4i 8 THE MORGAN HORSE 



BLACK HAWK (BALDWIN'S) 



Black with star and white hind foot, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 

 1845 ; bred by Jonathan Baldwin, Bridport, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam 

 bay, bred by Thomas Baldwin, Coventry, Vt., got by J. R. Daggett Horse 

 (brought from Boston by Judge Wheelock, to Coventry, Vt., and said to be 

 a son of imported Shark) ; 2d dam black, bought of Dea. Mason, West- 

 minster, Vt., said to be by Southern Gray, a horse that Warren Spencer 

 brought from Boston. Kept two or three seasons at Chester, N. Y., by breed- 

 er ; afterward owned by Thomas Baldwin, Coventry, Vt., and Jesse Berry, 

 Barton Landing, Vt. Stood in Derby Line, Vt., in 1851-2. Died October, 

 1853. Good action and disposition. 



GARFIELD (SHERMAN HORSE) 



Bay, 15^ nan ds, 1000 pounds $ foaled 1848; bred by Judge Nathaniel 

 Garfield, Hague, N. Y., got by Baldwin Horse, son of Black Hawk : dam 

 chestnut, said to be by Burdick's Engineer, son of Engineer 2d. Sold to J. 

 W. Holcomb, Ticonderoga, N. Y., 1850; to Lucius Sherman and E. Prescott, 

 Canton, N. Y., 1852. 



MORGAN TIGER (DIKE'S) 



Foaled 1855 ; bred by S. J. Dike & Bro., De Peyster, N. Y. ; got by Car- 

 field, son of Baldwin's Black Hawk : dam bay, 15^ hands, 1250 pounds, bred 

 in Stockbridge, Vt., or vicinity, purchased when four by J. S. Dike of Henry 

 Lathrop, Pittsford, Vt., said to be by Green Mountain Morgan. S. J. Dike, 

 now of Crystal Lake, 111., became sole owner in 1858, and kept him till 1877, 

 then sent him to Wisconsin to be used in lumber woods. 



BLACK HAWK (FORD'S) 



Black with stripe in face and off hind foot white, 15^ hands, 1075 

 pounds; foaled July, 1849; bred by Jonathan Baldwin, Chester, N. Y. ; got 

 by Baldwin's Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk : dam black, thought to be of 

 Morgan and English blood. Sold, 1851, to Lewis Ford, Brownington, Vt., 

 who kept him in Orleans and Caledonia counties, Vt. Died 1878. Took 

 premiums at Vermont State fairs, 1853 and 1856. Could trot in 2 150. Dispo- 

 sition excellent. Stock good roadsters, largely black. 



Sire of 2d dam of Dictator 2 122%, winner of 36 races and fifty-race trotter. 



FARMER'S FAVORITE 



Black with star and white hind foot, 15^ hands, 1125 pounds; foaled 

 about 1852; bred in Vermont; said to be by Brownington Black Hawk 

 (probably Ford's Black Hawk) : dam said to be of Sherman Morgan 

 descent. Owned by W. S. Morton, Conway, N. H., and later by Charles 

 Holland, Limerick, Me. Of gentle disposition; said to have trotted in 2 135, 

 when six, and in 3 :oo when 29. Stock good. Died 1879. 



SLACK HORSE 



Chestnut, 15 hands, 950 pounds; foaled about 1850; said to be by 

 Baldwin's Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk. Taken from Brownington, Vt., 



