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lions of his get have brought prices ranging from eight to twelve 

 hundred dollars each ; numbers of geldings and mares of his get 

 have been sold from three hundred to eight hundred dollars each ; 

 and many of them have proved very fast, and but few of his colts, 

 when matured, have been sold for less than two hundred dollars each. 



" With regard to the pedigree of the Green Mountain Morgan, 

 the proprietor has to say that he has conversed with quite a number 

 of elderly persons who were well acquainted with the original or Jus- 

 tin Morgan horse, with the stock immediately descended from him, 

 and with the sire and dam of the Green Mountain, and who say that 

 the Green Mountain Morgan strikingly illustrates the peculiar quali- 

 ties of the original stock". 



To this are added the following certificates, the first, that of 

 JohnWoodbury, who owned old Woodbury Morgan : 



"I, John Woodbury of Rochester, Windsor county, Vermont, 

 certify and say that I was the owner of the stallion known by the 

 name of Green Mountain Morgan and now owned by Silas Hale of 

 Royalston, Massachusetts. Said stallion is of a dark chestnut color. 

 He is low-built, remarkably thick-set, and partakes very much of the 

 peculiar qualities of the original stock of the Morgan race. 



" His sire was the Gifford Morgan, his grandsire the old Wood- 

 bury Morgan, and his great-grandsire the original or Justin Mor- 

 gan. His dam was said to be a colt of the old Woodbury Morgan. 

 She was a dark bay mare, of great beauty and action. 



"I owned the Green Mountain Morgan, and kept him for the 

 use of mares four years, during which time he sired a large number 

 of colts, which proved of very superior quality for speed and bot- 

 tom, and sold for higher prices than any other horses ever raised in 

 this country. 



(Signed) JOHN WoODBURY 



Rochester, Vermont, 1853". 



" I hereby certify that I raised the horse Young Woodbury. now 

 owned by Silas Hale of South Royalston, Massachusetts, and known 

 by the name of Green Mountain Morgan. The dam of said horse 

 was called a Woodbury mare. I owned her, and put her to the old 

 Gifford Morgan, and she brought the colt now known as the Green 

 Mountain Morgan. I sold said colt at four months old to Daniel 

 Gay of Stockbridge, Vermont, and he sold the colt at four years old 

 to Hiram Twitchell of Bethel, Vermont, and he sold him the same 

 year to John Woodbury of said Bethel. Our best judges consider 

 him the best Morgan horse in Vermont. 



GEORGE BUXDY". 



