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Daniel Gookin, soldier, born in Kent, England, about 1612; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 19 March, 1687. He came with his father to Virginia in 1621. During the Indian massacre of 1622, Gookin, with thirty-five men, held his plantation, at what is now Newport News, against the savages. In May, 1644, in consequence of his doctrinal sympathies with the Puritans, he removed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was soon afterward appointed a captain of militia and a member of the house of deputies. In 1651 he was speaker of the house, and in 1652 elected a magistrate. In 1656 he was appointed by legislative enactment superintendent of all the Indians who acknowledged the government of Massachusetts, an office which he retained until his death, although he became unpopular because of the protection which, as a magistrate, he extended to the Indians. He zealously co-operated with John Eliot in his efforts for their spiritual instruction. He wrote two books on the Indians, Historical collections of the Indians in New England, written in 1674 (published 1792), and The doings and sufferings of the Christian Indians, completed in 1677 (published 1836).

From the description of Sundry Indians being examined to testifie as followeth...in the case against Thomas Johnson, 1670, June 29. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 733094780

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