Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 to Henry Knox

GLC02437.00282

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GLC#
GLC02437.00282-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
April 1776
Author/Creator
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Title
to Henry Knox
Place Written
Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination
3p. : address : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 18.2 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Expresses her love for Henry and attempts to make him feel guilty for being away from home and family, particularly his infant daughter. Thanks him for his three recent letters (see GLC02437.00273, GLC02437.00275, GLC02437.00276) but wonders why the letter he promised from New York has not arrived. Mentions that their daughter Lucy was christened at Trinity Church. Comments on her alarm at hearing that the British have taken George's Island in Boston Harbor. Knox was then moving southward toward New York, planning coastal defenses against the British navy for Rhode Island and Connecticut in the process.

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