754 THE MORGAN HORSE 



FOX (CORBIN'S, YOUNG TRAVELER, PADDY) 

 Brown, 14^ hands, 950 pounds; foaled about 1814; said to be by 

 Justin Morgan, or a son. Purchased, when three, at Albany, Vt., by 

 Royal Corbin, Craftsbury, Vt., who kept him several years. After Mr. Corbin 

 sold him his name was changed to Paddy and he was owned by Isaac Patter- 

 son, Bath, N. H. In July, 1829, he was bought by John Bellows of Lan- 

 caster, N. H., who kept him the season of 1830, and sold him in the fall of 

 that year to George Bothwell, Northumberland, N. H., who, 1831, is said 

 to have sold him to some party in Rhode Island. It seems that at one time 

 after Corbin owned him he was at Boston and carried his owner, fleeing 

 from officers, to Stanstead,Canada, in so quick time that the tradition thereof 

 is common to this day. The name of Young Traveler, as well as 

 date and locality of birth, would suggest that Fox might be a son of 

 the Hawkins Horse, also called Traveler. It is the general testimony 

 of those who knew him at Craftsbury that he was a Morgan. In Swing's 

 "Journal of Agriculture ", Chicago, page 345 of Vol. IV., a correspondent 

 signing " W" says he came to Vermont in 1818, a boy, and at that 

 time Royal Corbin of Craftsbury owned a horse which he called Young 

 Traveler, "the same horse that was afterwards called Paddy, as I believe. 

 The horse was small, of a dark brown color, nearly black in winter. His 

 nose was light brown and called mealy. His ears were small and beautiful, 

 and his eye and nostrils uncommonly fine ; his chest deep and his shoulders 

 high ; bone and muscle good, not as good forward as behind ". A corres- 

 pondent of the " Spirit of the Times " of Dec. 27, 1856, states that Fox was a 

 brother of Sherman Morgan, etc. French Morrill of Danville, Vt., owner of 

 the original Morrill Horse, and very familiar with early Morgan pedigrees, 

 told us that he had always understood that Corbin's Fox was by Jus- 

 tin Morgan. T. Bridgeman, a merchant of Hardwick, Vt., states that he 

 once, with Hon. John Gregory, questioned John Bellows in particular 

 about Paddy, and Bellows said he was half brother to Sherman Mor- 

 gan, both being by the same horse. Mr. Rice of Craftsbury, born in April 

 1798, stated to us that he worked for Royal Corbin the fall after he, 

 was 21 (1819); that Corbin had then owned the horse two or three years, 

 and owned him two or three years after ; that he worked for Corbin a year 

 and a half and tended the horse one season ; that Fox was a great traveler 

 on the walk, but on the run other horses would outdo him. "A great 

 roadster they called him ; wide between the eyes and pleasant-looking, and 

 was a pleasant horse, easy to handle. Not a large horse ; probably might 

 weigh 900 to 1000 pounds; considerably dark, a little dappled; rather short- 

 legged, but well-proportioned. Guess he was then about 10 years old, but 

 don't know ; he was not an old horse ". Leonard Harriman of Craftsbury, 

 born in 1802, said : " I remember the horse Corbin had; not a very large 

 horse, not more than middle size, a handsome horse. He had him three or 

 four years, perhaps more. I was, perhaps, 15 or 16. He called him Fox. 

 I think they called him a Morgan horse ". Dr. C. W. Dustin of North Crafts- 

 bury writes : " Royal Corbin was my grandfather and he owned Fox. He 



