Oak family register, 1906

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OAK—OAKS—OAKES
baptism; and of the other children we have the descendants
of
only one—Sylvanus, about 700 in number.
THIRD GENERATION.
III.
CHILDREN OF NATHANIEL' AND TABITHA
RICE.
ID.
William.
Winchendon,
Mass.
;
farmer
;
baptized
West-
boro, April
28,
1728; married Bolton, March
(or May)
27, 1752;
died
1774.
Wife,
Relief Whitcomb,
daughter
of William and
Hepzibah
(Sawyer)
; born
Lancaster, February
29,
1736.
She
married
second,
April
4,
1783, Samuel
Patrick
(properly
Fitz-
patrick) a prosperous farmer and town-clerk of Fitzwilliam, N. H.
by whom she had no children.
They lived in Jaffrey from 1809;
he died August
6,
1817, aged
(89)
; and she died
in Fitzwilliam
April 27, 1824 (or 19)
; nine children
(45-53).
William Oak received
at marriage
a small
legacy
from
his
grandmother
Rice; and
his wife
inherited some property from
her
father.
In
1757 he removed from
Bolton
to
Narragansett
No. 6 (Templeton) where
he bought a farm of 80 acres, adding
other
tracts
later.
From
April
7,
1759, sending
his
family
to
Bolton, he served 10 months and 28 days against the French and
Indians
in
the company of Capt. Samuel
Clark,
Col.
Ruggles.
His
services
entitle
all
his descendants
to membership
in the
Colonial Societies.
In 1763-4 he sold his Templeton property for
£160, and bought
for £104
a farm
in
Ipswich,
Canada,
later
*Winchendon, where he was one of the early settlers. His farm
was on both sides of Miller's River; and his house "east of the
bridge and long causey, where Phineas
Ball now lives"
(1849),
* Winchendon. Worcester County, Mass.
Reached by the B. & M. and B. & A. Rail-
roads.
Lies 68 miles westerly from Boston
in the north central part of the State.
This
place was formerly "Ipswich Canada" because most of
the
srrantees were soldiers
or
descendants of soldiers who had served
in an expedition to Canada in 1690.
It was incor-
porated as Winchendon
in 1735.
It« growth was retarded by the French and Indian wars.
It is now a manufacturinsr town of 6,000 people.
The country
is
hilly,
soil deep thousrh
rocky and the scenery beautiful.

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