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"Mr. Belknap kept Bulrush inTunbridge and vicinity until 1819, 

 when he sold him to Abel Densmore of Chelsea, Vermont. Mr. 

 Densmore sold him to Darius Sprague of Randolph, Vermont, who 

 sold him March 8th, 1826, to Messrs. Simon Smith and William 

 Walker of Hartland, Vermont, for three hundred and fifty dollars. 

 They kept him at Hartland and vicinity until they dissolved part- 

 nership in 1829, when Mr. Smith took Bulrush to Maidstone, Ver- 

 mont. He kept him one year at Chelsea, Vermont, and two years 

 in the State of Maine, and in 1833 sold him to Jesse Johnson & 

 Brothers of Bradford, Vermont. The season of 1833 he was kept 

 at Bradford, Vermont, and Bath, New Hampshire ; the season 

 of 1834, at Keene, New Hampshire; the season of 1835, at Lyme, 

 New Hampshire, and Bradford, Vermont ; and the season of 1836 at 

 Burlington, Vermont. During the winter of 1836 and 1837, the 

 Messrs. Johnson sold him to Messrs. Blake and Foss of Chelsea, 

 Vermont, who kept him in that town till 1842, when they sold him to 

 Lewis Jenkins of Fairlee, Vermont, who kept him at Fairlee until he 

 sold him to F. A. Weir of Walpole, New Hampshire, who kept him 

 until he died in 1848 ". 



It will be noted that Bulrush lived to the remarkable age of 

 thirty-six years. It appears that Smith and \Valker of Hartland got 

 both Bulrush and Woodbury the same month, March 1826, and kept 

 them till they dissolved partnership, in 1829, when Smith took Bul- 

 rush and Walker took Woodbury; and that, in 1833, when the 

 Johnson Brothers of Bradford were keeping Woodbury for Burbank, 

 they purchased Bulrush, and the horses had again for three years the 

 same owners. 



Mr. Linsley gives a list of sixteen entire sons of Bulrush, and 

 the color and weight of all are given. Of these, thirteen are bay, 

 two gray and one brown. The weights vary between nine hundred 

 and twenty-five and twelve hundred pounds, the average being ten 

 hundred and seven pounds. The heights of twelve are given, be- 

 tween the limits of fourteen and one-half and sixteen hands, the aver- 

 age being fourteen and five-sixths hands. It thus appears that Bul- 

 rush got bays with great uniformity. 



Mr. Linsley says : "The Bulrush family are most numerous in 

 that portion of the States of Vermont and New Hampshire lying on the 

 Connecticut River, between Windsor and Newbury. They are almost 

 invariably deep bays and browns, with black legs, manes and tails ; 

 in this respect they differ from the other families, and also in their 

 general (we might almost say universal) freedom from any marks, 



