Horses

Below is a list of the names and foaling or purchase dates (if known) of Thomas Jefferson's riding horses.


Horse Name	Foaled	Sold, Given Away, or Died
Allycroker^[1]	1758	unknown; last reference June 2, 1778^[2]
Gustavus^[3]	1763; purchased from Francis Willis ca. 1773^[4]	given away (date unknown)
Cucullin^[5]	1764	unknown
The General	1769; purchased from Alexander Spotswood in 1775
Crab	1771
Everallyn	purchased 1774
Alfred	1774
Caractacus	1775	unknown; last reference 1790^[6]
Ethelinda	1776
Silvertail	1773
Orra Moor	1778
Peggy Waffington	1778
Zanga	1778
Odin	1778
Polly Peachum	1778
Silveret	1780
Assaragoa	1779
Raleigh	1777
Tarquin	purchased 1790
Brimmer	purchased 1790
Remus & Romulus (carriage horses)	unknown
Matchless	purchased 1791
Fitzpartner	purchased 1799
Wildair	purchased 1801
Castor	unknown
Diomede	unknown
Bremo	spring 1806; purchased by Jefferson 1814
Wellington	purchased 1815
Tecumseh	purchased 1815
Peacemaker	purchased 1819
The Eagle	purchased 1820

- Compiled by Gaye Wilson, 2/99, based on Betts, Farm Book, 87-109

Further Sources

Campbell, Julie A. The Horse in Virginia: An Illustrated History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Harrison, Fairfax. Early American Turf Stock, 1730-1830. Richmond: Old Dominion Press, 1934. 3 vols. Volume One: Mares is available online.
Farm Book, 1774-1824, page 1, page 2, by Thomas Jefferson [electronic edition]. Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003.
Look for further sources in the Thomas Jefferson Portal.

^ "Ally Croker" was a famous eighteenth-century Irish folk song.
^ MB, 1:465. Transcription available at Founders Online.
^ Most likely not named by Jefferson.
^ MB, 1:333. Transcription available at Founders Online.
^ Cú Chulainn was a hero from Irish mythology, probably familiar to Jefferson from James Macpherson's Works of Ossian (1765).
^ Jefferson to Charles Lilburne Lewis, February 22, 1790, in PTJ, 16:192. Transcription available at Founders Online.

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