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county fair, 1856, entered by D. A.Bennett. Linsieysays: "He is a fine 

 horse; trotted repeatedly, when three,a half-mile in i 125 ". 



BLACK HAWK PLATO (LUCY'S BLACK HAWK) 

 Black, 15^4 hands, 1125 pounds; foaled May 4, 1859; bred by Henry 

 F. Hall, Bridport, Vt. ; got by Plato, son of Black Hawk : dam brown, bred 

 by Hiram H. Hall, Bridport, Vt., got by Black Hawk ; 2d dam bay, bred by 

 David Hill, Bridport, Vt., got by Sir Charles, son of Duroc. Sold, 1860, for 

 $300, to D. H. Lucy, Houlton, Me., and kept at Houlton many years. 

 Thompson, in "Maine-Bred Horses", says : "He is called by good judges 

 one of the finest stallions in the State". 



CROCKER HORSE 



Bay, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled about 1860; bred by George 

 Crocker, Randolph, Vt. ; got by Plato, son of Black Hawk. Owned by 

 Austin Leonard, Rochester, Vt., who sold to Samuel Leonard, Pomfret. A 

 fine horse ; stock excellent. 



BLACK FLYING CLOUD 



Black with white face and three white feet, 16 hands, 1200 pounds; 

 foaled 1851; bred by Solomon W. Jewett, Weybridge, Vt. ; got by Black 

 Hawk : dam Kate, black, foaled 1847, bred by Solomon W. Jewett, got by 

 Black Hawk ; 2d dam Poll, bright bay, white mark in face and two white 

 feet, noo pounds, foaled 1841, bred by Charles Howe, Bridport, Vt., and 

 purchased of him by Solomon Jewett in 1845, got by Sir Charles, son of 

 Duroc; 3d dam bay, about 15^ hands, said by Mr. Jewett to be by Smith's 

 Liberty. Taken to Medina, N. Y., and sold, 1855, by breeder to A. K. 

 Knapp, Rochester, Minn., and B. Granger, Hartford, Wis., who took him to 

 Watertown, W T is., and sold him, August, 1856, to Thomas Marshall, Oak 

 Grove, Wis., for $3000. He then passed to a company at Watertown and 

 died property of Ferry & Woodard, Watertown, Wis., March 6, 1875. A 

 very superior horse. 



Solomon W. Jewett writes : " While at Weybridge, Vt., I bred a Black 

 Hawk mare at three years of age to her sire with marked success. One of 

 her first, three-quarters Black Hawk, was early settled at Medina, N. Y., and 

 was afterwards removed to Whitewater, Wis. At four this horse, Black Fly- 

 ing Cloud, measured fully 16*^ hands, and weighed noo pounds. He was 

 the sire of many colts noted for speed and as fine roadsters. They sold at 

 prices ranging from $1000 to $3000 each. A sister to Black Flying Cloud, 

 weighing over 1000 pounds at four years of age, foaled a horse colt, seven- 

 eighths blood Black Hawk, which I sold to Charles P. Clarke of Boston. 

 The dam and colt were black in color, and were exhibited at the Ignited 

 States National Agricultural exhibition held in that city in 1855. The colt 

 was sold by the side of its dam, and under eight months of age, for $1400, 

 just before old Black Hawk died". 



The "Watertown (Wis.) Republican" of 1885, in speaking of the death 

 of Black Flying Cloud, says : " It made but little difference what he was bred 



