This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Size | 47 items |
Abstract | George Hooper was a Loyalist exile and merchant of Charleston, S.C. The collection includes letters of Archibald Maclaine (1728-1790), lawyer and legislator of Wilmington, N.C., to his son-in-law, George Hooper, about family, political, and business affairs and the problems of Loyalists. |
Creator | Hooper, George, approximately 1744-1821. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Back to TopThe following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.
Archibald Maclaine Memorandum Book (#2313-z).
Back to TopGeorge 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.
Back to TopThe 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.
Back to Top
Folder 1-2
Folder 1Folder 2 |
1782-1783 |
Folder 3 |
1784-1788 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-351/1 |
Letter, 1783 |
Oversize papers (OPF-351/1).
Back to Top