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Lucy Flucker Knox (August 2, 1756 – June 20, 1824) was an American revolutionary. She was the daughter of colonial official Thomas Flucker and Hannah Waldo, daughter of Samuel Waldo. She married Henry Knox, who became a leading officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Rev War | Biography. Lucy Flucker Knox. Lady Knox Daughters. Title Civilian. War & Affiliation Revolutionary War / American. Date of Birth - Death August 2, 1756 – June 20, 1824. The 18th-century, in Western society particularly, brought with it greater flexibility in choosing a romantic partner.
Lucy Flucker Knox (1756-1824) defied eighteenth-century gender roles throughout her life. Rather than marrying a man of equal social class, Lucy disobeyed her family’s wishes and married her true love, Henry Knox, who would become a major general of the Continental Army.
When Major Henry Knox, then a resident of Boston, was parading the company to the command of which he had just been elected, he was seen, among many who admired the young officer, by Miss Lucy Flucker, the daughter of the Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts.
June 1774 Lucy Flucker marries Henry Knox. Sep-Oct First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia. Late 1774 Thomas Brown establishes the settlement of Brownsborough near Augusta, Georgia.
In 1774, eighteen-year-old Lucy Flucker married twenty-four-year-old Henry Knox. Lucy’s parents were powerful, wealthy Tories, and they were not happy with the match. Henry Knox was the son of an Irish immigrant. At the age of nine, he quit school to go to work when his father abandoned the family. Henry was also rumored to be a patriot.
Army Wife. Two letters of Lucy Knox illustrate the trials and tribulations of women whose husbands left to fight in the war. “Lucy Flucker Knox to Henry Knox [Boston, Massachusetts, May 1777]”. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, GLC050895.
