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SHADOWBROOK
IMPORTANT
CHARACTERS IN THE STORY
The People of Shadowbrook, also known as
the Hale Patent
AT THE BIG HOUSE
Quentin Hale: Also
called Uko Nyakwai, the Red Bear, and very occasionally
by his secret Potawatomi manhood name of Kwashko,
Jumps Over Fire.
John Hale: Quentin’s elder brother.
Ephraim Hale: Father of John and Quentin.
Lorene Devrey Hale: Ephraim’s wife, mother
of John and Quentin.
Nicole Marie Francine
Winifred Anne Crane: A
young woman of French and English ancestry, traveling
through the American colonies on her way to Québec.
Kitchen
Hannah: The Big House cook.
Corn Broom Hannah: A Big House maid.
Six Finger Sam: A general handyman who seldom
speaks.
Clemency the Washerwoman: The laundress,
and among the Patent slaves, the keeper of the oral
history.
Jeremiah: In charge of the stables.
Little George: Jeremiah’s assistant.
Runsabout: A Big House maid and mother of
the twins, Lilac and Sugar Willie.
Taba: A young Ibo girl bought at the New York
slave market in 1754.
AT THE SUGAR HOUSE
Moses
Frankel: The
chief miller and in charge of the production of rum,
ale, and the making of wheat flour and corn [Indian]meal.
Sarah Frankel: The wife of Moses.
Ellie Frankel Bleecker: Their daughter, a widow.
Peter, Penelope, and
Phoebe Bleecker: Ellie’s
three surviving children.
Tim Frankel: Son of Moses and Sarah; never married.
Deliciousness May: The mother of Runsabout
and a Hale slave assigned to the Frankels.
Big Jacob: Husband of Deliciousness
and father of Runsabout; a Hale slave assigned to
the sugar house and grist mill. He is also
the horse trainer of the Patent.
Lilac and Sugar Willie: Slave
twins, children of Runsabout, but assigned to the
Sugar House. They
are four years old when Quent returns to Shadowbrook
in 1754.
AT THE SAWMILL
Ely
Davidson: The sawyer.
Matilda Kip Davidson: Ely’s daughter-in-law.
Hank Davidson: Ely’s son.
Noah Davidson: A son born to Matilda and Hank
soon after Quent returns to Shadowbrook in 1754.
Josiah, Sampson, and Westerly: Brothers
aged fourteen, twelve, and eleven. Hale slaves
assigned to the sawmill.
Solomon the Barrel Maker: A Cooper and a Hale
slave born on the Patent.
Sally Robin: The beekeeper and supplier of
honey and various unguents and medicines used
on the Patent. Solomon’s woman since
she was purchased at the New York Slave Market in
1720.
AT DO GOOD – THE INDIAN TRADING POST OF
THE PATENT; MANAGED AND STAFFED ENTIRELY BY MEMBERS
OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, ALSO KNOWN AS QUAKERS.
Esther Snowberry.
Martin Snowberry: Esther’s husband.
Judith Snowberry: Their daughter; later Judith
Snowberry Foster.
Prudence: Their slave.
Edward Taylor: Treasurer of the community.
Hepsibah Jane Foster: Daughter of Judith.
Daniel Willis: A Friend from Rhode Island who
has come to bring an anti-slavery message given him
by the Light Within.
The People of the Town of Albany in New York Province
John
Lydius: A
trader and sometimes arms dealer.
Genevieve Lydius: John’s wife, a métis
who is half Piankashaw Indian and half French.
Peter Groesbeck: Landlord of the Albany
tavern at the sign of the Nag’s Head.
Annie Crotchett: A prostitute who plies her
trade at the sign of the Nag’s Head.
Hamish Stewart: A one-eyed Scot, a Jacobite
Stewart of Appin, and survivor of the infamous
battle of Culloden Moor. Stewart is also sometimes
to be found in Québec.
Assorted randy barmaids, crafty millers, entrepreneurial
widows, drunken tars, lay-abouts and n’er do
wells; along with the many God-fearing huisvrouwen
and burghers left from the days of Dutch rule.
The People of the Potowatomi Village of Singing
Snow
Cormac Shea: A métis, son of a Potowatomi
squaw and an Irish fur trader.
Ixtu: The village Teller, ninth in his line.
Bishkek: The manhood father of the métis
Cormac Shea, and of Quentin Hale.
Kekomoson: The civil sachem of Singing Snow
at the time of the story.
Sohantis: The wife of Kekomoson.
Shabnokis: A squaw-priest of the powerful
Midewiwin Society.
Lashi: Bishkek’s youngest daughter.
Pondise: Her son.
The People of Québec in New France
THE FRANCISCANS
Père
Antoine de Rubin Montaigne, O.F.M.: Father
Delegate of the Franciscans in New France.
Mère Marie Rose, P.C.C.: Abbess of the
Poor Clare Colletines of Quebec.
Soeur Marie Celeste, P.C.C.
Soeur Marie Françoise,
P.C.C.
Soeur Marie Joseph, P.C.C.
Soeur Marie Angelique, P.C.C.
THE JESUITS
Monsieur
Louis Roget, S.J.: Provincial
Superior of the Jesuits of New France..
Monsieur Philippe Faucon,
S.J.: A Jesuit priest
and an artist who documents the Canadian flora.
Monsieur Xavier Walton,
S.J.: An Englishman
and a Jesuit, also a surgeon.
THE CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT
François
Bigot: Intendant of Canada,
the steward and paymaster of the entire province.
Pierre François Rigaud, marquis de
Vaudreuil: Governor-Général
of Canada after June, 1755.
AT PORT MOUTON IN ACADIA (NOVA SCOTIA)
Marni Benoit
MILITARY
FIGURES
Josef
Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville: A
French officer; his death heralded the beginning
of the French and Indian War .
Tanaghrisson, The Half
King: Born a Catawba,
raised a Seneca; at the time of the story spokesman
for the Iroquois Confederacy in the Ohio Country.
George Washington: A colonel in the Virginia
Militia. Twenty-two years old when the story
opens in 1754.
Pontiac: An Ottawa war sachem.
Shingas: A
war sachem of the Lenape, also known as the Delaware.
Scarouady: Spokesperson
for the Iroquois Confederation in the Ohio Country
after the death of Tanaghrisson.
Thoyanoguen, also known
as King Hendrick: A
war sachem of the Mohawk s, also known as the Kahniankehaka. Members
of the Iroquois Confederacy, they were called The
Guardians of the Eastern Door.
Major General William Johnson,
of the New York Militia (Yorkers). An Indian trader born in Ireland,
in America since 1738 and married first to
a German indenture, later to a Kahniankehaka squaw. Adopted
as a chief of that tribe, known to the whites as
the Mohawk.
Major-General Edward
Braddock: Commander of
His Majesty’s forces in America at the beginning
of the Seven Years War.
Général
Jean Armand baron de Dieskau: Commander
of the French and Canadian forces at the beginning
of the Seven Years War.
Général Louis Joseph, marquis de Montcalm-Gozon
de Saint-Véran: Successor
to Dieskau.
General John Campbell,
earl of Loudoun: Successor
to Braddock.
Major General Jeffrey
Amherst: Successor to
Loudoun.
James A. Wolfe: A
British colonel at the Battle of Louisbourg in 1758;
a British Major-General at the Battle of Québec
in 1759.
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