William Hooper (1742-1790) Memorandum Book, MfP.50

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William Hooper (1742-1790) Memorandum Book, MfP.50

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Title
William Hooper (1742-1790) Memorandum Book
Call Number
MfP.50
Creator
Unknown
Date
1780-1783
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Memorandum book of Hooper, attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress, 1775-1777. Many of the entries are accounts of fees received for legal services in criminal and civil cases in superior courts, with clients including John Alston, Richard Blackledge, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Thomas Harvey, and Samuel Swann. Other entries record traveling expenses, wardrobe, purchase of land, money borrowed and lent, bonds and notes held, and Negro laborers sent to a saltworks. The original is in the collections of the New-York Historical Society.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Hooper, William
  2. Alston, John
  3. Blackledge, Richard
  4. Spaight, Richard Dobbs
  5. Harvey, Thomas
  6. Swann, Samuel
  7. United States. Declaration of Independence
  8. United States. Continental Congress
  9. North Carolina. Superior Court
  10. Lawyers
  11. Criminal Law
  12. Legal services
  13. Civil procedure
  14. Courts
  15. Travel
  16. Cost
  17. Clothing
  18. Land titles--Registration and transfer
  19. African Americans
  20. Laborers
  21. Money
  22. Debtor and creditor
  23. Salt mines and mining