DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 509 



Brownsville, Penn., 1854, for $1500; to a company at West Liberty, 

 Va., about 1858. A superior horse, with fine action and considerable speed. 

 Received ist premium at Pennsylvania State fair, 1856. 



GEN SCOTT 2 : 47 



Sixteen hands, noo pounds; foaled 1854; bred by John D. Johnson, 

 Clarenceville, P. Q. ; got by Johnson's Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk : 

 dam chestnut, said to be by Garner Horse, son of Sir Walter, by Hickory, son 

 of imported Whip. Sold to Joseph Lowry, who, about 1862, took him to 

 Hartford, Conn. The next year taken to Boston, Mass., and is said to have 

 been sold to Gov. Sprague, Providence, R. I. Of fine style and action; 

 colts handsome and fast. 



BUCEPHALUS (OLD PETE) 



Black, 15 hands, 975 pounds; foaled 1850; bred by James Fletcher, 

 Bridport, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam black, pacer, bred by James Flet- 

 cher, pedigree unknown ; 2d dam bay, said to be Canadian. Passed to Ira 

 Fletcher; to John Gale, Merton, Wis., November, 1854, who kept him in 

 Waukesha and Milwaukee counties until spring of 1861, then took him to 

 California ; to Mr. Wissell, Sonoma Co., Cal. He trotted at Kalamazoo, 

 Mich., in 1859, in 2 156, with a four-year-old colt of his, and took the ist 

 premium of $150. Mr. Gale writes : "No horse ever came to Wisconsin 

 which got as many good horses for work or road as he did. " Died about 1884. 



Races won, 8. Races lost, 13. Total races, 21. 

 Second dam of Mabel F. 2:29%. 



TROTTING CHILDERS 2:33 



Black, 15*^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1850; bred by Lambert May- 

 nard, Boston, Mass. ; got by Black Hawk : dam Lady Forest, also known as 

 the Maynard mare, bay, 15^ hands, foaled about 1834, brought from New 

 Hampshire or Vermont, and said to be Morgan. Information of this dam is 

 from Col. Thornton, son-in-law of L. Maynard. C. L. Flint of the Massa- 

 chusetts Board of Agriculture says, in his fifth annual report, that Trotting 

 Childers possesses great beauty of form and style and grace of action. Adver- 

 tised by Lambert Maynard in " Spirit of the Times ", 1 858, to be kept at Bradford, 

 Mass. ; terms, $50. Received ist premium as roadster stallion at Massachu- 

 setts State fair, 1858, and was a very excellent horse. 



Races won, 7. Races lost, 6. Total races, 13. 



