Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-23

sou lnlS mare u year VI TWO DclOrc Der
death. She was then a young mare, Mr..
Weller thinks not over five or six years.
He does not know who bred her or her |
pedigree, but thinks she was got by the |
Foote Horse, as he was used all through |
this section at that time. The Harris |
Horse colts were mostly gray; Mr.. We'll
Ter does not remember any blacks. The |
Foote Horse was bred by Yale and sold
to Simeon Foote. | know he was by the
Bishop Horse. The Harris Horse came
from Dandy or Tinmouth up here; was
bought by Remington. John Il. Hop
kins traded him in payment on his farm.
do not know that he came up immedi-
ately. My brother as constable sold him
once-in 1887 or '3S-for'SG2. He never
had much stock here wouldn't any one
send a mare to HIM.
DR.. f. Beecher of Hinesburgh says he
thinks Mr.. Remington had the Harris
Horse three or four years, but did not
see him much. Harris came this way
with him when he owned him. There
was Bulrush Morgan horse kept in
Shelburn in 1887 round as barrel aud
he would trot, too. There were two
Morgan horses there about that time.
The Foote Horse was here four or five
years later than the Remington Horse.
Cove bred the Hardness Horse and sold
him when four years old for $50.
Dan Tucker of Huntington says: Hi
ram Eddy owned the Harris Horse be-
fore he came from Wallngford at Wal
lingford and Dandy. Hopkins let Rem
ington have him. He kept him four or
five years. Don't think Eddy let Hop
kins have him. Mr.. Tucker was born in
this town and is 76 years old. The Bun
ker Horse was Morgan; brought to
Huntington in 1926 by Mr.. Wilton; was
very handsome and did large business.
The Whitcomb Horse Charles Hunting
ton, who kept hotel at Richmond, had
here; sold to Henry Farr. who kept him
two or three years. Uncle Lemuel Hill
brought bay stallion of the same blood
as the Bunker horse from New Hamp-
shire about 1S33-a Morgan. | should
think, but bigger than the Bunker Horse
and speedy. There was a jet-blacl horse
stood here, at Richmond, Burlington
Hinesburgh, etc, in 1S44-'45, called the
Clinton Horse; was got by Bishops
Hambetonian and came from down
south. A Mr.. Stevens, who lived near
Wallingford, sent to Ichabod Mattocks {
colt afterwards known as the Mattocks
Horse and was kept in Chittenden cOun
ty for many years. | tended him when q
years old, about 1910 to '45. The Foot,
Horse was got by the Bishop Horse. |
was always said Stevens raised the tire,
horses. Judge Marsh of Hnesburgl
had a stallion by old Prince William.
think Gundon had a Morgan stallion
about 1880; think it was bay. Guindol
Magnum Bonum. Most all the Prime
Williams were gray; looked very mucl
like the Hambletonians. Judge Marsh
stallion was foaled about 1888. Shout,
think Telescope was Morgan; not owe
! 1000 lbs. and fast. John Rel had hin
in Richmond. Shooting Star came iron
: Canada the fastest horse ever here; 95
lbs, dark bay; handsome horse. Il
Bates got him at st. Johns, | guess abou
) 1856. German Hammond of BrandO
. had dark chestnut Morgan horse >
years ago: very kind and terribly pref
ty horse, thick, not very high.
Mr.. Baker, y years old, now living a
Huntington with his son, says he wen
to live with Elijah Cloyes of Salisbur
about 1929. Mr.. Cloyes had bay hors
that was owned at Middlebury, spler
did big, noble horse that event like tn
rays of light
Patrick Denning of Huntington says thf
the horse Gray Eddy, that Hiram Edd
brought to Huntington when he cam
here in 1912, was raised by one of tn
Munsons. Mr.. d. went to Tinmouth t
. live March IL, 1885, from Ireland, an
lived there Is years. He says that Hiral
Eddy put up barn in TinmOuth for NJ
Pratt in 1885 he is sure it was the We;
IL he came to this country. He says Sam
; Edgerton had the Harris Horse after
l. (informanO went to TinmOuth: that
" saw him with Mr.. Edgerton the summ'
l. of 1885. Hiram Eddy was married
v Wallingford. lie had been West.
Mr.. Somers of North HuntingtC
= thinks that Geo. Barbour got his ba
. trotting mare of Livermore of Hine
: burgh. This was after the war and
sold her for quite long price. Roy Ii
ermore lives now at Ticonderoga. anoth
son at Burlington and he thinks tn
Busby Bidwell of Monkton Ridge mig
know about it. Mahlon Barbour
Hinesburgh is son of Geo. Barbour.
~ The town records of Huntington sho
- that Hiram Eddy bought property the
- first on Sept. Z, 1912.
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