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MORGAN EAGLE, MORGAN EAGLE, JR., 

 MAGNA CHARTA 



MORGAN EAGLE was a dapple bay with black points, fif- 

 teen and a half hands high and weighed eleven hundred pounds. He 

 was bred by Mr. Cheney, Royalton, Vermont, got by Woodbury 

 Morgan, and was foaled about 1824. His dam was the Cheney mare, 

 bay, about ten hundred pounds, resembling a Morgan, and said to be 

 by Bulrush Morgan. Morgan Eagle was sold at auction, when two 

 years old, together with dam, to D. Morgan, Royalton, Vermont, for 

 seventy-five dollars. Mr. Morgan sold him when about four years old 

 to S. S. Yurann, Tunbridge, Vermont, and he sold in about a year 

 to Ziba Sprague, East Randolph, Vermont. Not long after Mr. 

 Sprague sold to Philip Farnham, Tunbridge, Vermont, for three hun- 

 dred dollars, who sold him June loth, 1839, to A. M. Foster, Barre, 

 Vermont, for six hundred dollars, whose property he died in 1840, 

 supposed to have been poisoned. While owned by D. Morgan he 

 was called Independence. John Sprague of East Brookfield, Ver- 

 mont, son of Ziba, thinks he was sixteen hands high, and says he 

 was a fast trotter. 



Mr. S. S. Yurann, now of West Randolph, Vermont, eighty-eight 

 years old, says : " He was held in the highest estimation of any horse 

 in the country ". 



Mr. I. D. Davis, Barnard, Vermont, describes him as " a thick-set, 

 heavy horse, graceful and beautiful, of fine color, and about as per- 

 fect as he could be". 



A. M. Foster, now of Woodstock, Vermont, says: "He was bred 

 to one hundred mares the season I owned him". 



Mr. Linsley says : " High style, fine action and a pleasant driver. 

 The stock of Morgan Eagle were compact, rugged horses and fine 

 drivers." 



MORGAN EAGLE (Henderson's), was a dark bay horse, with white 

 circles below hind fetlocks, sixteen hands in height and weighed 



