[563] State. During the unpleasant dissension in the Hartford Church, after Hooker's death, he rem. to Hadley; but he subsequently returned to Connecticut, and d. at Farmington, 1673, leaving a large estate to his only child, a daughter, who m. John Crowe. See Hinman.
Gookin, Daniel, is said to have emigrated, with his father, from the County of Kent to Virginia in 1621. He is supposed to have arrived in Boston 1644, in which year he was admitted freeman. He resided for a short time in Boston and Roxbury, but rem. to Camb. about 1647, and here dwelt; during the remainder of his life. By his wife Mary,1 he had Mary, b. prob. in Virginia, m. Edmund Batter of Salem 8 June 1670, and was living in 1685; Elizabeth, b. at Rox. 14 Mar. 1644-5, m. Rev. John Eliot, Jr., 23 May 1666; he d. 1668, and she m. Edmund Quincy of Braintree 1680, and d. there 30 Nov. 1700; she was mother of Edmund Quincy, Esq., who d. in London 1738, and the ancestor of many distinguished persons of that name; Hannah, bap. at Rox. 9 May 1647, d. there and was buried 2 Aug. 1647; and in Camb., Daniel, b. 8 Ap. 1649, d. 3 Sept. 1649; Daniel, b. 12 July 1650; Samuel, b. 22 Ap. 1652; Solomon, b. 20 June and d. 16 July 1654; Nathaniel, b. 22 Oct. 1656. His w. Mary d. after 4 Oct. 1681, and he m. Hannah, wid. of Habijah Savage of Boston, and dau. of Edward Tyng, who survived him, and d. 28 or 29 Oct. 1689, a. 48. Gen. Gookin, for about forty years, was one of the most active citizens of Camb. He was Licenser of the Printing-press, 1663; Selectman, from 1660 to 1672; Representative 1649, 1651, in which last year he was Speaker of the House; an Assistant from 1652 to 1686 excepting 1676, in which the prejudice against the Praying Indians, whom he befriended, prevented his election. He was elected Captain of the Cambridge band, or military company, before 1652, and was described by Johnson as a ‘Kentish soldier,’ ‘a very forward man to advance martial discipline, and. withal the truths of Christ.’ He became Major of the Middlesex Regiment in 1676, and was very active in raising and furnishing troops in Philip's War. In 1681 he was appointed Major-general of all the military force of the Colony, and was the last who held that office under the old charter. He was trusted by Oliver Cromwell as a confidential agent, and was selected by him to assist in executing his favorite project of transplanting a colony from New England to Jamaica. He visited England twice, partly at least on public service. On his last return to this country, the two regicides, Goffe and Whalley, were his fellow passengers, and accompanied him to Camb. He was therefore denounced by Randolph as their friend and protector, and as the custodian of their scanty funds. In the troublesome contest which commenced soon afterwards, upon the restoration of Charles II., Major Gookin was among the foremost defenders of the chartered rights of the colonists. Side by side with Thomas Danforth, he steadfastly resisted the encroachments of arbitrary power. If Danforth was the acknowledged leader of the party, Gookin was one of his most active and reliable associates. He was as resolute in the maintenance of religious, as of civil privileges, and when the Quakers disturbed the peace of the Church, he was among the sternest of their judges.2
