Born ‎20 Aug 1675 Haughton, Staffordshire, Eng., died ‎1746 Chester County, PA‎, 70 or 71 years
CHRISTENING: 20 September 1675 Haughton Staffordshire England
another source says 20 Apr 1675 and born 20 Sept 1675

Born ‎27 May 1672 Skelton-In, Cleveland, York, Eng., died ‎afterER AprIL 29, 1746 DATE OF WILL Westown, Chester County Pa‎, buried ‎1748 Edgemont Chester Pa
Last Will and Testament of Daniel D. Hoopes April 29, 1746

I, Daniel Hoopes of Westtown in the County of Chester in the Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman being indisposed in body but of sound disposing mind and memory, prayed be the Lord for the same, considereing that it is appointed for all men once to dye, do make my last will and testament in manner and form following that it is to say first and chiefly I commend my soul into the hands of Almight God wo gave it and my body. I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named, and as for what worldly estate money and effects I have undisposed of I give, bequeath and dispose of as follows

(viz) I order that my just debts and funeral charges be first paid and discharged by my executors.

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I give and bequeath to my oldest son Joshua Hoopes my negro named Tom, and also my still with the appurtenances and my clock and my walnut desk and cloaths trees, he my said son Joshua paying to my daughter Mary the sum of ten pounds current money of the Province within three months next after my decease with which payment I do charge the same premises.

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I give and bequeath to my son Daniel Hoopes my large panel oak chest and one set of silver coat buttons and five shillings in money.

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I give and bequeath to my son John Hoopes the some of five shillings current money of this Province.

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I give and bequeath unto my son Abraham Hoopes the sum of five shillings current money aforesaid, and my cane. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Hoopes the sum of five shillings current money af.

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I give and bequeath unto my son Stephen Hoopes one set of silver coat buttons and also all the residue and remainder of the money due to me upon bonds and bills or otherwise after my debts, funeral expenses and legacies in this my will specified or mentioned and to be mentioned are all paid.

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I give and bequeath unto my son Nathan Hoopes the sum of five pounds current money aforesaid and my riding horse, sadlle and bridle.

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I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Mary Yarnall the sum of five shillings aforesaid. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Hall the sum of fifty shillings current aforesaid.

Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Jane Ashbridge the sum of five shillings aforesaid.

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I give and bequeath unto my daughter Christian Hoopes all my beds, bedding, bedsteads and furniture thereof and all my poewter of every sort and my great looking glass and also all my earthenware.

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I nominate and appoint my sons-in-law George Ashbridge and Phillip Yarnall and my friend Thomas Smedley to be my executors of this my last will and testament. AND lastly I do hereby revoke, disannul and declare utterly void all other wills and testaments by me made either in word or writing and declare this only to be my last will and testament.

In witness thereof I have hereunto se my hand and seal the nine and twentieth day of the second month called April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-Six."

his Daniel D. Hoopes letter

Signed, sealed and published by the said Daniel Hoopes as his last will and testament in the presence of us.

Robert Yarnall


Richard Jones


Deborah Jones

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Biographical Sketch of Thomas HOOPES (1893); Chester County, PA

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Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania,
comprising a historical sketch of the county", by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by
Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1893, pp.
355-6.

"THOMAS HOOPES, an able business man of many years successful experience, and a
member of the well known firm Hoopes, Brother & Darlington, who own and operate
the largest wheel factory east of the Allegheny mountains, is a son of Thomas,
Sr., and Elizabeth (Darlington) Hoopes, and was born in West Goshen township,
Chester county, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1834. The Hoopes family is among
the oldest and most respectable families of Pennsylvania, and was founded in
1683 in Bucks county by Joshua Hoopes, who, with his wife Isabel, came in that
year from Cleveland in Yorkshire, England. They brought with them their three
children: Daniel, Margaret and Christian. Daniel Hoopes came to Westtown town-
ship in 1696, and on December 10th of that year, he married Jane Worrilow,
daughter of Thomas and Jane Worrilow, of Edgmont. His son, Thomas Hoopes
(great-grandfather) was born October 22, 1714, and settled on a portion of the
six hundred and thirty acre tract of land in Goshen township, which his father
had purchased from a sea captain, who had bought it from the Penns. He was a
farmer by occupation, and died May 21, 1803, aged eighty-nine years. He married
Susanna Davies, and after her death, Amy Cope. A son by his second marriage
was Jesse Cope (grandfather), who died in 1825. One of his sons was Thomas
Hoopes, Sr. (father), born in 1794, on the old homestead, where he died in May,
1880, at eighty-six years of age. He was a farmer by occupation, and a member
of the Society of Friends. He was a useful man, and a Whig and republican in
politics, and in 1816, married Eliza Darlington, who was born in 1797, and
passed away in 1878, when in the eighty-first year of her age. Mr. and Mrs.
Hoopes had nine children, seven sons and two daughters.

"Thomas Hoopes grew to manhood on the paternal acres, and received his education
in the public and high schools of West Chester. At the early age of sixteen
years he commenced farming, which he followed until he was twenty-three, when
he went west, where he was engaged for five years in Colorado and Iowa in
mining and the lumber business. At the end of that time, in 1862, he returned
to Chester county and was engaged in farming until 1868, when he removed with
his brother William to West Chester, and organized the present celebrated West
Chester spoke and wheel manufacturing firm of Hoopes, Bro. & Darlington. Their
plant, which is known as the West Chester wheel works, occupies three acres of
ground, on which are erected large and commodious frame and brick buildings,
embracing engine house, work shops, finishing factory, and a neat and tasteful
office building. The company has 100,000 square feet of floor surface in their
buildings. They employ from one hundred and fifty to two hundred men, and have
an output of forty thousand sets of wheels per year. Mr. Hoopes' is one of the
leading industrial establishments of the eastern part of the State, and he has
made for himself a name as an honorable and first class manufacturer in the
many different sections of the State and country where the products of his works
are used.

"On June 14, 1864, Mr. Hoopes was united in marriage with Amanda Russell,
daughter of Thomas Russell, of the city of Baltimore. To their union have been
born six children, five sons and one daughter: Charles R., who is in charge of
the office of Hoopes, Brother & Darlington; William, superintendent of the Bala
& Merion Electric Company; Herbert, deceased; Maurice, superintendent of the
electric light plant of West Chester; Arthur, now a student in Edison's labor-
atory at Orange, New Jersey; and Emily.

"Thomas Hoopes is a republican, and has cast his vote for every presidential
candidate of that party since its organization in 1856. He is interested in
the industrial progress and general prosperity of his native city, and has
served for some time as the president of the board of trade. His time and
attention are chiefly given to the extensive business which has been built up
during the last quarter of a century. He is now in the line of his proper
life-work, and the results of his labor are those of substantial success, as
attested by the existence of the splendidly equipped factory and extensive
trade over a wide area of territory. He is modest and reserved, yet affable
and pleasant. Mr. Hoopes' success and reputation have come, not as the result
of accident, but as the fruits of excellence of work and special ability of
management."
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Daniel D. HOOPES b. Skelton, Yorkshire, England, m. 10 Dec 1696, in Middletown MM, Delaware Co., PA, Jane WORRILOW, b. ? ___ 1675, Staffordshire, England, d. BEF 1746, Chester Co., PA, LDS AFN: 1MCH-CF. Daniel died ? ___ 1749, Westown, Chester Co., PA, LDS AFN: 1MCH-B8. Daniel and Jane Hoopes, had seventeen children, eleven of whom reached the age of 80 years. They were married in the home of John Bowater, in what is now Delaware Co., but was then part of Chester Co. Daniel's surname does not contain an "e" in "Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810."