348-/ THE MORGAN HORSE 



pact, pony-made horse, and a very intelligent horse. He got well here and 

 had good feet. He went from here to Columbia county, and afterwards 

 Orange county people found his stock was trotting so fast they bought him." 



Sheriff Broadhead of Kingston, N. Y., said : "He was a smooth, square- 

 built horse, 15^ hands ; traveled very wide behind ; had nice head, which he 

 carried well up, and good ears. Lewis Le Fevre bred a stallion from him 

 whilst here, a sorrel, solid chunk of a horse." 



Stephen Dubois, brother of Cyrus Dubois, said : " Star was a sorrel with 

 a white stripe in his face clear down to the end of his nose ; both hind feet 

 white above the pastern. A man who sent a mare to him and left her in the 

 summer bought him in the fall. Star was not very large, though he ran up 

 very high on the withers. He was good 15^ hands; carried flesh very 

 easily ; very tough and hearty ; had a good slanting shoulder, light thin tail, 

 fair quantity of mane, short back, blocky-built, well cut up under the throat, 

 though not long neck ; ribbed up close and was a very powerful little horse. 

 It was claimed he was running stock. Pie was a natural trotter and trotted 

 very wide behind. My brother sold him to Jim Storms, who lived at or 

 near Hudson, N. Y." 



Nathaniel Townsend, Passaic, N. J., born about 1814, and elected 

 sheriff in 1863 and '66, said : " I came here April 29, 1835. Martin J. and 

 Henry H. Berry each raised a colt from some horse. I do not know what the 

 sire was, but Judge Berry's colt was afterwards known as American Star. 

 His brother's colt was bay, 15^ hands, and I thought the best colt. He 

 was bigger than Star, but not so stylish. This bay was kept a stallion until 

 four years old, but I do not know what then became of him. 



"Judge Berry bought the dam of his horse in New York city. He want- 

 ed a cheap horse to work on farm in the spring of year and bought this 

 mare, giving twenty-five or thirty-five dollars for her. Judge Berry has re- 

 peatedly told me that he knew nothing at all about her breeding, and I 

 know he told me right, although, he said, it was stated, after she had her colt, 

 that she was by the race horse Henry. She was a broken-down stage mare, 

 a kind of a tall, light-colored mare with bad feet, sore forward. Berry told 

 me he did not know any more about her than I did ; said the mare worked 

 before a stage. She was about 16 hands, and probably eight or nine 

 years old ; not what we call a very strong limbed mare ; not made up for a 

 good work horse, but quite a traveler. She didn't straddle as Star did. It 

 was very natural for him to trot. He was a nice little horse and sold to 

 Blauvelt for $250 or $300. He got his head up well, and went in good 

 style. The dam looked like a pretty well bred mare. At that time the 

 Henry stock was in its glory, and that was the reason it was said she was 

 by him." 



Samuel P. Roam of Pompton Plains, N. J., said of the dam : "She was 

 only common stock, no speed that I know of. She was getting along in age ; 

 a bay mare with white face or stripe, nearly 16 hands, not heavy built. He 

 did not have her a great while before he raised this colt. I never heard she 



