Wills

Many of these wills and/or descriptions of the families involved are mentioned in the Hooper Compass quarterly newsletter. See the contents page for further description of the newsletter. For purchase or subscription information, see the order form.

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• Kentucky records
  • James Hooper will probated in Union County, Kentucky in 1813. He spent much of his married life in upper South Carolina, and moved to Kentucky around 1803.
• A Georgia record
  • Esaias Harbour will and estate of Franklin County, Georgia (1830s). The will briefly mentions Harbour's "former son-in-law Richard Hooper" and grandson William M. Hooper.
• North Carolina records
  • Jackson County NC Equity Case - a vicious court case pitting ten children of Absalom Hooper against two of their brothers. A full discussion of the case appears in the first volume of the Hooper Compass.
  • Wills involving family of William Hooper, North Carolina's Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
    • William Hooper, 1788.
    • Anne Hooper, wife of the signer, 1793.
    • Thomas Hooper, son of the signer, 1804.
    • George Hooper, brother of the signer, 1820.
• Tennessee records
  • Churchill Hooper of [then] Davidson County, Tennessee wrote his will in 1807. Transcription and images of his will as submitted for probate in 1808. The will identifies executor Thomas Hooper as a brother to the testator. Records pertaining to this testator sometimes identify him as Churchwell Hooper or as Churchell Hooper.
  • William Hooper 1825, Montgomery County. William Hooper had been among the first settlers of middle Tennessee, having appeared on a 1787 tax list for Davidson County.
  • Natchez/Nashville Absalom Hooper 1811, Davidson County. Absalom Hooper migrated to middle Tennessee from the Natchez District in 1783. Also see a biography of this man at What we know about Natchez Absalom Hooper.
• British records.