Grey, Dorothea Jacqueline Benedicta; Lady Dorothea; Dottie—Lord John’s niece; William Ransom’s cousin; youngest child (born 1758) and only daughter of Hal and Minnie. As a young woman she travels to America in search of her beloved, a young Quaker doctor serving with the Continental army. In the course of events, she serves with the army, helping both her fiancé, Denzell Hunter, and later Claire, at the Battle of Monmouth. Eventually, she marries Denzell. Hearing that her brother Benjamin is dead, though, she sets out with her uncle, Lord John, in search of Benjamin’s theoretical wife, but is obliged to go back to Denzell when she realizes she is pregnant. [HS, SP, Echo, MOBY]
Grey, Gerard; Gerry—The Duke of Pardloe (deceased), Benedicta’s second husband, father of Harold and John. He died under suspicious circumstances while accused of treason, so his sons embark on a mission to restore honor to their father’s name. [BL, CA]
Grey, Harold; Hal (aka the Duke of Pardloe)—Formerly Lord Melton, upon his father’s death Hal inherits the ducal title but refuses to use it, owing to the stain left on the family honor by the circumstances of his father’s death. He is John Grey’s older brother; a colonel and commander of his own infantry regiment, which takes part in the American Revolution. Hal leaves his regiment temporarily to visit his son and brother in Philadelphia, where he meets Claire, who saves his life during an asthma attack and then kidnaps him. [PM, BL, HS, CA, SP, PZ, Echo, MOBY]
Grey, Henry—Hal’s youngest son (born 1755) and Lord John’s nephew. Severely wounded during a battle in America, he’s near death but is saved by Claire, who uses ether to perform a risky operation on him. As he recovers, he falls in love with the free black woman who has been caring for him, Mercy Woodcock. [Echo, MOBY]
Grey, Lord John—(aka “William Grey” in Dragonfly) Younger brother of Harold, Duke of Pardloe, retired (theoretically) from his brother’s regiment. In the wake of the discovery of Jamie Fraser’s death at sea, he marries Claire in order to save her from being arrested as a spy. Both devastated and grieving Jamie, John and Claire share a very drunken evening—and a bed, despite John’s being homosexual. This incident causes some friction when Jamie turns out not to be dead, after all. However, Claire is not the only bond between the two men; there’s William, Jamie’s illegitimate son (by Geneva Dunsany) and Lord John’s stepson (by Isobel Dunsany). Whatever Jamie’s feelings about Lord John, he’s obliged to suppress them when William’s welfare is at stake. [Breath, Echo, MOBY]
Grey, Minnie; Minerva Wattiswade—Hal’s devoted wife, the Duchess of Pardloe (formerly Lady Melton), and the mother of Benjamin, Adam, Henry, and Dottie. Previously was a Jacobite spy, which is known only by her husband and a few others.[PM, BL, CA, SP, Echo]
Grey, Trevor Wattiswade—Benjamin Grey’s alleged son by Amaranthus Cowden. [MOBY]
x Gridley, Captain Richard—(1710–1796) An engineer in the company of Colonel Prescott, charged with building a redoubt fortification at Breed’s Hill shortly before the battles of Breed Hill and Bunker Hill. [Ashes]
Grieves, Mr.—The factor, or foreman, for the Dunsany’s estate, Helwater. [SP]
x Grimes/Graham, James—(unknown) One of the Regulators identified by Waightstill Avery in his deposition before Justice William Harris. [Fiery Cross]
Griswold, Captain—One of General Howe’s senior staff members on Long Island, and the one who lent William a mount to lead his four companies in the invasion. [Echo]
Gruenwald, Ober-Leftenant—German soldier contracted to the British army. William befriends him on a foraging mission near Bennington with Hessian Colonel Baum, when they are ambushed by the Americans in what is known as the Battle of Bennington. [Echo]
Grume, Joe—An acquaintance of Germain’s, who (with his friend Shecky Loew) throws rocks and dirt clods at the Duke of Pardloe’s sedan chair, until Germain threatens them. [MOBY]
Guinea Dick—Crewman of the Pitt who was “involuntarily drafted” from a Guinea pirate ship and becomes Captain Stebbings’s fierce protector; his appearance is frightening, as his teeth are filed into points and he has elaborate facial tattoos on his black skin. Although he assures Ian and company he is not a cannibal, there’s no guarantee he’s harmless. [Echo]
Gunn, Ephraim—An Edinburgh lawyer; brother of William Buccleigh MacKenzie’s wife, Morag Gunn. [Echo]
Gussie—One of Jocasta Cameron’s house slaves, present at the death of Betty the slave. She asks permission from Claire to tell Phaedre of Betty’s death, since Betty was Phaedre’s mother. [Fiery Cross]
Gustav—The good-natured short-legged hound von Namtzen has bred. Gentle but fierce in battle, Gustav follows badgers into their burrows and eliminates the varmints (named in memory of my own late Gus). [BL]
Guthrie, Captain Bob—One of the captains under Jamie’s command at Monmouth. [MOBY]
Guthrie, Mr.—Thurlo Guthrie’s elderly father, who produces a set of small uilleann pipes for the Hogmanay celebration at the Big House. [Fiery Cross]
Guthrie, Thurlo—One of the residents of Fraser’s Ridge, who helps celebrate Hogmanay at the Big House by having his elderly father play his small pipes. [Fiery Cross]
Gwilty, Mr.—A small, wizened man accompanying Mrs. Gwilty—who was either his wife or daughter-in-law—to Roger’s first sermon on the Ridge. [Ashes]
Gwilty, Mrs.—The official “mourning woman” for Scottish funerals on Fraser’s Ridge; her duty is to walk behind the coffin wailing (keening) her mourning song, which she does at the funeral for Hiram Crombie’s mother-in-law. [Ashes]
Gwilty, Olanna—Mrs. Gwilty’s niece, whom she is training to be the next generation’s mourning or keening woman. Olanna is admonished for not wailing loud enough but keeps on trying. [Ashes]
Gwynne, Oliver—A London friend of Lord John’s, he is a natural philosopher and very interested in snakes, owning several different varieties, both harmless and venomous. [PZ]
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Hacffurthe, Mester—The Northumbrian man who found part of Jerry MacKenzie’s flight harness. [MOBY]
x Hale, Nathan, Captain—(1755–1776) Member of Knowlton’s Rangers who volunteered to gather British military intelligence for Washington; Hale was found with incriminating documents, out of uniform behind enemy lines, and arrested as a spy. Taken before General William Howe, he was sentenced to hanging; it is said he uttered the famous line, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” William witnesses the hanging. [Echo]
Hall, DeLancey—Owner of a fishing ketch and small-time smuggler in New Bern, who secures Jamie, Claire, and Ian passage to Scotland on the ship Tranquil Teal. [Echo]
Halloran, Bartholomew—The adjutant of Hal’s regiment and a close informant of Gerald Siverly; he has a membership at Almack’s, where Lord John and Hal meet him for an evening of cards and information. [SP]
x Hamilton, Ninian Bell—An elderly Scottish guest at River Run plantation, who jokes with Jamie over the possible causes for Duncan to be running frequently to the outhouse on the morning of his wedding to Jocasta Cameron; he gets into an altercation with James Hunter regarding the Regulators, but the fight is stopped by the Quaker Hermon Husband. [Fiery Cross]
x Hamilton, Thomas—(unknown) One of the Regulators identified by Waightstill Avery in his deposition before Justice William Harris. [Fiery Cross]
Hammond, Lieutenant—An officer who accompanied William through the open gates into the abandoned Fort Ticonderoga. He is amazed to find that the Continentals had not only not set fire to the fort but had left in such a hurry that much of their personal belongings remained behind, ready for the British army to utilize. [Echo]
x Hancock, John—(1737–1793) Merchant and millionaire, he gained prominence after his ship Liberty was seized and he was charged with smuggling by vengeful customs officials in Boston, who claimed that the duty on a cargo of wine was unpaid; the charges were dropped, but the incident set the stage for the Boston Massacre. One of the Founding Fathers and president of the Continental Congress in 1776, he was the first signer
of the Declaration of Independence. [Ashes]
Hanks—A stable-hand at Helwater; possibly a poor relation of the Dunsanys’ butler of the same name. [SP]
Hanks, Captain—An officer on Long Island who sends William’s detail in search of a smuggler’s cache of contraband. [Echo]
Hanley, Lord—One of the prominent members of the English Beefsteak gentlemen’s club; an associate of William Pitt and Trevelyan. [PM]
Hanlon, Seamus—The Irish fiddler with the music ensemble hired to play at Jocasta and Duncan’s wedding, he invites Roger to sing with them during the evening. [Fiery Cross]
Hanson, Captain—The unsuspecting captain of the naval ship Sunrise, he is unwittingly drawn into the scandal of the stolen copper when Stoughton takes refuge aboard his ship—with a letter of safe passage signed by a prominent admiral of the Royal Navy. [HS]
Hardman, Gabriel—Missing husband of Silvia Hardman. [MOBY]
Hardman, Prudence, Patience, and Chastity—Children of Silvia. [MOBY]
Hardman, Silvia—A Quaker widow who reluctantly hosts a meeting of George Washington’s generals before the Monmouth campaign. Jamie, who has been reluctantly compelled to attend the meeting by Dan Morgan, and even more reluctantly compelled to accept appointment as a field general by Washington himself, rises to leave the meeting only to find himself immobilized by a back spasm. He remains with Friend Silvia and her three young daughters for two days before recovering enough to make his way to Philadelphia and Claire. [MOBY]
Hardy—A footman at the Jermyn Street home of Benedicta Grey, Lord John’s mother. [PM]
Harkness, Captain—A captain of dragoons with depraved tastes. On a drunken evening before the British army leaves Philadelphia, William rouses from a stupor to hear Harkness regaling his companion with comments regarding what he intends to do to one of the young whores present. Revolted by the man’s crudeness and open cruelty, William is further shocked to realize that the target of Harkness’s desires is Arabella-Jane, the whore with whom William suffered an unfortunate encounter the day before. Moved by a mixture of chivalry and guilt, William takes Jane for the night in order to keep her out of Harkness’s clutches. Much later in the story, William meets Jane and her younger sister, Frances (Fanny), and learns that Harkness had contracted with the madam of the brothel for Fanny’s maidenhead. Unable to bear the thought of her sister being defiled by Harkness, Jane stabbed the brute and fled with her sister. [MOBY]
x Harnett, Cornelius—(1723–1781) A prominent Revolutionary from North Carolina, he was the head of the Sons of Liberty and an outspoken opponent and leader against the Stamp Act. A friend of Jocasta’s, we meet him at a party at River Run. [Ashes]
x Harris, William—(unknown) Justice of the peace in Mecklenburg who witnessed Waightsill Avery’s deposition regarding his arrest and detainment by a mob of Regulators. [Fiery Cross]
Harry and Allan—Two men, one with a Scottish voice, who assault William on Long Island when he becomes lost in the fog, taking not only his horse and weapons but further humiliating him by cutting off his pigtail as a sign of his helplessness. [Echo]
Harte, Bob—A former English soldier; according to Nessie (aka Agnes)—a prostitute of Lord John’s acquaintance—he took advantage of her mother, whose husband and sons had been killed at Culloden, and set her up as a prostitute. He may have forced Nessie into the life of prostitution as well, when she reached adolescence. [PM]
Hartsell, Mr. and Mrs.—A couple present at an evening event hosted by Benedicta Grey at Jermyn House. [PM]
Haseltine, Mrs.—One of the ladies present at an evening event hosted by Benedicta Grey, and to whom von Namtzen replies in answer to what the French think of the English army. [PM]
Hatfield, Jemima—A guest at Jocasta Cameron’s wedding, she is one of many women sharing sleeping space with Claire in the overcrowded house and nearly awakes during a provocative nighttime assault on Claire’s bare feet. [Fiery Cross]
Hatfield, Jezebel; Jessie—Isaiah Morton’s first lawful wife from Granite Falls. She is a rough woman—rugged, loyal, fiercely jealous—and unforgiving of her husband eloping with another woman. She is in attendance when Jamie attempts to save a Wilmington printer from tar-and-feathering. [Fiery Cross, Ashes]
Hauptmann, Herr—A Prussian infantry captain, he accompanies Captain Custis and Lord John to John’s quarters, to retrieve a book Colonel Jeffreys wishes to borrow, and is the other officer present to witness Percy’s act of sodomy with a German soldier. [BL]
Hawkins, Mary—Daughter of a minor English baronet, niece to Silas Hawkins. She becomes pregnant by her lover, Alex Randall (brother of Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall), but is obliged to marry Jonathan for protection, as Alex is dying of consumption. Years later, William Ransom finds himself bound for Canada on an intelligence-gathering mission with another young officer named Denys Randall-Isaacs. The two young men become friends, and Denys tells William that he was adopted by his mother’s second husband, a Jewish merchant named Robert Isaacs—thus the hyphenated last name. This means nothing in particular to William, but it does to us. [Echo]
x Hayes, Archibald, Lieutenant; Archie—(unknown) Wounded and captured at Culloden—where his father, Gavin, was killed—Archie Hayes joined the English army as an alternative to transportation and achieved the rank of lieutenant. With his regiment of Scottish Highlanders, he takes part in the attempted “pacification” of the incipient rebellion in North Carolina. [Fiery Cross]
Hebden, Mr.—A volunteer under Jamie’s command at Monmouth. [MOBY]
Hebdy, Dr.—A Philadelphia physician, summoned by a bystander when the Duke of Pardloe suffers an asthma attack in the street. Claire, who knows the man for a quack, shoves Hal into his sedan chair and makes off with him to Lord John’s house. [MOBY]
Hector—See “Hector Dalrymple.”
Helwig, Lance-Korporal—An officer in Stephan von Namtzen’s Imperial Fifth Regiment of Hanovarian Foot, assigned to protect the area of Gundwitz during the Seven Years’ War. [SU]
Hempstead, Mary—Mrs. Hempstead’s young daughter, she receives a message for Fergus from her playmate, Tommy Wilkins, who in turn received the message from Mr. Jessop, saying that a tall Scottish man was looking for Fergus. [Echo]
Hempstead, Mrs.—A widow and laundress whose husband was killed during the Battle of Paoli, she helps hide Fergus at a bolt-hole in Philadelphia when things get too heated at the printship due to his inflammatory writing. [Echo]
Henderson—The deckhand on Trevelyan’s ship, the Nampara, on which Trevelyan and Maria are making their escape. [PM]
Henderson, Anne and Kate—Two children who attend Brianna’s impromptu school in her cabin on the Ridge; living a bit farther away, they’re escorted to the school by their older brother, Obadiah. [Fiery Cross]
x Henderson, Richard, Chief Justice—(1734–1785) Presiding judge in Hillsborough, N.C., who condemned captured tax resistors to death during the War of the Regulation. Viewed as a member of the gentry, he had been a target of Regulator violence and in 1770 was attacked and whipped at the courthouse. [Fiery Cross]
Henderson, Obadiah—A possible suitor for Malva Christie; older brother of Anne and Kate. He escorts his sisters to lessons at the cabin belonging to Brianna and Roger; after watching Brianna for months, he tries to accost her, but Jamie stops him and tells him to never come to the Big House again. [Fiery Cross, Ashes]
Hennings, Mr.—A Philadelphia Loyalist who tries to persuade William to allow his bond servants to be removed on the single, very crowded ship available during the evacuation of Philadelphia. [MOBY]
Henry—The first man Percy had sex with; he did it for the price of three shillings—a fortune to a starving fourteen-year-old and his mother. [BL]
x Henry, Patrick—(1736–1799) One of the best-known rabble-rousers of the Revolution, remembered particularly for his famous “Give me liberty or give me death” speech. Fergus comes to the attention of the authorities for printing one of Henry’s seditious speeches. [Echo]
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Hepzibah/Eppie—A dockside prostitute in Roanoke, who Brianna meets while on board Bonnet’s ship, the Anemone. Bree pays Eppie with Jamie’s cabochon ruby ring to get word to her family of the island location where Bonnet is taking her. Eppie is also the love of Manfred McGillivray; both are infected with syphilis, but Claire can treat it successfully with her penicillin. [Ashes]
Herbert, George—One of a delegation of New Bern residents who notice that the cannons at the Governor’s Palace have been removed and wish to know why; Governor Martin gives them a false story about the wood caissons being rotted and needing to be replaced. In actuality, the cannons were unmounted to leave them inoperable in case the Patriots tried to seize the palace and the armory. [Ashes]
Herbert, Lieutenant—One of the officers under Jamie’s command at Monmouth. [MOBY]
Hercules—The popular pug dog owned by Dr. Gilbert Rigby. Sporting a black velvet jacket and small hat, the little dog charms attendees at the artistic fundraiser Lord John and Percy attend together. [BL]
Herman; Hermione Kuykendall—One of two young ragamuffin boys who attempt to rob the Frasers on their way to New Bern; Ian is nominated to try to locate their relatives near Bailey Camp. During the journey, it’s discovered that the boys are actually girls in disguise. When Ian can’t find any relations of the children, he takes them to Mrs. Sylvie’s brothel in Cross Creek and pays her to “tame” the girls and make them housemaids. Hermione swears revenge upon Ian if she or her sister end up being whores after all. In fact, the girls do not become whores, as Ian learns when he meets them a few years later; they have become small, wiry, ferocious teenaged enforcers for the brothel, adopting male dress and names (“Herman” and “Trask” Wurm). [Echo, MOBY]
Hetty—The personal maid to the Princess von Lowenstein. [SU]
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