Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-23
ON HARRIS HAM
BLETONlAN,
CONTINUED; MORGAN HORSES OF CHIT
TENDEN COUNTY, FOOTE'S HANDLE
TONIAN, ETC.

Mr.. Doty, an elderly man whom we
met in Bristol, says that Hiram Eddy
lived at Wallingford; came to Hunting
ton and lived quite a number of years
and went from there to Waterbury. where
he died. moved to Huntington 63 years
ago; remember the Fox Horse. a Morgan
horse that stood there.
The records of Bristol, VT, did not
show that Hiram Eddy ever owned prop
erty in that town.
Mr.. c. w. Atwood, Starksboro. VT, -
years old, says: ''IIiram Eddy owned
the old Harris Horse. The Harris Horse
was half brother to the FoOte Horse
The Foote Horse was bay, handsomer
horse than the Harris; stood in Char
lotte and came to Monkton. He was
foundered; Foote owned him for years !;
about l6 hands high on the withers held
his head up about the best of any horse
| ever saw: lived as late as 1915 or '46 /
think
Mr.. Briggs of Starksboro, - years
old, says: Josh Remington owned the
Harris Horse; brought him up from Wal
lingford-that was the report"
Mr.. Atwood says: Hopkins bought a
farm of Remington in Hinesburgh. This
horse was turned in as part payment.
Hiram Eddy owned, afterward, a gray
stallion which he got at Wallingford and
was said to be son of the old horse, but
was a small horse and built like a Nor
gan. Hiram Eddy took two geldngs to
New York: one of them waa big fast
square trotter. His second stallion was
called Gray Eddy. He sold him about
1850. Mr.. Cove raised the Hardness
Horse from the Harris Horse from an
English mare brought from New Hamp-
shire. Wilson of Hinesburgh sold very
fast bay pacing horse. Guindon of Fer.
risburgh owned black horse that he
got in Canada; very good, square horse
black as IA crow; colts marked white face
and feet, dark bay or brown. This wa;
about 1880, perhaps earlier. The horse
was over II hands, 1000 to 100 lbs,
Morgan-made horse, splendid looking
left the best stock ever in our section
Bidwell of Starksboro had stallion go
The Bunker Horse came here from New
Hampshire; prettiest horse | ever saw
called Morgan; dapple bay, 10 hands
$50 lbs. kept by Hardy, north of Monk
Ill Z,
North Huntington. His boys are alive
think. Chittenden County Morgan
saw at Huntington 80 years ago or more
He was bay horse, 900 to 1000 lbs
, Morgans came through this section be
: fore the Hambletonians.
, Charles Ferguson of Starksboro says
, 81 was married in 1885. 1t was sine
that that Hiram bought property i
/ Starksboro, after which he moved t
, Huntington"
The town records of Starksboro sho,
that the Eddys bought land of Ezekie
) Salisbury in Starksboro Feb. l, 1897.
E Mr.. Hiram Farr of Bristol, so year
= old, says that he went to Huntington i
9 1881 and staid till 1885; that Hiram EC
= dy was there during that time and ha
the Harris Horse.
$ Mr.. Miles of Hinesburgh, town clerl
e remembers the Harris Horse, low, he;
,. vy-limbed horse, almost white; and say
. that his father sold him at auction ono
q for SIS. This was before Dec. Z, 1885
5 for my father left town at that date.
t The town records of Hinesburgh sho
s that Joshua Remington sold a farm to
a B. Hopkins Feb. l, 1885.
e Mr.. Job. Weller of Hinesburgh say
$ that Jedediah Read owned the Davel
i port mare; he sold her to Mr.. LawrenC
!. and he to A. S. Weller, and from him 81
:, passed through one or two hands to NJ