Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-09-26

u gOOu KIM OF horse. BETTER see JOn0
Gill. He was sound made, nice, pretty
bay horse-he wasn't large horse,
wouldn't weigh over 1000 lbs, beauti-
full horse and nice traveller. Mr.. Bates
son married my sister, and used to come
counting with this horse and take her to
ride. Mr. Bates gave the horse to his
son-in-law, James Anderson Grimes. He
lived on Fields farm in this town.
Uncle Moses Bates lived about three
miles towards Chester. Robin was a
nice trotter. They used to put him on
the team and go to Boston with him. He
was good draft horse as well as good
traveller.
\ Mr.. Parker, who now joined us, said
that Robin was not very large horse.
About the first stallion | ever saw.
was boy.
Mr.. l.. said he was born in 1872. Mr..
Parker was born in 1911, and thinks he
was not over ten years old when he first
remembered Robin. Says he was Nor
gan-built horse, about fifteen hands,
thick set. Mr.. l.. now thought that Mr..
Bates raised him. This Robin had the go
in him; if it had been the trotting days,
he would have been a sporting horse
going right to the ground. think Uncle
Moses, or the ellis, raised him. | think
this Robin carried his feet behind out
side of his forward ones. My father
raised colt by him that did wonders
came big trotter. See Samuel Whit
ing. Abner Bsbee, Orrin Walker, John
Martin and George kimball. Arba Hol-
man, 50 years old, lived near Mr.. Bates.
Mr.. Parker said a man by name of Howe
had Morgan horse; think he had him
at Barnard. He took a Morgan chestnut
horse to Illinois 33 years ago, think.
this year.
Mr.. \. c. Miller of Springfield said
that the Barnard Morgan was bred by
Jennison Barnard of Springfield; foaled
about 1913. David Winchester of Spring
field owned him and stood him here two
years. The old horse was here and at
Corinth, y. H.. number of years. His
dam was by Bonaparte, IA big bay horse,
1900 to 1900 lbs, a thick, strong-built
horse. owned, think, by Luke Brown
| know he kept him here two or three
years. When I was eight years old
Quicksilver was owned on Norwich
Plains. | am now seventy-seven. Old
Uncle Amos Gill had Black Prince about
1884; great horse for endurance, a rat
tailed horse. Dan Cushing had old
Green Mountain here two years, sold the
second year to Royalton; first colts came
in 1899.
Mr. 5. Brown said he was in New
York State in 1924; heard of the Nor
gans. Christopher Ellis had a Clifford
Morgan, same age as the Barnard Horse,
sold at three years old to Blodgett of
Chelsea. He took premium over the
Barnard Horse at Woodstock when three
years old. He was a chestnut thick
built, not so large as the Barnard but
Barnard Horse was bred by Alvah New
ton and got by Bonaparte. She was a
strong-going mare and good roadster, a
homely big mare of 1900 lbs, nearly 1G
hands, big bony mare. When three or
four years old she got out of the pasture
and come over to our place. was a
small boy, eight or 10: am now g. Sey-
mour Lockwood had colt that took
premium at North Springfield. think
he bred him.
Mr.. Miller says that the IIagar Horse
stood here one year. sixty years ago or
more. Henry Barnard had colt by
Clifford, he went Vest think, to Michi-
gan. y man by name of Balch bought
him; chestnut, low built, sold at four
years old. took pair of studs to Chi
cago, sold them to Silas Hale of South
Royalton; he bought for his nephew
One of them was bred by the ellis; IA
Clifford colt, dark bay, no white, 100
lbs, l5-3, six years old when taken West,
took two premiums at the New England
fair at BrattlbOro. The other was bred
by George Woodbury.; nice Morgan,
dark bay, 1000 BIS, l5-2, five years old
when taken West in 1858, got Dy Morgan
Clifford owned by Henry Barnard. The
(old) Tobey Horse went West. He was
by Green Mountain colt owned by Capt.
j. Boynton John Boynton of Weathers-
field and Davis of Perkinsville took him
West. He was gray horse, 1900 lbs,
Is hands. Went to Wisconsin. | think
Gregory of Baltimore, VT, had him.
He was ten or twelve years old when
taken. Farwell Davis of Perkinsville
would know. Ed Barnes of Baltimore
took big chestnut, or bay, Morgan
horse to Wisconsin. | was twenty years,
or so, of age. Eighty years ago there
was quite a noted horse called Hotspur
stood in Rockingham.
George Kimball of Springfield says