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Daniel Gookin was the first sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts.

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.

Gookin was appointed the first sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts on June 30, 1741.

Death

Gookin died in June 1743.

Notes

1. ^ 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

• Sheriffs of Worcester County, Massachusetts
• 1743 deaths
• 18th-century United States government officials
• People from Cambridge, Massachusetts