JUSTIN MOR GAN 1 1 7 



horse was not overworked or abused, but was properly treated and 

 cared for. David Goss sold him to his son Philip, and some of his 

 colts about Randolph having grown up and proved valuable, there 

 was some inquiry for the horse in that vicinity, and he was accord- 

 ingly taken back to that town. This was in 1811. He was now 

 nineteen [twenty-two] years old, and those who owned him at dif- 

 ferent times after this generally seemed eager to get rid of him for 

 fear he should die on their hands. Immediately after his return to 

 Randolph, he seems to have been taken care of by Robert Evans, 

 his former owner, for it was during this year that Bulrush was sired, 

 and he was at that time in the possession of Mr. Evans. Soon after 

 this, or in the autumn of 1811, Philip Goss sold him to Jacob Sand- 

 erson; Sanderson sold him to a Mr. Langmaid, who used the old 

 horse hard, considering his age. Reworked him sometime in a six- 

 horse team, hauling freight from Windsor to Chelsea. Under this 

 treatment he became thin and poor, and was purchased for a trifle 

 by a man in Chelsea, and shortly after sold by him to Joel Goss of 

 Claremont, New Hampshire. Mr. Goss kept him one year, and 

 sold him to Mr. Samuel Stone of Randolph. Mr. Stone kept him 

 two or three years, or until 1819, when he sold him, and he soon 

 after became the property of Levi Bean, who owned him until his 

 death, which happened in the winter of 1821, at the farm of Clifford 

 Bean, situated about three miles south of the village of Chelsea, Ver- 

 mont". 



Solomon Langmaid who in 1890 lived at Newton, Iowa, and 

 who was born in 1796, and lived until 1855 at North Danville, Ver- 

 mont, describes Justin Morgan as a little less than fifteen hands, 

 about one thousand pounds, and says that his brother, William Lang- 

 maid, bought him for one hundred dollars, in May, 1816, of Mr. 

 Stone of Randolph, and kept him that season at Danville, where he 

 got four foals ; and that, after keeping the horse ten months, his brother 

 sold him back to Mr. Stone. This accounts for the season of 1816. 

 Probably Mr. Linsley was misinformed in regard to the person who 

 sold to Langmaid. 



Comparing these narratives, they are found to be harmonious 

 with trifling exceptions. He was probably owned by David Goss 

 until 181 1, but he made the season of 1807 in Randolph, with a short 

 stay in Claremont. He may have been at the barn of Robert Evans 

 in Randolph in the season of 181 1, but he was handled that season 

 by Samuel Stone in Randolph, Tunbridge and Royalton. When in 

 Claremont, he was owned by Joel Goss and Joseph Rogers, and, if 



