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the throat ; good head, rather short ears, very wide between the eyes, good 

 thick breast that came well out between his fore legs ; not a very thick-built 

 horse, tight match to weigh a thousand pounds ; not a great bow-neck, rather 

 a short neck. I do not believe he was a Canadian. Not a coarse horse, a 

 fine-formed horse, remarkably good flat legs. Guess my brother bought him 

 right out. I was married March 27th, 1827 ; had been married, I think, sev- 

 eral years when he had the horse ". 



Willard Orcutt of Stafford, born in 1804, said : "I remember the black 

 pacer that Rockwell had. I know he had him the summer I worked for 

 Walbridge, which was the summer before I was married". 



The marriage, shown by the family record, was on November i6th, 1830. 



" M. S. P. Dean had a little running horse, and they took them off to- 

 gether. I think they got the pacer in the fall and wintered him here. Rock- 

 well and Dean went South and took those two horses to New Orleans". 



Mrs. Orcutt, wife of Willard, said : " I remember the black pacer ; 

 it was a young horse and ugly-tempered. I remember the lawsuit between 

 Dean and Rockwell. It was held in the ball-room at the hotel kept by Wil- 

 liam Kill, and I attended. Stoddard and Goddard were the lawyers for 

 Dean, and Squire Willey and another were on the other side. I remember 

 that, at the trial, the lawyers mentioned more than fifty times the name of 

 the man they sold the horse to it was Dubois". 



At Mr. Rockwell's house we found another significant bit of evidence \ 

 it was an old account book in which was written, in the hand of Elias Lee 

 Rockwell : " Elias L. Rockwell. Book given him by his grandam Rock- 

 well, in the year 1831, Dec. I have traveled through twenty-one of the 

 U. S. A. and territories ; went to New Orleans in the year 1830, got home in 

 1831, in August, with fever and ague. A rover I am and not yet satisfied. 



ELIAS L. ROCKWELL". 



Mr. Smith Page of Stafford remembered the horse ; thought he was there 

 about 1831, and that Rockwell got him in Vermont or Canada. Another 

 Mr. Page, a brother, said : " I remember the horse. When I was in Cali- 

 fornia I saw a man from New Orleans who knew this black pacer, and said 

 he was afterwards taken to Tennessee or Kentucky". Seneca Page, another 

 brother, said : " I remember the horse well ; think he had not been out of 

 the barn for months before Rockwell bought him. He was a little black 

 horse, black as a coal, with something over his eyes ; his eye-brow looked 

 like a person's eye-brow. He was pretty chunked built, had a heavy neck, 

 well put on ; rather a short-legged horse and pretty heavy-built. He was not 

 a coarse-looking horse ; looked a little ugly, as he was ; a right-down smooth 

 horse ; curled his mouth in toward his breast. Should not call him a Mor- 

 gan ; the Morgans are broader. He was more like the Vermont Black 

 Hawks. Danforth Morse of Union, Connecticut, had a small sorrel mar 

 that was got by this black pacer. Dean or Rockwell had Sleepy John, a light 

 red running horse". 



