Descendants of Archalus Hooper - pafc02 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File

¹Deed of sale, Elkanah and Ruth (Hooper) Shurtliff/Shurtleff of Plympton, Plymouth Co., MA, to James Soule, Middleborough, eBay item 2281293399, auction ends 6 Nov. 2004.
Witness signatures of Melzar Loring and Seth Hooper. See e-mail message from seller, dated 30 Oct. 2004.
Is the witness Seth Hooper the same Seth Hooper who was living in Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., MA, in 1803?.

²Hyde, John, Historical Sketches of Old New Berlin, New Berlin, N.Y.: Unadilla Valley Historical Society, 1907., pp. 90-91, HeritageQuest Online.
"Joseph and Seth Hooper settled on farms above [Daniel] Hills'. Joseph Hooper was a chair-maker and a house-painter. Many of the old village buildings were indebted to his paint-brush for the new dress of paint. He left his property to his son Alva, who lived on the farm some years after his father's death and finally sold the farm to Thomas Beatty, whose heirs are now the occupants. (Now owned by C. A. Pope.) Seth Hooper was a blacksmith. On his decease his farm passed into the hands of strangers. Robert Jeffrey is now its owner and lives on it, and by his practical farming operations has greatly increased its value. (Now owned by O. F. Matterson.)."

Betsey French

¹Pittsfield, Massachusetts birth records, 1761-1888, Manuscript, Book 1, p. 137, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL microfilm 234,543.