John Cinnamon

John Cinnamon
Biographical information
Full name	John Cinnamon
Born	c. 1759 (age 19)
Marital status	Single
Physical information
Gender	Male
Height	6'2" (187cm)
Hair color	Cinnamon
Eye color	Dark
Skin color	Light Tan
Affiliations
Nationality	Native American English
Family members
Parents and Siblings	Malcolm Stubbs (father) Unnamed mother † Olivia Stubbs (step-mother) Cromwell Stubbs (half brother)
Extended Family	Unnamed Grandmother (maternal grandmother) "The Old One" (paternal grandfather) Melissa Stubbs (paternal aunt) See Grey Family (step cousins via marriage)
Book appearances
The Custom of the Army
The Custom of the Army
An Echo in the Bone
An Echo in the Bone

John Cinnamon is the orphaned son of Malcolm Stubbs and a Native American woman. Upon his father's departure to England, and with his mother dead of the smallpox, the boy was purchased from his grandmother by Lord John Grey, who gave him the name John Cinnamon.

Personal History

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Lord John Series

The Custom of the Army

John Cinnamon is an infant in 1759 when Lord John Grey discovers his existence. The baby has dark eyes like his Indian mother, but curly hair that can leave his paternity in no doubt. Malcolm Stubbs, who is married to Lord John's cousin Olivia, took up with the Indian woman and had a child with her.

Stubbs is seriously injured during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and is shipped home to England. Meanwhile, his mother dies of smallpox, and his grandmother sells him to Lord John Grey for "two golden guineas, a brightly colored blanket, a pound of sugar, and a small keg of rum." Lord John leaves him in the care of Father LeCarré at a French mission in Quebec City, bestowing on him the name John Cinnamon, for the color of his hair. Lord John also arranges for the priest to send him word of the boy's welfare each year, with a lock of the boy's hair, and in return he, Lord John, will send five pounds for the boy's maintenance.

Outlander Series

An Echo in the Bone

John Cinnamon is described in passing, though not named explicitly, in a letter from William Ransom to Lord John Grey. William describes a man of "mixed blood" who has "a most remarkable Head of Hair, thick and curly as Sheep's Wool and the color of Cinnamon Bark".

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

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John Cinnamon meets William Ransom at Mount Josiah plantation, and accompanies William on his search for Lord John.

Personality

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Physical Appearance

Described as being a couple inches shorter than William but also a couple inches broader being large and very muscular having exuberant curls, when allowed to be more than a few inches long, with a distinctive deep reddish-brown color which his last name had been derived from.

Name

• John is the English form of Iohannes, the Latin form of the Greek name Ιωαννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning "YAHWEH is gracious".
• Cinnamon is simply from the English word cinnamon for the spice. It derives from Latin cinnamum, cinnamomum "cinnamon", which was used as a term of endearment.