n 6 THE MORGAN HORSE 



lect hearing any one give the name of the horse except this Mr. 

 Rogers ; and this was the understanding of those in Claremont who 

 knew and patronized the horse Justin Morgan, viz., the Ainsworths 

 the Gosses and the Rices. This is all I can say in regard to his 

 pedigree, or the means my informants had of knowing. 



"In regard to the horse being a swift runner, or a fast trotter, I 

 do not know as I ever heard of his running a race, and trotting horses 

 and timing them have come later! But this is quite certain, that he 

 was a sharp going horse at any gait, but I don't think he ever made a 

 mile in three minutes. All I ever heard said of him was that, whenever 

 upon the road, he always overtook and passed all that were ahead of 

 him, and that he kept out of the reach of all behind him. Justin 

 Morgan, Jr., however, may have been better informed than I. 



"The parties I have named as having an understanding in regard 

 to the horse's sire, lived in Claremont, New Hampshire, and the Mr. 

 Ainsworth whom I mentioned came fram Randolph, Vermont, from 

 the immediate neighborhood of John Goss, and probably about the 

 time Goss became the owner of the horse. 



"The color of the old Justin Morgan is hard to describe, but I 

 will call him a brown bay, dappled when in condition for service, with 

 slightly mealy nose. His colts, so far as I knew, were either deep 

 blood bay, without any white, or dark brown, or light brown with 



mealy noses. 



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Very truly yours, 



CHARLES M. LAMB". 



Mr. Elijah Austin of Greensboro, Vermont, (born February 4, 

 1794) said in the interview before referred to : "I lived in Royalton 

 seven years and then we moved back to the place where I was born, 

 in Tunbridge. I think I was seventeen when we moved back. 

 That year the Morgan horse stood a part of the time in Randolph, 

 part in Tunbridge, and part in Royalton. Stone took him around ; 

 rode another horse and led him". 



Dr. Wilkinson of Claremont informed us in an interview that old 

 Mr. Joel Goss and Joseph Rogers owned the old Morgan horse to- 

 gether at Claremont one or two years and had the horse there ; this 

 was about 1816, and it was while there that he got Revenge. Rogers 

 lived near the ferry. 



Resuming Mr. Linsley's narrative where we last left it, he pro- 

 ceeds : "Mr. Goss (David) kept him almost constantly at work on 

 his farm, with the exception of about two months in the spring of 

 each year. While his property, although put to hard work, the 



