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Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 to Hannah Urquhart

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09891 Author/Creator: Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: circa April 1777 Pagination: 2 p. ; 31.6 x 20.5 cm. Order a Copy

Lucy writes to her sister Hannah, she mentions writing to her mother, Hannah Flucker, during the siege of Boston but never hearing back from her or her family. Begs her sister to write. Mentions she and Henry Knox had a baby girl. Says the [Revolutionary] War is tearing families apart. States, "how horror is the war, Brother against Brother, and the parent against the child." Date added later in pencil.

Harwood, Hannah Flucker Urquhart, fl. 1774-1796
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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