DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 417 



N. Y., writes: "He was as good a horse for his inches as ever lived, 

 and a very handsome horse. After serving from no to 150 mares each 

 season, he would win all the free-for-all purses offered in St. Lawrence and 

 Franklin, Lewis and Jefferson counties. Although his best record was 2 140 

 or 2 142, I have seen him go a mile on a slow half-mile track in 2 134. He 

 received a $50 silver medal for best show of stock at the New York 

 State fair at Watertown. He started against Ethan Allen and two others 

 at Watertown, N. Y., getting second money ; Ethan Allen trotting in 2 125^, 

 on a track four rods short, driven by J. \V. Holcomb, his breeder". Mr. 

 Joseph T. Fletcher writes us that Thomas Jefferson got no colts while his 

 father owned him. 



HUMBIRD 2:51 



Black ; foaled 1853 ; bred by William Wheeler, Canton, N. Y. ; got by 

 Tom Jefferson, son of Black Hawk : dam said to be by a son of Black Jack. 

 Owned by J. E. McAllister, Gouverneur, N. Y. 



Sire from Daughter : Elial G. 8, i p. 

 Dam ot Kitty Can(?) 2 130. 



BLACK HAWK (CHILDS', FLYING CLOUD) 

 Black with a few white hairs on flank, 151/2 hands, noo pounds; foaled 

 June, 1854; bred by Harlow Lawrence, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. ; got by 

 Thomas Jefferson, son of Black Hawk: dam black, about 1250 pounds, 

 said to be by a large, handsome bay horse, owned in northern New York, 

 grandson of Henry, by Sir Archy. Sold to Gardner Childs, Malone, N. Y., 

 i855 ; to g to Michigan, about 1870; afterwards taken to Massachusetts. 

 He was a very fine horse, could trot in 2 150, and left much good and some 

 fast stock. 



LOVELAND HORSE 



Said to be by Childs' Black Hawk, son of Thomas Jefferson, by Black 

 Hawk : dam Holmes mare, an extra road mare brought from Potsdam, N.Y., 

 by William J. Ayres, Duane, N. Y. ; and 2d dam Currier mare, traded for by 

 Mr. Currier in Essex Co., N. Y., when five, and called Morgan. Owned in 

 northern New York. 



WESCOTT HORSE 



Bay ; foaled 1880 ; bred by Rufus A. Wescott, Belmont, N. Y. ; got by 

 Loveland Horse, son of Child's Black Hawk : dam bred by Rufus A. Wescott, 

 got by Nimrod, son of Prince Albert, by Green Mountain Morgan ; 2d dam 

 bred by Daniel Wescott, Peru, N. Y., who claimed she was of Messenger 

 blood. Owned by J. B. Wescott, Chasm Falls, N. Y. 



