DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 



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MORNING STAR JR (CHARLEY, BURNS HORSE) 

 Chestnut with small star, i$y 2 hands, 1050 pounds; foaled May, 1863 ' 

 bred by Frank W. Burns, Rutland, 111. ; got by Morning Star, son of Billy 

 Root: dam Lill, bay, about 900 pounds, bred at Rutland, Vt., about 1848, 

 and called Morgan. Used by his breeder as a driving horse, also bred to a 

 few mares, and sold in the fall of 1868 to some person in Peoria, 111., for 

 360 acres of land valued at $2000. Said to be a smoothly built'horse of 

 fine style and good disposition, and able to trot a mile to wagon in three 

 minutes. 



LITTLE JIM (JUSTIN MORGAN) 



Ba Y> I 5/iC hands, 1060 pounds; foaled May 20, 1868; bred by Charles 

 E. Wadleigh, Rutland, 111. ; got by Morning Star Jr., son of Morning Star, 

 by Billy Root : dam Minnie, bay with star, bred by Joel Burns, Lawn Ridge,' 

 III, got by Edgar Hill, son of Black Hawk ; 2d dam bay. Kept by breeder 

 17 years at Green Ridge. His colts are gentle, spirited and stylish, mostly 

 bay and chestnut. 



FAIRCHILD HORSE (PANGBORN HORSE) 



Chestnut, 15 hands, 900 pounds; foaled 184-; bred by Peter Doyle, 

 Naperville, P. Q. ; got by Billy Root, son of Sherman Morgan. Sold to Mr. 

 Pangborn ; to Mr. Nelson, Burlington, Vt. ; to Smith Fairchild, Willsboro, N. Y. 



PHELPS HORSE 



Dark bay, one white hind foot, 14^ hands, 900 pounds; foaled 1855 ; 

 bred by Reuben Phelps, Willsboro, N. Y. ; got by Fairchild Horse, son of 

 Billy Root : dam gray, bred by John Fairchild, Willsboro, N. Y., got bv 

 an Arabian horse called Baby. Sold when a colt to Lewis Spafford, Lyons, 

 N. Y. Very handsome, fine action and good disposition. Stock good. 



TOM HYER (TUCKER'S) 



Dark bay or brown with one white hind foot, 15)^ hands, 1025 pounds; 

 foaled 1857; bred by James M. Tucker, Willsboro, N. Y. ; got by Phelps 

 Horse, son of Fairchild Horse, by Billy Root : dam chestnut with three 

 white feet, said to be by Blind Eclipse, a running horse owned about 1843 

 by Peter Sharpe, Willsboro, N. Y., and which Mr. Sharpe says was brought 

 from Kentucky ; 2d dam bred by Marshal Shedd. Sold by James Shedd 

 Burlington, Vermont, who had him gelded on account of his ugly disposi- 

 tion. A horse of wonderful wind and endurance. Carriage and action 

 very fine. Never trained, but trotted on sand track in 2 152. 



