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Page from Jefferson''s Farm Book showing Caractacus''s lineage

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

References

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