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this horse when a colt at St. Dennis of a man by the name of Lucie, who 

 traded for him with some one from Vermont, as I undertood, and he was 

 called a Morgan. A number of stallions were raised from him, one called 

 the La Rose Horse, owned at St. Jean-Baptiste by A. M. La Rose, a brown 

 bay, not as rangy or as tall as his sire, dam a French mare ; another called 

 the Quebec Horse, bred and owned by John Bosquet of St. Cesaire, i$% 

 hands, dark chestnut, 1000 to noo pounds, and a trotter. Stallions were 

 also raised from these sons and the family became quite extensive. The 

 Bosquet Horse died about 1837 ". The most extraordinary stories are told 

 of the distances this horse was ridden in a day by Mr. Bosquet, who was one 

 of the leaders in the political agitations of those times in Canada, and after- 

 ward exiled. It is said he frequently rode the horse over 100 miles 

 in a day, and that his usual rate of speed was 15 miles an hour. Location 

 and time suggest the possibility of this horse being the progenitor of St. 

 Lawrence. 



PAPINEAU 



Dapple gray, nearly white when old, 15^3 hands, 1050 pounds; foaled 

 about 1828 ; said to be Morgan, and very possibly by the the Hawkins Horse, 

 son of Justin Morgan. Brought from Canada, together with a black stallion, 

 about 1833, by Ebenezer Pike of Cornish, X. H. He was kept several sea- 

 sons at Groton,Vt., and probably also stood at Peacham, Vt. ; then was pur- 

 chased by William Grant of Groton, who kept him till about 1840. He 

 probably then passed to a Mr. Craig of Xewbury, of whom he was purchased 

 by C. M. Huckins, Corinth, Vt., who kept him a year and sold to James 

 Wallace, Newbury, Vt. Wallace kept him about three years, and sold him to 

 Nathaniel Burnham of Xewbury. Robert Wallace, Xewbury, says : " My 

 brother, James Wallace, owned Papineau, about 15*2 hands, 1000 pounds; 

 stood up pretty well and a pretty-styled horse. He was thick-breasted, close 

 packed up like the Morgan. He was a smart goer ". Erastus Baldwin, who 

 at one time owned Farmer's Beauty, son of Young Papineau, writes : " I 

 knew the Papineau Horse, but do not know his sire. Do not know where he 

 came from, but he was called a Morgan horse". 



YOUNG PAPIXEAU (PECK'S) 



Bay ; foaled 1837 ; bred by J. J. Peck, Groton, Vt. ; got by Papineau, 

 which see : dam chestnut, noo pounds, a noted roadster, owned by Jonas 

 Tucker, Newbury, Vt., and hired by Peck, on account of her Morgan blood 

 and superior merit, to breed to Papineau. A. M. Heath, son of the 

 breeder of Farmer's Beauty, and I. M. Ricker, Groton, Vt., say she was 

 by a dark bay or brown one-eyed son of Sherman Morgan owned in Han- 

 over, N. H., and then standing in Xewbury, Vt., whose dam was a Morgan 

 mare. Young Papineau was a good-sized and very handsome colt. According 

 to our best information he got three foals when two years old, among 

 them Farmer's Beauty, and died before the next season. 



FARMER'S BEAUTY 

 Bay with black points, 15 hands, 1080 pounds; foaled 1840; bred by 



