237:. His grandfather Howson Hooe Sr. (1696–1780) had married Ann Frances Harris (1703–1751) and raised their large family on the family King George County plantations. His father's elder brothers Howson Hooe Jr. (1726–1796) and John Hooe (1728–1798) received a plantation in Prince William County in 1751 known as "Buckhall", which their mother had inherited, upon her death. Howson Hooe Jr. became a leading citizen of Prince William County, including a vestryman of Dettingen parish and justice of the county Court, but no longer lived in the county by 1787. He had married Mary E. Dade (1727–1796) and they had at least eight children, including sons Henry Dade Hooe (1747–1806), Robert Howson Hooe (1748–1832), Howson Hooe III (1750–1833), John Hooe (1752–1819), and Dade Hooe (1757–1837), as well as daughters Ann (1755-1834), Frances (1760-1818), Elizabeth (1765–1850) and Mary (1772–1832).
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By 1860, Philip Hooe had left his father's household and returned to
Alexandria, where he would soon enlist and fight for the Confederacy; his parents now lived with Mrs. Caroline McCallister and her family as the elder Bernard Hooe continued to work as a clerk and his younger son as a draftsman. By this time, his cousin John Hooe had become one of Prince William County's largest landowners, using enslaved labor at his plantations including
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county by his brother Howson, and 5 adult and 5 younger slaves owned by his brother Col. John Hooe, and 8 adult and 10 younger slaves owned by his nephew Robert Howson Hooe. Later, Bernard Hooe Esq. served as overseer of the Poor in
Dettingen Parish (beginning in 1791), and as one of the justices of Prince William County (beginning in 1790). He became trustee of the new town of
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Bernard Hooe's daughters survived their parents: Mary Elizabeth Hooe (1815–1887) married D.C. physician Dr. Johnston; and Sarah Ellen Hooe (1823-1882), married Alexandria commission merchant George Dashiel Fowle in 1843, and their daughter (this Bernard's granddaughter) Ellen would marry General (and later Virginia governor)
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Thacker Hooe inherited the house and plantation (which had increased to 957 acres and tax books came to list as "Hazel Plain"). Although the family retained the burial ground, Elizabeth's second husband, William H. Fowle, divided the property within a decade, and after succeeding sales
Benjamin T. Chinn bought the estate, now known as the "Chinn House" and within
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had become a three-year term as mayor (1833–1836). In March 1840, Bernard Hooe and fellow attorney Henry M. Thomas defended four "negroes" charged in
Fairfax County with rebellion and insurrection for beating John Ashford; two of the accused prisoners were convicted and sentenced to hang; the other two were acquitted.
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Bernard Hooe became a lawyer as well as a merchant in northern
Virginia, and also became a planter using enslaved labor in Prince William County using enslaved labor. Prince William County voters elected him to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1819. Though he did not win re-election, he was elected
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By 1850, Bernard Hooe (who now identified himself as a clerk), his wife and sons Philip (a merchant) and
Bernard Jr. had moved to the District of Columbia and owned no slaves, although a distant relative Abram B. Hooe in King George County owned 51 slaves in that census and 65 slaves a decade later.
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Complicating matters, this man's uncle John also had a son named
Bernard Hooe (1770–1809), who inherited part of that Buckhall tract upon his father's death in 1798, and lived on that estate he called "Locust Grove". Cousin Bernard Hooe actually won political office first, a special election in 1809
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American Civil War began, and although not re-elected as his company's lieutenant in early 1862, by the end of the year he survived his battle wound defending Richmond and became captain of Company A. After the conflict, P.B. Hooe became an Alexandria businessmen as well as leading member of
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Bernard Hooe had moved much of his legal practice and family (including 11 slaves) to Alexandria, Virginia. Hooe may also have owned four additional slaves in Fairfax County in 1830. Hooe became a member of Alexandria's city council in 1833, and fellow councilors selected him for what
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during the American Revolutionary War. By 1787, he had become a lawyer like Grayson, and held more wealth in the county than his elder brothers, including 20 adult slaves and 29 slaves under 16 years of age, as well as 15 horses and 30 cattle, compared to 9 adult and 20 younger slaves owned in the
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and what decades after his death twice became a battlefield. About 1809, the same Bernard Hooe bought another 343 acres of land nearby and by 1815 had erected a house and lived on that plantation with his family, including this Bernard Jr. He died at that house in 1828, and his daughter Elizabeth
267:(for neighboring Fairfax and Prince William counties) became U.S. Senator, but never assumed the office, having died in October 1809, of a gunshot wound from a Maryland duel with James Kempe (which caused the Virginia General Assembly to increase penalties for the previously outlawed practice).
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Bernard Hooe survived his wife (who died in 1862) and died in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1869. His remains were returned to Alexandria for burial beside his wife and several of their children in the graveyard of
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near the then-large county's center in 1798, and won election as the county sheriff in 1800 (an office often held by succeeding generations of Hooes). In 1800, the elder Bernard Hooe purchased 145 acres near
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