254 THE MORGAN HORSE 



Mr. Cushman of Stafford said : " I remember the black racker. They 

 had a lawsuit about him. John Dean made two trips to New Orleans to get 

 testimony. Rockwell got beaten in the suit". 



Mr. Samuel Rockwell, a nephew of Elias L., in answer to inquiry as to 

 what route his uncle would have been likely to take in going to Canada, 

 said : " Mr. Elias Lee of Stanstead, Canada, who moved there from Willing- 

 ton, Connecticut, was a cousin of my grandmother, Hannah Lee ; my 

 uncle, Elias Lee Rockwell, was named after him, and used to visit him 

 when he went to Canada". 



Perceiving that the record of the suit between Dean and Rockwell 

 would absolutely fix the dates in question, we drove to the county seat of 

 Tolland county, the quiet and beautiful village of Tolland, where we found in 

 the records of the Superior court the record in question, of which the fol- 

 lowing is a certified copy : 



" To the sheriff of the county of Tolland, his deputy or either of the con- 

 stables of the town of Stafford within said county, greeting : 



" By authority of the State of Connecticut, you are hereby commanded 

 to summon Elias L. Rockwell of said Stafford to appear before the county 

 court to be holden at Tolland within and for the county of Tolland, on the 

 fourth Tuesday of December, A. D. 1832, then and there to answer to John 

 Dean of said town of Stafford, in the plea that to the plaintiff the defendant 

 render his reasonable account for the time he was the bailiff of the plaintiff. 

 Whereupon the plaintiff declares and says that from the first day of August, 

 A. D. 1830, till the first day of June, A. D. 1831, the defendant, as bailiff of 

 the plaintiff, had the possession of an undivided moiety of a certain black 

 pacing stud-horse about seven years old, of the value of one thousand dol- 

 lars, which the plaintiff and defendant owned together as tenants in common, 

 and the defendant had the possession of the other moiety in his own right, 

 and during all that time the defendant had the care and management of said 

 horse, to use, sell and dispose of, for the advantage and profit of the plaintiff 

 and defendant, and to render his reasonable account thereof to the plaintiff 

 when he should be thereto required. And the plaintiff further says that 

 sometime between said first day of August, 1830, and said first day of June, 

 1831, the defendant sold and disposed of said black pacing stud-horse for 

 the sum of one thousand dollars, yet the defendant, though often requested, 

 has never rendered his reasonable account thereof to the plaintiff, but has 

 always refused and still does refuse so to do, which is to the damage of the 

 plaintiff the sum of five hundred dollars, and to recover the same with costs 

 of suit, and that the defendant render his reasonable account during the 

 time he was bailiff and receiver, as aforesaid, the plaintiff brings this suit. 



" Hereof fail not, but of this writ, with your doings thereon, legal service 

 and return make, according to law. 



" Dated at Stafford, the 24th day of November, A. D. 1832. 



RODOLPHUS WOODWORTH, Justice of Peace". 



