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[Identification of item], in the George Hooper Papers, #351-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from the North Carolina Historical Society prior to 1940.

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• American loyalists--North Carolina.
• Hooper family.
• Hooper, George, approximately 1744-1821.
• Maclaine family.
• Maclaine, Archibald, 1728-1790.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1783.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--History--18th century.

Archibald Maclaine Memorandum Book (#2313-z).

George Hooper (1747-1821) and his brother Thomas Hooper merchants and Loyalists of Wilmington, N.C., exiled to Charleston, S.C., when the British army withdrew from Wilmington. Their brother William Hooper was a Revolutionary leader of North Carolina and signer of the Declaration of Independence. George Hooper married Catherine Maclaine, daugther of Archibald Maclaine (1728-1790), lawyer and legislator of Wilmington, N.C., and Elizabeth Rowan Maclaine.

The collection is chiefly letters of Archibald Maclaine to his son-in-law, George Hooper, about family, political, and business affairs and the problems of Loyalists. The letters include news of Wilmington and North Carolina, comments on local persons, requests for shipment of supplies from Charleston, S.C., and discussion of economic problems. Letters also mention John Burgwin, Timothy Bloodworth, Thomas Burke, Alexander Martin, Samuel Johnston, William Hooper, Griffith Rutherford, James Walker, and others. There is also one letter, 1782, to William Hooper of Hillsborough, N.C., by John Huske on behalf of the mercantile firm of MacLain and Huske; and a letter, 1788, from Archibald Maclaine to Edward Jones about political affairs.

Oversize papers (OPF-351/1).