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From: "David Kearney" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] This Was Chesapeake Bay
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:36:14 -0400
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Dorothy,

The book's index does not appear to list PATTISON, WINDER, or FASSITT as family names. The book does have two listings for individuals named HOOPER, as follows:

Captain Frank B. Hooper is named as the captain of the "full-rigged" Ann E. Hooper, in 1859, when the Hooper undertook a three-day long rescue the crew of the "storm-tossed" bark, Ouzel Galley, which had been bound from Dublin to Trinidad. As a result of the rescue, Queen Victoria directed a painting of the Hooper in the act of carrying out the rescue. Queen Victoria presented the painting and an engraved telescope to Captain Hooper. As of the writing of This Was Chesapeake Bay, the painting was in the possession of the Mariner's Museum, after being passed down through Captain Hooper's family, while the telescope had "disappeared." Pages 24 & 25.

James Hooper also is mentioned in connection with the Ann E. Hooper, as the ship's owner. James Hooper was born at Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland on July 5, 1804, according to This Was Chesapeake Bay. Page 25. The book also relates that James Hooper's "unusual career began during the War of 1812 when, but a boy of 8 years, he took the place of a man aboard the schooner Comet, one of [the] flotilla protecting the port of Baltimore." Id. The Ann E. Hooper was named after James Hooper's wife. Id.

The book index also has entries for "Hooper Island, Md.," and "Hooper's Straits, Md."

I hope you find something useful in the above entries!

Dave Kearney



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Any Pattisons, Winders, Fassitts, or Hoopers?
Many thanks,
Dorothy O'Neill


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