Ebook Hooper Genealogy

The senior compiler was led to take up the preparation of this work by an inquiry as to whether the family had been written up; and when he found so many interesting people of the New England stocks, residing in various parts of the Union, and no genealogy to memorialize the past and delight the present and future Hoopers and children of Hooper mothers, he undertook the work. More than twenty-five years' experience in such research and authorship gave him preparation for the undertaking. He had gone but little way, however, when he found the junior compiler in possession of a very full and workmanlike genealogy of the line of one of the pioneers, William, of Reading; and the enterprise was very greatly forwarded by this, as it enabled the searcher to assign the records he had concerning people of that branch. Mr. Thomas Hooper, moreover, generously placed what he had gathered through years of labor and wide correspondence entirely at Mr. Pope's disposal, and it is published as the First Part of the book. The records of English Hoopers given at the opening of Part Three and in the Appendix were gathered by Mr. Pope in England. The other parts were then made up by examination of the records at our State House and in many towns, and by the replies received from many kind correspond ents over the land. That the book is imperfect goes without saying; fallible authors will make errors; and correspondents who give only part of the information asked or persons who fail to reply cannot expect to find the records of their partien lar families perfect, although a compiler sometimes makes up for such defects or errors by work in other channels.