336 THE MORGAN HORSE 



have found the following advertisement in the " Hampshire Gazette "of 

 Northampton, Mass., 1835, from which it appears that the full name of this 

 horse was Green Mountain Morgan. He will, however, appear in this book 

 under the name of Green Mountain, that Mr. Linsley used, and which will 

 distinguish him from Green Mountain Morgan, son of Gifford Morgan : 



" Green Mountain Morgan, a true son of old Sherman Morgan, will 

 stand, etc., in Belchertown, Granby, South Hadley, Greenwich and Enfield. 



J. S. WHITCHER". 



A certificate of Wm. Archibald Bachop follows, stating that in spring of 

 1834 they sold to Luther Butler and J. S. Whitcher, a brown stallion foaled 

 1828, by a first-rate mare, and sired by the old Sherman. A second certifi- 

 cate, signed by 16 citizens of Vermont and New Hampshire, says : "We con- 

 sider the Green Mountain Morgan the best sized we have ever seen of the 

 Morgan race of horses." They further speak very highly of him. 



BLACK MORGAN 



Black, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1840; bred by William Gor- 

 ham, Kirby, Vt. ; got by Green Mountain, son of Sherman Morgan : dam 

 gray, bred by Henry Graves, Kirby, Vt., got by Levi Wilder' s colt, gelded 

 when three, son of the Batchelder Horse, by Sherman Morgan ; 26. dam 

 black, long and low, with high temper, traded for by Levi Wilder, Lyndon, 

 Vt., and by him sold to Henry Graves ; she was in the main an excellent 

 mare, and a black colt of hers, by a horse owned by Silas Houghton, was 

 noted as a fast runner. Sold to Jerry Sias, St. Johnsbury, Vt., 1842 ; David 

 Allen, Burke, Vt., 1843 ; Stephen Ladd, about 1846 ; L. D. Ide, Lyndon, Vt., 

 1849 ; John Hanson, Compton, P. Q., 1852 ; back to L. D. Ide, 1855 ; again 

 to John Hanson, 1857; to George Ide, Lyndon, Vt., 1862, whose property 

 he died, from effects of an accident, October, 1869. 



Advertised by Lewis Hanson, "Stanstead Journal", in 1851-59-60- 

 6 1. Mr. Ladd kept him in Maine two seasons. A horse of the highest 

 merit. About one-half of his colts were black, and a majority of the re- 

 mainder brown or chestnut. E. H. Hoffman, Lyndon, Vt., states that Levi 

 Wilder, about 1835, went each winter from Lyndon, Vt., to Portland, Me., 

 carrying produce and bringing back merchandise, and in one of these trips 

 purchased the 2d dam. Mr. Hoffman further says : "No direct descend- 

 ant of old Black Morgan has achieved honors upon the turf, but upon the 

 road they are rarely equaled". 



J. W. Gorham, son of the breeder, writes : " My father bought the gray 

 mare when two of Henry Graves. Her dam was a black Morgan mare, to 

 all appearance, about 900 pounds ; pedigree unknown. Mr. Wilder traded for 

 her on the highway, and did not ask the man's name or give his, as he was 

 trading off a kicker, and got out of sight as soon as possible. It is said by 

 good judges of horses that Black Morgan's place as a stock horse has never 

 been filled in northern Vermont". 



SULTAN MORGAN (HARVEY HORSE) 



Black, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 1851 ; bred by Mr. Bean, North 



