Daniel Hooper (New Jersey) Daniel Hooper (New Jersey) Major Daniel Hooper (died 1700/01) was a judge and politician in New Jersey. Daniel Hooper was a native of Christ Church, Barbados, and spent his time between New Jersey and his native island. On September 12, 1679, Daniel Hooper was commissioned as a member of a County Court for Elizabethtown and Newark, which would later evolve into Essex County. He is mentioned in the commission as being of the East New Jersey Provincial Council, but no other record survives of his tenure on the Council. He would later return to Barbados, as he is referred to
Battle of Middle Boggy Depot ON THIS SITE LIE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN BATTLE, FEBRUARY 13, 1864 "The Confederate encampment here at Middle (or Muddy) Boggy Crossing on the Boggy Depot Road held by Lt. Col. John Jumper's Seminole Battalion, Capt. Adam Nail's Company "A" of First Choctaw and Chickasaw Cavalry, and a detachment of the Twentieth Texas Regiment was suddenly attacked by Federal Forces --- 3 companies of Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry, Maj. Charles Willetts in command, and a section of howitzers under Capt. Solomon Kaufman. The Confederates, though poorly armed, made a firm stand in a hot fight of 30 minutes in which