Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-03
DAM OF GREEN MOUNTAIN NOR
GAM


Our notice has just been called to an
article in November number of Wallace's
Monthly on the early Morgans, by A. w.
Thomson of Woodstock. Concerning the
dam of Green Mountain Morgan Mr..
Thomson says:
sit was in the summer of 1893 or 1884
that Nathaniel Whtcomb of Stockbridge,
VT, took to Stockbridge from Nashua,
n H., mare that had been worked on
the canal at Nashua. She was then
called Is years old. Nothing was known,
or said, as to her pedigree
Right here we would like to ask Mr.
Thomson how he knows this. Did Mr..
Whitcomb tell him this? There is no.
body else whose remark on the matter
could be of serious weight against what
Mr.. Whitcomb said. lie brought the
mare from Nashua, and he is the one and
only one at Stockbridge that could well
be supposed to know about her pedigree,
unless he told them.
Mr.. Thomson continues: "Mr Whit
comb bred her that season to Clifford
Morgan. The next fall, George Bundy
of Bethel, VT. bought the mare of Thorn
as j. Brooks for So. Mr. Bundy let her
run in the road. She was a low ,thick-set
mare that might have weighed 1000 lbs,
and at this time she was of a mouse col
Oh" Not a bad description for Nor
Ga N rtai MI nd Of ha
bury stamp. "She had a ring-bone on
one of her forward feet, but it did not
make her lame. Mr.. Bundy let the mare
run in the barnyard the next winter and
in May she brought colt that was
known in time as old Green Mountain
Morgan. Mr.. Bundy sold the colt when
four months old to Daniel Gay of Stock
bridge for S25, and soon disposed of the
mare, and nothing more is known of her.
Mr.. Bundy says he never heard it said
she was by Woodbury. or Morgan mare,
or of any other blood, as her breeding
was unknown" Mr.. Thomson states
though he knows, and the next page
states, that the same George Bundy gave
a certificate years before that was pub
lished in Mr.. Hales pamphlet of the horse
that 1.-THE dam of said horse was called a
Woodbury. mare" But we want to ask
Mr.. Thomson, why, if he interviewed Mr.
Bundy, he did not find out what became
of the mare. Here is very interesting
hot l. ;rlt ,
supposed to, something about There is
no reason to suppose he knew anything
about her pedigree, except perhaps what
he states in his certificate, tina. she was
called Woodbury. mare. The very in
teresting and perhaps important part of
the history of the mare afterwards,
where she went and how long she lived,
Mr.. Thomson innoceDtly passes by, and
attempts to cover up his innocency with
the general sweeping remark, that he dis
posed of her soon and nothing more is
known of her. But yet Mr.. Thomson,
who assures us that her breeder and
breeding is unknown, mentions that she
was then called Is years old, and after
wards says she must have been foaled be-
fore Woodbury. Morgan OSLO. We
suppose Mr.. Thomson knew this in the
same way that he knows the sire of an
animal by the color of her hair or the
curl of her tail. Most men know that
they do not kno,o how old any horse is
that is past eight years old, unless they
know when he was foaled.
We turn now from what Mr.. Thomson
says about this mare to letter received
by us from Z. X. WhitcOmb of Big Bug.
Arizona, gentleman who writes an ex-
cellent letter and has given us much in
formation on many Western pedigrees.
Mr.. Whitcomb is certainly a most excel
lent witness, and came closer to the his
tory of this mare than any one who has
yet been heard from. He says: 'The
dam of Green Mountain Morgan was
brought from Nashua, N. H., by my I'M
Gle, Nathaniel Whitcomb. / liked the
mare much, but did not at the time
think of her being sired by Woodbury. las
she came from so far away as it seemed
to me at that time; but now it would
seem but 2 short walk. Afterwards