Andrew Hooper, Elizabeth Hooper

1790 Pendleton District SC Census

(The first three categories are: men over 16, males under 16, females)

1. Captain William Perkins's company, Matthew Hooper 1-0-0/1 slave
2. Captain Bailey Anderson's company, Andrew Hooper 4-3-4/0 slaves
3. Captain Benjamin Clark's company, Elizabeth Hooper3-0-2/0 slaves

Captain Perkin's company

This militia company included many individuals who lived along the east bank of the Tugaloo River. The area once had been claimed by Georgia. Franklin County, Georgia land courts chaired by Larkin and by Benjamin Cleveland awarded lands in the area during 1785. However, the Beaufort Convention of 28 April 1787 confirmed the area in the fork of the Keowee and the Tugaloo as part of South Carolina. The 1785 Georgia patents were recognized and recorded again by South Carolina.

The Matthew Hooper in Perkin's company appears to be Obadiah Hooper's son Matthew Brooks Hooper, born 1768 VA. On the 1790 census, only three households intervened between Benjamin Cleveland and Matthew Hooper. Nineteen names before Cleveland was the Nathaniel Perry household. Sometime before 7 October 1793, Perry became a Justice of the Peace. He became a brother-in-law of Matthew Hooper by marrying Matthew's sister Susannah Hooper. Early land plats and deeds suggest Perry was living on his Choestoe Creek (of the Tugaloo) lands in 1790, but he also had received a grant in 1786 for land (sold in 1794) on Raven's Creek of Twelve Mile River in the area where Captain Bailey Anderson was a Justice of the Peace.

Because Matthew Hooper appears not to have lived near the Oolenoy drainage, he will not be further considered.

Militia districts close to the Oolenoy

Captain Anderson's militia district

Andrew Hooper's household fell under the district of Captain Bailey Anderson, a man who served as a Justice of the Peace during the 1790s. Bailey Anderson's own land records show that from 1787 to about 1796, Anderson acquired patents and bought and sold land in the upper Twelve Mile Creek area of Pendleton. This area is the watershed adjacent to and west of that of the Oolenoy drainage. Deeds for other 1790 neighbors in Anderson's district show they lived not only along the upper parts of Twelve Mile Creek, but also along the Big and Little Eastatoe Creeks of the Toxoway River (in the area north and west of the Oolenoy).

All info beyond this point is unfinished and will be completed sometime later in 2002