Tom Moore in Bermuda, a bit of literary gossip . in London, Mary Lamprey, ^^ of Stuizy, Kent, and by her had four children. ^^ Mr. Tucker died at Bermuda in November, 1800. Among his first cousins were Thomas Tudor Tucker, treasurer of the United States from 1801 till his death in 1828, and his brother St. George, the Virginia jurist, both of whom emigrated to the southern colonies early in life and took the American side in the Revolution. Although, like a true sailors daughter, she is said to havebeen born at sea, it is more than probable that the remem- Daughter of John and Mary Lamprey, bo
Tom Moore in Bermuda, a bit of literary gossip . in London, Mary Lamprey, ^^ of Stuizy, Kent, and by her had four children. ^^ Mr. Tucker died at Bermuda in November, 1800. Among his first cousins were Thomas Tudor Tucker, treasurer of the United States from 1801 till his death in 1828, and his brother St. George, the Virginia jurist, both of whom emigrated to the southern colonies early in life and took the American side in the Revolution. Although, like a true sailors daughter, she is said to havebeen born at sea, it is more than probable that the remem- Daughter of John and Mary Lamprey, born at Frindsbury, Kent, in1757- Hester Louisa, born 20 August, 1786 (baptised Esther Louisa atSt. Georges 17 December, 1786); St. George, born 1788; James Craw-ford, born 1795; and EHza Bridger, born and died 1796. The two daughterswere doubtless named respectively for Mr. Tuckers mother and half-sister Elizabeth, wife of Bridger Goodrich, a Virginia Loyalist who in1778, at the age of twenty, commanded a British privateer fitted out Hester Louisa Tucker 2>^ Tom Moore in Bermuda bered experiences of Hester Tuckers rather short hfe wereconfined to the httle island colony. When, ii June, 1803,in the parish church at St. Georges, she was married to WilliamTucker, she was not quite seventeen. The official witnessesof the ceremony were her mother and her fathers cousinHenry Tucker, president of the council. The bridegroom,who was about five years her senior, she must have known fromchildhood, although they were only distantly, if at all, related. First seeing the light at St. Eustatius, one of the DutchWest Indies, early in 1781, William Tuckers origin is ofsome interest, connected as it is with one of the most disgrace-ful episodes in British naval history. His parents, Richard Tucker and Mary Foote, were marriedin 1759 by the rector of St. Georges, ]\Ir. Alexander Richard-son,^* who forty-four years later united their youngest sonand pretty Hester. Having taken a med
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