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Nicholas Hooper Records

Stewart Bell Jr. Archives
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society
P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041 ext. 17
archives@handleyregional.org
www.handleyregional.org

388 WFCHS

Inventory created by Archives Staff 12/84. Revised by staff 10/19.

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Collection is open to all researchers.

USE RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions may apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a member of the archives staff for information concerning these restrictions. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright.

EXTENT: 1 volume (215 pages, plus some unnumbered and blank pages) ; 32 cm

DATE:  1828-1871

SCOPE AND CONTENT:  The Nicholas Hooper Records consists of a single account book kept by Hooper between 1828 and 1835. The account book records transactions for Hooper’s general merchandise business. There are also entries for tree plantings in 1871 which may have been added by Hooper’s son.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: Nicholas Hooper ran a general merchandise business in Frederick County. He married Jane I. Harris on October 14, 1820.

ALTERNATIVE FORM AVAILABLE: Digitized 2007. Available on GSU disc 005-014. Not online.

CITE AS: Nicholas Hooper Records, 388 WFCHS, Stewart Bell, Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA.

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Acquired as a gift.

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1

Account book, 1828-1831; 1871, 1 volume (215 pages, plus some unnumbered and blank pages) ; 32 cm