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foaled in 1780, imported in 1788, and died in 1808. He stood 

 in different places in New-Jersey ; and in Dutchess, West- 

 chester and Queens counties in New- York ; and upon the 

 mares derived from the foregoing and other good horses, he 

 got a numerous progeny of illustrious descendants. Of 

 these, we may name those capital stallions, Potomac, Ham- 

 lintonian, Bay Figure, Engineer, Manhrino, Tippoo Saib, 

 Columbus, Gunn's, and Bushe's Messenger, and many others, 

 which were extensively disseminated over the northern and 

 middle states ; and he has the credit of imparting a large 

 share of his merits to his grandson, that nonpareil of horses, 

 American Eclipse. His posterity were so numerous and 

 widely spread, that it may be safely asserted that of the best 

 horses bred in the above states, scarcely one can now be found, 

 which does not trace one or more crosses to his distinguished 

 sire. His success in producing roadsters, besides his blood 

 qualities of speed and endurance, consisted in his great 

 strength and the peculiar formation of his limbs, large fore- 

 hand and deep quarters, in which he excelled any other of the 

 imported bloods. 



As an illustration of what may be accomplished by judi- 

 cious breeding with the present materials in our hands, we 

 mention one family of the American roadster, which is strongly 

 tinctured with blood,and which has attained an enviable nota- 

 riety among the choicest of the northern horses. They are 

 derived from the Morgan horse of Vermont, that was foaled 

 in Springfield, Mass., in 1793. He was got by Tru3 Britton, 

 supposed to have been bred by Gen. Delancey of New-York, 

 and got by imported Wildair, (or one of his sons,) a horse of 

 such distinguished excellence, as to have been re-exported to 

 England, for the benefit of his stock. The Morgan horse 

 stood in Vermont from 1795, till his death, at an advanced 

 age. From him and the choice mares of Vermont, descended 

 many excellent colts ; and his merits were inherited in an 

 eminent degree by three of his sons, which stood in the same 

 state and continued the career of improvement commenced 

 by the sire. The. result has been the production of a family 

 of roadsters, of much similarity of appearance* and uniformity 

 of character, unsurpassed by any others for surviceable quali- 

 ties. They are of medium size, from 13 h to 15 hands high ; 



*Many of the Morgan horses have the steep rump and heavy breast and neck, 

 which indicates a Norman cross on the side of their dams, which has been largely 

 imported through the French horse in the adjoining Canadian settlements ; but 

 none of these are said to have characterised the founder of the race. 



