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"This book (in two volumes) seeks to collect in one place information that constitutes a guidebook to those settler families of the surname 'Frierson' found in South Carolina records from at least 1736 and the people descended through their male and female children."--General introduction, p. Intro-5.

This volume contains various personal and family writings, though Cooper never wrote any autobiographical works as such. They are: his account (written long afterwards) of a total solar eclipse he witnessed as a young man home from the sea; two sets of excerpts from his fragmentary diary published by his daughter Susan after his death; his preface to Susan's first novel; and the history he wrote of Cooperstown, his home village, founded by and named after his family.