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Renalds, John, Sr.,
Lockwood, Jonathan, Jr.,
Renalds, John, Jr.,
Lockwood, Robert,
Renalds, Jonathan,
Lyon, Thomas, Sr.,
Rich, Henery,
Lyon, Thomas, Jr.,
Rundle, William,
Marshall, John, Sr.,
Smith, Daniel,
Mead, Ebenezer,
Tash, John,
Mead, John, Sr.,
Thorne, Francis,
Mead, John, Jr.,
Vedito, Jasper.
At a special town meeting holden on the twenty-ninth day of May, 1693, the death of John Mead, Jr., selectman, was an- nounced, and Lieutenant John Bowers was chosen in his place.
At a town meeting legally warned and holden on the twen- ty-third day of December, 1696, "ye town by vote has made choice of Ebenezer Mead to keep a house of publick entertain- ment." The old tavern stood on the same site for nearly two hundred years, and has a history linked with Colonial and Re- volutionary wars. Many a thrilling episode occurred around its doors and within its quaint rooms. One night during Colo- nial days, when some of the frivolous young people of the colony were holding a dance in the house, a besieging party of Puritans broke open the front door and drove them out like cattle, and the merry-makers retired in confusion. Jumping out of windows helter-skelter, they scattered in every direction before the clubs and invectives of the sad-faced Puritans. It was here also during the early days of the French and Indian War that a company of young men were surprised by a press-gang, and several of them forced into the service.
Husted, Joseph,
YE OLD TAVERN, BOROUGH OF GREENWICH. EBENEZER MEAD, LANDLORD IN 1696.
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The old tavern was built as were dwellings of those days. The laths were split from oak with an axe and the nails were made by the village blacksmith. There was an immense wine closet in the cellar, where the choicest wines and liquors were kept that gladdened the hearts of ye travellers as well as ye soldiers.
General Putnam here quaffed many a glass of Medford rum 'tis said, and frequently held conferences within its rooms with his fellow-officers of the Revolution. It was a common thing for the soldiers, tories, and cowboys, to ride up to the east window-there was no fence about the lot- and gracefully stoop while on their horses and catch the welcome cup hastily handed by ye genial landlord, who gave them ye latest news of ye doings of ye British hereabouts, in answer to their hurried questions.
When Governor Tryon made his raid, February 26, 1779, he made his quarters at this old tavern, then kept by Henry Mead, and while he was waiting for his dinner a patriot crept slyly into an adjoining orchard and fired a ball through the clapboards, which whistled close by Governor Tryon's head and struck the mantelpiece, from which it rebounded upon the floor. This startled Tryon so much that he, with- out waiting for his dinner, gave immediate orders for a retreat.
An old Hessian sabre was found in the house about fifty years ago, and when it was torn down in July, 1886, to make room for the present Presbyterian Church, a number of relics were found. A board was disclosed near the big chimney, on which the name of Reuben Mead and the figures 1741 were printed in charcoal, and under the fireplace was uncov- ered another board, on which was a score, drawn with char- coal, of apples, potatoes, and whiskey. No doubt it was the account of ye jolly landlord with some of his neighbors. An English penny, dated 1701, a piece of blue cloth with brass buttons, a pair of Indian moccasins, a long old-fashioned fire shovel, a big brass strainer, and some other things were also found. Relic hunters watched the old tavern as it fell, piece by piece, and took away shingles and nails.
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On the twenty-seventh day of September, 1700, Eb- enezer Mead "manifested his desire to lay down his keeping of a house of publick entertainment and Sergeant Robert Lockwood was chosen in his place."
1696, Dec. 23.
Ebenezer Mead chosen to keep a house of publick entertain- ment.
1700, Sept. 7.
Sergeant Robert Lockwood chosen in the place of Ebenezer Mead.
1702, March 14.
1706, Dec. 30.
Henry Ritch chosen to keep a house of publick entertainment. Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood chosen to keep a house of publick entertainment.
1710, Feb. 27.
Samuel Mead, chosen to keep a house of publick entertainment. Samuel Mills chosen to keep a house of publick entertainment and retail strong drinks.
Still John Lockwood chosen to keep a house of publick enter- tainment and retail strong drinks.
1714, Feb. 2.
Samuel Mills chosen to keep a house of publick entertainment. Widow Hannah Mead chosen to keep a house for entertainment of strangers and to sell strong drinks.
I714, Feb. 2.
Still John Lockwood to keep a house for entertainment of strangers and to sell strong drinks.
1716, Dec. 20.
Samuel Finch chosen to keep a house for entertainment of strangers.
John Lyon, Jr., Jonathan Hobby, Samuel Mills and Widow Han- nah Mead to keep houses for entertainment of strangers and to sell strong drinks.
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The May session of the General Assembly held during the year 1716 passed an act requiring licenses for the retail of strong drink to be obtained from the County Court. The records of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, which are now at Bridgeport, show that licenses "to keep a public house of entertainment and retail strong drink in Greenwich" were granted in 1754 to:
Joseph Banks, Israel Knapp, Samuel Lockwood, Jabez Mead, Messenger Palmer, Jabez Sherwood.
In 1761 to: Nehemiah Brown, John Bush, Jonathan Hobby, Jr., Isaac Holmes, Israel Knapp, Jonathan Lock- wood, Joseph Lockwood.
The inhabitants of the town having maintained an or- thodox minister for upwards of eighteen years, and having recently completed a meeting-house, the General Assembly at the May session, 1697, in accordance with the resolution passed by it May, 1665, granted a patent to the Town of Greenwich of which the following is a copy of a, certified сору:
{ Colony ) Seale S GREENWICH PATTENT.
Whearas the Gennerall Court of Connecticut Colony have formerly Grannted unto the Proprieters Inhabitants of the Towne of Greenwich, all those Lands boath meadow swamp and upland within these abuttments, viz, Southerly upon the Sea, Easterly on a line beginning at Tototnock brook where the Lowermost path or Road & that now is to Stanford, att the said River of brooks, and from this to be run in a straight line to the west end of a Line drawne from the falls of Stanford Mill River, which said line is to runn a due West point towards Greenwich Bounds a meet Mile, and from the west end of the said Line, to run due North to the present Cuntry Roade towards Rye, and from thence to run up into the Cuntry the Same Line that is Between Norwalk and Stanford to the end of theis bounds Grannted, Northerly on the Willderness, and Westerly on a line, beginning at the Mouth of Byram River, and running up the River a Quarter of a Mile above the Greate Stone Lying in the Cross path by the said River, and from thence
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continued upon a parrellell Line Limitting the Town of Rye, and beyond Rye continued till Twelve miles be ended, the said Lands Haveing been by purchass or otherwise Lawfully Obtayned of the Indian Native proprietors, and whearas the aforesaid proprieters Inhabitants of the Town of Greenwich, Have Humbly desired of the Govern'r and Company Assembled in Court May 13d 1697 that they may have a pattent for the Confirmation of the Afoarsaid Lands so pur- chassed Graunted to them, and which they have stood seized and quietly possessed of, for many years, last past, without Interruption. Now for a more full Confirmation of the Afoars'd tract of land as it is butted and bounded afoar- said unto the present proprietors of the said Township of Greenwich in their possession and Injoyment of the premises, KNOW YEE that the said Gov'r and Company Assembled in Gennerall Court According to the Comission Graunted them by his Majesties Charter Have Given, Graunted and doe by theese presents Give, Graunt, Rattefie and Confeirme unto Angell Huisted, Senr; John Mead; Jn'o Hobbie; Jn'o Rey- nolds, Senr .; James Ferriss, Senr .; Joseph Ferriss, Senr .; Samuell Peck; Jonathan Reynolds, Senr .; Thomas Close; Joshua Knapp; Joseph Mead, the Son of Jos. Mead; and the rest of the present proprieters of the Townshipp of Green- wich their Heirs Successors and Assignes for ever, the afoar- said parcell or Tract of Land, Butted & Bounded as Above said, Together with all the woods, Meadows, pastures, ponds, waters, Rivers, Islands, Fishings, Huntings, Fowlings, Mines, Mineralalls, Quarries and precious Stones upon or within the said Tract of Lands, and all other profits and Commodities thereunto belonging, or in any wayes is appur- teining, and doe also Graunt unto the Afoars'd Angell Huisted, Jn'o Mead, Jn'o Hobbie, Jn'o Reynolds, James Ferriss, Jos. Ferriss, Sam. Peck, Jon'th Reynolds, Thomas Close, Joshua Knapp, Jos. Mead, and the rest of the pro- prieters. Inhabitants of Greenwich their Heirs Success and Assigns for ever. That the aforesaid Tract of Land Shall be for ever hereafter deemed reputed and bee an Intire Town- shipp of it selfe to have and to hold the said Tract of Land and premises with all and Singularr their Appurtenances with the privellidges and Immunityes Franchises & Heridi- taments herein Given and Granted unto the said Angell Huisted, Jn'o Mead, Jn'o Hobbie, Jn'o Reynolds, James Ferriss, Joseph Ferriss, Sam. Peck, Jon'tn Reynolds, Thomas Close, Joshua Knapp, Joseph Mead, and all other the pre-
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sent proprietors Inhabitants of Greenwich their Heirs and Successors, and to the Only proper use Benifitt and behoofe of them and every of them their Heirs Successors and As- signs for ever; According to the Tenour of his Majesties Mannor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in the Kingdom of England, in free and Comon Soceage, and not in Cappitte, nor by Knights Service, yielding therefor & paying to our Sovereigne Lord the King his Heirs and Successor, his dues According to Charter, Alwayse Provided that nothing herein contained Shall Extend to, or be Understood or taken, to Impeach or Prejudice any Right, Title, Interest, Claim, or demannds, which any person or persons hath, or have, or Claime to have, of into or out of any part of the said Townshipp, Scittuated within the Limitts above mentioned, according to the Laws and General Customs of this Colony, but that al and ever such person and persons may and shall have hold and Injoy the same in such manner as if theese presents had not been had or made. In Wittness whearof we have caused the seal of the Colony to be hereunto affixed this Twentieth day of May Anno. Domini. 1697 and in the 9th year of the Reigne of our Sovereign Lord William the 3d of England, Scottaland, France and Ireland, King fider, de- fender &c.
By order of the Governor. .
R. TREAT, Governor.
ELIEZER KIMBERLY, Secry.
The above written with that on the other side is a true coppy of the origenall being therewith Compared this 21d of May 1697, per me.
State of Connecticut, SS.
Office of the Secretary,
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of record in this office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 12th day of November A. D. 1907. THEODORE BODENWEIN, Secretary.
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The tax list of the Town of Greenwich for the year 1697 was recorded in the Town Clerk's Office in 1705, and is as follows:
£
S.
d.
Austen, John,
3I
O
0.
Banks, John,
76
IO
o.
Butler, Walter,
2I
O
o.
Close, Joseph,
24
O
O.
Close, Thomas, Sr.,
80
O
0.
Close, Thomas, Jr.,
26
O
0.
Ferris, Benjamin,
24
0
0.
Ferris, James, Sr.
103
IO
o.
Ferris, James, Jr.,
40
IO
0.
Ferris, John,
55
O
o.
Ferris, Joseph,
154
IO
0.
Ferris, Moses,
22
O
o.
Finch, Joseph, Sr.,
105
O
o.
Finch, Joseph, Jr
29
0
o.
Hobby, Benjamin,
29
O
o.
Hobby, John,
94
15
0.
Hobby, Thomas,
54
IO
0.
Holmes, Stephen,
3I
5
0.
Hubbart, William,
40
IO
0.
Husted, Angell, Sr.
33
IO
0.
Husted, Angell, Jr.
4I
0
0.
Husted, John,
3I
O
0.
Husted, Jonathan,
77
IO
o.
Husted, Joseph,
54
0
o.
Husted, Samuel,
45
10
0.
Knapp, Benjamin,
31
0
0.
39
IO
0.
Knapp, Caleb, Knapp, Joseph,
73
0
0.
Knapp, Joshua,
54
0
0.
Knapp, Timothy,
47
5
0.
Lockwood, Gershom, Sr.,
153
15
0.
Lockwood, Gershom, Jr
47
O
0.
Lockwood, Joseph,
25
O
0.
Lockwood, Robert,
61
0
0.
Lyon, Samuel,
76
IO.
0.
Lyon, Thomas,
34
0
0.
Marshall, John, Sr.
165
IO
0.
Marshall, John, Jr.
47
IO
0.
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List for 1697-Rev. Joseph Morgan
Marshall, Thomas,
34
O
0.
Mead, Benjamin, .
37
0
O.
Mead, Daniel, .
42
O
o.
Mead, Ebenezer, .
103
IO
O.
Mead, Elisha, .
38
0
o.
Mead, Jonathan,
69
O
O.
Mead, Joseph, the tanner
45
IO
o.
Mead, Joseph, .
25
O
0.
Mead, Nathaniel,
30
0
o.
Mead, Ruth,
22
0
O.
Mead, Samuel,
87
IO
o.
Mead, Zachariah,
30
0
o.
Palmer, Joseph,
33
I2
o.
Palmer, William,
39
0
o.
Peck, Caleb,
28
O
o.
Peck, Samuel, .
8I
0
o.
Renals, Ebenezer,
30
0
o.
Renals, John, Sr.
43
14
0.
Renals, John, Jr.,
5I
5
0.
Renals, John,
I02
IO
o.
Renals, Jonathan,
47
5
0.
Renals, Joseph,
45
O
0.
Rich, Henry, .
39
IO
O.
Rundle, William, .
60
IO
o.
Smith, Daniel, Sr.,
16I
0
0.
Studwell, Joseph,
18
O
0.
Studwell, Thomas,
30
0
0.
Whelpley, Jonathan,
45
0
0.
At a town meeting held on the ninth day of January, 1704, Rev. Joseph Morgan was granted liberty to build a tide mill on Strickland Brook at Cos Cob and to have the use of the stream for that purpose, "and do therein oblige him, his heaires and assines, to grind for ye inhabitants of ye towne of Greenwich."
"March ye 18, 1708, at a meeting of ye inhabitants on the west sid of Myanos River, they vote as followeth, yt Mr. Morgan should go and live by his mill for ye space of six years if he see occasion for it, and there keep a lad to tend his mill and oversee him therein himself, and continue in ye work of ye ministrie."
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PROTEST.
Caleb Knapp, Jonathan Hobby, Jonathan Reynolds, Benjamin Close, Henry Ritch, Jo. Husted, Stephen Holmes, Gershom Lockwood, James Ferris, Isaac Howe, and Jona- than Finch, "all do enter there protest against ye above sd act of Mr. Morgan's going to ye mill."
It is evident that the Rev. Mr. Morgan spent more time running his mill than he did looking after the spiritual needs of his parishioners, because on the second day of July of the same year the inhabitants of Greenwich on the west side of the Mianus River,
do vot yt Mr. Morgan shall be settled up in ye place, and whereas there is a difference in ye place, concerning ye place of Mr. Morgan's settlement, ye Inhabitants above sd by vot do jointly agree to leave it to ye ministers of this county fully to determine and to say where Mr. Morgan shall be settled, whether down at the mill, or up in ye place amongst us; and to sett down contented with their judgment in settling Mr. Morgan according to gospel order, ye inhabitants above sd by vot do make choice of Ebenezer Mead and Caleb Knapp to go to ye ministers and give them ye reasons of ye difference about Mr. Morgan's living at his mill.
The town minutes do not disclose what decision the ministers arrived at in regard to where the Rev. Mr. Morgan should be settled, but at another meeting held on the twenty- seventh day of August, it was voted as followeth:
Yt Ebenezer Mead, Joshua Knapp and Caleb Knapp shall be there committee to see if Mr. Morgan provideth himself with a miller, and leaves his mills and betakes himself to ye work of ye ministrie, and to take from under Mr. Morgan's hand that he relinquisheth ye thirty acres of land, ye hous and hom lott, in case he deserts ye towne; and in case Mr. Morgan faileth in ye premises, then ye place is to be at there liberty, and above said committee to take care to provide ye place with another minister by ye last of September.
On the seventeenth day of October of the same year, the Rev. Mr. Morgan desired "ye above sd committee to
OLD TIDE MILL AT COS COB.
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meet and give him a full answer, which accordingly ye above · sd committee met and answered that according to ye above sd towne act he was at his liberty and likewise they were at their liberty to provide ye place with another min- ister." Thus was the Rev. Mr. Morgan dismissed from the Second Society as its settled minister, although he may have afterwards preached for them in the absence of another minister.
By a deed dated June 3, 1709, and recorded April II, 1730, the Rev. Joseph Morgan conveyed the aforesaid mill to John Lyon, and the latter made disposition of the same in his will.
On the third Monday of December, 1763, the town granted leave to David Bush to build a grist-mill on Strick- land Brook. He was probably the successor in the interest of the heirs and devisees of John Lyon, and it was his daugh- ter, according to the legend, whom General Putnam took with him on his horse to a ball at Pecksland the night before his ride down "the rocky steep" when chased by the British at Horseneck. The following protested against the making of said grant: Edward Brush, Nehemiah Mead, Deliver- ance Mead, Jabez Mead, Jr., Nathaniel Finch, and Caleb Mead.
At the annual town meeting held on the third Monday of December, 1767, the following petition was presented by Nathaniel Close relative to the landing and mill at Cos Cob:
To the benevolent inhabitants of the Town of Green- wich in Fairfield County the petition of Nathaniel Close of said Greenwich humbly showeth, that your petitioner being under a necessity of a storehouse, as his performing a weekly pauquet or stage boat from here to New York lays both him and the inhabitants under a great disadvantage, in respect he hath no proper place to store the effects of his freighters, nor for them to store what effects and produce they severally bring when his vessel is not there to receive it; which disad- vantage hath been sensibly felt during the last summer. He therefore prays liberty of this meeting, that he may be permitted to build a storehouse of 26 feet by 30 feet, ad-
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joining the bank, between the dwelling house of John Bush and the gristmill of David Bush, so as to leave about sixteen feet from said mill to sd store for a cartway, if need be, and that he may build it by the bank adjoining thereto and to said mill pond; and as your petitioner conceives a house so built would incommode no particular person, but be a general profit to the inhabitants, as well as your petitioner, he there- fore hopes that you gentlemen in your prudence will grant his request, and your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray.
The town voted that the prayer of the petitioner be granted.
At the annual town meeting held on the twelfth day of December, 1791, Abraham Mead, Ebenezer Mead, Thomas Hobby, Bezaleel Brown and Amos Mead were appointed a committee "to repair to the Cos Cob Landing and examine into the state thereof and report their opinion thereon at an adjourned meeting to be holden on the second Monday of January, 1792, relative to building any store or stores on said landing and removing off encroachments from said land- ing and anything else relative to said landing that they may think for the good of the public."
On the ninth day of January, 1792 (second Monday), the committee reported as follows:
Your committee find that the piazza, or shed, annexed to the front of Ezra Reynolds' dwelling house is extended on said landing and that as well as the old storehouse of David Bush ought to be removed off from the landing and that when said store is removed, that the wharf be extended about ten feet north of where the said store now stands, so as to leave to Mr. Bush a sufficient passage to the channel between the wharf and his gristmill and that it appears to your com- mittee necessary that there should be a slip opened at the north line of said Bush's wharf of eight feet wide to the chan- nel for the landing, or shipping of goods and effects at low water as well as for the conveying of passengers. Your committee are of the opinion that the landing wharf so ex- tended and built for teams to pass onto will be a great ad- vantage to this town and the public.
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Your committee then proceeded to take into considera- tion the grant made to Nathaniel Close of thirty feet front and twenty-six feet rear north of said Bush's grist mill, and in our opinion that by legal conveyances it is now vested in William Knapp of said Greenwich. We then viewed the ground between the said grant to Close and said Reynolds' dwelling house and found there is room for two stores of thirty feet in front and to extend east to high-water mark.
Your committee is of the opinion that three stores would not incommode, but greatly accommodate the landing.
Your committee further find that there is a complaint among the masters of the vessels which attend the landing of two rocks in the channel, one against the wharf and the other a little below, which injure vessels' bottoms and inconvenience the landing, which in their opinion ought to be removed.
Voted in the affirmative to accept the report.
The mill was destroyed by fire on the twenty-eighth day of January, 1899, and at the annual town meeting held on the second day of October, 1899, it was:
RESOLVED, that the selectmen be and hereby are author- ized and instructed to purchase certain dock property at Cos Cob, at the following prices :
Property known as the Cos Cob Mill property . . . $150.00 Alexander Marshall property. 600.00
Deborah Marshall property. . 700.00 and the aforesaid sums, or so much thereof as may be needed are hereby appropriated for said purpose, said property to be kept forever for public use.
The first grant for a grist-mill of which there is any record was made on the thirteenth day of January, 1688, when "the town took into consideration the building of a grist-mill on the Mianus River" at Dumpling Pond (now North Mianus). This privilege was probably given to Joshua Haight, who enjoyed the benefits arising therefrom for only a few years, when he departed this life. The town afterwards having "recovered its rights in ye stream of the Mianus River heretofore granted to Joshua Haight, deceased," granted the same on the eighteenth day of March, 1697, to
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Jonathan Whelpley for a mill site. After his decease, John Burley was his successor in interest in 1725.
On the fifteenth day of January, 1715, the town granted unto Justus Bush of New York
the privilege of the stream of Horseneck Brook below the country road to build a grist mill or mills upon, and sd Justus Bush is to build said mill within two years time from this date, and to grind for the inhabitants of Greenwich what grain they shall bring to his mill to be ground, and not to put them by for strangers, and he is to have the liberty to gett stones and timber upon common lands for buildings and mill, and also to sett up a store-house upon said landing, and said Justus Bush is constantly to maintain a sufficient grist mill upon sd stream, except said mill should come to some accident by fire or otherwise, and said Justus Bush do not rebuild her again within three years time, then the said stream and privilege to return for there use and benefit as formerly, and further Ebenezer Mead, Angell Husted and John Ferris are chosen to lay out the landing and highway on the northside of Horseneck Brook.
On the twenty-second day of December, 1724, the town granted liberty to Daniel Smith to build a wharf at the mouth of Horseneck Brook, at the landing there, for the use of the town. Some one hundred and eighty years thereafter, or thereabouts, Amelia J. Dougan claimed this dock pro- perty, and brought an action against the Town of Green- wich to recover possession thereof. The court handed down its decision in April, 1904, whereby it was held that the Town of Greenwich was still the owner and in possession of the premises in suit. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of Errors, which in December, 1904, confirmed the decision of the lower court.
On the twenty-first day of June, 1754, the town granted liberty to Joseph Purdy to build a grist-mill, dam, and bridge at Mianus. The bridge when constructed was to be wide enough to allow a horse with two saddle-bags to pass over without coming in contact with the sides of the bridge.
At a special town meeting held on the twelfth day of
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July, 1754, the Town of Greenwich through its duly author- ized agents did grant, remise, release. surrender. and confirm unto the said Joseph Purdy, his heirs and assigns forever. all its right, title, and interest in and to the stream of said river. provided the aforesaid dam, mill, and bridge be built as specified.
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The following persons protested against the proceedings of said meeting:
ISt. Because the law does not warrant any such mest- ing and the same is without authority.
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