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(VII) Ida Jane Fales, daughter of Ira and Adeline (King) Fales, born in Monson, Mass- achusetts, married Henry Holden Newton (see Newton family ).
Under the designation of "Mr." CLARKE Clark and as one of the pro- prietors of Gloucester on Cape Ann, Edmund Clarke (I), first appears in our early colonial history. The suggestion has been made that he may be identical with Edmund Clark, of Lynn, 1636, and afterward of Sand- wich, but there does not appear any present means by which this assumption is to be sus- tained. There also was an Edmund Clark, of Haverhill, in 1654, and he too has been offered as Edmund of Gloucester.
Another assumption is that the immigrant ancestor of the family here treated first settled in Ipswich and because of religious dissensions there betook themselves to other plantations, some going thence to Newbury, others to Hav- erhill and still others to various parts of the colonies. It is known that the Clarks and Clarkes (the name is spelled both ways in the early records, and sometimes is written Clerk) were affected by the controversy referred to, and of course it is possible that Edmund was one of them. In his "Genealogical Dictionary" Savage mentions him as Edward Clarke, an error which has carried through several gener- ations of the family. The fact that he is first
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mentioned as "Mr." Clarke indicates that he was a person of some importance, perhaps by reason of superior mental attainments, and such would appear to have been the case, for in 1657 he was chosen town clerk of Gloucester and performed the duties of that office until November, 1665. He had lands on the south side of the Poles, and there probably built his house, near Tryall Cove, where the widow of his son Joseph was living in 1704.
Edmund Clarke died February 26, 1666, and the inventory of his property showed a value of eighty-four pounds, five shillings, and debts amounting to thirty-three pounds. His wife's name was Agnes, and she is believed to have been a daughter of Walter Tybbot, who mentions in his will, 1651, son-in-law Edmund Clarke. After his death Agnes married Thomas Penny. Walter Tybbot was born in 1584, came to Gloucester with Mr. Blynmah, was admitted freeman in 1642, served several years as select- man and in 1647 was licensed "to draw wine," and also was exempted from common training. He was a farmer and as Babson says, "the inventory of his estate shows that he did not cultivate our unpromising soil in vain." Edmund and Agnes (Tybbot) Clarke had at least three children: 1. John, who died January 2, 1681, probably unmarried. 2. Abigail, married Wil- liam Sargent. 3. Joseph.
(II) Joseph Clarke, son of Edmund and Agnes (Tybbot) Clarke, was born November 16, 1650, in Gloucester, and is the only one of the children of Edmund and Agnes whose birth is recorded in that town. He was a soldier in King Philip's war in 1675, being one of eight men in that year who were drafted for service, and of whom, says the report of their com- manding officer, "due want warm cloathing, and must have new coates." On account of his service Joseph Clarke had lands granted him at Kettle Cove, December 16, 1679. Joseph Clarke died November 29, 1696. He married, March 27. 1682, Hannah Davis, probably a daughter of John Davis. of Ipswich, fisherman. Their children : I. Hannah, born January 16, 1683. 2. Joseph, September 10, 1684. married Rachel Pickworth, of Manchester. 3. Edmund, April 1, 1686, died soon. 4. Abigail. December 20, 1687. died soon. 5. Mary, March 9, 1689, died June 7, 1709. 6. John, March 6, 1692. 7. Edmund. December 3, 1695.
(III) Edmund Clarke, son of Joseph and Hannah (Davis) Clarke, was born in Glouces- ter. December 3. 1695, and probably lived most of his life in Manchester. He was admitted an inhabitant of Falmouth, Maine, in 1728, but
did not settle there. He married, November 24. 1718, Elizabeth Pierce, of Manchester, and had two sons, Edmund and Benjamin, and seven daughters.
(IV) Edmund Clarke, Jr., son of Edmund and Elizabeth ( Pierce) Clarke, was born about 1719 and died "at the beginning of June, 1752," aged thirty-three years. He married, at Glou- cester, October 21. 1743, Margaret Collet, who died February 2. 1753, aged thirty-seven years. Their children : I. Frances, born August 3, 1744. 2. Edmond ( Edmund or Edward ). Jan- uary 10, 1746. 3. Samuel, February 28, 1747- 48, died in New York in August, 1776. 4. Margaret. February 22. 1749-50.
5. Mehit- able, January 1, 1753.
(V) Captain Edward Clarke, son of Edmund. Jr. and Margaret ( Collet ) Clarke, was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, January 10. 1746. his name being written in the vital records of that town as Edmond Clerk. The names of his brother Samuel and sister Frances are written Clerk, while his sisters Margaret and Mehitable are mentioned as Clark. Captain Clarke was a master mariner and died on board ship while on a voyage to Lisbon, Por- tngal. He married ( Ipswich records ). Janu- ary II, 1769, Lucy Clinton, "of the Hamlet" (Hamilton), but the Manchester records say that his wife was Lucy Clint, of Ipswich, and that they married ( intention ) May 7. 1768. The names of their children are not known, but among them was a son William.
(VI) William Clarke, son of Captain Ed- ward and Lucy ( Clinton ) Clarke, was born at Ipswich Hamlet (Hamilton), September 4, 1771, and married, December 24. 1792, Han- nah Lufkin, who was born April 20, 1771, and by whom he had nine children: I. Edward, born in Hamilton, September 28, 1793. 2. William, born in Hamilton, August 15, 1795. 3. Caleb Henderson, born in Hamilton, Janu- ary 31, 1798. 4. Lucy, born in Newbury, Jan- uary 25, 1800. 5. Aaron, born in Ipswich, April 25. 1802. 6. Sarah Brown, born in Ips- wich. September 17, 1804. 7. Henry, born in Ipswich, June 24. 1808. 8. Elizabeth Edner, born in Ipswich. November 10, 1809. 9. Daniel, born in Ipswich, December 19, 1812.
(VII) Daniel Clarke, son of William and Hannah (Lufkin) Clarke, was born in Ips- wich, Massachusetts. December 19. 1812, and died there December 30, 1896. He was a cab- inet maker by trade and, in accordance with the old-time custom, was an undertaker in con- nection with business as cabinet maker. He also was one of the Odd Fellows of the lodge
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in Ipswich. He married Mary P. Cheever and their children were one son, Philip E., and two daughters, Lucy Mary and Caroline G. Clarke.
(VIII) Philip Embury Clarke, son of Daniel and Mary P. (Cheever ) Clarke, was born in Ipswich, September 1I, 1837, and for more than forty years has been closely identi- fied with the business life of that town. After leaving school he took to the sea and was a sailor until 1859. In the latter part of the following year he married, and about one year later entered the Union army. He enlisted February 21, 1862, in Company A, First Bat- talion, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and was artificer of his company. He served for more than three years, with credit to his town and himself, and was mustered out of service at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, October 20, 1865. From 1870 to 1874 Mr. Clarke was collector of customs at the port of Ipswich. For twenty-eight years he was superintendent of the Ipswich cemetery and for ten years was president of the board of trustees of the ceme- tery. Since 1878 his business occupation has been that of undertaker and funeral director. In 1894 he was elected representative of Ips- wich to the general court. Mr. Clarke is a member and past commander of General James Appleton Post, No. 128, Grand Army Repub- lic, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and is a Pythian Knight, a Red Man, and also a Pilgrim Father.
He married, November 29, 1860, Mary E. Fellows, by whom he has four children: I. Effie W., born December 20, 1861, now Mrs. John D. Knowlton ; one child, Elizabeth L. 2. Anna C., now Mrs. James S. Robinson ; has four children: Harriet E., Helene M., Re- becca S. and Philip J. 3. Mary Everett, born September 17, 1875, now Mrs. Oliver R. Un- derhill : one child, Doris P. 4. Helen B., born February 20, 1880, resides at home.
GOLDTHWAITE Contemporary gene- alogy informs us that the Goldthwaites were seated in several English shires for many gen- erations previous to the immigration of any- one of that surname to the shores of New England, and from knowledge based on firmer ground than ancient traditions their ancestry is traced to the time of the Conqueror and their name had its origin in the family name Gold, coupled with the word thwaite, the latter a de- rivative of the Anglo Saxon verb thwoetan, meaning to cut down, or more liberally defined, an open space cleared in a forest. Gold, ac-
cording to Lower, was a personal or baptismal name.
( I) The Goldthwaites of the Yorkshire branch of the English family of that name furnished the ancestor of the American Goldthwaites in Thomas Goldthwaite (I), who was born in England about the year 1610, although it ap- pears that at the time of his immigration he was living in Lincolnshire, adjoining York- shire. Without doubt he was a descendant of some branch of the Kirkby Malzeard family, whose original home was in what is now Gowthwaite in that parish, three miles from Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, West Riding. He is believed to have come to this country in the same fleet with Governor Winthrop, which arrived in 1630, although the first mention of his name is found in the records of the general court held in Boston, June 14, 1631. He soon afterward went to Roxbury, where the name of Thomas Gouldthwaite appears in Rev. John Eliot's list of church members in 1632. He was made freeman May 14, 1634, and in 1636 was granted ten acres of land in Salem, and admitted a member of the Salem church, June 5, 1637. The records shows that Tho: Gold- whatye and Elizabeth Goldthwayt were among the signers of the covenant in 1637 under the ministry of Rev. John Fiske. Thomas Gold- thwaite afterward received other grants of land in Salem and made various land pur- chases ; he evidently was a person of some con- sequence in the town, for his name appears frequently in the records, as selectman in 1656, constable in 1659 and grand juror in 1661. He married his first wife, Elizabeth in 1636, and she must have died sometime before 1671, for he then had a second wife, Rachel Leach, daughter of Lawrence and Eliz- abeth Leach. Lawrence Leach, of Salem, 1629, came in one of the fleet with Higginson, and was made freeman May 18, 1631. He was a mill owner on the Beverly side of the town and took a prominent part in public af- fairs, his name appearing frequently as holder of various offices. He died in June. 1662, leaving his estate to his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1674. Thomas Goldthwaite died in March, 1683, aged about seventy-three, his second wife Rachel and two of his three chil- dren surviving him. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth Goldthwaite : 1. Samuel, baptized At- gust 20, 1637, see forward. 2. Mehitable, bap- tized August 27, 1640; "Hittabell Goldthwrite" died May 3, 1668. (Salem Rec.). 3. Eliza- beth, baptized November 20, 1642, married John King.
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(II) Samuel Goldthwaite, eldest child and only son of Thomas and Elizabeth Goldthwaite. was a cooper by trade and had his home on the west end of his father's farm, in what now is the town square in Peabody. The original Goldthwaite farm was directly opposite the present site of the Peabody church. He was a zealous church member, a man of resolute character and sound common sense. It is re- lated of him that during the period of the witchcraft excitement in Salem one of his daughters became infected with the prevailing epidemic and began to "cry out" against some person as bewitching her, whereupon her father is said to have taken her out to the barn and administered wholesome punishment and thus ended all further trouble so far as concerned his own family. He died in the latter part of the year 1718, his will being admitted to probate December 31. He married, at Charles- town, Massachusetts, September 6, 1666, Eliz- abeth Cheever, who was baptized April 2, 1645, daughter of Ezekiel Cheever and Mary his wife. Ezekiel Cheever was the famous master of the Boston Latin school and was born in London, England, January 25, 1614, son of William Cheever and Margaret his wife. He was admitted a pupil at Christ's Hospital, April 3, 1626, and went thence to the University of Cambridge where his name has been found in the register of Emanuel College, January 12, 1632-33. He came to Boston in New England in 1637 and removed thence to New Haven, where he was chosen one of the twelve foundation members of the church, June, 1639; was deputy to the court, 1645-46, preached occasionally and through- out the period of his residence there taught school, first in his own house and afterward in a free school established by the town. In 1650 he removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and became the first master of its grammar school, which was established about that time. Afterward for a time he taught school at Charlestown, from 1661 to 1670, and still later in Boston, in the Latin school, for thirty-eight years, until the time of his death, August 21, 1708, then having completed seventy years continuous service as a teacher. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cheever ) Goldthwaite : I. Elizabeth, born October 7, 1667, died in in- fancy. Samuel, born March 5, 1668-69, mar- ried Mary Reed. 3. Thomas, born December 14, 1670, died young. 4. Ezekiel, born Au- gust 3, 1674, see forward. 5. John, born 1667, married (first) Sarah Hopkins ; married (sec- ond) Jane (Tawley) Halsey. 6. Nathaniel,
married Elizabeth Burt. 7. Mary, married John Nichols. 8. Elizabeth, married Thomas Price. 9. Hannah, born April 9, 1686-87, married Edward Nichols. 10. Thomas, born March 1, 1688-89, probably died young.
(III) Ezekiel Goldthwaite, third son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cheever ) Goldthwaite, born August 3, 1674, baptized June. 1675, was a mason by trade and lived in that part of Salem which afterward was set off to form Peabody. He acquired considerable land from his father and also owned others in the vicinity of New Salem. He was engaged in quite a number of land transactions. His name appears in the records as collector, assessor, one of the committee "for altering the meet- ing house," and also one of the prudential com- mittee. He was appointed collector Septem- ber 3. 1708. He died in 1761, at the age of more than eighty-seven years. He left no will, giving deeds during his life as provision for his children. He married, March 20, 1695-96, Esther Boyce, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Meachum) Boyce, and granddaughter of Joseph and Ellinor Boyce. Joseph Boyce, the senior, was born about 1608, became a mem- ber of the church in Salem in 1641, was made freeman in 1642, and by occupation was a tanner, one of the first in that trade in New England. Shortly after marriage Ezekiel Goldthwaite received as a gift from his father land and dwelling house which had been built by his grandfather, Thomas Goldthwaite, bc- fore 1661. Children of Ezekiel and Esther (Boyce) Goldthwaite: I. Esther, born about 1697, married, September 14. 1737, John Case. 2. Hannah, 1700, died in 1788, unmarried. 3. Samuel, 1703, see forward. 4. Ezekiel, 1706, married Eunice Cutler. 5. Joseph, 1709, mar- ried Mary Batters. 6. David, 1712, married Sarah Batters.
(IV) Samuel Goldthwaite, eldest son of Ezekiel and Esther ( Boyce) Goldthwaite, born Salem, about 1703, baptized October 17, 1703, died Northbridge, Massachusetts, May 8, 1789, aged eighty-seven years. After his mar- riage he lived for a time in South Danvers and removed to Smithfield, Rhode Island, about 1735, having bought in 1733 the home- stead of Isaac Richardson. December 1, 1759, he sold his farm there and bought, De- cember 4, same year, land lying partly in the towns of Uxbridge and Sutton, Massachu- setts, the latter being afterward annexed to Northbridge. There he resided until his death. He married, January 18, 1726, Sarah Reed, born Salem, May 15, 1703, died May 9, 1787,
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daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Green) Reed. They had nine children: I. Sarah, baptized November 26, 1727, married, Febru- ary 10, 1752, Joseph Buxton ; children, Sarah and Samuel. 2. Lois, baptized 1729. 3. John, baptized May, 1731, married Hannah
4. Stephen, baptized April 7, 1734, married Patience Very. 5. Joseph, born 1735, see for- ward. 6. Hannah, married Japhet Taft. 7. Jonathan, born January 14, 1742, married Lydia Chase. 8. Jacob, born 1744, married Rachel Axtell. 9. Ezekiel, born October 18, 1748, married Anna Adams.
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(V) Joseph Goldthwaite, the soldier of the revolution, son of Samuel and Sarah (Reed) Goldthwaite, was born probably in Danvers, Massachusetts, 1735, and was very young when his father removed to Rhode Island. He was taxed in Danvers in 1758-59, married there in the year last mentioned, but in 1761 was living in that part of Sutton which afterward be- came Northbridge. He was a farmer, forty years old, and living in Northbridge at the beginning of the revolution. He remained there until 1793, when he bought one hundred and fifty acres in Peru, Berkshire county, and moved there. He enlisted in Captain Joseph Wood's company from Northbridge at the Lexington alarm, and served five days ; enlist- ed in Captain Samuel Reed's company, which marched in December, 1776, and served three months and thirteen days. At the Rhode Island alarm he again enlisted, July 28, 1780, in Captain David Batcheller's company of Col- onel Tyler's regiment, and then served fifteen days. He married, January 7, 1759, Mary Goldthwaite, of Danvers, his second cousin, daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca Gold- thwaite, the latter also being a distant relative of her husband. Joseph and Mary Gold- thwaite joined the church in Uxbridge on con- fession of their faith April 6, 1766, and was received into the church at Peru by letter May 31, 1795. He died December 29, 1812; she died January 13, 1812. Children: I. Re- becca. born about 1759, married, May 16, 1808, probably as his second wife, Henry Gil- bert, of Peru, who died August 20, 1831. She died August 2, 1842. 2. Abigail, born about 1761, married Thomas Allison. 3. Sarah, born about 1763, married Isaac French. 4. Daniel, born 1765, married Lucy Colton. 5. Mehitable, baptized April 5, 1767, married Nathan Chase. 6. Dr. Joseph, baptized February 5, 1769, mar- ried (first) Cynthia Ballard ; married (second) Rebecca 7. Benjamin, baptized May 26, 1771, probably died young. 8. Ruth, bap-
tized May 2, 1773, married William Frissell, Jr. 9. Ebenezer, born October 1, 1775, see forward. 10. Benjamin, born March 10, 1776, married Orpha Curtis. II. Nathan, date of birth unknown, married Mercy 12. Calvin, born March 16, 1784, married Hannah Turner.
(VI) Ebenezer Goldthwaite, son of Joseph and Mary (Goldthwaite) Goldthwaite, born Northbridge, Massachusetts, October 1, 1775, died Peterborough, New Hampshire, Decem- ber 12, 1867, aged ninety-two years. Was named for his mother's brother who was killed less than six months before at Lexington. Be- fore he was twenty years old he removed with his father's family to Peru, Massachusetts, and in 1801 bought a tract of land with a saw mill ; and besides this he had seventy-five acres of land given to him by his father in 1804. These lands he sold in the following year and after- ward for several years devoted his attention to the management of farms for other owners, among which was the large farm owned by Colonel Pickman in South Salem, and the Derby farm near Salem Willows, where all his children were born. He also lived in Wenham, Wakefield and other towns in the eastern part of the state. On January 27, 1820, Mr. Gold- thwaite married, at Salem, Mrs. Rebecca (Gardner) Allen, widow of Captain John Allen, of Salem, who died a prisoner of war at Dartmoor, England, in 1814. She was born in September, 1789, died December 19, 1852, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Stevens) Gardner, the latter a daughter of Brimsley Stevens, of North Andover, who was attorney- general of Massachusetts during the revolu- tion. Ebenezer and Rebecca (Gardner) (Allen) Goldthwaite had five children : I. Ebenezer Gardner, born October 30, 1820, died in the Soldiers' Home at Togus, Maine, in 1886; married (first), July 20, 1845, Harriet Augusta Pervear : married (second), July 3, 1852, Anstice Carter, of Peterboro, New Hampshire; during the civil war he was a sharpshooter attached to Colonel Henry Wil- son's Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry. 2. Charles, born October 2, 1822, married Mary Antoinette Goodridge. 3. Rebecca Allen, born November 17, 1824, married Major Nathan D. Stoodley. 4. Harriet Gard- ner, born December 23, 1826, died November 15, 1831, Wenham. 5. William Henry, born June 16, 1829, see forward.
(VII) William Henry Goldthwaite, youngest son and child of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Gard- ner) (Allen) Goldthwaite, born Salem, Mass-
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achusetts, June 16, 1829, died Union, New Hampshire, February 20, 1907. Buried Pine Grove cemetery, Lynn. He was a custom shoemaker by trade, and spent the early part of his business life in New Hampshire, where he was educated in public schools. Later he returned to his native state, lived in Stone- ham about twelve years and afterward in Lynn. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. of Stoneham, and in politics was a Democrat. His wife, whom he married in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, February 10, 1854, was Caro- line E. Wheeler, born in New Ipswich in 1833, died 1889, daughter of Samuel Cook and Abby ( Wilson) Wheeler. They had four children : I. Charles Henry, born New Ipswich, July 13. 1854, died Lynn, Massachusetts, December 29, 1905: married, in Stoneham, Massachu- setts, October 15, 1874, Nellie J. Fowle, born Woburn, Massachusetts, May 30, 1856, daugh- ter of John J. and Hannah ( Porter ) Fowle. Mr. Goldthwaite was a successful shoe manu- fecturer in Lynn and an active figure in the political history of that city, on the Repub- lican side ; served as alderman and member of the city council. Children: Harry Johnson, born November 4, 1876, died July 27, 1887; Charles Bertram, born September 13, 1879; Nellie Blanche, born March 27. 1881, died March 5, 1887 ; Harold, born October 14, 1884 ; Earl, born February 11, 1889; William, born June 30, 1891, died September, 1891. 2. Wil- liam Edgar, born Peterboro, New Hampshire, June 26, 1856, died in Lynn, Massachusetts, De- cember 29, 1906, married Abby Frances Dan- iel, of Stoncham, Massachusetts. Mr. Gold- thwaite was a shoe manufacturer in Lynn and afterward was engaged in the leather business. Children : Bertha Frances, born 1877 : Harry, died young : Frederick Herbert, born 1887. 3. George Gardner, born November 22, 1858, married in January, 1890, Mrs. Helen MI. (Steele) Gordon, born Lynn, January 29. 1846, died December 26, 1907, daughter of Andrew and Betsey (Gowdy) Steele. No children. 4. Abby Isabel, born Peterboro, New Hampshire, October 13, 1863, married, January 30, 1894, George E. Cain, a former veterinary surgeon and now a real estate dealer in Lynn. One child: Ruth Coggswell Cain, born Lynn, April 11, 1899. (See Cain).
CAIN George E. Cain, of Lynn, Massa- chusetts, one of the leading real estate dealers and developers in that city, was born in Lynn, March 29, 1863. His father, the late James R. Cain,
was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and was a shoemaker by trade. He spent the greater part of his business life in Lynn, work- ing in the factories there until the time of his death, March 16, 1900, at the age of seventy- two years. He married Julia A. Heath, who was born in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and who on her mother's side is a descendant of the old Peaslee family of New England. She lives in Lynn, making her home with her only son, George E. Cain.
George E. Cain, whose birth and parentage are mentioned in the preceding paragraph, re- ceived his early education in Lynn public and grammar school, and after leaving school studied for a chemist with Warren Toppon, Lynn, and followed the drug business in Ran- dolph for several years. He then entered the Chicago Veterinary College, made the course of that institution, graduating D. V. S. in 1891 and began practice in that city. Soon after- ward, however, he was appointed to a lecture- ship on the faculty of the veterinary college of the University of Iowa, at Des Moines, and filled that position until 1893, when he resign- ed and returned to Lynn. Having established himself in active practice in his native city, Dr. Cain opened and for some time carried on a drug store in connection with professional work, for he was a registered pharmacist under the laws of the commonwealth. However, during the next two years he became consid- erably interested in city property in Lynn, and in 1903 he abandoned his veterinary practice, sold out his drug business and afterward gave his entire attention to real estate operations. He has developed and laid out several tracts of land and brought them into the market for residence purposes, erected dwelling houses and business blocks, and by his enterprise and progressive spirit has contributed much to the growth and prosperity of Lynn during the last ten or more years. In politics Dr. Cain is a Republican, and he also is a member of the Lynn Yacht Club and the Prospect Club, an ex-member of the Independent Order Odd Fellows; Peter Woodland Lodge, Knights of Pythias. and Order of United Workmen, both of Lynn. On January 30, 1894, he married Abby Isabel Goldthwaite. Child, Ruth Cogs- well, born April 11, 1899.
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