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Pension file S.18534: Nathaniel Oak's declaration, Orange County Court, Chelsea, Vermont, 21 August 1832, aged 81, under the Act of 7 June 1832: in 1775 he lived at Winchester, N.H., and marched on 19 April with Capt. Benjamin Hastings's company of Col. John Whitcomb's regiment to Cambridge; in 1776 he served in Capt. William Humphrey's company of Col. Wingate's regiment at Mount Independence, five months.

Image · dated 1832-1895 · source: U.S. National Archives, Revolutionary War pension file S.18534, via Fold3.

Pension file S.18534: Nathaniel Oak's declaration, Orange County Court, Chelsea, Vermont, 21 August 1832, aged 81, under the Act of 7 June 1832: in 1775 he lived at Winchester, N.H., and marched on 19 April with Capt. Benjamin Hastings's company of Col. John Whitcomb's regiment to Cambridge; in 1776 he served in Capt. William Humphrey's company of Col. Wingate's regiment at Mount Independence, five months.

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Keep in mind: The declaration is a military-service narrative only: it gives no birthplace, parents, wife or children. Likely: the identification of the Chelsea, Vermont pensioner with the Nathaniel Oak born 16 May 1751 (son of John Oake and Susanna Allen) rests on the declaration's age (81 in August 1832), his residence at Winchester, N.H. in 1775 and his witnesses' statements. Transcribed from the full-size image by E (3 Oct 2026).

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