i 4 6 THE MORGAN HORSE 



Woodbury Morgan is advertised for the season of 1830 by 

 Abel Denney, to stand at Barnard, Bethel and Woodstock, Vermont, 

 the description and terms being as follows: "The celebrated horse, 

 Morgan, formerly owned by E. Parkhurst and John Woodbury, and 

 afterwards by William Walker and Smith of Hartland. Terms : Ten 

 dollars, and no deviation". The date is May 10, 1830. 



He is advertised, 1829, under name of Young Morgan, in aW'ood- 

 stock, Vermont, paper, to stand at Hartford, Quechee and White River : 

 "The subscriber thinks it not necessary to give a long description of 

 this noted horse, as he is well known to be the best horse in this sec- 

 tion of the country. Terms, four to five dollars. 



WILLIAM WALKER. 



Hartland, April 24, 1829". 



The following advertisement appears in the "Vermont Courier" : 



" Morgan Horse at auction. The well-known Morgan stallion, 

 called the Walker Horse, and lately the property of P. Burbank, will 

 be sold at auction at Wells River village in Newbury, the 5th of May 

 next. 



J. KENT, JR., Auctioneer. 



Wells River, April, 1836". 



The only other advertisement that we have seen of Woodbury 

 Morgan is in the "New Hampshire Sentinel", published at Keene, 

 in 1832, in which season Jesse Johnson advertises him under the 

 name of Young Morgan, to stand at Keene and Walpole at ten dol- 

 lars. The advertisement states that " he is own brother to Sherman 

 Morgan, that was kept at Charlestown, Massachusetts, the last two 

 seasons". 



This gives us an advertisement of both Woodbury and Sherman 

 for the year 1832, which show that Sherman commanded a fee of 

 fifteen dollars, while Woodbury kept the terms of ten dollars at 

 which he was advertised in 1830. But the average price of service 

 of stallions advertised at that time was but two to three dollars, which 

 shows the popularity which these now famous horses had then at- 

 tained. 



Mr. Linsley gives eighteen entire sons of Woodbury Morgan, of 

 thirteen of which the color is stated. Of these, eight were chestnut 

 and five were bay. The heights of twelve are given, varying from 

 the fourteen and a half hands of the famous sire, Gifford Morgan, to 

 the sixteen hands of the Walker Horse, Morgan Tally-ho ; the average 

 height is precisely fifteen hands. The weights of fifteen are given ; 

 the least is that of May Fly, nine hundred pounds, and the greatest 

 that of the Walker Horse, thirteen hundred pounds ; the average 



