The Genealogy of Thomas Lee Clough
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Daniel Gookin1 (M)
b. 6 December 1612, d. 19 March 1686/87
Relationship=9th great-grandfather of Seth Alexander Moore.

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     Daniel Gookin was baptized on 6 December 1612.2 He married (--?--) (--?--) say 1634. Daniel Gookin married second Mary Dolling in 1639 at St. Sepluchre, London, England.3 Daniel migrated to Virginia, in the company of his father, sometime before 1630. After periods of residence on the Virginia plantation, London and again in Virginia with his second wife, his Puritan leanings led him to move his family to New England. He arrived in Boston on 20 May 1644 and lived out the rest of his life in service to his adopted colony of Massachusetts. Among the offices he held were Deputy of the General Court, Colonial Assistant, Captain of Militia and, later, Major General of the colony.4 Daniel Gookin was admitted as Freeman on 29 May 1644 at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.5 He married Hannah Tyng before 10 April 1685.6 Daniel Gookin died on 19 March 1686/87 at Massachusetts at age 74.2,7 He was buried at Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.8

Children of Daniel Gookin and Mary Dolling
Samuel Gookin b. c 16409
Mary Gookin b. c 1642, d. 17029
Elizabeth Gookin b. 14 Mar 1644/45, d. 30 Nov 170010
Hannah Gookin b. 9 May 1647, d. 2 Aug 164711
Daniel Gookin b. 8 Apr 1649, d. 3 Sep 164911
Reverend Daniel Gookin b. 12 Jul 1650, d. 8 Jan 1717/1811
Samuel Gookin b. 21 Apr 1652, d. 16 Sep 173012
Solomon Gookin b. 20 Jun 1654, d. 16 Jul 165413
Reverend Nathaniel Gookin b. 22 Oct 1656, d. 7 Aug 16926

Notes and Citations:

  1. [S371] "Ahnentafel of Elizabeth Joslin", 30 December 2003, Dennis J. Cunniff, to Thomas Clough (e-mail address), "Daniel Gookin, (1612-1687), American colonial magistrate, soldier and protector of the Indians".
  2. [S371] "Ahnentafel of Elizabeth Joslin", 30 December 2003, Dennis J. Cunniff, to Thomas Clough (e-mail address).
  3. [S426] Frederick William Gookin, Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687 : Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony : his life and letters and some account of his ancestry (Chicago: privately printed, 1912; reprint North Salt Lake, Utah: Heritage Quest), page 64.
  4. [S426] Frederick William Gookin, Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687 : Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony : his life and letters and some account of his ancestry (Chicago: privately printed, 1912; reprint North Salt Lake, Utah: Heritage Quest).
  5. [S426] Frederick William Gookin, Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687 : Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony : his life and letters and some account of his ancestry (Chicago: privately printed, 1912; reprint North Salt Lake, Utah: Heritage Quest), page 72.
  6. [S426] Frederick William Gookin, Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687 : Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony : his life and letters and some account of his ancestry (Chicago: privately printed, 1912; reprint North Salt Lake, Utah: Heritage Quest), page 181.
  7. [S426] Frederick William Gookin, Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687 : Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony : his life and letters and some account of his ancestry (Chicago: privately printed, 1912; reprint North Salt Lake, Utah: Heritage Quest), page 184.
  8. [S371] "Ahnentafel of Elizabeth Joslin", 30 December 2003, Dennis J. Cunniff, to Thomas Clough (e-mail address), "Here lyeth intered / ye body of MAJOR GENel / DANIEL GOOKINGS aged / 75 yeares, who / departed this life ye 19 of March 1686/7".
  9. [S426] Frederick William Gookin, Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687 : Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony : his life and letters and some account of his ancestry (Chicago: privately printed, 1912; reprint North Salt Lake, Utah: Heritage Quest), page 179.
  10. [S426] Frederick William Gookin, Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687 : Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony : his life and letters and some account of his ancestry (Chicago: privately printed, 1912; reprint North Salt Lake, Utah: Heritage Quest), page 179-180.
  11. [S426] Frederick William Gookin, Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687 : Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony : his life and letters and some account of his ancestry (Chicago: privately printed, 1912; reprint North Salt Lake, Utah: Heritage Quest), page 180.
  12. [S157] James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1860-1862; reprint Rio Vista, California: American History and Genealogy Project, 2000). Online version used. Alphabetical by surname. [GOOKIN] "DANIEL, Cambridge, b. in Kent, Eng. passed many, [[vol. 2, p. 279]] prob. fourteen yrs. in Virg. from 1630, whither he went with his f. perhaps of the same name, who had gr. in that Col. 1620, came to Boston in a sh. 20 May 1644 with other passeng. flying from the Ind. massacre, on the Sunday foll. was adm. of our Boston ch. and freem. 29, in both rec. call. capt. and, on 7 Sept. next, May, his w. was adm. of Boston ch. yet we may be sure he liv. at Roxbury, for there was b. his d. Elizabeth 14, bapt. 30 Mar. 1645; and Hannah, bapt. 23 May 1646, d. in few wks. and the town rec. omit. b. soon after he rem. to C. of wh. he was rep. 1649, and speaker 1651, assist. 1652 to the Andros usurp. 1686, except in 1676, when at the May election he had the honor of being turned out for his noble care of the friend. Ind. in the then raging war; maj.-gen. 1681, d. 19 Mar. 1687, aged 75. In 1655 he went home for a short vis. of priv. business, but was taken off by Oliver, who sent him back to induce our fathers to colonize Jamaica, wh. was just then added to his domin. Of course his miss. was fruitless, and he went in 1657 once more to Eng. and came hither again in 1660, by the sh. that brot. the regicides Whalley and Goffe, arr. at Boston 27 July. Those self-exiled men he befriended, perhaps without approv. their course; for he was loyal eno. to dedicate his Hist. Coll. to the King. beside the ch. above ment. of wh. Elizabeth m. 23 May 1666, Rev. John Eliot, jr. as his, sec. w. and next m. Edmund Quincy, and d. 30 Nov. 1700, he had, b. at Cambridge, Daniel, who d. 3 Sept. 1649, few mos. old; Daniel, again, 12 July 1650, H. C. 1669; Samuel, 21 Apr. 1652; Solomon, 20 June, wh. d. 16 July 1654; Nathaniel, 22 Oct. 1656, H. C. 1675, and Mary, older than any, wh. may even have come from Virg. wh. m. 8 June 1670, Edmund Batter of Salem, as his sec. w. He had hims. sec. w. Hannah, wid. of Habijah Savage, d. of Edward Tyng, of wh. in his will, 13 Aug. 1685, he speaks with gr. tenderness, wh. d. 28 and was bur. 31 Oct. 1688, aged 48."
  13. [S454] Richard N. Gookin, compiler, An Historical and Genealogical Sketch of the Gookin Family of England, Ireland, America (Tacoma Washington: Privately Published, 1952), page 29.


         
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