When Samuel Marion Looper was born on 9 May 1837, in Pickens, South Carolina, United States, his father, Joseph Looper Sr, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Hester, was 26. He married Martha Ann Satterfield in 1858, in Pickens, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Pickens, Pickens, South Carolina, United States in 1850 and Dacusville, Pickens, South Carolina, United States for about 50 years. He died on 18 February 1923, in Pickens, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cross Roads Baptist Church Cemetery, Easley, Pickens, South Carolina, United States.
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Dutch: literally ‘runner’, an occupational name for a messenger or for someone who made excursions into the woods. Compare Loper .
History: In New Netherland (now NY) the term Boschlooper was used to denote traders who went out (sometimes literally by running) into the woods to intercept Indians bringing furs to Fort Orange (now Albany, NY). The practice was forbidden because of the use of coercion to secure a deal, as happened especially when the trader was on horseback.
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