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pedigree of the horse, but that he bought him believing him to be 

 partly thoroughbred, and that no question was ever made of it, so far 

 as he knew, during the lifetime of the horse". 



This statement, that he was " partly thoroughbred ", is strictly cor- 

 rect, although the larger part of his blood was thoroughbred. But 

 his second dam is not certainly traced, and nothing is known of the 

 dam of Diamond, sire of the dam of the Justin Morgan. 



We have now given all the evidence that Mr. Linsley appears to 

 have had before him, in the preparation of his work, bearing upon the 

 question of the identity and breeding of the sire of the Justin Morgan 

 horse. And he did not have the advertisement of Diamond, given 

 above, and it is evident that he had not seen the letter of Mr. Skin- 

 ner, and was unaware of the communication of John Morgan to him 

 therein contained. These, however, both refer to the breeding of the 

 dam rather than of the sire. Mr. Linsley was doubly misled as to the 

 period when Justin Morgan had the horse by adopting the dates 

 erroneously given by Justin Morgan, 2d, in his "Cultivator" letters. 

 Adopting those dates, he supposed that Mr. Morgan had the horse 

 from the fall of 1/95 to the time of his own death, March 22, 1798, 

 while the horse was from two to five years old. Mr. Linsley did not 

 know that Mr. Morgan had the horse and advertised him for stock 

 the seasons of 1793, 1794 and 1795, and disposed of him before the 

 next stud season, then six years old past, at least two years before 

 his own death. It will be noted that one of Mr. Linsley's errors of 

 date tended to correct the other ; and although it would seem that a 

 little reflection would have shown him that no horse of the aee he 



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stated, and in the limited time he allowed, could possibly have done 

 the work and performed the feats which he attributes to the horse 

 while owned by Justin Morgan ; yet the advertisements, records and 

 other evidence which prove the error had not been brought to his 

 notice. His conclusions, which are the logical results of such evi- 

 dence as was before him, are here given in his own language (" Mor- 

 gan Horses", pages 116-119) : 



"The letters of Justin and John Morgan comprise all the im- 

 portant facts that can now be obtained in relation to the place where 

 the horse originated ; and we can see no reason to doubt that he was 

 sired by True Briton, as is clearly and distinctly stated by Mr. John 

 Morgan. No account of the pedigree of the horse was reduced to 

 writing during the lifetime of Mr. Justin Morgan, and the accounts he 

 gave verbally have been remembered somewhat differently by different 

 individuals. All accounts, as before remarked, agree that he had 



