DESCENDANTS OF WOODBURY MORGAN 711 



MORGAN STAR 



Dark bay with star, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds; foaled about 1850; bred 

 by John Gregory, Northfield, Vt. ; got by Green Mountain Morgan. Ex- 

 hibited by John Gregory, together with Young Black Hawk, four years old, 

 Edgar Hill,two years old, and Young Gifford,one year old, at the Ohio State 

 fair, 1856. Exhibited at Vermont State fair, 1857, and sold that fall, for 

 $2000, to W. P. Samuel, Hannibal, Mo. Died at Topeka, Kan., 1874, prop- 

 erty of Mr. Raine. 



GREEN MOUNTAIN TIGER (MILLER'S) 



Dark bay with star and off hind foot white, 15 hands, noo pounds; 

 foaled May, 1851 ; bred by Erastus Whitney, Brookline, Vt. ; got by Green 

 Mountain Morgan : dam bay, bred by Harvey Stoddard, Grafton, Vt., got by 

 Vermont Morgan (Barton Horse), son of Long's Magnum Bonum ; 2d dam 

 brought from northern Vermont and said to be Morgan. Sold to S. P. 

 Miller, Newfane, Vt. Died 1861. A horse of good action, and stock 

 good. 



MORGAN RECRUIT (BRIDGE HORSE, GREEN MOUNTAIN MIR- 

 ROR) 



Dark chestnut, narrow stripe in the face and white heels, 14^ hands, 

 i ooo pounds ; foaled July, 1851; bred by Ebenezer Bridge, Pomfret, Vt. ; got by 

 Green Mountain Morgan : dam old Kate, dark chestnut, bred by James Mc- 

 Kenzie, Hartland, Vt., got by Rising Sun, son of Woodbury Morgan. Gelded 

 by breeder, 1871. Kept in Concord and Hanover, N. H. ; also in Norwich 

 and Pomfret, Vt. In an advertisement of Morgan Recruit, dated March 4, 

 1857, Mr. Bridge claims five crosses from Justin Morgan through his dam. 

 He was of a very compact and symmetrical form ; his colts in Vermont 

 mostly chestnut. Linsley says : " Thick-set with good limbs, short head, open 

 nostrils, face dishing, wide between the eyes, and very heavy mane and 

 tail". 



GREEN MOUNTAIN MORGAN JR 



Dark chestnut with star, 15 hands, 1035 pounds; foaled July, 1851 ; 

 bred by A. P. Lyman, West Randolph,Vt. ; got by Green Mountain Morgan : 

 dam bay, 15 hands, about 1000 pounds, bred by Leland D. Horton, 

 Royalton, Vt., got by Gifford Morgan ; 2d dam said to be Morgan. Sold 

 to Erastus Hubbard, Montpelier, Vt., 1857; to go to California, 1858. 

 The "Vermont Stock Journal" says of him: " He was a fine horse, and 

 exhibited in a high degree the showy qualities for which the family are 

 so celebrated ". Linsley says : " He has the style and action of his sire and 

 dam and trots a mile in 3 :oo ; a very fast walker, and a pleasant and stylish 

 driver ". 



YOUNG GREEN MOUNTAIN 



Foaled 1851; bred by Nahum Lombard, Ascutneyville, Vt. ; got by 

 Green Mountain Morgan : dam bred by Nahum Lombard, got by Sumner 



