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THE MORGAN HORSE 



BENEDICT MORRILL 



Brown or black, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds; foaled 1854; bred by 

 Eliphalet Coleman, Williamstown, Vt. ; got by Morrill : dam spotted, bred by 

 John Coleman, Williamstown, Vt., got by Chet Clark Horse, son of Bulrush 

 Morgan; 2d dam spotted, bred by John Coleman, got by Alexander, circus 

 horse. Owned successively by Ezra Benedict, Williamstown, Vt. ; Messrs. 

 Kimball and Kent, Northfield, Vt. ; and Enoch Martin Washington, Vt. 

 He was kept at Williamstown, Vt., until he was over 20, excepting 1861 and 

 1862, when he was in Illinois. Died about 1882. Never trained, but was 

 fast. A. R. Martin of Williamstown, Vt., writes : " Benedict Morrill had a 

 good head, neck and body, legs and tail ; but was destitute of style and fire ". 



Total, ii ; 7 race-winners ; i ten-race winner. 

 Races won, 26. Races lost, 75. Total races, 101. 



BENEDICT PRINCE 



Black, 15^ hands, 950 pounds; foaled about 1860; bred by Alvin 

 Goodwin, East Randolph, Vt. ; got by Benedict Morrill, son of Morrill : dam 

 bay, pacer, bred by Alvin Goodwin, got by Morgan Eagle, son of Woodbury 

 Morgan; 2d dam brought from Massachusetts by I. Hall of Tunbridge, Vt., 

 and called English. Sold to Lyman Ellsworth, about 1862 ; G. W. Bradstreet, 

 Royalton, Vt. ; H. M. Brigham, Hartford, Conn. Stood at Royalton, Wood- 

 stock, Windsor, Tunbridge, Bethel and Randolph, Vt., and was owned, about 

 1884, at Greenbush, Conn. 



VERMONT BOY (MARSEILLES') 



Bay, hind foot white, 15% hands, 1150 pounds; foaled 1869; bred by 

 Harrison Abbott, Gaysville, Vt. ; got by Benedict Morrill, son of Morrill : 

 dam chestnut, bred by Cassius Joslyn, Waitsfield, Vt., got by Rocket, son of 

 Young Myrick, by Sherman Black Hawk ; 2d dam chestnut, said to be by 

 Morgan Chief (Eldridge Horse), son of Woodbury Morgan. L. R. Joslyn 

 writes of the dam : " This mare was the first colt Rocket ever sired. She 

 was a big roadster. My father, Cassius Joslyn, drove her to Montpelier, 18 

 miles, in one hour and 15 minutes". Sold to Ira Holt, Pittsfield, Vt., when 

 young ; to James Martin, Hancock, Vt. ; to Fred Marseilles, Middlebury, Vt., 

 about 1878, whose property he died 1893. 



