Gookin, Samuel, 1652 - 1730

Samuel Gookin was the son of Daniel Gookin.  He held the position of Sheriff of Suffolk County (1691-1702) and Middlesex County (until 1730).  In 1682, Gookin erected a sawmill on land leased from the Indians at Whip Suffrage.  That same year, a number of Natick Indians sold two hundred acres of their land there to him and Samuel Howe.  However, a court eventually awarded them 1,700 acres of Natick land in 1695. Frederick William Gookin, Daniel Gookin, 1612-1687: Assistant and Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Chicago: Frederick William Gookin, 1912), 180.  Daniel Mandell, Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), 41.