Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-24

Afterward | saw John Woodbury. in Wis
consin or elsewhere in the West, in his
late days, with his daughter and son-in-
law, Mr.. Trask, and we talked Morgan,
he reiterating what | have said to you of
his assertions. Both of the Lyman Stew
arts are dead, but a brother of young
Lyman, AFRO, is living and is old enough
and intelligent enough to know all about
it; Barnard men can tell you where he
lives. l. ID. Davis of Barnard, a horse
man as well as an intelligent farmer,
selectman and representative of Barnard
to the legislature, has lived in Barnard
nearly eighty years and has known more
about Barnard's horses and men than
He is of age ask him what you will.
p. S. Somehow people have got it
that | am a native of Barnard. As a
singing-master | was introduced to Bar
nard in November, 1910, and taught
there three consecutive winters. In '46
| married there and my wife and | re-
moved to Holland Purchase, in western
New York. In 1850 we returned to her
native home in Barnard and there resided
till some four years ago. | am not a ma
tive of Vermont even, | was born in San
borntown, n. H., Dec. 10, 1872, and be-
fore | was twelve | had lived in four diff
ferent towns in New Hampshire, and we
were then fixed on a farm, parents and
children, in Derby, VT, father being a
gospel minister. The first Morgan | saw
was a three-years-old mare in 1925; a
granddaughter of the old Justin, or, as
he had been called in st. Johnsbury, the
Goss Horse. Elder Cheney was never
without a Morgan horse after that.
Q. 6. Did you ever know a horse early
in your recollection, say sixty years ago,
standing in Barnard and called Defiance?
If so, please tell us all you can about him.
A.. No. | know nothing of him; |
just went to Barnard in 1910. Ask Isaac
ID. Davis.
Q. Z. Did you eyer know a horse
called Robin, or Red Robin, owned sixty
years ago by Moses Bates of Springfield,
VT? We want to learn what horse sired
this Robin.
A. No, never. | knew nothing of
Springfield previous to 1910. There was
a Robin by Sherman, a brother and con-
temporary of Billy Root, that | have
heard my late brother Joseph speak of
no waS in Caledonia pountv
q. s. Do you know who bred the dam
of Hale's Green Mountain, and what her
sire was, or anything about her blood:
A. No. sir, and if you can find that
out will give it up that you are the man
to make a Morgan book. Within three
years | have read in the American Gull
tivator that she IA got by the old first
Morgan-possibly in some other paper,
but | reckon | am correct. How futile
to pretend that. Bethel-L' will
tell you better. Lillieville people know
the late Mr.. Bundy owned her before the
Green Mountain was brought forth.
They told me that Hale came and got it
wrong; others said that Hale worked
upon the easy virtue of Mr.. Bundy and
got his name to statements that cannot
stand the test. The mare was brought
into Stockbridge by II Mr.. Whitcomb and
his son, Il minor, and more han forty
years ago. | talked with the son and he
said the mare was Il large Dutch horse,
broad built, very powerful and had two
road galts, as pdcer ana trOuer-certalnly
no pretension to Morgan; nc appearance
of it. He was with his father when he
bought her, or snapped for her; said
she was called by all a Dutch mare.
lou may remember the Justin Morgan
of ~Stockbridge said that his father called
the first horse a Dutch horse. Ergo, the
Green Mountain was a Dutch horse John
Woodbury. broke him and | have heard
that a Twitchell foundered him at four
years of age.
Q. 8. Do you know what year Hale's
Green Mountain was foaled?
A. He must have been born early in
the thlrties; Lillieville is the place to
find when he was born; they tell about
his playing ball when he was a yearling
there; he would catch a ball. Ask Low
Bryant of Bethel-Lympus. There is an
old man in Lillleyille who knows a sight
and is reliable.
Crandon, Sphinx county, South Dakota,
90 miles west of Troy will tarry here,
God willing, till November MAY 81,
1890. | will spin a little more of my
volunteer yarn and send all on to the
''Inn, =" ''where there is bread enough and
to spare" If say a thing twice it will
not invalidate any more than strengthen,
Writing a long and miscellaneous letter
by intervals may repeat unnecessarily,
but | trust not contradict. So as the
modern Morgan is best with light weights
| will fill the blank spaces of these sheets
with items; no harm done if repetition oc-
ours; no matter how many have said the
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