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Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 to Henry Knox

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04025 Author/Creator: Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824 Place Written: Newark, New Jersey Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 5 November 1788 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 24.3 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

Traveled to Newark with [Euphemia] Ogden and hopes to return with [Catharine?] Greene. Notes that St. John hopes his daughter will return to New York with Knox, but expects Knox will not be able to wait for her. Reports their son, Marcus, "has coughed but once since he left NY..." and Knox's brother William's "face broke yesterday," a reference to William's recent illness accompanied by swelling in the face. Writes, "As for me I have been so long without you that I know not what to think of it and can scarce reallise [sic] you are my husband." Instructs Knox to give their daughter a kiss (possibly referring to Lucy Knox).

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813
Greene, Catharine Littlefield, 1755-1814
Ogden, Euphemia Morris, 1754-1818
Knox, Marcus Camillus, 1781-1796

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