American AcornsPension file W.19932 (Calvin Oak, Athens, Vt.; widow Lucretia), page 4: Lucretia Oak's widow's declaration of 29 Aug 1838, first page (names Capt. Seth Oaks). Lucretia Oak of Athens, aged 75, declares she is the widow of Calvin Oak, a private who served eight months in 1775 (part or all under Capt. Wilder, from Winchendon), afterward a year under Capt. Seth Oaks, Lieut. Luther Graves and Ensign Chapman, and nine months under Capt. Taylor or Warner.
Image · dated 29 Aug 1838 · source: U.S. National Archives (public record), via Fold3.
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State of Vermont ss. On this 29th day of August 1838 personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Westminster in the County of Windham and State aforesaid Lucretia Oak a resident of Athens in the County of Windham aforesaid aged Seventy five years... that she is the widow of Calvin Oak late of Athens aforesaid deceased who was a private in the Massachusetts troops in the Revolutionary War, she believes the said Calvin Oak served eight months in the year 1775, and that part or all of that service was under Capt. Wilder, and that the said Calvin went from Winchendon when he entered this campaign, she supposes he was a volunteer, and she believes the said Calvin afterward served one year under Capt. Seth Oaks, Lieut. Luther Graves & Ensign Chapman, he also lived in Winchendon Mass when he commenced this service...
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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). The widow's belief about Seth Oaks is hearsay and was not allowed; it names Seth as captain but not as Calvin's father.