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So who sent Thomas to the plantation? Was it Alfred, Peter Ashe or the two of them together? Silver says that some of the most prominent London families used this place but didn’t name the Hamilton’s. He did say the Governor of Carolina and the Ashe’s were also a prominent London family. When Ashe visited Thomas in Bethlem, I wonder if it was to tell him of their plans to send him away. Or perhaps Alfred intended to let Thomas stay in Bethlem but then he is killed by Flint, giving Ashe the chance to ease his guilty conscience by having Thomas transferred there on his own.

But then another possible theory of how “the governor of Carolina” could have used it. Abigail is pissed in 410 and defiant and prepared to stand up to her father, to which he says he is sending her to .  …  wait for it … Savannah. Could he have arranged for Abigail to be kept at the plantation house? Probably not forever but thinking he would send her there until he could reign her in.

There’s been speculation on the clock in the plantation owners office and if it is Miranda’s that was in Ashe’s house. Perhaps Ashe sent that clock with Abigail as a “gift” for housing his daughter, much like Alfred gifted it to him for betraying Thomas. And it gets the clock – proof of his betrayal – out of his house and his sight.