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Hanson, History of the Old Towns of Norridgewock and Canaan (1849), p. 136: notes to the 1781 assessment: '(10.) John, should be Jonathan; he settled about a mile below Skowhegan falls'. The notes to the foregoing table read: '(10.) John, should be Jonathan; he settled about a mile below Skowhegan falls.' The assessors of Winslow signed the roll on 10 October 1781.

Image · dated 1781 · source: Internet Archive (public-domain scan); historyofoldtown00hans.

Hanson, History of the Old Towns of Norridgewock and Canaan (1849), p. 136: notes to the 1781 assessment: '(10.) John, should be Jonathan; he settled about a mile below Skowhegan falls'. The notes to the foregoing table read: '(10.) John, should be Jonathan; he settled about a mile below Skowhegan falls.' The assessors of Winslow signed the roll on 10 October 1781.

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Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).

(Note 10 only.)

(10.) John, should be Jonathan; he settled about a mile below Skowhegan falls.

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Keep in mind: Confirmed. The correction is attached to the 1781 list only. Identification with Jonathan Oak b. 1717 of Marlborough rests on the Oak register (1906) and the tree's chain (Westborough, Stow, Harvard, Canaan), not on this page (Unconfirmed).

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