DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 405 



MURRAY HORSE (YANKEE BILL) 



Black, 15 hands, 950 pounds ; foaled about 1843 ; sa id to be by Black 

 Hawk. Purchased when about five in Lowell, Mass., by Albert Murray, who. 

 took him to Brookfield, and afterwards to Waitsfield and Stowe, Vt., and sold 

 to Howard & Cheadle, who took him to near Watertown, N. Y. ; afterwards 

 sold to Cornelius Russell, Randolph, Vt., who took him to Wisconsin, and 

 sold, but bought back and had him later at Chicago, 111. He was a ruggedly 

 made horse and quite fast for his day. 



COTTRILL MORGAN (PECK HORSE) 



Black. 16 hands, 1050 pounds; foaled 1845 ; bred by Lucius B. Peck, 

 Montpelier, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam, 1 5 3^ hands, a noted mare, 

 brought from Nova Scotia, and said to be English. Sold, 1854, to S. B. 

 Hayes, who sold him, about 1869, to Gen. Kelly, Clarksburg, West Va., where 

 he died about 1875. Received 2d premium at Vermont State fair, 1853; 

 also (under name of Black Hawk Morgan) ist premium at Pennsylvania 

 State fair, 1856; and, 1859, ist at Michigan State fair. Mr. Tabor of 

 Montpelier, Vt., says : "I had him in 1848. He had fine head and ear, 

 beautiful long neck and clean limbs, beautiful wavy tail, carried well ". He 

 left some very fine stock in Vermont. C. F. Martin, Onedia, West Va., writes : 

 " He made one season in the vicinity of Clarksburgh, and all of his get have 

 proven themselves remarkably fine horses ; those from large mares are large, 

 but retain the dark color and beauty of their sire. He could trot in 2 140 ". 



Races won, 3. Races lost, 6. Total races, 9. 

 Sires : Belle Morgan, i ; Swanbrough's Creeper, i. 



Annie, dam of Egmont 2 :2i l / 2 , and Westmoitt 2:13% (with running mate 2 :oi%), fastest mile 

 ever paced. 



Second dam of Northwest 2 :i6. 



BLACK HAWK (COBURN'S, COBURN HORSE) 

 Black, 16 hands, 1200 pounds; foaled about 1849; bred by Frank 

 Coburn, Cabot, Vt. ; got by Peck Horse, son of Black Hawk : dam black, 

 bred by Frank Coburn, got by Morgan Eagle Jr., son of Morgan Eagle ; 2d dam 

 dark bay, bred by H. and E. F. Coburn, Cabot, Vt., said to be an inbred 

 Sherman Morgan. Sold to a Mr. Sherman and taken West. Very gentle, 

 speedy and stylish. 



Sire of 2d dam of Lucy P. 2 127^. 



MORGAN GIANT 



Brown or dark bay, 16 hands, 1200 pounds; foaled 1857; bred by 

 George A. Bill, Albany, Vt. ; got by Coburn Horse, son of Peck Horse : dam 

 black, 15^ hands, noo pounds, purchased, 1855, by Mr. Bill of Charles 

 Howard, Derby, Vt., said to be by Manchester Black Hawk, son of Black 



