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Mr. Brown was a friend of Massasoit, and the proof of their friendship was shown when the life of his son James was spared by King Philip, son of Massasoit. when he came on a mission from the governor to the indians. Colonel Church in his narrative says: "That the Indians would have killed Mr. Browne. who with Mr. Samuel Corton and two other
men bore the letter. but Philip prevented them, saying that his father had charged him to show kindness to Mr. Browne". It is said in his honor that he was the first magistrate to raise his voice against the coercive support of the ministry, taking the stand that all church support should be voluntary and backed his precepts by liberal example. He was a man of abilities, intellect, piety and patriotism, and was buried with civic and military honors, in 1662. His wife, Dorothy, died in 1674. His eldest son died the same year as he ( 1662). His other son, James, was afterwards in the magistraey. His grandson. John Brown, was one of the first associate justices of the court of common pleas in the county of Bristol. In 1699, during the administration of Lord Bal- lamont, he was again appointed a justice. John Brown Sr. was born in 1595, died April 10, 1662. His wife died at Swansea, Massa- chusetts, January 27, 1673. Children: 1. En- sign John. mentioned below. 2. Major James, born in England, 1623. died 1710. 3. Mary, born in England, married, July 6, 1636, Cap- tain Thomas Willett, of Plymouth, the first English mayor of New York City, twice elected to that office. 4. William. resided in Salem, not mentioned in the will and not proved to be son of John Brown.
(II) Ensign John (2), son of John (1) Brown, was born in England. He settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and was ancestor of a numerous family. He died the last of March, 1662. Ile was an ensign of the military com- pany. Married Lydia Buckland. Children, born at Rehoboth: John. mentioned below: Lydia, born August 5. 1656: Hammond. Janu- ary 27. 1657 ; Joseph, April o. 1658 : Nathaniel, June 9, 1661. These children are mentioned in the will of John ( D). March 13. 1662.
( III ) Captain John (3) Brown, son of John (2) Brown, was born the last Friday of Sep- tember. 1650. He was lientenant and captain of the Swansea militia company. He mar- ried Anne Mason. Children, born in Swan- sea: Ann. September 17. 1673: John. men- tioned below : Sammel, January 31. 1677 : Ly- dia and Rachel (twins), May 16. KG79: Mar- tha. November 20. 168r : Daniel. October 20. 1683: Ebenezer. June 15. 1585: Daniel. Sep- tember 26. 1686: Stephen. January 29, 1688: Joseph, May 19, 1690: Elizabeth. Deceniber 12, ICO1.
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( IV) Captain John (4) Brown, son of Cap- tain John (3) Brown, was born in Swansea. Massachusetts. April 28. 1675. He married. July 2, 1696. Abigail, daughter of Job Cole. Children: Mary, born November 21. 1607: Ann. April 1, 1,00; Elizabeth, October 4. 1702; John, March 19, 1704; James, January
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2, 1706; Jeremiah, mentioned below; Benja- min, February 24, 1711 ; Rachel. August 2. 1716; David, February 22, 1718; Seth, April 28, 1720; Lydia, September 5, 1725; Martha. July 21, 1729. He died April 22, 1752; Icit his will in form of verse.
(V) Jeremiah, son of Captain John (4) Brown, was born at Swansea, June 26. 1710, died May 1, 1776. He married Elizabeth Sis- son, January 10, 1731. Among their children were: Jervis, mentioned below ; Rebecca, borir November 11, 1739.
(VI) Jervis, son of Jeremiah Brown, was. born in 1733 at Swansea, baptized April 30, 1733, at St. Michael's Church, Bristol. He married, December 5, 1754, Ann Kinnecut. at Bristol. Among their children were John, mentioned below : Seth, born May 15, 1757; Abigail, May 2, 1762; Lydia, June 19, 1768.
(VII) John (5), son of Jervis Brown. was born in 1755, baptized December 7. 1755. at St. Michael's Church, Bristol. He married Abigail Brown, May 21, 1778. Children : Jer- emiah, born July 16, 1785; Abigail, April 29, 178; ; James Kinnecut. October 28. 1789: Ma- tilda, February 22, 1701 : Czarina. August 7. 1795 ; Charlotte, June 28, 1798: Ann.
(VIII) Jeremiah (2), son of John (5) Brown, was born at Swansea, July 16. 1785. died October 4, 1861. He married, February 4, 1804, Hannah Gardner, of Swansea. born March 14. 1782. Children: Rebecca. born December 21, 1806: Cathrine Bell, September 2, 1810; Lydia, February 11, 1813: John. No- vember 4. 1814: Ruth Burr, November 19, IS16; Ophelia, February 5, 1818: Jervis. men- tioned below ; William H., February 14. 1821 : Jeremiah. December 25. 1822. still living ; Hannah. born July 20, 1824; Abram, born July 18. 1828.
(IX) Jervis (2), son of Jeremiah (2) Brown, was born at Swansea. Rhode Island. September 27. 1819. Part of the town of Swansea, Massachusetts, laid in Rhode Island. after the boundary was fixed. He died March 4, 1899. He married. July 14. 1844, Rachei Ripley, who died December 26. 188 ). daughter of Simon Ripley, of Wilton. Franklin county. Maine. Children: Orlando, born February 21. 1847 : Abbie H .. January 31. 18:1 : Dla F .. May 3. 1853: Jervis Dinsmore. April 25. 1855: William II. June 23. 185; : Charles B., Octo- ber 18. 1850: Ernest W .. February 21, 1802: Rachel and Rath W. (twins). April 20. 1865.
(X) Jervis Dinsmore, son of Tervi- (2) Brown, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts. April 25, :855. He attended the public and private schools of Fall River and the Scoville Commercial College of Providence, Rhode Is- land. He became soon afterward the manager
of the Builders' Iron Foundry. of Providence, and held this position from 1875 to ISSI. Then he entered the employ of the Calumet Iron and Steel Company and the Bangor Fur- nace Company of Chicago, Illinois. Subse- quently he became sales agent of the Bridge- port Malleable Iron Company and for a period of twenty-five years represented this concern. After a very active and useful career he re- tired from business in 1908 to live in his beautiful home, "Darina," in Milford, Con- necticut. He is a member of Arcanum Lodge, Odd Fellows, of Bridgeport. Connecticut, and of the First Congregational Church of Mil- ford. He was for three years on the school board of Milford. He married. June 2, 1885, Annie Phebe Jennings. born May 1, 1800, daughter of Andrew Melvin and Olive ( Chase) Jennings, of Fall River. Children : 1. Andrew Jennings, born September 4, 1883, at Bridgeport, now living at Los Angeles. Cal- ifornia, engaged in the business of gold, silver and platinum manufacturing and dental sup- plies : married Ione Gilfillan, of Los Angeles. 2. Annie Florine, December 2. 1885, at Bridge- port, living in Milford. 3. Jervis Dinsmore Jr., July 29, 1890, living at Milford, Yale stu- dent. 4: Harvey Beach, December 29. 1893. at Milford. 5. Olive Jennings, January 29. 1897, died February 4. 1897.
William Boreman, of Ban BOARDMAN bury, Oxfordshire, Eng- land. was the earliest Eng- lish ancestor to whom the American family can be traced. He was living there in 1525 and had a son Thomas, mentioned below.
( II) Thomas, son of William Boreman, was called "the elder," and in 1546 was taxed in Claydon, near Banbury. England. He died in 1570. His will was dated April 3. 15;6, atri proved May 2, 1580. He married Isabel Children : William. buried 1612-13: Cicely ; Christopher, buried October 10, 1524; John, buried December 9. 1588: Thomas. the elder. buried May 29. 150): Thomas, the younger. mentioned below : Elizabeth : Joane : Ann.
(III) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1 ) Boreman, was called "the younger" as he had an elder brother of the same name. He was born in Clasdon about 1560. He lived at Claydon and married. February 16. 1579-80, Dorothy Gregory. Children : Christopher. baptized December 1. 18i, mentioned below ; Joane. baptized January 31. 1581-85.
: [V] Christopher, son of Thomas (2) Boteman. the younger, was baptized at Clay- don, December 1, 158 :. He worked at a trade in Banbury, evidently. but returned to Clay-
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don and was buried there, April 1, 1640. IIe married November 19, 1604, Julian Carter, baptized December 20. 1583, daughter of Felix and Margaret Carter. of Claydon. Children and dates of baptism: Anne, September 15, 1605: Felix, August IS. 1607: Elizabeth, No- vember 26, 1600: Sara, September 6, 1612; Samuel, August 20, 1615, mentioned below ; daughter: Christopher, November 26, 1620; Ursula, December 18. 1624.
(V) Samuel Boreman, son of Christopher Boreman, was baptized at Banbury, England, August 20. 1615. He went to New England and was a resident of Ipswich. Massachusetts, as early as 1639, when he had land recorded to hint. He was a cooper by trade. Ilis house- lot in Ipswich was in the west part of the town. This he soon exchanged with George Hadley, for his land in Ipswich, on the south part of the river. In 1641 he sold his house and land to Francis Jordan, and removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut. In 1645 he bought a house lot of three -acres, with a barn and cellar. situated on the east side of Broad street, a little north of Plain lane. near the great elm still standing there. He owned at various tiines six other house lots in Wethers- field. For the last fourteen years of his life he resided on a lot of three acres, bought of Nathaniel Dickinson, on the west side of Broad street and south side of Fletcher's lane. At the time of his death he was the owner of about three hundred and fifty acres. including an Indian grant'of two hundred acres on the east side of the Connecticut river in the present town of Marlboro. He was eight years selectman, was rate maker. fifteen years a juror, a surveyor of highways, and often on committees to decide boundary lines. He also held important offices in the church. He was elected depatty to the general court in 1657. and thereafter for eighteen terms, being reported as present at thirty-four sessions. He was present. October 9, 1662. when Connecti- cut's famous charter was "first publiquely read" to the freemien. He occupied various other positions of trust and responsibility in the town and colony. He died in April, 1673. and the inventory of his estate was taken May 2. 1673. He married Mary, daughter of John and Mary Betts. Children: Isaac, born Feb- ruary 3. 1642-43, died May 12. 1710: Mary. February 14. 1544-45. died May 10. 1721: Samuel, October 23, 1648. mentioned below : Joseph, March 12. 1650. died unmarried 1676: John, June 12. 1653. died tinmarried 1676; Sarah. March 4, 1655: Daniel, August 4. 1658. died February 30. 1724-25: Jonathan, February 4. 1660, died September 21, 1712: Nathaniel. April 12. 1663, died November
29, 1712; Martha, August 12, 1666, died May 20. 1743.
(VI) Sergeant Samuel (2) Bordman, son of Samuel ( 1) Boreman, was born in Weth- ersfield, Connecticut, October 28, 1648, died December 23, 1720. He was a cooper by trade and had one-half his father's home lot. In 1677 he with others was given leave to build a saw mill. He was surveyor of highways in 1679 and 1694 and collecter in 1683. His will was dated December 20, 1720. He married, February S. 1682, Sarah Steele, baptized at Farmington, December 29, 1656, died Janu- ary 23, 1732-33, daugter of Lieutenant Sam- nel and Mary ( Boosey ) Steele, of Farming- ton and Wethersfield. Children: Mary. born November 13, 1683; Sarah, March 13, 1686. died aged seventeen days: Hannah, June 27, 1687, died May 16, 1688; David, June 1. 1602: Josepli, April 6, 165, mentioned below : Jo- siah, baptized Match 19. 1698-09, died young.
(VII) Cornet Joseph Bordman, son of Sergeant Samuel (2) Bordmian, was born in Wethersfield. Connecticut. April 6. 1695. died January 19 1771. He lived in a house he- gun for him by his father in 1719. at the southwest end of Broad street, which re- mained standing until 1866: He was a man of property and prominent in town and church affairs. He was commissioned quar- termaster of the troop of horse, Sixth Regi- ment, May II, 1749, and cornet in the same regiment in 1751. He was deputy to the gen- eral court in 1754-35-59-60. He married. February 17, 1726, Mary, daughter of Joseph Belding. She died April 30. 1760. aged sixty- six years. Children: Mary, born March 3. 1728: Sarah, February 1, 1731 ; Eunice, No- vember II. 1733: Hannah. April 20. 1730; Levi, May 6, 1730. mentioned below : Rhoda. April 29. 1742, died November 20. 180 !.
(VIII) Levi, son of Cornet Joseph Bord- man, was born in Wethersfield. Mas 6. 1739. died March 22. 1783. He was selectman of Wethersfield in 1773-74-75. and was a lead- ing citizen of the town. He received by the will of his father the homestead on Broad street, where he resided all his life. He was a man of education and had a good library for his day, including Latin and Greek books. He used to take into his family boys who were being elucated. and among them was Wil- liam Bellamy. the eight-year-old son of Dr. Joseph Bellamy. of Bethlehem, who had mar- ried Frances Sherman, an aunt of his wife. A letter written by Dr. Bellamy to his son Wil- liam is preserved in the Boardmian family. He married, April 23, 1761, Esther, born De- cember 22, 1743. daughter of Gamaliel and Saralı ( Sherman) Bordman, of Newington.
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and granddaughter of Richard Bordman. one of the first settlers in that part of the town. The inventory of Levi Bordman's estate was over one thousand pounds. Among the items were a large Bible, several other books, an old tavern sign, silver shoe buckles, silver knee buckles, silver vest buttons, old clock and watch, ten Brigden chairs, three queensware plates, silver spoons, etc., and a negro wench valued at thirty pounds. Children: Joseph, born March 5. 1763, died October 4, 1775; Levi, January 30, 1765, died May 20. 1808: Sarah, December 21, 1766. died February 7. 1768; Sarah, March 1, 1769, died March 17. 1769: Simeon, November 9, 1770, dicd July 25, 1775: Joseph Simeon. mentioned below.
(IX) Joseph Simeon Boardman, son of Levi Bordman, was born in Wethersfield. May 3, 1780. He was a cordwainer by trade, and re- moved early, in 1804. to Lenox, Massachu- setts. where for two years he successfully en- gaged in the business of tanning leather. Late in 1805 he returned to Wethersfield and lived the remainder of his life on the homestead. He was a man of remarkably earnest Christian character, which is shown by his note book and private papers. He was a leading spirit in the Wethersfield Religious Society of Young Men. in ISI7. A set of resolutions. dated about two years before his death. sct forth his determination to pray for his family and, in fact, for all the townspeople. To carry out this purpose methodically. he wrote down the names of one hundred and eighty-three families of Wethersfield. and at the time of his death the names checked off as having been prayed for was one hundred and thirty- five. He was accustomed to set down in writing notes of all events of importance that occurred to him, and he left a ledger in which was a full account of his line of descent from Samuel at Ipswich to his own family. His library consisted of fifteen books, all num- bered. the Bible being No. 1. He died No- vember 13, 1827, by being shipwrecked in Long Island sound during a severe storm when all on board were lost. His body was washed ashore at Huntington. Long Island, and was buried at Wethersfield. He was at the time a supercargo on the sloop "Elias." David Moulthrop. captain, going from Weth- ersfield to New York with a cargo of onions. He married, July 31. 1803. Lucinda Canfield. born 1786, died March 6, 1850 daughter of Joseph and Hannah ( Harrison) Canfield. of Salisbury, Connecticut, and granddaughter of Rev. Jared Harrison, the first minister of Chester. Connecticut, whose wife was a daughter of Captain Abraham Waterhouse. of Saybrook. Lusinda ( Canfield) Boardman
married ( second) September 19, 1832. Ezra L'Hommedieu, of Chester, Connecticut Chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Boardman: William, born February 25, 1805, mentioned below ; Hannah, April 2, 1807, died September I, 1891 ; Joseph. August 8, 18to, died September 21, 1810; Joseph Canfield, May 4, 1813 : Maria Lucinda, January 3, 1820, died August 21, 1864.
(X) William (2), son of Joseph Simeon Boardman, was born in Lenox, Massachu- setts, February 25, 1805. The family soon removed to Wethersfield and he received his education in the public schools there. At the age of sixteen he began to learn the trade of printer in the office of the Hartford Times, then owned and published by Samuel Bowles and John Francis. In 1824 he went with Mr. Bowles to Springfield and assisted in the starting of the Springfield Republican. The removal was made by means of flat boats poled up the Connecticut river. He boarded in the family of his employer, receiving a salary of twenty dollars a year besides lus board, lodg- ing and the care of his clothes. He helped to set up and print the first issue of the Spring- field Republican, which has since become one of the leading newspapers of New England. In 1828, in company with William Faulkner, of Norwich, under the firm name of Board- man & Faulkner, he began the publication of the Vorwich Republican, which he edited. This was the second paper in Connecticut to support Andrew Jackson for president. After the first year he was obliged to rest on ac- count of ill health. In 1830 he published the Tolland Advocate for an association in Tol- land. Connecticut, and in 1832, in company with Alfred Francis, he published a sub-crip- tion work written by B. L. Rayner. entitled, "Sketches of the Life, Writings and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson." the printing and binding done in Wethersfield. In 1834. Mr. Boardman acted as foreman of the Hartford Times, then published by John Russell. In 1841, with John Fox as a partner, Mr. Boardman carried on a grocery business in Wethersfield. and in con- nection with the store started the first man- ufactory in New England outside of Boston. for the roasting, grinding and packing of cof- fee and spices for the wholesale trade. In October, 1844, this partnership was dissolved. and January 1, 1845, Mr. Boardman carried on the business under his own name. In 1850 he removed to Hartford, locating at 12 Central Row, and associated with him bis son. W. F. J. Boardman, under the firm name of William Boardman & Son. Steam power and modern machinery were introduced, and the frin did a large business in many states, and
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especially in New York City. The coffee used at the opening of the Crystal Palace in New York was furnished by them. Probably the first invoice of ground coffee sent to Califor- nia was from this firm. Owing to increased business. the store and factory were moved in 1833 to what is now 241 State street. He bought a building here and fitted it up with a twenty-five horse power engine, and with the latest machinery for the use of the firm. At this time Mr. Boardman's second son, Thomas J. Boardman, was admitted to the firm, the firm name being changed to William Boardman & Sons. Their building consisted of four stories, with a two-story storehouse in the rear. In 1858 two stories in an adjoin- ing building were leased, and teas added to the stock in trade. Traveling salesmen were employed throughout the New England states and New York, thousands of chests being sold yearly. In 186; the business was removed to 205 State street, corner of Front. the old store being used for the manufacture and storage of goods. This added four stories. thirty by eighty feet. In 1871 the brown-stone building at 298 to 306 Asylum street was erected for the business. This was fifty-two by one hundred feet, with five stories and a basement, with a manufactory in the rear of three stories, thirty by forty feet. The cost was over one hundred thousand dollars. and it was the finest business building then in the city. New machinery was added and the firm occupied it on April 1, 18;2. The equipment was the finest of its kind in New England. and here the business continued to grow. the firm becoming one of the most successful in the country, dealing as wholesalers and im- porters of teas, coffees and spices. cigars. to- bacco and grocers' sundries. After the death of Mr. Boardman in 188 ;. the eldest son re- tired from the firm, and the business was car- ried on by Thomas J. Boardman. and his son Howard F .. the old firm name being retained.
Mr. Boardman, in connection with the firm. built several of the finest private buildings in Hartford. In company with others, he con- structed several vessels of large size, one of which bore his name. He was one of the founders and subscribers of the Merrick Thread Company of Holyoke, and one of the directors; he was also director of the Hart- ford and New York Steamboat Company. the Comstock & Ferre Seed Company, the Bank of Hartford County ( American National). Merchants and Manufacturers Bank ( First National). Orient Fire Insurance Company. Mechanics Bank & Building Association, and Hudson River Water Power & Paper Com- pany. He was an original subscriber to the
City Fire Insurance Company, Phoenix Fire Insurance Company. Merchants Fire Insur- ance Company, and Hartford Engineering Company. From 1836 he was several years secretary and director of the Wethersfield Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He also assisted in the formation of many industries and did much to advance the interests of Hartford. He was largely interested in the investigation of the possibilities of the prac- tical use of peat as fuel. He was associated with Henry Martin in manufacturing the first power machines for making brick in this coun- try. He was general agent and manager of the Holbrook School Apparatus Company for the manufacture of instruments showing the revolution of the solar system, and of other instruments used in the schools. He was president of the Hartford Associated Coal Company just after the civil war. which ow- ing to the general collapse at that time did not prove a success. In all of these positions Mr. Boardman was faithful and competent. His advice was often sought and always cheerfully given. In 1834 he held the office of state prison director; in 1835-36-37 he was con- stable and collector ; in 1852 representative to the legislature from Wethersfield, serving on important committees, and again appointed prison director and commissioner for Hart- ford county by Governor Thomas H. Sex- mour. He was. a Democrat in politics and after his removal to Hartford would not ac- cept any public office. He was also a firm L'nion man, and a subscriber to the Hartford Times from 1820 to 1888. In 1838 he helped to establish the Hartford Morning Post. a Democratic journal. now the Hartford Ervi- ing Post.
Mr. Boardman was a member of the Ma- sonic fraternity and held the office of noble grand in the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows.
Both he and his wife were brought up in the Congregational church, but in early life he became deeply interested in the Methodist Episcopal church, then in its infancy in Weth- er-field, where it was at first strongly opposed. At one time when they were refused the use of the town hall for religious services, Mr. Boardman and other- forced the doors in order to hold the meeting. The excitement at that time was so great that the "riot" act was read to the assembled crowd by Samuel Galpin. Esq. of Wethersfield. Mr. Board- man and his wife united with the church in 1838. and remained through life its firm sup- porters. Ile helped to rebuild the church edi- fice, and gave so liberally toward it. that out of gratitude to him it was named the Board-
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man Chapel at its re-dedication. In 1858, on their removal to Hartford. their membership was transferred to the First Methodist Epis- copal Church there, of which Mr. Boardman was elected trustee. When its new building was erected on Asylum street, he was on the building committee, and contributed largely to the building fund. When the South Park Church was organized in 1869, in the south part of the city, he and his wife joined there. and were among the foremost in the enter- prise. He was a trustee and a member of the building committee. One of the acts of his later life was the payment of the mortgage then on the church. on condition that there should never be ancther mortgage. He was elected the first superintendent of the Sunday school. continuing until the infirmities of age obliged him to resign. In 1885, after the death of his wife, he built the Boardman Me- morial Chapel, adjoining the church, in mem- ory of her. It was dedicated February 23. 1886. Mr. Boardman was liberal to the many charities which called upor him for aid. By his will he made bequests to the Old People's Home, the Hartford Hospital, the Larabee Fund, the Charitable Society of Hartford, the Fund for Superannuated Preachers, the Board of Church Extension for the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and to the Grant Memorial Uni- versity of Athens Tennessee.
Mr. Boardman married. January 3. 1828, Mary Francis, born in Wethersfield, Novem- ber 6, 1803, died December 14. 1884. daugh- ter of Captain Daniel and Mehitabel { Good- rich ) Francis, and granddaughter of Captain John Francis (+) and Captain Elizur Good- rich, both soldiers in the revolution. Her line of ancestry was: Daniel (5). John (+), John (3). John ( 2), Robert ( 1). She was remark- able for her kindness of heart and her liberal- ity, She was interested in all good works and never lacked the means to aid any worthy ob- ject brought to her attention. She was modest and unassuming in Fer charities, and many good deeds were unknown to any save to the object of her kindness. During the civil war she was one of the managers of the Soldier- Aid Association and worked zealonsly in aid of this organization. She is held in loving memory by all who knew her. Mr. Board- man died November 3, 188 -. in his eighty- third year. Children: 1. Wilham Francis Joseph, born December 12, 1828, mentioned below. 2. Thomas Jefferson, May 27, 1832. mentioned below. 3. Arethusa Maria, Deceni- ber 15. 1836, died July 20. 183; 4. Alpheus Francis, June 20, 1838, died May 26. 18.30. 5. Emma Jennette. June 25, (840, died April 18. 1860. 6. Mary Lucinda, June 1. 1841
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