Daniel Gookin (Sheriff)

Daniel Gookin
1st Sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts[1]
In office
June 30, 1731  June 1743
Personal details
Died June 1743
Occupation Law 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. 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
  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
Benjamin Flagg
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