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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02437.04042 |
| From Archive Folder | The Henry Knox Papers [0086] October-December 1788 |
| Title | Sarah Lyons Flucker Beaumez to Lucy Knox about her daughter's health, thanking her for the beef and family issues |
| Date | 1 December 1788 |
| Author | Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker (fl. 1784-1801) |
| Recipient | Knox, Lucy Flucker |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Recipient inferred. Beaumez writes to her "sister," likely Lucy Knox, her sister-in-law. Worries that her daughter, Harriett, has consumption. Thanks Lucy for sending barrels of beef, noting her plans to save the choice cuts for Christmas. Intends to send her daughter to some nearby islands because the doctor informed her that only a change of air "and going to sea" can improve Harriett's condition. Cannot visit America, as she is bound to care for her ill father. Could not afford to pay a quality artist to create portraits of her family. Notes that her daughter resembles Lucy's sister, Hannah Harwood, who lives in England. Harbors no resentment against Harwood, but claims that Harwood's influence on her mother-in-law, (Hannah Waldo Flucker) before Mrs. Flucker's death persuaded her to exclude Beaumez from her will. Expresses disappointment that Mr. Jackson (possibly Henry Jackson) was included in Mrs. Flucker's will. Comments on family and mutual acquaintances. |
| Subjects | Woman Author Women's History Tuberculosis Children and Family Health and Medical Disease Diet and Nutrition Holidays and Celebrations Maritime Travel Art, Music, Theater, and Film Finance Estate |
| People | Knox, Lucy Flucker (1756-1824) Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker (fl. 1784-1801) Flucker, Hannah (1726-1785) Jackson, Henry (1747-1809) Harwood, Hannah Flucker Urquhart (fl. 1774-1796) |
| Place written | Antigua |
| Theme | Women in American History; Children & Family; Health & Medicine; Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | The Henry Knox Papers |
| Additional Information | Sarah Lyons Flucker was the wife of Lucy Knox's brother, Captain Thomas Flucker. She got remarried, after Captain Flucker's death, to Bon-Albert Briois de Beaumez, circa 1796. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |