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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Daniel Gookin (1612–1687)

Gookin, Daniel (gö’kin). An American colonist; born in Kent, England, about 1612; died at Cambridge, MA, March 18, 1687. He came to Virginia in 1621, but removed to Massachusetts in 1644. He was appointed superintendent of the Indians of that colony in 1656, and major-general in 1681. His chief work is ‘Historical Collections of the Indians in New England,’ which was not published until 1792.