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near. I was a small girl, not over six or eight. I was born 1829. I think 

 we drove the American Star. I am very sure father drove him and took me 

 to ride with him." 



Mrs. Bradford thought that Cock of the Rock might have been owned 

 by her father when kept in Norwich, N. Y. ; said she knew that the horses 

 went off some distance. 



F. A. Weir, Walpole, N. H., said : "In the fall of 1837, I think it was, 

 George and John Bellows bought fourteen stallions of Buckminster, most of 

 them by Sherman Morgan ; one was Little Randolph. I bought the Dan- 

 ville Gray. The Blanchard Horse was gelded by Bellows. He sold Little 

 Randolph for $TOO, and Mountain Eagle for $90, on the spot. George Bel- 

 lows stood Vermont Morgan Champion at Hinsdale and Brattleboro one 

 season, and Cock of the Rock at Brattleboro and Greenfield. He hired this 

 Champion and the horse went back to Jefferson, where he was bred, and was 

 afterwards sold to Knights. It was George Bellows that changed the name 

 of Morgan Rock to Cock of the Rock, and it was he that first said that his 

 dam was by Barnum's Cock of the Rock. This was made up out of full 

 cloth by him and S. C. Gibb. The horse was bred by Bowers, sold to Os- 

 mer, who took him to Whitefield and Lancaster, then to Stanstead, where 

 Frederick Sumner of Charlestown traded for him. 



" Cock of the Rock got his first colts at Whitefield. He had one at 

 Lincoln, N. H., that I bought; bay, 15^ hands, 1150 pounds, bred in Lin- 

 coln when Cock of the Rock was three years old ; the owner kept a little 

 hotel in the notch of the mountains. I sold him in Woonsocket, R. I. ; he was 

 seven or eight years old when I bought him. Morgan De Forest was sorrel, 

 with silver mane and tail, stylish, 15^ hands, noo pounds. 



"Gibb kept hotel at St. Johnsbury when he bought Sherman Morgan of 

 Sherman, Lyndon, for $100. Sumner kept Cock of the Rock two or three 

 years ; stood him in Springfield, Vt., with Whitcomb. Judge Sumner had a 

 roan stallion, a son of Cock of the Rock that was bred in Lancaster. Bow- 

 man had a chestnut son that I bought and sold to go to Rhode Island. 



"Morgan Post Boy was a bay or brown, 850 pounds, less than 15 hands, 

 sold by George Bellows to Bardwell, I think, of Greenfield, Mass. He would 

 attract your attention in going by ; a neat, pretty horse ; bred, I think, in Dan- 

 ville, and got by Sherman Morgan : dam said to be by Post Boy, a horse 

 brought from Connecticut to Hartford, Vt., by Simon Smith. 



"There was a Phoenix here, about 1820, that was said to be by Bellows, 

 Quicksilver. This Phoenix was bay, 15 hands, and owned at one time by 

 Rice of Worcester, Mass. He was quite a showy and sprightly horse". 



James C. Stebbins, born about 1806, a prominent citizen of Charles- 

 town, N. H., where he was sheriff for 40 years, said : "John Bellows of this 

 town went to New York, I think in the 2o's, kept livery there and got 

 quite rich. He used to come back here and buy horses. He came up here 

 a number of summers with coach and negro servant. It seems to me that 

 I have heard that Morgan Cock of the Rock was taken to New York, and I 

 think it was this Bellows that took him. The old Morgan Cock of the 



