Lucy Flucker Knox

Lucy Knox Thatcher, daughter of Henry Knox and Lucy Flucker (Montpelier, The General Henry Knox Museum)

Lucy Flucker Knox (August 2, 1756 – June 20, 1824) was an American revolutionary. Born the daughter of Thomas Flucker, the Royal Secretary of Massachusetts, Lucy abandoned her loyalist upbringing in favor of the patriot’s cause under the influence of suitor, Henry Knox. After their marriage, Lucy moved from camp to camp, providing support to the men serving under her husband, while Henry rose to Major General, George Washington’s head of artillery in the American Revolution. At the end of the war, Henry served as first Secretary of War in President Washington’s cabinet. When Henry finally retired from public life, he and Lucy Knox settled in Thomaston and built Montpelier, a magnificent three story mansion surrounded by outbuildings, the whole of “a beauty, symmetry and magnificence” said to be unequaled in the Commonwealth.