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Morgan, because in early days breeding records 

 were not as carefully kept as now. I shall not 

 attempt to carry the reader through thousands of 

 pages of conflicting statements, but will accept 

 the conclusions of Joseph Battell, of Middlebury, 

 Vermont, because he has devoted much time and 

 money to investigation, and has, as I believe, 

 sifted sands of truth from banks of falsehood. 



Justin Morgan 



Justin Morgan was bred by the man whose 

 name he bears, and was foaled in 1789 at West 

 Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Morgan kept a 

 small tavern for Connecticut River boatmen at 

 the time, but soon after the colt was weaned 

 moved to Randolph, Orange County, Vermont, 

 taking the equine bud of promise with him. The 

 dam had been sold previous to this change of 

 residence. The sire of the colt was True Briton, 

 otherwise called Beautiful Bay, and owned by 

 Selah Norton of Hartford, Connecticut ; and 

 there are romantic stories in print of how the 

 stallion was captured from Colonel James De 

 Lancy, an officer in the British army, in the 

 War of the Revolution. Colonel De Lancy was 

 proud of his saddle horse, an animal of pure 



