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:

... nearly five years later, Rev. Benjamin Estabrook was engaged to preach one year in the parish, commencing May 1, 1692. He was ordained Oct. 21, 1696, and died July 22, 1697. After the death of Mr. Gookin , more than four years elapsed before the ordination of his successor. In the meantime more than thirty ministers preached in the Cambridge pulpit, of whom Samuel Angier, William Brattle, and Increa...
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