Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 128

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986


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(VIII) Salem, third son of Elijah and Miriam (Lane) Towne, was born January 31, 1814, at Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and re- moved to New Hampshire. He married (first) Louise Cushing, April 14, 1840: (second) Sep- tember 23, 1873, Emily J. Carpenter. He had seven children by his first marriage and one by his second, as follows: Haskell C., born Au- gust 10, 1841 ; William E., born October I. 1843. died November 1I, 1897; Louisa M .. born December 25, 1847, died March 29, 1868; Malinda M., born May 22, 1850, died January 31, 1872; Miriam A., born February 14, 1853; Everett S., February 1I, 1860, died March II, 1887: Elmer E., born July 22, 1862, died No- vember 20, 1863 ; and William Elmer.


(IX) William Elmer, son of Salem and Emily J. (Carpenter) Towne, was born No-


vember 20, 1874, at Walpole, New Hamp- shire, where he received his education, and was engaged in literary work. After his mar- riage in 1900 he made his home in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He is an author and publish- er, also associate editor of The Nautilus, pub- lished by his wife, Elizabeth Towne. Mr. Towne publishes a quarterly known as Amer- ican New Thought. He married, May 26, 1900, Elizabeth Struble, daughter of John Halsey and Jane (Osborn) Jones, of Portland, Ore- gon.


Mrs. Elizabeth Towne was born in Port- land, Oregon, May 11, 1865, daughter of John Halsey and Jane C (Osborn) Jones, who were natives of Carthage, New York. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jones went to Port- land, Mr. Jones being one of the pioneers of 1852, and they lived there until their deaths, hers occurring in February, 1875, and his in March, 1906. Mrs. Towne was reared in Portland, and graduated from the grammar school with the class of 1879. She married (first) April 7, 1880, J. Holt Struble, of Port- land; children; Catherine Elizabeth Struble, married Edward H. Twing, of Holyoke; and Chester Holt Struble, living now in Oregon. In November, 1898, Mrs. Towne began the publication of the Nautilus, in Portland, and in May, 1900, she moved the magazine to Hol- yoke, Massachusetts, and since then, to No- vember, 1909, it has increased its circulation from 3,400 to 35,000. She is editor and pub- lisher of Nautilus, author of a dozen books, and publisher of her own and other works ; the sale of her books is large, one hundred thousand copies of one of her books having been sold. She also lectures on New Thought topics throughout the United States, being recognized everywhere as the leader of this movement, and her magazine being the lead- ing one on the subject.


Moody Fuller, the first of this FULLER family in Vermont, settled at Peacham, and was a substantial farmer. He had sons : Thomas, George, John, mentioned below.


(II) John, youngest son of Moody Fuller, was a farmer of Peacham. He married Mary Bean, a sister of Hon. Benjamin Moulton Bean, of New Hampshire. Children : I. Moody. 2. Hannah, married a Mr. Russell ; she died in January or February, 1887. 3. Samuel, removed to Ottumwa, Iowa, in the early sixties, where he spent the remainder of his life; reared a large family. 4. Abner.


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5. and 6. Porter and Harrison H., twins, born May 2, 1814: Harrison H. married, March 3, 1839, Arvilla Hill, born January 4, 1819; he died in Lowell, January 15, 1885. 7. Sarah Ann, born 1816, died July 1, 1882; married Corbin Gould. 8. and 9. Josiah B. and Mary Bean, twins, born 1818; Josiah B. is men- tioned below; Mary Bean married M. B. Chapman; she died at Salem, December 3, 1885. IO. and II. Caroline W. and Juliet W., twins, born August II, 1821; Caroline W. married, October 5, 1843, Parson C. Hill; she died April 1I, 1881; Juliet W., married Charles W. Winthrop ; she died September 2, 1862; he died April, 1887. John Fuller, the father of these children, died at Lowell, Mas- sachusetts, October 6, 1842, aged sixty-eight years, and his wife died May 31, 1841, aged sixty-eight years.


(III) Josiah B., son of John Fuller, was born at Peacham, Vermont, 1818, died Oc- tober 26, 1895. He was educated in the pub- lic schools, and followed farming on his father's place in his youth. He removed to Moultonborough, New Hampshire, thence to Lowell, Massachusetts, and in 1837 to Chico- pee, Massachusetts. He was foreman of a department in the Ames Manufacturing Com- pany at Chicopee during the civil war and af- terward until 1870. He was town overseer of the poor under the town charter ; highway surveyor at the same time; city almoner after Chicopee became a city, being the first town and city almoner, and he filled this important and difficult office with fidelity and zeal dur- ing the last eighteen years of his life; select- man of the town of Chicopee several years. He was a member of the Third Congregational Church; Chicopee Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. Of quiet tastes and domestic disposition, he devoted himself to his home and was not ambitious for higher political honors. He was respected by all who knew him and sincerely beloved by many friends. He married, at Chicopee, Massachusetts, El- len A. Smith, born November 5, 1822, died November 20, 1886, daughter of Jahleel and Mary Bliss (Chaffee) Smith, who were married in April, 1819; Jahleel Smith was born October 3, 1794, and his wife January 9, 1797. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Ful- ler was William Josiah, mentioned below.


(IV) William Josiah, only son of Josiah B. Fuller, was born at Chicopee, Massachu- setts, September 2, 1861, in the house opposite where he is now living. He attended the pub-


lic schools of Chicopee and took a three years' course in the high school; he graduated in the class of 1881 from the Springfield Institute. He started upon his business career as ship- ping clerk for the Holyoke Envelope Com- pany, and after eleven years in the employ of this concern spent two years in a similar posi- tion with the Springfield Envelope Company. Since 1894 he has been in business on his own account, fire insurance and real estate, located at 10 Center street, Chicopee, and has been notably successful. Since 1897 he has been a trustee of the Chicopee Savings Bank and he is also a member of the finance committee. He was one of the organizers of the Chicopee Co- Operative Bank and one of its auditors. He has been actively interested in municipal af- fairs for many years, and is a prominent Re- publican. He was elected mayor of the city of Chicopee in 1908 and has had a most suc- cessful and creditable administration. He is a member of the Chicopee Board of Trade, of which he was secretary during the first two years of its existence. He is a member of the Third Congregational Church, and from early youth has been active in the work of that so- ciety. Since 1896 he has been treasurer and member of the prudential committee, and in 1909 was chosen superintendent of the Sunday school. He is a member of Chicopee Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Springfield Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar ; Melha Tem- ple, Mystic Shrine, and other Masonic bodies, having taken the thirty-second degree, being member of Massachusetts Consistory of Bos- ton. He is also a member of St. John's Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Fuller married, June 30, 1891, Anna E. Crandell, born at Rochester, New York, March 9, 1864, daughter of Dr. William and Mary (Vosburgh) Crandell, of Palmyra, New York. Children: I. Mary Ellen Alice, born December 31, 1892, educated at public schools, now (1909) traveling in Europe. 2. Katherine Elizabeth, born November 28, 1900, student in public schools.


Bosworth is an ancient BOSWORTH English surname derived from a place name. The spelling is sometimes Boseworth and Boz- worth. Edward Bosworth, immigrant ances- tor, was born in England, and died on the ship "Elizabeth Dorcas," in 1634, on his way to


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New England. Being sick unto death as the ship neared Boston, the old record tells that he "was carried on deck that he might see Canaan, the promised land". He died soon afterward and was buried in Boston. He left a widow, and probably five or six children. His widow died at Hingham, May 18, 1648. July 1, 1635, the general court voted that Mr. Henry Sewall should be paid for the trans- portation of the family by Jonathan and Ben- jamin Bosworth and William Buckland. Among his children were: I. Edward Jr., one of the founders of Hull, Massachusetts. 2. Jonathan, mentioned below. 3. Benjamin, born 1615, in England, settled at Hingham, Massachusetts. 4. Nathaniel, died August 13, 1693 ; joined with his brother Benjamin in making a draft on Joseph Bosworth, of Cov- entry, England, a shoemaker by trade, perhaps an elder brother ; Nathaniel settled at Hull.


(II) Jonathan, son of Edward Bosworth, was born in England, perhaps at Coventry, where he had relatives, about 1611. He was a proprietor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1633, and was a tailor by trade. He deposed June 4. 1639, that he was twenty-six years old. He removed to Hingham about 1637, when he owned a house lot of two acres granted that year on Bachelor ( Main) street, not far from the corner of what is now South street. He removed to Swansea about 1660, and died there, being buricd July 16, 1676. While liv- ing in Swansea his name was always spelled Bozworth, and the spelling continued for sev- cral generations in somc branches of the fam- ily. He married Susannah It is im- possible to give a list of his children that is unquestionably correct. The list given below was mainly from the Hingham baptisms. Children, with dates of baptism: I. Jonathan, mentioned below. 2. Rebecca, February, 1641. 3. Bethia, January, 1644. 4. Bcnja- min, April, 1647. 5. Mchitable. 6. Mary, July 29, 1649. 7. Nathanicl, July 29, 1649, settled at Rehoboth. 8. Jeremiah, July 29, 1649. 9. Hannah, July 16, 1650. 10. Dcliv- erance, August 4, 1650. 11. Joseph, June 6, 1652; settled at Rchoboth. 12. Belany, No- vember 3, 1654. 13. Edward. 14. Bridget. (These 14 children given in Mitchell's Bridge- water. )


(II1) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1) Bosworth, was born at Cambridge or Hing- ham, about 1638-40. He removed from Hing- ham to Swansea with his father, and about 1680 to Rehoboth. Hc married, at Swansca, July 6, 1661, Hannah, daughter of John How-


land, who came in the "Mayflower" as steward for Mr. John Carver, and signed the compact and took an active part in the early explora- tions. He settled at Plymouth and was a town officer and a partner in the trading company of the colony ; was prominent in the church and assisted in the ordination of Rev. John Cotton Jr .; married Elizabeth, daughter of John Tillie. Mr. Howland died February 23, 1672-3; "a profitable instrument of good; the last man that was left of those that came over in the ship called the May Flower that arrived in Plymouth". In his will he mentions daugh- ter Hannah. May 8, 1708, Bosworth deeded land in Swansea to his son David of Plymouth, for love and affection (Bristol county deeds, book I0, p. 707). Bosworth was buried in Rehoboth in 1687. His wife died at Swansea in 1687. Children. born at Swansea : I. Mercy, May 30, 1662. 2. Hannah, November 5, 1663. 3. Elizabeth, June 6, 1665 : died July 31, 1676. 4. Jonathan, December 24, 1666; died 1680, at Rehoboth. 5. David, September 15, 1670. 6. John. April 6, 1671 ; mentioned below. 7. Jabez, February 14, 1673. 8. Ichabod, March 18, 1676. 9. Jonathan, September 22, 1680.


(IV) John, son of Jonathan (2) Bos- worth, was born in Swansea April 6, 1671. He married there, June 16, 1702, Elizabetli, born September 25, 1682, daughter of Na- thanicl and Elizabeth Toogood. John was surveyor of highways in Barrington, Rhode


Island, then in Massachusetts, in 1719. His estate was partitioned March 2, 1724-25. (vol. 5, page 135). He is buried in the 100 cove cemetery at Rehoboth, and his grave is marked by a good stone. Children: Na- thaniel, mentioned below; John; David; Oliver. 5. Elizabeth, born at Swansea, April 30, 1703 ; married Jolin Thomas. 6. Mary. 7. Hannah. 8. Lydia.


(V) Nathanicl, son of John Bosworth, was born in Swansca, in 1709, and (lied in 1807, at Sandisfield, Massachu- setts. A Nathanicl Bosworth of Rehoboth married (intention datcd June 1738) Janc Brown, of Barrington. Hc and his brother David removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, about 1733, as shown by various deeds. Na- thaniel married at Lebanon, in 1733. Bcthia Hinckley. According to the account book of Thomas Newcomb (Gen. Reg. July, 1877) lie was there front 1735 to 1738. In 1780 he removed to Sandisfield, Massachusetts, and he was one of the founders of the church thicre. His wife died in 1749. She was born in 1713. daughter of Gershom and Mary (Burt)


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Hinckley. Gershom Hinckley was born in 1682, and died in 1774, son of John, (born July 26, 1694, died 1709) and Bethia (Lothrop) Hinckley (born September 29, 1699) ; grand- son of Samuel Hinckley, the immigrant, who died in 1662, and his wife Sarah; also grand- son of Thomas Lothrop. Thomas Lothrop married Sarah (Larnard) Ewer, widow of Thomas Ewer, December 11, 1639; his father, Rev. John Lothrop, minister at Egerton, Eng- land, and Barnstable, Massachusetts, was one of the greatest men of the Puritan church in the first generation in New England. Sam- uel Hinckley, of Scituate, came from England with his wife Sarah in the ship "Hercules" of Sandwich, from Tenterden, county Kent.


(VI) Jabez, son of Nathaniel Bosworth, was born in Connecticut, in 1742, and died at Sandisfield, in 1827. He settled in Sandis- field, before the revolution. He was a cor- poral in Captain Jacob Brown's company, Colonel John Fellow's regiment, which marched April 21, 1775, in response to the Lexington alarm, serving fifteen days; also sergeant in Captain Kasson's company, Col- onel Israel Chapin's regiment, three months, serving at Claverack and along the Hudson; also sergeant in Captain Samuel Walcott's company, Colonel John Brown's regiment (Berkshire county), June and July, 1777, re- inforcing northern army. He married Re- becca Moody. Children, Ichabod, Bethia, Os- mon, Amos, Jabez, Stephen, Roswell; (names copied from Jabez Bosworth's will 4692, at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.


(VII) Ichabod, son of Jabez Bosworth, was born December 25, 1765, and died Janu- ary 15, 1837. He was a farmer in Otis, Mas- sachusetts, living at the intersection of the town lines of Otis, Tyringham and Monterey. He married, February 4, 1790, at New Marl- borough, Lucretia Harmon, born April 5, 1770, at New Marlborough, died April 26, 1833, daughter of Jonathan and Lucretia (Bosworth) Harmon. Her father was born July, 1744, and died August 7, 1828; was a soldier in the revolution, private in Captain Zenas Wheeler's company, Colonel John Ash- ley's regiment, July and August, 1777, marching to Fort Edward, New York. His wife Lucretia died at New Marlborough, April 24, 1817, aged sixty-six years. Samuel and De- borah (Winchell) Harmon were the parents of Jonathan Harmon and Nathaniel and Mary (Skinner) Harmon, and Joseph and Sarah (Taylor) Winchell, his grandparents. John and Elizabeth Harmon were parents of Na-


thaniel Harmon. The Harmon family lived in Suffield, Connecticut.


(VIII) Lyman, son of Ichabod Bosworth, was born December 31, 1790, at Otis, Massa- chusetts, and died there May 9, 1875. He was a prosperous farmer. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. His house stood until 1907. He married Sarah Waite, born September II, 1799; (see Waite). Children. Henry Wilder and Homer L. Bosworth, of Springfield, Mas- sachusetts ; Mary E., (wife of Major William Streeter, of Rochester, New York) ; Charles R., of Melksham, England; George L., of Tyringham.


(IX) Hon. Henry Wilder Bosworth, son of Lyman Bosworth, was born April 2, 1832, in Otis, Berkshire county, Massachusetts. He spent his early years on his father's farm and attended the district schools. He fitted for college at the New York Conference Seminary at Charlotteville, New York, a large and flour- ishing institution of the Methodist denomina- tion. He expected to enter the junior class in Yale College, but had trouble with his eyes and was obliged to abandon a college course. He returned to Otis, and in 1860 was elected representative to the general court from the district consisting of Otis, New Marlborough and Sandisfield. He served on the committee on valuation and took part in the legislative action of that first critical year of the civil war. Early in his administration, President Lincoln appointed John Z. Goodrich, of Stockbridge, collector of the port of Boston, and soon afterward Mr. Bosworth was ap- pointed an inspector in the Boston custom house, where he worked for three years. He was for a time in the office of the Fifth Audi- tor of the United States Treasury Depart- ment.


After the civil war he returned to Otis and took up the study of law. He applied himself closely, and at the end of six months passed a special examination with great credit, and was admitted to the Hampden county bar in 1866, in Lenox. He opened an office in Springfield, and in 1867 went into partnership with William S. Greene, and the partnership continued until the death of Mr. Greene in 1878. During the next five years he practiced law in Springfield without a partner, then for six years was in partnership with Charles H. Barrows. In 1885 Governor George D. Ro- binson appointed Mr. Bosworth one of the special justices of the Springfield police court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Major Samuel B. Spooner. In December,


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1889, by appointment of Governor Oliver Ames, Judge Bosworth succeeded Hon. Gideon Wells as judge of the Springfield police court. He was succeeded as special justice by Hon. Charles L. Long. At the age of seventy-seven, Judge Bosworth continues to administer justice in the local court. His kindly disposi- tion, judicial temperament, common sense and uniformly good judgment have made his ca- reer on the bench notable. As a lawyer and magistrate Judge Bosworth ranks high, not only in the opinion of the lawyers of the coun- ty, but of the whole community. He is a Re- publican in politics, and has always taken a lively interest in political affairs. Though one of the most active and influential men he has not sought public office for himself. Many men in public life in this section owe much to Judge Bosworth's hearty and generous sup- port. Since coming to Springfield, Judge Bos- worth has attended the South Congregational Church. He is a member of The Club, of Springfield, a literary organization. He has an attractive residence on Lincoln street, Springfield. He married, March 8, 1866, Mary E. Hall, daughter of Reverend Thomas A. Hall, of Otis (see Hall). Children : Henry H. and Charles W., both mentioned below.


(X) Henry H. Bosworth, son of Hon. Henry W. Bosworth, was born in Springfield, March 16, 1868, He attended the Barrows School in Springfield, graduating in 1879, and entered the high school at the age of eleven, graduating in the class of 1885. During his course he went abroad, visiting for a time his uncle, Homer L. Bos- worth, then in business in Chippenham, Eng- land. He entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1889. He read law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1892. He is an active Republican in politics, and in 1897-98, with Albert T. Folsom, of Hampden, represented the fourth representative district in the gen- eral court. He served on the committee on taxation, the labors of which were particularly onerous and important during that year, and was chairman of the committee on counties. He was a member of the board of aldermen in IGOT-OT. He was secretary of the Ward Five Club, secretary and president of the Spring- field Improvement Association ; and is a mem- ber of the Country, Winthrop, Saturday Night and Realty Clubs. He attends the South Con- gregational Church. He is a director and vice- president of the Springfield Metal Body Com-


pany. He married, June 21, 1898, Grace Sherman Wright, daughter of Andrew J. and Mary Jane (Case) Wright. Her father was president of the Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Springfield, a prominent figure in his day in the insurance world.


(X) Charles W. Bosworth, son of Hon. Henry W. Bosworth, was born in Springfield, August 28, 1871. He attended the public schools, and was valedictorian of the class of 1888, Springfield high school. He was gradu- ated from Yale College with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1893, and immediately began to read law in his father's office. In June, 1894, he was admitted to the bar of Hampden county, and engaged in the practice of law. Since 1898 he has been referee in bankruptcy for Hampden county under the federal law. He was elected president of the Union Trust Company of Springfield at the time of its incorporation in 1906. This institution has ab- sorbed the First National Bank, the Second National Bank, the John Hancock National Bank, the City National Bank, and the Hamp- den Trust Company. He continues the gen- eral practice of the law. He was special coun- sel of the city of Springfield in the matter of the Springfield river front improvement. He is a director of the Union Trust Company ; the Hartford Carpet Company of Thompsonville, Connecticut ; the Springfield Street Railway Company ; thrustee of the Springfield Street Railways, a holding company, and of the Springfield Cemetery Association. In politics he is a Republican. He is owner of the Maple Grove Farm at Walpole, New Hamp- shire, where he spends his vacations.


(The Waite Line).


(I) Thomas Wait, immigrant ancestor, was born in 1601, and died in 1677. He resided in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1639.


(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) Wait, lived in Newport, and died in 1732. He married Sarah, daughter of John and Mary (Borden) Cook.


(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Wait, was born December 21, 1681, and died in 1767. He married Elizabeth


(IV) Joseph, son of Thomas (3) Wait, was born January 10, 1715, and married Eliz- abeth


(V) Elverton, fourth child of Joseph Wait, was born in East Greenwich, Rhode Island (Coventry ), September 14, 1743. He married (first) December 20, 1761, Margaret Whit- ford, born May 10, 1744, daughter of Robert


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and Margaret (Fones) Whitford, of North Kingston, Rhode Island, granddaughter of Samuel and Meribah Fones, and great-grand- daughter of John and Ann Fones. He mar- ried (second) Zipporah


(VI) John, son of Elverton Waite, was born October 22, 1766, and died at Winsted, Connecticut, February 2, 1835. He married, in July, 1790, Sarah Wilder, born October 19, 1762, died June 8, 1841, youngest daugh- ter of Joseph and Hannah Wilder. Her father was born January 1, 1725, and died January 3, 1816; he lived in East Haddam, adjoining Lyme, Connecticut, and in 1763 removed to Barkhamstead, where he was justice of the peace and representative to the general court; he was son of Jonas and Eunice (Beaman) Wilder. Jonas Wilder was born in Lancaster November 16, 1699, and died 1797; removed to Lyme in 1733, to Hartland in 1760, where he was a farmer and leading citizen ; married Eunice Beaman, who died 1731. He was son of John and Sarah (Sawyer) Wilder, grand- son of John and Hannah Wilder, and great- grandson of Thomas and Anna Wilder, the immigrants. Children of John and Sarah


Waite :


I. Margaret, born May 17, 1793;


married Wentworth, of Winsted, Con-


necticut. 2. Anne, born April 2, 1796; mar- ried Bezaleel Adams, of Hartford. 3. Sarah, born September II, 1799; died September 27, 1853; married Lyman Bosworth (see Bos- worth). 4. Robey, born. November 2, 1802; married Morgan Lewis, of Hartford. 5. Mary, born March 26, 1805; married Starkweather, of Hartford.


(The Hall Line).


(I) John Hall, immigrant ancestor, died in Coventry July 23, 1696.


(II) Deacon John (2), son of John (I) Hall, was born in 1637, and died October 24, 1710. He married Priscilla Bearse, born March 10, 1644, died March 30, 1712, daugh- ter of Austin Bearse.


(III) Deacon Joseph, son of Deacon John (2) Hall, was born September 29, 1663, and died January 29, 1736. He married Mary, daughter of Joseph and Judith (Richard) Faunce, granddaughter of John and Patience (Morton) Faunce, and widow of John Mor- ton.


(IV) John (3), son of Deacon Joseph Hall, was born January 30, 1716, and died Janu- ary II, 1792. He married (second) July 9, 1752, Elizabeth Sears, died in 1778.


(V) Ebenezer, son of John (3) Hall, was born March 21, 1759. He married Lydia El- dredge, born September 21, 1760.


(VI) Ebenezer Hall, son of Ebenezer Hall, was born May 27, 1788, and died about 1823. He married Margaret (Peggy) Washburn.


(VII) Thomas A., son of Ebenezer Hall, was born September 2, 1813. He graduated from Williams College in 1838, as second scholar in his class. He married Mary L. Strong (see Strong). Their daughter, Mary E. Hall, married Henry W. Bosworth (see Bosworth ).




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