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[Memorial of Hannah Flucker]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09112 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa 1784 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 32.8 cm, Width: 20.2 cm Order a Copy

Date of 1784 added later in pencil. Addressed to the "Commissioners Appointed by Act of Parliament for enquiring into the Losses & Services of the American Loyalists." Discusses the lands and properties to which she is entitled as heir to her father Brigadier General Samuel Waldo, as well as her brother Samuel Waldo. Outlines the history of the Waldo patent, beginning with King Charles the First granting the Muscongus patent to the Council of Plymouth. Enumerates the acreage and value of lands to which Hannah Flucker has a claim.

Flucker, Hannah, 1726-1785
Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

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