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years ; to S. S. Yurann, West Randolph, Vt., and afterwards to go to Maine. 

 Linsley says : " Remarkably strong, cordy limbs ; a fast trotter ". 



RANDOLPH MORGAN 

 See Chapter IX. 



BARTHOLOMEW HORSE 



Dappled bay, 15 hands, 1050 pounds; foaled 1826; bred by Moses 

 Bartholomew, Berkshire, Vt. ; got by Bulrush Morgan. Always owned by 

 breeder. Linsley says : " He had abundance of both speed and action, and 

 was a fast trotter". 



YOUNG BULRUSH (ALLEN HORSE) 



Bay with heavy black mane and tail, 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 

 about 1828; bred by Pliny Allen, Lyme, N. H. ; got by Bulrush Morgan. 

 Kept at Windsor and Springfield, Vt., and Claremont, N. H. Owned, about 

 1856, by Jonathan Currier, Hanover, N. H. A horse of excellent style and 

 a good traveler. Linsley says : "His reputation as a stock horse is good". 



MORGAN EMPEROR 



Bay, heavy mane and tail, i$y 2 hands, 1025 pounds ; bred by Mr. Hough, 

 Lebanon, N. H. ; got by Bulrush Morgan : dam said to be by imported 

 Prince William, formerly kept at Hartford, Conn. Mr. Linsley says : "Jesse 

 Johnson & Bros, kept him one year in Burlington, Vt., in 1835, and while 

 there he trotted a mile in 2 155. Afterward they kept him in Bradford, Vt., 

 two years, when he was sold to Messrs. Hamet & Butler, Burlington, Vt. In 

 1837 he went to Chicago. Sired Chicago Jack, gelding, and North Star, 

 who took the 2d premium at the National fair in Springfield, Mass.; also the 

 Tillotson Horse, who trotted a mile in 2 140 on Cambridge Park Course in 

 September, 1843. From Chicago he returned to Burlington, Vt., and went 

 from there to Petersham, Mass., where he died in the autumn of 1853. He 

 was close and compact, with good figure ; had a very heavy mane and tail ; 

 went with mouth wide open and more from the whip than from spirit". D. 

 S. Putnam, Rockefeller, 111., writes that Morgan Emperor was taken to Chi- 

 cago by Loring Butler, and kept at Naperville, 111. 



CURRIER HORSE, (CURRIER'S MORGAN) 



Bay, iS/4 hands, 1060 pounds; foaled 1832 ; bred by Richard Currier, 

 Enfield, N. H. ; got by Morgan Emperor, son of Bulrush Morgan : dam 

 black, purchased by Richard Currier of Nathan Blake, Corinth, Vt., un- 

 traced, but thought to be of Morgan blood. Owned by Richard and J. G. 

 Currier, and kept at Enfield and Hanover, N. H. Died 1858. 



J. G. Currier, Hanover, N. H., writes : "The Currier Horse was treated 

 like most of the old Morgan stock, run on the stages and worked on the 



