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Worcester Probate Dockets, pp. 300-301: no. 44100, Oaks, Beriah, Bolton: 'Tabathy Oak appointed Administratrix. Feb. 28 Bond £1000 Jesse Walcutt & Oliver Barrett Jr., sureties' (1781), with a 1795 partition and distribution to heirs whose receipts name Elizabeth Oak, Asa Oak, John Oaks and the guardians Bezaleel Hale Jr. and Elnathan Polley; and no. 44101, Beriah and Eunice Oaks, guardianship nomination, Bezaleel Hale Jr. appointed guardian, 6 Oct 1795.

Image · dated 1781-1795 (docket book 1731-1881) · source: Worcester County (Massachusetts) Probate Court docket book, via FamilySearch.

Worcester Probate Dockets, pp. 300-301: no. 44100, Oaks, Beriah, Bolton: 'Tabathy Oak appointed Administratrix. Feb. 28 Bond £1000 Jesse Walcutt & Oliver Barrett Jr., sureties' (1781), with a 1795 partition and distribution to heirs whose receipts name Elizabeth Oak, Asa Oak, John Oaks and the guardians Bezaleel Hale Jr. and Elnathan Polley; and no. 44101, Beriah and Eunice Oaks, guardianship nomination, Bezaleel Hale Jr. appointed guardian, 6 Oct 1795.

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No. 44100, Oaks, Beriah, Bolton: "Tabathy Oak appointed Administratrix. Feb. 28 Bond £1000 Jesse Walcutt & Oliver Barrett Jr., sureties. Letter. Warrant of Appraisal. Inventory. 1783 Apr. 1 Account Bal. £69-16-0½ Allowed Apr. 1. 1795 Oct. 6 Warrant for Partition issued to Oliver Barrett, Silas Holman & Charles Hale. Report filed & allowed Nov. 17. 1795 Account Allowed & distribution to heirs ordered. Receipts of Elizabeth Oak, Asa Oak, Bezaleel Hale Jr. Gdn., John Oaks & Elnathan Polley Gdn."

No. 44101, Oaks, Beriah & Eunice, Bolton: "Bezaleel Hale Jr. appointed Guardian minors. Nomination. Oct. 6 Bond $10000 Elnathan Polley & Jonathan Whitcomb, sureties. Letter. Receipt of Beriah Oaks, Eunice Oak."

[Only the Oak entries named in the folder's review are transcribed here, not every case on the spread.]

[Source: research-e-chrome-2026-10-03/WORC-probate-dockets-1731-1881-cases-44097-44138/REVIEW.md.].

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Keep in mind: Confirmed as the clerk's docket entries. A docket abstract: it gives no petition text and usually no parentage; identities of the Oak entries rest on name, place and year (Likely) as stated below. That Beriah Oaks of Bolton (administration 1781) is Beriah Oak (1743-1781), son of Nathaniel and Kezia, and that Tabathy is his widow Tabitha (Fosket), is Likely (name, town and year; the tree's Tabitha Fosket married Beriah Oak in 1767). The heirs named in 1795 (Elizabeth, Asa, Beriah Jr., Eunice, John; Daniel and Phebe on the next case) are not tree persons. Other cases on the spread were not transcribed.

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