American AcornsCompiled service record, 6th Massachusetts Regiment (scan 0884): service index card, Oaks, Nathaniel, 6 Massachusetts Regiment (book mark R & P 436786). Index card grouping cards 0885 to 0889.
Image · dated 1780 · source: U.S. National Archives (public record), supplied by the owner
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
[Top number] 704
Oaks, Nathaniel
6 Massachusetts Regiment.
(Revolutionary War.)
Private | Private
CARD NUMBERS.
1 35585717 [faint; uncertain]
2 5760 [as abbreviated on card]
3 5802 [as abbreviated on card]
4 37381598 [faint; uncertain]
5 37170073
[Remaining card-number lines blank.]
Number of personal papers herein 0.
Book Mark: R & P 436786
See also [blank].
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Keep in mind: Compiled service cards copied from the rolls of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment (Col. Thomas Nixon), a 6-months levy enlisted July 1780; the cards are copies of rolls, not separate enlistments. The 13 July 1780 enlistment is the one the 1923 Pension Office reply to W.25398 gives for Nathaniel Oak of Athens and matches the printed Soldiers and Sailors entry for Nathaniel Oaks of Bolton, age 18; Likely for Nathaniel Oak born 1762. The name forms (Nathaniel, Nathan, Nathl) and the 3 July (card 0885) versus 13 July dates are kept as written; the Chelsea pensioner's service is a different file.