Lucy fluker knox biography

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Learn More. Lucy was born in to a wealthy and well-connected Massachusetts family. The Fluckers were strongly connected to royal authority—her father Thomas served the colonial government throughout Lucy's early life, and served as the colony's Secretary in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in addition to owning a large tract of land in modern-day Maine.

Lucy's family expected her to marry a man of equal social and economic status, but when she met Henry Knox at his Boston bookshop, she fell hard in love. Lucy's parents did not approve of the relationship. Lucy and Henry courted in secret for two years before marrying in June Less than a year later, the Revolutionary War erupted at Lexington and Concord , and Boston was soon besieged.

Henry's sympathies lay with the Patriots, and in May the couple snuck out of the city and crossed over to the rebel camp.