Pension file W.25398 (Nathaniel Oak, Athens, Vt.; widow Susan), scan 00111: Daniel Bradish's affidavit of 11 Dec 1840, first page. Daniel Bradish of Norfolk, N.Y., aged 77, says he lived at Winchendon in the war, knew Nathaniel Oak there as a neighbour, and enlisted with him about 1 August 1780 for four months in Capt. Ephraim Houghton's company, Col. Denny.

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St. Lawrence County

State of New York } ss:

Daniel Bradish of the town of Norfolk in said County being sworn saith that he is aged 77 years last April, that he receives a pension from the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary War. He further says that he lived in the town of Winchendon in the state of Massachusetts during the Revolutionary war: that he was well acquainted with one Nathaniel Oak who then lived in the same town a neighbor to this deponent. That on or about the first of August in the year 1780 as this deponent believes he and the said Nathaniel Oak enlisted as volunteers in the army of the United States for the term of four months as he understood, in a Company commanded by Capt Ephraim Houghton of Petersham. The lieutenants name he believes was Stone, and the Colonels name Denny or Dennis. He is not certain which. This deponent says he and the said Oaks joined the said Company together and marched with it to Albany and while there a detachment was taken from Capt Houghton's Company and other Companys to go to Schenectady, Stone Arabia and Fort Stanwix (now Rome) to protect the inhabitants against the Indians. That the said Oaks and this deponent went together in said detachment as far as Stone Arabia between Schenectady & Utica and performed