DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 411 



TICONDEROGA (FELTON'S BLACK HAWK) 

 Black, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds; foaled June, 1845 ; bred by Benjamin 

 Breed, Crown Point, N. Y. ; got by Black Hawk : dam (dam of Ti Boy), a 

 square, blocky mare, 15^ hands, 1050 to noo pounds, foaled about 1838, 

 bred by Allen Breed, Jr., got by Coburn Horse (old Pomp), a brown, cordy, 

 smart horse, about 15 hands, bred by Mr. Breed, Sr., and got by Doolittle's Post 

 Boy, son of Dinwiddie, by imported Diomed ; 2d dam brought from east side 

 of the Green Mountains, called a Morgan. Sold, 1847, f r $200, to B. Myrick, 

 who sold, fall of 1848, for $1100, to Franklin Felton, Orwell, Vt. Kept fall 

 of 1851 to 1857 by Mr. Felton at Baltimore, Md. ; thence taken to Louis- 

 ville, Ky. ; he became suddenly ill and died during the Kentucky State fair, at 

 Lexington. A horse of extraordinary beauty, and was probably the hand- 

 somest son of Black Hawk. Ticonderoga could trot in 2 140. His owner is 

 said to have refused $8000 for him a few days before his death. He was 

 awarded ist premium at the United States Agricultural Society fair. 



Sires from Daughters : Frank Pierce 3d, i ; Morgan Black Hawk, i. 

 Sire of dam of Mary B. 2 129. 



YOUNG TICONDEROGA (MICHELJOHN HORSE) 

 Foaled 1851; bred by William Micheljohn, Putnam, N. Y. ; got by 

 Ticonderoga, son of Black Hawk : dam said to be by Roger Horse. Taken, 

 1857, to Fond du Lac, Wis. Known at fairs in Wisconsin as the "big 

 horse", and won many races. Said to have been poisoned in Milwaukee, 

 just before a race, from the effects of which he died a year or two after. 



BLACK PRINCE 



Black ,15^ hands, 1030 pounds ; foaled May 20, 1852 ; bred by Shel- 

 don Doane, Benson, Vt. ; got by Ticonderoga, son of Black Hawk : dam Tel- 

 graph, brown, 1130 pounds, bred by Sheldon Doane, got by a chestnut Mor- 

 gan stallion, that also got the 2ddam of Tom Howard. Sold, 1854, for $500, 

 to F. and S. G. Felton, Germantown, Md. Took ist premium at Addison 

 Co. (Vt.) fair, 1854, and 2d at the Bourbon Co. fair, Paris, Ky., 1857. Ad- 

 vertised in Kentucky, 1860, by J. L. Keyes. 



Races won, n. Races lost, 41. Total races, 52. 



Second dam of August Haverstick 2 129%, Bay Baron 2 -.24 y 2 , Edgar Wilkes 2 :24%, Wilkie 

 Russell 2:16%. 



GEN GRANT (WILLIAMS') 



Black with white hind foot, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 1855; 

 bred by William A. Williams, Sudbury, Vt. ; got by Ticonderoga, son of 

 Black Hawk. Taken South just before the war, and brought back to Sud- 

 bury, Vt., in 1863. Died before 1867. S. Y. Felton, Sudbury, Vt., writes : 



