506 THE MORGAN HORSE 



moved to Madison, Wis., in 1855, taking with him a very fine young Black 

 Hawk stallion, full brother to this horse. 



Sire of dam of Lysander Boy 2 :2O%, winner of 19 races. 



RED JACKET 



Dark chestnut, 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1850; bred by Elmer 

 Jones, Shoreham, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam dam of Prophet, by Black 

 Hawk, which see. Bought by Gustavus A. Austin, Orwell, Vt., who sold in 

 the autumn of 1856, for $4000, to a company in Lee Co., 111. Mr. Jones 

 says : " Very stylish and more like the Morgans than Prophet ". 



WILDAIR (PEASE HORSE) 



Black with star and three white feet; foaled 1850; bred by Lyman 

 Pease, Addison, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam a large, powerful iron-gray 

 mare, 15% hands, noo pounds, bought by Lyman Pease of Calvin 

 Smith, Vergennes,Vt., bred in Monkton, Vt., and said to be by Harris' Hamil- 

 tonian. Stood at Brandon, Vt., several seasons. Taken to Utica, O., 

 spring of 1856, by Lyman Pease Jr., and sold to J. M. McClelland of Utica, 

 three or four seasons later. Wildair became vicious before Mr. Pease sold 

 him. A correspondent writes : " He would have been very speedy but for a 

 defect in his front hoofs ; he was shell-hoofed, but as it was he trotted a two- 

 mile heat in Newark, O., in 5 105, in the fall of 1858. Some of his stock 

 proved speedy and nearly all of them good roadsters, some of them selling as 

 high as $1500 per pair ". Linsley says : " A large, fine horse ". 



BLACK PRINCE (ANNIS', YOUNG VERMONT) 

 Black with star and white hind feet, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 

 1853 ; bred by Horace Ellis, Salisbury, Vt. ; got by Wildair, son of Black 

 Hawk : dam black, 15 hands, 1000 pounds, well-proportioned and said to be 

 Morgan. Sold to Lewis Russell, Brandon, Vt., 1853; to Benjamin Annis, 

 same place, 1856; to H. Annis, Columbus, Wis., 1867, whose property he 

 died, October, 1879. 



BRYANT HORSE (BILLY, BLACK BOY) 



Brown, 1000 pounds, 15^ hands; foaled 1859 ; bred by H. T. Knott, 

 Brandon, Vt. ; foaled the property of J. H. Bryant, Bethel, Vt. ; got by 

 Young Vermont, son of Wildair, by Black Hawk : dam the dam of Green 

 Mountain Banner, which see. Sold to H. C. Sessions, East Middlebury, Vt. ; 

 to Alexander McBride of Pennsylvania, 1865, for $1000. Mr. H. C. Ses- 

 sions writes : " This horse was a trotter ; his dam was an old track mare 

 brought up from Boston and said to be Morgan. He got excellent stock". 



PRINCE ALBERT (JOHNSON SMITH HORSE, HAWLEY HORSE) 

 Bay, 14^2 hands, 950 pounds; foaled 1850; bred by Johnson Smith, 

 Clarenceville, P. Q. ; got by Black Hawk : dam bay, bred by Daniel Smith 

 (father of Johnson Smith), at Sheldon, Vt., got by Billy Root, son of Sher- 

 man Morgan ; 2d dam bred in Burlington, Vt., and said to be by Telescope. 

 Sold, about 1857, for $700, to N. E. Hawley, Noyan, P. Q., who took him to 



