198 THE MORGAN HORSE 



horse of wonderful endurance. He was four or five years old when 

 brought here. Everybody liked him ". Mr. Aaron Smith of Dan- 

 ville said : " He was called the Weston Horse, Goss Horse, Buck- 

 minster Horse, and Randolph Horse". Again he was described to 

 us by one who knew him well as "a good-styled horse, about as 

 good as there was; a strong, resolute horse that would endure a great 

 deal of hardship". Mr. Jennison, breeder of the Jennison Colt, said 

 of him : "He could trot like the wind and was a beauty". 



All agree that he was a very beautiful horse of the Morgan pat- 

 tern, and a great trotter for his day. From his type and character- 

 istics, and the locality where he was bred, it is quite probable that 

 he inherited Morgan blood from his dam. He was the sire of the 

 Jennison Colt, which got old Morrill, also sire of second dam of Hav- 

 iland 2:29^, and second dam of Young Morrill 2 131, winner of 

 eleven races. 



THE JENNISON COLT was a bright cherry bay with star and black 

 points, full and very handsome flowing mane and tail, nearly sixteen 

 hands high and weighed twelve hundred and twenty-four pounds. 

 He was bred by Abijah Jennison, Walden, Vermont, got by Young 

 Bulrush (Randolph Morgan), son of Bulrush Morgan, and was foaled 

 in 1 841 . His dam was black with brown nose and flanks, sixteen hands, 

 thirteen hundred pounds, lazy and dull, but a fast pacer and very 

 powerful, " would break log chains when logging" ; owned by Prentice 

 Carr, and afterwards by Nathaniel Farrington, Walden, Vermont, then 

 by Jennison; breeding unknown, but said to be of Canadian stock. 

 Mr. Jennison sold his colt about 1844 to A. F. Putnam, Marshfield, 

 Vermont, who kept him two seasons and sold back to Jennison. 

 The horse afterwards went to Maine. Jennison was a very poor 

 man, and received from Heath for the service of the colt in getting 

 old Morrill a pound of tea. 



Abijah Jennison says : " I raised the colt that sired the old 

 Morrill. I bought his dam of Nathaniel Farrington of this town. 

 Farrington had her of a Mr. Bradley Webber of Hardwick, Vermont. 

 I bought her in the fall of the year for forty-five dollars, and was to 

 let Farrington have her three or four trips to Boston in a six-horse 

 team, a distance of one hundred and eighty miles; she was a pacer, 

 and when she got to going she could pace fast. She was a wonder- 

 fully stout mare, rather dull to drive, but a powerful draft horse. She 

 was black with brown nose and flanks and had but little tail. I 

 should think she was sixteen hands high, but don't know how that 



