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Buck MacKenzie

Roger finally discovers who the Nucklavee is when he finds William Buccleigh “Buck” MacKenzie lurking around Lallybroch in the 1980s. Buck heard Craigh na Dun buzzing sound while passing and went to check out the noise only to be sent forward in time. After arriving he saw Roger and Brianna and followed them back to Lallybroch where he’s been getting the children to give him food. Roger and Brianna aren’t that happy with Buck because he is reason Roger was hanged. Buck is confused by what happened to him and Roger and Brianna explain they are all time travelers and that Roger his he many times over grandson. Buck’s attitude seems to change and he is invested in what happens to the MacKenzies.

Source: Where the Waters Meet, A Practical Guide for Time-Travelers
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Loch Errochty Dam Time Portal

When Brianna is locked inside the dam’s tunnels, she encounters what appears to be a time portal. She is forced to run through it but doesn’t travel out of her current time. Later, Brianna and Roger discuss what she discovered and believe that when ley lines cross a time portal is present.

Source: Singapore, Where the Waters Meet
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Jamie and Claire’s Obituary

After the fire at the Big House, Jamie and Claire believe the newspaper got everything wrong about the fire. However, when Claire comes across Tom Christie in Wilmington; he tells her he was the one who put the obituary in the newspaper. He’d heard about the fire and believed them dead. He couldn’t let her death pass without being acknowledged. He was surprised to find out both Jamie and Claire survived.

This also means Brianna and Roger did not change history by coming back in time to warn Jamie and Claire. Brianna believed they would die in this fire but they never did so despite their coming back and Brianna playing into history by making the very matches that caused the fire; they didn’t change anything.

SOURCE: A Most Uncomfortable Woman
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Jeremiah’s Box

Brianna and Roger visit Fiona at Rev. Wakefield’s old manse only to find out that Fiona received a delivery for Jemmy which has been in a bank vault for 200 years. Inside they find letters from Jamie and Claire and what appears to be a musket ball.

The first letter Brianna and Roger read is about the fire at the Big House. Roger comes to the conclusion that Brianna is the reason for the fire. She went back in time and made matches which is what Donner used to accidentally ignite the ether. They believe they changed history and that the fire that killed Jamie and Claire can not happen because the house is already gone.

SOURCE: Death Be Not Proud
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Fire on the Ridge

The Frasers have tried to prevent the fire at the Ridge that is supposed to kill both Jamie and Claire. Wendigo Donner shows up and is angry that Roger’s response to his please for help was to “pray for him.” Donner had a gemstone and tried to go through the stones as Ocracoke but failed. He ended up in the same place only now without a gemstone. He wants Jamie and Claire to give him one and brought brigands to assist him in getting what he wants. Did the knowledge of the fire change history?

Source: The Happiest Place on Earth
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Reappearance of the Frenchman’s Gold

While being held up for gemstones by Donner; his crew finds a bar of gold in Mrs. Bug’s sewing basket. Jamie immediately recognizes it as the Frenchman’s Gold. Jamie is outraged and asks Arch Bug where it came from. Arch tells him it is not his concern but Jamie disagrees. They don’t have much time to discuss it because Donner accidentally blows up the Big House.

Source: The Happiest Place on Earth
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Roger Finds a Time Traveler

While ministering to soldiers, Roger tells a man who asks for advice, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” A man among the conscripted says, “Ali,” as he recognizes the quote from the future. Roger is stunned to find a time traveler. Wendigo Donner introduces himself and asks Roger for help. He has a gemstone and just wants to go back to his own time, but needs help escaping.

Roger talks with Brianna about this and ultimately decides he can not help Donner escape.

Source: A Life Well Lost
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Man in Jail

Who is the man in the jail? He stole one of Flora MacDonald’s emeralds from her necklace which suggests he was actually after the stone and not the necklace. As we know, gem stones are needed for steering and protection through the stones.

Claire hears him whistling “Colonel Bogey March” which was a song that came about in 1914 but became the anthem of WWII. This proves the man isn’t from the 18th century.

Source: Give Me Liberty
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Trail of Tears

“Some sixty years from this time, yer people will be taken from their lands, from the bones of their ancestors, and removed to a new place, far from here. Many will die on this journey, so that the path they tread will be called… the trail where they wept.”

Did Jamie change anything? With the knowledge does Chief Bird pass the information down making his tribe the 800 who were not removed during the Trail of Tears?

Source: Hour of the Wolf
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Boston Tea Party

Major MacDonald arrives with the guns for the Cherokee and news of the Boston Tea Party. It is beginning.

The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. In response, the Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Indigenous Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly. The episode escalated into the American Revolution, becoming an iconic event of American history. Since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773.

SOURCE: Temperance
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Wendigo Donner

Claire encounters Wendigo Donner while in the captivity of Lionel Brown and his men. After confirming she’s from the future he says he traveled back in time with a group of American Indians in 1968. She tells Donner of Otter Tooth’s (Robert ‘Bob’ Springer) fate but Donner is confused because they came back to save their people. Donner wishes to go back to the future and Claire promises to help him for helping her but he doesn’t.

Source: Never My Love
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Signs of a Traveler: Gem Stones

A new detail about the time travel rules is gemstones appear to be warm to the touch to a traveler while non-travelers do not feel the warmth. Claire, Roger, and Brianna feel the warmth of Otter Tooth’s opal. Jemmy believes the gem is hot which Brianna believes is because he’s the product of two travelers.

Source: Journeycake
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Jeremiah “Jemmy” MacKenzie

Jeremiah “Jemmy” MacKenzie is the son of Brianna and Roger MacKenzie, though believed to be the biological son of Brianna’s rapist Stephen Bonnet.

Jemmy is drawn to gemstones because of a noise they make. However, when playing with Claire’s opal (Otter Tooth’s); he claims it is hot. Brianna, Roger, and Claire feel it’s warmth though Ian and Jamie do not. While holding the stone it breaks apart causing a sound much like the standing stones which only travelers can hear.

Brianna believes Jem must be Roger’s child and he has the time traveling gene from both his parents for it to be so strong as to break a gemstone.

Source: Journeycake, Down the Rabbit Hole
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Otter Tooth aka Robert Singer

The Mohawk tell Jamie, Claire and Ian about Otter Tooth (the previous owner of Claire’s stone). He appeared to know the future. He told the Mohawk of the future. He tried to convince them to war on the white man going so far as to scalp some nearby. He angered the elders who sent him away but he was always nearby ranting and raving. They thought him possessed and chased him for days until they caught up to him and killed him. They continued to hear his words even after taking his head and so buried his head far away, under a tree where Claire eventually found his skull and satchel with the opal inside.

Young Ian gives Claire and Jamie Otter Tooth or Robert Springer’s journal. In Springer’s journal he mentions others: Rains Hard, Strong Walker, Six Turtles and Talks with Spirits. It seems Otter Tooth went back too far.

Source: Journeycake, Man of Worth
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American Standing Stones

After Roger is sold to the Mohawk by Young Ian, he comes across a buzzing in the woods and finds a clearing with a standing stones much like Craigh na Dun. When he is freed from the Mohawk’s Roger returns to the stones but can’t bring himself to go through without Brianna.

When Roger and Bree decides to return to the future, they go to the stones Roger came across when traveling with the Mohawk. Something goes wrong and the trio is left in the past.

Source: Journeycake, The Deep Heart’s Core
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Time Travel is Hereditary

Brianna is the daughter of Claire a time traveler and can travel. Roger is the descendant of Geillis Duncan who is a time traveler and can travel.

Jemmy is able to hear the gem stones. Gem stones which are typically warm to travelers appear hot to him suggesting is ability is stronger. This makes it likely he is the product of two travelers: Brianna and Roger.

One of Claire’s parents had to be a traveler.

One of Roger’s parents had to be a traveler.

Source: Journeycake, Between Two Fires, Man of Worth
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French Gold: Hector Cameron

While fleeing from Scotland after Culloden, Hector and Jocasta Cameron appear to be in the custody of a trunk of the Frenchmen’s Gold. Jocasta seems surprised by it’s presence and it is believe Hector uses this gold to finance River Run after they come to the Colonies.

If Hector and Jocasta took a trunk of the French gold to the Colonies after Culloden then what was the trunk on the Selkie Island? Is there more than one trunk of gold?

Source: Better to Marry Than Burn
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William Buccleigh “Buck” MacKenzie

While aboard the Glorianna, Roger encounters Morag MacKenzie and realizes she’s his four-times-great grandmother and her son his three-times-great grandfather. He protects them from the Captain: Stephen Bonnet.

While coming back from warning Murtagh about Governor Tryon’s intentions during the Battle of Alamance, Roger comes across Morag MacKenzie. He tries to warn her but is confronted by her husband (Roger’s 4x great grandfather) Buck MacKenzie who is also the son of Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie. Buck beats and ties up Roger, leaving him to be thought a Regulator.

Geillis is a time traveler. Could Buck be a time traveler too?

Source: The Ballad of Roger Mac, Down the Rabbit Hole
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Battle of Alamance

Despite Jamie’s best efforts to forestall a battle, Tryon gets his skirmish and Brianna realizes it is the Battle of Alamance which many believe sparked the American Revolution.

The Battle of Alamance took place on May 16, 1771 and was the final battle of the Regulator Movement. It is considered to be the opening battle of the American Revolution.

Source: The Ballad of Roger Mac
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Knox and the Regulators

Jamie’s been walking a tight rope trying to find the right balance of loyalty to the crown and what he knows about history. Murtagh wanting to fight doesn’t help but Jamie goes along trying to influence and assist when he can. However, Knox’s inquiry into Ardsmuir forces Jamie’s hand.

After Jamie is discovered to be a Rebel by Knox, Jamie strangles him to protect Murtagh and the others. Jamie hides the evidence by burning the Ardsmuir prison roll and starting a fire which destroys all the evidence as to his actions.

Source: Perpetual Adoration
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The Fate of Jamie & Claire, Fiona Dances

Roger discovers Jamie and Claire are to die in a fire but doesn’t want to tell Brianna because she can’t do anything about it. As he tries to tell Fiona about it, Fiona confesses she knows Claire is a time traveler and that she dances around the stones much like her grandmother Mrs. Graham.

Source: Common Ground
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Claire Finds the Skull of a Ghost

Claire finds the a skull and a gem stone under a tree and encounters what she believes is the ghost of the person who died and possibly owned the gem.

Claire cleans up the skull and discovers silver fillings which is not something that will be invented for another 100 years. Whoever her ghost was he was also a traveler.

Source: The False Bride
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Dancing Around Stones

We are privy to a glimpse of the past where the indigenous people are dancing around a set of standing stones. Many cultures did this in different locations to open the passageway in the stones. We actually see this happen in the first episode where Claire and Frank watch the dancing around the stones of Craigh na Dun.

Source: America the Beautiful, Sassenach
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Abandawe

Jamie and Claire discover another set of standing stones on Jamaica called Abandawe which is part of the reading Margaret Campbell gave Claire in Edinburgh.

While the standing stones are on top of the hill, Geillis Duncan finds a pool of water in the cave underneath the standings stones. This pool acts as a doorway through time.

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Geillis’ Death

After encountering Geillis and realizing she is the one who kidnapped Young Ian, Claire and Jamie set out to stop Geillis from traveling to the future through the stones in  the cave locals call Abandawe.

Jamie realizes one of his pictures of Brianna is missing and Claire believes Geillis is going after Brianna because of the Brahan Seer’s Prophecy. Before Geillis can go back in time by using Young Ian as a human sacrifice, Claire kills her with an axe to prevent her from going after Brianna.

Claire realizes these are the bones Joe was studying and the warning Margaret gave her.

Source: Eye of the Storm
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