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was. I never had her weighed, but should think she would have 

 weighed near thirteen hundred pounds. 



"When the Jennison Horse was foaled, well, the best description 

 of him that I can give is that he was perfect and he grew perfect. 

 He weighed over twelve hundred pounds, and was a bright bay, no 

 white on him but a little star, and he had the same little, short, sharp, 

 quick ear of the little Morgan. His mother had pretty long ears 

 and they lapped some ; and he had a wide forehead, and his eyes 

 were large and stood out, and he had just such a foretop, mane and 

 tail as the little Morgan. Oh, he was the Little Randolph all over 

 except his size ; and that he took from his mother. I had the colt 

 when he was two years old and that was the season he sired old 

 MorriH". 



A. F. Putnam, Marshfield, Vermont, says : " He was nearly six- 

 teen hands high, rangy enough, but deep quartered and very strongly 

 made in all respects. He had a choice head, eye and ear. He was 

 a square natural trotter and could go fast. I never trotted him fast 

 to show him but once. That was at Barnet, Vermont, on town-meet- 

 ing day. The match was against a stallion named the Bachop 

 Horse, claimed to be a three-minute horse. We were to trot a mile 

 on the road, starting from the tavern or near there. I led him from 

 the start, beating him out of sight. The mare that brought the Jen- 

 nison Colt was a black with orange-colored muzzle and flanks, and 

 a pacer. She was about sixteen hands high and would weigh nearly 

 thirteen hundred pounds ; a powerful draft mare, rather a dull 

 driver, but when straightened out would pace fast. She had a thin 

 rat-tail. I was always told she came from Canada, and was an Eng- 

 lish mare. Both she and the Jennison Colt had the best kind of clear 

 hazel eyes. 



MORRILL was bred by James Heath, Walden, Vermont, and was 

 foaled 1843. He was black with tan-colored muzzle and flanks, 

 right hind foot white, fifteen and three-quarters hands high, and 

 weighed twelve hundred and twenty-five pounds. His sire was the Jen- 

 nison Colt, son of Little Randolph, by Bulrush Morgan. His dam 

 was gray, bred by Mr. Eastman, Walden, Vermont, got by the 

 Farrington Horse, son of the Vance Horse, by Bold Phoenix. The 

 second dam was a very fast pacing bay mare, also bred by Mr. East- 

 man, and got by the Kittredge Horse, son of Quicksilver, by imported 

 Dey of Algiers, Arabian. 



Morrill was sold when a weanling to Urban Perkins, South 

 Walden, Vermont, who traded him, when four or five years old, to 



