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Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16175, John Oakes of Medford: inventory, second page (real estate; signed Medford 29 July 1763). Real estate: marsh bounded by Thomas Oakes's marsh, the easterly part of the dwelling house of Edward Oakes decd (the widow Joanna Oakes's dower set off), land of Samuel Oakes; total real estate 82-0-0; signed Caleb Brooks, Stephen Bradshaw, Samuel Blanchard Jr; exhibited 1 Aug 1763 by Edwd Oakes the administrator.
Image · dated 29 Jul 1763 · source: Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate Court, via FamilySearch.

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Keep in mind: Confirmed (signers, date, exhibition); the real-estate wording is partly Likely. 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.