DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 321 



Brown, and afterwards went to Memphis, Tenn. Very stylish and a fine 

 roadster, able to pull a wagon in three minutes. Sire of many valuable 

 colts in Illinois. Received 2d premium at Illinois State fair, 1867. 

 FLINT MORGAN (PROTECTION) 



Dark chestnut, 15 hands, 1050 pounds; foaled 1823; bred by John 

 Bolton, Danville, Vt. ; got by Sherman Morgan : dam said to be a Morgan 

 mare. (See John Bellows' advt. below.) Sold to George Barker, St. Johns- 

 bury, Vt. ; Jonas Flint; John Bellows (then owner of Sherman Morgan), 

 March 3, 1830, as appears by this bill of sale of that date, now in possession 

 of Mr. S. W. Parlin of Boston, as is also the stud bill given below : 



" One stud horse, Young Morgan, six years old last spring, which I war- 

 rant sound except a crack in one of his fore feet, at $350. Received cash 

 $100 ; note in one year signed by John Bellows and Josiah Bellows 2d for 

 $100; note due in 18 months for$i5o $350. JONAS FLINT". 



John Bellows apparently kept him until the spring of 1846, and sold 

 him back to Jonas Flint, as he is advertised that spring in the Danville 

 "North Star" as follows : " The subscriber has purchased of Mr. J. Bellows 

 the Flint Morgan Horse, formerly known in this vicinity as the Bolton Colt. 

 Will stand at Danville, St. Johnsbury and Lyndon, Vt. JONAS FLINT". 



The following is from John Bellows' stud bill for 1836 : "Flint Morgan 

 is a beautiful chestnut, stands 15 hands, now n years old; was got by old 

 Sherman Morgan, and from his appearance, size, matchless strength and per- 

 formance, coupled with the fame of the stock and blood of his dam (who 

 was a descendant of the old Goss Morgan), justifies the assertion that he 

 presents a fairer prospect than any horse now extant of perpetuating the fame 

 of his illustrious sire ". 



In 1831 John Bellows kept Flint Morgan in the vicinity of Dover, N. 

 H. ; he kept him at other towns in New Hampshire other seasons, including 

 one or more at Sandwich. Linsley states that he died at St. Johnsbury, but 

 Stephen French, who owned his son Napoleon Morgan, thought that he died 

 in Illinois. Hon. T. S. Long, who brought to Maine Gen. Knox and other 

 noted horses, writes : " When I was a boy and lived at North Berwick, 

 Me., a Mr. Bellows used to come there and stand a Morgan horse that I 

 think was named Flint Morgan chestnut, 15 hands, 1050 pounds". 



NAPOLEON MORGAN (YOUNG FLINT MORGAN, WATSON HORSE, 



STEVE FRENCH HORSE, MASSILLON MORGAN) 

 Dark chestnut, 15 hands, 1000 pounds ; foaled 1840 ; bred by Daniel W. 

 Watson, Sandwich, N. H. ; got by Flint Morgan, son of Sherman Morgan : dam 

 said to be by Cock of the Rock, son of Sherman Morgan ; and 2d dam an 

 English mare imported into Portsmouth, N. H., by a Mr. Purdy. This breed- 

 ing of the dam is from a sworn statement of N. D. Wetmore, dated at Stark 

 Co., O., Sept. 27, 1858, and we think is correct, although Mr. Stephen 

 French in late years had an impression that the dam was by a three-year-old 

 son of the Pettis Horse, a bay horse, 15^2 hands, about 1000 pounds, said to 

 be a son of Sherman Morgan. 



