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sorrel one, but not often. I do not remember of ever having seen 

 a white hair about his colts that were bay. As there has been a 

 good deal said about Justin Morgan's bringing the Morgan horse 

 from Canada, I know that it was not so. The Morgan horse was as 

 near a full-blooded English horse as it was possible for us to get at 

 the time, and our advantages were not small. 



PER. S. P. MORGAN. JOHN MORGAN". 



"This certifies that the above are true copies of letters written by 

 John Morgan, January 9 and 30, 1845. S. W. HALE". 



By comparing the first of these letters with Mr. Morgan's note 

 to Mr. Skinner, page 74, it will be seen that the Burt mare was 

 dam of the Church Wildair, and not of Diamond, as might be inferred 

 from this letter alone. The following letters are from John Morgan's 

 grandsons, written to A. W. Thomson, Woodstock, Vermont : 



"LIMA, NEW YORK, July 26, 1880. 



"Dear Sir: My father, S. P. Morgan, has been dead two years. 

 I answered a letter from Mr. Weir at that time. Any letters he may 

 have from father or grandfather in regard to this horse business are 

 genuine and correct. They were men who knew what they were 

 talking about. How soon, after grandfather came to Lima, he returned 

 to Springfield, I never heard him or father say. He owned or was 

 groom for True Briton before he left Springfield. He settled on 

 this farm in 1790 and lived and died here. My father was born here 

 and died here. My father wrote those letters to Mr. Weir at his 

 father's dictation. Grandfather's oldest son, John, never came to 

 Lima to live. He stayed at Springfield with his grandfather Shaw, 

 till after he was twenty-one, when he went to Windsor, Vermont. He 

 was here in 1860, and died soon after. There are no letters that I 

 can find that say anything in regard to this matter. I think my 

 grandfather came to Lima in the spring of 1790, on an ox sled, with 

 one pair of cattle and a horse to lead them. There was no road 

 west of Cayuga Lake, so he could not have come on wheels. There 

 was nothing but an Indian trail. Yours respectfully, 



DAVID B. MORGAN". 



"HARTFORD, WISCONSIN, August 2, 1880. 



"Dear Sir: My grandfather, John Morgan, was in company 

 with Justin Morgan in owning the horse in question. The son grand- 

 father had born in Lima in 1793 was not my father, as my father was 

 the oldest of the family and the only one born in Springfield, Mas- 

 sachusetts. My grandfather visited Springfield with horses to sell 

 when I was a small boy I think about the year 1820. I have no 

 recollection of hearing about his visiting Springfield again. My father 



