482 THE MORGAN HORSE 



ONDERDONK 



Roan, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1848; bred by Dr. Nekanah 

 Needham, Shoreham, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam (dam of Gold Hunter 

 and Orphan Boy, by Black Hawk), a small, compact gray mare ridden by 

 Dr. Needham, in his practice, said to be be by Doolittle's Post Boy, son of 

 Dinwiddie, by imported Diomed. Sold to David Hill, Bridport, Vt., and by 

 him, about 1853, and went to northern Ohio. He is advertised in "Ohio 

 Farmer", 1857, by Brown, Spencer & Co., to be kept in Geauga and Ashta- 

 bula counties, O. 



Sire of dam of Mink 2 129 % 



VERMONT TROTTER (THOMPSON'S BLACK HAWK) 

 Black, 15 hands, 1000 pounds ; said to be by Black Hawk. One Pardee, 

 it is said, 185-, went through Kinsman, O., with two stallions, brought from 

 Vermont ; stopped a short time and went on to Michigan, where one died ; 

 then brought the other, " Vermont Trotter ", back to Ohio and he became 

 the property of Philo Thompson, Brookfield, O. Isaac Meacham, Farmdale, 

 O., writes : " He was a fine roadster ; could trot with ease in 3 :oo. He was 

 one of the best stock horses in this country at that time. His stock had 

 great endurance ". 



Sire of Lady Trumbull, dam of Kinsman Boy 2 128% winner of 19 races and fifty-race trotter. 



BLACK HAWK (PADDOCK'S) 



Black roan ; bred by Dr. George S. Gale, Bridport, Vt. ; got by Black 

 Hawk : dam Lady Hickory, dam of Young Black Hawk 2d, which see. Sold, 

 when one year old, to George Paddock, Jefferson Co., N. Y. Taken to Mil- 

 waukee, Wis., 185-. Kept one season in Kenosha, Wis., by Walter Cook. 



Sire of the dam ot Pedro 2:25%. 



NAUGATUCK 2 : 48 



Brown with small stripe in face, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds; foaled May, 

 1849 ; bred by Charles B. Smith, Wolcottville, Conn. ; got by Black Hawk : 

 dam Lady Burton, bay, bred by Abram Burton, Chestnut Ridge, N. Y., got 

 by Burton's Mambrino Messenger, son of Mambrino,by imported Messenger ; 

 2d dam bay, bred by Abram Burton, got by Mambrino. Sold to L. W. 

 Hopson, South Kent, Conn., who sold, about 1857, to Messrs. T. Fanning & 

 Allen, agents for the Tennessee Live Stock Co., Nashville, Tenn. Kept at 

 Dover, N. Y, 1854. Died about 1859. Received ist premium at Con- 

 necticut State fair, 1856. Stock said to be excellent. 



CLARION (BLACK HAWK MESSENGER) 



Black with small star, 1 5 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled May 29,1855; 

 bred by Henry Straight, South Kent, Conn. ; got by Naugatuck, son of Black 

 Hawk : dam Lucy, dark bay, bred by Riley Peet, South Kent, Conn., got by 

 a two-year-old colt owned by H. A. Peck; 2d dam said to be by Dick, 

 pedigree unknown. Sold to H. Penfield, Portland, Conn., 1856; to F. W. 

 Russell, 1857 ; to Tennessee parties. Quite a fast trotter and received many 

 premiums. 



