128 THE MORGAN HORSE 



" Improve your breed of horses ! The celebrated Dutch horse 

 formerly owned by Stephen Hawkins, St. Johnsbury, will stand in 

 the stable of Robert Rogers, every day in the week, on Stanstead 

 Plains, the coming season. 



Stanstead, May 20, 1820". 



He remained at Stanstead probably till 1824, and was owned the 

 latter part of the time by John Johnson, by whom the following 

 advertisement was inserted in the ''Stanstead Journal", May, 1823: 

 "The celebrated Dutch horse, called the Hawkins Horse, ten years old 

 this year, will stand at the subscriber's stable, in Stanstead Plains, 

 every day in each week, the ensuing season, at two dollars the single 

 leap, or three dollars the season ; warranted as the parties can agree. 

 Any kind of produce will be received in payment in the month of 

 January next. JOHN JOHNSON. 



Stanstead, May I, 1823". 



In April, 1825, John Johnson advertised, in the Stanstead paper, 

 Young Quicksilver, raised at Norwich, Vermont, to stand at his stable 

 at Stanstead Plains, and no other horse, making it probable that he 

 parted with the Hawkins Horse before that time. 



In 1828, probably, he was purchased by David and Alonzo 

 Wood of Shefford, Shefford county, Canada, on the road from Stan- 

 stead to Montreal. The Messrs. Wood took the horse to Shefford and 

 kept him several seasons at Frost's Village, near Waterloo, being prob- 

 ably the seasons of 1828 to 1831, inclusive. This fact is attested by 

 the personal statements of Benjamin Milton Martin of Waterloo, and 

 his brother Nelson Martin of Stukeley and others, who remember the 

 horse while owned by the Wood brothers. 



Nelson Martin, born 1813, states that he had a mare in 1834, 

 then four years old, that was bred by his father ; that his father had 

 a horse colt foaled in 1829, the year before the mare; and that his 

 oldest brother, Simeon Martin, raised a gelding, foaled the same year 

 with the mare, that was a noted runner, beating everything in that 

 region ; and that these foals were all got by the Hawkins Horse, 

 while kept by the Woods at Frost's Village. 



Mr. Clark, a leading merchant of Waterloo, remembers that 

 very excellent stock was left by the Hawkins Horse in that vicinity. 

 His stock about Stanstead proving extremely good, he was bought 

 and taken back there, probably in 1832, and was kept there again by 

 John Pope. This fact is attested by Mr. Holmes of Derby Line, a 

 nephew of John Pope, who remembers the horse in his uncle's hands, 

 and by others. At some time after this the horse was taken north, 

 and we have not traced him further. 



