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Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.10012 Author/Creator: Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 8 May 1777 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 37.3 cm, Width: 23.7 cm Order a Copy

Written at "Sewal's Point," evidently Sewall's Point, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Their daughter, Lucy, has small pox, and "the poor little soul- is covered from head to foot with it- she has upwards of eaighty [sic] on her sweet face..." Relates that Billy (Knox's brother William) has returned from Providence, Rhode Island. General [Henry] Jackson will begin recruiting troops soon, and General [William] Heath informed Lucy that an order has been issued for Jackson's troops to remain in Boston. Remarks, "the people in Boston are all mad moving out as fast as possible, for fear of genl Burgoyne- for my part I shall not stop short when I go- which will not be till there is real danger- they say he is now at Nashua, with ten thousand men..."

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792
Heath, William, 1737-1814
Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
Knox, William, 1756-1795

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