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26 OAK—OAKS—OAKES III. CHILDREN OF GEORGE (9) AND MERCY BART- LETT. 43. Martha. Baptized, Rutland, Mass., November 3, 1769. 44. Jesse. Baptized June 23, 1771. FOURTH GENERATION. IV. CHILDREN OF WILLIAM' (10) AND RELIEF WHITCOMB. The Oaks of the fourth generation numbered 100. The earliest birth was 1753; the latest death was 1897. Two only survive in 1898. Two (Nos. 135 and 185) and the other living when this work was begun gave me directly or indirectly considerable information. Personally I have known in childhood only five of the number, of whom four were of my own branch of the family. While most of them lived and died like their fathers in the four New England states of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, about one-fourth of the number made their homes in other states, as follows, in order of the number settling in each : New York, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Iowa, California and New Bruns- wick. 45. William. Winchendon, Mass. ; born Bolton, November 18, 1753; died April 9, 1771. He was drowned in the spring flood of Miller's River, near his home and in sight of his mother. Robert Moflfat was in the boat with him, and the two lads were buried side by side in the Old Central Burying Ground. 46. Kezia. Bridgewater, N. Y. ; born Bolton, Mass., July 28, 1756. Husband, Samuel Blood; one child (Rebecca) and prob- ably others. They are said to have belonged to a Shaker com- munity in Massachusetts before settling in New York. 47. Relief, Born at Bolton (or Templeton) 1758; died De- cember 23, 1758. 48. Thankful. Born October 12, 1760; died, Templeton, May 22, 1764.
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