Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 8

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924


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(III) Joseph Hathorne, son of John Hat- horne (2), born at Salem, Massachusetts, bap- tized June, 1691, died 1762; married June 30, 1715, Sarah Bowditch, born January 10. 1695-6, died March, 1761, daughter of Captain William and Mary (Gardner) Bowditch, of Salem. Children: 1. William, born February 20, 1715-16, inarried March 29. 1741, Mary. Touzell. 2. Joseph, baptized May 4, 1718. 3. John, baptized May 22, 1719, died February 6. 1750; married Susanna Tousell. 4. Sarah,


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baptized June 27, 1722, married Daniel Cheever, of Salem. 5. Ebenezer, baptized De- cember 26. 1725. 6. Daniel, see forward. 7. Ruth, died June, 1801, married September 30, 1762, Captain David Ropes, of Salem, who died May 28, 1782.


(IV) Daniel Hathorne, son of Joseph Hat- horne (3), born at Salem, Massachusetts, died 1795; married October 21, 1756, Rachel Phelps, born June 1, 1734, daughter of Jona- than and Judith (Cox) Phelps. of Beverly. Children : 1. Rachel, born July 25. 1757, mar- ried Simon Forrester. 2. Daniel. born June 23, 1759. died March 13, 1763. 3. Sarah, born May 11, 1763, married John Crowninshield. 4. Eunice, born October 4, 1766, married Febru- ary 5, 1788, Aaron Porter, who died at Dan- vers, Massachusetts, December 3. 1843. 5.


Daniel, born July 25. 1768, died at sea, 1805, unmarried: 6. Judith, born April 17, 1770, married March 2, 1792, George Archer. 7. Nathaniel, born May 19, 1775, see forward. 8. Ruth, born January 20. 1778.


(V) Captain Nathaniel Hathorne, son of Daniel Hathorne (4), born at Salem, Massa- chusetts, May 19, 1775, died at Surinam, 1808; married Elizabeth Clark Manning, born Sep- tember 6. 1780. died July 31. 1849, daughter of Richard and Miriam (Lord) Manning, of Ipswich. Children: 1. Elizabeth Manning, born March 7, 1802. 2. Nathaniel, born July 4. 1804, see forward. 3. Maria Louisa, born Jan- uary 9, 1808, lost in steamer "Henry Clay," burned on the Hudson river, July 27, 1852.


(VI) Nathaniel Hawthorne, son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne (5). born at Salem, Mass- achusetts. July 4. 1804. died at Plymouth, New Hampshire, May 19, 1864; married at Salem, July 9. 1842, Sophia Amelia Peabody, born September 21. 1800. died at London, England, February 26, 1871, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel and Elizabeth ( Palmer ) Peabody, of Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Una, born at Concord, Massachusetts, March 3, 1844, died in England, 1887, unmarried. 2. Julian, born at Boston, Massachusetts, June 22. 1846. 3. Rose, born at Lenox, Massachu- setts, May, 1850, married George Parsons Lathrop.


JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.


John Greenleaf Whittier, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, was born in Haverhill, Massa- chusetts. December 17, 1807, and died in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, September 7, 1892. Ile was descended from Thomas


Whittier (or Whittle) of Salisbury, Newbury, and Haverhill, Massachusetts, through Joseph 2, Joseph 3, and John 4 Whittier, his father, who married Abigail Hussey, daughter of Joseph Hussey, of Somersworth, New Hamp- shire.


He was a famous American poet. "A Quaker in religion, he was remarkable for his consist- ency and the purity of his life ; he was one of the earliest and most influential Abolitionists, several times mobbed for his opinions. He was at different periods editor of several jour- nals, among them ( 1838-40) the Pennsylvania Freeman, an Abolition publication, and the leading contributor to the Washington National Era, 1847-59. He was a member of the Mass- achusetts legislature, 1835-36, and one of the secretaries of the American Anti-Slavery Soci- ety, 1836. He took great interest in politics. His home, after 1840, was at Amesbury, Mass -. achusetts.


Among his best-known poems are: "Skip- per Ireson's Ride," 1860; "My Playmate," 1860; "Barbara Frietchie," 1863 ; "Laus Deo," 1865: "My Birthday." "Snowbound," 1866; "Maud Muller." 1866; "The Tent on the Beach," 1867, and "The Eternal Goodness." "Perhaps no other of our poets, not even Longfellow, has so reached the popular heart." (Library of the World's Best Literature.)


An estimate by a writer in the above work states: His work depends for its appreciation to an unusual degree on an understanding of his life and character. Others of his contem- poraries need little explanation. Whittier was born of simple farming folk ; his formal edu- cation was merely that of the district school and country academy and he had no experi- ence of foreign travel. He sprang from the soil of New England, and possessed to the full the virtues and defects of his ancestry and environment, and he represents, and with suc- cess. the most winning side of country life in his native district. Until he was twenty his educational advantages were very ordinary. He attended for a short time the Haverhill Academy. For a year he was employed in a Boston printing house, and there edited a paper. For another year he was editor of a journal in Hartford. The papers with which he was connected were not those of the gen- eral sort, but were special publications devoted to such subjects as temperance and anti-slav- ery. With very few exceptions his days were spent in Essex County, and his early life, as well as his later, was free from affectation,


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and in the first of it full of effort and disci- pline, a life in which the outer world of cities was unrealized.


The birthplace of Mr. Whittier is standing in that part of Haverhill, which is near the boundary line of the present town of Merri- mac. Its antiquity, aside from its connection with the notable poet, is its principal attraction. The front of the house remains as originally built, with unimportant changes in the way of repairs. The house was built about the year 1688, by Thomas Whittier, the ancestor who left England in 1638, at the age of eighteen, and settled in Salisbury about 1640, and thence removed to Haverhill in 1648, first living in a log hut which he built and occupied until the erection of the house above men- tioned, which was about half a mile distant from his former residence.


ANCESTRY .- Thomas Whittier (1), of Salis- bury and Haverhill, Massachusetts, born about 1620 or 1622, died at Haverhill, November 28, 1696; married Ruth Green (alias Rolfe?) who died his widow, July, 1710. He was of Haver- hill in 1647. Among those who came with him to this country were his uncles John and Henry Rolfe, and a distant relative, Ruth Green, whom he afterwards married, and whose name appears in every subsequent gen- eration. Children: 1. Mary, born October 9, 1647, died July 29, 1698; married September 21, 1666, Benjamin Page, of Haverhill. 2. John, born December 23, 1649; married Jan- uary 14, 1685-6, Mary Hoyt, of Haverhill. 3. Ruth, born November 6, 1651, died December 16, 1719 ; married April 20, 1675. Joseph True, of Salisbury. 4. Thomas, born January 12, 1653-4, died October 17. 1728. 5. Susanna, born March 27, 1656, died February 15. 1726-7 ; married July 15, 1674. Jacob Morrill, of Salisbury. 6. Nathaniel, born August 11. 1658, died July 18, 1722 ; married first, August 26, 1685. Mrs. Mary Osgood, who died May 11, 1705 ; married second, June, 1710. widow Mary Ring, who died July 19, 1742. 7. Han- nalı, born September 10, 1760; married May 30, 1683. Edward Young. 8. Richard, born June 27, 1663, died March 3, 1725-6. 9. Eliz- abeth, born November 21, 1666; married June 22, 1699, James Sanders, Jr., of Amesbury, Massachusetts. 10. Joseph, born May 8, 1660, see forward.


(11) Joseph Whittier, son of Thomas Whit- tier (1), born in Massachusetts, May 8, 1669, died December 25, 1740; married May 24, 1694. Mary Peasley, born July 14, 1672, daughter of Joseph and Ruth ( Barnard)


Peasley. For four generations nearly all of his descendants retained their connection more or less closely with the Society of Friends. Children: I. Elizabeth, born September 19, 1695; married November 24, 1721, Abner Chase. 2. Green, born March 13, 1696-7 ; mar- ried (published November 3, 1719) Hannah Chase. 3. Joseph, born April 2, 1699, died young. 4. Ruth. born July 31, 1701 ; married January 1, 1722,3, Benjamin Greeley. 5. Rich- ard, born September 20, 1703. 6. Ebenezer, born December 29, 1704; married June 23, 1730, Judith Willett. 7. Hannah, born June 2, 1707, married November 25, 1725, Stephen1 Badger. 8. Susannah, born July 25, 1709; presumably married, May 8, 1734, Joseph Weed, Jr. 9. Joseph, born March 21, 1716-17, see forward.


(III) Joseph Whittier, son of Joseph Whit- tier (2), born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 21, 1716-17, died October 10, 1796; married July 12, 1739, Sarah Greenleaf, born March 5, 1716, died at Haverhill, Massachu- setts, March 17, 1807, daughter of Nathaniel and Judith (Coffin) Greenleaf, of Newbury, Massachusetts. He remained on the ancestral farm of his ancestors, which passed to the son John. Children : I. Stephen, born April 6, 1740, died April 17, 1740. 2. Thomas, born July 29, 1742, died August 13, 1742. 3. Ruth, born December 26, 1743, died December 27. 1743. 4. Obadiah, born January 22, 1745, died October 3. 1754. 5. Mary, born February 2, 1747, died September 5, 1802, unmarried. 6. Joseph, born September 14. 1750, died Septem- ber 21, 1754. 7. Nathaniel, born July 13, 1753. died at Hollis. Maine, January, 1839, unmar- ried. 8. Joseph, born September 20, 1755, died February 20, 1833; married Mary Chass. of Deering. New Hampshire, who married second. 1835. Jonathan Taylor, of Biddeford, Maine, and married third, - Hanson. 9. Obadiah, born September 2, 1758, died at Dover, New Hampshire, July 28, 1814; mar- ried December 17. 1786, Saralı Austin, of Dover, New Hampshire. 10. John, born No- vember 22, 1760; see forward. II. Moses, born December 20, 1762, died January 23, 1824, unmarried.


(IV) John Whittier, son of Joseph Whit- tier (3), born at Haverhill, November 22, 1760, died June 11, 1830 ; married October 3. 1804, Abigail Hussey, born September 3, 1779, died December 27, 1857, daughter of Samuel and Mercy ( Evans) Hussey, of Somersworth, now Rollinsford, New Hampshire. He was several times elected a selectman of the town


Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University.


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"Oak Knoll," Home of John G. Whittier, Danvers.


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of Haverhill. This point is of interest in reference to the male line of the ancestry of the Poet. Thomas (I) Whittier was 49 years old when his son Joseph was born, and he lived to be seventy-six. Joseph (2) was forty-seven years old when his son Joseph (3), was born, and he died at the age of seventy. The second Joseph or Joseph (3) was forty-five years old when John (4) was born, and he lived to be eighty. John (4) was in his forty-eighth year when John Greenleaf (5) the Poet, was born, and he lived to be nearly seventy. Although each Whittier in this list lived to a good old age, they passed away without having seen their grandsons in this particular line. Chil- dren: I. Mary, born September 3, 1806, died January 17, 1860; married Jacob Caldwell. 2. John Greenleaf, born December 17, 1807, died at Hampton, New Hampshire, September 7, 1892. 3. Matthew Franklin, born July 4, 1812, died January 7, 1883 ; married first, August 4, 1836, Abigail R. Poyen, who died at Portland, Maine, March 27. 1841 ; children: i. Joseph Poyen, died August 15, 1838. ii. Sarah, died March 13, 1841. Married second, Jane E. Vaughan, of St. John, New Brunswick, born April 27. 1819: children : iii. Charles Frank- lin, born December 8, 1843. iv. Elizabeth Hus- sey, born August 10, 1845 ; married Samuel T. Pickard. v. Alice Greenleaf, born February 19, 1848 ; married Wilbur Berry. 4. Elizabeth Hussey, born December 7, 1815, died at Ames- bury, September 3, 1864.


ANNE BRADSTREET.


Anne Bradstreet, distinguished as the earliest poet of her sex in America, though a native of England, was a person who by reputation and residence conferred honor upon the New England county of Essex, and is worthy of a brief notice in these pages. She was the daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley and the wife of Governor Simon Bradstreet. She was born in the year 1612-13, probably at North- ampton, England. Of her youth but little is known, and from what is left in her own writing leads to the belief that she was relig- iously brought up according to the Puritan standards of that time. When she was about sixteen she had the small pox. She was mar- ried at about that age, and came to this coun- try. Iler husband was the son of a minister of the nonconformist order in the old country. In 1635 she became a resident of Ipswich, but there are no particulars of importance regard- ing her stay in that town, and the exact year


when she removed to Andover is not known, but it is presumable that the latter removal was before the year 1644. The portion of the town where she settled was that now called by the name of North Andover. Her husband's house there was burned to the ground in July, 1666; and it is supposed to have been fol- lowed by a second, in which she died in Sep- tember, 1672. This house, which was the residence of her son, Dudley Bradstreet, is still standing.


Her poems were first published in London, in 1650, under the title of "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America." She appears to have had from her birth a very delicate constitution, and was troubled at one time with lameness and subject to frequent attacks of sickness, to fevers, and fits of fainting. She was the mother of eight children, four sons and four daughters, all but one of whom sur- vived her. Of her opinions, she regarded health as the reward of virtue, and her various maladies as tokens of the divine displeasure. She says her religious belief was at times shaken ; but she believed that her doubts and fears were exaggerated by her tender con- science. Her children were constantly in her mind ; and for them she committed to writing many of her thoughts and experiences, espec- ially religious. Her poetic similes refer much to domestic life and the bringing up of chil- dren, and among her own offspring she notes the most diverse traits of character ; some of them were obedient and easily governed, while others were unruly and headstrong. She derived satisfaction from the virtues of some, and deplored the failings of others. Her mar- ried life was happy, but she continuously dwelt in her thoughts on the great ills to which humanity is subject. By the burning of her house at Andover, in July, 1666, her papers, books, and other things of great value, were destroyed. Her son wrote that his father's loss by this fire was over eight hundred books, including those of the son and many of the son's clothes, in his case to at least the value of fifty or sixty pounds.


'Thus from what is derived from Mrs. Brad- street's works, one can see that the world of 1666 was not much different from that of 1908 in its experience of domestic trials. The fact of her being able to compose anything of a lit- crary order, was in her day a wonder com- pared with such things now. She was, how- ever, living in a new country, scarcely yet set- tled, and that she even was exposed to criti-


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cism on the part of her neighbors for studying and writing so much, is evident from these lines of hers :


"I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits."


She died of a consumption. and a statement of her sad condition in the last stages of the disease is preserved in the handwriting of her son. It is supposed, as her burial place is not known at Andover, that she may have been buried in her father's tomb at Roxbury.


In 1678, after her death, a second edition of her "Poems" was brought out in Boston. Her descendants have been very numerous, "and many of them have more than made up by the excellence of their writings for whatever beauty or spirit hers may have lacked." Among these were Dr. William E. Channing; Rev. Joseph Buckminster, of Portsmouth ; his son, Rev. J. S. Buckminster ; and his daughter, Mrs. Eliza B. Lee; Richard H. Dana, the poet, and his son R. H. Dana, Jr. ; Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes ; Wendell Phillips ; and Mrs. Eliza G. Thornton, of Saco, Maine, whose verses were once esteemed. Her husband mar- ried a second wife, and his death occurred at Salem, March 27, 1697, at the age of ninety- four.


An example of Mrs. Bradstreet's style in her lighter mood is given in some lines upon the burning of her house. July 10, 1666.


"When by the Ruines oft I past,


My sorrowing eyes aside did cast, And here and there the places spye Where oft I sate, and long did lye.


"Here stood that Trunk, and there that chest; There lay that store I counted best:


My pleasant things in ashes lye, And them behold no more shall I. Under thy roof no guest shall sitt, Nor at Thy Table eat a bitt.


"No pleasant tale shall 'ere be told Nor things recounted done of old. No Candle 'ere shall shine in Thee, Nor bridegroom's voice ere heard shall be. In silence ever shalt thou lye; Adieu, Adieu; All's vanity."


AUTHORITY .- "The Works of Anne Brad- street in Prose and Verse," edited by John Harvard Ellis. Charlestown: Abram E. Cut- ter. 1867.


ANCESTRY .- Thomas Dudley (1), Governor of Massachusetts, was born at Northampton, in England in 1576 or 1577 (the only son of Captain Roger Dudley, who was killed in bat- tle about 1586). He was thus early in life an orphan, having a sister, concerning whom, as


well as his mother, nothing is known. His mother was probably of a religious family and he became a noted Puritan. He was sent to school by a charitable lady, and while still young became a page in the family of William Lord Compton, afterwards Earl of Northamp- ton. The further career of Governor Thomas Dudley is a matter of general history. Chil- dren: I. Samuel, born in Northamptonshire, England, about 1610, died February 10, 1683. He was married three times, became the settled minister at Exeter, New Hampshire, and had in all eighteen children. He married first Mary, daughter of Governor John Winthrop; second, Mary Byley, sister of Henry Byley ; and third, Elizabeth -. 2. Anne, mar- ried Governor Bradstreet ; see forward. 3. Patience; died February 8, 1690; married Major-General Daniel Denison ; and had two children. 4. Sarah, baptized July 23, 1620, at Sempringham, England; died November 3, 1659; married before June 9. 1639, Benjamin Keayne, of Boston (son of Captain Robert Keayne) from whom she was divorced in 1647. and had a daughter named Anna, the wife of Edward Lane, and later of Nicholas Paige. The mother afterwards married Thomas Pacy. 5. Mercy, born September 27, 1621, died July 1, 1691 ; married Rev. John Woodbridge and had twelve children. 6. Dorothy ; died February 27, 1643. His first wife Dorothy, a gentlewoman of good family and estate, died December 27, 1643, and was buried in the family tomb at Roxbury. Her family name and pedigree have not been pre- served. She was sixty-one years old, and had had five children, one son and four daughters, all of whom married and had children before her decease. It is remarkable that so little should be definitely known concerning a family so distinguished.


By his second wife Governor Dudley had : 7. Deborah, born February 27, 1644-5; died unmarried, November 1, 1683. 8. Joseph, born September 23, 1647; died April 2, 1720. He married Rebecca, daughter of Edward Tyng, became Governor of Massachusetts, Lieuten- ant-Governor of the Isle of Wight, and first chief-justice of New York. He had thirteen children, one of whom, Paul, was attorney- general, and afterwards chief-justice of Mass- achusetts, fellow of the Royal Society, and founder of the Dudleian Lectures at Harvard College. 9. Paul, born September 8, 1650, died December 1, 1681 ; married Mary, daughter of Governor John Leverett, and had three chil- dren.


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(II) Anne ( Dudley) Bradstreet, the popu- lar poetess of her time, daughter of Thomas Dudley (I), was born 1612-13; was married when about sixteen to Simon Bradstreet, and died September 16, 1672. Eight children: I. Samuel, (H. C. 1653), and died August, 1682. He was in England, 1657-1661, a physician in Boston ; and removed afterwards to the island of Jamaica, where he died. He was twice mar- ried : first to Mercy, daughter of William Tyng by whom he had five children, only one of whom survived him, and second to a wife, whose name is unknown. Her three children were living with their grandfather Governor Bradstreet, at the time of the latter's death. 2. Dorothy, died February 26, 1672; inarried, June 25, 1654, Rev. Seaborn Cotton (son of Rev. John Cotton, of Boston) and, had nine children. Her husband was pastor of the church at Hampton, New Hampshire. 3. Sarah, married first Richard Hubbard, of Ipswich, by whom she had five children, and second Major Samuel Ward, of Marblehead. 4. Simon, born at Ipswich, September 28, 1640 (H. C., 1660), died 1683. Went to New London, Connecti- cut, in 1666, and was ordained pastor of the church there October 5, 1670 ; married, at New- bury, October 2, 1667, Lucy (his cousin), daughter of Rev. John Woodbridge, and had five children. 5. Hannah, died 1707 ; married, June 14, 1659, Andrew Wiggin, of Exeter, New Hampshire, and had five sons and five daughters. 6. Mercy, died October 5, 1715 (68th year ) ; married October 31, 1672, Major Nathaniel Wade, of Medford, and had eight children. 7. Dudley, born -, 1648, died November 13, 1702; married, November 12, 1673. Ann Wood, widow of Theodore Price. He was a prominent man in Andover, and had three children. 8. John, born July 22, 1652, died January II, 1718 ; married, June 11, 1677, Sarah, daughter of Rev. William Perkins. He was a resident of Topsfield, and had five chil- dren.


- MANASSEH CUTLER.


Manassch Cutler, third child and elder son of Hezekiah Cutler, a farmer of Killingly, Con- necticut, and grandson of John and Hannah (Snow ) Cutler, of Lexington, Massachusetts, and Killingly, was born in what is now Thomp- son, on May 28, 1742, and baptized on May 30 at the Thompson church. His mother was Susanna, daughter of Deacon Hanniel Clark, of Killingly. He was prepared for college by the Rev. Aaron Brown, of North Killingly.


During the winter after graduating he taught


school in Dedham, Massachusetts, where he became engaged to Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Balch, of that town, and of Mary (Sumner) Balch. He then accepted a proposal from an aunt of Miss Balch's who had been recently left a widow, to go to Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, and take charge of a business which she owned there.


On September 7, 1766, he was married, and at once removed to Edgartown, and continued as a merchant for three years. In the mean- time he was admitted to the bar, 1767, but sub- sequently he began the study of theology by himself, and in November, 1769, he removed with his family to Dedham, to continue his studies under his father-in-law's direction. In May, 1770, he was called to settle in Douglas, in Worcester county, where he had been preach- ing for some time, but this call he declined. In February, 1771, he began to preach in the Third Parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts, called Ipswich Mamlet, and in May he was invited to settle as their pastor. He accepted the call on June 9, and was ordained on September II, Mr. Balch preaching the sermon.


During the revolution his work was twice interrupted by invitations to serve in the army as chaplain ; and he was thus absent for four months in 1775, and for one month in 1778. In the latter part of 1778 he undertook the study of medicine with Dr. Elisha Whitney, one of his parishioners, and was able thereby to add somewhat to a scanty income. As early as his college days he had begun to take a deep interest in natural science, and about 1780 he applied himself especially to the study of botany, in which he became a proficient. From the time of his settlement in Ipswich he had had occasional pupils in his house, and in 1782 he opened a broading-school which was continued (except during temporary absences) with success for thirty-five years.


Owing to the difficulties of providing for his family, in the disturbed state of things after the revolution, he had serious thoughts of re- moving to the West ; and it thus came about that in March, 1786, he united with other Massachusetts citizens in the formation of the Ohio Company, to promote a settlement in the Western territory. He threw himself with such ardor into the business of securing subscrip- tions, that he was appointed at the annual meet- ing in March, 1787, one of three directors who were instructed to apply to Congress for the purchase of lands. His success in inducing Congress to pass the memorable ordinance under which the Northwest Territory was set-


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tled is a part of the history of the nation. For the next five or six years he was much engross- ed in promoting the development of the Ohio Company. In 1793 he was the chairman of a committee which obtained from the State gov- ernment the incorporation of Ipswich Hamlet as the town of Hamilton. He was an ardent Federalist, and as such was sent as a repre- sentative to the general court of Massachusetts in the spring of 1800. In November, 1800, he was elected a representative in the United States congress. He held this office for four years, and then declined a second re-election on account of long-continued and increasing ill- health. After his retirement he devoted him- self exclusively to his ministerial duties which he retained until his death.




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