DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 517 



BLACK HAWK (DIMICK'S) 



Black with small star, 15^/3 hands, 1065 pounds; foaled 1851 ; bred by 

 Harrison Bacon, Barre, Mass. ; got by Black Hawk : dam Lady Jenkins, dam 

 of Pathfinder (Benedict's), which see. Sold to H. M. Dennis, DeKalb, 

 111,1857; to Myron H. Dimick, 1861. Died, 1862, on Snake River, in 

 crossing the plains. M. H. Dimick writes : " He was a very rangy and 

 stylish horse, carrying his head high ; a fine buggy horse, his colts fine and 

 large, many of them i^/4 to 16 hands ". 



IMPERIAL BLACK HAWK 



Black, 15^ hands, 1075 pounds ; foaled May 16, 1851 ; bred by Chas. 

 N. Hayward, Bridport, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam dark brown, very 

 heavy curly mane and tail, 15 hands, 950 pounds, heavy-limbed, short and 

 rapid-gaited, of great endurance and very ambitious, bought by Mr. Hay- 

 ward of Jacob Spaulding, Panton, Vt., who purchased her in eastern Vermont, 

 it is thought in Warren, called inbred Morgan. Sold to John A. Hemenway, 

 Suffield, Conn., whose property he died, September, 1863. Mr. Hemenway 

 writes : "Was never trained, but could show a 3 :oo gait any time". 



Sire : Hampshire Boy, I. 



HAMPSHIRE BOY 



Black, 15^ hands, 1060 pounds; foaled 1855 ; bred by J. A. Hemen- 

 way, Suffield, Conn. ; foaled the property of C. E. Veits, East Granby, Conn. ; 

 got by Imperial Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk : dam Topsy, bought on 

 Long Island, when a yearling, by Sherman or Robert Mooney, sold, when 

 two, to Chauncey E. Veits, and, when three, to Hemenway, who sold 

 back to Veits, said to be by Napoleon, son of Young Mambrino, by Chan- 

 cellor, son of Mambrino, by Messenger ; and 26. dam Milkmaid, that trotted 

 on Long Island, and was owned by David Bryant, owner of Lady Suffolk. 

 Owned by H. A. Langley, Northampton, Mass., who sold to H. H. Billings, 

 Springfield, Mass., where he was burned, 1872. Stylish and quite speedy. 



Races won, 20. Races /ost, 27. Total races, 47. 



BLACK HAWK HERO 



Black, one hind foot white, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled July 20, 

 1851 ; bred by Frederick Miner, Bridport, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam said 

 to be by Sherman Morgan ; and 2d dam a Mambrino mare. Sold to Thomas 

 Gould, Aurora, N. Y. ; to Barclay Thome ; to Seymour Dunning and others. 

 Kept in the counties of Cayuga, Seneca, Loraine, Ontario and perhaps else- 

 where and lived to be over 30. Received 3d premium at New York State 

 fair, 1855. 



