Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-24
INFORMATION FROM HON. MOSES
E. CHENEY.

The following answers have been re-
ceived to ~interrogatories addressed to
Hon. Moses +. Cheney of Troy, So. Da-
kota:
WOODBURY. MORGAN
q. Was there any statement or infor-
nation as to the blood or origin of the
dam of Woodbury. Morgan that ever
came to your knowledge, and if So,
what?
A. a very important question, but |
have no recollection of having heard.
The Old Woodbury. was the Daniel Web
ster of his tribe. | hope you have heard
who she was. Aged men in Tunbridge
ought to be able to tell. Ask Lamb of
South Royalton.
q. =. Did Woodbury. Morgan ever
stand in Barnard, and if so, when, and
who was his owner at the time?
A. think likely, but John Woodbury.
lived, | suppose, at the mouth of Locust
Creek, and Bernard patronized conven-
iently. Woodbury. had sold his horse to
Walker & Co. before | went to Barnard.
l understood Woodbury. sold the horse
when he was y%ounglsh. | presume no
man but John Woodbury. ever attended
the horse before the sale TO Walker of
Hartland. Walkers horse, so generally
known, Walker said was got by Wood
bury, and Walker accounted for his i'm
mense size q. e. for a Morgan, 1900 or
400 lbs from his dam, a large Tallyo,
or Tally-ho, mare. When Walker sold
Woodbury. to Peter Burbank, Esq, a
noted elderly lawyer of Wells River, he
reserved the right of service for a colt
and this big horse is what he obtained.
so Walker told me more than once, and
that he paid the highest price that had
then been given in Vermont for a horse.
! remember that Woodbury. was said to
be u years old when Col. Jacob Kent
rode him on military parade at Newbury,
VT, Gen. Petrie riding some other Nor
gan that WAS in 1886, and the horse was
soon sold and went to Alabama and died
from pneumonia, the result of his voyage.
u. :. John Johnson in Bradford is Il
very reliable Morgan man, knew much
of Old Woodbury. in his last days in Yer
mont. BE sure to inquire of him maybe
he would tell you he was born in 1914.
My story makes Woodbury. born in 1872;
my 1872 is not sustained by others, please
not depend upon it. | will venture to
volunteer to say that in May, 1916, some
man who was shoeing Old Phillo, my
fhnn Dttnnn, ~ fold MA tInt lao y,nr
81 years old and that his mother always
told him that he was born the same day
of the Bulrush.
Q. 3. Can you assist us in getting at
the exact year of the birth of Woodbury.
Morgan?
A. The best | can do is to refer you
to Chas. NJ. Lamb, South Royalton. or to
another man there whose wife is a sister
of Dan Tarbell; both formerly lived in
Tunbridge where, the Woodbury. Morgan
was foaled. They, or other veterans in
Tunbridge, can answer your question APP
p~roXimately. Dan Tarbell himself was
born in Tunbridge or Chelsea he ought
TO know, one would suppose.
olFFoRD MORGAN
q. 1. Can you give the years tina Gift
ford stood in Barnard, and who owned
him each year?
A.. Lyman Stewart and his son Ly-
man had him six years IN Barnard. at
Newcombville, and in the winter of 40
or II, as | was driving rapidly down the
creek in a sleigh, through IA snow-storm,
j met a young man on a horse of won
derful activity and only IA few years
since in talking with Lyman Stewart,
Jr., he said they owned Clifford at that
time and that himself was no doubt the
boy on Clifford. At the outlet of the
creek at Putnam's Town (the same day |
met as above) | was told | had seen the
Clifford Morgan and they showed me his
brother, the Putnam Horse.
Q. >. DO you know who bred the dam
of Clifford or what her blood was claimed
TO be-
\. No. John Woodbury. said he new
er heard of her being at all of Morgan
blood, and did not suppose she possessed
any of IT,. John Woodbury. owned the
"Woodbury,' attended the horse when
he sired the Clifford, and afterward, at
my request, he found in his stud book
the date of the getting of Clifford. ! have