But I would be less than a Friend did I not put the Case to you bluntly: you expose your Family to the utmost Danger by your Actions, and you put your own Head in a Noose.įor the Sake of whatever Affection you may yet bear me, and for the Sake of those dear Connexions between your Family and myself – I beg you to renounce these most dangerous Associations while there is still Time. Whatever else you may be, you are no Fool, and so I must assume you realize the Consequences of your Actions.
Do not delude yourself the King may be misguided in his Actions, but the Government perceives – if belatedly – the Level of Turmoil in the Colonies, and is moving as rapidly as may be to suppress it, before greater Harm can ensue.
But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that.
Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. Was Gage not more than sufficiently occupied in Boston, and Lord Dunsmore’s Virginia troops still in process of Assembly, the Army would be upon you within a few Months. Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield s parents. Josiah Martin has implored London for Help, and it will be forthcoming, I assure you. The Fact that you are still at Liberty, my Friend, reflects nothing more than the Lack of Troops at present available in North Carolina – and that may change rapidly. Yet despite explicit Warnings, I find your Name upon more than one List of suspected Traitors and Seditionists, associated with illegal Assemblies, and thus subject to Arrest. What in the Name of God are you about? I have known you in the course of our long Acquaintance to be many Things – Intemperate and Stubborn being two of them – but have always known you for a Man of Intelligence and Honor. Upon the Sixth of March, Anno Domini 1775 76, March 6, 1775įrom Mount Josiah Plantation in the Colony of Virginia,
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