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Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16198, William Oar of Lincoln (a different surname, Oar): selectmen's complaint that William Oar wastes his estate, and the judge's order. Petition of the selectmen of Lincoln (Elijah Fisk, Leonard Hoar, Thomas Wheeler) asking that a guardian be appointed because William Oar 'by Excessive Drinking and Idleness so spends wastes and lessens his Estate'; order of Judge James Prescott.

Image · dated 13 Apr and 14 Jun 1810 · source: Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate Court, via FamilySearch.

Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16198, William Oar of Lincoln (a different surname, Oar): selectmen's complaint that William Oar wastes his estate, and the judge's order. Petition of the selectmen of Lincoln (Elijah Fisk, Leonard Hoar, Thomas Wheeler) asking that a guardian be appointed because William Oar 'by Excessive Drinking and Idleness so spends wastes and lessens his Estate'; order of Judge James Prescott.

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Keep in mind: Likely. A different surname (Oar, not Oakes) on the same film; no Oakes, Nathaniel, Westborough or Sudbury is named.

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