MORGAN HUNTER 341

From the Vermont Cultivator. Contributed by Joanne Curtis.

From American Morgan Horse Register Volume I:

Chestnut, 14 3/4 hands, foaled 1844; bred by Mr. Axtell, Springfield, Vt. ; got by Gifford Morgan : dam bred by John Wellington, Bethel Olympus, Vt., got by Gifford Morgan ; 2d dam purchased in Rochester, Vt., of Mr. Begout. Sold to F. A. Weir, Walpole, N. H. ; to Hiram R. Ackley and S. A. Gilbert, East Hamilton, N. Y., about 1848; to Farris Cook, Charlotteville, Va., who owned him 1856. Received 2d premium at New York State fair, 1851, entered by Mr. Gilbert. Linsley says : " Is a horse of beautiful figure and fine action ".