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which were very numerous, were of unrivalled excellence as roadsters. 

 Of the blood of the Sherman Morgan on the side of his dam we 

 know nothing, but hope to obtain more particulars in future. In 

 1831 this horse was kept by Colonel Samuel Jacques at the Ten Hill 

 Farms, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Colonel Jacques considered 

 him a horse having a rare combination of valuable qualities. Though 

 we never had the good fortune to see Sherman Morgan, we saw many 

 of his foals, and, without disparaging other horses, can safely say that 

 they were, as road horses, superior to any other stock with which we 

 have been acquainted. It will be recollected that Mr. Hill's horse, 

 Black Hawk, spoken of in our June number, is a son of Sherman 

 Morgan. Perhaps there is not at the present time in existence a 

 horse which possesses more of the characteristics for which the Mor- 

 gans are justly esteemed than Black Hawk. He is certainly a noble 

 and beautiful animal, and we cannot but think well calculated to 

 produce a highly valuable stock. We say this from conviction, and 

 with no other motive whatever than a wish to benefit the public " 



WOODBURY MORGAN (sometimes called the Burbank Horse, 

 and in Windsor county the Walker Horse) was bred by Lyman 

 Wight of Tunbridge, Orange county, Vermont. Mr. Linsley says: 

 " He was foaled in the latter part of May, 1 8 1 6 ; he was sired by Justin 

 Morgan ; his dam was of unknown blood. At the time the colt was 

 foaled, Mr. Lyman Wight was a young man about eighteen years old, 

 and the dam belonged to his father, William Wight, who had loaned 

 her to his son for the purpose of raising a colt. She was five years 

 old when the colt was born. Mr. Wight purchased her, the year before, 

 of Major John Moulton of Bethel, Vermont, who brought her into that 

 town. She was large, being over fifteen hands high, and weighed about 

 eleven hundred pounds; she was of a deep bay color with black legs, 

 mane and tail, a small white spot in the forehead, and no other marks. 

 She was not very compactly made, and was rather flat-ribbed ; but she 

 had an excellent chest, fine shoulders and hips, and excellent limbs. 

 Her head was very fine, ears good, and mane and tail beautiful. She 

 carried her head high, was a very free, spirited driver, and was called 

 fast at that time. She both paced and trotted, generally starting in 

 the former gait, and after going a short distance changing it for a 

 trot. When trotting she made a fine appearance, and going fast at- 

 tracted much attention. She was a very fast walker." 



Miss Sarah Woodbury, daughter of David Woodbury, now of 

 Bethel, says: "Father bought Woodbury Morgan, I think when 

 two years old, for a sleigh valued at fifty dollars. I think it was after 



