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of the family was Young Bashaw, a son of the Arabian; and 

 his best colt was Andrew Jackson, the first stallion that ever 

 trotted in a public match. From him are descended many 

 sub-families the Clays, the Patchens, &c. In a published 

 pedigree of Green's Bashaw, may be seen the pedigree of 

 Andrew Jackson, and why he was the best son of Young 

 Bashaw. Charlotte Temple, a very fast mare that was taken 

 to France, her full brother, the stallion Saladin, and Black 

 Bashaw, another stallion, were ah 1 begotten by Young Bashaw, 

 and the two last named were both progenitors of many good 

 trotters. Comet, Whisky, Lantern, Belle of Baltimore, and 

 Lightning, were all by Black Bashaw. One of Andrew Jack- 

 son's best colts was the stallion Long Island Black Hawk, 

 often confounded with Vermont Black Hawk, the Morgan 

 Horse. They should be carefully distinguished. Long Is- 

 land Black Hawk had Messenger blood by four lines of 

 descent, and his descendants inherit the trotting in large de- 

 gree. Vermont Black Hawk begot ,many good horses, but 

 the speed seems to run out in a few generations. He had no 

 Messenger in him. 



George M. Patchen was descended from Long Island Black 

 Hawk through Henry Clay and Cassius M. Clay, with a cross 

 of Imported Diomed and another of Imported Trustee. 

 Patchen's descendants have not met the expectations of 

 breeders. They are coarse in form, and subject to curbs and 

 ring-bones. Lucy, the best of his get, was out of a May Day 

 mare, and thus got another cross of the Diomed from Sir 

 Henry, the sire of May Day. 



Long Island Black Hawk's best son as a stock horse was 

 Henry Clay, out of Surry, a mare of great speed from Canada. 

 Henry Clay begot trotters, and died in 1867, aged 30 years. 

 His son, Cassius M. Clay, out of a fast mare of unknown 

 pedigree, was the sire of Patchen, and the ancestor of a numer- 

 ous progeny of trotters. He may be considered the founder 

 of a family of Clays, including C. M. Clay, Jr., Harry Clay 

 (believed by many to be the sire of Dexter), Amos's C. M. 

 Clay, the sire of American Girl, that trotted in 2m. 40s. at 

 4 years old, and 2m. 32 l-2s. at 5 years old; Clay Pilot, Ken- 

 tucky Clay, Cora, Nonpareil, and others. 



A very good and handsome family are the Morrills, a 

 branch of the Morgans; Morrill being a descendant of Justin 

 Morgan, with two crosses of Diomed and four of Messenger 

 to account for the trotting. His best colt was Young Mor- 

 rill, owned by Samuel Perkins, Cambridge, Mass., now about 

 20 years old, and sire of Draco, Fearnought, Danville 



