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
OccupationLaw Enforcement Officer[1]

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. ^ a b c d 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
  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
None
1st Sheriff of
Worcester County, Massachusetts

1731-June 1743
Succeeded by
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