JUSTIN MORGAN 97 



never lived in Lima. He visited there when about nineteen years of 

 age. My father moved from Springfield to Bellows Falls, Vermont, 

 in 1819, and to Windsor four years after, and thereafter lived there. 

 He was at Philadelphia on a visit when he met with the accident that 

 cost him his life, which was during the winter of 1860-61. I think 

 the son born to my grandfather in 1793 was my uncle David. My 

 father visited his father at Lima, while he lived at Bellows Falls, and 

 also after he lived at Windsor. My grandfather did not visit Ver- 

 mont after my father moved there. The other question I cannot 

 answer. Yours truly, JAMES S. MORGAN" . 



Further light is given by the grand lists of Randolph of that 

 period. The lists do not specify the animals owned by the tax-payer, 

 but the law under which they were made up provided that animals 

 should be appraised as follows: 



Every ox or steer of four years old and upwards ^4 



Every steer or heifer three years old, and each cow 3 



Each steer or heifer two years old 2 



Each steer or heifer one year old i 



Each horse of three years old or upwards 3 



All horse kind two years old, each 2 



All horse kind one year old, each i 



In 1791 a law was passed, taking effect the next year, that all 

 stallions two years old and upwards should be set in the list at twenty 

 pounds. The lists of Justin Morgan are as follows : 



1789 3 i5 



i79 8 



1791 10 



There is no list of Justin Morgan in Randolph before or after 

 the above. The sudden rise after 1791, when the new law took effect, 

 indicates that he may have been taxed for a stallion the next three 

 years ; and he was never taxed for more than one stallion the same year. 



He had no stallion or other taxable property in Randolph after 

 1794. His advertisement of that year shows that he did have one 

 at Williston. 



An interview with Charles Morgan, late of Rochester, Vermont, 

 was taken by W. H. Bliss, January i6th, 1885, and published in the 

 "Middlebury Register" of October 28th, 1886, as follows: 



"Mr. Charles Morgan says he has heard his father discuss with 

 inquiring horsemen the questions concerning the old horse, hundreds 

 of times, but he is quite innocent of dates. He understands that 

 Justin Morgan went back to Springfield to collect his pay of a man 

 for whom he had worked, and, not getting money, took a yearling 



1793 27 



1794 20 



