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THE MORGAN HORSE 



HERO (KILBURN'S, KILBURN'S BILLY, KILBURN HORSE, 



KELLEY HORSE, KILBURN'S MORGAN BLACK HAWK) 



Dark chestnut with small snip and white hind feet, 15^ hands, about 



950 pounds; foaled about 1848; bred by Herod Morgan, Clarendon, Vt. ; 



got by Black Hawk : dam brown, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds, that E. Kelley 



says came from east of the mountains in Vermont, was owned a number of 



years by Mr. Morgan, and called by him a Morgan. Sold, a weanling, to E. 



Kelley, Clarendon, Vt. ; same year to Jonathan Kelley, Rutland, Vt. ; when 



about five to Edson Kilburn, Whitehall, N. Y. It is thought that several 



years later he went West. A very fine made horse and could trot in 2:50. 



BLACK HAWK VERMONT 



Black with white hind foot, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds; foaled about 

 1850; bred by Mr. Kelley, Rutland, Vt. ; got by Kilburn's Hero, son of 

 Black Hawk : dam sorrel. Sold, 1852, to Charles G. Felton, Orwell, Vt., and 

 about 1858 taken by him, with Telegraph Black Hawk, to Syracuse, N. Y. 

 Mr. Felton kept him in that vicinity several years, trotting him occasionally ; 

 then sold him to John Read, New Hope, N. Y., who sold to John Cartwright, 

 Moravia, N. Y., and he to some person in Newfield, N. Y., where the horse 

 died. S. Y. Felton, Orwell, Vt., writes: "He was a very stylish horse, of 

 good build, with good limbs and feet, heavy mane and tail, with the genuine 

 Black Hawk head and neck, carried well up at all times whether in or out of 

 harness". He took several premiums as the best broken and best harness 

 horse. William S. Parker writes : " He was a great little horse, always ready 

 to trot in 2 140 or better. His record is 2 136 at Ithaca, N. Y., in a race. I 

 was the starting judge at the races of that meeting". 



Sire of Mary Weaver, dam of Don (Temple O'Harris) 2 -.22%, and Robin 2 :^4%. 



Second dam of Glen Mary 2 :2$y 2 . 



BLACK WARRIOR 



Black with star and snip, about 15^ hands, noo pounds ; foaled about 

 1851; bred by David Beckwith, Whitehall, N. Y. ; got by Kilburn's Hero, 

 son of Black Hawk : dam mouse color, large, bought in Troy, N. Y., bv 

 Andrew Gibbs, Benson, Vt., who sold to Alex. Sleight, Dresden, N. Y., and 

 he to David Beckwith, said to have come from Pennsylvania. Sold, 

 when two, to E. S. Kilburn, Whitehall ; when five, to Mr. Randle, for $1600 ; 

 to unknown parties, for $2200 ; to Wm. Wait, Whitehall, for $3000, who kept 

 him there, and two years in Sidney, O., in charge of Kilburn & Son to 

 Robert McCrea, Champlain, N. Y. ; when 18, to Mr. Kilburn, Sidney, O., for 

 $1000; when 22, to David Taylor, Sidney, whose property he died, 1878. A 

 handsome and excellent horse with best of feet and legs and kind dis- 

 position. 



Sire of dam of White Oak 2 130. 



