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Mr. Linsley (''Morgan Horses", page 147) thus describes this 

 Hawkins Horse : " He was a jet black, about fifteen hands high ; not 

 quite so compact as his sire, a little taller ; and a very little heavier. His 

 shoulders, back and loins, were excellent. He carried his head high, 

 had a resolute and vigorous style of action, and was undoubtedly the 

 fastest horse of the six ; he was a smart trotter and a good runner. 

 His eye was a little fierce in its expression, and he was inclined to be 

 cross, and not so tractable as the rest. He was one of the best acting 

 and finest looking horses under the saddle ever in the State". 



Mrs. Graves of St. Johnsbury, daughter of Olney Hawkins, states 

 that she remembers well her father's horse, son of the Justin Morgan, 

 and that he went to Canada about 1820, and that her uncle saw him 

 three years afterward, and astonished his keeper by going in by the 

 side of the horse, which was then very cross. Mr. Milton Martin 

 says : " He was the fastest running horse in Canada. The Hawkins 

 Horse's colts were running horses, and they could trot, too. Some 

 of his colts were amblers. He was black, no white". 



Mr. Holmes of Derby Line says: "The Hawkins Horse's colts 

 which I knew were black, or dark. Many were kept stallions. 

 There was nothing in this region that could run with two black mares 

 got by him. They were trotters, too. He was a black horse, per- 

 haps nine hundred and seventy-five pounds, lowish built, thick-set, 

 good action. His colts were of that character. I do not remember 



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but one pacer by him". Mr. M. Mitchell of Waterloo, Province of 

 Quebec, born 1802, said: "The Black Snake was very much like 

 the Black Hawks. The Hawkins Horse was a blocky-built horse, like 

 a Vermont Morgan. I saw Black Snake when I was ten to fourteen 

 years old. The Hawkins Horse went to Frelighsburgh. Black Snake 

 was at St. Armand". 



The Hawkins Horse had a great reputation for speed, both as 

 runner and trotter, before he left St. Johnsbury; this reputation he 

 kept up as long as we were able to trace him. He also kept up his 

 reputation for bad temper ; and he was always, after Stephen Haw- 

 kins parted with him, known as the Hawkins Horse. It will be seen 

 that he had many of the characteristics of the thoroughbred, making 

 it very probable that his dam was of that blood. The reputa- 

 tion of the stock of the Hawkins Horse in Canada, where he passed 

 many of the productive years of his life, was very high. These 

 horses are spoken of to-day, by all who remember them, with enthu- 

 siasm. They were among, if not the first, fast trotting horses in- 

 troduced into that part of Canada where he stood, and were also fast 



