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gan : dam sorrel, said to be by Flint Morgan, son of Sherman Morgan. 

 Sold to Stephen French of Farmington, N. H., who kept him two or three 

 years and sold to D. E. Lucy of Waterbury, Vt. Linsley says : " Has a 

 fine figure, easy action, gentle and spirited". 



BRALEY HORSE 



Sorrel, 15 hands, 950 pounds; foaled about 1852; bred by Wm. 

 Braley, Westminster, Vt. ; got by Kilburn's Sherman Morgan, son of Sher- 

 man Morgan : dam bay, good size and a good roadster, brought to West- 

 minster from the northern part of the State by Mark Clark, and said to be 

 by Bulrush Morgan. Died, about 1882, property of breeder. 



BLACK MORGAN (WILLARD'S) 



Black, about 14^ hands; said to be by Sherman Morgan : and dam 

 Queen Bess, English. Bought of Charles Bellows, Lancaster, N. H., by 

 Major Willard of Lancaster, who stood him season of 1834 from Lancaster 

 to Colebrook, N. H., up one side of Connecticut River and down the other. 

 In 1835, Major Willard moved to Wilton, Me., taking the horse with him, 

 which was afterwards sold to a company in Wayne, Me., where he was kept 

 two seasons and died. He was also at Winthrop, Me. Above facts and 

 pedigree are from A. J. Willard, Chicago, 111., son of Major Willard. J. C. 

 Stinchfield of Wayne, Me., writes : " He was said to be one of the handsom- 

 est horses ever in this section. Some of the best horses here trace to him". 



SIR CHARLES 



Chestnut, 15^ hands, noo pounds; said to be by Sherman Morgan : 

 and dam, Symmetry, from western Vermont. Advertised in the " Maine 

 Farmer", 1838-40, by William Elwell, to be kept at Gardiner, Me., 

 as follows : " The celebrated Morgan horse Sir Charles. This beauti- 

 ful horse was sired by the celebrated Sherman Morgan. The dam of Sir 

 Charles was the celebrated mare Symmetry, a fine animal in western 

 part of Vermont. Sir Charles is of a beautiful chestnut color, 15^ hands 

 high, weighs noo pounds; and is calculated to produce superior stock, hav- 

 ing great symmetry of shape and extremely mild temper. Has been kept 

 for the five past seasons in Gardiner. For speed and power is unrivalled by 

 any other horse of this section. This the owner of no other horse dare dis- 

 pute in Gardiner. WILLIAM ELWELL. 



April 30, 1840." 



BLINN HORSE 



Said to be by Sir Charles, son of Sherman Morgan. Owned in Maine, 

 probably at or near Dresden. Sire of Stinson mare, dam of King William 

 2 131 1^ (w), winner of 26 races, and fifty-race trotter. 



YOUNG SHERMAN 



Bay, 14^ hands, 1000 pounds; said to be by Sherman Morgan: and 

 dam by Bulrush Morgan. Taken to Chicago, 111., when quite old, and sold to 

 a company at Elk Grove, 111., consisting of Frank Clark, M. W. Sawyer, 

 Fred Howe and others, and kept there until he died. Mr. E. K. Whitcomb 



