744 THE MORGAN HORSE 



Thompson, who moved to Landgrove, Vt., where the horse is said to have 

 been drowned. He was a fine-appearing horse, and a fast trotter, though in 

 his old age had ringbones and became cross. Nathan Robinson, born at 

 Weathersfield, Vt., 1812, says: " James Work owned or tended old Bona- 

 parte a number of years at North Springfield. He was a thick-set, bay horse 

 of good size, called a Morgan horse, and showed it in his build ". Mr. Lewis 

 Russell, East Middlebury, Vt., born in Springfield, Vt., about 1812, where he 

 lived till 1833, says: " Levi Bixby had old Napoleon and his son, called 

 Young Napoleon. The old horse came from Canada. Both were very fine 

 horses, good stout horses and much used in the stud. They were Morgan 

 horses, blocky-built and very stylish. The old horse was about noo and 

 the young horse about 1000 pounds. I had charge of the young horse the 

 season of 1830, when he was four years old. I am sure they were called 

 Morgan horses, but cannot give their pedigree ". F. A. Weir says that Mr. 

 Holton said Bonaparte was by the Hawkins Horse, son of Justin Morgan. 



Sire of the dam of Barnard Morgan. 



YOUNG HAWKINS 



Dark brown, 15 hands, 950 pounds ; foaled 1828 ; bred by David Frost, 

 Shefford, P. Q. ; got by Hawkins Horse, son of Justin Morgan : dam black. 

 Owned 1832-33 by John Dailey, Bolton, P. Q., who sold to a man who took 

 him to the States. Mr. John Dailey writes that he was of fine appearance 

 and powerful action. 



YOUNG HAWKINS, (BLACK HAWKINS) 



Black or very dark brown, 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled about 1829; 

 bred by Hubbard I. Goddard, Waterloo, P. Q. ; got by Hawkins Horse, son 

 of Justin Morgan: dam dark bay, heavy mane and tail, 15 hands, 950 to 

 1000 pounds, of high finish, bred by Elijah Goddard, Waterloo, got by 

 Quicksilver, a bay horse that stood at Waterloo one season, thought to have 

 come from Orleans county, Vt. Taken, when four, by his breeder, in a team 

 toward Montreal, and traded for a bay mare. An excellent horse and fast 

 runner. 



FROST HORSE 



Dark bay or brown ; foaled about 1829 ; bred by Jeremiah Frost, Water- 

 loo, P. Q. ; got by Hawkins Horse, son of Justin Morgan. Sold to Len. 

 Knowlton, Bolton, P. Q., who kept him till quite old, when he was taken to 

 Stanstead. He is said to have got very fast and excellent stock. 



BRANDYWINE 



Dark bay with heavy black mane and tail, about 14^ hands, 950 pounds ; 

 said to be by Justin Morgan. Brought to Mercer, Me., about 1829, by a 

 Mr. Bean and sold to Joshua Young, who kept him about three years and 

 sold to a Mr. Arnold of Boston, Mass., a relative of his wife. A. J. 

 Downs, an old resident of Mercer, Me., under date of June 20, 1890, 

 writes as follows: "The Morgan horse, Brandywine, was brought into this 

 town about the year 1829 by a Mr. Bean, and sold to Joshua Young, 



