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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Mary Oakes: Birth: 7 JUN 1768 in Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Death: 6 JUL 1849

  2. John Oakes: Birth: 15 MAR 1770 in Medford, Massachusetts. Death: 7 SEP 1839 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine

  3. Ebenezer Oakes: Birth: 19 FEB 1772 in Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Death: 13 DEC 1857 in Prob Phillips, Franklin County, Maine

  4. Rebecca Oakes: Birth: 19 DEC 1775 in Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Death: in Readfield, Kennebec County, Maine


Sources
1. Title:   A History of Farmington, Maine 1776-1885
Page:   Page 392
Author:   Francis Gould Butler
Publication:   New England History Press, 1983, Somersworth, New Hampshire 03878
2. Title:   Vital Records of Medford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850
Page:   Page 103 Medford Births
Publication:   Published by the NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, at the charge of THE EDDY TOWN-RECORD FUND.
3. Title:   Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
Author:   New England Historic Genealogical Society
4. Title:   Letter
Author:   Mrs. Raymond L. Lent
Publication:   December 3, 1984
5. Title:   Massachusetts Town Marriage Records
6. Title:   Vital Records of Medford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850
Page:   Pages 189, 269: Marriages
Publication:   Published by the NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, at the charge of THE EDDY TOWN-RECORD FUND.

Notes
a. Note:   From Family and Local Histories: Biographical review : this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Franklin and Oxford Counties, Maine. Page 168 John Oakes, Having been among the minute-men who took part in the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill,and died from the effects of exposure some three months after the last-named struggle. Family legend has it that John was among the minute-men who took part in the battle of Lexington and Bunker Hill. It is said that after the battle on June 17, 1775, when he was on his way home in Medford, John sat down on the grass to rest. He fell asleep and contracted a cold from which he suffered complications that caused his death a few weeks later. Information also from Mrs. Raymond L. Lent-Descendant of Mary Blunt Oakes and Jonathan Knowlton. John is listed as dec'd at the baptisms of John, Ebenezer and Mary on May 12, 1776 C.R.1.--Church Record First Parish Unitarian.

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