Oak family register, 1906

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FAMILY REGISTER
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and perhaps never saw his youngest child.
According to tradi-
tion he had by
his
four wives twenty-four children but
this
is
of doubtful accuracy
; and
at any rate only sixteen
lived
to be
named in his will of 1784—on file in Wiscasset and printed in the
Lincoln County Probate Records.
His estate was left to his sons
Solomon and
Levi with
provision
for the minor
children, and
five shillings for each of the nine already provided for.
The old-
est three daughters never came to Maine; the oldest son disap-
peared; and the rest remained for some years—some permanent-
ly—in the region of Skowhegan.
In 1806-8 several of them set-
tled in Sangerville, Piscataquis county, and others in other parts
of
the
state, where
their descendants
are
still very numerous.
Over 5,000 of Captain Jonathan's descendants have been
regis-
tered.
9. George.
Rutland, Mass
;
clothier and farmer
; born West-
boro, Feb.
15. 1720; married
first October 23
(or 26)
1744; mar-
ried second June
12
(or
13)
1765; died
after
1777.
First wife,
Lydia Eagar, daughter of Captain James and Tabitha (Howe)
;
born May 15, 1723; died September 10, 1758; six children (37-42).
Second
wife, Mercy
Bartlett, daughter of
Ensign
Daniel
and
Martha
(Howe);
born May
31,
1730; two
children
(43-44).
George Oak lived
in Westboro on the farm now known
as the
"Wesson Place," owned by one of the firearm's firm, and one of
the
finest places
in that region.
As early as
1769—and by the
town
record
of "Warnings"
in
1763, though
that would seem
an error—he settled
in * Rutland. He had served
in the colonial
wars, being mustered
into
service September
25,
1755,
for
the
Crown Point expedition; enlisting again April
2, 1759; and serv-
ing as ensign 1762 in Captain Jonathan Fay's company.. .In the
Revolution he is named in a company of Rutland minute men at
the Lexington alarm, 1775
; and he enlisted August 20, 1777, in the
company of Captain David Bent, marching to Bennington.
Thus
all his descendants are
entitled
to membership
in both Colonial
and Revolutionary
societies.
After
1777
absolutely nothing
is
known of the old veteran; of his children by
the
second
wife
nothing
is known beyond the Rutland church
record
of
their
* Rutland—Worcester County, Mass.
This town, located on the Ware River. 52 miles
west from Boston, on the
B. and M. Railroad, was purchased from the Indians in 1668.
The Indian name was Nazna^.
The settlers suffered severely from the Indians
in
the
colonial days.
The land lies hig-h and dry amoner the hills and is a natural health resort.
and here is located a sanatorium for the cure of consumption.
Farming- is now the chief
occupation and the town has a population of 1740.

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