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Except John Hall, of Middletown, it has never been shown that any other John Hall had any relatives in Hartford, any business connections in Hartford. any occupations in Hartford, as money only to John Hall, with Nicholas Clarke, carpenters, is in the town account; any trade useful to Hartford, or ever was in Ifartford; there are guesses, no proofs.
There is a shower of meteors from a chopped-up planet every November ; and a master builder is known not only by his chips, but by his frequent transfers on the real es- tate market, the houses which he leaves be- hind his track. Mr. Pickwick, it will be re- called, mistook a lantern for a meteor and somebody may have mistaken this John Hall's meteors, the houses which he left behind him, for some other John Hall's lantern.
When Samuel Stone (as later. Joseph Haynes, ) started in to make the Hartford First, the church of a caste, by father bap- tizing son and servant into it, even on lecture days, after Hooker's death, John Hall left Hartford for Middletown, where his great- grandson married the double grandniece of Rev. John Whiting, who led the exodus into the Second Church, founded on Hooker's principles. In this marrying Esther Ham- lin, Giles Hall ( Esq. ) was also marrying the great-great-granddaughter of Elder William Goodwin : also the niece of John Collins, who married the daughter of Dixwell, the regicide ; and the grandniece of Rev. John Collins. Harvard. 1653. chaplain of General Monk. and later the leading non-conformist preacher of London : also the niece of Mabel Ilamlm, who married Samuel Hooker ( 3), of the third generation, merchant in Hartford, resident of Farmington. Hence the presence of Rev. Samuel Hooker (2) at the first Middletown ordination.
Thus was John Hall minted in the Puritan coinage. The historian knows this metal from the Cinque Ports on : he needs no stamp.
Thomas Hooker died at 61, when his real work was but beginning. It was July, 1647. a year and a half before Charles F. Hlad Hooker outlasted Charles I till he was 80. he might have gone back and kept England a republic.
Had John Hall been "That man may last. but never lives." etc., what a history he would have seen in his (then) perhaps one hundred years !
At four years old, he felt, with those in cradles, the seismic tremor when Philip launched out the Spanish Armada in 1588. and a quiet life in England would have kept him along to see 1688, when the coming of
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William's armada told that Spanish Armadas should be no more.
Placed first in every list of settlers, and long the patriarch of what should be one of the first five equal cities of our state. for fif- tecn years he had closed his eyes in peace, when deeds were drawn and recorded "in the first year of our soveraine lord, William Third and Queene Mary annoque Domini. 1688." deeds drawn and recorded by the son Deacon John Hall. Then was made good, for these few centuries, at least, the dictum which to King John had proved so costly :
"That no Italian Priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominion."
(II) John Hall, Junior, oldest son of the emigrant, John Hall, had no descendants liv- ing at his death. For more than thirty years he was Middletown's town clerk, or "record- er." Next his headstore in Riverside Ceme- tery are those of Sambo and Phyllis, negro servants.
"Here lics our Deacon Hall,
Who studied peace with all," etc.
says his headstone.
(Il) Richard, the second son, has trans- mitted the family qualities of Christian citi- zenship.
(II) Richard Hall was born in England, in the year 1620, and died at Middletown. March 27, 1691. Ile married Mary , who died . at Middletown, March 30, 1691. Their chil- dren were born: John, at Hartford, Septem- ber 20, 1648. Those born at Middletown were: Jane, March, 1652-53: Sara, May, 1654: Richard. June. 1656, who was killed by . the Indians at Hadley, Mass., in King Phil- ip's war, May 30. 1676: Samuel, September, 1658; Anna. November 20. 1661.
Richard Hall (2) was a weaver by occupa- tion, and presumably wove the cloth for the suit in which the minister preached, as his brother John built the meeting house, and his father built the commonwealth. Later in life, when commerce had become practicable, and cloths the subject of transportation, Rich- ard Hall (2) seems to have worked with his older brother John, a master builder, and in a deed which he gives his son John, is styled carpenter.
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(III) Captain John Hall was born in Hart- ford. September 20, 1648, and died in Mid- dletown, November 25. ITII. In 16,4 he married Elizabeth, daughter of William Corn- well, born January, 1651, died August 22, 1689. Their children were born: John, Oc- tober 25, 1670: Richard, March 23. 1672: Ja- cob, December 20, 1673: Jonathan. March 15. 1675-76: Samuel, October 27, 1678; Giles,
October 23, 16SO; Elizabeth, March 9. 1684; Daniel, January 12, 1689. Captain John Hall married ( second), on November 22, 1705. Hannah, the widow of Deacon Summer, who bore him no children, and died September 23, 1719.
We find this John Hall successively named in deeds as sergeant, ensign, lieutenant, and captain. He was reared by his grandfather, uncle and father, as a carpenter, and in prac- tical, not clerical matters, was a foremost man. The oldest son, and the head of the entire Hall family, and located head of Middletown's military, in any needed defense against Indian attack, he gave his next younger brother, Richard, to be killed by the Indians, at Had- ley, in King Philip's war, before reaching twenty years of age ..
(IV) Giles Hall, Esquire, was born at Mid- dletown, October 3, 1680, and died there, February 15. 1750. February 26. 1713-14, he married Esther, daughter of Hon. John Him- lin, born January 7, 1695. died October 8, 1751. The mother of Esther Hamlin was Mary Collins, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Collins, and his wife. - - Collins, wiro was a daughter of William Whiting ( 1). mer- chant, of Hartford. Nathaniel Collins was of the class of 1660. Harvard. and was the first minister ordained over the First Church, Middletown.
A heavy and perfect table monument of freestone about seven feet square marks the graves of Giles Hall, Esq., and wife, in Riv- erside cemetery. Next it is the table stone of Captain John Hall (3), and about four rods southerly from this, the sound stone of Deacon John Hall (2).
The children of Giles Hall were born at Middletown, as follows: I. Esther, Decem- ber 22, 1715; lived but a short time. 2. Es- ther (second ), December 7, 1718. 3. Giles. January 23, 1720-21. 4. Hamlin John. Sep- tember 10. 1722. 5. Mary. October 9, 1725; lived but a short time. 6. Mary, second. June, 1727. 7. Richard, November 10, 1729. S. Elizabeth. July 8. 1733. died August 8, 1786. 9. Jabez. born September 5. 1737.
Giles Hall was well recognized as fitted for public duties, for instance, in his frequent choice for representative from 1727 to 1733.
(V) John Hamlin Hall (or. as in old times, Hamlin John Hall), born Middletown. Sep- tember 20, 1722, died Chatham ( East Hamp- ton). He married -. and their children were: Jabez. born 1761. died. East Hampton, June 10. 1821: Calvin, born 1766, died East Hampton, September 21. 1826.
John Hamlin Hali, reared in a family and circle of cultivation in Middletowr. became
Lovell Hall.
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a pioneer amongst those from everywhere, roughing it in the migration to East Hamp- ton in 1743-
Little remains of him except some tradi- tions showing an antipathetie disposition of those in his new medium. A deed shows his signature as plain, simple, broad, strong, fine, free from flourishes and eurlicues; in short, as copperplate.
He lived to the time of birth of his grand- son, Giles C. Hall (7), November 29, 1793. Giles C. Hall told his grandson, the writer, that his grandfather was outfitted in the East Hampton settlement, with the whole square of land, reaching from the meeting house site ( same as now) to the lake. and from the North and South street, Main street. to the street running easterly, then northerly, and on the east side of Lake View Cemetery. Also, that John Hamlin Hall had then the only pair of iron-bound wheels, and that on thein the timbers for the first meeting house were drawn. His son Jabez was a captain in the military, which brought social burdens rather than pay, and he lived in the old house, now torn down, near the Italian styled house built by Stewart Parmelee. With Jabez lived the father: there was little for the younger son.
(VI) Calvin Hall, born 1766, died Septem- ber 24. 1836. April 22, 1787, married IIul- dah Cowdery (Coudre ?), born 1766, died April 25, 1833. Their children were born at East Hampton : Elizabeth, November 22, 1791. died January 21, 1842: Giles Cowdery. November 29. 1793, died October 1, :868; Calvin, July 17. 1797: John, January 31, 1805, died August 19, 1829.
The grave marker of Calvin Hall (6) was a natural stone set edgewise, with a rounded edge uppermost, by his son Calvin, who cut the initials "C. H." on the top. All that he ever retained of another's property would not have bought so much as this stone. His solid account book is owned by the writer, kept in East Hampton, then in Claremont, New Hampshire, then again in East Hampton. It begins in pounds, shillings and pence: it ends with dollars; there is honesty all through.
'(VII) Giles Cowdery Hall born Chatham (East Hampton ), November 20. 1793, died same. October 1.' 1868. January 10, 1814, married Dolly Stephens Parmelee, horn Jan- uary 5. 1708. died of small pox, April 15. 1848. She was of the former strong Chatham business family of Parmelees, and greatly pro- ficient in loving and making flowers and mu- sie. Their children were born at East Hamp- ton: John Smith Hall, October 25, 1815, died
April 4, 1857; Lucina C .; Lewis Lawrence; Simon Shailer ; Amelia Ann : Barzillai B.
The father of Giles C. Hall having lost more than he had gained, when he returned from the large emigration to settle Claremont, New Hampshire, Giles C. Hall is related to have earned his own living away from home from the time he was seven years old. With his table spread with meats, poultry and fruits from his many farms, and more housed below in his broad cellar. he would walk smiling around the grandchildren who lined the table and say: "Eat all you want, children: I've got enough." Besides farms, he owned, with his sons, a factory and died with a country fortune of $35,000 or $40.000. He was so well known in the New York of his day that he was chosen to collect the money to restore the church of Rev. Spencer II. Cone ( Bap- tist), which had been burned. He made a record of shrewdness and success in approach- ing John Jacob Astor. Raising fruits and cattle were favorite and successful pursuits. and he brought the first russet trees from Roxbury, Mass., to East Hampton.
(VIII) John Smith Hall, born, East Hamp- ten, October 25, 18:5. died same, April 4, 1857. September 7, 1841. married Mar.ha Blake Lovell, daughter of Rev. Shubael Lov- ell, born Bridgewater, Massachusetts, May 9, 1815. died Middletown. February 23. 1992. As his only set course in an institution. John S. Hall attended the village school, near which he was pulled from a pond by his hair when going down for the third time. In the early industry of the family he did a man's work with oxen when he was twelve years old. and was given half of a hundred acre farm when coming 21. He soon became sec- retary and equal traveling companion to Wen- dell Phillips, where he quickly developed the tastes of his ancestry. He was the earliest to introduce into his neighborhood Macaulay's "History of England," and "Lays of Ancient Rome": Longfellow's "Voices of the Night" and "Evangeline"; Lowell's "Biglow Papers." The factory firm. headed by his name and half owned by him, was forging to the front, when he met an early death by typhoid fever.
The wife of John S. Hall was the daugh- ter of a Massachusetts clergyman, and sister of two more, graduates of Brown. and was a descendant of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, of the "Mayflower." through their daughter's marriage to John Gorham, and the mingling of that blood with the Hoopers. She was also descended from Robert Lovell, Wey- mouth. 1635.
(IX) Lovell Hall, born East Hampton, May 12, 1844, is thus a man of multiplex he-
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redities, which contact with the representa- gives of his families in his day, and with vari- ous cults, has developed in him. His effort, with himself and with others, is toward a rea- sonable adjustment of life, rather than a me- teoric display. Ile learned the common branchies in the old village school house, skat- ing on the same pond where his father was so nearly drowned, and stretching the noon- spell beyond the rules by cross-country runs of "fox and hounds." He got his college fit- ting in the Fall River High School, class of 1862, before whose alumni he gave the annual oration in 1879. While at Yale, he was organ- ist in the First Baptist Church, a founder of the: Yale Courant, president of Linonia : High Oration, Townsend Premium and Yale Liter- ary Medal man. A. B. in 1866, he taught a year in Chatham, and a year in Ontario Fe- male Seminary, Canandaigua, New York. He was admitted to the New York bar. in ISno. after one year in Columbia College Law School, where he became LL.B. at the end of the two years' course in 1870. being made A. M., Yale, 1360. While in law school he was one of the baritone solo singers of St. Bartholomew's Church.
In 1870-75. Mr. Hall built and ran the first steam mill in East Hampton or vicinity, losing l'eavily by the six years which it took to com- plete the Air Line Railroad from New Haven, so far, where the New York engineer prom- ised it in six months.
In 1875 opening a law office in Middle- town, for ten years, from 18;7, Mr. Hall held the office of county prosecuting agent; and for six years from ISS3. that of county coroner, with selection and control of fifteen physician assistants, called medical examin- ers .. He lias had much other experience on the criminal side of the law. Outside col- lege work, Mr. Hall's most distinct products, in the way of writing. are the article on Heredity, in the "Connecticut Magazine." vol. viii, No. 4. and the foregoing article on John Hall. From 1800 on. Mr. Hall bred some of the most remarkably hardy and productive registered Jersey cattle, among them Mayflower of Pitts. 100.758. A. T. C. C., giving for R. L. de Zeng of Middletown, as reported. 26 quarts of rich milk per day : also Dahlia's Lady Mel, owned in the large herd at Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Mr. Hall was delegate from the First Church. Middletown, to the Congregational Conference, New Haven. 1003. and vice-presi- dent of the Connecticut Congregationai Club ( meeting at Hartford). in 1907. He has read very thoroughly in theology, and in all that in these days, coordinates and underlies it.
and is a quiet believer and, if need be, de. fender, of the Apostles' Creed.
WRIGHT The Wright family is one of the oldest in New England. The branch now represented by Ervis Elgin Wright, of Waterbury, Con- necticut, traces its origin from Abel Wright, who was an inhabitant of Springfield, Massa- chusetts, about 1678. He was a large land owner and was the progenitor of the Kitch- erel and Terry families. There is little doubt that Samuel Wright, who was in Springfield as early as 1639, was a collateral and pos- sibly a lineal ancestor of Abel Wright. Tra- dition says that Samuel Wright was descend- ed from Joli Wright, Lord of the Manor of Kelverdon Hall, county Essex, England.
(I) Willis Wright, grandfather of Ervis Elgin Wright, was born about 1778, in Mas- sachusetts, and married, prior to 1812, Rhoda It would seem that he had been mar- ried before and had had a son Orrin, but the name of his first wife has not been preserved. His second wife was born about 1-82, in Con- necticut. Children of Willis Wright. I. Henry, mentioned below. 2. Caroline, born about 1813. 3. George W., born about 1815; married Charlotte L. (Ilolcomb), born in Connecticut, about 1824. 4. John W. born about 1820, married Julina P. (Rodgers). born in Connecticut about 1822. 5. 1 dangh- ter, born about 1830-35. Willis Wright would appear to have died between 1850 and ISto, his name not being recorded in the census of the latter year, which mentions that his wife Rhoda was then living with her son John W. Wright.
(II) Henry, son of Willis and Rhoda Wright, was born about 1812, at Hartland, Connecticut, and died in January, 1892, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He married. prior to 1843, Rachel E. Moore, born in Connecti- cut, about 1824. Children : Lozien, horn about 1843: Elson E., about 18448: Ervis E !- gin, mentioned below : Embert E., born about 1853 : Eva E., about 1856.
(III) Ervis Elgin, son of Henry and Ra- chel E. (Moore) Wright, was born Janu- ary 19, 1851, in West Hartland. Connecti- cut, and was educated in the schools of his native town. At the age of sixteen he went to Waterbury, where he was employed as bookkeeper by Lewis Beardsley. He retained this position until 1880, when he went into business for himself as a manufacturer of paints. The venture was very successful, yielding rich pecuniary profits and building do for Mr. Wright the reputation of an enter- prising, sagacious and high-minded business
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man. strictly honorable in all his dealings, and possessing an executive ability and a sound- ness of judgment which caused him to be re- garded as an authority in the business circles of Waterbury. He is a public-spirited citizen, ready to aid in every project having for its end the promotion of the welfare and pros- perity of Waterbury. In politics he is a Re- publican, but has never sought office ; he could not, in fact. le prevailed upon to accept a pub- lic position, preferring to devote his entire time to the demands of his business, and be- lieving that this he can best serve the com- munity in which he resides.
Mr. Wright married, in November, 1869, Ella Frances, daughter of Isaac Blume and Catherine Louise ( Clark) Reed (see Clark ). Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the parents of one son : Franklin Ervis, who graduated from the Cromwell Institute, Cromwell. Connecticut, and is now associated in business with his fa- ther in Waterbury.
(The Clark Line).
(I) The Honorable Daniel Clark, immi- grant ancestor, was born in England and died in Windsor. Connecticut, August 12, 1710, in his eighty-eighth year. He came from Chester, England, in 1640, and was one of the family of Clark of that place, descended in direct line from King Edward1 I. of England, and Queen Eleanor, daughter of Ferdinand III., King of Castile. Well born and well cd- ucated, Daniel Clark took a useful and promi- nent part in the affairs of the colony. He was colonial secretary, 1658-64. and again in 1665-66. He was appointed to sit in "ye great pew," wainscoted for the sitting of magis- trates. He married (first). June 13. 1644, Mary Newberry, who died August 29. 1688. He married ( second) Martha Wolcott. widow of Simon, sister of William Pitkin. Esquire, of Hartford. His children married into the first families of the ancient town of Windsor, and were among the aristocracy there. Ilis granddaughter. Sarah Drake, was the wife of Governor Roger Wolcott, of Connecticut. and his great-grandson. Hon. Roger Wolcott, was representative to the general assembly, mem- ber of the council, and judge of the superior court. Daniel Clark's great-granddaughter. Ursula, married Governor Matthew Griswold. of Lynie. and their son Roger was also gov- ernor of Connecticut. Clark's great-grandson. Oliver Wolcott, graduated at Yale in 1747, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. and in 1787 was elected gov- ernor of the state. The widow of Daniel Clark died October 13, 1710. Children of Daniel Clark by his first wife: Mary, born
April 24, 1645; Josiah, January 21, 1648; Elizabetl:, October 28. 1651 ; Daniel, April 4, 1654; John, mentioned below ; Mary, Septem- ber 22, 1658; Samuel, July 6, 1661; Sarah, Angust 7, 1663; Hannah, August 29. 1665, died young; Nathaniel, September 8, 1666, killed by Indians, in 1690.
(II) John, son of Hon. Daniel Clark, was born April 10, 1656. and died September, 1715. He was admitted an inhabitant of Sims- bury, Connecticut. December 24, 1686, and removed thither from Windsor, to which place he subsequently returned. Ile married, in 1685. Mary, daughter of Christopher Crown, and granddaughter of Benjamin Burr, of Hartford, whose name is inscribed on the monument erected by the ancient Buryis Ground Association in the yard of the Central Congregational Church. His widow married, in 1720, William Randall, of Enfield. Chil- dren, born at Simsbury: Hannah, August 6. -: John, March 7, 16 --; Mary, married Samuel Cooley: Jemima. Born at Windsor : Martha, March io. 1697: Captain Solomon, mentioned below : Elizabeth, May 16, 1,01 : David, October 28, 1702; Daniel, December 31, 1704; Ann, January 12, 1707; Benoni, October 21, ITOS.
(III) Captain Solomon, son of John Clark. was born at Windsor, May 20. 1699, and died March 5. 1777. He married, February 24. 1720-21, Anne Eggleston. a descendant of Hester, sister of Roger Williams.
(IV) John (2), son of Captain Solomon Clark, was born about 1725. Keziah, believed to be his widow, died at Windsor, February 6, 1804. Children: Keziah. born .April 14, 1751, at Windsor ; Martha, October 9, 1753; Jolin, October 6, 1755; Deborah, April. 1757; Jeremiah, February, 1759: Daniel, mentioned below. Born at Westbury, formerly Wind- sor, with baptismal dates: Wealthy Ann, April 7, 1763; Roswell. May 19, 1765; Han- nah, February 20. 1767: Hannah, June 12. 1769; Abiah, September 28, 1770; Isaac, July 12, died July 16, 1772; Isaac. April 17, 1774.
(V) Daniel (2), son of John (2) Clark. was born at Windsor, December 24, 1,60. He was a soldier in the revolution and served dur- ing the winter at Valley Forge. He married (second) Betsey Hurlbut, a descendant of Captain Samuel Hurlbut, and numbering among her ancestors on the maternal side. Rev. Nathaniel Collins, graduate of Harvard College. 1660. Deacon Edward Treat, of Cam- bridge, Massachusetts ( 1640), and Hon. Rich- ard Treat, father of Governor Robert Treat. who was thirteen years governor of Connecti- cut.
(VI) Richard, son of Daniel (2) Clark,
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married Lois Ackley, and among their chil- dren was Catherine Louise, who married Isaac Blume Reed, a descendant of Captain Jomm Reed, one of Cromwell's Ironsides. Children of Isaac Blume and Catherine Louise ( Clark ) Reed. 1. Cora Belle, married O. L. Dibble, of Seymour. Connecticut, manager of Fowler Nail Company : no children. 2. Ella Frances, married Ervis Elgin Wright, of Waterbury, Connecticut (see Wright). Mrs. Wright is a woman of literary tastes. She compiled "My Ancestry. a Genealogical sketch of the Tiffany Family"; also the "Reed-Read Lin- eage," an octavo volume of So6 pages, illus- trated. Mr. and Mrs. Wright live at Idyl- wood, Waterbury.
MILLER Thomas Miller was the owner of a house lot of one and a half acres in Rowley. Massa- chusetts, in 1643. and was licensed to draw wine in 1647. He and his first wife were residents of Rowley in 1651, where he was by trade a carpenter, but they soon removed to Middletown, Connecticut. They were resident in Middletown. March 10, 1654, ac- cording to a vote passed at a town meeting. and the earliest records of his lands in that town is June 9. 1654. The town was soon in need of a mill and a miller, and in Janu- ary, 1655. the "townsmen ( selectmen ) and Thomas Miller signed an agreement whereby ( the town granting certain aid) Miller en- gaged to build a sufficient mill to grind the town's corn, to have it fit to grind with, by the tenth of December next ensuing." He was adinited to full communion in the First Church in Middletown, December 6, 1674, by a letter from the church at Rowley, and two weeks later his five sons were baptized. He made his will Angust 11. 1680, giving his age as "something above seventy years," and died three days later, leaving an estate of three hundred and seventy-six pounds ten shillings, of which one hundred and fifteen pounds was in landed property. He married (first) Isa- bel -, the date of whose death is not known. He married (second), June 6, 1666, Sarah Nettleton, who died March 20. 1727- 28, at the age of eighty-six years; after the death of her first husband she married
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Harris. Only child of the first marriage of Mr. Miller: Ann. Children of the second marriage: Thomas, se forward; Samuel. born April 1. 1668: Joseph, August 21, 1670; Benjamin, July 15, 1672: John, March 10, 1674; Margaret, September 1, 1676: Sarah,. January 7, 1678; Mehetable, March 28, 1681.
(II) Thomas, eldest child of Thomas and Sarah ( Nettleton) Miller, was born in Mid-
dletown. May 6, 1667, and died September 24. 1727. Ile continued his father's business as a miller, and March 26, 1688, his mother conveyed to him the "corne mill" which had been granted to her first husband by the "Towne."_ He married ( first ), March 28, 1688. Elizabeth, born December 14, 1668, died February 9. 1095, daughter of Edward and Mary ( Sanford). Turner. He married (second ), December 25, 1696, Mary Rowell, whose birth and parentage are unknown, and who survived her husband. Children by first marriage: Thomas, born August 30, 1692: Abigail. September 10, 1694. Children by second marriage: Mary, born November 29. 1697; Stephen (see forward ) : James. born September 5, 1700; Elizabeth. August 5, 1702; Eunice. April 18, 1704; Patience. Feb- ruary 17, 1706 or 7 : Deborah, August 6, 1708; Abigail, baptized Jane 7. 1713.
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