My line is stalled with John Oak(e)s "of Marlboro" who married Experience Walcott (Walcut) 1732 in Salem, MA. John was in Petersham, MA from abt 1738 to 1748 when he removed to Sunderland, MA where he own/operated a grist mill. He died in 1767 and his son, Jonathan, sold the mill in 1768.
My line is fully documented back to John, with one weak link (1927 Town Clerk's letter} through John's son David. No one has been able to link my John to any of the other Oak(e)(s) lines in MA.
If you are an Oak(e)(s) with a well documented lineage to or through MA in the 17th Century, I would be interested in discussing genetic genealogy testing, off line.
Floyd Oakes fmoakes@aol.com