EARLIEST HORSE IMPORTS TO THE COLONIES

As we begin the exciting and fascinating story of American horse breeding, I invite you to imagine traveling back in time. You learned in school about the Pilgrims who came to Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts in 1620, and the still earlier English colonists who established Jamestown in Virginia in 1607. You can picture their ships: broad-beamed, three-masted wooden brigs with high-kicked poop and pointed prow---like the Mayflower or the Susan Constant. On board are bearded men in leather breeches, their broad boot tops turned down like buccaneers. Above a quilted doublet-style vest they sport a stiff, ruffed collar; on their heads they wear tall-crowned “pilgrim hats” or steel morions styled in the Spanish manner. For weapons they carry rapiers or sabers; some bear heavy blunderbusses, ball shot, black powder and fuses. Women wear heavy (1), (4), (2), (3), LAW OF DISPERSAL CAROLINA MARSH TACKY SABLE ISLAND PONY