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
Boggy Depot, Oklahoma Atoka, on the railroad, flourished while Boggy Depot languished and became a ghost town. The Boggy Depot post office officially closed on July 31, 1934. Today little remains of the original town except for a few stone foundations and the cemetery. Choctaw Chief Allen Wright and the Reverend Cyrus Kingsbury are buried there. Boggy Depot Park , formerly known as Boggy Depot State Park, is a recreation area that commemorates the old town and the history of the area. The park gets its name from Clear Boggy Creek and from its use as a Confederate commissary depot during the Civil