JUSTIN MOR CAN 7 1 



ches of the State legislature, and was at one cime State inspector of 

 finance. Both these brothers have recently died. 



But to return to the reply of Justin Morgan the younger. It 

 appeared in the " Albany Cultivator", in the June number, 1842, as 

 follows : 



"Messrs. Gaylord and Tucker : Mr. Edward Terry of Rochester, 

 Vermont, recently sent me two numbers of your "Cultivator" contain- 

 ing some account of the origin of the Morgan breed of horses, and 

 also an affidavit of John Stearns of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, relative to 

 the same subject. I have read the affidavit of the said Stearns atten- 

 tively, and know that he is entirely mistaken in all his statements rela- 

 tive to the time said horse was brought into Vermont, the place from 

 which he was brought, and the manner in which he says his uncle, 

 John Goss, obtained said horse of my father. I know very well 

 that Mr. John Goss never obtained said horse of my father in any 

 way whatever. My father owned said horse to the day of his death, 

 and, in the settlement of my father's estate, said horse passed into the 

 hands of William Rice, then living at Woodstock, Vermont, since de- 

 ceased. I will now relate the facts relative to said Morgan horse, as I re- 

 collect them. My father, Justin Morgan, brought said horse, or rather 

 said colt, into Randolph, Vermont, in the summer or autumn of 1795. 

 Said colt was only two years old when my father brought him to Ran- 

 dolph, and never had been handled in any way, not even to be led 

 by a halter. My father went to Springfield, Massachusetts, the place 

 of his nativity, and the place from which he removed to Randolph, in 

 the spring or summer of 1795, after money that was due to him at 

 that place, as he said ; and, instead of getting money, as he expected, 

 he got two colts one a three-year-old gelding colt, which he led, the 

 other a two-year-old stud colt, which followed all the way from Spring- 

 field to Randolph; having been, as my father said, always kept with, 

 and much attached to, the colt he led. Said two-year-old colt was 

 the same that has since been known all over New England by the 

 name of the Morgan horse. My father broke said colt himself, and, 

 as I have before remarked, owned and kept him to the time of his 

 decease, which took place in March, 1798, and said horse was five 

 years old the spring my father died ; and, as before stated, soon after 

 my father's decease, he passed from my father's estate into the pos- 

 session of William Rice of Woodstock, Vermont. I cannot state 

 positively that my father purchased said colt in Springfield, Mass- 

 achusetts, but I am very confident that he purchased him in that 

 town, or in the immediate vicinity on the Connecticut river; and 



