Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-27
EASTMAN MORGAN, ETO.

EASTMAN MORGAN, ETo.
EAST RUPERT, VT, March 10, 1888.
JOSEPH BATTELL, Esq,
Dear Sir The subjects to which you
have called my attention are as interest
ing to me as the battles of the Revolu-
ton we're to the old soldier while his
children and grandchildren gathered
around him to hear him relate his expert
ences in that ever-memorable conflict.
Mr.. Wallace of New York few years
ago asked of me by letter for the same
information you have. Ihad previously
given the same information by letter to
man in Hoosac, N. Y, by request. The
letter got into Wallace's hands. In his
letter to me thought he meant by insin-
uation that it was fraud in saying that
the sire of the great-great grand-dam Of
the dam of Eastman Morgan was Abdal-
lab. Therefore l did not answer him.
Now, will speak of the characteristics
and peculiarities of the great-great-
grand-dam. She had nine horse colts in
nine consecutive years and in no case did
she take the horse but once, circum-
stance that / often heard talked about
when was a lad, and in after years.
She was a nice PAGER and square trotter
and would change her gait at the will OF
the rider. The great-grand-dam's color
was seal brown with white spot on her
right side about the size Of the saddle
pad. when say saddle-pad, l mean
the part covering the spot.) She was
about l54 hands high; weight about 1850.
She was a square trotter, docile and trac-
table. The hair on her body and legs
was short summer and winter. She was
the last foal her dam ever had. The
|grand-dam was a model of beauty; coat
short on legs and body the year around;
/ legs black as ink and lean as a case knife;
about as much fetlocks as colt months
old; one popularity with her was she
was so muscular that people would re-
mark, GLOW fat your horse is" when she
was actually lean. No man ever saw her
back bone standing above the muscles
that lay each side of it. She had the
sweetest disposition. She meyer got mad
under the most trying circumstances.
Thus what l have said above of this
mare may truly be said of her immediate
progenitors and all of her own progeny,
excepting size and color. The dam of
Eastman Morgan was what would be
called a small mare; the fall she was
three years old she weighed Fright from
the pasture) 975 lbs. l don't think she
ever could have weighed that again in
working order. If you have seen Hale's
Green Mountain Morgan in his prime, or
Blackstone, you can Judge better of the
grand-dam's appearance than l can des-
cribe. Hiram Holley never bred or
owned gray stallion. He bred, about
the time you mention, and raised stall
lion, sired either by the Judson Horse or
horse of his get, forget which. His
color was pale bay; delicate in form,
stylish, but lacking in substance. l
knew VIM. Gray; we lived in the same
house with him about two years. un-
herstood that his sons purchased the
horse. Gray was uncle to Holley's wife.
Gray's wife was an Eastman, first cousin
to my father. say this that you may
know that know something of what l
hm writing about. On the weight | am
not positive. l have put them as the
owners reported in service condition.
A 7 nL@ 49,
lam learned from my grandfather and
bis three oldest sons. The grand-dam
pad three colts by the Judson Horse and
three by the Stoddard Horse: by far the
pest one was by the Stoddard Horse and
took his size and form from the Magnum
Bonum side and his weight at four years
bld was over 1900 lbs. There was not a
coarse point about him; his style of
movement was the Hambletonian. The
Eastman Morgan, by Green Mountain,
ook his style and gait from the Stoddard
Horse. Here let me correct a little mis-
lake in the spelling of the name of this
breed of horses. feel sure that neither
Bishop, Underhill or Judson ever spelled
other than "Hamiltonian." l know
here are or were horses in England
CALLED Hambletonian. Alexander Ham
lton, before Aaron Burrs bullet struck
him down, was one of the leading men
n the United States, one of the foremost
n giving form to our government. re.
member well the exhibition of sad feel.
ng for the death of that man by the ia.
fal bullet and | have always supposed
he horse was named in honor of him
This may not be the case. The world
may be all right and myself all wrong
have made very bunglng work filling
your blank, but hope you will pardon
ne on account of my age. | shall be-
much pleased to hear of your prosperity
n your undertaking and happy to answer
my communication you see fit to make
be- IL i'm nv nOwar1