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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 ...

Lucy Flucker Knox | American Battlefield Trust

Lucy Flucker was only 16 years old when she met her future husband, Henry Knox. When the pair wed, their lives became intertwined in a cause bigger than both ...

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 ...

to Henry Knox - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |

to Henry Knox | | Badly misses Henry and hopes to hear from him, her only comfort being her young baby, Lucy Flucker Knox. Hopes that he cries when thinking ...

Lucy Flucker Knox: "Oh, My Sister, How Horrid Is This War"

Lucy's family were Loyalists, but she chose to marry an American Revolutionary—Henry Knox—in 1774. This letter reflects the division that she felt because of ...

Lucy Knox to Henry Knox lamenting his absence and updating him ...

Date, 3-8 June 1777 ; Author, Knox, Lucy Flucker (1756-1824) ; Recipient, Knox, Henry ; Document Type, Correspondence.

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

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

Lucy Flucker Knox - Wikipedia

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

Army Wife - Women & the American Story

In 1772, 16-year-old Lucy met and fell in love with Patriot bookseller Henry Knox. Her family condemned the relationship, and when she secretly married Henry ...

Lucy Flucker Knox - Massachusetts Historical Society

Depicted here with an elaborate hair arrangement topped with a gravity-defying tall hat, Lucy Flucker Knox posed for this caricature in Philadelphia in 1790 ...

Top 20 Wartime Quotations from the Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox

Henry Knox to Lucy Flucker Knox, July 6, 1775. Yesterday, as I was going to Cambridge, I met the General, who beg'd me to return to Roxbury ...

Henry and Lucy Knox collection, 1777-1807 - Finding Aids

Henry Knox (1750-1806) was born in Boston to William Knox and Mary Campbell. He married Lucy Flucker (1756--1824) in 1774. They had 12 children, but only three ...

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 ...

The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox

In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy's father was the third- ...

Henry Knox to Lucy Knox about military operations and Battle of ...

Date, 7 January 1777 ; Author, Knox, Henry (1750-1806) ; Recipient, Knox, Lucy Flucker ; Document Type, Correspondence.

Lucy Flucker Knox - Massachusetts Historical Society

This silhouette of Lucy Flucker Knox, the wife of US Secretary of War Henry Knox, was drawn in Philadelphia by a son of Robert Morris the financier of the ...

Lucy Flucker Knox (1776–1854) • FamilySearch

When Lucy Flucker Knox was born on 26 February 1776, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Maj. General Henry Knox, was 25 and her ...

Lucy Knox, Family Traitor - Girl Museum

Portrait of Lucy's daughter bearing the same name, Lucy Flucker Knox Thatcher, via Wikipedia. ... At age 17, Lucy met 24-year-old Henry Knox ...

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.

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 Flucker, the Royal Secretary of Massachusetts.