DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 421 



MORGAN BLACK HAWK (PEABODY'S) 



Chestnut, 15^ hands, 1150 pounds; said to be by Crown Point Black 

 Hawk, son of Black Hawk : and dam bright bay, by Green Mountain 

 Morgan. Advertised, 1858, by Putnam D. Peabody, Andover, Vt., to be 

 kept at Pittsford and Sudbury, Vt. He took ist premium at the Windsor 

 county fair, Woodstock, Vt., 1856. 



OAKLAND BLACK HAWK (NEWTON HORSE) 

 Black with stripe in face, little white on legs, 153^ hands, noo pounds; 

 foaled about 1850; bred by Foster Breed, Ticonderoga, N. Y., or a man in 

 his employ ; got by Crown Point Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk : dam said 

 to be by Post Boy, son of Dinwiddie, by imported Diomed. Taken to Mich- 

 igan, when four, by T. H. Goodhue. Kept about Pontiac, Mich., by Harris 

 Newton, and died, about 1880, while owned by Mr. Hewitt, at Hadley, Mich. 

 He was a horse of great beauty, style and action, with plenty of bone and 

 muscle, and got many good horses. 



BRIGHAM YOUNG 



Bay with small star, 15^ hands, about 1200 pounds ; foaled 1861 ; bred 

 in Michigan and foaled near London, Ont. ; said to be by Crown Point Black 

 Hawk, son of Black Hawk : dam brown, bred by A. Bathgate, New York, 

 got by Toronto Chief, son of Royal George. Owned by Silas Hurd, Odin, 111., 

 for many years. Mr. Hurd writes that he campaigned him through Illinois in 

 1884-85, and he won the first heat in a race at Hoopston, 111., over a half- 

 mile track, when 23 years old, in 2 136. Died June, 1886. 



CHESTNUT BURR 



Golden chestnut with star, 15^ hands, 1040 pounds; foaled May 10, 

 1882 ; bred by John M. Green, Salem, 111. ; got by Brigham Young, son of 

 Crown Point Black Hawk : dam Molly Golddust, chestnut, bred by James 

 Teats, Kentucky, got by Glencoe Golddust, son of Golddust ; 2d dam bay, 

 bred by James Teats, said to be thoroughbred. Sold, Dec. 20, 1887, to J. 

 C. and W. G. Henry, Assumption, 111. 



CHURCHILL HORSE 



Dapple bay or brown, 15^ hands, 1055 pounds; foaled 1845 ; bred by 

 Mr. Nichols, Sudbury, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam Dolly Nichols, bay, 

 15^ hands, a great road mare, bought by Mr. Nichols east of the Green 

 Mountains, said to be by Gifford Morgan. Sold to Mr. Wetmore, Chitten- 

 den, Vt., 1848; Azam Churchill, Chittenden, 1851 ; J. M. Furman of same 

 place, 1867 ; Robinson Cox, Royalton, Vt., 1869 ; then to a party at Mont- 

 pelier, Vt. An excellent horse. 



PITTSFIELD BLACK HAW T K (GEN UTLEY) 2:39 

 Dapple bay, 15^ hands, 950 pounds; foaled 1850; bred by Otis Man- 

 ley, Chittenden, Vt. ; got by Churchill Horse, son of Black Hawk. Sold to 

 Mr. Keeler, Brandon, Vt., 1850; Hiram Churchill, Chittenden, Vt., 1851, 



