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The Boston News-Letter, 25 August 1707, p. 2: the printed report of the raid at Marlborough, which says it happened 'Monday last the 16th Current'; the weekday points to the 18th, and both readings are kept. — The Boston News-Letter, 25 August 1707, p. 2: the printed report of the raid at Marlborough, which says it happened 'Monday last the 16th Current'; the weekday points to the 18th, and both readings are kept. 25 Aug 1707 · pp. 1-2 (2-page issue); the report is on p. 2
Source: The Boston News-Letter, Boston, 25 August 1707; America's Historical Newspapers (Readex), via AmericanAncestors.org
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Keep in mind: What the page says: Confirmed. The paper prints 'On Monday last the 16th Current, Thirteen Indians ... surpriz'd two men at their Labour in the Meadows at Marlborough'; one man escaped, a woman was killed, and a pursuit with men from Lancaster and Groton fought the party on Tuesday. The printed '16th' and the weekday disagree: 16 Aug 1707 (Old Style) was a Saturday, and the item's own 'Tuesday at ten of the Clock' and a Lancaster letter dated Tuesday the 19th point to Monday the 18th. Nourse (1884) prints the 16th, Hudson (1862) and Whitney the 18th; no verdict is given here and both are kept. IDENTITY: not applicable. No settler is named, and no Oak or Oakes appears anywhere in the issue; Nathaniel Oak is tagged only as a Marlborough resident whose town the item concerns, the same way the Hudson history pages on the raid are tagged.
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BACKGROUND, NOT PROOF: The Boston Gazette, 25 December 1753, p. 1: a Massachusetts act renewing cash premiums for killing wolves, catamounts and wild cats. It names no one and says nothing about the Oak family; it shows only that Massachusetts paid bounties of this kind, about seventy years after the date the family story gives for Nathaniel Oak's arrival. — BACKGROUND, NOT PROOF: The Boston Gazette, 25 December 1753, p. 1: a Massachusetts act renewing cash premiums for killing wolves, catamounts and wild cats. It names no one and says nothing about the Oak family; it shows only that Massachusetts paid bounties of this kind, about seventy years after the date the family story gives for Nathaniel Oak's arrival. 25 Dec 1753 · p. 1
Source: The Boston Gazette, Boston, 25 December 1753; America's Historical Newspapers (Readex), via AmericanAncestors.org
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight. Attached as context to the Nathaniel Oak story, not as a record of his life.
Keep in mind: What the page says: Confirmed from a direct reading. The act renews an earlier one ('the aforesaid Act'; 'the Encouragement given by Law has failed of answering the proposed Design'), so it is not the first Massachusetts bounty law, and the date of the first such law is still open. It runs three years from 20 Oct 1753. Whether this concerns our person: not applicable. The act is province-wide legislation that names no person; Nathaniel Oak is tagged only so that the page can sit with his story as background. It does not date, confirm or corroborate the family's wildcat-bounty tradition, which the story itself places decades before any surviving American newspaper.
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Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Maine), 29 April 1899, p. 20: "the father of Captain Jonathan Oak was Nathaniel Oak, who appeared in Marlboro about 1680 .. in 1703 he married Mary, a daughter of Adam Holloway .. Nathaniel Oak died in 1721." The sole-survivor shipwreck account is given as tradition. — Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Maine), 29 April 1899, p. 20: "the father of Captain Jonathan Oak was Nathaniel Oak, who appeared in Marlboro about 1680 .. in 1703 he married Mary, a daughter of Adam Holloway .. Nathaniel Oak died in 1721." The sole-survivor shipwreck account is given as tradition. 29 April 1899 · p. 20
Source: Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Maine), 29 April 1899, via Newspapers.com (image 827989173).
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Keep in mind: The writer calls the shipwreck-survivor, catamount and sheep account "tradition" and names no source. Confirmed as printed. The writer gives "about 1680" for his arrival where later sketches say about 1645 birth and Marlboro by 1686; the first wife is given as Mehitable, daughter of John Rediat.
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Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Maine), 29 April 1899, p. 20: the last column of the Oak family article, naming Henry L. Oak of California as having collected information on the Oak family and giving the tradition of Nathaniel Oak. — Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Maine), 29 April 1899, p. 20: the last column of the Oak family article, naming Henry L. Oak of California as having collected information on the Oak family and giving the tradition of Nathaniel Oak. 29 April 1899 · p. 20
Source: Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Maine), 29 April 1899, via Newspapers.com (image 827989173).
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Keep in mind: The writer calls the shipwreck-survivor, catamount and sheep account "tradition" and names no source. Confirmed as printed. The earliest printing found of the shipwreck, catamount and sheep tradition; it gives no cabin boy, vow, Wales, Conant or Bible.
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Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Me.), Illustrated Magazine Section, 29 Apr 1899, p. 20: On Maine's Historic Ground (Captain Jonathan Oak and Nathaniel's tradition). — Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Me.), Illustrated Magazine Section, 29 Apr 1899, p. 20: On Maine's Historic Ground (Captain Jonathan Oak and Nathaniel's tradition). 29 Apr 1899
Source: Newspapers.com, full-page original download.
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Keep in mind: Original page; see the Lewiston Journal page for the transcription of the Nathaniel paragraph.
Evidence for: Lewiston Journal, 29 April 1899, 'On Maine's Historic Ground'
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Newspapers.com - Vermont Phoenix - 26 Jan 1900 - Page 2 Some Early Settlers. 22 JAN 1900 Newspaper of Nathaniel the Cabin Boy - — Newspapers.com - Vermont Phoenix - 26 Jan 1900 - Page 2 Some Early Settlers. 22 JAN 1900 Newspaper of Nathaniel the Cabin Boy - 26 Jan 1900
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Record: Newspapers.com - Vermont Phoenix - 26 Jan 1900 - Page 2
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The Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro), 26 Jan 1900, p. 2: Some Early Settlers, the descendants of Nathanael Oak the cabin boy. — The Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro), 26 Jan 1900, p. 2: Some Early Settlers, the descendants of Nathanael Oak the cabin boy. 26 Jan 1900
Source: Library of Congress, Chronicling America (public-domain scan).
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Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock), 9 June 1907, p. 29: 'The Oakes Family and Its History,' a syndicated surname column that prints the Nathaniel Oak cabin-boy tradition, names his wives Mehitable Rediat and Mary Holloway, and lists Maine descendants. — Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock), 9 June 1907, p. 29: 'The Oakes Family and Its History,' a syndicated surname column that prints the Nathaniel Oak cabin-boy tradition, names his wives Mehitable Rediat and Mary Holloway, and lists Maine descendants. 9 Jun 1907 · p. 29
Source: Daily Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas; Newspapers.com.
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Keep in mind: Family tradition: the shipwreck, pine-knot and wildcat story is printed here as the family's own account, and the column is a syndicated filler piece (byline 'Eleanor Lexington'), not a primary record. The statements above rest on a full transcription of the column. People tagged are those the column names with a stated relationship: Nathaniel Oak (immigrant), his wives Mehitable Rediat and Mary Holloway, his son Jonathan, Capt. Seth (third generation), Seth's sons Calvin and Nathaniel, and Beriah (third generation); the tree matches are by name and generation (Likely). Henry Lebbens Oak (b. 1844), Ora Oak, Lyndon Oak and the column's John (third generation) are named but not tagged: no unambiguous tree person.
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"A Corner in Ancestors: Oakes" (2 of 3): Nathaniel Oak and his descendants, with a handwritten "S. Fco. Cal" — "A Corner in Ancestors: Oakes" (2 of 3): Nathaniel Oak and his descendants, with a handwritten "S. Fco. Cal"
Source: Family copy, photographed by Mike Oak
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"A Corner in Ancestors: Oakes" (3 of 3): the heraldry, with the handwritten question "Shall we adopt the arms & motto?" — "A Corner in Ancestors: Oakes" (3 of 3): the heraldry, with the handwritten question "Shall we adopt the arms & motto?"
Source: Family copy, photographed by Mike Oak
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"A Corner in Ancestors: Oakes" by Eleanor Lexington, the family's clipping (1 of 3): the Oakes arms and "Persevere" — "A Corner in Ancestors: Oakes" by Eleanor Lexington, the family's clipping (1 of 3): the Oakes arms and "Persevere"
Source: Family copy, photographed by Mike Oak
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Sun-Journal (Lewiston), 29 April 1899, p. 20: the Nathaniel Oak passage (Marlboro, Mary Holloway 1703, shipwreck tradition) — Sun-Journal (Lewiston), 29 April 1899, p. 20: the Nathaniel Oak passage (Marlboro, Mary Holloway 1703, shipwreck tradition)
Source: provenance not confirmed
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Sun-Journal (Lewiston), 29 April 1899, p. 20: the Oak family article, last column (Henry L. Oak and the Nathaniel Oak tradition) — Sun-Journal (Lewiston), 29 April 1899, p. 20: the Oak family article, last column (Henry L. Oak and the Nathaniel Oak tradition)
Source: provenance not confirmed
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