20 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
GEN. KNOX, 140. 
In publishing the history of Gen. Knox, we find that his 
life has been so much a matter of record, and so many 
_ writers have preceded us, that our duty is little more than 
to compile and arrange the data at hand. In August, 1870, 
Col. Lang, who then owned the horse, in reply to repeat- 
ed calls for information concerning him, published a his- 
tory of the horse, while owned by him, in the Maine 
Farmer. From this article we extract the following, 
which may be relied upon as a truthful statement of his 
career while owned in Maine: , 
“JT purchased Gen. Knox of Messrs. Denny & Bush, 
whose breeding establishment was near the east shore of 
Lake Champlain, in the town of Shoreham, Vt. The pur- 
chase was made in January, 1859. Knox was then three 
years old, and was called Slasher by his owners; he was 
dropped, as I was informed, in Ticonderoga, New York. 
At the same time, I purchased and brought to Maine the 
stallion Son of Ethan, by Ethan Allen, and Bucephalus, 
by old Black Hawk,—dam of Bucephalus, the celebrated 
mare Mary Taylor, she by Boliver, a thoroughbred horse 
—Mary Taylor’s dam by Abdallah. I mention Bucepha- 
lus’ pedigree thus, as it may interest some breeders in 
Penobscot County. A few days after the purchase of Gen. 
Knox, I purchased the stallion Black Hawk Telegraph, of 
W.G. Baldwin, of Ticonderoga, N. Y., at the same time 
the stallion Grey Fox, by Ethan Allen, and the well bred 
mare Priscilla. Black Hawk Telegraph, after serving in 
the stud two seasons at Vassalboro’, was sold with Grey 
