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Richmond colt, son of Royal Morgan ; 3d dam said to be Canadian. 

 Always owned by breeder and kept mainly at Sheffield, Vt., but has also 

 stood at Lyndon, East Burke, Sutton and Wheelock, Vt. Has good action, 

 and is kind in all places, having been worked much on a farm and in a team. 



BILLY FOLSOM (FOLSOM HORSE) 



Bay, 15 hands, 900 pounds ; foaled June, 1874 ; bred by Austin S. Fol- 

 som, Wheelock, Vt. ; got by Streeter Horse, son of Billy Root : da bay, 

 bred by Austin S. Folsom, got by Shedd Horse, son of Vermont Morgan 

 Champion. 



BROWN HARRY. 



Seal brown, 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled June 15, 1886; bred by 

 William M. Smith, East Haven, Vt. ; got by Billy Folsom, son of Morgan 

 Lion, by Billy Root : dam black, bred by William M. Smith, got by Charley 

 Watson, son of Black Morgan; 2d dam bay, bred by Elam Walter, 

 East Haven, Vt., got by Coe Horse, son of Billy Root ; 3d dam bay, bred 

 by Ebenezer Darling, Burke, Vt., got by Billy Root, son of Sherman Morgan ; 

 4th dam brown, bred by Ebenezer Darling, got by Royal Morgan, son of 

 Sherman Morgan. 



MORGAN GENERAL (MAJOR, TRUE HORSE) 

 Chestnut with one white hind foot, 15^ hands, noo pounds ; foaled 

 1845 ; bred by John Spencer, East St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; got by Billy Root : 

 dam black, large, said to be by Black Prince. Sold in 1848 to John True, 

 Sutton, Vt., who kept him several seasons at Sutton, Lyndon and St. Johns- 

 bury, and sold about 1855 to William Hill, Oregon City, 111. Linsley says : 

 "A very bold looking horse, fine style, good action for a horse of his size, 

 very compact; limbs excellent, but have some long hairs on them". 



MORGAN GENERAL (SAMMIS', SAMMIS HORSE) 

 Chestnut sorrel, 15^ hands, 1150 pounds; foaled 1857; bred by 

 Charles W. Sammis, Oregon, 111. ; got by Morgan General, son of Billy Root : 

 dam dark chestnut, noo pounds, of fine style, bred in Ohio and said to be 

 by Morgan Napoleon, son of Black Hawk Prophet, by Black Hawk. Sold 

 to D. S. Gushing, Grand Detour, 111., and by him to John H. Diehl, Forreston, 

 111. A showy and attractive horse. Died 1881. 



MORGAN (YOUNG'S) 



Sorrel, 1 6 hands, noo pounds; foaled 1862 ; bred by Samuel Young, 

 Grand Detour, 111. ; got by Sammis Horse, son of Morgan General, by Billy 

 Root : dam sorrel, bred by Samuel Young, got by Cushing's Gifford, son of 

 Gifford Morgan. Died 1885. A fine horse, but blind. 



SHERMAN JR. 



Bay, 153^ hands, 1040 pounds ; foaled May 28, 1885 ; bred by Samuel 

 Young, Grand Detour, 111. ; got by Young's Morgan, son of Sammis Horse, by 



