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The Bullett family was of
Morgan descent. In the late 1850's two prominent
breeders, Tolbert Fanning and W.R. Ellison, brought shipments of
Morgans to Middle Tennessee. The BULLETT family originated
from the group imported by Fanning.
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Morgans that came in the original shipment was a
stallion named VERMONT BOY, known in Tennessee as
FANNING'S VERMONT. The horse had been bred in
Vermont, where Fanning bought him in March, 1857, from
one William J. Carter of Hartford. According to
the Trotting Register FANNING'S VERMONT was sired by
HALE'S GREEN MOUNTAIN MORGAN, he by GIFFORD MORGAN.
The dam is listed as being by MORGAN TALLYHO, a son of
the famous WOODBURY MORGAN.
FANNING'S VERMONT sired two stallions, CHICKAMAUGA and BULLETT. CHICKAMAUGA was captured during the Civil War and
was taken to Illinois; BULLETT remained in Tennessee and
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According to Margaret Lindsley Warden in the "TENNESSEE WALKING
HORSE" magazine of April, 1949, "BULLETT was a 15 hand bay, bred
by J.R. Hill of Lavergne, Tennessee, just a few miles from the
Fanning place." Miss Warden quotes the Morgan Register as
indicating that BULLETT was from a dam named STELLA, believed to
be by PIKE’S MORGAN, who was out of a
Naragansett Pacer called the Tatman mare. In any event, the Tennessee BULLETTS
have, traditionally, been accepted as MORGAN horses and represent
the chief of entry of MORGAN blood into the Tennessee Walking
Horse.
Gertrude F-84,
the dam of
Roan Allen F-38 traced back to Gifford Morgan.
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