DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 473 



in DuPage Co., 111. His best record in Wheaton was 2:48". Mr. Kelly 

 also says that the three horses that got the dams, Majesty, Magnum Bonum 

 and Kersaul (or Kasaul), were all called English turf horses. 



ELLIS ADDISON 



Chestnut, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 1864; bred by W. E. 

 Ellis, near Aurora, 111. ; got by Vermont Chief, son of Black Hawk : dam 

 bought at Burlington, la., and said to be by Vermonter, son of Black Hawk. 

 Taken to Montana, 1873, and is said to have been a fine horse. 



PRINCE CHARLES 



Black chestnut, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled July 4, 1848; bred by 

 Truman Bodfish, Sudbury, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam Butcher Girl, 

 brown with rat tail, 15^ hands, said to have been bought out of a butcher's 

 cart in Boston and to have trotted on Cambridge, Mass., track in 2 135. 

 Taken by breeder to North Ridgeville, O. Kept mainly at Henrietta, 

 O., also in Elyria, O., one or two seasons, and at Battle Creek, Mich., 

 two seasons. Died 1879. Of fine style, repeatedly taking ist premium at 

 fairs. 



Sire of second dam of Molly Middleton (?) 2:25)4. 



VERMONT HERO (CHAMBERLAIN'S) 



Bay, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1853; bred by a cousin of 

 James Foster and foaled property of James Foster, Sudbury, Vt. ; got by 

 Prince Charles, son of Black Hawk : dam Butcher Girl, dam of Prince Charles, 

 which see. Sold, 1857, to W. H. Chamberlain, Whiting, Vt., who sold, about 

 1860, to a company in Clyde, O. He made seasons in southern Michi- 

 gan, northern Ohio and central Indiana, and was quite a fast trotter. 



OTHELLO (BLACK PRINCE) 



Black, i $% hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 184-; bred by Truman S. 

 Warner, Addison, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam said to be by Young 

 Hamiltonian (Pone), son of Bishop's Hamiltonian ; and 2d dam by Gifford 

 Morgan. Sold to Messrs. Rider and Myrick, Bridport, Vt. ; to A. C. Fisk, 

 Coldwater, Mich., 1853; about 1856, to M. Muers, Laporte, Ind., whose 

 property he died about 1870. He resembled his sire, and could trot in about 

 2 142. Stock very good and quite fast. Awarded ist premium in his 

 class at the Vermont State fair, 1853 ; also ist premium at Michigan State 

 fair, 1856, and ist premium same year at Branch county fair, Mich. 



Sire of second dams of Jessie B. 2:24%, Knight 2:29%, Peter K. 2:29%. 



* VERMONT BOY (JOHNSON'S) 



Chestnut, 15^2 hands, 1050 pounds; foaled 1848; bred by Dr. Gale, 

 Bridport, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk. Sold, a weanling, to Austin Johnson, 

 Middlebury, Vt., who sold him about 1853. 



NERO 

 Black with stripe in face and white hind feet, 15 hands, 1050 pounds; 



