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bays. Mr. Goss kept the horse this .season at Randolph. * 

 Mr. Lamb states that Samuel Stone came to Claremont in the winter 

 of 1813-14 with the horse Justin Morgan, and staid several weeks 

 with Mr. Ainsworth, and that he (Mr. Lamb) frequently rode the 

 horse to water. The seasons of 1815 and 1817, the horse stood at 

 Claremont. At this time, Mr. Joseph Rogers, an elderly man, 

 formerly from Connecticut, was living at Claremont. Mr. Rogers 

 said then that the Justin Morgan's sire was DeLancey's horse. Mr. 

 Lamb does not know how Mr. Rogers knew, but knows he said 

 so. Mr. Lamb says he has heard that the horse's sire was True 

 Briton, but whom he first heard say so he cannot tell ; it may have 

 been Mr. Rogers. Ainsworth, Goss and Stone agreed as to where 

 the horse came from, but he does not remember that they said any- 

 thing in regard to his sire." 



We add a letter from Mr. Lamb, written by him to C. L. Bristol 

 of Robare, Montana, dated December 5, 1884, and courteously fur- 

 nished to us by Mr. Bristol. This letter is of later date than the 

 interview : 



"Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th has just been received. As early 

 as 1807 or 1808, I first saw the old Justin Morgan horse in Claremont, 

 New Hampshire. He was brought there by John Goss, who then 

 owned him and lived in Randolph, Vermont. I was then four or 

 five years old, having been born in 1803. The horse was there in 

 mare season and got colts, perhaps eight or ten, many of which I 

 knew and some of which I drove and used in after years. In the fall 

 of 181 1 or 1812, as I think, Sam Stone, then owning the horse, came 

 with him to Claremont and stopped with the man with whom I was 

 living, a Mr. Ainsworth, I should think six weeks or more. During 

 his stay, I very often rode the horse to water a distance of ten or fif- 

 teen rods. The horse again came to Claremont in mare season in 

 1815 and again in 1 8 1 7, as I think, and stood for mares. He was then 

 called about twenty years old. As to what his sire was, I may get 

 two stories confounded. An old gentleman by the name of Rogers, 

 who was perhaps seventy-five years old when I was fifteen, and moved 

 from the State of Connecticut, said the horse was sired by a horse 

 said to have been taken from the British during the last years 

 of the Revolution, and went by the name of the DeLancey Horse ; 

 and whether he called the horse True Briton, or whether I got the 

 idea from Frederick Weir, who was speculating in the Gifford Mor- 

 gan and his stock atTunbridge, somewhere near 1840, 1 am now un- 

 able to tell. My strong impression is that Rogers spoke of him as 

 the True Briton, but I am at loss to tell how this is. I do not recol- 



