With generous support from the Friends of the Maryland State Archives ~ and especially from Ret. United States Court of Appeals Judge Levin H. Campbell ~ Jean spent much of 2011 to 2015 exploring the career of Henry Hooper, a resident of Dorchester County, Maryland, and Speaker of the Lower House of Maryland’s General Assembly from 1754 to 1763. A good deal of the research is distilled into her article in the Summer 2015 issue of the Maryland Historical Magazine: “The Best Justice of the Peace in the Province”: Colonel Henry Hooper (ca. 1687-1767).
In the course of investigating Hooper’s background and early career, Jean gathered information about Hooper’s extended family and its connections to many of the Eastern Shore’s prominent families.
As a result of all this digging about, we have at hand a great deal of information about Henry Hooper and his kin — not to mention a lot of experience gathering data from these disparate sources. Questions? Please contact us!