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Maj. Gen. Daniel Gookin
1612 - 1687 (75 years)-
Name Daniel Gookin [1] Prefix Maj. Gen. Birth 1612 England or Ireland 
[2, 3] Gender Male Alternate birth of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts [4] Death 19 Mar 1687 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts [2, 3] Burial Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts [3, 5] Person ID I18514 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB Last Modified 28 Apr 2024
Father Daniel Gookin, b. Bef 28 Oct 1582 d. Bef 3 Apr 1663, Cork, Cork, Ireland (Age < 80 years) Mother Mary Byrd d. Bef 27 Jul 1635 Marriage 31 Jan 1609 Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England [5] Family ID F11271 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Dolling, b. of St. Dunstan in the West, London, England d. 27 Oct 1683, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Marriage Aft 11 Nov 1639 London, England [3, 5] Children + 1. Elizabeth Gookin, b. 14 Mar 1645 d. 30 Nov 1700 (Age 55 years) + 2. Samuel Gooking, b. 22 Apr 1652, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 16 Sep 1730, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 78 years)Family ID F11269 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Apr 2024
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Notes - "Daniel Gookin, military and governmental supervisor of the Indians, was born in England or Ireland in 1612, the son of Daniel Gookin, Sr. He travelled to Virginia with his younger brother to look after his father’s land in the colony. He first appears in the colonial Virginia records in 1630 at the age of thirty. He received his own land of 2,500 acres in 1634-35. After his wife died in 1639, he returned to London and remarried Mary Dolling. They both sailed back to Virginia in 1641, where Gookin served as a representative from Upper Norfolk County in the Assembly and was appointed captain of the local militia. Gookin was sympathetic to the puritan cause during the British civil wars and carried the Nansemond Petition to Boston in the fall of 1642 asking that puritan ministers be sent to Virginia to establish three new parishes. Gov. William Berkeley ejected the ministers and Gookin moved to New England, where he became a member of the First Church in Boston and freeman in May 1644. While attending the Boston church, he settled in Roxbury but soon moved to Cambridge, where he became a member of Thomas Shepard’s church. He was appointed captain of the Cambridge company militia (1648-87), elected representative from Cambridge to the Massachusetts General Court (1649 and 1651), chosen speaker of the House (1651), and elected assistant (1652-75, 1677-87). During the Cromwellian Protectorate, he travelled between England and New England. At the restoration, he returned on the same ship as the regicides Edward Whalley and William Goffe and entertained them at his Cambridge home before they moved into the colony of Connecticut. Gookin had assisted John Eliot with establishing praying Indian towns and was appointed superintendent of the Christian Indians in 1657. Because he had been busy on the island of Jamaica for most of 1656 and 1657 as an agent of the Cromwellian government, Humphrey Atherton took his place and it was only in 1661 that Gookin turned his full attention to the job of superintendent of Christian Indians. Gookin believed that Indians had to adopt European ways. When King Philip’s War broke out in 1675, Gookin and Eliot moved many of the 'praying Indians' from Natick to Deer Island in Boston harbor to protect them, first, from hostile puritan settlers in the Boston area and, second, from Metacom’s warriors. This did not make him popular and he was not elected assistant in 1676. He soon resumed his public office and was re-elected assistant the following year and appointed major general of the colony’s militia. He died at his home in Cambridge on March 19, 1687. Gookin wrote two works on New England Indians (unpublished during the colonial period): Historical Collections of the Indians in New England (ms. 1674) and An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians of New England in 1675, 1676 and 1677 (ms. 1677)." [Yale University Indian Papers Project]
Along with his son-in-law the Rev. John Eliot, he was one of the founders of Worcester, Massachusetts.
- "Daniel Gookin, military and governmental supervisor of the Indians, was born in England or Ireland in 1612, the son of Daniel Gookin, Sr. He travelled to Virginia with his younger brother to look after his father’s land in the colony. He first appears in the colonial Virginia records in 1630 at the age of thirty. He received his own land of 2,500 acres in 1634-35. After his wife died in 1639, he returned to London and remarried Mary Dolling. They both sailed back to Virginia in 1641, where Gookin served as a representative from Upper Norfolk County in the Assembly and was appointed captain of the local militia. Gookin was sympathetic to the puritan cause during the British civil wars and carried the Nansemond Petition to Boston in the fall of 1642 asking that puritan ministers be sent to Virginia to establish three new parishes. Gov. William Berkeley ejected the ministers and Gookin moved to New England, where he became a member of the First Church in Boston and freeman in May 1644. While attending the Boston church, he settled in Roxbury but soon moved to Cambridge, where he became a member of Thomas Shepard’s church. He was appointed captain of the Cambridge company militia (1648-87), elected representative from Cambridge to the Massachusetts General Court (1649 and 1651), chosen speaker of the House (1651), and elected assistant (1652-75, 1677-87). During the Cromwellian Protectorate, he travelled between England and New England. At the restoration, he returned on the same ship as the regicides Edward Whalley and William Goffe and entertained them at his Cambridge home before they moved into the colony of Connecticut. Gookin had assisted John Eliot with establishing praying Indian towns and was appointed superintendent of the Christian Indians in 1657. Because he had been busy on the island of Jamaica for most of 1656 and 1657 as an agent of the Cromwellian government, Humphrey Atherton took his place and it was only in 1661 that Gookin turned his full attention to the job of superintendent of Christian Indians. Gookin believed that Indians had to adopt European ways. When King Philip’s War broke out in 1675, Gookin and Eliot moved many of the 'praying Indians' from Natick to Deer Island in Boston harbor to protect them, first, from hostile puritan settlers in the Boston area and, second, from Metacom’s warriors. This did not make him popular and he was not elected assistant in 1676. He soon resumed his public office and was re-elected assistant the following year and appointed major general of the colony’s militia. He died at his home in Cambridge on March 19, 1687. Gookin wrote two works on New England Indians (unpublished during the colonial period): Historical Collections of the Indians in New England (ms. 1674) and An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians of New England in 1675, 1676 and 1677 (ms. 1677)." [Yale University Indian Papers Project]
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Sources - [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897.
- [S2481] Yale University Indian Papers Project.
- [S6108] Adventurers of Purse and Person: Virginia 1607-1624/5. Fourth edition, ed. John Frederick Dorman. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004-07.
- [S2478] Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905 by William Horace Eliot. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1905.
- [S2482] Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687: Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: His Life and Letters and Some Account of His Ancestry by Frederick William Gookin. Chicago, 1912.
- [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897.