Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-14
NOTES..

Archibald Bachop, Newbury, VT.
says: "Our Green Mountain Morgan
was sold to Butler and Whitcher of Hav
erhill, n. H., when | think | was si1
years old. | was born 1910, and married
1914. Father died November, 1s41.
was probably about % when he was
sold. The Old Sherman Morgan came tC
fathers and stood there in his stable two
or three years. Father had black
mare that came from Canada, called
English blood. He raised from hel
another black one, got by the Dean Horse
of Danville, a black, good-sized horse
that was rather savage. l do not know
his blood. The dam of the Green Noun
tain was one of these two mares and |
rather think was the youngest one.
Father raised the same year from the
other mare, and also by Sherman Morgan,
smallish black horse which he took to
Boston when five years old and sold.
This was the winter before we sold the
other. Father lived then in Barnet.
think this last horse was kept a while in
Massachusetts as stallion. Burbank
resembled our Green Mountain very
much; about the same color and size. A
Morgan horse owned in Cabot by Clark
was quite a good horse, light chestnut,
10 hands, 1000 lbs. got by sherman. He
was very hollow backed when at fathers,
a little too much that way think, but his
stock were all right"
VIM. b. Stevens of Topsham says: II
remember the old Morgan horse in Chel-
Sea, Corinth and Topsham, Vt. He was
dark bay and remember the old Morgan
horse that Peter Burbank had. f. NJ.
Sawyer owned him at Wells River.
Ephralm Lowe of Groton had part
Morgan horse, bay, 800 lbs, that was
sold when four years old to Josh Huck-
lngs. Papneau was owned by Bill
Grant at Groton Il while and and one of
the Wallaces owned him while at New
bury. think it was VIM. Wallace and
i think he brought him here. He was
gray, l54 hands, 1000 lbs; should think
that there was Morgan blood IN him. lie
was an awful good horse
Robert Wallace of Newbury saws ::
"My brother, James Wallace, got Pap
ineau in Groton. Had him about three
years. He peddled, and drove him, and
used him for mares. Sold him to Nat.
Burnham of Newbury. The horse was
then some II years old and about 1872
hands, 1000 lbs; stood up pretty well,
dapple gray, pretty styled horse. His
neck hung over on one side. He was
thick breasted, close packed up like the
Morgans. My brother was born about
1910; was born 1902. | think it was
after the Harrison campaign of 1910 that
my brother got the horse. He may have
got MN from Grant. The Kasson horse
stock was called as good stock as was
ever in this country. Papineau was nice
trim horse, good, smart horse, a little
foundered, good smart goer."
We saw on our route at farmers barn
poster of the Clifford Morgan signed by
+. \. Weir, Elisha DeWolf. Jr.. and
Ambrose Arnold as committee of the pro-
prietors, and dated Walpole, May S, 1913.
Mr.. Sawyer of Newbury, VT, says:
"My father owned a gray horse called
Papineau that he bought from drove of
horses that came in the spring from Can
ada. X. {. Sawyer attended the horse.
We kept hotel at Wells River when we
bought the horse. That was in 1917 or
8. The horse was four years old. He
had two names. There was a horse in
Groton called Papineau; so we called this
one Moscow. There was "a horse in Grot-
on that belonged to the Pecks. He was
also known as the Sawyer horse. He
was dapple gray, l54 hands, 1850 lbs,
very hollow back, very heavy shoulders.
Father sold him about 1857 to go to Con-
necticut, and about 1859 DIR. Blood
bought him there, where he was used in a
horse cart, and brought him back. DR..
Blood killed himself and the horse was
sold by his executors. X. c. SAWYER
kept the Old Burbank horse and after
wards colt got by the Burbank horse
mat was not a very good stock getter.
The Manchester Black Hawk was very
handsome and looked like the Old Black
Hawk. lie was kept here a while and
several stations by him were kept. Col.
Tenney of Newbury bred one-black,
ia hands, $50 lbs, quite Il good horse, !
heavy limbed and resembled tue Nor