The third son of Major-general Daniel Gookin, and of his first wife, Mary, was born in Cambridge, Oct. 22, 1656, graduated
at Harvard College in 1675, and was ordained over the church in this town, as successor of Mr. Oakes, Nov. 15, 1682. He was
a Fellow of Harvard College, and died on Sunday, August 7, 1692, in the thirty-fourth year of his age; and the tenth of his
ministry. Rev. Dr. Holmes, in his "History of Cambridge," speaking of Mr. Gookin, says, "Tradition informs us that he lies
interred in the south-east corner of the burying-ground, beneath a brick monument, covered with a stone slab, the inscription
of which is not now legible." Near the monument which covers the remains of Major-General Gookin, and of a similar construction,
situated in the southeastern part of the burying-ground, is a monument, covered with a slab, in which is an incision, designed
to admit a softer stone, with an inscription, which stone has crumbled to dust. By the side of this monument, stands the
grave-stone of Mrs. Hannah, wife of Rev. Nathaniel Gookin. This circumstance seems to evidence, that beneath the aforesaid
monument rest the remains of Rev. Mr. Gookin.

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