Hi Folks, Here's some excerpts I had posted on a Hooper family forum, but there are Missisquoi families mentioned here too. (I'm a Francis Waggoner descendant.) Any feedback appreciated. Thanks, Linda Waggoner General Parsons, writing from Crompound in Westchester county, advises Governor Clinton that,  "Five persons are apprehended on their road to New York, who will be sent to Poughkeepsie to-morrow. By one of them, from Stillwater, we are informed that one, Stephen Hooper, is on the road to New York and that he has two letters, one from Governor Carleton (of Canada), the other from Sir John Johnson, concealed in the heels of his shoes. He is about five feet six inches high, about thirty years of age, a large black beard, blue coat turned up with the same, flat brass buttons and a small brimmed hat and leather breeches. One, James Conklin, is in the company with him, is something taller, thin visage, light countenance, basket buttons on his coat. The informant says, he believes these persons are now near Poughkeepsie at John Valentine's, who is a relative of his. This information I thought necessary to give you that proper measures may be taken to apprehend them. There are at this place about one hundred barrels of provisions. I am and & Sam. H. Parsons To Governor N. Clinton" [Life and Letters of Samuel Holden Parsons: Major-general in the Continental Army and Chief Judge of the Northwestern Territory 1737-1789, Page 148-149, by Charles S. Hall, 1905] "That on the second day of said meeting, being the 20th Instant they had bound the following Persons in Recognizance's for their good behavior doing their duty and appearing before any three of the Commissioners for Conspiracies when thereunto required during the Continuance of the present war with Great Britain-- Stephen Hooper of New Town Farmer in [pounds sign] 100 Simon Van Camp of the same place Farmer his bail in [pounds sign] 100 John Hooper of New Town Farmer in [pounds sign] 100 Francis Waggoner of the same place his bail in [pounds sign] 100 [also listed from New Town for 100 lbs. bail: Joseph Devall, Stephen Hooper, Joseph Conklin, Dirk Heemstraedt, Jr., James Conklin, Dirk Heemstraedt, John A. Conklin, William Bartin, Peter Van Campen, Hendrick Brevoort, Stephen Ladue, John Vincent, Nicholas Teachout, Amos Moore, William Williams, Jr. and William Williams [page 466] Met Albany 27th July 1781--Present John M. Beekman, Samuel Stringer, Isaac D. Fonda, Christina Hooper, formerly of Thurlough of Tryon County having been cited to appear before the Board and she appearing this day agreeable to the said Order and being Examined as to the Thurlough inhabitants saith as follows (to wit) (see examination on file)" [page 753] [Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York, Albany County Sessions, 1781-1781, googlebooks.com] "Estates confiscated" include Stephen Hooper, John Hooper, Jr. [New York in the Revolution as colony and state, ancestry.com] Francis Waggoner (whose property in Half Moon, near Newtown, was confiscated during the American Revolution) was the "bailsman" for John Hooper who was held as prisoner along with Stephen Hooper, the spy with the secrets in his shoe. A few of the Saratoga area Tory-loyalists from the Newtown "squirmish," including a Conklin, lived near Waggoner in the Missisquoi area of Vermont and Canada. Janette Hooper (who might have been Stephen's sister) was Waggoner's wife and of their 4 sons, one was named John and one Stephen. A Stephen Hooper enlisted at Ulster Co., New York, in 1762 during the French Indian War. The enlistment record shows he was born in New Jersey, 5'3", brown hair and eyes.  Name: Stephen HOOPER . . . Death: 1808 in Junius, Seneca Co, NY . . . Will: 24 MAR 1808 Probate: 20 JUN 1810 Seneca Co. Courthouse, Waterloo, NY Residence: BEF 1776 Settled at Malta, NY.["The UPDIKE GENEALOGY,"  http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi ?]