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THE MORGAN HORSE 



SHERMAN MORGAN JR (PRINCE, TOBEY HORSE, DANVILLE) 

 Bay, 15^/2 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled about 1852 ; bred by Dr. Tobey, 

 Roxbury, Mass. ; got by Napoleon Morgan, son of Flint Morgan : dam a 

 very fine and fast mare, said to be by Morrill, son of Jennison Colt. Sold 

 to Robert Farley, Ipswich, Mass., about 1854; to P. M. Slicer, Baltimore, 

 Md. ; Nathan Holland, East Norfolk, Va. ; Frederick Waddy, Accomack 

 Court House, Va. ; to Worthy Smith, Norfolk, Va., who took him to Dan- 

 ville, Va., where he was afterward traded for a .patent right to a Mr. Price, 

 who lived near New Harrisburg, Carroll Co., O. He was blood-like, of Mor- 

 gan type, and a valuable stock horse. He won a race at Augusta, O., in 1870 

 against the gray gelding Silversides and two or three other horses. 



Races won, 49. Races lost, 70. Total races, 119. 

 Sire John Morgan i. 

 Dam of Marendes 2:17^. 



SHERMAN MORGAN JR (SWEEPSTAKES) 2 :29 

 Bright bay, heavy mane and tail, 15 hands, 925 pounds; foaled 1869; 

 bred by Benjamin Bull, Pungoteague, Accomack Co., Va. ; got by Sherman 

 Morgan Jr., son of Napoleon Morgan : dam a good mare that could trot in 

 about 2 148, said to be by Stonewall, thoroughbred. Kept some time in the 

 vicinity of Pungoteague, where he left a nice lot of colts ; then sold to Peter 

 Vincent ; John B. Wharton, Dover, Del. ; Mr. Stetson and others ; to F. N. 

 Whitcomb, Belmont, N. Y., who owned him, 1889, and writes that he is 

 sound and kind. 



TEMPEST MORGAN 



Chestnut with star and stripe on nose, 14^ hands, about 900 pounds; 

 foaled Oct. 2, 1857 ; bred by Nathaniel D. Wetmore, Bethlehem, O. ; got by 

 Napoleon Morgan, son of Flint Morgan : dam Charlotte, chestnut, purchased 

 by Mr. Wetmore of Squire Cobleigh, East Burke, Vt., said to be by Billy 

 Root, son of Sherman Morgan ; 2d dam by Revenge, son of Justin Morgan ; 

 and 3d dam by old Soldier. Sold, 1858, to Judge Anson Pease, Massillon, 

 O., who gelded him in 1869 on account of his small size. Kept 1865 near 

 Canal, and 1866 at Bolivar, O., by C. B. Hurxthal. 



Furnished us with this pedigree was the following certificate, evidently 

 made when Tempest Morgan was sold to Judge Pease. The erroneous pedi- 

 gree therein given to Morton's Traveler is one that has been frequently as- 

 signed to him : 



PEDIGREE OF TEMPEST. 



A chestnut Morgan stallion, foaled the property of undersigned at 

 Bethlehem, Stark Co., Ohio, Oct. 2, 1857. Sired by the Napoleon or Mas- 

 sillon Morgan, bought into Ohio from New Hampshire by me in 1851. Sire 



