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Lucy (Flucker) Knox (1756 - 1824)

Lucy Knox formerly Flucker
Born in Massachusettsmap [uncertain]
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Wife of — married Jun 1774 [location unknown]
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Died at age 67 in Thomaston, Knox, Maine, United Statesmap
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Biography

Lucy Flucker, another child of Thomas Flucker (1719-1783), born 2 August 1756, married General Henry Knox of the revolutionary army, and afterwards Secretary at War.

The young rebel had at the time a flourishing bookstore opposite Williams Court in Cornhill, a fashionable morning resort at that time for the British officers and their ladies. Harrison Gray Otis says that Miss Lucy "was distinguished as a young lady of high intellectual endowments, very fond of books, especially of the books sold by Knox, at whose premises was kindled as the story went, 'the guiltless flame' which was destined to burn on the hymeneal altar."

Henry Knox became Chief of Artillery in the Revolution, and in Washington's Administration, Secretary of War. He acquired on easy terms, a very large share of Mrs. Flucker's property, which had been confiscated, and settled on it at Thomaston, Maine, building a fine mansion in which he himself died in 1806, and his wife in 1824.

Lucy Flucker married Henry Knox June 23, 1774, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.[1]

Lucy was mentioned on a memorial in Thomaston Village Cemetery, Thomaston, Knox County, Maine, United States with a death date of 20 Jan 1824.[2]

Sources

  1. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQP-H86 : 4 December 2014), Henry Knox and Lucy Flucker, 23 Jun 1774; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0896885 IT 2.
  2. Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
    Find A Grave: Memorial #17162544 (accessed 24 September 2022)
    Memorial page for Lucy Flucker Knox (2 Aug 1756-20 Jan 1824), citing Thomaston Village Cemetery, Thomaston, Knox County, Maine, USA; Maintained by Laurie (contributor 2811407).

See Also The Women of '76 by Sally Smith Booth, Hastings House publishers, New York, 1973. E276 B66 page 161-2 Lucy became involved in the romance between Elizabeth De Blois and Benedict Arnold who sent a large chest of fine clothing to Elizabeth. Elizabeth refused the gift and it is reported that Lucy was later seen wearing some of the presents herself.





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