William Hooper (1742-1790) Papers, PC.1141
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- William Hooper (1742-1790) Papers
- Call Number
- PC.1141
- Creator
- Unknown
- Date
- 1773-1810
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
Papers relating to Hooper, lawyer, legislator from New Hanover and Orange counties, and delegate to Continental Congress (1774-1777), including letter from Commissary General Joseph Trumbull describing the siege of Boston (Mar., 1776); one concerning medicines ordered; and one from loyalist Mary Middleton about vessel taken as prize (n.d.). Letters from Hooper include photocopies of two undated letters (Nov.-Dec., 1775?) about politics in Pennsylvania, American vessels and prizes, need for imported powder, and war news; and three postwar letters, one a copy, from Hooper in Hillsborough to his brother in Wilmington about a lawsuit, his sons, the constitutional ratification conventions, Willie Jones, and Orange Co. and Wilmington politics (1788). Miscellaneous items include a manuscript biographical sketch of Hooper, written about 1825 and containing comments on Cape Fear society before the Revolution and quotations from Hooper's contemporaries; copies of letters from John Penn and Cornelius Harnett to Governor Caswell about militia, pay of a major general and staff, provisions for army, and prisoners of war (Feb. 18, 1776), and from Joseph Hewes to James Iredell about his ill health, Congress, and Hessians (May 17, 1776); copy of proclamation by Gen. Jethro Sumner pardoning deserters and "delinquents" who join the troops (Jan. 25, 1781); and copies of obituary (1810) and biographical sketch of Judge Alfred Moore.