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Pension file R.7758 (John Oaks, Exeter and Bangor, Me.; widow Abigail), page 6: deposition of Jesse Washburn, Town Clerk of Canaan, Me., 31 Aug 1843 (no marriage record). Jesse Washburn certifies there is no record in the Canaan town books of the marriage of John Oaks to Abigail Lambert (Canaan was an unincorporated plantation and early records are lost).

Image · dated 31 Aug 1843 · source: U.S. National Archives (public record), via Fold3.

Pension file R.7758 (John Oaks, Exeter and Bangor, Me.; widow Abigail), page 6: deposition of Jesse Washburn, Town Clerk of Canaan, Me., 31 Aug 1843 (no marriage record). Jesse Washburn certifies there is no record in the Canaan town books of the marriage of John Oaks to Abigail Lambert (Canaan was an unincorporated plantation and early records are lost).

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Keep in mind: Pension file R.7758, John Oaks of Exeter and Bangor, Maine (service from Harvard, Mass.; Certificate No. 9174), widow Abigail (Lambert). Fold3 record 25087424, NARA M804, 27 images. The file is a Confirmed record of John Oaks (died at Exeter 25 June 1842) and of his widow's rejected claim. That he is a son of Capt. Jonathan Oaks is Likely, not proved: the file never names a parent. All 27 pages are shown.

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