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tisement of his son, Macaroni, at Royalton, Vt, in 1785, Arabian 

 Ranger is called a ''Moravian Horse". 



Justin Morgan was a horseman. For the season of 17/8 as we 

 have seen he advertised Sportsman at his home in West Springfield. 

 In 1783 he kept Diamond, and advertised him in the "Massachusetts 

 Gazette" of April 29, as follows : 



"Will cover this season at the stable of Mr. Justin Morgan, in 

 West Springfield, the horse called Diamond, who sprang from a good 

 mare, and from the horse formerly owned by Mr. Church of Spring- 

 field. 

 West Springfield, April 25, 1783". 



The season of 1785 he kept the stallion True Briton. This was 

 the last season that Mr. Morgan is known to have kept a stallion be- 

 fore he removed to Vermont, in 1788. 



Mr. Morgan's health was delicate, and he was unable to do hard 

 work after he was twenty years old. He taught writing, singing and 

 common district schools, the proceeds of which occupations, together 

 with the money from his horses, when he had them, and from his little 

 tavern, constituted his means of livelihood. As a teacher he seems 

 to have been successful, and was greatly liked wherever he went, on 

 account of his urbane manners and upright character. He was mar- 

 ried at the age of about thirty, and four daughters and one son were 

 born to him. His second daughter, Emily, afterwards Mrs. Edgerton, 

 was born February 1784; his son, Justin, March 15, 1786; his third 

 daughter, Nancy, at Randolph, Vermont, September 3, 1788; and 

 his fourth daughter, Polly, at Randolph, March 10, 1791. Ten days 

 after the birth of this last child, Mrs. Martha Morgan, the wife and 

 mother, died at Randolph. The last three dates appear in the town 

 records of Randolph. 



He was chosen lister in Randolph, March 19, 1789, and Town 

 Clerk, March 9, 1790, and held that office until March 18, 1793. 

 In the spring of 1793, the family was broken up and the children 

 found homes in the families of different neighbors, the son Jus- 

 tin, then seven years old, with his sister Emily, going to live with 

 Daniel Carpenter of Randolph, by whom they were brought up. 

 Mr. Morgan never had his little family together again ; he survived 

 only five years and died at Randolph on the 22d day of March, 1798, 

 in his fifty-first year. The little property that he left was appraised 

 at only $160.13, as appears by the probate records where the dif- 

 ferent articles are enumerated. There is no horse or live stock of 

 any kind in the appraisal. It is thus aoparent that he had parted with 



