Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker (fl. 1784-1801) to Lucy Knox
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04573 Author/Creator: Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker (fl. 1784-1801) Place Written: Antigua Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 2 April 1790 Pagination: 8 p. ; 23.8 x 19.3 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses her recent recovery from an illness, her trip to Barbuda with the Commodore and some friends, and the local fauna. Comments that the Governor's situation there is not enviable. He only has "one other White Inhabitant on the Island to assist him in the care of more than two hundred negroes..." Thanks her for the beef she recently sent her. Mentions that her father is suffering ill health and other family relations, stating "I have pleasure in saying my Thomas, and Harriet are quite well - and that the last Post brought me comforting Accounts of my Dear Francis - Who is in the midst of many Friends and his good Uncle and Aunt Holloway tell me is quite happy. They are all joy at the Birth of a long wished for Son - after five girls. Mrs. Harwood writes me. She has a Daughter I suppose you hear often from her and may be informed of more of the Family Business than I am - " Discusses her financial situation.
Sarah Lyons Flucker was the wife of Lucy Knox's brother, Captain Thomas Flucker. She got remarried, after Captain Flucker's death, to Bon-Albert Briois de Beaumez, circa 1796.
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