Rational Recreations in Which the Principles of Numbers and Natural Philosophy are Clearly and Copiously Elucidated, by a Series of Easy, ... The Fourth Edition, Corrected. of 4; Volume 3

by William Hooper

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British Library

T072969



London : printed for B. Law and Son; and G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794. 4v.,plates : engr. music ; 8°

332 pages, Hardcover

Published April 25, 2018

About the author

William Hooper, educator and clergyman, was born in Hillsborough, the oldest son of William and Helen Hogg Hooper. His father, a merchant, was the son of the William Hooper (1742–90) who was one of North Carolina's signers of the Declaration of Independence. His mother was the daughter of James Hogg, resident of Orange County, who was one of the commissioners appointed to select a site for The University of North Carolina. The first William Hooper—great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch—had emigrated to Massachusetts from Scotland about 1737; in Boston, he served as pastor of a Congregational church and, subsequently, as the second rector of Trinity Episcopal Church.