Thomas Flucker
BIRTH
Oct 9, 1719
Charlestown, Massachusetts
DEATH
February 16, 1783
London, England
FAMILY
FATHER:
James Flucker
(c. 1690-1756)
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Flucker, Thomas
(1719-1783)
Thomas Flucker was the last royal secretary of Massachusetts and a committed Loyalist. The father of Lucy Flucker Knox, he opposed the Revolution, left Boston with British forces in 1776, and spent his remaining years in exile in England.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK |
DIED:
London, England
Feb 16, 1783
Thomas Flucker was born on Oct 9, 1719 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Thomas Flucker with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Thomas Flucker died on Feb 16, 1783 in London, England. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.