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Lucy Flucker Knox


Lucy Flucker Knox | American Battlefield Trust

Newlyweds, Lucy and Henry Knox had to make a choice: stay in Boston and become loyal subjects to King George III or leave Boston and join the American cause.

Lucy Knox (1756-1824) | George Washington's Mount Vernon

Lucy Flucker Knox (1756-1824) defied eighteenth-century gender roles throughout her life. Rather than marrying a man of equal social class, Lucy disobeyed her ...

Lucy Flucker Knox - Wikipedia

Lucy Flucker Knox ... Lucy Flucker Knox (August 2, 1756 – June 20, 1824) was an American revolutionary. She was the daughter of colonial official Thomas Flucker ...

Lucy Flucker Knox | The American Revolution Experience

Lucy Flucker bucked her family's expectations to marry for status and money and, instead, married for love.

Lucy Knox on the home front during the Revolutionary War, 1777

Lucy Knox on the home front during the Revolutionary War, 1777 | Like many others before and after her, Lucy Knox performed a continuous juggling act as a ...

Army Wife - Women & the American Story

Lucy Knox experienced this firsthand. Her father, Thomas Flucker, was a prominent member of the colonial government of Massachusetts, and everyone in her family ...

Lucy Flucker Knox - Massachusetts Historical Society

Lucy Flucker Knox posed for this caricature in Philadelphia in 1790. The amateur painted silhouette is attributed to one of the sons of the financier Robert ...

Lucy Flucker Knox - Massachusetts Historical Society

Lucy Flucker Knox ... View: ... on the blue toolbar. Silhouette, circa 1790. 12 cm x 4 cm. Alternate title: Mrs.

Lucy Knox Biography | Women of the Revolution

Thomas Flucker, the father of Lucy, who had long held office under the British government, adhered to the royal side amidst popular discontent. The maiden had ...

Lucy Knox, Family Traitor - Girl Museum

At the age of 14, Lucy Flucker Knox joined the ranks of traitors – abandoning her family's loyalty to the British crown in favor of the new American nation.

Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox, 23 August 1777

Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox, 23 August 1777. Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox, 23 August 1777. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,. GLC02437 ...

“Lady” Knox - AMERICAN HERITAGE

She carried her husband's sword sewn into the quilting of her cloak. The marriage of Henry Knox to Lucy Flucker had taken place the year before and had caused a ...

Lucy Flucker Knox – Lady Knox Chapter NSDAR - Maine State DAR

Lucy Flucker Knox (August 2, 1756 – June 20, 1824) was an American revolutionary. Born the daughter of Thomas.

Lucy Flucker Knox (1776–1854) • FamilySearch

She married Hon Ebenezer Thatcher on 7 January 1804, in Newcastle, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 ...

Knox, Lucy Flucker - Primary Sources: Prominent People of The ...

The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox by Phillip Hamilton. Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; E207.K74 A4 2017.

Love and the Revolution | National Endowment for the Humanities

... Lucy Flucker Knox and Peggy Shippen Arnold—draws these two women out of the footnotes of their husbands' lives and presents them as multi-dimensional ...

From George Washington to Lucy Flucker Knox, 30 June 1787

“From George Washington to Lucy Flucker Knox, 30 June 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-05-02- ...

Lucy Flucker Knox Thatcher, ca. 1840 - Maine Memory Network

This portrait is of Lucy Flucker Knox Thatcher, oldest child of Henry Knox and his wife Lucy. Born in 1776, Lucy FK Thatcher was nineteen years old.

Invitation to Colonel Henry and Lucy Flucker Knox, 1 February 1776

Invitation to Colonel Henry and Lucy Flucker Knox, 1 February 1776.

Loyalist Lucy Flucker Meets Patriot Henry Knox at a Boston Parade

Miss Lucy Flucker, daughter of Thomas Flucker, Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts, approached a crossroads in her young life when she watched a parade ...