Jamie then fled to France to join his best friend, Ian Murray, as a mercenary in the French army, where he stayed for two years. Jamie as depicted by Hoang Nguyen for The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novelīy the time he had escaped, though, he had word that his father had died of an apoplexy, apparently caused by his distress after Jamie's second flogging, when it looked as though Jamie had died. After his second flogging, friends came to help Jamie escape a second time, and in the process one of the guards was killed thence Jamie had a price of ten pounds Sterling on his head for murder.
While still recovering, Captain Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall ordered that he be given another hundred lashes for theft. He escaped, but the English pursued him and brought him back to the fort, where he was flogged with one hundred lashes for escaping. Īfter Jamie had returned home to Lallybroch, in October of 1740 he was arrested by the English for obstruction – that is, for defending his family and property when the English set upon his home – and then taken to Fort William for imprisonment. At eighteen, Jamie went to Paris to study at the Université and lived with his father's cousin, Jared Fraser.
At sixteen, Jamie lived for a year at Castle Leoch, seat of the Clan MacKenzie. Jamie had been previously taught some left-handed swordsmanship by the factor at Lallybroch, John Murray, his best friend Ian's father. Dougal, left-handed like Jamie, taught him to wield a sword with both hands. His older sister, Jenny, then aged ten, took on the running of the household after their mother's death, and their father Brian raised them both to adulthood.Īround age fourteen, Jamie went to foster with his maternal uncle, Dougal MacKenzie, at Beannachd, his uncle's home. The family suffered another blow when Ellen died in childbed, along with the baby, when Jamie was about eight years old. From then on, he was raised to be the future laird of Broch Tuarach, the more official name of the estate. He was very close to his older brother, William, and was devastated when his brother died of smallpox when Jamie was only six or so.
Jamie was born to Ellen and Brian Fraser in the Scottish Highlands, at their family home of Lallybroch. 3.1 Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade.
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