Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-02-23

said TO have been imported. She
was of good size, and fine appear
ancc Of a chestnut color {; elegant
in action, and speedy tro,ter. His
| Sherman Morgan'sl sire was the
Goss for Juslinl Morgan, brought TO
Randolph, VT, 10y Col. Morgan"
The mistake Of Mr.. Bellows in re-
gard to the christian name Of Mr..
Twombly, was corrected 10y bun IN
other letters, as will be seen. 1t wus,
however, inadvertently copied IN one
or two printed notices of Black hawk.
The above extract might be regarded
as amply sufficient, so far as the tes-
timony Of Mr.. Bellows is required,
but to show that his statements have
been entirely consistent on this point,
whatever NAV have been ln,ltnaied
to the conirary,-we give ~ inIl
letter of his 10 another person, writ.
ten more than two years after the a
bOve
LANCASTER, n. H., Aug. ID, 80.
"DEAR SIu being absent on
the arrival Of your letter, | now re-
ply to your inquiry relative TO the
Justly celebrated horse Black Hawk
formerly owned by Benjamin Thurs
ton, Of Lowell Mass, aud raised by
f. Twombly, late Of Greenland. N.
II. Said horse is, without doubt, n
son of odd Sherman Morgan, -
whatever may be said 10 the contra
~ by persons prcjudced against the
horse or his owner, or from envablc
hostility to the ineslimable breed Of
Morgans | state, and can prone,
that the horse called aud known as
old Sherman Morgan, covered the
mare which produced Black Hawk
about eleven months previous TO his
being foalcd, and do not believe A.
ny other horse covered her the sea-
son he was bcgotlcn and when
Black Hawk was nine days old, Nor
gan Cock-of-lhe Rock covered the
dam, and she produced a foal the
next year by said horse. | received
s 3 for service OF Old Sherman, for
service rendered in 1892, AMI $40
for service Of Rock in 1888, as
appears by my books Of those years.
Distinguished animals, like dis
tinguished men, have their calumuia-
tors, and the story to which you al
ludc is false, and originated from ma
hgnant hostility, rather than good will
to the breeders OF horses.
" Very respectfully,
JOHN BELLOWS"
The story which Mr.. Bellows thus
pronounces " false" was that which
represents " Paddy" as the sire Of
Black Hawk.
Mr.. Thurston, III connection with
another person, bought Black Hawk
of A. Il. Malhes. This gave Use to
the erroneous idea which found lis
way into print, that Mr.. Malhes, Tor
Matthews, as the name was prlnted)
was the breeder Of the horse. We
learned in personal interview with
Mr.. Malhcs (now of this city,) that
he purchased Black Hawk of a
nephew Of Ezekiel Twombly--lhe
latter having died shortly previous.
He states that he bought hun as n
" Sherman MORGAN colt" and heard
nothing TO the contrary till long az
forwards. He stated, llso, that Ben
lamin Kelly, of Durham, N. H.,
ow ned the dam Of blackhawk at the
time he was bcgollon, and that Mr..
Kelly sold her to Mr.. Twombly after
she was got in loal 10y Sherman Nor
gan--Mr X. being obligated to pay
for the service of the horse. At our
solicitation Mr. Malhes wrote to Mr..
Kelly on the subject, and received "A
reply, dated December "a, 1854,
from which we take the following:
In the spring Of 1892, Mir Bel
lows came TO my house with the old
Sherman Morgan, aud stopped there
one day aud night IN each week
from May 9Th to July 3lst. Whilst
at my stable, the old Morgan was put
to the black mare, The mother of
Black Hawk. A few weeks before
she foaled, sold the mare to Ezeki-
cl 'Twombly, OF Durham. The colt
you bought, and sold to Brown q
rhurston. Mr. Bellows called ON
me Tor the pay for the service Of the
horse. In 1888, July Doth, | paid
hin S5, and took his receipt for the
use of said horse; the same charg-
ed to Mr.. Twombly, for when let
him have the mare he agreed to pay
for the use of the hor c. am cer-
tain that no other horse was put to
the mare while | had her."
The foregoing documents need no
explanation or comment. Their ex-
plicltness leaves not Il loop on which
10 hang a doub: respecting The sire
of Black Hawk. The general spread
of his progeny over the country, aud
the high estimation in which il is eY-
rywhere held, is sufficient excuse,
IN connection with the circumstances
before spoken of, for deyoting the
space we have to this subject.
We saw Black Hawk few weeks
since, at the stable of his owner, Da-
yid Hill, Esq, 3ridporl,Vt. The old
horse is in good health, and scarce
ly touched by the frost of age. The
charge for his service is fixed at SI0O
mare for the season, aud Mr.. Hill
informed us that about thirty mares