Oak-Oaks-Oakes Family Register (1906), p. 14: Third generation heading, children of Nathaniel and Tabitha Rice; entry 10, William of Winchendon. Heading 'Children of Nathaniel and Tabitha Rice' and entry 10, William (Winchendon farmer, baptized Westborough 1728, married Bolton 1752, died 1774; wife Relief Whitcomb; served 1759 under Capt. Samuel Clark, Col. Ruggles).

Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).

14 — OAK—OAKS—OAKES

baptism; and of the other children we have the descendants of only one—Sylvanus, about 700 in number.

THIRD GENERATION.

III. CHILDREN OF NATHANIEL² AND TABITHA RICE.

10. William. Winchendon, Mass.; farmer; baptized Westboro, April 28, 1728; married Bolton, March (or May) 27, 1752; died 1774. Wife, Relief Whitcomb, daughter of William and Hepzibah (Sawyer); born Lancaster, February 29, 1736. She married second, April 4, 1783, Samuel Patrick (properly Fitzpatrick) a prosperous farmer and town-clerk of Fitzwilliam, N. H. by whom she had no children. They lived in Jaffrey from 1809; he died August 6, 1817, aged (89); and she died in Fitzwilliam April 27, 1824 (or 19); nine children (45-53).

William Oak received at marriage a small legacy from his grandmother Rice; and his wife inherited some property from her father. In 1757 he removed from Bolton to Narragansett No. 6 (Templeton) where he bought a farm of 80 acres, adding other tracts later. From April 7, 1759, sending his family to Bolton, he served 10 months and 28 days against the French and Indians in the company of Capt. Samuel Clark, Col. Ruggles. His services entitle all his descendants to membership in the Colonial Societies. In 1763-4 he sold his Templeton property for £160, and bought for £104 a farm in Ipswich, Canada, later *Winchendon, where he was one of the early settlers. His farm was on both sides of Miller's River; and his house "east of the bridge and long causey, where Phineas Ball now lives" (1849),

[Footnote] *Winchendon, Worcester County, Mass. Reached by the B. & M. and B. & A. Railroads. Lies 68 miles westerly from Boston in the north central part of the State. This place was formerly "Ipswich Canada" because most of the grantees were soldiers or descendants of soldiers who had served in an expedition to Canada in 1690. It was incorporated as Winchendon in 1735. Its growth was retarded by the French and Indian wars. It is now a manufacturing town of 6,000 people. The country is hilly, soil deep though rocky and the scenery beautiful.