Middlesex County, Mass., probate case 16173: guardianship of Lydia Oakes, daughter of Edward Oakes of Medford (1752)

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Type	Wills and probate
Full description	Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate papers, case 16173, guardianship of Lydia Oakes, daughter of Edward Oakes of Medford: case jacket, Lydia's petition and the guardian's bond of Joanna Oakes, widow (11 December 1752)
Record date	1752
Where it is	FamilySearch film 007553698, images 629-631; the case papers. No kinship to anyone in this family tree is shown by these papers: the Oakes of Cambridge, Medford, Malden and Sudbury a separate group, not kin to Nathaniel Oak of Westborough.
Held or published by	FamilySearch (Probate records 1648-1924, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; also published by Ancestry as Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991)
How it was read	Image examined; research dated 10-02-2026

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