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speed. But the blood that moulded the form and gave to the Province of Que- 

 bec pacer a character and quality of extreme speed and a force in breeding 

 shared by no other known descendant of the Narragansett, there are strong rea- 

 sons to believe he got in Vermont before he went to Canada, or that it came 

 to him in Canada from Vermont, and that it was Morgan. It is difficult to ex- 

 plain the Morgan form and qualities which he possessed irx any other way. 

 Moreover, the Morgans must have gone into that Province. It is incredible 

 that the Morgan blood, flowing in every other direction and asserting 

 itself with the most marked results, should have failed to do so in the 

 direction of Canada alone. The boundary line would no more have stopped 

 the Morgan horse than it would have stopped the air or the sunshine. The 

 Morgan blood must have flowed into the Province of Quebec at the 

 start, when the Justin Morgan stood at Randolph, in 1793; at Williston, 

 1795 ; or at Montpelier, and perhaps in Canada itself, two or three years later. 

 The Eastern Townships of Lower Canada were largely settled from Ver- 

 mont and New Hampshire during the period between 1790 and 1820. To 

 illustrate, Bolton on Lake Memphramagog was made a township in 1797. 

 Among its earliest settlers were Nicholas Austin from Somerworth, New 

 Hampshire, who came in 1793; Simeon Wadleigh from Hanover, New 

 Hampshire, who came in 1796 ; Moses Peasley from New Hampshire, a year 

 or two later; Alexander Thompson from Barnet, Vermont, 1794; Daniel 

 Taylor from Danville, Vermont, 1795; Daniel Wingate from New Hamp- 

 shire to the north part of Bolton, 1810 ; John Brill from St. Armand, Province 

 of Quebec, 1800, and a brother a little later; Jonathan Dubois, from Rhode 

 Island, and David Blunt, from Danville, Vermont, about the same time. These 

 facts are from a "History of the Eastern Townships," by the Rev. C.Thomas, 

 published at Montreal, 1866 ; and include the names of all the early settlers of 

 Bolton whose previous residence is given. Of David Blunt, who came from 

 Danville, Vermont, the very center of the Morgan interest, this history says : 

 "Mr. Blunt was poor when he came to this township, but being industrious 

 and economical, he soon accumulated a respectable competency. During the 

 war of 1812 he kept a house for the entertainment of travelers, and the 

 smugglers, passing through this section on their way to Montreal, always 

 stopped with him, thus making 'tavern-keeping' for him a profitable busi- 

 ness. Mr. Blunt was a man who took much pains in the rearing of stock, 

 and his animals were always of a superior quality." But it was from Bolton 

 that the elegant Morgan-shaped horse Copperbottom, the first, so far as 

 known, as well as one of the best of the Canadian pacers that went to Ken- 

 tucky, came. Copperbottom was born in 1809 and went to Kentucky, by way 

 of Detroit, in 1816. How came this horse, of such merit, speed and beauty, 

 one of the best of his day, to be found among the mountains of Bolton, at 

 that time an almost unsettled wilderness? Did Mr. Blunt, the only man 

 in the Eastern Townships set down in this history as having fine stock, bring 

 in Copperbottom from Danville, his own native town? The horse was bred 

 where there was the blood to produce him, and Danville,less than sixty miles 

 distant, at the time he was bred was the birth-place of some of the best- 



