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Birth:

May 16, 1751

Massachusetts, USA

Death:

Mar. 15, 1840

Exeter Center

Penobscot County

Maine, USA

"Captain" Nathaniel Oak was one of 5 children born to John B. Oak & Susanna (Allen).

"Nathaniel was a great reader, considering his opportunities, and in Boscawen took an active part with the Webster family in building up the schools. His hotel in Boscawen was on the Merrimac River, two miles above Fisherville, now Pennacook. In 1894 the hotel building was a private dwelling but had been used as a boarding house for many years for the Elmwood Academy. The nearest neighbors, Ezekiel Webster and family, a brother of the famous Daniel Webster, lived a little above and across the road. One of the Websters still lives there and remembers the times of our grandfather, when, as he writes, "Capt. Oak, as he was known, was a noted performer on the fife, and also a good player of the violin. When he was married he sold his violin to buy a cow."

Nathaniel married his first wife, Susanna (Hastings) on June 2, 1773, in Bolton, MA.

Their 9 children:

Benjamin Hastings, Susanna, Nathaniel, Jr., Arethusa, Abigail, William, Betsey, Sarah, Nancy Oak

He married his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, the widow Gates, in about 1804. No children were born to this union.

Nathaniel was in the Revolutionary War; Lexington Alarm of 1775.

He died suddenly in church one Sunday; age 89 years.