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Westborough loose vital records, 1733 (Digital Commonwealth, 'Vital Records, 1724, 1730-1733', image 10): 'Born unto Nathaniel Oak and Tabitha his wife the first Day of April 1733 a son named Seth Oake'. A torn slip records the birth, on the first day of April 1733, of a son named Seth Oake to Nathaniel Oak and Tabitha his wife; a second entry records the birth of Isaac Joslen to Joseph Joslen and Catheron his wife on 10 June 1730.
Image · dated 1 Apr 1733 · source: Digital Commonwealth / Westborough Public Library (public domain).
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
Born unto Nathaniel Oak and Tabitha his wife the first Day of April 1733 a son named Seth Oake
Born unto Joseph Joslen and Catheron his wife the tenth Day of June 1730 a son named Isaac Joslen
(endorsed on the right edge: 1732 / Vital Records)
How it is shown: Complete image (1600-px IIIF JPEG); no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed. The image reads 'first Day' (singular) and 'Seth Oake'; Beales's 2023 transcript prints 'first Days'. The church records give Seth's baptism as 8 Apr 1733 (Westborough Church Records p. 32), and the printed Vital Records of Westborough (p. 81) enter that baptism date as the birth. The father is presumably Nathaniel b. 1703/4, who m. Keziah Maynard on 7 June 1736 (Likely); Tabitha and Seth are not in the tree.