Gookin was among those welcoming them, and became closely associated with Thompson.
William Thompson of Braintree, John Knowles of Emmanuel College, and Thomas James of New Haven were sent to Virginia. On a letter was sent to the Puritan elders of the Church in Boston in the Colony of Massachusetts, asking for ministers, who were in short supply in Virginia. He received a grant of 2,500 acres (10 km 2) in the upper county of Norfolk on the northwest of the Nansemond River on 29 December 1637, and a further 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) on the Rappahannock River on 4 November 1642. He was made a Burgess and represented Upper Norfolk County in the Grand Assembly which met in Jamestown on 12 January 1641/2. In early 1641 Daniel Gookin, his wife Mary, and their infant son Samuel set sail for Virginia and took up residence at the Nansemond plantation. Edward Johnson in his Wonder Working Providence, and "Captain" in Greer's list of immigrants to Virginia. Dunstan in the West, London.īetween his two voyages to Virginia, it is assumed that Gookin was in military service, as he is referred to as a Kentish "souldier" by Capt. Sepulchre, London, a widower, and Mary Dolling, of the parish of St.
No record of Gookin's first marriage has been found on 11 November 1639 a license was granted for the marriage of Daniel Gookin, Gent., of the parish of St. On Addison's retirement, he granted Daniel 150 acres (0.61 km 2) of land. On 1 February 1630/1, shortly after his eighteenth birthday, living at his father's plantation in Virginia, he was indentured to Thomas Addison, second manager of the Marie's Mount plantation. By 1616 his father was living in Carrigaline, Ireland, where Gookin probably spent his childhood, later being sent for education to England. He was baptized 6 December 1612 at the church of St Augustine the Less in Bristol. He was born, perhaps in County Cork, Ireland, in the latter part of 1612, the third son of Daniel Gookin of County Kent and County Cork and his wife, Mary Byrd. Grave of Daniel Gookin in Old Burying Ground (Cambridge, Massachusetts) near Harvard Squareĭanyell "Daniel" Gookin (1612 – 19 March 1687) was a Munster colonist, settler of Virginia and Massachusetts, and a writer on the subject of American Indians.
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