Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 25398, for Nathaniel Oak, Massachusetts
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Mass.          Oak, Nathaniel              S.25398
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V 4307
Let [letter]  A. L. Campbell 
June 3, 1839 
Let to A. L. Campbell Feb 24 10 
Act 7 July 38
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Nathaniel Oakes, A 6 Months Serve in the 6th Mass Regiment is hereby Discharged the Service in Consequence of a General Order.  Given under my hand in Quarters at West Point this 16th day of December AD 1780. 
Thos Nixon Col. To all Concerned} The Issuing Commissaries the Road in the Massachusetts State are to Issue provision sufficient to assist Nathaniel Oakes from one store to another (at the usual Rate) till he arrives at [unreadable]  a Certificate from the Last Commissary who Served him. West Point Dec. 16th 1780  Tho Nixon Col
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I Willard Oak of Athens in the State of Vermont testify and say that I was well acquainted with Nathaniel Oaks late of Athens in the State of Vermont a Revolutionary soldier deceased, that the said Nathaniel Oaks died on the 25th day of March 1830 leaving Susan Oakes his widow who is still living and I further testify that I am well acquainted with the said Susan Oakes widow of the said Nathaniel Oakes deceased, and that the said Susan Oakes has not been married since the death of the said Nathaniel Oakes her late husband but continues single and unmarried. -
Willard Oak

State of Vermont
Windham County SS
Rockingham Sept 7. 1838
Then personally appeared Willard Oak above named and made solemn oath that he above affidavit by him subscribed contains this truth.
Before me 
Alexander S. Campbell
Justice Peace

I certify that Willard Oak above named is a credible person
Alexander S. Campbell
Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County SS
I Marshall Miller Clerk of the County Court within aforesaid County certify that Alexander S Campbell was on the 7th day of September 1838 and still is Justice of the Peace within & for said County and that the within signatures purporting to be his are his genuine signatures. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Newfane in said County this 28th, day of December 1838
Attest
Marshall Miller, Clerk
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Bellows Falls Vermont
Dec 26
Dec 31 
Free
Add [additional] proof
Susan Oaks
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
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Bellowes Falls. Vermont Decr. 26 1840.
Sir
By reference to your letter of the 3d July 1839 relative to the application of Susan Oaks widow of Nathaniel Oaks for a pension, it appears that her late husband served from July 3d to Dec. 16th. I enclose the affidavit of Daniel Bradish which proves an additional term of service for 3 months or more, if this proof is satisfactory you will please forward a certificate.
Very Respectfully
Yr. Obt Sevt.
A.S. Campbell

Hon J L Edwards
Court of Pensions.
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Oaks


Hon. J L Edwards
Govt. of ___
Washington City
 
Jan 7 1839
11-30 of Act 7 July 1838
BELLOWS FALLS VT
June 2
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Bellowes Falls Vermont Jan.y 2d 1839

Sir I enclose the application of Susan Oaks for a pension, together with all the evidence in support of her claim that we have been able to obtain - it is supposed that the 3 months service mentioned in the Declaration might have been performed in Col Nixons Regt. - If upon referring to the returns in your office, the 9 months service shall be proved, a certificate may be forwarded, otherwise upon being informed of the fact we will endeavor to procure additional evidence of the service. -
Very Respectfully
Yr. obt. Sevt. 
A.S. Campbell
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St. Laurence County
State of New York} SS:
Daniel Bradish of the town of Norfolk in said county being sworn saith that he is aged 79 years last April, that he receives a pension from the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary War. He further says that he lived in the town of Winchendon in the state of Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War that he was well acquainted with one Nathaniel Oaks who then lived in the same town a neighbor to this deponent that on or about the first of August in the year 1780 as this deponent believes he and the said Nathaniel Oaks enlisted as volunteers in the Army of the United States for the term of four months as he understood in a company commanded by Capt. Ephraim Houghton of Petersham. the Lieutenants name he believes was Stone and the Colonels name Denny or Dennis he is not certain which. this deponent says I and the said Oaks joined the said company together and marched with it to Albany and while there a Detachment was taken from Capt Houghton's Company and other companies to go to Schenectady Stone Arabia and Fort Starrwix (now Rome) to protect the inhabitants against the Indians. that he said Oak and this deponent went together in said Detachment as far as Stone Arabia between Schenectady & Utica and performed
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most of their services in that Detachment this Deponent and the said Oaks served together in that enlistment between then and four months when they were discharged and went home together. this deponent supposing that he had served his full period of enlistment. But when he made application for his own pension which he was and is under the Act of 7 June 1832 he was allowed only a three months service in the aforesaid enlistment. in that period he was allowed and the said Nathaniel Oaks performed as much service at that time as the deponent did. the deponent was about 19 years old at this time and the said Oaks a few months younger as he believes- the Deponent further says that the said Nathaniel Oak resided in the said town of Winchendon a few years after the War or after the said service performed and then removed into the town of Athens in the state of Vermont where he was living  when the deponent last heard of his livery- he understands that he is now dead - 
David Bradish

Sworn and subscribed this 11th day of December 1840 before me 
Benjamin G. Baldwin
Justice Peace

I hereby certify that I am well
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acquainted with the above named Daniel Bradish and believe him to be a person of good character for truth & veracity.
B.G. Baldwin
Just. Peace

State of New York
St. Laurence County} Ss:
I Alvin C Low Clerk of the Count of St. Laurence and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County do hereby certify that Benjamin Baldwin Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Daniel Bradish purports to have been made was on the day of the date of the said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified, and that the signatures to the said affidavit and certificate purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this 11 day of December 1840
A C Low Clk
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Feb 18 1840
Vt. 
S. Oaks
B. Falls Vt.
Feb 13
Free
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
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Bellows Falls. Vermont. Feby 13th. 1840.
Sir
I have received your letter of the 3.d June 1839 relative to the claim of Susan Oaks widow of Nathaniel Oakes deceased for a pension, in which you say for the reasons therein stated that no examination can be made into the general allegation of his having served three months
It has been ascertained that the three months service alluded to in Mrs Oaks declaration instead of having been rendered in 1780 was performed in 1777, being about the time of the capture of General Burgoyne & his army and is supposed he was at or near Saratoga at that time. -
I learn that Peter Jocelyn of Cheshire County in the State of New Hampshire who has been placed on the pension list under the act of 1818 but who is now deceased, was in the same company with Nathaniel Oaks in order therefore to prove the service of Oaks I have to request that you will cause his declaration to be examined by me out of which you will be enabled to refer to the rolls of the company & Regiment in which Oaks served. -
I am very respectfully
Yr. obt. ser.t.
A.S. Campbell

Hon JL Edwards 
Com. of Pensions
Washington City.
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DAVID F. LANE 
1126 GILL STREET    
WATERTOWN, N. Y.   
Sept. 12, 1923.     
Commissioner of Pensions, War Department, Washington, D. C.     
Dear Sir:-     
Can you furnish me with a certified copy of the military record of the following: 
Negative   Seth Oak, born at Marlborough (then Westboro, Mass., April 8, 1733, son of Nathaniel and Tabitha Rice Oak. Died at Townshend, Vt., April 24, 1810, was one of a company to which Lunenburg, Vt.,  was chartered in 1763.  Settled at Winchendon, Mass., in 1764. Served in the colonial war 1755 - 60. Was sergeant at Lexington alarm and quartermaster sergeant at Winter Hill,  Married May 25, 1759 to Elizabeth Star Shevally of Stow, Mass., and seven children were born to them, Calvin, Nathaniel, Saloma, John, Thomas, Ebenezer and Polly. He and his two sons were the original grantees of Athens, Vt., and there he went in 1779. His daughter Polly was the first child born there.     

Nathaniel Oak, born 1762 in Templeton or Harvard, Mass., second son of Seth and Elizabeth Shevally Oak. Died in Athens, Vt., March 25, 1830. Served in the Revolutionary War probably enlisting several times, certainly on July 13, 1780, being 18 years old and five feet seven inches tall. He was later one of the proprietors of Athens, Vt. He married Susannah Evans about 1787, who died Oct. 12, 1842. Their children were Sally, Clarissa, Willard, Ebenezer, Sarah, Clarissa 2, Simeon, Nathaniel, William and Lucius.    

Will pay such certification fee as is made. 
Very truly yours, 
David F. Lane
U. S. PENSION OFFICE  N SEP 14 1923