Nathaniel GOOKIN

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Nathaniel was the youngest of the nine children. He was a man of fine ability and was greatly mourned when he died, on August 7, 1692, in his thirty-sixth year. He was then the beloved pastor of the First Church in Cambridge. His wife, whom he married August 3, 1685, was Hannah, daughter of his step-mother by her first husband, Habijah Savage.

He graduated 1675 at Harvard College and was ordained 15 Nov 1682. He succeeded Rev. Urian Oakes as minister of the First Church in Cambridge.

Nathaniel married Hannah SAVAGE on 3 Aug 1685 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Habijah/Abijah SAVAGE and Hannah TYNG) was born on 27 Aug 1667 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts; died on 14 May 1702 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachuetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rev. Nathaniel GOOKIN was born on 15 Apr 1687 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 25 Aug 1734 in Hampton, New Hampshire (from a slow fever).
2. Hannah GOOKIN was born in 1691/2 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 20 Mar 1758 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.

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When we get our next glimpse of Daniel he is in London. A license was granted by the Bishop of London, November 11,1639, for the marriage of Daniel Gookin, Gentleman, of the parish of St. Sepulchre, London, a widower, aged about 27, and Mary Dolling, of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West, London, a spinster, aged about 21, whose parents were dead. They were to marry at St. Sepulchre's, but, as the early registers of that parish were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1665, the precise date of the wedding cannot be determined. No record of Daniel's previous marriage has yet come to light. There is nothing to indicate whether it took place in England or in Virginia. The parentage of his second wife is also an unsolved problem. The parish register of St. Dunstan in the West reveals other about her, from which it may be inferred that her birthplace was in all probability elsewhere.

Daniel married Mary DOLLING on 11 Nov 1639. Mary was born about 1618; died on 27 Oct 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mrs. Mary Gookin, Daniel's wife and his faithful companion for almost forty-four years, passed away on Saturday, October 27, 1683, leaving his home desolate. It is greatly to be regretted by her descendants that no contemporary account of Mary has been handed down to our time. All we can know of her is that she was a pious, godly woman, and the worthy helpmeet of one of the noblest and purest of men. The one mention of her that Daniel makes in his writings shows her assisting him in ministering to the sick among the Natick Indians after their release from Deer Island. She was the mother of all of his children, nine in number.