Oak family register, 1906

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FAMILY REGISTER
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1784 and to New York before 1787.
Elizabeth had a brother who
died in infancy, 1749.
III.
CHILDREN OF JONATHAN^ (8) AND SARAH
WHEELER.
24.
Sarah.
Born* Harvard, Mass., January
12,
1752; "owned
ye covenant and was baptized at her own desire" September 22,
1771
;
married
1771
;
died
.
Husband, William Blackden;
3 children (164-166).
Practically no record of her descendants has been found.
The
family came to Maine.
Three of four have been heard from, but
decline to give details.
The name has usually been written Blag-
den in later years.
25.
Jonathan.
Stow,
Mass.; born about
1754.
All
that
is
known of him
is that he was named
in his
father's
will of 1784
as the oldest son, with a legacy of 10 shillings "if he ever comes
back to this place."
John Conant (169)
also remembered him as
visiting
his
sister
Lydia
in Ashburnham
about
1773-80.
He
doubtless disappeared
in
Revolutionary times,
and
was
never
heard
of.
The writer,
like other genealogists, long confounded
him with another Jonathan in Worcester county.
26.
Rebecca.
Born
at Harvard, Mass., about
1756.
Known
only by mention in her father's will of 1784, and then apparently
married.
No clew to her descendants.
27.
John.
Exeter, Me.; carpenter and farmer; born, Harvard,
Mass., October 22, 1757 (or '58)
; married about 1780; died June
25,
1842.
Wife, Abigail Lambert, probably sister of Sherebiah,
who married his sister Millie (31)
; died, 1844, age 85; 8 children
(79-86).
John Oaks served
5 years—four enlistments or more—in the
Revolution, being much employed as a scout, taking part at Ben-
nington and many other battles, and once being sent by General
* Harvard, Worcester County, Mass.
This well known town was incorporated in 1732
and named in honor of Rev. John Harvard, founder of Harvard College.
It is a hilly town-
ship, but with productive soil.
It is located on a branch of the B. & M. Railroad, 28 miles
west of Boston and is noted for beantiful scenery as well as for its college and as a summer
resort.

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