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persons now living at Lyndon ; and we mention them, 

 not from any intrinsic interest they may possess, but, 

 having said that Sherman was slightly holloAV-backed, 

 we thought it necessary to show, that, if so, his back 

 was by no means weak. 



" Such was the kind of service to which Mr. Sher- 

 man put his horse from the time he was four years old 

 until he was about ten, when he sold him to Stephen 

 C. Gibbs of Littleton, N.H., in 1819. Mr. Gibbs kept 

 him one year, and sold him to John Buckminster of 

 Danville, Yt. ; but Mr. Gibbs had charge of him two 

 years longer. After this, he was kept at Danville and 

 vicinity until 1829, when he was purchased of Mr. 

 Buckminster by Mr. John Bellows of Lancaster, N.H. 

 The summer of 1829 he was kept at Littleton, N.H., 

 in charge of Stephen C. Gibbs ; in 1830 he was kept 

 at Dover and vicinity ; in 1831 he was at Col. Jaques's 

 Ten-hills Farm, Charlestown, Mass. ; in 1832 he was 

 at Dover and Durham, N.H. ; in 1833 he was kept at 

 Lancaster, N.H. ; and in 1834, at Dover and vicinity. 

 He died at Mr. Bellows's stable, in Lancaster, the 9th 

 of January, 1835. The cause of his death is unknown. 

 He was left at ten o'clock in the morning apparently 

 perfectly well ; and, at one o'clock in the afternoon, he 

 was found dead. 



*' With the exception of some slight indications of 

 age, he was apparently as free from every species of 

 blemish or infirmity the morning of the day he died 

 as when he was foaled. His skin has been preserved 



