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of this town. Mr. Bean sold him to Mr. Young as a son of the old Morgan 

 or the original Morgan horse. The name of Justin Morgan was not known 

 about here at that time ; but that he was what Mr. Bean recommended him 

 to be was never disputed or doubted at that time or ever after. I never 

 knew or heard anything about the dam of Brandywine. He was a dark 

 bay with black, thick, heavy mane and tail, black legs and long fore-top 

 that came nearly down to his nose. He was about 14^ hands high ; would 

 weigh but little short of 1000 pounds. He had a deep, broad chest, 

 full-breasted, large arm and good flat leg. I do not know how old the 

 horse was when Mr. Young bought him ; I think he must have been well 

 matured or he could not have stood the work Mr. Young put upon him. Mr. 

 Young owned the largest and best farm in Mercer and did a great deal of 

 work, and Brandywine had to do his part of it in addition to stud service. I 

 remember being at the raising of a barn when Mr. Young came with the horse 

 in the afternoon ; he said he had plowed on his interval with Brandywine 

 and another horse two acres that day. When hauling corn up from his in- 

 terval he got on more than his oxen could haul ; he told his man to go to the 

 barn and get Brandywine and hitch him on. The man said he never saw a 

 horse pull so in his life ; he settled down so it seemed as if his belly was not 

 more than 18 inches from the ground; then the load moved. My father 

 bred a mare to Brandywine and she had a colt which he sold when grown 

 for $100. Brandywine's colts were usually bay, a few sorrel and chestnut; 

 they made very good horses. All the fault I ever heard found with them, 

 they were called rather small, those from small mares, but somehow they were 

 always bought up ; as soon as fit for sale, somebody seemed to want them, 

 so that in a few years not a Brandywine was to be found ". Charles Hough of 

 Quebec, a noted horseman, owner of Grey Eagle, Jean Baptiste and other 

 noted Canadian sires, and for 50 years proprietor of fine stables in Quebec, 

 bought near Three Rivers, P. Q., in the forties, a horse called Brandywine 

 that was said to be the originator of the family in Canada. He took 

 him to Quebec and shortly afterwards sold him to a relative, Mr. Truro o 

 Halifax, where the horse soon after died. This we have from his son, now con- 

 tinuing his father's business in Quebec, who says that this original Brandywine 

 was a Morgan horse, brought from the States, and was the progenitor of the 

 Brandywine family in Canada. 



BRANDYWINE (COBB'S) 



Dark bay, black points, 15^ hands, noo pounds ; foaled June n, 1843 '> 

 bred by Jean-Baptiste Gaudette, Gentilly, P. Q. ; said to be by Brandywine, 

 a Morgan horse brought from the States and owned at or near Three Rivers, 

 Can. : dam Emblem, a fast pacer ; 2d dam said to be Morgan. Purchased, 

 1850, by Max. Beaupre, Yamaska, Can., who sold him, July, 1853, for $400, 

 to Aaron Cobb, Hebron, Me., whose property he died, two or three years 

 after. Mr. Beaupre" certifies that Brandywine trotted in 2 132, at Berthier, 

 P. Q., 1853. Mr. Beaupre also informs us that Brandywine got many colts 

 in Canada, a number of which were kept as stallions. 



