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either in pulling or for speed, and at a dead pull at a log he 

 never in his day found a match." 



Continuing, the same historian says : " Sherman was a hard 

 master, and it is said used his team very roughly at times, and 

 always worked this horse very hard from four years old until 

 he was ten, when he sold him to Stephen C. Gibbs of Littleton, 

 1ST. H." But the Yermonters, after having seen his stock devel- 

 oped, could not afford to let New Hampshire retain him, and 

 he was brought back to Vermont ; and when the New Hamp- 

 shire people saw his stock somewhat developed, they outbid the 

 Vermonters and got him back there again, and in 1831 he made 

 the season in Charlestown, Mass., and was, perhaps, the most 

 popular stallion in New England, if not the United States, of 

 that time. 



He finally died in Lancaster, N. IL, in 1855, at the age of 

 twenty-six and one-half years, as sound as he was on the day 

 he was foaled, and the cause of his death is to this day un- 

 known, as he was left at ten o'clock in the morning, apparently 

 perfectly well, and at one o'clock in the afternoon was found 

 dead. 



The most noted son of Sherman Morgan was Black Hawk, 

 later known as Hill's Vermont Black Hawk, and recorded in 

 the " Trotting Register " Black Hawk (5). This horse was 

 sired by Sherman Morgan when he was twenty-four years old, 

 and was foaled the property of "Wmgate Trombley of Durham 

 (now Greenland), N. H, in 1833. 



His dam was a half thoroughbred — perhaps more — black 

 mare from New Brunswick, and not a Narragansett Pacer as 

 erroneously claimed by "Wallace. He, evidently, got the dam 

 of this horse mixed up with the dam of his sire. 



This Vermont Black Hawk was the founder of the Black 

 Hawk branch of the Morgan family. He was said to be the 

 handsomest horse of his daj r , and the most stylish carriage 

 horse. Black Hawk was a coal black in color, about fifteen 

 hands high, and weighed 950 to 1,000 pounds. He was used as 



a gentleman's roadster and family carriage horse until eleven 



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