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Notes for Mary~ Dolling: >>>>>CONTINUED FROM NOTES OF DANIEL GOOKIN, HUSBAND OF MARY DOLLING>>>>> The Ancestry of Jane Maria Greenleaf Page 72 GOOKING ANCESTRY II. DANIEL GOOKING was an honored and distinguished man in early New England history. The details of his life as a young man are not so full as desirable. He was doubtless the son of Daniel Gooking, Gent., who in 1621 emigrated with his family and fifty men, provided for at his own expense, from England to Virginia, arriving there on the 22nd of November. He settled at Newport News where he became a planter, holding his own even during the troublesome times when the Indians attacked those settlements. "On Dec. 29, 1637, a grant of 2500 acres in the upper country of Norfolk was made to Daniel Gooking, Esq.; and in 1642 he was made Commander of the Military Commission of Upper Norfolk at about the time when a grant of 1400 acres was made to his son Daniel, the Captain of the trained band." According to the age of the son Daniel given in his marriage license, and his age at death, he was only a youth nine years of age when he came to Virginia. He saw, therefore, in his youth and early manhood, adventurous and stirring scenes which amply prepared him for his subsequent career. When twenty-seven years of age he returned to England and November 11, 1639, was granted by the Bishop of London a license to marry MARY DOLLING, an orphan maiden of St. Dunstan in the West, aged twenty-one. On his return to Virginia with his wife he engaged in the life of a colonial planter until 1643. It is said that he was then converted by missionaries who had been sent from New England to Virginia, and Cotton Mather names especially Rev. William Thompson. He bought a ship and with his wife and daughter Mary and others, sailed for New England, arriving in Boston, May 10, 1644. Here he became a member of the First Church on the 16th of the month of his arrival and a freeman the same year. At first he settled in Roxbury, but removed to Cambridge in 1648. He was a member of the Artillery Company in 1645 and soon rose to be a highly esteemed commander in Middlesex County. In 1649 he was deputy from Cambridge to the General Court, and in 1651 the Speaker of the House. The next year he became a magistrate and so continued to 1686. His military honors multiplied, until he became May 11, 1681, Major-General of the forces of the colony. He was conspicuous during the Indian wars of that time, and was deeply interested with John Eliot in his peaceful labors among the Indians. He was the author of a work entitled, "Historical Collections of the Indians of New England." In 1655 he went to England, probably on private business, but was assigned by Cromwell to the useless task of trying to persuade the New England fathers to colonize Jamaica. The regicides Whalley and Goffe, with whom he returned on a second visit in 1660, were sheltered by him in New England. Many other labors and experiences filled his life, which was probably one of the most varied and eventful of any of those times. He died in Cambridge, March 19, 1687, aged 75. His wife died after October 4, 1681. He married 2nd, Hannah Tyng, widow of Habijah Savage, who was born March 7, 1640, and died October 28, 1689. The children of Daniel Gooking were: (1) Mary, who m. June 8, 1670, Edmund Baxter. (2) Elizabeth, b. Mch. 14, 1645, who m. May 23, 1666, Rev. John Eliot, Jr., and d. Nov. 30, 1700. (3) Hannah, bap. in Roxbury, May 9, 1647, and d. July 31, 1647. (4) Daniel, b. Apr. 8, 1649; d. Sept. 3, 1649. (5) Daniel, b. July 12, 1650, Harvard College, 1669, and d. Jan. 8, 1718. (6) SAMUEL, father of Elizabeth who married Rev. Daniel Greenleaf. (7) Solomon, b. June 20, 1654; d. July 16, 1654. (8) Nathaniel, b. Oct. 22, 1656, Harvard College, 1675, m. Hannah Savage, and d. Aug. 7, 1692. [] PRAYING INDIANS For inquiries contact Libby Klekowski May, 1677. Long Island and Deer Island in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Colony. Old men, women and children, the remnants of the Christian Indians in Massachusetts Colony, were at last allowed to return to the mainland. This starving, poorly clothed group of Native Americans had suffered through the winter with little food or fuel and inadequate housing. Why were these people sent to those bleak islands just off the coast of their homeland? What had they done to warrant such treatment? In 1646, the General Court of Massachusetts passed an Act for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians. This act and the success of Reverend John Eliot and other missionaries in preaching the gospel to the New England tribes raised interest in England. In 1649 the Long Parliament passed an Ordination forming "A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England" which raised funds to support the cause. Contributors raised approximately 12,000 pounds for investment in this goal, to be used mainly in the Colony of Massachusetts and in New York. Reverend Eliot received financial aid from this corporation to start schools for teaching the Native Americans.(1) On October 28, 1646, Mr. Eliot preached his first sermon to Native Americans in their own language in the wigwam of Waban who became the first convert of his tribe in Nonantum (near Newton, Massachusetts). (2) Eventually Christian Indian Towns were located in Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, New Plymouth, New Norwich (Connecticut Colony), and the following in Massachusetts Colony known as the Old Praying Indian Towns: Wamesit (Chelmsford), Nashobah (Littleton), Okkokonimesit (Marlborough), Hassannamesit (Grafton), Makunkokoag (Hopkinton), Natick (Natick), and Punkapog or Pakomit (Stoughton). These old Praying Indian towns in Massachusetts Colony were situated so they could have been used as an outlying wall of defense for the colony in 1675 during King Philip's War. Starting with Chelmsford on the Merrimack River, the villages lay 12-14 miles apart and made a natural ring around the Boston settlement. The Praying Indians in each of these villages had fortified themselves against attack from hostile tribes. In company with English forces, they could have acted as scouts to keep an eye on the movements of their common foe. If these Christian Indians had been utilized effectively "in the beginning of the war, many and great mischiefs might have been ... prevented," according to Daniel Gookin. (3) There were many advantages to an alliance between the English and the Praying Indians. Because the Native Americans knew the territory so well, they made good scouts and guides; they were much better equipped to fight in the forests and could teach the English such fighting techniques as where to set ambushes and how to avoid them. The colonials could "see no enemy to shoot at, but yet felt their bullets out of the thick bushes where they lay in ambushments. The enemy also used this stratagem, to apparel themselves from the waist upwards with green boughs, that our Englishmen could not readily discern them, or distinguish them from the natural bushes." (4) In contrast to the English forces, Native Americans maintained silence as they moved through the forests. Colonial soldiers, bunched together, quite often talked as they marched, wore squeaking shoes, or dry leather breeches that made rustling noises, all of which announced their presence to the enemy. (5) The Praying Indians could have served as an intelligence force for the English. John Sassamon was a Christian Indian who served frequently as an interpreter and witness for both the English and the Native Americans. As early as 1674, Sassamon discovered that his countrymen were preparing for war. He reported this information immediately to the governor of Plymouth Colony but was not believed because he was a Native American. In April and again in May, 1675, Waban, Praying Indian leader at Natick warned the English of Philip's intentions to attack the colonists. Various Native American sources reported that "when the woods were grown thick with green trees then it [war] was likely to appear...." In August, 1675, the three warriors accompanying the English to Quaboag (Brookfield) Plantation suggested that the local tribes should not be trusted. The English chose to disregard this advice and shortly thereafter the local Nipmuks ambushed them. (6) According to S. A. Drake, "... at this time if any Indian appeared friendly, all Indians were so declaimed against, that scarcely any one among the English could be found that would allow that an Indian could be faithful or honest in any affair."(7) Instead of using the Praying Indians as allies, the English disregarded any advice a Native American offered. Although the colonials did raise a Praying Indian company, composed of 52 Native Americans, on July 2, 1675, and these warriors comported themselves well in the July Mount Hope campaign, a certain segment of the English population distrusted all Native Americans and felt that the Praying Indians would always be more loyal to the hostile tribes than to the English.(8) By August 30, 1675, the Governor and Council of the Massachusetts Colony, in response to public demand, disbanded all Praying Indian companies, confined these Christian Indians to the Old Praying Indian towns, and restricted their travel to within one mile of the center of those towns and only then when in the company of an Englishman. If a Native American broke these rules, he could be arrested or shot on sight. Most Englishmen were unwilling to reside in these towns because of the prejudice directed toward any Englishman supporting the Praying Indian cause. (9) Christian Indians were caught between two warring factions: the English and the hostile tribes fighting with King Philip. They pledged their loyalty to the English who refused to trust them and, at the same time, faced the enmity of their own people. Their loyalty was rewarded with such public hatred toward them that in August, 1675, the General Council in Boston began to consider removing the Praying Indians to Deer Island in Boston Harbor. Finally, in October, 1675, the order passed for removal; by December of that year, there were over 500 Christian Indians confined to the island. "The enmity, jealousy, and clamors of some people against them put the magistracy upon a kind of necessity to send them all to the Island...." where they "... lived chiefly upon clams and shell-fish, that they digged out of the sand, at low water; the Island was bleak and cold, their wigwams poor and mean, their clothes few and thin; some little corn they had of their own, which the Council ordered to be fetched from their plantations, and conveyed to them by little and little...." (10) There they stayed until released in 1677, but the world to which they returned was totally changed. The English had defeated the warring tribes,leaving the Native Americans strangers in their own homeland. Notes (1) Bodge, G. M. 1906. Soldiers in King Philip's War. 3rd Edition, p. 391. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1967. (2) Byington, E. H. 1894. The Puritan as a Colonist and Reformer. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, pp. 223-226; Vaughn, Alden T. 1965. New England Frontier Puritans and Indians 1620-1675. pp. 246-250. Little Brown and Company, Boston. (3) Gookin, D. 1677. An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England in the Years 1675, 1676, 1677. p. 436. Reprinted by Arno Press, N.Y., 1972. (4) Gookin, p. 441 (5) Church, B. 1716. Diary of King Philip's War 1675-1676. p. 81. Reprinted by the Pequot Press, Chester, Connecticut. 1975; Gookin, p. 442 (6) Hubbard, W. 1677. The History of the Indian Wars in New England. pp. 60-61, Reprinted by Kraus Reprint Co., N. Y., 1969; Gookin, pp. 441, 448; Wheeler, Thomas. A Thankefull Remembrance of Gods Mercy to Serveral Persons at Quabaug or Brookfield. pp. 244-246. Reprinted in So Dreadfull a Judgment. R. Slotkin and J. K. Folsom (eds), Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT., 1978. (7) Drake, S. G. 1841. Book of the Indians. 8th Edition, Book III, p. 10. Antiquarian Bookstore, Boston. (8) Gookin, p. 442-444; Church, p, 91.The Old Indian Chronicle. Samuel A. Drake. Boston; Gookin, p. 450. (10) Gookin, pp. 485-486; Bodge, pp. 396-398; Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. (ed.) 1853-54. Records of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 1628-86. Vol. 5, pp. 57, 64, 84, 86. Boston. ---http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/praying.html [] HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 316 Gookin, Charlotte (Edm., Ed., Rd., Rev. Dan., Gen. Dan) bap. 14 Aug. 1796, prob. d. young unm., 566 Gen. Daniel, from Kent, came to Virginia in 1621, to Boston, freeman, 1644, lived in Bost. and Rox. came to Camb. ab. 1647, 1st wife Mary Dolling, 563 n.; m. (2) Hannah Tyng (Ed.) wid. Habijah Savage of Bost, 563; grants of land, 57; app. to catechize youth, 269; called Goggin, military career, 279, 395, 398, 398 n., 399, 400; assisted Rev. John Eliot in dealings with Indians, their friends, judge, ruler, and historian, 386, 387, 389, 390, 390 n., 391, 393; severe treatment of Quakers by 346; clamor against interest in Indians, attempts to remove Benanuel Bowers from assembly, 351; Assistant 1652-1675, 459; not elected assistant, 395; assistant 1677-1686, 395, 459; selected by Cromwell to influence colonists to remove to Jamaica, letters to Sec. Thurloe on subject, 1655, 64-66; reported to have brought over the Regicides, his cattle seized as if theirs, released on refusal to appear bef. the Commission, second visit to Eng., qualifies oath of allegiance, 68, 72 n.; rep. 1649, 1651, 460; dying testimony, 78; speaker of House, 1651, selectman, 1660-72, 463; of Danforth's party, 77, 563; case against Caleb Grant, 536 n.; 564 n.; licenser of the press, homestead Holyoke St., built house on Arrow St., d. 1687, 108 n., 563, 564, recovers damages of William Carr, 96; burial place, 109 n. \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 103 [p.103] Inhabs. of, greatly influenced by Hooker, Hooker's church moved from 1636, 248; First named by Gen. Court, why so called, 1638, fined for want of watch-house, pound, and stocks, 1638, 43; large tracts of unappropriated lands, stirred by Antinomian controversy, Churches distracted, assembly of Synod, reasons for the establishment of the college 43, 43 n. 51; Shepard's congregation desired to remove, 51; lots are little, no room for another minister, religion, Mr. Vane, 52; Mr. Shepard tempted to abandon, loss of two prominent men of, 52 n.; Discussion in Church meeting on question of removal. A grant of land at Shaw-shine kills the project, 1641, particulars of the grant, renewal without condition, Concord and Shawshine-- latter incorporated as Billerica, 1655, 53; appoints a committee to treat with settlers at Shawshine, 1654-5, agreement entered into, Memorial to Gen. Court, prudential men of, first dismemberment of, 1655, 60, 61, 62; petition to the General Court, endorses its action in controversy with Parliament, copy of the petition, 74; men of opposed arbitrary measures of England, are among the leaders, Edward Randolph, "The Arch Enemy of the Colony," His address to the lords of Trade, 1676, 76; deputies resist encroachments in Charter Gookin files his dying testimony, 78; small pox in 1721, 1730, 127, 128; committee appointed, 1752, to prevent spreading of small pox. Votes thanks to selectmen of Charlestown for assistance during preva-lance of small pox, 129; votes to prevent strangers from residing in town 1723, 129; John Vassall becomes resident 1736, account of his election 1739-40, published in weekly journal 1740, 130; visited by epidemic, called throat distemper 1740, 132; 1750 Andrew Bordman and Edmund Trowbridge chosen as representatives provided they serve without pay, Bordman refuses 1752, and Henry Vassall elected, 133; transfer of Watertown lands to, bear seen in 1754, 133; first fire engine in 1755, 134; in Revolution, 136; town meeting protest against riots, 29 Aug. 1765, 138, opinions of 14 Oct. 1765, 137; expressed joy at repeal of Stamp Act May 1766, 139 n., town meeting 14 Dec. 1772, vote regarding Com. of Corres, 143; Committee of Correspondence of, 1773, 149; declares in favor of Independence, 27 May 1776, headquarters of Am. Army, privations of inhabitants during Revolution, 160; Constitution made at, 1779-1780, 163; opinion of town regarding amendment of the Constitution, willing to yield opinions in order to obtain settled government, 1780, 164; Freed from toll bridges, \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 135 Collins, Edward, settler 1636, 35; large landowner, 511; land at Shawshine, 57; res. E. side Holyoke St., XV, 10; sold to Gen. Gookin, wid. Martha prob. d. 22 Mar. 1700, he died in Chs. 9 Ap. 1689, a. ab. 86, 512; deac. before 1658, 305; Ass't Rev. Thomas Shepard in Eng. 250 n.; adm. his estate, 654; clerk of the Writs, deputy to Gert. Court 1654-70, 117, 460; constable, 1641, 463 M. W. Edward (Ed.) bap., Camb. living in 1663, 512 Edward (Sam., Ed.) bap. June 1664, 512 [p.135] Daniel (Ed.) b. in Eng. was in Koenigsburg, Prussia in 1658, 512 \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 240 England, important events in, revolution, civil and religious gov't., overturned, King Charles beheaded. House of Lords suppressed, Parliament and Cromwell protector, Jamaica, Cromwell wants settlers there, 63; Capt. Gookin app. special agent by Cromwell in, 64; dissatisfied with action of colony regarding reception of Regicides, Navigation Laws, and Laws concerning Quakers in, 69; Governor to approve Compensatien Act in case not approved in, 1766, 139 \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 313 Goffe, Col. Edward, the Regicide, arrives at Camb., entertained by magistrates 1660, 67; journal of, 68; order of arrest from Eng., left Camb., 69; fellow passenger of Gen. Daniel Gookin, 563; See Regicides. \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 323 Grant, Caleb, suit against Gen. Daniel Gookin, 1676, 564 Christopher, [early settler Wat. m. Mary d. 6 Sept. 1685], lands transferred to Cambridge in 1754, 133; subscriber to Meeting-house, 1756, 292 \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 430 Johnson, John Jr., b. 17 Nov. 1662, wife Mary, children b. Camb. 1687-1703, 594; on census 1688, 444 [p.430] John, m. Deborah Ward (Wm.), who d. 9 Aug. 1697, 676 John, witness in Gookin-Grant case, 1676, 564 n. \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 450 Laws made and executed for good of Indians by Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gookin, 390 \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 509 Militia, organization of, 42; commanders of, 1630, reorganization of, 1636, officers of, 1636-1643, 396; officers appointed by General Court, 1636-7, 397; Daniel Gookin commander-in-chief, 1647, 398; Major-general, 400; ordered to impress armor, 1675-6, names of private soldiers in 1675, 399; to lay out stockade, 1676, 400 n.; William Brattle major-general of, 1771-1775, 404, 406; commissions in 1771, on south side of river, 407; Thomas Gardner Capt., 1775, 408, 419; traditions concerning, at Lexington and Concord, 1775, 408, 412; names of soldiers in, 408, 409; of Watertown sent to remove planks of Great Bridge, 19 Ap. 1775, 410, 410 n.; at Watson's Corner, 411 n.; Isaac Gardner, Esq., of Brookline not of, Capt. Samuel Whittemore's address to, 1775, 414; Gen. Heath in command of, at Lexington, 416; Lieut. Thatcher, col. of, 419 n.; escorted Convention troops 5 Ap. 1778, 427; the first company enlisted to defend Government, 1861, 431 \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 579 Philip's War, called Narragansett War, first conflict bet. English and Indians, 391; Daniel Gookin commander-in-chief of Middlesex militia, 398, 563; Camb. soldiers in, 398, 398 n., 399; other officers in, Capt. Thomas Brattle, 499; Maj.-Gen. Daniel Denison, 534; Lieut. Edward Oakes, 616; Capt. Thomas Prentice, 628; Corp. Jonathan Remington, 639; Capt. John Sill, 655; house of John Ward at Newton, garrison house in, 676; others mentioned as fighting in, Benjamin Crackbone, 519; Gershom Cutter, 522; George Denison (Wm.) 534; John Druse, 536 \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 665 Scott, Richard, raileings of, against Daniel Gookin, on account of Indians, imprisoned, confessed, 394 \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 737 Thurloe, letters from Gen. Gookin to, regarding Cromwell's plan to eolonise the West Indies from New England, 64, 65, 66 [p.737] Thurston, Augustas A., Corporal, volunteer, Civil War, 17 Ap. 1861, name on Soldiers' Monument, 432, 436 Charles F., representative 1877, 462 \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 746 Train Band, petition to Gen. Court of, 76; Daniel Gookin, Gen. Brattle captains, 398; commanding officer, called Captain Lieutenant, included militia on S. side of the river, in Menotomy (Arlington) 407 \ HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 PREFACE page 816 Willard, Samuel S., drafted, Aug. 1814, Cambridge Light Inf., War of 1812, 431 Sidney (Pres. Jos., Rev. Jos., John, Rev. Sam., Maj. Sim.) b. Beverly, 9 Sept. 1780, H. C. 1798, studied for ministry, not ord. Prof. Hebrew and Oriental languages, H. C. 1807-1831, m. (1) Ipswich, Elizabeth Ann Andrews (Asa), of Ips., 28 Dec. 1815, who d. 17 Sept. 1817, (2) Hannah Staniford Heard of Ipswich (John) 27 Jan. 1819, who d. 28 June 1824, res. in Ward One and on Allston St., where he d. 6 Dec. 1856, 692; empowered with others to erect Brookline Bridge, 200; shareholder in market house, 231 n.; on Com. to draft bill for City Charter 1846, 244; elected deacon 1st Parish Ch. 1833, 306; councillor 1837-8, senator 183440, 400; rep. 1833, 1837, 1843, 461; selectman 1841. 1844, 466; assessor 1841, 468; mayor 1848-50, 469 M. Adm. Major Simon [b. Horsmonden, Kent, Eng., bp. 7 Ap. 1605, m. (1) in Eng. (2) Elizabeth Dunster, sister of Pres. Henry Dunster (3) Mary Dunster, cousin of Elizabeth, 538], settler, 1634, 33; res. S. E. cor. Dunster and Winthrop sts., rem. to Conc. 1635, prom. citizen there, rep. and assistant forty yrs., commander Middlesex Militia, 691-2; magistrate county court, 1659, 368; deposition regarding railings against Eliot and Gookin, sworn bef., 394; sold land Brighton District to Richard Gurling, 1635, 559 [d. Chs. 24 Ap. 1676, wid. m. (2) Dea. Joseph Noyes of Sud-bury, 14 July 1680, d. 28 Dec. 1715, a. 85, Gen.], M. Inv. [] USIGS BOOKS ONLINE -- Massachusetts Collection-- www.usigs.org THE INDIANS Knew ye nature of an Oath did depofe vnto ye Truth of what is aboue written ye 17th of 7ber 1686. before me Daniel Gookin Senr appointed & authorifed by ye prefident & deputy prefident of his Majties Territory in New England to be ye Ruler among ye Christian Indians Thomas Queakvfsen alias Capt Tom affirmed ye Truth of his aboue written Euidence on ye former Oath before me BARTHO. GEONEY one of ye Councill The Testimony of old Mahanton aged about ninety yeares Saith that ye Land that is Testified about by Seuerall ancient Indians that are Deceafed which did belong to Sagamore George as is Exprefsed in ye Euidence is ye Truth & propely doth now belong to Dauid that is old Sagamore George his Grandchild & Scicily & Sarah ye daughters of Sagamore George & ye wife of John Owufsumug now a widow Peter Ephraims wife & ye wife of Appooquahamock thier daughter & old Mahanton & James Rumney Marsh by right of his mother a neer kinsman of Sagamore George in his lifetime & This he ye Said Nahanton doth offer to Testify vpon Oath Taken vpon Oath the Seauenth Day of October by old Mahanton before me at Cambridge as attest: Daniel Gookin Senr J: of peace & Ruler of ye Indians Dated ye Seuenth Day of October 1686. The Testimony of Daniel Tookuwompbait & Thomas Wauban Saith that Sagamore George when he came from Barbados he liued Sometime and dyed at ye houfe of James Rumley Marsh ye Said Daniel heard ye Said Sagamore George Speake it & ye Said Thomas Saith he heard his father Old Wabun Speak it that all that land that belonged to him that is from ye Riuer of Salem alias Nahumkeke nuer: VP to Malden mill brooke running from a pond Called Spott pond that before his death he left all this land belonging to him vuto his kinsman James Rumley Marsh vpon y2 Condition that he would looke after it to procure it This they offer to Testify vpon Oath ye 2d day of October 1686. as Witnis thier hands DANIEL TOOKUWOMPBAIT THOMAS WAUBAN The Two persons aboue named viz Daniel Tookuwompbait pastor of ye Church at Natick aged about 36 yeares & Thomas Waban a member of ye Church aged 25 yeares being Examined touching ye Nature of an Oath they both made Oath before me this Second of October i686 vnto ye Truth of the abouesd Testimony as is Attested p me Daniel Gookin Juftice of peace & Ruler of ye Christian Indians. John Waabaquin alias John Magus of Natick aged about fiuety fiue yeares doe Testifie that I haue not only heard my aged father lately Deceafed yt almost a hundred yeares of Age when he dyed Say But I know my Selfe that thofe lands where Salem Stands & parts adjacent was ye rightful pofsefsion & Inheritance of Sagamore George no nofe Called winnepurkin & his father & ancestors: & doth now belong to his Children & grand Children viz Sicily & Sarah his Two daughters & Dauid his Grandson by his father Deced Ma-na-tach-que and Dauid [] The Ancestry of Jane Maria Greenleaf GenealogyLibrary.com DANIEL GOOKING was an honored and distinguished man in early New England history. The details of his life as a young man are not so full as desirable. He was doubtless the son of Daniel Gooking, Gent., who in 1621 emigrated with his family and fifty men, provided for at his own expense, from England to Virginia, arriving there on the 22nd of November. He settled at Newport News where he became a planter, holding his own even during the troublesome times when the Indians attacked those settlements. "On Dec. 29, 1637, a grant of 2500 acres in the upper country of Norfolk was made to Daniel Gooking, Esq.; and in 1642 he was made Commander of the Military Commission of Upper Norfolk at about the time when a grant of 1400 acres was made to his son Daniel, the Captain of the trained band." According to the age of the son Daniel given in his marriage license, and his age at death, he was only a youth nine years of age when he came to Virginia. He saw, therefore, in his youth and early manhood, adventurous and stirring scenes which amply prepared him for his subsequent career. When twenty-seven years of age he returned to England and November 11, 1639, was granted by the Bishop of London a license to marry MARY DOLLING, an orphan maiden of St. Dunstan in the West, aged twenty-one. On his return to Virginia with his wife he engaged in the life of a colonial planter until 1643. It is said that he was then converted by missionaries who had been sent from New England to Virginia, and Cotton Mather names especially Rev. William Thompson. He bought a ship and with his wife and daughter Mary and others, sailed for New England, arriving in Boston, May 10, 1644. Here he became a member of the First Church on the 16th of the month of his arrival and a freeman the same year. At first he settled in Roxbury, but removed to Cambridge in 1648. He was a member of the Artillery Company in 1645 and soon rose to be a highly esteemed commander in Middlesex County. In 1649 he was deputy from Cambridge to the General Court, and in 1651 the Speaker of the House. The next year he became a magistrate and so continued to 1686. His military honors multiplied, until he became May 11, 1681, Major-General of the forces of the colony. He was conspicuous during the Indian wars of that time, and was deeply interested with John Eliot in his peaceful labors among the Indians. He was the author of a work entitled, "Historical Collections of the Indians of New England." In 1655 he went to England, probably on private business, but was assigned by Cromwell to the useless task of trying to persuade the New England fathers to colonize Jamaica. The regicides Whalley and Goffe, with whom he returned on a second visit in 1660, were sheltered by him in New England. Many other labors and experiences filled his life, which was probably one of the most varied and eventful of any of those times. He died in Cambridge, March 19, 1687, aged 75. His wife died after October 4, 1681. He married 2nd, Hannah Tyng, widow of Habijah Savage, who was born March 7, 1640, and died October 28, 1689. The children of Daniel Gooking were: (1) Mary, who m. June 8, 1670, Edmund Baxter. (2) Elizabeth, b. Mch. 14, 1645, who m. May 23, 1666, Rev. John Eliot, Jr., and d. Nov. 30, 1700. (3) Hannah, bap. in Roxbury, May 9, 1647, and d. July 31, 1647. (4) Daniel, b. Apr. 8, 1649; d. Sept. 3, 1649. (5) Daniel, b. July 12, 1650, Harvard College, 1669, and d. Jan. 8, 1718. (6) SAMUEL, father of Elizabeth who married Rev. Daniel Greenleaf. (7) Solomon, b. June 20, 1654; d. July 16, 1654. (8) Nathaniel, b. Oct. 22, 1656, Harvard College, 1675, m. Hannah Savage, and d. Aug. 7, 1692. [] >>>>>CONTINUED AT MARRIAGE NOTES FOR MARY DOLLING AND DANIEL GOOKIN>>>>> |
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Notes for More Notes Daniel Gookin II: >>>>>CONTINUED FROM MARRIAGE NOTES FOR DANIEL GOOKIN II>>>>> DANIEL GOOKIN, SR. TO VIRGINIA, 1620 In the year 1620, Daniel Gookin projected transporting cattle to the colony of Virginia and found a plantation there. There is correspondence that says, “ about the 22 of November, 1621, a shipp from Mr. Gookin, out of Ireland, wholly upon his own adventure (The Flying Hart) which was so well furnished with all sorts of provisions (note: original was in olde English, this is not) as well as with cattle as we could wish all men would follow their example, he hath also brought with him about 50 men on that adventure, besides some 30 other passengers, we had accordingly to their desire seated them at Newport’s News.” On March 22, 1622, just four months after Daniel’s arrival, the great massacre by the Indians took place. Out of a total of 4,000 settlers, 347 were slain. Outlying plantations were urged to consolidate. Gookin refused and successfully defended his settlement. In late April or early May, Gookin returned to England aboard the “Sea Flower” bring first word of the massacre to the Company in London. Upon his return to Ireland, Daniel set about dispatching another ship with planters and cattle for Virginia. There is no evidence he made a second trip himself. His second venture was the sending of the ship Providence. A letter from William Hobart June 19, 1623 reported that only seven men were left, all others killed by Indians, and the plantations had fallen into decay. Patent for the land was not issued until January 25, 1634/5, two years after Daniels death, and it was almost three more years before it was actually executed and delivered to his son Daniel. Daniel and John, 3rd and 4th sons were by then in Virginia, having arrived as early as 1631 when Daniel (Jr.) was only 18. DANIEL GOOKIN, JR. BORN 1612 The third son of Daniel Gookin of Carrigaline was born in the latter part of 1612 although the exact date and place is unknown. He was christened on 6 December 1612 at the church of St. Augustine the Less, Bristol. If he had been born at Ripple it would have been logical for the baptism to have taken place there. In 1616, his father was living in Ireland so it may be assumed that Daniel’s boyhood was spent in Carrigaline and that he was sent to England for schooling. VIRGINIA, 1630/31 The earliest view of him is in Virginia at his father’s plantation, shortly after his 18th birthday. Among records of the General Court is an indenture executed February 1, 1630/31, between Daniel Gookin of Newport Newes in Virginia, Gent., and Thaomas Addison, second manager of Maries Mount plantation, in which at Addison’s retirement, he was rewarded for his faithful service by a gift of 150 acres in the behalf of Daniel’s father, Daniel Gookin of Carrigaline. De Vries, the Dutch Captain, wrote that on March 20, 1633 he “anchored at evening, before Newport News, where lived a gentleman of name of Goegen.” Daniel is next seen in London. A license was granted by the Bishop of London, November 11, 1639, for the marriage of Daniel Gookin, Gent.,, of the parish of St. Sepulchre, London, a widower, aged about 27, and Mary Dolling, of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West, London, a spinster, aged about 21, whose parents were dead. The records of St. Sepulchre were destroyed in a fire so the precise date of the wedding in unknown. No record of Daniel's previous marriage is known. In the interval of his two voyages to Virginia there is reason to suppose Daniel was for a time in military service, possible in England, more likely in the Netherlands. Captain Edward Johnson in his “Wonder of Working Providence” calls him a Kentish “souldier,” and appelation would have hardly been given him based on his command of the trained bands in Virginia and Massachusetts. He was already called “captain” in Greer’s list of immigrants to Virginia. THE GOOKINS MOVE TO VIRGINIA Early in 1641 Daniel, his wife Mary and infant son Samuel, set sail for Virginia to make their home. Territorial Lordship was now made possible by the grant of land obtained three years before. On his arrival in Virginia, Daniel took up residency at the Nansemond Plantation and was recognized by his fellow colonists as a man of ability. He was made a burgess and represented the upper Norfolk County in the Grand Assembly, which met in Jamestown on January 12, 1641/2. A grant of 2,500 acres in the upper county of Norfolk, upon the northwest Nansemond River, had been issued to him the 29th of December, 1637, and a further grant of 1,400 acres on the Rappahanock River, about 35 miles on the north side, was made to “Captain Daniel Gookin” on November 4, 1642 Among his neighbors in the upper Norfolk Co., Daniel found considerable number of Puritan families. Services of some sort were held on the Sabbath, but the lack of preaching, which was the chief solace and intellectual diversion of the Puritans, was keenly felt. So on May 24, 1642 a letter was sent to the elders of the Church in Boston in the Colony of Massachusetts, calling for ministers. Upon consideration, the elders sent Rev. William Tompson of Braintree, Rev. John Knowles from Emmanuel College, and Rev. Thomas James of New Haven. Eleven weeks were consumed in the trip to Virginia. Winthrop, in his “History of New England.” Says “here they found very loving and liberal entertainment and were bestowed in several places, not by the governor, but by well disposed persons who desired their company. Daniel Gookin was prominent of those well-disposed persons. No so by Governor Berkley, a zealous and bigoted advocate of the Church of England. Reception of the ministers by Berkley was frigid despite letters brought to him from Governor Winthrop. At the meeting of the Grand Assembly in March, 1642/3, the following act was passed: “For the preservation of the purities of doctrine and unitie of the church, it is enacted that all ministers whatsoever which shall reside in the collony are to be conformable to the orders and constitution of the Church of England and the laws therein established and not otherwise to be admitted to teach or preach publickly or privately, and that the Gov. and council do take care that all non-conformists upon notice of them shall be compelled to depart the collony with all convenience. (Hennings “Statutes at Large”). The governor was not long in getting rid of Knowles and James who left for New England in April telling the elders of the Boston Church of the work of the missionaries. Tompson was closely associated with Daniel at this time, so it appears from testimony of Cotton Mather’s doggerel: “A constellation of great converts there, Shone round him, and his heavenly glory were Gookins was one of these; by Tompson’s pains, CHRIST and NEW ENGLAND a dear GOOKINS gains.” Unquestionably it was Tompson’s influence that induced Daniel to remove to Massachusetts. After the passage of the act of conformity, Virginia was no longer an agreeable place for Daniel to live, so accompanied by Tompson and others, he emigrated in the summer of 1643 to the neighboring colony of Maryland, where he acquired land in the vicinity of South and Severn rivers near the site of Annapolis. MARYLAND, THEN MASSACHUSETTS Although welcomed by the residents of Maryland who were primarily of the Catholic faith, Daniel felt that Maryland, under Papist rule, was not the place for him. The sudden death of his brother John at Lynn Haven early in November 1643 broke the strongest tie that held him to Virginia. In May, 1644, leaving his three plantations to the care of servants, he set sail for Massachusetts with his wife and infant daughter Mary. His first born, Samuel had died before this time. He arrived in Boston May 20, 1644 to a cordial welcome. May 26th, 1644, he was permitted membership in the first Church and May 29 was honored with the freedom of the colony, a favor rarely conferred on persons with so short a residence. Mary was admitted membership to First Church October 12, 1644. They maintained affiliation until their move to Cambridge four years later. Their neighbor was Rev. John Eliot Sr., the famous pastor of the first church, justly known as the “Apostle” to the Indians of New England. A man of education, Daniel was one of the founders of the free grammar school established in Roxbury in 1645. It has been stated that Daniel was a Scholar of Hebrew. The business of his plantations in Virginia and Maryland occupied his attention for some time. He is known to have sold 500 acres of the plantation on the Rappahanock to Capt. Thomas Burbage. How long he owned the remaining 900 acres and the larger plantation on the Nansemond has not been ascertained. In July 1648, Daniel moved to Cambridge and he was soon appointed Captain of the trained band, a command he held for nearly 40 years, being, as Capt. Edward Johnson said him, “a very forward man to advance Marshal discipline. The practice then prevailed for a captain to retain command of his company however highly promoted, the immediate command being exercised by the lieutenant. Thus while in later years he was Major General, he was still Captain of the Cambridge company. (This unit comprised one of the original units from which there is direct descendancy to the 182d Infantry Regiment (182 Regimental Combat Team RTC) of the United States Army. Several muster entries note Daniel’s attendance also at meetings of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. \\ In the spring of 1649 Daniel was chosen as Deputy from Cambridge to the General Court held in Boston May 2. In July 1650 he was in London, partly on public business, and possible visited some of his cousins who he had not seen for nine years. In the spring of 1651, Capt. Gookin and Mr. Edward Jackson were returned as deputies from Cambridge to the General Court, and on May 7 Daniel was chosen Speaker. A the election May 26, 1652 he was chosen an Assistant, one of the council of 18 magistrates to whom, with the Governor and Deputy-Governor, the government of the colony was entrusted. To this office he was re-elected continuously for a period of 35 years, except early in 1676 when he suffered defeat because of the populace, maddened by the Indian War then raging, misconstrued his care of the friendly Indians and include him in unreasoning indignation. ENGLAND & CROMWELL, THEN BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS Captain Gookin was for the third time elected Assistant on May 3, 1654 and was present at the meeting the court held that day. Thereafter, his movements are lost sight of for more than a year: the probability is that he was in England on private business, which was apparently an effort to secure the property left for him by his elder brother Edward, of whose estate he was appointed administrator on July 3, 1655. The interval since Daniel’s last visit to London had seen many changes. Cromwell had been proclaimed Protector, and now for the first time in 14 years, and election had been held, and the first Protectorate Parliament was in session. Among the members was Daniel’s cousin, Vincent Gookin, who like himself, was a man of high aim and unswerving devotion to the path of duty. At this period Cromwell was much occupied by his resolution to extend the power of England. Near Christmas he dispatched Admiral Penn and General Venables on an expedition to wrest the West Indies from Spain. Their attack on San Domingo failed so they turned their attention to Jamaica. A successful landing was made at Kingston May 10, 1655 and the island became an English possession. The need was for planters to hold the island, not disgruntled military colonists but appeals were futile. Cromwell saw an immediate supply in New England. He sent for Daniel Gookin who was in England at the time. Daniel landed at Boston January 20 1655/56 but his effort to obtain colonists for Jamaica was a failure, which was reported in a letter to Cromwell June 20, 1657. Daniel again returned to England about the time of the dissolution of Parliament February 4, 1657/58. In June came word of the defeat of the Spanish force by the English and French and the formal delivery of Dunkirk into the hands of the English. In September the hopes of the Puritans received a blow upon the death of the Lord Protector. Whatever business took Daniel to England, its progress must have been slow and he looked for other occupation while waiting. He was commissioned in March 1658/9 the Collector of Customs in Dunkirk, a position held until May 1660 when King Charles II land at Dover. Daniel then returned to New England on the same ship with regicides General Whalley and Colonel Goffe, who considered it prudent to return to the new world. These two are said to have taken up residence in Cambridge as the guests of Daniel Gookin. Whalley and Goffe were the subject of so much friction between the colonists and England that in 1664 the English government appointed a board of commissioners to visit New England and enforce subjection to arbitrary government. So shrewdly was the controversy handled by the General Court, that in the end the Commissioners were discomfited and returned to England without accomplishing their object. Credit for this is due in large measure to Daniel Gookin and Thomas Danforth. PUBLIC SERVICE The extent and variety of Daniel’s public service was considerable. He was a faithful attendant at the sessions of the General Court and the meetings of the Governor and Council. He was engaged upon in many committees; to audit the treasurer’s accounts, to treat with the mint master, to draw up orders concerning the militia, to visit Harvard College and examine the treasurer’s accounts to name a few. More important were designations to hold the County Courts, as for Norfolk in 1660, for Suffolk in 1663 and his appointment in 1668 as one of the commissioners for revenue for imposts. Also there was the routine business of magistrate to attend to besides his farms and the trade with the Maryland and Virginia plantations that had to be looked after. He still found time to do his full duty as the Captain of the Cambridge Trained Band, to attend religious meetings with regularity, to serve the town as Selectman from 1660 to 1672. As first Superintendent of the Praying Indians he had to spend time in journeys through the wilderness to their several settlements, besides listening to the appeals when they frequently called upon him in Cambridge, and accompanying his friend Eliot when he went among them to preach. He wrote two books on the Indians: “Historical Collections of the Indians in New England” completed in 1674, (published in 1792) and the “doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians” finished in 1677 (published in 1836). He is quoted by American author Henry David Thoreau in “Walden” and excerpts from Historical Collections are included in “A Library of American Literature.” He also wrote a history of the colony, of which only a fragment has survived. Daniel Gookin was a man of great breadth of mind and was not too deeply touched by the narrow ecclesiasticism of the day, and was in a position to know the public events of the time. To prevent heresies and contentions, laws were passed abridging the liberty of the press, and for a time no printing was allowed in any town under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts except Cambridge. In 1662 Daniel Gookin and the Rev. Jonathon Mitchell were appointed as first licensers of the press, but refused to act, the only declination of public trust ever recorded of Daniel. This open-mindedness of character was very unusual in the time. MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL GOOKIN Soon after the restoration of Charles II to the Crown of England, a controversy began with the colonists over their charter privileges, which continued with scarcely any break for more than 20 years. The men at the head of the colonial government were adept at clever fencing, and for a long time the crisis was averted although the tension became more acute. In the years following the Indian War much fuel was added to the flame by the machinations of that “evil genius” of New England, Edward Randolph. When in 1681 a royal mandate was received, directing that authorized agents be sent to London to represent the colony and answer to a land claimant, it was obvious at last that the issue had been forced. For several years Major Gookin’s (title conferred May 1676) popularity had steadily increased. In his opposition to the arbitrary measures proposed by the Crown, he displayed the same spirit and dogged determination with which he had adhered to the cause of the Christian Indians in the face of public delirium. To yield to the King’s demands he clearly saw would be a fatal mistake, so he stoutly stood for a strict construction of the Charter and opposed sending the agents to England. The submission to the General Court, February 14, 1680, of a paper presenting his opinion not only won the day for his party but also gained the author a measure of public approbation that must have seemed particularly welcome after the obloquy so unjustly visited upon him five years before during King Phillip’s War. At the next general election, May 11, 1681, he was elected Major General, the Commander-in-Chief of all the military forces of the colony. The five years that Daniel held the position of Major-General was a period of ever increasing distress in the affairs of the colony, until troubles culminated in 1686 with the abrogation of the charter government by James II. This was a blow that shattered the very foundation of the civil rights, and with a papist on the throne of England the outlook for the colony seems very dark. Major-General Gookin’s last days were saddened by the tribulations that had befallen the colony with the loss of the charter. Though the greater power lay with the opposition in the long controversy, he had the satisfaction of having done all that was possible to avert the catastrophe, and his conscience was clear. From the inflexible firmness with which he stood for every specific right of the colonists, Daniel has been called, “the originator and prophet of that immortal dogma of our national greatness—no taxation without representation.” (Tyler, Hist. Amer. Lit.) It was he, by his cogent arguments and fearless resistance to any encroachment upon political or commercial liberty, who did more than any other in that period to crystallize the spirit of opposition, and the doctrine that the corner-stone of democratic government, He died Saturday, March 19, 1686/7 and was buried in the cemetery of the First Church, opposite the gate of Harvard. The grave is marked with a brick monument covered with a flat slab of brown sandstone, still in remarkably good condition when viewed by Richard Gookins May 22, 1965. It bears the inscription: Here lyeth intered ye body of Major Genel DANIEL GOOKINS aged 75 years, who departed this life ye 19 of March 1687 . . . . by Richard N. Gookins of Salem, Oregon; typed and shared by Norm Medland [] Ancestral Heads of New England Families, G-H Family Tree Maker CD504 p xcvii GOOKIN, GOOGINS From the Gaelic word 'Gugan', a bud, flower, a daisy. DANIEL, b. County of Kent, Eng., 1612, went with his father Daniel of the fourth generation from Arnold Gookin, to Virginia, and came to Boston, Mass., 1644, soon after settled in Roxbury, Mass., removed to Cambridge, Mass., 1648. In the Indian Wars he attained the rank of Major-General. \ Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America Family Tree Maker CD504 p 217 GOOKIN:--- Daniel Gookin, of Cambridge, born in Kent, Eng., passed probably fourteen years in Virginia from 1630, whither he went with his father, perhaps of the same name, who had grant in that colony in 1620, came to Boston in a ship 1644, with other passengers, flying from Indian massacre; freeman, called captain in records, also lived at Roxbury, where by his wife Mary, had Elizabeth, 1645; Hannah, 1646, died in a few weeks; he had removed to Cambridge, of which he was representative 1649, and speaker 1651, mag. gen., 1681, died 1687, aged 75. Had also children, Daniel, died 1649, few months old; Daniel again, 1650, Harvard College, 1669; Samuel, 1652; Solomon, died 1654; Nathaniel, 1656, H. C., 1675; Mary, older than any, who may have come from Va. ARMS:--- Red, a chevron, ermine, between three crosses, gold. REFERENCES:--- Atkins' Gen. (1891), 146-51; N. E. Hist. Reg., I, 345-52; II, 167-74; IV, 185-88; Morse's Sherborn, Mass., Settlers, 92; Richmond, Va., Standard, IV, 14; Savage's Gen. Dict., II, 278-80; Virginia Mag. of Hist., V (1898), 435; Am. Ancestry, VIII, 206. [] http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/newportnews/history/misc0000.txt The example of the Newces was followed by their friend Daniel Gookin, Esq. On the 15th of November, 1620, he engaged, through Thomas Wood, to ship cattle to Virginia from Ireland at eleven pounds a head, and she-goats at three pounds.* On July 2, 1621, the company, at his request, granted him a particular patent, "as large as that granted to Sir William Newce." The governor and council under date of January, 1622, thus noticed Gookin's arrival in Virginia: "There arrived here about the 22nd of November a ship from Mr. Gookin out of Ireland wholly upon his own adventure, without any relation at all to his contract with you in England, which was so well furnished with all sortes of provisione, as well as with cattle, as wee could wyshe all men would follow their example; hee hath also brought with him about fifty men upon that adventure, besides some 30 passengers. Wee have according to their desire seated them at Newport's News, and we doe conceive great hope, yjj the Irish Plantation prosper, yet from Ireland great multitudes of People will like to come hither." In the General History of Virginia, edited by Capt. John Smith, occurs this reference: "Nov. 22, 1621, arrived Master Gookin out of Ireland, with fifty men of his own, and thirty passengers exceedingly well furnished with all sorts of provisions and cattle, and planted himself at Newports Newes." In March, 1622, occurred the great Indian massacre, but Daniel Gookin successfully defended his settlement at Neport News against all attacks. And the census of Virginia, * As money was five times as dear in those days as now, cows were worth $275 and she-goats $75 in present money. Page 235 Newport News taken 1625, showed that Newport News was occupied solely by "Daniel Gookin's muster." There is a grant dated April 20, 1685, to Hon. William Cole, Esq., secretary of the colony of Virginia, for land partly in Warrick county and partly in Elizabeth City county, "commonly called Newports News," containing, "according to the most ancient and lawful bounds thereof," 1431 acres, "being all that can be found, upon an exact survey, of 2500 acres formerly granted to Daniel Gookin, Esquire, except 250 acres fromerly conveyed and made over to the said Gookin." And Daniel Gookin, Jr., and John Gookin conveyed the said land to John Chandler, who sold the same to Capain Benedict Stafford, from whom the said land was found to excheat by a jury April 3, 1684, and was then granted to Col. William Cole and Capt. Roger Jones, which last made over his interest to said Cole, the patentee in 1685. About 1790 Newport News was owned by Col. William Digges, who was a descendant of Col. Wiliam Cole. The location offered a port surpassingly fine. The Newces and Gookin, all three in Virginia in November, 1621, came from County Cork, Ireland, where there was a Newce's Town. Therefore, in the spirit of alliteration which then prevailed, and which found expression in such places as Pace's Pains, Jordan's Jorney, etcl, they called it New Port Newce. Dr. Alexander Brown says in his noble and interesting work, The First Republic in America, "I have always found the name spelled 'New Porte' in original documents, but in prints and copies it is sometimes spelled Newports; the last name, however, is spelled 'Newce,''Newse,' 'Nuce.'" Hailing from Ireland, Daniel Gookin, like the Newces, was nevertheless an Englishman. He was of an ancient family from Kent,* and with his brother, Sir Vincent Gookin, went to Ireland. Soon after the massacre, Governor Wyatt and his wife paid him a visit at Newport News, and he returned to England in the ship which brought the news of the slaughter of more than three hundred of the English. It is probable that he did no return to Virginia, but carried on his plantation at Newport News through his son, Daniel Gookin, Jr. One of the two was living at the place when DeVries, the Dutch captain, anchored *See the Visitation of Kent. Page 236 William and Mary Quarterly. at evening on the 20th of March, 1633, before the place, which he called Newport Snuw. Daniel Gookin, Jr., had been a soldier, and became a Puritan. In 1642 he signed a petition with John Hill, Richard Bennett and sixty-eight others, addressed to the General Court of Massachusetts, for three able ministers to occupy parishes in his neighborhood. In answer John Knowles, William Thompson and Thomas James were sent to Virginia. But Governor Berkeley and the General Assembly of the colony came down so hard upon the Puritas that the ministers soon returned to Massachusetts and Daniel Gookin went also. He became one of the leading men of Massachusetts. His tombstone is at Cambridge with this inscription: Here lyes interred ye body of Major-General Daniel Gookin, Aged 75 years Who departed this life ye 19th March, 1686-87 John Gookin, who was presiding magistrate of Lower Norfolk county, was his brother. [] http://www.paulturner.ca/Ireland/Cork/HOB/HOB-12.htm * The Gookins (originally Gokin, Gockin, Cokin) were from Canterbury, Kent; and down to A.D.1700 their posterity continued within a circuit of five miles of that city. Vincent and Daniel Gookin were contemporary with Richard Boyle, first Earl of Cork, who was a native of Canterbury, in 1566. Daniel Gookin founded a colony in Virginia at his own expense. Vincent came to Ireland; he became Sir Vincent Gookin. Sir Vincent married a daughter of Sir Thomas Crooke, Bart., by whom he had two sons-Vincent and Robert; and after her decease he married again, and had several children. Upon the death of his father, Vincent succeeded. He died without issue, and was succeeded by his brother, Robert Gookin. He married Mary Smith, by whom he had four children-Vincent, Robert, Mary, and Anne. Mary married Morgan Bernard, and had Steward Bernard (who married his first cousin, Dorothy Gookin, by whom he had John Bernard, of Bernard's Hall); and Anne married Abraham Lamb, and had Vincent Lamb (ancestor of the Lambs of Kilcolman). Vincent Gookin succeeded his father, and dying issueless, his brother, Robert succeeded. He married Hester Hodder, and had one son Robert. After her death he again married, and had two children-Vincent and Dorothy-and dying, left Robert his successor. He married Dorothy Waller, and by her left a son, Robert; and dying Robert (i.e. -Major Gookin) succeeded. He married Hester Smith, daughter of Percy Smith, Esq., of Headborough; and dying, in 1752, left two sons-Robert and Waller. The Gookins lived for a long time in Ibane, and later are described as of Courtmasherry; and many of them (including Major Gookin and his two sons) are buried in the churchyard of Lislee. † It would seem from the date of the deed executed by his co-heirs-John Bernard, Esq., of Bernard's Hall, and Vincent Lamb, Esq., -that this unfortunate event occurred previous to the month of July, 1760. |
| ii. | Samuel Gookin, born Abt. 1640 in England; died Bef. 1644 in Virginia. | |||
| iii. | Mary Gookin, born 1642 in Virginia; died 1702; married Edmund Butler 08 Jun 1670; born in Salem, MA; died Unknown. |
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More About Edmund Butler and Mary Gookin: Marriage: 08 Jun 1670 |
| iv. | Elizabeth Gookin, born 14 Mar 1644/45 in Roxbury, MA; died 30 Nov 1730; married (1) Rev John Eliot 23 May 1666; born 31 Aug 1636 in Roxbury, MA; died 13 Oct 1668; married (2) Col Edmund Quincy, Esq 1680; born 1627 in of Braintree, MA; died 1698. |
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Notes for Elizabeth Gookin: Mr. Eliot lived about five months after making his will, and died October 13, 1668, leaving Sarah, the daughter of his first wife, Sarah, six years of age, who was probably taken into the family of her grandfather Eliot, and an infant son, John, the child of his second wife, Elizabeth. She returned to the family of her father, Major General Gookin, at Cambridge, who educated him at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1685. Mrs. Eliot lived in her father's family till she was married to Edmund Quincy, Esq. |
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More About John Eliot and Elizabeth Gookin: Marriage: 23 May 1666 |
| v. | Hannah Gookin, born 09 May 1647 in Roxbury, MA; died 31 Jul 1647 in Roxbury, MA. | |||
| vi. | Daniel Gookin, born 1649 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony; died 1649 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony. | |||
| 176 | vii. | Rev Daniel Gookin III, born 12 Jul 1650 in Cambridge, MA; died 08 Jan 1717/18 in Sherburne, MA; married (1) Elizabeth Quincy 1681; married (2) Mary 04 Oct 1682; married (3) Bethiah Collicut 21 Jul 1692; married (4) Hannah Biscoe 28 Sep 1708. | ||
| viii. | Capt Samuel Gookin, born 21 Apr 1652 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony; died 16 Sep 1730 in Cambridge, MA; married (1) Mary Larkin Bef. 1679; born Abt. 1659; died Aft. 29 Apr 1707; married (2) Hannah Stearns 28 Sep 1708; died Unknown. |
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Notes for Capt Samuel Gookin: GOOKING ANCESTRY I. SAMUEL GOOKING, son of Daniel Gooking and Mary Dolling, was born April 21 or 22, 1652, in Cambridge, Mass., where he died September 16, 1730. He is said to have been an apothecary or physician, but his military ardor and other interests overshadowed all else, and this patriotism he inherited by good right from his father. As early as 1692 he was called "Captain," and in 1711 was ardently engaged in connection with the expedition to Canada. He was sheriff of Middlesex County by the appointment of the patriots in 1689 and Savage says "rather more energetic than discreet in magnifying his office." In 1691 he was Marshal General. He was also sheriff of Suffolk county and down to July 27, 1729, was largely engaged in matters pertaining to that office. The maiden name of the wife of Samuel Gooking is unknown; her first name was MARY. Their children were: (1) Mary, b. Aug. 26, 1679, who m. 1st, Dr. Samuel Gedney; 2nd, July 16, 1711, Rev. Theophilus Cotton; 3rd, a Newmarch. (2) ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 11, 1681. (3) Samuel, b. Aug. 14, 1683. (4) Nathaniel, b. Feb. 16, 1685-6, d. young. (5) Daniel. |
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More About Capt Samuel Gookin: Political: 1689, Sheriff of Middlesex County, MA |
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More About Samuel Gookin and Mary Larkin: Marriage: Bef. 1679 |
| ix. | Solomon Gookin, born 20 Jun 1654 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony; died 16 Jul 1654 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony. | |||
| x. | Rev Nathaniel Gookin, born 22 Oct 1656 in Roxbury or Cambridge, MA23; died 07 Aug 1692 in Cambridge, MA24; married Hannah Savage 1685; born 27 Aug 1667; died 14 May 1702 in Cambridge, MA?. |
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More About Rev Nathaniel Gookin: Date born 2: ?Cambridge, MA Education: 1675, Harvard College Occupation: 15 Nov 1682, ordained the successor of President Oakes. |
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More About Nathaniel Gookin and Hannah Savage: Marriage: 1685 |
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