DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 



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he added more to the wealth of Des Moines and Lee counties, la., than any 

 other horse ever brought to this part of the State". 



Sire of dams of Charley Boy (Logan Boy) 2 :25%, Logan Chief 2 :23%. 



BLACK BANNER (BILL, MILLER'S CORNERS BLACK HAWK) 



Black with small star, 16 hands, noo pounds; foaled 1849; bred by 

 Gardner Harrington, Sudbury, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam a low, chunked, 

 Morgan-built black mare, about 950 pounds, bred by Otis Walker, W T hiting, 

 Vt., got by a large, tall, stylish black colt that died when four, owned by 

 David Leighton, Sudbury, Vt., son of Cock of the Rock, by Duroc ; 2d dam 

 brown, bred by Otis 'Walker, Whiting, Vt., got by Brutus (Austin's), which 

 see; 3d dam gray, about 1000 pounds. Taken, about 1854, to Batavia, N. 

 Y. ; was returned, about 1858, and sold to Dr. D. W. Prime and Geo. Allen, 

 Brandon, Vt., who had him one season at Brandon, and the next he died. He 

 was very handsome and pure-gaited, with a great deal of courage, but of a 

 gentle disposition. Could trot in 2 135. He took ist premium at Vermont 

 State fair, Montpelier, 1853. 



Sire: Gray Messenger, i. 



GREEN MOUNTAIN BANNER 



Brown with star, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; bred by Lewis Barlow 

 Brandon, Vt., foaled the property of Harrison Knott, Pittsford, Vt. ; got 

 by Black Banner, son of Black Hawk : dam dark dapple bay, 15 % hands, half 

 docked, and acted like an old trotter, could speed in 2 150, a chunked mare, 

 built on Morgan type, with head of unusual beauty, and wide between eyes, 

 that was brought to Brandon, Vt., by two pedlers from Massachusetts, who 

 claimed they got her on Long Island ; claim not reliable ; pedigree unknown. 

 About this mare Hiram S. Buttles of'Brandon,Vt., writes : " In reply to your 

 inquiry about those pedlers of long ago one of them a relative of mine, 

 Wallace Buttles, has been dead twenty years or more ; the other one, a Mr. 

 Sargent, I never knew the address of. I think they swapped for the mare 

 you speak of on the road somewhere, and don't believe they knew much 

 about her pedigree ". 



The above description of the mare was furnished by Edward D. Hinds 

 of Brandon, Vt., who owned Queen of Vermont, one of her foals, from 

 which he bred the stallion Redpath by Gen. Sherman, and Star Ethan, Echo, 

 Brandon Boy and a stallion owned by H. C. Nevins of Methuen, Mass., all 

 by Daniel Lambert. Green Mountain Banner was sold to H. Bryant of 

 Bethel, Vt., about 1 86 1 ; to L. B. Bird, Stockbridge, Vt., 1863; to Potter 

 Wescott, Fair Haven, Vt., some years later. Died spring, 1874. While 

 owned by Mr. Bird he' was kept in Rochester, Pittsfield, Brandon, Sudbury, 

 Hubbardton and Pittsford, Vt. 



Dam of Huld B. 2 -. 



