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William Hooper Episode 1: Boston Ashlar to Carolina Lawyer – Regulator Hunter & The First Square | The Quiet Flipper
What’s up, you magnificent bastards? 👊 Episode 1 of The Quiet Flipper — our 4-part deep dive into Brother William Hooper.
The quiet flipper from Boston who became one of North Carolina’s three signers of the Declaration of Independence. We follow the delicate Harvard kid, son of a Loyalist Anglican rector, who crushed the Regulator rebellion as deputy attorney general riding with royal forces, then flipped hard when he saw Parliament running the same corrupt playbook on the colonies.
From circuit-riding lawyer in Wilmington, builder of Finian plantation, member of Hanover Lodge, to the…
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