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Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16178, guardianship of Deborah and Nehemiah Oakes, children of Jonathan Oakes of Malden: case jacket. Jacket: 'Deborah Oakes et al. 1752'.
Image · dated 1752 · source: Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate Court, via FamilySearch.

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Keep in mind: Confirmed from the jacket map. 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.
Evidence for
- Middlesex County, Mass., probate case 16178: guardianship of Deborah and Nehemiah Oakes, children of Jonathan Oakes of Malden (1752) · the original at FamilySearch (Probate records 1648-1924, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; also published by Ancestry as Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991)