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that he had brought up the colt there at Randolph from a yearling, 

 or even from a two-year-old ; but perfectly natural if he had brought 

 the horse that or the previous season from Hartford, and especially 

 so if the horse had been advertised and done service in Hartford 

 under the name of Figure. Curiously enough, we find in the Hart- 

 ford " Connecticut Courant", running weekly from May 7 to May 21, 

 1792, the following advertisement: 



" Figure, a Beautiful bay Horse, fifteen hands high, will cover 

 this season at the stable of the subscriber, at Twenty Shillings the 

 season or Two Dollars the single leap. 



SAMUEL WHITMAN. 



Hartford (West Division), May 5". 



The name and description are those of Figure, son of Beautiful 

 Bay ; the expression, " Beautiful bay ", in the description, is suggestive ; 

 the discontinuance of the advertisement on May 2ist is an indication 

 that the colt about that time went away, while the increase in Mr. 

 Morgan's grand list, given in on June 2Oth of that year, tends to 

 show that he had his horse Figure at Randolph at that time. Sam- 

 uel Whitman's name first appears in the town records of Hartford in 

 1785, when a farm was transferred to him in what was then known 

 as the West division of Hartford, and now known as the town of 

 West Hartford. In the course of a few years he was the purchaser of 

 property in the city. His last real estate transaction occurred in 1838. 

 It certainly is very possible that he purchased from Justin Morgan, 

 in 1788, when Mr. Morgan removed from West Springfield to Ver- 

 mont, the dam of the Justin Morgan, then in foal. 



Mr. A. W. Thomson, in his article, from which we have quoted 

 above, further says, with apparent accuracy: 



"When Justin Morgan moved to Randolph, his sister came with 

 him. She was a widow ; her name was Eunice Williams ; she had a 

 son and a daughter. They lived about a mile from the Center, toward 

 the East Branch. There were two brothers of Mr. Morgan that 

 lived at Randolph, Calif and Stephen. Justin Morgan, when on his* 

 way home with the colts, stopped all night with his sister. The next 

 morning he went over to Mr. Moulton, the next neighbor, and had 

 his son Jude come over and see the colts. Mr. Moulton was shown 

 a four-year-old stallion ; he did not at first notice the small cne ; 

 after a while Mr. Morgan called his attention to the little one, and 

 asked him, 'What do you think of him'? Mr. Moulton said he saw 

 a little runt of a colt that did not look to be worth ten dollars, and 

 said so. * * * Mr. Moulton and his son moved on to the West 



