Knox, Henry (1750-1806) to Hannah Flucker Urquhart Harwood
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03405 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Manuscript letter Date: 3 January 1787 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 31.7 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Marked "copy." Body of the letter and signature in the hand of Robert Pemberton, Knox's aide. Directed to "Mrs. Hannah Urquhart one of the executors of the late Hannah Flucker or other person or persons who may have the payment of the debts due from the Estate of the late Thomas Flucker Esq." Requests that when Mrs. Urquhart has received the proceeds of Thomas Flucker's estate, she should give "the amount of the legacy devised to the subscriber Lucy Knox by her uncle the late Francis Waldo Esq. as one of the two surviving children of the said late Thomas Flucker Esq. and Hannah his Wife," together with all interest on this amount, to a "Mr. Thomas Longman on order of Pater noster Row London taking proper receipts therefor on Account of the subscriber Henry Knox." Penned by and signed for Henry Knox and Lucy Knox by Robert Pemberton, Knox's post-war aide.
Thomas Longman (1730-1797) ran Longman publishing company on Paternoster Row in London. This letter may also refer to Longman's son, also named Thomas Longman (1771-1842). Hannah Flucker was a sister of Lucy Knox. She married for the first time to James Urquhart circa 1774, and then was divorced. She married a second time, to Richard Harwood, circa 1788.
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