American AcornsPension file W.19932 (Calvin Oak, Athens, Vt.; widow Lucretia), page 5: Lucretia Oak's declaration, continuation (marriage, Calvin's death). Continuation: she believes Calvin served nine months afterwards under Capt. Taylor or Warner, lived at Leominster, was married at Leominster 20 March (she says 1783; the town record says 1782) and died 8 or 10 Nov 1815.
Image · dated 29 Aug 1838 · source: U.S. National Archives (public record), via Fold3.
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...he also believes the said Calvin served nine months afterwards under Capt. Taylor or Warner, he lived at Leominster Mass when he commenced this service, she supposes he enlisted - she cannot tell the time he entered or left the service - she has no documentary proof. The further declares that she was married to the said Calvin Oak, deceased, at Leominster in the State of Massachusetts by Francis Gardner, Minister of the Gospel, on the 20th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three. That her husband the aforesaid Calvin Oak died on the 8th or 10th day of November 1815. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four...
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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).