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Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16173, guardianship of Lydia Oakes, daughter of Edward Oakes of Medford: guardian's bond of Joanna Oakes, widow, 11 December 1752. Joanna Oakes (widow), Joseph Tufts of Medford and Caleb Brooks of Charlestown bound for £300 to Judge Samuel Danforth; Joanna nominated and allowed guardian to Lydia, 'a Minor in her nineteenth year of age Daughter of Edward Oakes late of Medford'.
Image · dated 11 Dec 1752 · source: Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate Court, via FamilySearch.
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
631 guardian bond (printed form; CONFIRMED): "We Joanna Oakes Widow, Joseph Tufts both of Medford and Caleb Brooks of Charlestown Gentn all in the County of Middlesex ... bound unto Samuel Danforth Esqr ... Three hundred Pounds ... Dated the Eleventh Day of December Anno Domini 1752." Condition: "Joanna Oakes Nominated and Allowed to be Guardian unto Lydia (at her own Election) a Minor in her nineteenth year of age Daughter of Edward Oakes late of Medford in the County of Middlesex Deceased". Signed Joanna (her + mark) Oakes, Joseph Tufts, Caleb Brooks; witness Andw Bordman and one other.
[Source: research-b-oakes-cases-kin-2026-10-02/TRANSCRIPTION.md sec. 6, frame 631.].
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Keep in mind: Confirmed. Nothing in this case names Nathaniel Oak of Westborough or his family; NOT KIN (a separate Cambridge/Medford/Malden/Sudbury Oakes group); it is shown here as a probate record of the surname, linked to its own research source and not to a person in the tree.