DESCENDANTS OF BULRUSH MORGAN 649 



RANKIN MORRILL 



Black with small star, 16^ hands, 1300 pounds; foaled 1856 ; bred by 

 Horatio Rankin, Danville,Vt. ; got byMorrill : dam (dam of n stallions), bay, 

 bred by Mr. Rankin, father of H. Rankin, said to be by Sherman Morgan. Sold 

 to Rogers & Vincent, Walden, Vt. ; to H. C. Haviland, Danville, Vt. ; to 

 Dr. Sias, St. Johnsbury, Vt., whose property he died two years later. Strong 

 rapid action. Gelded. 



Sire of 2d dam of Helen M. 2 -.zj. 



VERMONT RANGER (DREW HORSE) 



Black with star and white hind feet, 16 hands, 1250 pounds; foaled 

 1856 ; bred by Francis Drew, North Danville, Vt. ; got by Morrill ; dam bay, 

 bred by Francis Drew, got by Vermont Morgan Champion, son of Sherman 

 Morgan : 2d dam bay, bred by Francis Drew, got by Sherman Morgan; 3d 

 dam bay, bred by Erastus Drew, North Danville, Vt., got by Giant, a Pennsyl- 

 vania horse ; 4th dam chestnut, bred by Samuel Niles, North Danville, Vt. 

 Kept mostly at North Danville, Vt. ; also at Hardwick, Cabot, Peacham. 

 St. Johnsbury, Lyndon and Barnet in Caledonia county, Vt., and, 1872, 

 part of a season, at Dover, Great Falls and Stafford, N. H. Died 1885. He 

 trotted in 2 145, untrained, on the St. Johnsbury, (Vt.,) track. 



Races won, 6. Races lost, 14. Total races, 20. 

 Sire r Black Morrill, i. 



CHAMPION MORRILL 2:27 



Bay, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 1867; bred by William Tice, 

 East Cabot, Vt. ; got by Vermont Ranger, son of Morrill : dam sorrel, bred 

 by Gen. Stephen Hawkins, St. Johnsbury, Vt., got by a son of Vermont Mor- 

 gan Champion Sold, 1867, to A. J. Randall, Danville, Vt., who took him 

 to Philadelphia^ 1870, and sold to Wm. McDaniel of that city, who used him 

 for a driving horse. Handsome and kind. 



HOUGHTON'S BILLY 



Bay, 14^ hands, 925 pounds; foaled 1868 ; bred by Silas H. Hough- 

 ton, Lyndon, Vt. ; got by Vermont Ranger, son of Morrill : dam chestnut, 

 bred by Dr. M. G. Houghton, Lyndon, Vt., got by Billy Root, son of Sher- 

 man Morgan ; 2d dam Stowell mare, bred by Leander Stowell, St. Johns- 

 bury, Vt., and said to be Morgan. Kept by breeder on the Paul Houghton 

 farm, Lyndon, Vt. Of fine appearance and a good stock getter. 



HOUGHTON'S BEAUTY 



Chestnut with little white on hind feet; foaled 1883 ; bred by Silas H. 

 Houghton, Lyndon, Vt. ; got by Houghton's Billy, son of Vermont Ranger : 

 dam, bay, bred by Elmore Phippins, Burke, Vt., got by Caledonia, son of Chief- 



