Note 21 — LETTER XII. To Richard Cooper, Esquire, Cooperstown.

The celebrated Sir William Draper was once present when the subject turned on the descent of families, and the changes that names underwent. “Now my own is a proof of what I say,” he continued, with the intention to put an end to a discourse that was getting to savour of family pride—“my family being directly derived from King Pepin.” “How do you make that out, Sir William?” “By self evident orthographical testimony—as you may see—Pepin, Pipkin, Napkin, Diaper, Draper.”