Characters

PRIMARY CHARACTERS

Sarah Rapalje- Main character
Joris Rapalje- Sarah’s father
Catalyna Trico- Sarah’s mother
Phebe Seales- Sarah’s childhood friend

Hans Bergen- Sarah’s first husband

Teunis Bogaert- Sarah’s second husband

SECONDARY CHARACTERS

Weenji- Sarah's Lenape childhood friend

Wunita- Weenji's father

Cholena- Weenji's mother

Sarina Du Trieux- Sarah’s childhood friend
Isaac De Forest- Sarina’s husband
Saartje Roelofs Kierstede- Sarah’s childhood friend
Susanna Negrin- Enslaved girl seeking manumission
Nys Nyssen- Phebe’s husband

Margaret Hardenbroeck- She-merchant who buys lace from Sarah

Loockerman- merchant involved with smuggling 

Sarah's children- view family tree

PUBLIC FIGURES

Van Tienhoven- Secretary to the Directors

Kieft- Director of the colony under the Dutch West India Company

Domine Bogardus- Church minister, step-father of Saartje, critic of Kieft

Tryn- Company midwife, Saartje's grandmother

Van der Donck- Lawyer and government reformer

Kuyter- Isaac’s neighbor and government reformer
Melyn- Government reformer
Stuyvesant- Director of the colony under the West India Company

Judith Bayard- Stuyvesant's wife

Quashawam- Leader of Lenape tribes of eastern Long Island