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by his father, John Barker, and we are satisfied that this is correct. 

 Mr. Fisher of Danville, Vermont, born 1813, says that the Lock Goss 

 Horse was a Morgan-shaped horse. He knew the horse well, as 

 he worked for a neighbor of Mr. Goss. 



Chanticleer was of Morgan build, bay and between fifteen and 

 fifteen and a half hands high, and was kept at Fort Ann, New York, 

 about 1812, and later at Rupert and Pawlet, Vermont, and perhaps 

 other towns in that vicinity, by a Mr. Mead and a Mr. Stoddard ; 

 later still at Whitehall, New York, where he was purchased by 

 a Mr. Ramsdall of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, who sold him about 

 1826 to Mr. Barker of same place. His blood entered into some of 

 the best horses in Vermont. He was doubtless a horse of high 

 breeding, probably thoroughbred, though it is possible he was 

 of Morgan origin, as his description and that of his stock, and his 

 being called Dutch, might imply. C. A. Ramsdall of North Troy, 

 Vermont, writes: "Chanticleer came from Whitehall, New York, was 

 Dutch and what was called at that time French Morgan". 



George Barker of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, says: "They talked 

 that the horse had been a runner. Father bought him of Ramsdall. He 

 was an old horse then ; was called an English horse ; a handsome- 

 bodied horse, but unsound ; not a high-headed horse. Father owned 

 him with the Bolton Colt, or Flint Morgan. The second year the 

 colt gotthemost mares. Chanticleerwas a long-bodied, round, hand- 

 some horse, with a smooth, handsome head, long but not very 

 large. Some thought his front legs were too near together, but I 

 think he was half foundered. We lived on the Perry place when we 

 owned Chanticleer and moved from there about 1828. It was about 

 1826 when we owned Chanticleer". George Lawrence of St. Johns- 

 bury, a relative of Mr. Barker, said: " He was an old horse when Mr. 

 Barker owned him, somewhat broken down and his back hollow". 



Dr. Warren B. Sargent of Pawlet, Vermont, says: "The first I 

 knew of Chanticleer was at Fort Ann, about 1813 ; then he was kept 

 here by old Uncle Stoddard. His get were regular Dutch-modeled 

 horses, strong and resolute, not large, but wonderfully good workers. 

 He was not over fifteen hands high, I think; a good weighty-kind of a 

 horse. They called him a Dutch horse". 



Dorson Eastman, Dorset, Vermont, says : " He was a rather low 

 horse, should think less than fifteen and a half hands high ; bay, no 

 marks, not very stylish ; owned by Morris Mead about 1818; very 

 strong-limbed and solid ; called the toughest, ruggedest horse ever 

 here. Kept first I think in Kingsbury, New York". 



