JUSTIN MORGAN 99 



down, or by the first of September next ; if not paid then, it will be 

 sixteen shillings. Said horse will be kept at the stable of Ezra Ed- 

 gerton in Randolph, and Lieut. Durkee or E. Stevens in Royalton. 

 He will be kept at Randolph till the second Monday of May, when 

 he will be taken to Royalton, there to be kept every Monday, Tues- 

 day and Wednesday ; then return to Randolph, where he will continue 

 Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and so alternately during the season. 

 The subscriber flatters himself that the horse's strength, beauty and 

 activity will bear examination by the curious. Constant attention 

 will be paid at each of the above places. JUSTIN MORGAN. 



Randolph, April 21, 1794". 



From the first publication of these advertisements, it was almost 

 certain that Figure was Justin Morgan's name for the famous horse now 

 called Justin Morgan, for all the evidence shows that Justin Morgan 

 never had but one stallion in Vermont. There is the following addi- 

 tional testimony on this point: 



In an interview with F. A. Weir, at his home in Walpole, New 

 Hampshire, he expressed himself as certain that the Figure horse 

 and the Justin Morgan were the same; said that he knew that Mor- 

 gan traveled about with the Morgan horse from place to place ; that 

 old Mr. Matthew Allen told him that the first time he ever saw the 

 Goss horse (another name for the Morgan) was down at Lebanon; 

 that Morgan had him there himself. Mr. Allen owned Morgan 

 Robin and lived at Guildhall, and formerly at St. Johnsbury, to which 

 place he moved in 1810. 



The Lebanon mentioned is Lebanon, New Hampshire, lying on 

 the Connecticut river, near White River Junction. To go from Ran- 

 dolph, according to Mr. Morgan's first advertisement, he would pass 

 through the villages of East Randolph, East Bethel, Royalton, South 

 Royalton, Sharon, West Hartford and White River Junction, all in 

 the county of Windsor, a distance of a little less than thirty miles. 



In an interview, in 1885, with the late Celim E. French, then 

 proprietor of the excellent hotel and summer resort at Barnard, 

 Windsor county, Vermont, and seventy-five years old, a highly re- 

 spected citizen, and all his life a dealer in horses, he said: ''The 

 original Morgan horse came from Hartford, Connecticut, to Ran- 

 dolph. I never saw him ". 



On the same occasion, Mr. J. B. Davis, seventy-three years old, 

 another very respected citizen of Barnard, said : " I heard, when a 

 boy, that Justin Morgan brought the original Morgan horse from 

 Connecticut. I never saw the Justin Morgan but was well acquainted 

 with Jonathan Shepard, of Montpelier, who said that he, at one time, 



