VI 

 BLACK HAWK 



BLACK HAWK, son of Sherman Morgan, was bred by Benjamin 

 Kelly of Durham, New Hampshire, and foaled April, 1833, the prop- 

 erty of Ezekiel Twombly of same place. His color was full black, 

 and he had no marks. His height was fifteen hands and his weight 

 about one thousand pounds. His dam was a black mare whose breeder 

 is unknown and whose breeding is doubtful. Mr. Linsley states that 

 she was bred in New Brunswick and was half English or thorough- 

 bred. A son of Benjamin Kelly says that his father traded for her 

 with a pedlar at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and thinks the pedlar called 

 her a Narragansett. Other testimony concerning this mare will appear 

 in letters published within. She was a fast trotter and a superior mare. 



Black Hawk passed from the estate of Ezekiel Twombly to a 

 grandson, Shadrack Seavey, who traded him, when coming five, to 

 Albert R. Mathes for another horse and fifty dollars. Mr. Mathes 

 sold him to Messrs. Brown & Thurston at Haverhill, Massa- 

 chusetts, for two hundred dollars. Mr. Benjamin Thurston soon 

 bought out Mr. Brown's interest, took the horse to Lowell, Massa- 

 chusetts, and in 1844 sold him for eight hundred dollars to David 

 Hill, Bridport, Vermont, where he was kept until his death, Decem- 

 ber 1st, 1856. 



Mr. Linsley says : " In size, compactness, style of action, great 

 muscular development, temperament and endurance he exhibits the 

 distinguishing traits of the Morgans to a high degree. His stock, 

 though generally larger, being from larger dams, exhibit much the 

 same characteristics, and their color, when not black, is almost with- 

 out exception bay or chestnut, the latter color being quite common. 

 Many of his colts have the same marks in the face and upon the feet 

 that belong to Sherman and his dam. We never saw a gray, a white, 

 or a cream-colored horse from him. 



" Black Hawk is a little under fifteen hands high, and weighs about 



