American AcornsWar Department reply of 8 May 1916 on Seth Oaks, captain of Capt. Oaks' Company of Artificers (first page)
Image · dated 8 May 1916 · source: U.S. War Department record, supplied by the owner
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Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
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May 8, 1916.
[Office initials, partly illegible; MWP]
Respectfully returned to
Josephine Edwards Tinkbaur,
Kirkwood, Illinois.
The records of this office show that one Seth Oaks served in the Revolutionary War as a captain of a company designated Capt. Oaks' Company of Artificers, Continental Troops. His name appears only on a muster roll dated Sept. 7, 1777, which shows that he was commissioned Mar. 19, 1777.
The records also show that one Nathan Oaks served in said war as a private in Capt. Edgell's Company, Jacobs Regiment Massachusetts Troops. His name appears on a list of names of members of that regiment in a detachment commanded by Lieut. Col. Pope, at Freetown, Sept. 1, 1778, but nothing has been found of record to show the date of his entry into service or the date or manner of his separation therefrom.
The collection of Revolutionary War records in this office is far from complete, and it is suggested as a possibility that additional information can be obtained from the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, or from the
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Keep in mind: Adjutant General's reply of 8 May 1916 to a private correspondent (addressed 'Josephine Edwards Tinkbaur, Kirkwood, Illinois', a person of 1916 long since deceased). It says the records show one Seth Oaks as captain of a company designated Capt. Oaks' Company of Artificers, Continental Troops, on a muster roll of 7 Sept 1777 (commissioned 19 March 1777). Identification with Seth Oak born 1733 of Winchendon and Athens is Likely (other records name Capt. Seth Oak's artificers in 1777-1778). The second paragraph concerns a Nathan Oaks, a private in Capt. Edgell's company, Jacobs' regiment, who is not identified with any person in the tree and is not tagged.