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Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker, fl. 1784-1801 to Lucy Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09928 Author/Creator: Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker, fl. 1784-1801 Place Written: Wilmington, Delaware Type: Autograph letter signed Date: May 1790 Pagination: 3 p. : address ; Height: 24.9 cm, Width: 19.5 cm Order a Copy

Discusses her family and how she is happy her sons have recovered from their illness. Also mentions sending something from Worcester to Boston. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker, fl. 1784-1801

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