Daniel Gookin (Sheriff)

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Daniel Gookin
1st Sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts [1]
In office
June 30, 1731 –June 1743
Personal details
DiedJune 1743 (1743-07)
OccupationLaw Enforcement Officer [1]
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Daniel Gookin was the first sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts. [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

Gookin died in June 1743. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Rice, Franklin Pierce (1889), Dictionary of Worcester (Massachusetts) and its Vicinity., Worcester, Massachusetts: F. S. Blanchard & Co., p. 78
  2. ↑ 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)
  3. ↑ Whitmore, William Henry (1870), The Massachusetts Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods, 1630-1774, Albany, New York: J. Munsell, p. 119
Political offices
Preceded by
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 1st Sheriff of
Worcester County, Massachusetts
1731-June 1743		Succeeded by
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