Do you think Peter Ashe would’ve told Flint and Miranda that Thomas was alive if Flint hadn’t confessed to butchering Alfred Hamilton?

jamesflintmcgrawhamilton:

hm……i honestly don’t know. i mean i also don’t think flint really had a choice – Peter Ashe already knew that Captain Flint had killed Alfred. 

i mean i don’t even know why he told them thomas was dead in the first place  

I think he told them Thomas was dead on Alfred’s orders. I can’t believe that Thomas was so friendless and Alfred so without enemies that Thomas’ imprisonment wouldn’t be questioned. If some of Thomas’ friends/Alfred’s enemies intended to see Thomas freed so that he could act against his father and Alfred got wind of it, he might have had it put about that Thomas was dead and had him moved. Or, it might just be that Peter feared that James and Miranda would somehow return to England and learn what he had done and then have their revenge. I know if I had screwed over Miranda Hamilton, I’d be running scared too.