350 THE MORGAN HORSE 



also the more famous. He was bay, 15^ hands, noo pounds; bred by 

 Jacob Smith of Addison, Vt., foaled the property of Thomas Kingsland of 

 Addison, and was got by a horse of English blood that stood at or near 

 Addison, thought to have been Doolittle's King William, a son of imported 

 King William. Pone (known in books as Young Hamiltonian) was bred by 

 Judge Larrabee, Shoreham, Vt. ; was bay, 15 hands; foaled 1820; got by 

 Bishop's Hamiltonian, from a dam by Leonidas, son of an English Hunter 

 from the thoroughbred dam Miss Leeds ; 2d dam the Dr. Needham mare, 

 that was brought from New Hampshire, whose pedigree is entirely unknown, 

 though she is described as a small, trappy mare of the Morgan pattern. 

 A fictitious pedigree has been given this 2d dam, and she has been said to 

 be by imported Bellfounder. 



There was a young son of imported Bellfounder kept in New Hamp- 

 shire about 1830, but as Bellfounder was not imported till 1822, it is certain 

 he did not get the 2d dam of a horse foaled in 1820. Mr. B. J. Myrick tells 

 us that he had always known the Peacock mare, dam of Sherman Black 

 Hawk, and had always supposed her by Liberty. This was what her owners 

 had claimed, and he went to Allen Smith to get Liberty's pedigree. Mr. 

 Smith had never known Liberty's pedigree, but gave the pedigree of Pone, 

 saying it was that of a better horse, and that the mare was by Pone. Mr. 

 Myrick says Mr. Smith did not consult any records, and it is proven from 

 men who worked for Mr. Smith in 1824 and '25, when he built his house, that 

 mares were bred those years to both horses. It would certainly seem that 

 the breeder and owners of the mare would have known better what horse 

 got her than Mr. Smith stating from memory 25 years after the service. 



The " American Trotting Register " gives this mare as by Liberty and then 

 calls Liberty a son of Bishop's Hamiltonian. In giving the sire of the mare 

 as Liberty it is very likely correct ; in calling Liberty a son of the Bishop horse 

 it is entirely wrong. Liberty was about as old as the Bishop horse, and bred 

 as we have stated. 



In reference to the dam we have the following letter : " Father owned 

 the mare you refer to. She was a good-sized mare, weighing noo pounds 

 or more ; was 15^ hands high, I should think; a good traveler ; could have 

 been made to go in three minutes, if she had been trained. We called her 

 the old black mare. Father bought her of Deacon Abner Wilcox, when she 

 was, I think, about three years old, for $80. The deacon called her dam 

 Sarah. She was black, not quite so large as her colt, but a good one to go. 

 We left Vermont in 1844, for the West, and sold the old black mare, then in 

 foal, to Mr. Myrick. Her colt was what was known as the North Horse. I 

 was born in 1824, and lived with father until 1844. 



Yours truly, HENRY B. PEACOCK". 



We have been able to learn of but one Matchem which stood in this 

 vicinity. In the " Columbian Patriot ", published at Middlebury, is the follow- 

 ing advertisement: "Paragon, chestnut, 16 hands, got by the famous 

 imported dray horse, Matchem, well known in the State for his superior 

 stock of colts. JAMES SATTERLY". 



