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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.03405 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0079] January-March 1787 |
| Title | Henry Knox to Hannah Flucker Urquhart Harwood about Thomas Flucker's estate [copy] |
| Date | 3 January 1787 |
| Author | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) |
| Additional authors | Knox, Lucy Flucker (1756-1824) |
| Recipient | Harwood, Hannah Flucker Urquhart |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
| Content Description | Marked "copy." Body of the letter and signature in the hand of Robert Pemberton, Knox's aide. Directed to "Mrs. Hannah Urquhart one of the executors of the late Hannah Flucker or other person or persons who may have the payment of the debts due from the Estate of the late Thomas Flucker Esq." Requests that when Mrs. Urquhart has received the proceeds of Thomas Flucker's estate, she should give "the amount of the legacy devised to the subscriber Lucy Knox by her uncle the late Francis Waldo Esq. as one of the two surviving children of the said late Thomas Flucker Esq. and Hannah his Wife," together with all interest on this amount, to a "Mr. Thomas Longman on order of Pater noster Row London taking proper receipts therefor on Account of the subscriber Henry Knox." Penned by and signed for Henry Knox and Lucy Knox by Robert Pemberton, Knox's post-war aide. |
| Subjects | Revolutionary War General Children and Family Estate Women's History Debt Finance |
| People | Knox, Henry (1750-1806) Knox, Lucy Flucker (1756-1824) Harwood, Hannah Flucker Urquhart (fl. 1774-1796) Longman, Thomas (1731-1797) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | Children & Family; Law; Merchants & Commerce |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Additional Information | Thomas Longman (1730-1797) ran Longman publishing company on Paternoster Row in London. This letter may also refer to Longman's son, also named Thomas Longman (1771-1842). Hannah Flucker was a sister of Lucy Knox. She married for the first time to James Urquhart circa 1774, and then was divorced. She married a second time, to Richard Harwood, circa 1788. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |