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training-day), I was at my father's house, and a man of the name 

 of Able Shorey, a skilful horseman of the neighborhood, was there 

 also; when David Goss, Jr., my cousin, then aged about seventeen, 

 came up from his father's, distant about three-quarters of a mile, with 

 a message to Shorey, requesting him to go to his father's (my uncle 

 David's) and trim a horse that uncle John Goss had just then brought 

 over from Randolph, distant forty miles. 



' I accompanied them, and, at my uncle David's, we found uncle 

 John from Randolph, with a little, heavy, handsome, active bay horse, 

 which he requested Shorey to trim, chiefly by pulling out and cut- 

 ting the hairs of his tail, which appeared as if it had been gnawed by 

 calves. Uncle John said he was a Canadian horse that he had just got 

 from Justin Morgan of Randolph, who had lately brought him from 

 Montreal. I afterwards frequently heard the manner of his purchas- 

 ing the horse related in my father's and uncle David's families, which 

 was this : Uncle John had lent Morgan the sum of forty dollars, on 

 occasion of the latter's going a journey to Montreal in Canada. Mor- 

 gan obtained the horse, then four years old, at Montreal, and being 

 unable to repay the money on his return, disposed of him to Uncle 

 John, to pay the debt. Uncle John, who was no horseman, now 

 brought him to my uncle David, who was much of a horseman, in 

 the hope that something might be made by keeping him for mares. 

 I remember Shorey's calling him 'a full blood French horse'. 



"Uncle Goss engaged Shorey to take the horse next day to train- 

 ing, at Major Butler's, and there I saw him cover four mares. 



"My uncle, David Goss, kept the horse through the season, 

 working him on his farm, and putting him to mares when they were 

 brought; he also kept him through the next winter and the ensuing 

 spring, when the foals were found to be universally excellent; uncle 

 John took him back to Randolph, \vhere he made his second season : 

 the third season he was brought to St. Johnsbury, and stood at uncle 

 David's again. After this, as I went to learn my trade, I cannot give 

 so particular an account of the horse, but remember that he was 

 kept several seasons in St. Johnsbury. 



"This, and more to the same purpose, may be attested by David 

 Goss, Sen., Philip Goss, David Goss, Jr.. Clark Stearns, Abel Shorey, 

 Abel Butler, and Thomas Pierce, all of St. Johnsbury. 



JOHN STEARNS. 



"Sworn before me at Charlestown village, this I4th of August, 

 1841. DAVID CONNELL, J. P". 



