American AcornsPension file W.19932 (Calvin Oak, Athens, Vt.; widow Lucretia), page 25: War Department certificate of 29 May 1839 (five years' pension, $30 a year from 4 March 1836). Certificate under the Act of 7 July 1838: Lucretia Oak of Vermont, widow of Calvin Oak, a private in the Revolution who died 8 or 10 Nov 1815, is entitled to five years' pension at $30 a year from 4 March 1836; signed J. R. Poinsett, Secretary of War, countersigned J. L. Edwards.
Image · dated 29 May 1839 · source: U.S. National Archives (public record), via Fold3.
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Lucretia Oak, of Vermont, widow of Calvin Oak, deceased, who was a Private in the Revolution, and died on the eighth or tenth day of November 1815, is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of thirty dollars... per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836...
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Keep in mind: Pension file W.19932, Calvin Oak of Athens, Vt. (died 8 or 10 Nov 1815), widow Lucretia (Fuller). Fold3 record 25086452, NARA M804, 33 images. The file is a Confirmed record of Calvin Oak of Athens; his identification as the son of Seth Oak (and as the Calvin Oak born 1758) is Likely, because no page names his father (the widow only believes he served a year under Capt. Seth Oaks, which the Pension Office did not allow). A marginal note reads '1849 Athens [illegible] previous[ly] Leominster Mass.'.