Oak family register, 1906

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OAK—OAKS—OAKES
1752; died February 16, 1821.
A Revolutionary soldier and later
captain of militia; six children (186-191).
Hannah^ Oak went
with
her
mother and
step-father, John
Butler,
to Shrewsbury,
Mass.,
1754, and to Winchester, N.
H.,
1766.
Her registered descendents—the record being practically
complete—number over 700.
Dr. Alexander
left
at his death
a
complete genealogy of the
first family; and the late Judge David
Follett, of Norwich, N.
Y., had nearly completed the record of
the Folletts, a pamphlet containing the early generations having
been printed by him.
Strangely no knowledge or tradition of her
family was possessed
in my own branch—descended from
her
only
brother—Nathaniel—though
the two
lived
for
a
time
in
Winchester.
I have over 600 of her descendants, who in charac-
ter and culture seem to excel the average of most other branches.
Possibly,
however,
I am
prejudiced
by
the
promptness
and
courtesy with which as a rule they have responded to my appeals
for information.
I
find
it hard
to
resist a division of our tribe
into folks of two classes—the good who answer my queries, and
the bad who will not reply.
20.
Nathaniel.
Chelsea,
Vt.,
hotel-keeper;
born
Westboro,
Mass., May
16, 1751
; married
first, Bolton, June 2 (or 20), 1773;
married second about
1804;
died
Exeter,
Me., March
15,
1940.
First
wife, Susanna Hastings, daughter of Capt. Benjamin and
Abigail
(Sawtell)
; born
Bolton, Mass., February
11,
1748; died
Chelsea, Vermont, about 1803.
She was a woman for whom her
children had an unusually strong
afifection and
reverence
; and
the name
of Hastings has been preserved
in many branches of
her
descendents.
She was
a good
singer,
a
favorite
pupil
of
Billings, the famous New England teacher and composer; nine
children
(70-78).
Second wife, Elizabeth
(widow Gates)
;
no
children.
After her husband's death she went from Exeter,
Me., to live with relations in Castleton, Vt., and died before 1848.
Nathaniel^ Oak, losing his
father when an
infant, went with
his mother to Shrewsbury, Mass., 1754; but from
1766, when she
went to New Hampshire, and perhaps
earlier, he
lived with
his
uncle Nathaniel
(2)
in Boston, perhaps also spending some years
in Winchendon with his cousins William (10) and Seth
(11). At
his marriage
in Bolton,
1773, he was recorded as Nathaniel
Jr.,
which at
first led to error as to his identity.
At the Lexington
alarm of 1775 he served 12 days in the company of his father-in-

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