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Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16181, Jonathan Oaks of Malden: probate decree presenting the will, 17 October 1769. Judge Samuel Danforth: on the seventeenth day of October the will was presented for probate by the executors; the witnesses present.
Image · dated 17 Oct 1769 · source: Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate Court, via FamilySearch.
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
669 probate: Samuel Danforth, Judge: "on the seventeenth Day of October ..." [1769] the will "was presented for Probate by [Esther Oakes and John Green the Executors]; then present [the Witnesses]" (heading and day CONFIRMED; rest LIKELY). 670 executors' bond: Esther Oakes widow, John Green and others "of Malden", five hundred pounds, 17 Oct 1769 (LIKELY; read at outline level only). No inventory located in 666-670 (case ends at 670 per the next jacket 671).
[Source: research-b-oakes-cases-kin-2026-10-02/TRANSCRIPTION.md sec. 5, frames 669-670.].
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Keep in mind: Heading and day Confirmed; the rest 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.