Writings of Daniel Gookin and Allied Documents
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- ISBN 9798986789439
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Colonial Society of Massachusetts
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume collects the writings of Daniel Gookin, superintendent of the Praying Indians in Massachusetts. In this capacity he visited and, in some sense, oversaw the several praying towns that came into being after 1650. At the time of King Philip's War, he devoted himself to protecting the Christian Indians from other colonists. He wrote extensively about their sufferings, describing in detail the lives of Massachusetts, Nipmuc, Pennacook, and Mohawk Indians, among others. His sympathetic rendering placed him at odds with European settlers of his own time.
Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Adrian Chastain Weimer is Professor of History at Providence College. David D. Hall is Bartlett Professor Emeritus of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School.
