DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 357 



BISHOP HORSE 2D 



Black, 16% hands, 1400 pounds; foaled May 14, 1868; bred by D. 

 B. Bishop, North Williston, Vt. ; got by Rexford's Black Hawk, son of Bige- 

 low's Black Hawk Tiger : dam Lady Kate, bay, noo pounds, bred by S .H. 

 Stowell, Waterbury, Vt., who sold her to Jones Barber, Richmond, Vt., and 

 he to D. B. Bishop, got by Colonel, son of Green Mountain Morgan ; 26. 

 dam bought by S. H. Stowell of Lucius Spaulding, Saranac, N. Y., who 

 purchased her of Mr. Spaulding, Addison Co., Vt., said to be Hamiltonian. 

 Kept at Hinesburgh,Vt., and vicinity, 1873 to 1876 ; then in Canada; then at 

 Bakersfield, Vt., a few years, and went to Massachusetts. Of fine appear- 

 ance, and very fast walker. 



BLACK HAWK TIGER JR (ALGER HORSE) 



Black with star and white hind foot, 15}^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 

 1855 or '56; bred by Daniel Bardwell, Shelburne, Mass. ; got by Bigelow's 

 Black Hawk Tiger, son of Sherman Black Hawk : dam dark bay, noo 

 pounds, fine style and action, bred by E. Bardwell, Shelburne, Mass., 

 got by Deerfield Morgan, son of Green Mountain Morgan. Sold to Orra 

 Sherman, Bucklin, Mass., 1861 ; Frank Alger, Adams, Mass.; then went to 

 Sand Lake, N. Y. Kept at Shelburne, Mass., 1858-59 ; Conway, Mass., 1860- 

 61. A good traveler and of fine style. Mr. Sherman says : "I took him to 

 all the fairs in three counties, and he always took the ist prize". 



Mr. Parker writes : " He was the handsomest and most stylish horse I 

 ever saw. When three he received ist premium at the New York State fair 

 at Syracuse; also the ist at the following places, and never any but the 

 first: Cayuga Co. fair, three years ; Moravia, three years ; Cortland, two 

 years ; Skaneateles Ithaca, and Dryden, N. Y. At Rochester, at State 

 fair, 1862, he took ist over 43 competitors. He was a successful sire. His 

 colts were 15^ to 16 hands, and had ready sale at from $200 to $1000 each." 



Sire of dam of Kitty Ives 2 -.28%, winner of 18 races and fifty-race trotter. 



VERMONT HERO 2 :35 



Black with white heels, a little white in face, 16 hands, 1150 pounds; 

 foaled 1840; bred by William Rockwood, Bridport, Vt. ; got by Sherman 

 Black Hawk : dam a large bay, said to be bred by William Rockwood, and 

 got by Smith's Young Hamiltonian, son of Bishop's Hamiltonian ; and 26. 

 dam by Smith's Liberty. (Another statement is that the dam was by Smith's 

 Liberty. She was of about the same age and quality as the dam of Sherman 

 Black Hawk.) Sold to Darius S. Myrick, Bridport, Vt. ; A. C. Fisk, Cold- 

 water, Mich., 1854; Goss & Wakeman, Centerville, Mich.; Joseph B. Cor- 

 nell, Kalamazoo, Mich., about 1864; to some one in Iowa, about 1873, where 

 he died the next year. 



