694 THE MORGAN HORSE 



1842; bred by Nahum Knights, Baltimore, Vt. ; got by Green Mountain 

 Morgan : dam bay, bred by Mr. Knights Sr., and called English blood. 

 Sold to George Young; A. G. Place, New Haven, N. Y., 1846 ; T. H. Aus- 

 tin, of same place ; Mr. Corse, Sandy Creek, N. Y. ; parties in Lewis 

 county, N. Y. A. G. Place writes : " Baltimore Morgan was a capital 

 specimen of the Morgan family, his head was fine, and his eyes large and 

 brilliant ; back broad and short, flanks deep and full, limbs short, flat 

 and sinewy ; he was kind, and had great nerve and action, and could trot a mile 

 in about 3 -.30; 10 miles an hour or 100 miles in ten hours". Exhibited 

 with his sire at New York State fair, Utica, 1852. 



MORGAN TIGER (FOX'S) 



Bay, 15^4 hands, 1250 pounds; said to be by Baltimore Morgan, son of 

 Green Mountain Morgan : and dam Morgan and Messenger. Owned by Mr. 

 Fox, Oregon, Wis., whose son, A. O. Fox of Oregon, writes that he was a 

 compact-built horse of great vigor, and his stock noted for same qualities. 

 Died 1868. 



YOUNG GREEN MOUNTAIN MORGAN (AIKEN HORSE) 

 Bright bay, 15 hands, 1050 pounds; foaled 1843; bred by Forester B. 

 Aiken, Hardwick, Mass. ; got by Green Mountain Morgan : dam dark bay, 

 heavy mane and tail, 16 hands, 1200 pounds, very thick-built, bought by Mr. 

 Aiken of James Downing, Hardwick, Mass., and thought to have been bred in 

 Vermont, and to be of Morgan blood. Sold, 1850, for $400, to Silas Hale, 

 South Royalston, Mass., who took him to Walpole, N. H., exhibited him at 

 State fair in Rutland, Vt., and sold him to Mr. Peake, Dubuque, la., for 

 $1000. He had extraordinary energy and was fast. His stock were widely 

 known for their spirit, action, docility and endurance. 



MASSACHUSETTS MORGAN 



Chestnut, 14^/2 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled June 22, 1843; bred by C. 

 & L. Wheelock, Sutton, Mass. ; got by Green Mountain Morgan, son of Gif- 

 ford Morgan : dam 1115 pounds, bred by Owen Brown, Sutton, Vt., got by 

 Howard Morgan, son of Sherman Morgan; 2d dam taken, about 1820, by 

 Owen Brown, from Sutton, Mass., to Sutton, Vt., said to be half English 

 blood. Sold, 1853, to James Gates, Worcester, Mass., and exhibited by 

 him at the Massachusetts State fair, 1858. L. F. Herrick of Littleton, 

 Mass., writes in the "American Cultivator", of February 13 1886: 

 "Some time in 1820, Owen Brown took a mare which was one-half 

 English blood from Sutton, and bred her to Howard Morgan, a son 

 of Sherman, the produce being a handsome filly. Not long after it was 

 dropped, Messrs. C. and L. Wheelock of Sutton, Mass., were at Brown's 

 place and bought the filly, taking her to Sutton, where, under their watchful 

 care, she developed into a beautiful-styled animal, weighing, when 

 heaviest, 1115 pounds. She had a local reputation of being an untiring 

 roadster and possessing wonderful intelligence. In the summer of 1842 

 the Messrs. Wheelock, with three others, induced the owner of Green 



