Centennial history of the town of Millbury, Massachusetts, including vital statistics, 1850-1899, Part 4

Author: Millbury, Mass; Crane, John Calvin, 1837-; Dunbar, Robert Wayland, 1872- ed
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Millbury
Number of Pages: 960


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10. "May those heroes, who have Nobly Bled in Defence of their Country be Heard of in Nations Unknown and Ever be re- membered in Ages to Come";


11. "May Peace on Honorable Terms Diffuse Itself throughout the Continent of America, like the Lustre of the Rising Sun";


12. "May Friendship Universally Extend and Actuate Every Human Breast throughout the World";


13. "May Consummate Happiness be the Reward of Heroic Actions."


On March 4, 1782, ensign Nathaniel Carriel, Capt. Joseph Sibley, and Mr. Jonas Bond were chosen to serve on the Committee of "Correspondence, Inspection and Safety." On November 12, Follansbee Chase, Capt. March Chase, Mr. Josiah Gooddard, and John Pierce were added to the above committee. It was also voted at the meeting that this committee "be particularly watchful of those who are suspected of being concerned in fraud or intercourse with the enemy and to communi- cate any discoveries they may make to the Attorney General. "


On January 20, 1783, the town voted to instruct its rep- resentative not to allow the Continental officers any sum of money as one-half pay, or any other thing in lieu there- of, and to use his influence to secure a repeal of the "Tender Act."


In 1784, ensign Nathaniel Carriel, Moody Morse, Jr., and Jonas Bond were chosen as the "Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety." Deacon Willis Hall, Ebenezer Waters and Daniel Greenwood were chosen delegates to attend the county convention held at Worcester on Tuesday, the third day of March.


In 1785, Joseph Hall, Deacon Willis Hall, Ebenezer Waters, Deacon Asa Waters, and Amos Singletary, Esq., were chosen as a committee "to draft a petition to send to the General Court praying for a committee to visit the


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Town" upon condition that the taxes shall not be settled according to the last valuation.


On January 9, 1786, the town voted to instruct its representative to use his influence to bring forward a Tender Act, "that Real and Personal Estate may answer Executions and that it stand two years."


On September 25, deacon Harwood, Lieut. Whitmore, Ebenezer Rich, Squire Singletary, and Nathan Putnam were chosen to instruct the delegates to the county con- vention and also the representative to the General Court. A vote was also passed that the delegates ascertain, if possible, whether the grievances, arising from the dis- turbed condition following the Revolutionary War, stated in the convention really exist to any great degree and bear generally upon the people of the country and use their influence to prevent any rising of the people in riotous manner, but persevere in petitioning the General Court for a redress of grievances and not dissolve the convention until the same be obtained, "for it is our minds that it is every way agreeable to the constitution." They also recommended that the General Court move out of Boston to some commodious part of the country and that the seat of government in Boston be sold to the best advan- tage to pay public charges or to build a seat of government in the country.


In the years 1786 and following, serious disturbances interfered with the operation of the legal machinery that had been set up in the new republic. States threatened to separate and opposition was repulsed by measures that were but little short of bloodshed. In Massachu- setts, concerted violence prevented the courts from sitting and an organized force of insurgents under Capt. Shays threatened to destroy the state government. There were many mutterings against the state officials over the failure to pay the claims of the men who had been engaged in the Revolutionary armies, the men of Sutton being conspicuous in their insistence upon securing their rights.


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The sentiment was expressed that the Court of Common Pleas under its mode of procedure was "a scourge to the people." Sutton delegates were further instructed to use their influence that the servants of the government be put on such footing as will be for the interest of the people. If such efforts as those represented in the Shays' Rebellion and in the interference with the courts had been successful, the newly formed union would have amounted to little as a government. The Massachusetts authorities were barely able to restore order and the men in Congress really went beyond their constitutional power then vested in the States in their efforts to assist.


On Dec. 4, Capt. Jonathan Woodbury, Capt. John Woodbury, Colonel Woodbury, Deacon Harwood, Elder Greenwood, Lieutenant Hazeltine, Lieutenant Whitmore, Col. Jonathan Holman, and Captain Smith were chosen as a committee to treat with the court of Common Pleas and also with the men engaged in Shays' Rebellion (who were also known as Insurgents).


On January 15, 1787, at a town meeting the report and request, dated Dec. 7, 1786, of a committee in behalf of the "Regulators," who would adjust matters independ- ently of the government, was presented. Amos Single- tary, Esq., deacon Harwood, Capt. John Woodbury, Lieutenant Whitmore, Ensign Carriel, Squire King, and Elder Greenwood were chosen to give instructions to the representatives and delegates, but at an adjourned meet- ing, held January 17, it was voted that the delegates to the convention be instructed to dissolve.


On January 24, 'squire Singletary, deacon Harwood, and Colonel Woodbury were chosen "to treat with the Hon. Gen. Lincoln to see if there could be any plan of accommodation laid to settle matters between Govern- ment and the 'Regulators' as they called themselves." It was also voted to instruct the representative to use his influence in "General Court that any man may be


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permitted to keep a half score of sheep that may not be liable to be taken from him by warrant or execution."


On March 22, Ezra Wheelock, Nathaniel Carriel, Daniel Greenwood, Jedediah Barton, Follansbee Chase, Bartholomew Woodbury, John Pierce, Asa Goodale, Stephen Marsh and Noah Stockwell, who had been en- gaged in this rebellion, took the oath of allegiance in com- pliance with a court act dated February 16, 1787.


On March 5, 1792, the town voted to dismiss the trus- tees that had the care of the ministerial and school money and to commit the same into the hands of the town treasurer.


On January 14, 1793, Jonathan Kidder, Samuel Blanch- ard, and Arthur Dagget asked to be set off "from the town of Sutton to be annexed to the town of Oxford." They also petitioned the General Court to be set off and the latter issued an order for the town to show cause why the petition should not be granted. Amos Singletary, Esq., was chosen to appear before the General Court and to show cause why the petitioners should not be set off and the subject was not continued further.


On February 9, 1797, the people of the North, or Sec- ond, Parish made a demand upon the First Parish for eight hundred dollars, as their portion of the ministry money; and, on March 20, the clerk of the First Parish was instructed to send the following reply, "The Society, after taking into consideration the demand made on them by Mr. Aaron Pierce, Josiah Stiles, and Lieut. Asa Good- ale, agents for the North Parish in Sutton, for eight hundred dollars of the Ministry money, dated February 9, 1797, voted that this Society will adopt such measures respecting the demand as it conceives will be consistent with the honor and interests of the Society. With regard to that part of the demand which proposes a friendly negotiation as the most probable means of settling such claims to the mutual satisfaction of both parties: it is the determination of this Society to cultivate friendship and


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good neighborhood with the North Parish and with the Town in general upon fair and honorable principles. But it is the opinion of this Society that it can not with propriety enter into a separate negotiation with the North Parish upon the subject until the lawsuit between the Town and this Society respecting the ministry money shall be finally determined."


At a town meeting held November 5, 1798, "The ques- tion was put to see if the Town would grant the petition of the North Parish to be set off and incorporated into a separate Town with their equal proportion according to taxation, with all the privileges and immunities which in any wise belong to the Town of Sutton," but it was decided in the negative. A committee was, however, chosen consisting of Colonel Holman, Capt. Jonathan Woodbury, deacon Waters, Josiah Stiles, Ebenezer Waters, Asa Goodale, Colonel Woodbury, Maj. Samuel Waters and Colonel Sibley to treat with the North Parish with reference to the separation. On May 6, 1799, the com- mittee reported in favor of "setting off the North Parish as a separate Town, but the town voted not to accept the report of the committee."


On Nov. 20, 1809, a committee was chosen to draw up a remonstrance to be presented to the General Court against the incorporation of the Second Parish of Sutton as a separate town.


On May 7, 1810, the town of Sutton gave consent that one-third part of the town meetings be held in the Second Parish on condition that the parish withdraw the petition to the General Court, seeking incorporation as a separate town.


On Jan. 21, 1811, the town voted to continue its re- monstrance at the General Court against the incorporation of the Second Parish into a town; and, with the object, perhaps, of making its case a little stronger, a vote was passed stating that the town would not consent to incor- poration.


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In 1812, the Second Parish demanded a portion of the ministerial money, one half of the whole then in the treasury, and it also voted that Lieut. Asa Goodale, Josiah Stiles, Esq., and Aaron Pierce, Esq., be a committee to serve the clerk of the First Congregational Society of Sutton with a copy of the vote and to ask and receive on behalf of the Second Parish its portion of the fund.


The message was delivered March 10, 1812, and a reply received as follows:


"To Lt. Asa Goodale, Josiah Stiles, and Aaron Pierce, Esq., Gentlemen:


Having been appointed by the First Congregational Society of Sutton at their Annual Meeting in March last to present to you an answer to your request: in conformity to the votes of the Second Parish in Sutton at their meeting held March 9, 1912, to the first Congregational Society in Sutton for the one-half of the Ministerial fund now in the hands of the Treasurer of said Society.


"In answer to your demand we can only say that in consequence of so unexpected request, we have examined the charter of the Town, the Proprietor's Book, and the Town Records, and can find nothing to justify a compliance with your demand, and unless you can, gentlemen, show us some ground either in justice, or law, we cannot comply with your request."


(signed) Josiah Wheelock Daniel Tenney


"Agents for the First Congregational Society in Sutton. Sutton, April 8, 1812."


On January 11, 1813, the inhabitants of the North Parish continued to press their petition before the General Court for an act of incorporation, and the people of the south part of Sutton renewed their remonstrance against the act. Nevertheless, the petitioners were this time successful and permission was given the Second Parish, embracing the territory now known as Millbury, to be set off as a separate town.


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CHAPTER IV SOLDIERS OF THE COLONIAL STRUGGLE; OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR; AND OF THE WAR OF 1812.


The earliest military records of Millbury families are included manifestly in the chronicles concerning Sutton. The following names that are enumerated include many, if not all, of those who took part in the pre-Revolutionary struggles and who were living within the territory that was later set off as Millbury.


Elijah Waters lost his life in 1758 in the struggle that was waged in America in behalf of the mother country in its conflict with France. Benjamin Gowing, for whom the Gowing Bridge over the Blackstone River, near the N. Y., N. H., and H. railroad station, was named, was one of three thousand men who, in 1755, sailed from Bos- ton under generals Moncton and Winslow for Chignecto, N. S., on the Bay of Fundy, where they were joined by British troops and took part in the campaign which won Nova Scotia from the French for the British.


Col. Jonathan Holman, who later served with distinc- tion in the Revolutionary War, carried a musket in this early campaign and the old fire-arm is still in possession of the family.


Among the heroes of the French and Indian Wars was Capt. Samuel Trask whose old home (now owned by Mr. Henry W. Davidson) is still standing at West Millbury. It is said that when the tidings of a threatened incursion of British troops reached Sutton he ordered his boys to saddle his horse and bring the animal to the front door where the captain soon appeared. Mounting his steed


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he called his family about him and taking off his hat said, "Let us ask God's blessing." When the prayer was over he bade each and all a warm "Good-bye" and spurred away toward Boston.


The following is a list of Millbury's Colonial soldiers with the addition of a few names of those who lived in other parts of the mother town of Sutton but whose remains rest in this town.


Jonathan Barnard


James Greenwood


Joshua Barnard


John Haywood


Edmund Barton


John Holland


Elisha Barton


David Holman


Isaac Bolster


Edward Holman


Jonas Bond


John Holman


Josiah Bond


Jonathan Holman


Abijah Burbank


Solomon Holman


Isaac Burbank


Solomon Holman


Timothy Burnap


Stephen Holman


Joshua Carter


Jonathan Jacobs


Stephen Carter


Asa Kenney


Timothy Carter, Jr.


Samuel Marble


Abel Chase


Daniel March


March Chase


Amariah Park


Benjamin Davidson Amos Dwinnel


Jacob Snow


Henry Dwinnel


Stephen Stockwell


Moses Dwinnel


Jonathan Stone


Daniel Gale


Daniel Tainter


Elisha Gale


Joseph Tainter


Capt. Isaac Gale


Nahum Tainter


Jonas Gale


Jonathan Wait


Josiah Gale


Nathaniel Wait


Nehemiah Gale


William Wait


Eleazar Goodale


Elijah Waters


John Goodale


Jonathan Waters


Benjamin Gowing


Nathaniel Waters


In the series of events which preceded the outbreak of the Revolutionary War the men living in the North Parish of Sutton shared with their compatriots of other towns the independent spirit of the times and they sup- ported the Colonial government by force of arms because they were convinced that the American position was the true one. The strife on the part of the inhabitants seemed to be more against the attitude assumed by the British


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Parliament and officials than against England itself. The government of England claimed the right to tax the col- onies, but the Colonists objected to the levying of any internal tax by the mother country, although they acqui- esced in the external tax collected on imports. The English government sent over new governors and, finally, additional troops were despatched to overawe and, if necessary, to coerce the colonists into an acceptance of the demands of the parent nation. Charters were even modified in their scope by Parliamentary action.


On their part the colonists set up a parallel activity. In 1772, in the Boston town-meeting, it was proposed that a "committee of correspondence be appointed . . . to state the Rights of the Colonists and of this Province in particular as Men, as Christians, and as Subjects :- and also request of each town a free communication of their sentiments on this subject." (Hence we find in the mother town of Sutton a committee of Correspondence.) In 1774, the first Continental Congress met and voiced the common feeling of the colonies and crystalized the common sentiment which looked toward independence.


As this parallel activity developed, the opposition of the colonists became more determined and well-organized. Corresponding to the crown government was the Conti- nental Congress, corresponding to the governors were the patriotic leaders and corresponding to the British soldiery were the minute-men who were organized in every com- munity and held themselves ready to start forth on an alarm.


As early as September, 1774, citizens from the North Parish of Sutton responded to an alarm from Boston that was occasioned by the removal of three hundred barrels of gun-powder which had been kept in the arsenal at Charlestown. Messengers from that city brought tidings of this action and spread an alarm that the powder was to be used against the people of New England in forcing them to surrender to the drastic action of General Gage


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who was stationed at Boston. The affray of March 5, 1770, which has been called the "Boston Massacre" was still fresh in men's minds, although it was an insig- nificant matter in itself being occasioned by abusive threats between a mob and a squad of soldiers, which finally provoked the soldiers to fire and kill five of the citizens. Men flocked to arms and thousands started for Boston. The alarm, however, proved to be a needless one; but as a result of the general response General Gage recognized the seriousness of his position so that he "speedily began to fortify the entrance to the town (Boston) to prevent a surprise from the enemy without." This early response to the alarm of 1774 shows how keenly alert the men of Sutton were to the exigencies of the hour.


On the nineteenth of April, 1775, an alarm from Lex- ington came to the minute-men of Sutton who started out at once for the scene of conflict, but Roxbury Camp was as far as the Sutton companies went. The minute- men of Concord and of Lexington, however, confronted British troops who retreated to Boston.


The following is a list of those who went out from the town of Sutton on the Lexington alarm. Altogether in the colony about ten thousand minute-men responded to this alarm.


"Sutton, April, 1775.


"A Muster Roll of Capt. Daniel Bucknam, Jr., Company in the artillery and in the Colony Service on the alarm."


Capt. Dan Bucknam, Jr. Daniel Dike, Jr.


Neh Gail (?) Lt.


Reuben Barton


Serg. Isaiah Bucknam Ezekiel Moore


Daniel Gould


William Waite


David Chais


Jacob March


Moses Comings


The company marched ninety miles out and home for which each man was paid one penny per mile. Each man was in the service four days. They were 214 days returning home, allowing 20 miles for a day. The pay for the privates amounted to 16 shillings, four pence for


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the entire service, that for the officers was more. The total amount paid the company was ten pounds, six shillings and nine pence. Daniel Bucknam, Jr., "made oath that this Muster Roll is made up true one according to his best skill and Judgment."


(See Mass. Archives. Lexington Alarm, Vol. 11, p. 242.)


"Roxbury Camp, Dec. 25, 1775.


"A Muster roll of the Minute men of Sutton under the Com- mand of Capt. Arthur Dagget deceased in Colo. Larned's Regi- ment in April 19th, 1775."


Arthur Dagget; Capt.


Benj. Hovey


Bartholo. Woodbury, Lt.


Joel Hayden


March Chace, Lt.


Stephen Kenney


Nath'l Whitmore, Sergt.


David Lilley


Joshua Lilley, Sergt.


Willis Hall, Sergt.


Alphaeus Marvel Ezekiel Morse Jas. McClellan Caleb Morse


Thomas Griggs, Corp'l


William Oliver


Henry Phelps, Corp'l


Simeon Spring, Corp'l


Thomas Parker


T- Comings, Corp'l


Moses Axdell


Jona. Boyden


Sam'l Blanchard


Barzabeel Barten


Jona. Robinson Reuben Lilley


Seth Chase


Noah Stockwell John Safford


George Foster


Elisha Walker


Eben'r Gould


Asa Walker


Stephen Hall


John Walker


John Hall


Solomon Whipple


Henry Harback


The company travelled fifty miles and return. The total amount paid for service and travel was sixty pounds, six shillings and four and three-fourth pence.


(See Mass. Archives. Lexington Alarm, Vol. 12, p. 47.)


"A Muster Roll of Capt. Andrew Eliot's Company in the Colony Service on the Alarm April 19th, 1775 & in Col. Learned's Regt."


Capt. Andrew Eliot Lt. Isaac Bolster Lt. Asa Waters


Sergt. John Hazeltine Sergt. John Severy Sergt. Jas. Kidder


Joseph Rockwell


Isaac Dodge


Adonijah Putnam Josiah Prime


John Robards, Sergt.


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Sergt. Abra. Waters


John Holland


Corpl. Ezra Lovell


Abel Holman


Corpl. Joel Tainter


Dan'l Holman


Corpl. Jacob Dwinel


Sam'l Hardy


Corpl. Jos. Waters


Elisha Holman


Fifr. Timo. Clastin


John Kidder


John Bancroft


Eleazer Lyon


Eben'r Brown


Stephen Marble


David Prince Chace


Francis Nutten


Timo. Child


Eben Putnam


James Colwell


Ezra Putnam


David Dudley


John Peirce


Amos Dwinel


Jacob Snow, Jr.


Archelaus Dwinel .


Benjamin Snow


Sam'l Eaton


Sam'l Small


Reuben Eaton


Sibley


John Follingsba


Tainter


John Fuller


Simeon Waters


Jona. Gould


Waters


Asa Goodale


Joshua Wait


This company travelled ninety miles altogether out and home and received as a total for travel and wages fifty- two pounds, eleven shillings and six and three-fourths pence.


(See Mass. Archives. Lexington Alarm, Vol. 12, p. 76.)


"This is an exact Muster roll of the Names of the Officers and Soldiers in Capt. Greenwood's Comp. of the Militia and in Col. Learned's Regiment that marched from Sutton to Roxbury on the twentieth of April on the alarm of the ministerial Troops at Lexington on the 19th of April, 1775, in defence of this colony with an exact account of the number of miles travelled out and home at 1. P mile for expences and the men (?) at Watertown Nov. 7th, 1775, for to establish the soldiers pay."


Capt. Jas. Greenwood


Joel Marble


Lt. John Jacobs


Joshua Park


Lt. Abijah Burbank


Daniel Ropes


St. Josiah Goddard


Lem Richardson


St. Josiah Gail


Isaiah Bucknam


St. Abijah Tainter


Josiah Bond, jun.


Corp. Simeon Haward


Lemuel Bixby, jun.


Corp. Reuben Park


Richard Bartlett


Corp. Thos. Holman


Eben'r Burnap, jun.


Steph. Holman


David Baites, jun.


John Holman


Reuben Seavery


Fif. Wm. Kenney


David Sibley, jun.


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William Stearns


Jona. Stone John Davidson Benj. Davidson, Jr.


Lemuel Woodward Asa Waite William Waite


John Waters


John Todd, jun.


The company marched ninety miles altogether out and home and the total amount paid to the company for service and travel was twenty-two pounds, five shillings two pence, and two farthings.


(See Mass. Archives. Lexington Alarm, Vol. 12, p. 107.)


"A muster roll of the Minute Men of Sutton, under the Com- mand of Capt. John Putnam in Colo. Enebr. Larned's Regiment in April ye 19th 1775."


John Putnam, Capt.


Jonathan Woodbury, Lieut.


John Woodbury, Lieut.


Joseph Gould, jr.


John Howard, Serjt. James Giles


Joseph Sibley, Serjt.


Gideon Sibley


Simeon Finney, Serjt.


Silas Wakefield


Simeon Whipple, Serjt.


Sam'l Wakefield


Jona. White, Corpl.


Ebenr. Armsby


Abr. Batchelor, Corpl.


Luther Wakefield


Amasa Wakefield, Corpl.


Abr. Taylor


Ephraim Fletcher


Joseph Peirce, Corpl. William Nichols


Richd. Davenport


Daniel Torrey Jona. Ellyot


Moody Morse, jr.


William Bacon


John Carrill


James Putnam


Daniel Sibley


James Ellyot


Thos. Leland


Sam'l Minard


Nathan Stone


Peter Sibley


Zaccheus Wheeler


Edward Easty


Elisha Putnam


Abel Sibley


Barzaleel Gleason


Tarrant Sibley


William Sibley


Peter Putnam


John Couse


Reuben Town


John Meloday


Sam'l Sibley, jr.


David Sibley


Abner Batchelor Gideon Putnam


The company entered the service Apr. 19, 1775, and served two weeks and one day for which the men received, in all, seventy-three pounds, four shillings and ten and three-fourths pence.


(See Mass. Archives. Lexington Alarm, Vol. 13, p. 36.)


Jonal Allen


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"In compliance to a Resolve by the Great and General Court of this Colony Ordering the Several Commanding officers of Com- panies that went on the alarm against the Ministerial Troops in April, 1775. This Company Marched From Sutton the 21st day of April under the command of Capt. Samuel Sibley, and went as far as Braintree and Boar the whole of their Expence while absent from Home."


Capt. Samuel Sibley


Bartholomew Town, Jr.


Lieut. Enoch Marble


Eleazer Roads


Searjt. Jacob Comings


William Batcheller


Corpl. Nathaniel Gibbs


Joseph Stockwill


Corpl. Josiah Chase


Lieut. John Caryl


Jonathan Cole


Francis Nelson


David Town


Luke Putnam


William Sarva


Solo. Stockwell


John Goodale


Timo. Burnap


Aaron Adams


Eliph. Rowel (?)


David Bacon


Daniel Day


Moses Chase


Benj. Dike


Jonathan King


David Trewd (?)


Elijah Towne


John Smith


Thomas Harback


Aaron Stockwell


William Simson


The company was gone seven days and marched sixty miles from home and returned. Feb. 13, 1776, the Treasurer for the colony was ordered to pay to the com- pany thirty-two pounds, eleven shillings and six pence. (See Mass. Archives, Lexington Alarm, Vol. 13, p. 107.)


"A Muster roll of the Company under the command of Capt. John Sibley with one piece of Cannon from Sutton ordered by Col. Ebenezer Learned."


John Sibley, Capt.


Thos. Lanman


Sam. Dagget, Lieut.


Sam. Brown


John Blanchard, Serj. Sam. Clarke


Aaron Sibley, Serj. Jno. Henry Ridle


Samuel Waters, Corp.


Daniel Stone


David Putnam


Moses Putnam


This company travelled forty-seven miles out and returned, being gone seven days. The total amount paid to the company was eleven pounds, eleven shillings, and ten pence.




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