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It was a region of beauty and fertility, well calculated to excite the desires of the hard-working and ill-compensated farmers of Western Con- necticut to better their lot, and to make them discontented with their own hard-featured, unproductive region. The spirit of emigration was again aroused. The men who had subdued the rugged hill sides of Northern Litchfield county had accomplished labors, compared with which the clear- ing and bringing into cultivation the rich rolling lands of "the Oneida Country" was a mere pastime. They began to sell their newly-cleared lands before the stumps had decayed from their meadows, and to move away to the banks of the Mohawk, and to the shores of Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca lakes.
All the new towns of Litchfield county were seriously retarded in their growth by this first emigration westward, and not one of them so irre- trievably as Old Winchester. The old inhabitants speak of it as "the Great Exodus." The Danbury Quarter, which, prior to this movement, was thickly settled, in a few years became almost deserted, and has not to this day recovered from the exhausting drain of its inhabitants. Nume- rous old chimney places line the lonely roads where, in 1800, large fami- lies were reared, and school houses crowded. The late Dr. T. S. Wet- more is said to have counted up the remains of more than sixty chimneys, within the society, where the houses had never been rebuilt.
While many valued inhabitants were thus abandoning the town, immi- grants were, to some extent, filling their places, whose names, residences, &c., we propose to continue through another decade, connecting therewith, as heretofore, the doings of the town and society.
The year 1801 is made memorable by the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency, and also by the occurrence of the great flood, which took his name in commemoration of the coincident events. The flood was one of unprecedented magnitude, carrying away nearly all the bridges, and doing other heavy damages throughout this region. An extra tax of five mills on the dollar was laid for replacing and repairing the bridges of the town.
In society meeting a call was voted to Rev. Archibald Bassett, and a , salary offered him of one hundred pounds ($333.33), one-half "in mer- chantable pork, or beef, or butter, or cheese, or English grain, or Indian corn, or Wool, or Flax, if delivered by the first of each year, at current market prices." This not being accepted, the society proposed ninety-five pounds and twenty-five cords of wood; and finally agreed to pay one hundred pounds, and to furnish wood as they had done to the former pas- tor. On these terms the call was accepted, and the union was consum- mated by an ordination, of which no minute is found, either in the Church or society records.
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The Waterbury River Turnpike, running through Colebrook and Win- chester, and then down the Naugatuck valley, was chartered this year, and soon after was opened. It crossed the Green Woods turnpike at the Crocker house, passed through Winchester Centre village, and thence southerly to and along the Naugatuck branch to Wolcottville. Much benefit to stockholders and travelers was anticipated, but was never re- alized. Its income in course of years ceased to pay expenses, and about 1850 the company threw open their gates and surrendered their charter.
RICHARD BECKLEY, from Berlin, is on the list of this year ; he lived and died on the cross-road or lane north of the Little Pond, in the house now occupied by his son, Daniel Beckley. He was father of Richard Beckley of Norfolk, Daniel and Norris Beckley of this town, and a daughter, who went West about 1815. His wife Susanna (Wilcox), died March 31, 1828, aged 62; he died May 2, 1841, aged 82.
RICHARD BECKLEY, Jr., married October 16, 1825, Sabrina Spicer ; she died and he married (2d) March 16, 1834, Mary Cook of Colebrook.
CHILDREN.
I. ELISHA MORGAN, b. April -, 1827 (son of Sabrina).
II. JANE, b. September 16, 1828 (dau. of Sabrina).
III. JULIA SABRINA, b. March 4, 1833 (dau. of Sabrina).
IV. WILLIAM EDMUND, b. July 2, 1837 (son of Mary).
ROGER COOK, son of Aaron, of Winchester, is on this year's list, though according to the record of his birth only twenty years old. He lived in town - the place of residence not ascertained - until about 1810.
ABEL TIBBALLS and Jane, his wife, this year, bought the farm in Danbury quarter now owned and occupied by their grand-son, George Tibballs. She died on this farm, October 5, 1809, aged 58, after which he married (2d) Anna, daughter of Eliphaz Alvord, and lived until his death (April 6, 1822, aged 71,) in the house that stood on the east side of the north and south Dugway road, opposite the parting of the road westerly to the center.
NATHAN TIBBALLS, son of Abel, occupied the original homestead un- til a few years before his death. He married Rebecca Green.
CHILDREN.
I. GEORGE.
II.
III. HULDAH REBECCA, b. Jan. 6, 1821 ; m. May 20, 1841, Riley A. Grant, of Norfolk.
IV. NATHAN, d. April 1, 1841, aged 18.
V. SARAH, d. April 1, 1842, aged 15.
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NEHEMIAH BAILEY is on the tax list of this year, and owned and oc- cupied from 1802 to 1803 a lot of land on the old South Country road, near Torrington line.
The severity of the contest between the Federal and Republican parties is indicated by the number of new electors admitted this year. They were Abijah Wilson, Jr., Wm. Filley, James Gilbert, Newell Haydon, Eli Andrews, Levi Daw, Levi Filley, Jonathan Douglass, Elijalı Bene- dict, Lorrin Sweet, Cyrus Butrick, Anson Cook, Reuben Rowley, Joseph Ellsworth, Levi Fox, Joel Wright, Jesse Porter, John C. Riley, Obadiah Platt, Levi Hoyt, Reuben Scovill, Joseph Mitchell, Luther Holcomb, Daniel Wilcox, David Holmes, Ebenezer Rowley, Stephen Knowlton, Samuel Wetmore, 3d, Orrin Bronson, Stephen Hart, Jolın C. Barber, Moses Hatch, Nathaniel Hoyt, Micajah Hoyt, John Wetmore, Joseph Cook, Isaac Bronson, Chauncey Bronson, Eden Benedict, Joseph Pres- ton, Amasa Wade, Andrew Pratt, Anson Allen, Lyman Doolittle, Ozias Spencer, Zenas Wilson, Stephen Hurlbut, Abel McEwen, Levi Coy, Lloyd Andrews, Asahel Morse, Isaac Wade, Eliphalet Mills, Nathaniel Smith, Wm. Westlake, and William Chickley. Total, 56.
1802.
The political feature of this year was the defeat of the Jefferson party and the restoration of the Federal party to the supremacy.
The town and society records embrace only routine business.
MATHEW ADAMS, from Simsbury, this year bought a farm on both sides of the Winchester and Torrington line, partly in the third tier, first division, on which he resided forty-seven years. In 1849 his house was burned down, and he soon after removed to Granville, Ohio, where he died September 24, 1863, aged 93.
He lived and died without an enemy ; - yet he was a man with decided traits of character. Integrity and kindness marked all his dealings and intercourse. He was a prominent citizen, often employed in town affairs, and five times elected to the Assembly. He, was born in Sims- bury, October 8, 1770, son of Matthew and Keziah Adams. Married Bet- sey Coe, of Simsbury, by whom he had
CHILDREN.
I. MATHEW, who went while a young man to Gayamas, on the Gulf of Cali- fornia, and d. on the Pacific Coast within ten or fifteen years past.
II. SUSAN, ; m. Coleman, of Ohio.
III. ZELOTES, who lived and died in Georgia.
IV. GAYLORD, who lived and died in Granville, Ohio.
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V. BETSEY, who m. Atwood, and died in Ohio.
VI. NORMAND, residing in Winsted, who m. Betsey, daughter of Dr. Luman Wakefield.
VII. MARCIA ANN, who died in Winsted unmarried.
VIII. JOHN, who lived and died in Georgia.
IX. OSCAR, now residing in Portage, N. Y.
THEODORE BAILEY, probably from Goshen, this year bought the farm lately owned by John A. Bidwell, on the Waterbury River turnpike, in Danbury quarter, and lived on it a few years. He was " of Goshen " in 1807, and of Bath, Steuben County, New York, in 1817.
TIMOTHY BAILEY bought of Theodore above, part of the Bidwell farm and other adjoining lands, on which he lived until 1807, or later.
ITHAMAR BAILEY, described "of Winchester," this year bought thirty acres of land with a dwelling-house thereon, now a part of the Bidwell farm, and sold it in 1803.
JAMES BARTON, a hatter, resided in Winchester, and this year bought the house at the north angle of the road running east from the center and the north and south Dugway road, and sold it in 1804.
WILLIAM CHICKLEY, a blacksmith, this year bought a lot near Goshen line, in Danbury quarter, and sold it in 1805. He afterwards bought and lived on a place between N. T. Loomis and Asaph Brooks, on the east side of Brooks street, which he sold in 1813. He married, March 28, 1802, Hannah Moore.
CHILDREN.
I. HARRIET, b. March 16, 1803.
II. WILLIAM, b. Jan. 1, 1806.
JONAS ELLWELL, a blacksmith, is listed this year in the old Society. He afterwards lived in the "old mill house " on Lake street, in Winsted, until 1805 or 1806, working in a blacksmith shop then standing on the west side of Lake street, nearly opposite the mill house. He removed to Barkhamsted or New Hartford. One of his sons was drowned by falling from the Kingdom bridge into the Farmington River in New Hartford.
BENJAMIN PAYNE, named "of Bolton, Tolland County," this year bought the house and saw-mill property on Mad River, immediately south of the Danbury school-house, and sold the same in November, 1803, to Oliver Smith. He probably then left the town. The house and saw-mill have long since disappeared.
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PHINEHAS WARREN, 2d, from Saybrook, this year bought of Samuel Clark, the farm on the old Winsted and Winchester road, late owned by Daniel Murray, and sold the same to Reuben Marshall, in November, 1806, - probably then leaving the town.
JESSE HORTON, "of Winchester," this year bought the Jonathan Blake house at the center, and sold it to Mr. Blake in 1812. He then bought and occupied, until 1823, the Samuel A. McAlpine place, half a mile south of the center, on the Waterbury River road. The Church voted him a letter to the Church in Trumansburg, New York, May 15, 1825. He had wife, Lydia, and
CHILDREN.
I. JULIA,
b. July 10, 1804.
II. HARRIET REBECCA,
b. Aug. 6, 1810.
III. WILLIS DORRANCE,
b. Jan. 11, 1814.
IV. HENRY BISHOP,
b. Sept. 1, 1819.
The freemen admitted and sworn this year were Deacon Josiah Smith, Nathaniel Balcom, Michael Grinnell, Silliman Hubbell, Abel Stannard, Levi Ackley, Gideon Hall, Asher Rowley, Levi Norton, Jr., John Wet- more, Jr., David Coe, Moses Camp, Samuel Camp, Salmon Treat, Horace Eggleston, Reynold Wilson, Josiah Apley, Arah Loomis, John Deer, Elijah Starks, Hawley Oakley, Fisher Case, Rufus Grinnell, James Henshaw, Ezra Rockwell, Truman Smith, Phinehas Warner, Rufus Holmes, and Roswell Grant.
1803.
The records of the town and society this year embrace only routine business.
ALLEN BURR, who lived in a hipped-roof house, now torn down, on the road east of the Little Pond, nearly opposite the lane to Daniel Beck- ley's, married, January 27, 1803, Anna Wade. He died June 22, 1806, aged 27.
CHILDREN.
I. ALMIRA, b. Dec. 24, 1803; m. Oct. 17, 1821, Marova Seymour.
II. AMASA, b. Oct. 24, 1805.
JOHN HAMILTON from Goshen, owned a hundred-acre lot on both sides of Waterbury River turnpike, immediately north of the J. A. Bidwell farm, from 1803 to 1806, and is not afterwards found on the records.
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JUPITER MARS, a colored man from Norfolk, bought a small lot at the west end of the Amanda Church farm, on which he lived until 1805, and then bought thirty acres of land on the Waterbury turnpike, now owned by the heirs of Quashe Potter, on which he lived until his return to Norfolk in 1809.
Jupiter was originally a slave in Dutchess, or Ulster Co., N. Y., and was bought as such by a Reverend Mr. Thompson, a resident of Virginia, who brought him to Canaan, Conn., and there married him to a female slave, whom he brought from Virginia, and placed the married pair in charge of the farm on which his aged parents resided. They took good care of the old people, but did not make the farm pay. Their reverend master returning, and finding the state of things, took measures for carry- ing them back with him to Virginia. They found out his design, and fled with their children to the woods of Norfolk, where the few families around their place of refuge fed and concealed them. Mr. Thompson finding it impossible to get hold of them, or carry them out of the state, finally arranged that the two oldest boys should be sold within the county until twenty-five years old, when by law their slavery would end, and that Jupiter and his wife should at once go free.
Joseph, the oldest boy, died before he was twenty-five; James, the other boy, at twenty-one years of age told his master he would be a slave no longer, and finally arranged to pay him ninety pounds for his remain- ing five years of slavery, which he earned and fully paid.
The family thus freed from slavery proved worthy of the boon. Jupiter, the father, was a burly, jovial man, fond of good eating and drinking, and disposed to enjoy life as it moved on. Fanny, the mother. was the best cook in the region, and a most estimable woman. The children had a high degree of self-respect and refinement. James, the slave boy, became deacon, first of the Zion African Church, at Hartford, and afterwards of the African Church, at Pittsfield, Mass. John, a younger son, became a Methodist preacher in Worcester Co., Mass., and afterwards served in the late war, first as chaplain of a colored regiment, in North Carolina, and afterward as minister among the freed men. Elizabeth, one of the daughters, was educated at Philadelphia, and went out as a teacher to Liberia, where she married, and is still employed in teaching. A daughter of her brother James has since joined her in the same capacity. Sherman, another son, was a sailor out of Stonington for many years before his death. Three other daughters, two of them still living, have ever commanded the respect of all who knew them.
OLIVER SMITH from Southwick, Mass., this year bought and occupied a house and lot on the south side of Mad River, on the road running south from the Danbury school house. He afterward bought and occu-
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pied the red house next west of the Green Woods turnpike toll gate, until about 1816, when he removed to Tyringham. He became a Methodist exhorter, but had not attained to the priesthood when he left here.
In his zeal for purity and good morals, he was so exceedingly scan- dalized one day by the sight of Old Holcomb passing along the road with his beloved fiddle on his shoulder, that he incited a reckless neigh- bor to seize the profane instrument and dash it to pieces. Holcomb sued him as principal in the trespass, and made him pay heavily for his iconoclasm.
DANIEL RICE is assessed this year, but probably lived in the town earlier, as he had by wife Anna, a son, named Chester, born October 24, 1801.
The electors admitted and sworn were as follows :- Phinehas Reed, Amos Hungerford, Joel Kimberly, Elisha Kimberly, Samuel Hoadley, Ransley Bull, Ithamar Bailey, Jacob Seymour, Stephen Wade, Stephen Gaylord, James Barton, William Phillips, Nathan Potter, Timothy Bailey, and Eli Marshall.
1804.
The town and society meetings of this year were confined to routine business.
The electors admitted were :- Daniel Coe, Daniel Mills, and Elihu Everitt.
ELIHU EVERITT, son of Andrew of Winchester, came of age this year, and seems to have lived on the Norfolk road, near the west line of the town, from this year to 1809 or later, and is named of Vernon, N. Y., in a deed of 1812. He married Roxy, daughter of John Marshall of Winchester, as appears by the same deed.
ISAAC JACKLYN came into the town this year, and resided until his death (May 13, 1834, aged 90), on a farm in Danbury Quarter, still owned by his descendants, and now occupied in part by Noah Barber. He is said to have been a servant of Secretary Wyllys of Hartford, from whom he ran away before the Revolutionary War, and took refuge in the Ragged Mountain region of Barkhamsted. Here he won the heart of a daughter of Chaugum, the head or chief of the Narragansett Indians, who held their council fire at the " Light House," but could not get Chaugum to sanction their marriage ; so they ran away, got married, settled down in Danbury Quarter, made baskets, and raised children, of whom John was the oldest, and lived and died (November 21, 1850, aged 58), on the paternal farm, leaving several children, among whom were Isaac of
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Colebrook and Samuel of Pennsylvania, or elsewhere. A daughter of Mrs. (Chaugum) Jacklyn married into the family of Elwells, who, in conjunction with the Wilsons, still linger around the Light House, occa- sionally lighting up the old council fires.
SETH PORTER from Goshen, this year owned and lived in a house on the west side of Brooks Street, somewhere near the old Everitt place, and the next year removed to the Luman Munsill house, near the center, and soon after left the town.
ISAAC SWEET, son of Peleg, and a native of the town, came of age this year. He owned twenty-five acres of the southwest part of his father's farm, until 1807, and probably removed soon afterwards with his father to the Western Reserve, O.
1805.
In society meeting, December 30, 1805, "the question being put to said meeting by the moderator, on motion made and seconded, does this meeting feel satisfied with Mr. Bassett, as their minister ?- and it was voted in the negative," whereupon a committee was directed to wait on Mr. B. and inform him of this vote, and to report the result of their con- ference to an adjourned meeting, on January 6, 1805.
The freemen admitted this year were :- Luther Hoadley, Oliver Smith, Timothy Porter, Jasper Videto, and Benjamin Johnson.
JAMES BEEBE, Esq., son of Colonel Bezaleel Beebe of Litchfield, is this year assessed as an inhabitant of the town. He lived on the McEwen homestead from this time until 1838, soon after which he removed to Hartford, Trumbull County, Ohio, where he died in 1865. He was a man of the old puritan stamp, prominent in town and church ; was a justice of the peace for many years, a representative at three sessions of the assembly, and senator from the 15th district in 1836 and 1837. He married May 29, 1800, Abi, second daughter of Robert McEwen.
CHILDREN.
I. JULIA FRANCES, b. May 24, 1801; m. June 26, 1827, Darius Phelps of Norfolk.
II. ELIZABETH GARRETT, b. February 13, 1803; m. November 7, 1826, Birdsey Brownson of Winchester.
III. SARAH, b. July 3, 1805 ; m. May 12, 1829, Doctor Benj. Welch, Jr., of Norfolk.
IV. ROBERT MCEWEN,
V. MARY,
VI. ROBERT MCEWEN,
VII. JAMES HERVEY,
b. August 8, 1813.
VIII. EBENEZER,
b. August 17, 1807 ; d. December 28, 1807.
b. April 8, 1809 ; d. June 23, 1838.
b. April 28, 1811. Physician, Hartford, O.
b. May 27, 1818.
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JARED CURTIS, of Pompey, State of New York, m. Dec. 27, 1801, Submit Hubbard, daughter of Elijah Hubbard of W. He received a deed this year, from his father-in-law, of his homestead, in the vicinity of the Bronson & Rugg cheese box factory, and resided on the premises until 1816, when he bought the Rufus Drake farm, in Hall Meadow, which he occupied until 1823. He died in Norfolk, Jan. 1, 1861, aged 81.
CHILDREN.
I. SYLVIA, b. in Fabius, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Dec. 17, 1802.
II. TRUE WORTHY (son), b. Oct. 14, 1804.
III. JANE WYLLYS,
b. Aug. 17, 1806.
IV. CHESTER,
b. Aug. 25, 1808.
V. HIRAM,
b. Aug. 19, 1810.
VI. DANIEL,
b. Aug. 12, 1812.
VII. EMILIA,
b. May 24, 1815.
VIII. LORRAIN,
b. Oct. 23, 1817.
IX. BERONA (dau.),
b. Feb. 16, 1819.
X. LEDELIA,
b. April 4, 1822.
LEVI HOYT lived in a house on the north side of Mad River, and east side of the north and south highway, near the Danbury School-house, until 1807. In 1811 he lived in Litchfield.
ELIJAH PINNEY, this year lived in Winchester, and was "of Bark- hamsted," in 1814, when he bought the Harry Blake farm, on the old road from Winsted to Winchester, on which he resided until 1835, when he removed to Erie, Penn., and died there. His widow, Mahala, died in Colebrook, in January, 1866, at the house of her son-in-law, Ralzemon Phelps.
ISAAC TUCKER, son of Reuben, of W., and a native of the town, came of age this year. He m. Nov. 5, 1805, Pamelia Benedict. In 1811, he became the owner of his father's homestead on Mad River, near Norfolk line, which he occupied until about 1827. He died some ten years later.
CHILDREN.
I. PHINEHAS JUDD, b. May 17, 1807.
II. ANNA, b. June 8, 1809.
III. TIMOTHY BENEDICT,
b. Dec. 29, 1811.
IV. WILLARD,
b. May 22, 1815.
V. WYLLYS,
b. March 26, 1817.
VI. SARAH PAMELA,
b. Oct. 16, 1820.
VII. ISAAC, b. Sept. 26, 1827.
CHAUNCEY WHITE, a tailor, lived until about 1810, on the Norfolk
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road, beyond L. B. Hurlbut's, and then built and occupied a small house that stood near the stone house of Isaac A. Bronson, until about 1813, when he removed from the town.
1806.
Either the " fathers of the town " had heretofore received the honor of their appointment as a sufficient compensation, or they had charged a higher price for services than their constituents approved, as would seem from a vote of this year, " to allow some compensation to select men for their services," and another vote fixing the compensation at fifty cents a day.
The geese of the town, perhaps by reason of affinity to the selectmen, seemed to have been deemed worthy of " some compensation," which was provided for by the following vote :
" Voted, that every goose found in the highway, if any person shall take up such goose, and drive the same to the owner, or to pound, shall be entitled to receive two cents for each goose or gander."*
Manifestations of discontent, on the part of the Church and Society, with the pastorate of Mr. Bassett, began to appear at the close of the year 1805. Early in 1806, Mr. B. was requested to join in the call of a council with reference to his dismission. Further steps were taken in April, which resulted in the call of a council, consisting of Rev. Messrs. Robbins of Norfolk, Hooker of Goshen, and Lee of Colebrook, and Dea- cons Norton and Frisbie, " to advise such measures as they in their wis- dom should think proper." The advice given does not appear. In May, following, a vote of very questionable propriety was passed, appointing a committee " to enquire of any person they may think proper, whether any, and if any, what allegations can be brought and substantiated against Mr. Bassett's moral conduct as a gospel minister or a Christian." After the report of this committee, a series of allegations were embodied in a complaint, and submitted to the moderator of Consociation. The Con- sociation met in August. Neither the charges exhibited, nor the result of council thereon, are found on Record. Mr. Bassett was dismissed from
* That this was not a solitary instance of ambiguous legislation, is shown by the following extract from the records of Simsbury :
' At a Generall Town metting of the Inhabetanc of Simsbury, Regulerly convened febuery twenty-eight, 1718-19, these Sundery acts were past : Im:prs : Samuel bar- bor was chosen to take care to prowide a bull for hop meadow in the Room of Ephraim buell said buell being dead."
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his charge, but was not deposed from the ministry. In the following year he brought before the Association (or Consociation) a complaint against the Church, exhibiting eleven articles of charge for immoral conduct toward him. The church went into consideration of each of the articles of charge, and unanimously denied their being guilty of each and all of them. The church records do not show the nature of the charges, nor the result arrived at by Consociation ; and the record of the trial, and result of that body, if in existence, has not been accessible to the com- piler.
Rev. Mr. Marsh, in his account of the Winchester Church, before referred to, writes as follows :
" Mr. Bassett removed to Walton, Delaware Co., N. Y. How long he continued pastor of that church is not known to the writer. After his dismission from that people, he preached considerably in various places, but continued his residence at Walton.
" He was a man of talents, had a high standing in a good class - wrote able, sound and discriminating discourses, - and merely as a preacher, might have been acceptable to his people. But unhappily, in his dealings with men, and management of secular matters, he was so indiscreet as to create difficulties which led to his dismission. He married Kezia, dau. of Mr. Zebulun Curtis of Torringford, a worthy woman." Their daughter, Mary, was baptized June 23, 1805.
The electors admitted this year were Jared Curtis, Samuel Hurlbut, Jr., Warren W. Norton, Alexander Cleveland, Isaac Sweet, James Beach, Elizur Hinsdale, and Roger Root, Jr.
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