William Hooper
“The colonies are striding fast to independence, and ere long will build an empire upon the ruins of Great Britain.”
Born in Boston, the son of a Scottish minister, he studied at Harvard, became a lawyer and migrated to North Carolina. At the beginning of the unrest with England Hooper was a Loyalist. He sensed which way the wind was blowing and changed sides. In 1774-6 he was one of North Carolina’s delegates to the both the first and second Continental Congress’s. He was in North Carolina when the Declaration of Independence was passed but he arrived in Philadelphia in time to sign it on August 2, 1776.
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