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Miller has no minute of such statements. Mr. Phillips is dead. The man 

 who brought St. Clair to California is said to have moved, with his wife and 

 two children, to a wayside hotel on the Auburn road, about 12 miles from 

 Sacramento, and after keeping the hotel for a time, moved to Oregon, after 

 which Mr. Miller could get no trace of him. We have made ineffectual effort 

 to trace him, and have also found it as yet impossible to designate with cer- 

 tainty the horse in Illinois that was the sire of St. Clair. But there is no 

 reason to doubt the principal statement, that St. Clair was got by a Morgan 

 horse and was out of a Canadian mare. The Barden Morgan was taken to 

 Illinois, 1837, and kept, as far as known, in Cook, Du Page and McHenry 

 counties till his death in 1853. He both paced and trotted. D. S. Putnam, 

 Esq., now of Rockefeller,!!!., formerly of Bethel, Vt., where he owned Putnam 

 Morgan, writes that all Barden knew of his (Barden Morgan's) pedigree, was 

 that his sire was Cock of the Rock, son of Sherman Morgan. Barden Mor- 

 gan was much such a horse as St. Clair. It may have been he, or a son of 

 his, that got St. Clair. Mr. Phillips gave J. E. Miller, when he was getting 

 up the above stud bill, the facts, then comparatively fresh in his memory, that 

 had been stated to him about the pedigree, as accurately, doubtless, as his 

 memory permitted, and these facts, as Mr. Miller has suggested, were un- 

 doubtedly used in the pedigree, parts wanting being supplied by imagina- 

 tion. The statement in the bill is that St. Clair was by Young Morgan, by 

 Green Mountain Boy, by Cock of the Rock, by Sherman Morgan. It will 

 be noted that you have but to put Barden Morgan in the place of Green 

 Mountain Boy, and the statement is as direct as could possibly be expected 

 in the circumstances, that St. Clair was by a son of Barden Morgan. It is 

 at least a remarkable coincidence, that this pedigree should have been ut- 

 tered upon this information, in 1856, in California, with the Morgan Cock of 

 the Rock so little known, and so few Morgan stallions in Illinois at the time 

 referred to, and it should turn out that there was a son of the Morgan Cock 

 of the Rock then standing in Illinois, a pacer as well as trotter, that had been 

 long enough in that State to have had a son, "Young Morgan ", that might 

 have got St. Clair. 



There w r as a Green Mountain Boy by Royal Morgan that went to Mich- 

 igan about 1842, and was a quite well known horse in that State for some 

 years. Probabl} the party from Michigan who helped arrange this pedigree 

 selected this name on account of that fact, and then joined to it Cock of 

 the Rock, remembered from the true pedigree. 



In this connection the following correspondence is quite pertinent : 

 Wilbur F. Smith, Esq., "BREAD LOAF INN, Vt., April 25, 1891. 



Dear Sir : If I recollect aright, you told me, when I saw you, that you 

 had understood from Presley Dunlap that the man who brought St. Clair 

 across the plains gave him the pedigree, and that the name, " Cock of the 

 Rock ", occurred in it? 



Will you please write me on this sheet whether my recollection is right, 

 return to me, and oblige. Yours truly, 



JOSEPH BATTELL." 



