 1853: sired
by Black Hawk: dam a large bay mare
bought of sam Moore. Shoreham. Ne
vada Chief was taken to California by
Francis belong in 1859 aud died about
1860. He was a black, 10 hands and
would weigh 100. For further particu-
lars address John Switzer, Nevada, Mar
in county. Cal. Vermont, bay. l5-2.
1000 lbs, by Black Hawk or a son; bred
near Montpelier; taken to the West and
afterwards to California: bought there
by X. J. Jones and sold by him to Robe
River Valley. Jackson Co.. Oregon. for
$1,000.
Elmer Barnum. Esq, ShOreham. says
there was a Black Ralph by Ethan Al
len: refers to :. b. Woodward Sarato-
ga Springs for further information. Spar
tan. also by Ethan Allen. foalcd in 1858
dam, IA gray mare. Mr. Barnum thinks
the year Ethan served l20 mares he raised
the largest proportion of trotters.
Mr. +. ID. Kinds of Brandon says Green
Mountain Banner sire of Lady Pritch-
ard, Vulcan, Nelix, etc. was by Blacl,
Hawk; dam. bay mare ID ,. that
showed She had been an old trotter
brought into Vermont by two peddlerS
? who claimed they got her on Long Is
land Claim not reliable. She could
show better than , 30; was Il steamboat
on the road. This mare was Il dark dap
! pie bay, wide between the eyes. with as
nice head as was ever seen. That heaC
4 looked like Il Morgan head. Mare rather
chunky, built on Morgan type. Thes,
, pedders lived in Connecticut or Massa
chusetts. The peddlers' mare was bret
}. TO the Churchill Horse, by Black Hawk
e and produced Queen of Vermont that Mr.
!. Kinds owned and bred first to Gen. Sher
man, by Smiths Young Columbus anC
got Redpath: second foal of Queen o
Vermont, Belle, by Darby. son of thu
\ Rounds Horse, by Black Hawk. Th'
Tierney boys of st. Adams had Belle
Third fOal, Star Ethan. by Lambert
The fourth foal was Echo, by Lambert
= the fifth foal was Brandon Boy. by Lam
bert: the sixth foal was Lambert. owned
,. by III. G. Nevins. Methuen. Mass. Mr.
Kinds thinks Vulcan and NeliN were bret
by Potter Westcott. Fair Haven, VIII,
: sold them to George IIaynor, Troy, \
Y. The dam of the Churchill Horse wa
a Dolly Nichols, Il very excellent Morgan
e mare. Mr.. Kinds also bred n roam pacing
mare bought of VIM. Tucker, forme
:. owner of Benedict Morrill,, by Jonas Hast
= ings and that Mr.. Tucker wrote wa
n sired by Benedict Morrill,. to Lamber
5 and got Pebble, small roam stallion, l4-3
e which he sold to doctor at Granville
\. Y. who sold to Ira Brown, livery
>, man, New York city; afterwards sold t.
Perez L0rllard. New York. This hors,
Is could trot half in ! :05. and is said t.
have gotta record in New Jersey as
ringer in ? :23 ~. This mare was theI
bred To Redpath and brought: Flowe
Girl; Redpath, Jr. Clean; tlve-year-olt
chestnut; three-year-old stallion; thei
two colts by Waldo, son of Messenge
Duroc, and in foal to Alcyone, by Georg,
Wilkes. Mr.. Kinds gives Hiram Battles
e Brandon, a relative of the peddlers tina