Oak family register, 1906

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OAK—OAKS—OAKES
widow for their support.
One of the two died
in
1783 and the
other before
1795, when the estate was
distributed.
His
regis-
tered descendants number about 2,500.
3.
William.
Marlboro, Mass.; born February
18, 1706; died
unmarried August
8,
1723.
He was
at work as
carpenter's ap-
prentice, with five other workmen, on a new house for Capt. John
Keyes
in Shrewsbury.
The job was completed when
the men
retired
for the night
; but
in the night
the house took
fire and
only one man (Ebenezer Bragg) saved his
life, the others includ-
ing the Oak boy were overcome by the smoke and
their bodies
were burned.
An account of the disaster by Rev. Mr. Breck was
published in the Boston Letter.
4.
Hannah,
Marlboro, Mass.; born December 27, 1707; mar-
ried about 1728; died March 3, 1807, aged ninety-nine.
Husband,
Gershom Fay, Jr.
Her descendants and those of her two sisters
are not registered
in this work; but one of them, *Orlin
P. Fay
of Vermontville, Mich., had in 1896, 7,000 names in the Fay fam-
ily,
doubtless
including
most
of
Hannah's
descendants.
Her
children were:
Gershom,
born
1729; Thaddeus,
1731
;
Dinah,
1733; Adam,
1736;
Joseph,
1738;
David,
1741
; Hannah,
1743;
Millicent, 1746.
5.
Mary.
Marlboro,
Mass.; born March
31,
1710;
married
February 20, 1735; died April 4, 1805; age ninety-five.
Husband,
Daniel Maynard; born March
16,
1692;
died January
i,
1760;
children:
Lucy, born 1735; Daniel, 1737; Labilla, 1739; William,
1743; Jedediah, 1745; Elihu, 1748; Mary,
1751.
6.
Ann.
Marlboro, Mass.; born September 9, 1712; married
about 1735; died
.
Husband, David Maynard; born January
20, 1705, brother of Keziah (2)
; F. E. Blake, of Boston, has regis-
* Orlin P. Fay, the ^•nealosrist of the Fay family, was a descendant of Hannah (Oak)
Fay, in the fourth treneration; born
in Prattsburgh, Stenben County, N.Y., Sept.
13. 1820—
married, April 19, 1851. Laura Bridges, born
in Williamstown, Mass.
He was raised on a
farm where there were "ten ttones to one dirt," as he expresses
it.
Makiner the most of
the scanty school privilesres then afforded, at the asre of 21 he
left the farm and for many
years cniraeed in any mechanical work that offered, developintr the same industry, adap-
tability and reliability that characterized his cousins of the same generation of the "Oak"
family,
Dec. 24, '61, he enlisted in Company E, 101st N. Y. Vol. Inf.—wa« mustered in a* a
musician, playing the part of solo alto.
Owinir to sickness he was discharged for disability
June 12. 1862.
In 1869 Mr. Fay moved to Vermontville, Mich
, where he made shovel han-
dles for the noted firm of Oliver Ames & Sons, and the failure of that firm carried him
down with
it.
Fortunately he obtained a pension which brisrhtened his later days.
Mr.
Orlin P. Fay died January
10, 1904, leaviuer an enviable record.
His two sons died before
reachlne manhood.
His widow survive* him.
His ffenealocrical work then in print waa
turned over to his brother,W. C. Fay,Woodbury, Mich., from whom copies can be purchased.

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