Daniel Gookin was the first sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts.[1]
Daniel Gookin | |
|---|---|
| 1st Sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts[1] | |
| In office June 30, 1731 – June 1743 | |
| Personal details | |
| Died | June 1743 |
| Occupation | Law Enforcement Officer[1] |
He was born about 1687/8, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Samuel Gookins and his wife née Mary Larkin, and the grandson of Major-General Daniel Gookin.[2]
Gookin was appointed the first sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts on June 30, 1741.[3]
Death edit
Gookin died in June 1743.[1]
Notes edit
- ^ a b c d Rice, Franklin Pierce (1889), Dictionary of Worcester (Massachusetts) and its Vicinity., Worcester, Massachusetts: F. S. Blanchard & Co., p. 78
- ^ Gookins, Richard N. (1991), A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England, Ireland, and America (revised ed.), Salem, Oregon
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Whitmore, William Henry (1870), The Massachusetts Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods, 1630-1774, Albany, New York: J. Munsell, p. 119