The Old World a Bridge to the New: Daniel Gookin Jr.’s Intercolonial and Transatlantic Connections in the Seventeenth Century.

Summary

Daniel Gookin Jr. is perhaps one of the better-known figures in colonial Massachusetts history, as an important civil servant and military leader. The third son of an English planter from Kent who settled in County Cork during the second phase of the Munster Plantation in 1611, Gookin Jr. was born in Ireland, and became involved in his father's plantation projects in Virginia, migrating to North America in 1625. This paper will outline the archaeological biography of Daniel Gookin Jr. and the influences from Ireland he brought with him to Massachusetts. Though the period of time that Gookin spent in Ireland was brief compared to the other places he lived, it was his first experience in a colonial project, and he carried the knowledge he gained from this venture into North America. The results of colonial entanglements made Gookin Jr. a cosmopolitan figure in the British Atlantic world in which his social networks of friends in England and family in Ireland, trade partnerships in New England and the Chesapeake, and his role as a military commander and mediator between Indians in Virginia and Massachusetts, are revealed in the dynamic archaeological record.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• Multi-Directional Colonialism: Approaches to Studying Global Interactions

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