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RANDOLPH MORGAN, JENNISON COLT, 



MORRILL 



RANDOLPH MORGAN, also known by the many names of Randolph 

 Horse, Morgan Bulrush, Young Morgan Bulrush, Little Randolph, 

 Little Bulrush, Weston Horse, Edson Horse, Goss Horse, and Buck- 

 minster Horse, was dark bay with small star, heavy mane and tail, 

 fourteen and a half hands high and weighed about nine hundred and 

 fifty pounds. He was bred by Mr. Weston of Randolph, Vermont, 

 got by Bulrush Morgan, son of Justin Morgan, and foaled about 

 1820. His dam is untraced. He was purchased by John Goss of 

 Danville, Vermont, about 1825, and taken to Danville; was after- 

 wards owned by John Buckminster of Danville, who advertised in the 

 "Danville North Star", May 10, 1834: "A number of real Mor- 

 gan horses selected from a dozen of that blood". Buckminster sold 

 the horse to H. C. Babcock of Danville, who called him Morgan 

 Bulrush and advertised him in the " North Star" as follows: 



" Morgan Bulrush. H. C. Babcock would inform the public 

 that he has the celebrated Morgan horse, called the Morgan Bulrush, 

 or better known by the name of the Randolph Horse. His stock is 

 too well known by all in this vicinity to need any recommendation. 

 Will Stand at Bliss's Inn, Cabot; Farrington's, Walden, and War- 

 ner's, Hardwick. 



Danville, May 29, 1839". 



Mr. Babcock advertises Morgan Bulrush again in 1840. Some 

 five years later he was purchased by Andrew McFarlane, then of 

 Barton, but now of Coventry, Vermont, and he died his property 

 about 1846. He seems, at different times, to have won the names of 

 all his owners but the last. In an advertisement of the Morrill 

 Horse, dated Danville, May 27, 1852, in the "North Star", French 

 Morrill says : " The horse is of Morgan blood, sired by a colt of 

 the old Weston or Randolph Horse, so-called, formerly owned by 

 John Buckminster, late of Danville". In an interview with us, Mr. 

 Morrill said : " The Randolph Horse was a dark bay with heavy 

 mane, tail and foretop ; could trot easily in about three minutes ; a 



