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to Simmer's barn-yard, just across the way. I think there can be no doubt 

 that the Sumner colt was sold to John Bellows, and taken to New York with 

 his sire." 



To enquiries in a second interview Mr. Stebbins said : " James Baker 

 owned a very nice mare, a wonderful creature to go ; she would go terribly. 

 Baker was a horse trader. This mare was a nice-looking gray mare, built like 

 a Morgan, and he always called her his Morgan mare ; she would weigh full 

 1000 pounds; was broad-breasted and stylish". 



Cock of the Rock, as we have before stated, was advertised by George 

 Bellows to be kept at Durham and neighboring towns in 1832-33. An 

 advertisement of Young Sherman Morgan in the "Vermont Phoenix" of 

 Brattleboro, 1839, states that Morgan Cock of the Rock had stood in that 

 vicinity, and that his colts were then four years old. No advertisement of 

 Cock of the Rock has been found for 1835, but it is certain that that year he 

 was kept at Norwich and New Berlin, N. Y., probably owned by Ira Coburn. 

 Robbins Battell of Norfolk, Conn., states that in tracing the pedigree of 

 a mare in this part of New York State, one of the dams was said to be by 

 Cock of the Rock, son of Sherman Morgan. In 1836 there is a long ad- 

 vertisement by Horatio Sargent &Co., in the Springfield, Mass., "Republican," 

 of Morgan Cock of the Rock, headed, "A True Morgan Horse." He is 

 described as sorrel chestnut, full 15^ hands. A certificate follows signed 

 by S. C. Gibb, Littleton, N. H., dated Feb. 16, 1836, which says : " Mor- 

 gan Cock of the Rock is now owned by Horatio Sargent & Co., Springfield, 

 Mass." The certificate continues : "He was sired by the old Sherman Mor- 

 gan while in my care and his dam was a fine animal got by Cock of the Rock 

 of Vergennes,Vt., out of a mare owned by Oliver Bowers of Danville. With 

 his stock I have been well acquainted. I have sold many of his colts at high 

 prices." The horse is advertised to stand at Northampton and Springfield, 

 passing on each side of the Connecticut River weekly, and in same advertise- 

 ment Morgan Post Boy is advertised to stand in the vicinity of Spring- 

 field. 



A certificate by Hiram Hall and twenty-four others, dated at Charlestown, 

 N. H., May 3, 1834, is added, which says : "We have been acquainted with 

 Morgan Cock of the Rock four years past, also with his stock, and do not 

 hesitate to say that he has produced the best stock within our knowl- 

 edge." 



Morgan Cock of the Rock is briefly advertised in the " Springfield Re- 

 publican," 1837, by Horatio Sargent & Co., to be kept at Springfield, Put's 

 Bridge, South Hadley, Northampton (at Frink's) and Westfield. Terms, 

 $10 to $12. He is advertised again in this paper in 1838, and, in 1840, 

 in the "Vermont Phoenix." 



From the advertisement of 1836 it would appear that Sargent & Co. 

 purchased the horse previous to Feb. 16. Most probably they purchased 

 him in the winter of 1835 -'36, of Ira Coburn. 



From the above information we give the pedigrees of these famous 

 horses as follows : 



