Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Gookin” in chapter 17, page 281 of Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register:

...nually to the pastor of the church, and the remaining third part should be added to the principal. It is understood that this fund recently amounted to more than twenty thousand dollars. It was Mr. Gookin 's lot to witness another division of his parish. In 1682, the Farmers, as those were called who dwelt in what is now the town of Lexington, petitioned to be set off as a separate parish, in order ...
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