Generally credited, along with his brother David Goss, with owning the “Morgan Horse” after 1804 and with the development of the Morgan horse breed in Northern Vermont.
Affidavit of John Stearns, 14 August, 1841
“I was at my father's house, and a man of the name of Abel Shorey, a skillful horseman of the neighborhood, was there also; when David Goss Jr., my cousin, then aged about seventeen, came up from his father's, distant about three-quarters of a mile, with a message to Shorey, requesting him to go to his father's (my Uncle David's) and trim a horse that uncle John Goss had just then brought over from Randolph, distant forty miles. I accompanied them, and at Uncle David's we found Uncle John from Randolph with a little heavy, handsome, active bay horse. …. Uncle John said he was a Canadian horse that he had just got from Justice Morgan of Randolph. … Uncle John had lent Morgan the sum of forty dollars on occasion of the latter's going a journey to Montreal in Canada. Morgan obtained the horse, then four years old at Montreal, and being unable to repay the money on his return, disposed of him to Uncle John to pay the debt. Uncle John, who was no horseman, now brought him to his brother, my Uncle David, who was much of a horseman, in the hope that something might be made by keeping him for mares. … My uncle, David Goss, kept the horse through the season, working him on his farm, and putting him to the mares when they were brought; he also kept him through the next winter and the ensuing spring, when the foals were found to be universally excellent; Uncle John took him back to Randolph where he made his second season; the third season he was brought to St. Johnsbury, and stood at Uncle David's again.
Today regarded as the official state animal of Vermont, the Morgan breed of horse was widely used as a cavalry horse in the Civil War.
Affidavit of John Stearns, 14 August, 1841
“I was at my father's house, and a man of the name of Abel Shorey, a skillful horseman of the neighborhood, was there also; when David Goss Jr., my cousin, then aged about seventeen, came up from his father's, distant about three-quarters of a mile, with a message to Shorey, requesting him to go to his father's (my Uncle David's) and trim a horse that uncle John Goss had just then brought over from Randolph, distant forty miles. I accompanied them, and at Uncle David's we found Uncle John from Randolph with a little heavy, handsome, active bay horse. …. Uncle John said he was a Canadian horse that he had just got from Justice Morgan of Randolph. … Uncle John had lent Morgan the sum of forty dollars on occasion of the latter's going a journey to Montreal in Canada. Morgan obtained the horse, then four years old at Montreal, and being unable to repay the money on his return, disposed of him to Uncle John to pay the debt. Uncle John, who was no horseman, now brought him to his brother, my Uncle David, who was much of a horseman, in the hope that something might be made by keeping him for mares. … My uncle, David Goss, kept the horse through the season, working him on his farm, and putting him to the mares when they were brought; he also kept him through the next winter and the ensuing spring, when the foals were found to be universally excellent; Uncle John took him back to Randolph where he made his second season; the third season he was brought to St. Johnsbury, and stood at Uncle David's again.
Today regarded as the official state animal of Vermont, the Morgan breed of horse was widely used as a cavalry horse in the Civil War.
Generally credited, along with his brother David Goss, with owning the “Morgan Horse” after 1804 and with the development of the Morgan horse breed in Northern Vermont.
Affidavit of John Stearns, 14 August, 1841
“I was at my father's house, and a man of the name of Abel Shorey, a skillful horseman of the neighborhood, was there also; when David Goss Jr., my cousin, then aged about seventeen, came up from his father's, distant about three-quarters of a mile, with a message to Shorey, requesting him to go to his father's (my Uncle David's) and trim a horse that uncle John Goss had just then brought over from Randolph, distant forty miles. I accompanied them, and at Uncle David's we found Uncle John from Randolph with a little heavy, handsome, active bay horse. …. Uncle John said he was a Canadian horse that he had just got from Justice Morgan of Randolph. … Uncle John had lent Morgan the sum of forty dollars on occasion of the latter's going a journey to Montreal in Canada. Morgan obtained the horse, then four years old at Montreal, and being unable to repay the money on his return, disposed of him to Uncle John to pay the debt. Uncle John, who was no horseman, now brought him to his brother, my Uncle David, who was much of a horseman, in the hope that something might be made by keeping him for mares. … My uncle, David Goss, kept the horse through the season, working him on his farm, and putting him to the mares when they were brought; he also kept him through the next winter and the ensuing spring, when the foals were found to be universally excellent; Uncle John took him back to Randolph where he made his second season; the third season he was brought to St. Johnsbury, and stood at Uncle David's again.
Today regarded as the official state animal of Vermont, the Morgan breed of horse was widely used as a cavalry horse in the Civil War.
Affidavit of John Stearns, 14 August, 1841
“I was at my father's house, and a man of the name of Abel Shorey, a skillful horseman of the neighborhood, was there also; when David Goss Jr., my cousin, then aged about seventeen, came up from his father's, distant about three-quarters of a mile, with a message to Shorey, requesting him to go to his father's (my Uncle David's) and trim a horse that uncle John Goss had just then brought over from Randolph, distant forty miles. I accompanied them, and at Uncle David's we found Uncle John from Randolph with a little heavy, handsome, active bay horse. …. Uncle John said he was a Canadian horse that he had just got from Justice Morgan of Randolph. … Uncle John had lent Morgan the sum of forty dollars on occasion of the latter's going a journey to Montreal in Canada. Morgan obtained the horse, then four years old at Montreal, and being unable to repay the money on his return, disposed of him to Uncle John to pay the debt. Uncle John, who was no horseman, now brought him to his brother, my Uncle David, who was much of a horseman, in the hope that something might be made by keeping him for mares. … My uncle, David Goss, kept the horse through the season, working him on his farm, and putting him to the mares when they were brought; he also kept him through the next winter and the ensuing spring, when the foals were found to be universally excellent; Uncle John took him back to Randolph where he made his second season; the third season he was brought to St. Johnsbury, and stood at Uncle David's again.
Today regarded as the official state animal of Vermont, the Morgan breed of horse was widely used as a cavalry horse in the Civil War.
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