THE BLACK HAWK OR MORGAN FAMILY. 375 



retained their distinctive appellation till about the beginning of 

 this century. 



Mr. 0. W. Cook, of Springfield, Massachusetts, did a great 

 -deal of fundamental investigation on the origin of this family, 

 away back in 1878-9, etc., and I am under special obligations to 

 him for being the first man to open my eyes to the great confi- 

 dence game that has been played for a hundred years, and all orig- 

 inating in the fabulous story of "one Smith." Among other im- 

 portant things he unearths an advertisement of Young Bulrock 

 that was advertised to stand at Springfield, 1792, as follows: 

 "Young Bulrock is a horse of the Dutch breed, of a large size, 

 .and a bright bay color, etc." In speaking of his pedigree, Mr. 

 Cook most pithily remarks: "In view of the three-fold concur- 

 rence of time and place and breed, it fits into the vacuum in the 

 Morgan's lineage as a fragment of pottery fits into its comple- 

 ment." There was another horse advertised in 'Springfield that 

 year, but he had neither name nor breed and in color he was 

 gray. The advertisement of Young Bulrock fits in time, fits in 

 <jolor and fits in breed; and thus removes all reasonable doubt 

 that he was the sire of the original Morgan horse. This is the 

 reason why Justin Morgan "always, while he lived, called him a 

 Dutch horse;" and the little scrap of history given above will 

 show why he always spoke of him as "of the best blood." He 

 was right in the former and he was right in the latter declara- 

 tion. It is not possible, at this day, to prove, technically, these 

 matters of a hundred years ago, but after considering all the 

 facts in the case, we must conclude that they are satisfying to 

 the human understanding, and that Justin Morgan told the truth. 



For the past fifty or sixty years the breeding of the original 

 Morgan horse has been a subject of apparently unending con- 

 troversy. The real facts concerning his origin, however, have 

 never been brought to light and fully developed until within the 

 last few years, and it is probable that nothing of material value 

 will ever be added to the foregoing tracing. We have found 

 from contemporaneous history that Lieutenant Wright Carpenter 

 stole a horse from Colonel James De Lancey and was successful 

 in carrying him into the camp of the patriots at Fishkill, and 

 that is all we know about that particular horse. After the war 

 was over it is stated that "one Smith" sold a horse to Mr. Ward, 

 of Hartford, and represented that he had stolen the horse from 

 Colonel De Lancey, and Mr. Ward sold that horse to Selah Nor- 



