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(II) Thomas Dutton, son of John (I), was born in England, in 1621. Most of the Dut- ton families of New England of colonial stock are traced to him as their ancestor. He fig- ured in two rather remarkable cases in court. He was charged with beating his wife in 1661. and was fined, notwithstanding the denials of both his wife and himself. In 1668 he brought suit against Michael Bacon, Jr., for slander in charging him with theft of a napkin and spoon. Bacon was found guilty and fined fif- teen pounds, showing that the court regarded the unfounded story as a malicious lie. At that time fifteen pounds was an enormous penalty in a case of this kind. The best men of Reading and Woburn testified to the excellent character of Dutton, and effectually disposed of any suspicion aroused by the charge of wife beating. Dutton lived in Reading seven years, and in 1668 had lived ten years in Woburn. He removed to Billerica in 1669 and was ac- cepted as an inhabitant November 22, 1669. He settled on the south 'side of Fox Brook, by the old and abandoned road of the Great Plain, northwest of the Davis place. He was living in Billerica in 1675, and died there January 22, 1687. His wife Susannah died August 27, 1684, aged fifty-eight years. He married sec- ond. November 10, 1684, Ruth Hooper, prob- ably widow of William Hooper, of Reading
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Children of Thomas and Susannah Dutton : born at Reading: 1. Thomas, born Septem- ber, 1648. 2. Mary, born September 14, 1651, married Jacob Hamlet. 3. Susanna. born February 27, 1653-54: married John Durrant. 4. John, born March 28, 1658-59. Born at Woburn: 5. Elizabeth, born January 28, 1658-59. 6. Joseph, born January 25, 1660-61. 7. Sarah, born March 5, 1661-62: married April 3. 1683, Samuel Lewis. 8. James, born August 22. 1665. 9. Benjamin, born February 19, 1667 : married Joanna ( Jefts ) Davy, widow of Humphrey Davy.
(III) Thomas Dutton, son of Thomas Dut- ton (2), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, September 14, 1648. He married in Billerica, January 10, 1678-79, Rebecca Draper, widow, of Concord. She died March 16, 1720-21. He married second. November, 1721. Sarah Converse. He bought or had land of his fath- er in Billerica in 1670 ; also purchased land of John Stearns. He was in Sergeant Ilill's garrison in 1675, and in the center squadron in 1707. In 1677 he served in the ill-starred expedition to the Eastward, as the Kennebec country was called. His petition to the gen- eral court ( Mass. Archives, vol. xix, page 209) contains the best account of this expedi- tion known. Two hundred Christian Indians from Natick and forty English soldiers took part under Captain Benjamin Sweat, of Hamp- ton. Of these, fifty men were killed by the Indians and a score more wounded. Dutton was shot through the side of his belt and through the left knee, "and fell down not able to help himself." His escape from death was marvelous. Children: 1. Rebecca, born No- vember 13, 1679: married Daniel Shed. 2. Thomas, born August 2. 1681 ; mentioned be- low. 3. John, born February 24, 1683-84; died December 14, 1687. 4. Susannah, born April 30. 1687: died September 3. 1688. 5. Susan, born November 4, 1687. All born at Billerica.
(IV) Thomas Dutton, son of Thomas Dut- ton (3), was born in Billerica. August 2, 1681 ; married there, January 31. 1710-1I, Hannah Burge, of Chelmsford. They removed to Westford after 1738, and he died there in 1759. He and his sons resided in the vicinity of the Jonathan T. Colburn place. Children, born in Billerica: 1. Joseph, born December, 1712; settled in Westford; married Rebecca Adams, of Chelmsford. 2. Thomas, born Aug- ust 28, 1713; settled in Rockingham, Vermont ; married Mary Hill. 3. John, born February 13. 1714-15 : mentioned below. 4. Josiah, born
February 21, 1716-17 ; resided at Nottingham West, now Hudson. New Hampshire ; ancestor of the Francestown family. 5. Hannah, born August 10, 1718: died October following. 6. Rebecca (twin of Hannah ), born August 10. 1718, died young. 7. Benjamin, born May 2, 1720: married, 1751, Mary Runwell. 8. James, born May 5. 1721 ; married Rebecca Hildreth. 9. Hannah, born June 13, 1723; married Joshua Frost. TO. Rebecca, born May 18, 1726. 11. Ephraim, born January 1. 1727-28. 12. David, born 1731 ; ancestor of the Han- cock family ; son of Henry settled in Deering ; married, 1761. Esther Heald. 13. Susanna, born March 10. 1732-33.
(V) John Dutton, son of Thomas Dutton (4), was born February 13, 1714-15, at Biller- ica, and died December 1, 1760, of smallpox. His wife died December 19, and his daughter December 17, of the same disease. He mar- ried. February 18. 1740, Rebecca, born June 5. 1720. daughter of Benjamin Shedd (or Shed), born August 5, 1696. John Shed, father of Benjamin, was born March 2. 1655; married Sarah Chamberlain. Daniel Shed. father of John, was the immigrant; settled in Braintree and removed to Billerica in 1659, buying the George Willis right of Joseph Park- er. Children, born at Billerica or Chelmsford : 1. Rebecca, born January 19, 1741, died De- cember. 1760. 2. John, born June 20, 1746, died August 19. 1749. 3. Hannah, born Oc- tober 11. 1747; died September 2, 1749. 4. John, born January 16, 1750-51 ; soldier in Revolution; removed to Hillsboro in 1777; selectman there 1806-08; town clerk, 1786, and for seven years afterward : moderator two years. 5. Hannah, born October 12, 1752 ; married, March 30, 1773, William Parker. 6. Benjamin, born May 13. 1754; mentioned be- low. 7. William, born January 30. 1759.
(VT) Benjamin Dutton, son of John Dut- ton (5), was born at Chelmsford, May 13. 1754. He was a private in Captain Edward Farmer's company. Colonel Green's regiment, April 19, 1775; in Captain Jonathan Stickney's company, Colonel Ebenezer Bridge's regiment, in the same year : and also Captain Solomon Pollard's company. All these were of Mass- achusetts. He removed with his brother John to Hillsboro, New Hampshire, in 1777. He was on the tax list for that year, and perhaps bought his farm the year before. He married, at Billerica, Patty, daughter of Nathaniel Cum- mings, of Billerica, February 27, 1777. Chil- dren, born at Hillsborough : 1. Jeremiah, born April 14. 1778: mentioned below. 2. Silas,
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born March 5. 1780: selectman of Hillsboro in 1806.
(\'ll) Jeremiah Dutton, son of Benjamin Dutton (6), was born April 14. 1778. He was a farmer in Hillsboro. He married Betsey Baker. Children: 1. Patty Cummings, born June 7, 1802: died October 10, 1839. 2. Re- becca, born September 1, 1803 : died January 7. 1864: married, April 5. 1821, Samuel Das- comb. 3. Benjamin, born September 1, 1805 ; merchant in Boston ; later returned to Ilills- boro. 4. Ephraim, born August 25, 1807: mentioned below. 5. Betsey, born August 21, 18to; died March 18, 1856: married Samuel Gilman Barnes, November 16, 1827. 6. Silas, born October 5, 1812 ; died February 15, 1817. 7. Jeremiah, born May 31, 1818; farmer at Hillsboro. 8. Catherine, born August 18. 1820; died May 20, --: married, at Hopkinton, New Hampshire, Tilton Symonds. 9. Emeline Baker, born November 30, 1824: died Sep- tember 18, 1865 ; married July 20, 1847, Gil- man Shattuck.
(VIII) Ephraim Dutton, son of Jeremiah Dutton (7), was born in Hillsboro, August 25. 1807, and died there September 10, 1891. He was a farmer and proprietor of a general store in Hillsboro. He was a Democrat in politics, and cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson. He was a man of strong character and a leader in the community. He married Sep- tember 3, 1829, Phebe Beard Wilson, born March 8, 1812. Children, born in IHillsboro: 1. Benjamin Franklin, born October 14, 1831 ; mentioned below. 2. Clarissa Wilson, born September 27, 1835: married, first, George B. Ward : second, Edwin B. Morse.
( IX) Benjamin Franklin Dutton, son of Ephraim Dutton (8), was born in Hillsboro, October 14. 1831. He was educated in the public schools and at Captain Partridge's Mil- itary Academy and Private School at Nor- wich, Vermont, where he was graduated in 1851. He was for a short time in business in Washington, D. C. Having made a reputation as a teacher of penmanship and bookkeeping. he opened a commercial college in Alexandria. Virginia, and established a successful business. His father's health having failed, he was obliged to give up his business in the south and return to New Hampshire, where for seven years he was associated with his father in conducting the general store at Hillsbor- ough Bridge, New Hampshire. In 1859 he came to Boston and engaged in the small ware and millinery jobbing business under the firm name of B. F. Dutton & Company, later Dnt-
ton & Wyman, Brown & Dutton, and finally B. F. Dutton & Company. In the firm of B. F. Dutton & Company, Mr. Dutton's partner was John B. Smith, who was afterwards gov- ernor of the state of New Hampshire. In 1874 Mr. Dutton's connection with the present house of Houghton & Dutton began. He en- tered partnership with S. S. Houghton under the firm name which is so well known throughout New England. The department store of Houghton & Dutton is one of the largest and most popular in Boston. After the death of Mr. Houghton his interests were bought by Mr. Dutton, who has since been the head of the firm and in control of the enormous business of the concern.
Since 1877 Mr. Dutton has resided in Mal- (len. He has been interested in the welfare and development of the town in which he lives, has contributed freely to public enter- prises, and is recognized as one of the fore- most citizens of Malden. Ile purchased from the estate of George Lockman, known as Gly !! Rock. comprising sixty acres, and his resi- dence and grounds are regarded as among the finest residential properties in the state. IFe is owner of twenty houses in the town of Malden, of which number seven, built by him- self, on Glyn Rock Hill, are occupied by his children. In politics he is a Democrat of the old school. He cast his first presidential vote for Franklin Pierce, who was born and lived in the same town in New Hampshire. He has had neither time nor inclination for a public career, and has declined to accept public office. In religion Mr. Dutton is a Congregationalist. a member of the Second Congregational Church of Hillsboro. He is a prominent Free Mason, and a member of De Molay Com- mandery. Knights Templar. He belongs to the New Hampshire Club, the Malden Club, and other organizations.
Mr. Dutton has been pre-eminently a busi- ness man. To the upbuilding and enlargement of the great retail store of which he was the founder with Mr. Houghton, he has given his whole time and energy. All other interests were subsidiary. His thorough knowledge of trade; his discernment in matters of public taste and demand : his faculty in attracting all classes of people to his counters, have made him conspicuous in the business world of New England for nearly fifty years. Mr. Dutton's personality has attracted friends in business as well as in social life.
He married first, 1851, Harriet I .. Hatch, born 1831. died 1858. daughter of Elisha and
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Sophia ( Kingsbury ) Hatch, of Hillsboro. He married second, 1860. Harriet Miriam Conant, daughter of George W. and Louise A. (Mler- rill ) Conant. Children of Benjamin F. and Harriet L. (Hlatch ) Dutton: 1. Ellen, born in Hillsboro, 1852: married Professor J. B. Claus, a noted German scholar and professor of music, who died in Europe in 1906; she resides in Malden: no chil- dren. 2. Harry, born in Hillsboro, July 4, 1856; educated in the public schools and at Ilighland Military Academy of Worcester ; married Alice, daughter of S. S. Houghton. senior partner of Houghton & Dutton: chil- dren : i. Marion Dutton, married Irving P. Morse, a Harvard graduate ; ii. Mary Dutton. graduate of Medford high school; iii. Alice. Harry Dutton resides in Medford, and is a member of the firm of Houghton & Dutton. 3. Hattie, born in Hillsboro, May 29. 1858: educated in the Melrose schools : married Dr. B. D. Peaslee, of Weare, New Hampshire, June 12. 1893: 10 children. Children of Benjamin F. and Harriet Miriam (Conant ) Dutton: 4. Cora, born July 21, 1862. edu- cated in the public schools of Malden and at a finishing school in Toronto: married John Little, of Malden; children: i. John Dutton Little, born at Malden, April 12, 1895. Cora, married second, in 1904. Alfred B. Lounsbery, of New York. 5. Frank, born at Medford, April 13. 1867: a graduate of Chauney Hall School, Boston : married Blanche Merrill, of Boston, and had one daughter. Dorothy, born August 13. 1892, at Colorado Springs: is now a student in Miss Brown's private school: Frank died January 8, 1893, and his widow married Elmer .A. Lord, of Brookline, Massachusetts. 6. George Conant, born at Medford, October 13. 1869. attended the Malden public schools and Chauncy Hall School. Boston: is a member of the firm of Houghton & Dutton : married Gertrude E .. daughter of Mayor Stevens, of Malden ; children: i. Gertrude Stevens, born at Malden, May 30. 1902: ii. Benjamin Frank- lin (2) born June 5. 1904. at Malden : they reside in Malden. 7. Claire Miriam, born at Melrose. November 19. 1875: educated in the public schools of Malden and at Andover : married Alexander McGregor, of Pawtucket. Rhode Island, in 1895 : a member of the firm of Houghton & Dutton ; they reside in Mal- den ; children-i. Alexander McGregor (2). born March 31. 1897; ii. Claire Dutton Mc- Gregor, born July 13. 1808; iii. Mirriam Mc- Gregor, born November 20. 1003. 8. Nina.
born November 23. 1876, in Melrose : educated in the public schools and high school of Mal- den and Andover ; married, October. 1900, John F. Everhart, of New York City ; he died March. 1904: she is living with her parents in Malden : children-i. Helen Dutton Everhart. born October 12, 1902; ii. Mary Everhart. born April 23. 1904.
Samuel Stratton, the immi- STRATTON grant ancestor of the Strat -. tons of Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, was born in England. in 1592, and married his first wife there, and she probably died soon after her husband. herself and their two sons arrived in America. Samuel Strat- ton appeared as a surveyor of town lots in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1647. and took the freeman's oath May 18. 1653. He married as his second wife. August 28, 1657. Margaret, widow of William Parker. of Boston. Hle resided in that part of the town of Watertown subsequently set off to the town of Cambridge, in the neighborhood of the present Lowell Park, and contiguous to land that became the estate of James Russell Lowell. Samuel and Margaret Parker Strat- ton had three sons: Samuel, John and Rich- ard. Richard, son of Richard last named, set- tled in Easthampton, Long Island, New York. where both his Uncle John and his father Richard lived for several years. Samuel Stratton, the immigrant, died December 18. 1676, aged eighty-one years.
(Il) John, son of Samuel and Margaret ( Parker ) Stratton, was born in England, in 1633. and settled with his father in Water- town, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1047. He became a freeman of the town of Watertown, May 27, 1663, and married. March 10, 1659. Elizabeth Traine, and their children were: 1. Elizabeth, born in Watertown, died in infancy. 1659. 2. John, born August 24. 1661. 3. Elizabeth, born July 2. 1604. 4. Joseph, born January 13. 1666. 5. Samuel, born September 18. 1660. 6. Rebecca, born May 16. 1672. 7. Ebenezer, born November 2, 1677. died in infancy. 8. Ebenezer, born October 2. 1678. 4. Jonathan, born 1679. John Stratton. the tatiier, died in Watertown. April 7. 1691, and his widow died May 7. 1708.
( It) Joseph, second son of John and Eliz- abeth ( Traine ) Stratton, was born in Water- town, January 13, 1666, and married Sarah How. November 14, 1695.
( I\') Jonathan, son of Joseph and Sarah ( How) Stratton, was born in Weston. Massa-
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chusetts, 1714, and was married November I. 1738, to Dinah Bemis, of Waltham. He served as a private in Colonel Lamson's company, and marched to Lexington on receiving the alarm, April 19. 1775, and served for three days, when he was discharged.
(V) Jonathan, son of Jonathan and Dinalı ( Bemis ) Stratton, was born in Weston, March 8. 1746, and was married September 20, 1768, to Sarah Childs. He served as a private, according to the muster and pay rolls of Cap- tain Jonathan Fiske, of Weston, in Colonel Brooks' company, called out March 4, 1776. for five days service, and was stationed at Dorchester Heights, and also performed vari- ous other military service.
(VI) Shubael C., son of Jonathan and Sarah ( Childs) Stratton, was born in Weston, Massachusetts, December 6, 1768. He mar- ried Betsey Cook.
(VII) Ira, son of Shubael C. and Betsey (Cook ) Stratton, was born in New Salem. Massachusetts, January 6, 1804. He attended the common school in his native town, leaving it when fourteen years old to go west. At the age of sixteen he returned home and worked in a brush factory in Boston until he had learned the trade. Flavel Coolidge ( 1775- 1848) operated a brush factory in Cambridge- port, Massachusetts, and he made Ira Strat- ton his foreman as soon as he had completed his apprenticeship in the Boston establishment. Mr. Stratton continued in that position up to che time of the death of his father-in-law, in (848, when he became sole owner of the factory. He subsequently opened a brush shop on Exchange street, Boston, in copartnership with Sheriff & Eastham, and the enterprise was very successful, enabling him to acquire a competence. His next business venture was in the manufacture of glass, in partnership with Amory Houghton, the factory being located in Somerville. The business proved to be uncongenial to Mr. Stratton, and he sold out to his partner, and gave the remainder of his life to the care of his estate. He was mar- ried November 6, 1835, to Martha Ann, daugh- ter of Flavel and Anna (Wilds) Coolidge, and in this way became owner of the brush factory of Mr. Coolidge. Flavel Coolidge. father of Mrs. Ira Stratton, was the son of Elisha Coolidge, of Ashburnham, Worcester county, Massachusetts, and the youngest of eleven children. He was born in 1775, and in 1786 his father, with his entire family, joined the Shaker community at the time of its estab- lishment at Shirley, Middlesex county.
This remarkable society, inaugurated in America by Ann Lee, who with eight of her followers embarked at Liverpool, England, May 19, 1774, and arrived in New York, Au- gust 6th following, purchased land in the woods of Watervliet, New York, in 1776, and while the colonists were engaged in the war of the Revolution, these frugal and industrious people were building up a society that took within its fold the spirits of religious unrest wherever a religious awakening arose. After the society at Watervliet had been successfully planted, there was a religious awakening at New Lebanon, Columbia county, New York, thirty miles distant, and many of the subjects of the revival there visited "Mother Ann," at Watervliet, and became converts to the new faith. Ann Lee and her elders and friends became missionaries, and after establishing what proved to be their most successful set- tlement, at New Lebanon, they held forth in Hancock, Tyringham, Howard and Shirley, in Massachusetts, and Enfield, in Connecticut, and societies were planted which gathered many followers, and each became models of industrial communism that attracted the atten- tion of idealists not alone in America, but abroad also. After a little more than two years of missionary work, "Mother Ann" returned to Watervliet, where she received inquiries, and after a ministry of fourteen years she died. September 8. 1784. It was three years after her death before regularly organized communities were established. The society at New Lebanon, New York, was organized in September, 1787, and furnished the model for the others. It grew to six hun- dred members, and the community owned six thousand acres of land. Watervliet grew to three hundred members: Groveland, Living- ston county, New York, to one hundred and fifty: Hancock, Berkshire county, Massachu- setts, to two hundred; Tyringham, Berkshire county, to one hundred ; Harvard, Worcester county, to two hundred ; Shirley, Middlesex county, to one hundred : Enfield, Hartford county, Connecticut, to two hundred ; Canter- bury, Merrimac county, New Hampshire, to three hundred : Enfield, Grafton county, New Hampshire, to three hundred; Alfred, York county, Maine, to one hundred and fifty ; and New Gloucester, York county, Maine, to one hundred and fifty members. These societies were formed between 1787 and 1792, and it was not until 1805 that Ohio and Kentucky were invaded by the disciples of Ann Lee. Like the "Salem Witches," and the Roman
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Catholics, the Shakers did not escape perse- cution from the Puritans of New England. and the society at Shirley, when "Mother Ann" was preaching there, was subjected to mob violence not only from the outside world but from dissenting members of the society, notably on March 3, 1802.
Flavel Coolidge left the community after he had learned the trade of brush making and attained his majority, in 1796. Ile journeyed to Cambridgeport, where he engaged as a carpenter with Josiah and Thomas Mason, and while thus engaged built a house of five rooms for himself, preparatory to his contemplated marriage, and in January, 1806, he married Anna, daughter of Elijah, Jr., and Eunice (Safford) Wilds, and granddaughter of Elijah ( 1718-1791) and Anna ( Hovey ) Wilds, all converts to the Shaker faith under the preach- ing of Ann Lee, and by so doing severed all family ties, and they with their children were merged in the Shaker community, and Elijah Wilds. Jr., was appointed an elder at the organization of the society in Shirley, and con- tinned in the office up to the time of his death. March 14. 1829. at the age of eighty-three years. Anna Wilds was born February 15. 1779, and with her parents and grandparents became members of the Shaker community at Shirley, and here met Flavel Coolidge, son of Elisha Coolidge, who was born January 19. 1775, died February 1, 1848. He was one of the foundersof the First Universalist Church of Cambridge and a deacon for many years. Elisha Coolidge was born July 20. 1720, died August 18, 1807. Flavel Coolidge was also a convert to the faith. When he left the community in 1796 Anna Wilds also deserted it and went to live with relatives in Lancaster. Massachusetts, and it was there that her lover found her and they were married. Flavel and Anna (Wilds) Coolidge had three children born at their home at Cambridgeport, where the mother died June 28, 1874, aged ninety- five years and four months. Children : 1.
Merrick, born October 6, 1806, married Saralı Ann Tucker, November. 1831, died 1850. He had two children : Helen and Anna. 2. Mar- tha Ann, born January 19, 1814, died January 2, 1890. She married Ira Stratton, and their children were : i. Flavel Coolidge, born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, October 4. 1836, died February 15, 1840. ii. Flavel Coolidge (2), born in Cambridge, February 14. 1840. He prepared for college at the New Salem Academy, entered Harvard University, 1858, and was graduated therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in 1861, the year in which he attained his majority. He studied law and then went abroad, visiting England, where he engaged in the banking business with Belding, Keith & Company. After returning to Cambridge he removed to Erie, Pennsylvania, where he en- gaged in the dry goods business. Upon the death of his father, August, 1873. he retired from business and resided with his mother in Cambridge, where he died suddenly of heart failure. July 23. 1906. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was unmarried. A friend speaking of Flavel C. Stratton said "he was learned yet unpretentious, thought- ful yet not effusive in speech. Tender as a woman in his sympathies, yet lion hearted for the right." iii. Anna Maria, born in Cam- bridge, February 4, 1848, died September 23. 1850. iv. Martha Louise, born in Cambridge, February 4, 1851, received her education in the public schools, completing the high school course. She married, November 20, 1889. Dwight W. Ensign, see forward. 3. Flavel, Jr., born August 8, 1816, died in Cambridge- port, Massachusetts, February 28, 1891. He married Betsey Perkins, and ( second) Almira Peirce.
Dwight W. Ensign, above mentioned, was born in Sheridan, Chautauqua county, New York, August 2, 1839. He is the son of Sey- mour P. and Diantha (Holmes ) Ensign, grandson of Otis Ensign, Jr., who enlisted in the Continental army when sixteen years old and served five years, being one of the guard at the hanging of Major Andre, and was with General Washington at Valley Forge, when he received a scolding and apology from Washington when circumstances were ex- plained : great-grandson of Otis Ensign, Sr., who was killed in the massacre of Wyoming, and a descendant of James Ensign, who set- tled in Brattle street. Cambridge. Massachu- setts. about 1632, moving to Hartford, Con- necticut, 1635. Ile is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Union Club of Cambridgeport and the Boston Art Club. His wife. Martha Louise (Stratton) Ensign, has travelled extensively in Europe. She is a member of the Vermont Society of Colonial Dames ; Old Sonth Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Revo- lution. The Daughters of Massachusetts, New England's Women's Club, Cantabrigia Club of Cambridge, Peabody Home for Crippled Children. The Home for Aged People, and other societies and organizations. Mrs. Ensign takes a deep interest in charitable and religious
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