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runners. They were apparently as popular about Stanstead and 

 Waterloo as were the Woodburys in the White River valley, or the 

 Black Hawks in Addison county, Vermont. The imaginary line sep- 

 arating Vermont and Canada did not operate as a barrier, and Mor- 

 gan horses were as plentiful and as popular north of that line as south 

 of it. And there can be no doubt but that the superiority of the 

 horses of the country extending north and west from Stanstead is 

 largely due to the blood of the -Morgan horses so early and widely 

 diffused through that region by Weasel, Black Morgan, the Hawkins 

 Horse and others. 



REVENGE was bred by Mr. Goss, and foaled in 1815 the property 

 oi Cyrus Moore, both of Claremont, New Hampshire. Mr. Linsley 

 says : " He was a dark bay or light brown. When his coat 

 was fresh and new, it verged on black, but at other times was a dark 

 bay. He was about fourteen and a half hands high, and weighed 

 fully one thousand pounds. His dam was a light brown with a 

 stripe in the face, and white hind feet; she was a smart driver, but 

 low headed. She was mixed gaited. Her sire is not known ; her 

 dam was bay, with white in the face, owned by Mr. Ball' of Unity, 

 New Hampshire. She was a pacer and very smart ; her breeding 

 is not known, but she was called at that time a ' Narragansett Pacer'. 

 Revenge was sold the fall after he was two years old to Nehemiah 

 Rice; two or three years later to Mr. Tyler, and kept in the 

 vicinity of Claremont, until nine years old. Mr. Moses Wheeler of 

 Claremont then purchased a half interest in him, and the next 

 year purchased the other half. One year later he was sold, and had 

 after that many owners. He was kept near the Connecticut River, at 

 Claremont, Croyden, Cornish, Weathersfield and intermediate points. 

 In 1835 or 1836, he was bought by Albert Billings of Claremont, and 

 died his property in April, 1837. 



"Revenge had less action than either Woodbury or Sherman ; but he 

 had a very close knit form, with excellent back, loins, hips, and limbs ; 

 his chest and shoulders were not so fine as some of the others, nor 

 did he have a very smooth, easy gait, but he never paced, nor hitched. He 

 had plenty of life, great endurance, and, as one of his owners said to us, 

 'he was an ugly customer to getaway from on the road'. His stock 

 were dark bay or brown, and occasionally chestnut. They had good 

 size, were strong, hardy and enduring; generally free drivers, but had 

 not as easy action, nor as good style as the stock from the others ; 

 and some of them would both pace and trot. He was perfectly 

 sound. We know of but one of his colts which was kept a stallion. 



