Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-11-16

horse and left some dreadful good stock.
Eliphalet Merrill of Washington owned
nice Morgan horse, chestnut, 1000 lbs,
good shape. Moses Bartholomew owned
old Karson; milk white, cross; think he
died here. Mr.. Foss had him. He
weighed 1850 lbs, and was 10 hands.
Elisha Morton of Chelsea owned the
black Prince, good-sized horse, many
years ago. The Hemenway Horse, called
Green Mountain Tiger, was bred and
owned by Frank Hemenway of Chelsea,
got by Green Mountain Morgan.
Mr.. G. w. Ryder of Corinth says the
| first stallion he remembers was Virginia
Planter, at Braintree. Jeremy Flint rode
the dam from Virginia; she was in foal
and foaled this horse. He was a rangy
brown horse, about 100 lbs. He sired
chestnut horse that Sam White of Brain
tree had-a good 1000 ID. horse, built like
a Morgan, which Lyman Kidder took to
the Holland Purchase, n. Y. The dam
of Virginia Planter was a large chestnut
mare with hollow back, thick-set, long
neck, 100 lbs, or more. | do not know
whether Flint rode her to Virginia or
not. The little Caudry Horse was Bull
rush owned at Tunbridge. The Fazer
Horse by the old Clifford Horse was owned
inthe edge of Barnard. The Lyman Will
cox Horse of Mortified was raised in
Warren by Eldredge. He was a chestnut
horse with white face and about as good
pattern of horse as you could scare up.
Abel Lyman of West Randolph had a
bay horse that went to Alabama about
1888. He was got by the Lawton or
Croker Horse of Randolph.
Sam'l Flanders Of Corinth says that the
Moses Bartholomew Horse of Vershire
was by Bullrush Morgan; he was
a bay horse of about 1850 lbs, and
Is hands. The Chas. L. Smith Horse was
by the Peck Horse. Mr.. Smith bought
him at two years old at auction of w.
Smith, who lived over Waits River. He
was black, 1000 lbs, and was killed at
Manchester, n. H., on the race course
when about 10 years old. Little Pete was
a chestnut Morgan horse, also owned by
Chas. L. Smith-a chuncked, stylish lit
tie fellow of about 900 pounds.
Mr.. Chapman of Corinth says that
Green Mountain Traveller was light
chestnut horse of 1000 lbs, or oyer.
One-eyed Morgan was owned in Fair
lee by Ezra Moores, who bought him; he
was got by old Bullrush. He was brown
horse the color of old Bullrush, but some
thing larger The Charles Smith Horse
was called Truman Peck; he was got by
the Peck Horse, son of Black Hawk and
Smith bought him of Hook Scribner of
Topsham. Little Pete was got by j.
Sawyer's horse of Newbury and he by
Woodbury.. The dam of Lucius Peck
was by Tunbridge Morgan Eagle, son of
Woodbury.. The Charles Smith Horse
was splendid horse. Papineau was
owned in Stanford. He refers to Joshua
Knight of Corinth.
Mr.. Stevens, hotel keeper of Bradford,
and very intelligent horseman, says
Papineau had heavy shoulder and neck ;
was light behind. He was dapple gray.
| saw him at Newbury and here. | was
at Newbury and lived there until 1910.
He was quite good stopper. He refers
to Mr.. Ford of Barnard, 70 years old.
Old Farmer was one-eyed horse that
came from Canada GO years ago; 1850
lbs, round-made. pretty horse; left
] ha
Wells River, owned by E. X. Smith. The
old karson was very cross. He was a
horse of great endurance. karson, who
lived at Topsham, owned him. There
was Marvin Karson and Amasa Karson.
Marvin, the oldest, lived in Newbury and
| think his wife lives there now. They
handled this horse with pole. He was
l5-2 or 1G hands high, quite stocky
made horse and would weigh 100 lbs.
John johnson of Bradford says r. C.
Sawyer had Papineau; he was Morgan
styled horse. think Elijah Palmer of
Washington, VT, would know the pedi-
gree of the Karson horse. Morgan Tray
eler we raised; sold him at four or five
years old to Sawyer. He was by the
Barker Horse, son of Woodbury.. He re-
fers to HaZen Ford of Barnet of Karson
Horse. The Sawyer horse was bought by
Moody of Craftsbury; he was a gray
horse, very heavy. The dam of Morgan
Post Boy was the Bond mare, raised by
Simon Smith and got by Quicksilver. He
also refers to c. NJ. Huckins of West Top
sham, c. S. Stevens of East Topsham and
Ira Gilbert of East Corinth.
Mr.. VIM. III. Hoyt of Lyndon, VT,
says that Billy Root died April %, 1852,
at Lyndon Center at % years old and was
owned by him. Newell Gray was burned
at c..
Mr.. Miller of Lyndon says: "My IA
ther, Geo. A. Miller, owned the Sherman
Morgan two years; bought him of Sher-
man and sold him hack Tho Nilas Uoraa