Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 104

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886


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Maine, in 1881, Rev. J. Benson Hamilton being pastor at that time. She is a member of Key- stone Chapter, No. 18, Massachusetts Division, Order of the Eastern Star ; Bunker Hill Chap- ter, Daughters of the American Revolution, since June 7, 1899. Her mother, Elizabeth (Warren) Murray, is one of the oldest mem- bers of this chapter. In April, 1909, Mrs. Furber was chosen as a delegate to the eighteenth continental congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, held at Washington, District of Columbia. Children : I. Edith Lillian, born June 21, 1884; studied three years in the New England Conservatory of Music and a year in the Emerson School of Oratory, taking the course in voice and physical culture ; member of Keystone Chapter, No. 18, Order of the Eastern Star, serving in the office of "Adah" in the chapter in 1907-08; married, June 18, 1907, Richard Gardner Hartshorn, of Wake- field, Massachusetts, son of Joseph K. and Ida (Coffin) Hartshorn, of Salem. 2. Mabelle Laura, February 1, 1889; graduate of Brook- line high school, 1907; studying music under the private tutorship of Mrs. Bosworth, of Boston. Both daughters are members of St. Mark's Methodist Church in Brookline, teach- ers in the Sunday school and very active in all church work.


(The Murray Line).


No family of Scotland has had a more dis- tinguished record than that of Murray. The family is said by good authority to be of Flem- ish origin. As early as the year 1250 the sur- name was common in several counties of Scot- land, and at an ancient date branches were found in the counties of Fife, Forfar, Peebles, Dumfries, Selkirk, Wigton, Edinburgh, Lanark, Perth, Stirling and Linlithgow. Among the titles and honors possessed by the Murray fam- ily of Scotland may be mentioned : The Duke- dom of Athol and Marquis; the earldoms of Annandale, Athol, Dunmore, Dysart, Mansfield, Strathern and Tullibardine; viscountcies of Amnan, Fincastle, Glendhuard, Peebles and Stormont ; lordships of Balvand, Bothwell, Cockpool, Elibank, Huntingtower, Lochmaben and Scoon. Although there are forty-seven coats-of-arms borne by the Murray family of Scotland and England, many are very similar, evidently elaborations of the oldest armorial : Azure three stars or. Various branches of the Scotch and Scotch-Irish Murray family settled in Maine. In 1790 Nathan and Samuel Murray had families at Berwick, York county, Maine ;


Anthony Murray and his family lived at Gor- ham, and William and John Murray at Shap- leigh.


(1) Trueworthy Murray, of Scotch ances- try, probably of the Berwick family, settled in Waterville, formerly Winslow, Maine. He had children : William, Aie, Ira, Dollie, Jerry M .. Keziah, Hezekiah.


(II) Hezekiah, son of Trueworthy Murray, was born in what is now Brunswick, Maine. He married Elizabeth Warren, daughter of Nathaniel Warren (see Warren, V). Chil- dren : I. Angeline, born August 28, 1842 ; mar- ried (first) George S. Morrill ; married ( sec- ond) Herbert A. Wentworth; no children. 2. Frances Ann, born August 11, 1844; married Alonzo W. Sturges ; children: Ralph Alonzo and Leigh Francis. 3. Jennie, born February 28, 1846; married Charles E. Fogg; child, Fannie. 4. Olivett, born March, 1848; mar- ried William H. Merrill ; children: Frank and Flora. 5. Jerry B., born April II, 1850. 6. Josephine Fuller, born July 20, 1852; married Charles A. Fogg; children: George, Clara Walter, Alice May. 7. Franklin P., born No- vember 22, 1854. 8. John Martin Robbins born June 13, 1856; married Annie Partridge ; children: One who died in infancy, Daisy, Frank. 9. Lizzie Ella, born November 25, 1858; married, November 30, 1882, Oscar E. Furber (see Furber, VIII). 10. Dora Ada, born October 22, 1860; married Lincoln Mower; child, Isla M. II. Clara Ellen, born February 16, 1862; married F. Farris White ; children : Ethel, Louis, Ralston, Pearl, Mar- ion. Gladys, Joseph Spencer.


(The Warren Line).


The surname Warren is derived from Gar- enne or Varenne, a small river in the old coun- ty of Calais or Caux in Normandy, which gave its name to the neighboring commune and is only a few miles from Dieppe. There is at present a village called Garenne in the same district and it is here that the origin of the family has been fixed by historians. On the west side of the river Garenne was the ancient baronial seat of the de Warrennes and some of the ruins were standing in 1832. The sur- name has assumed different forms from time to time-Gareyn, Wareyn, Waryn, Warin, Warynge, Waryng and Warren.


The ancestors of perhaps all the English, Scotch and Irish families of Warren was Will- iam de Warrenne, who came to England with William the Conqueror, and was related to him both by marriage and descent. He had


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a considerable command at the battle of Hast- ings and on account of his valor and fidelity obtained immense grants of land from the Con- queror. He had lands in Shropshire, Essex, Suffolk, Oxford, Hants, Cambridgeshire, Bucks, Huntingdon, Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Lincoln and Yorks, amounting in all, according to Hume, to three hundred lordships. He became the first Earl of Warren and Surrey. His wife Gundreda, daughter of William I., and a descendant of Charlemagne, died May 27, 1085, and was buried in the chapter-house of the Priory of Lewes, county Sussex. Her tombstone is still in existence. The earl died June 24, 1088. His epitaph has been preserved, though the gravestone is lost or destroyed. In 1845 the coffers containing the bones of the earl and countess were disinterred and are now in the church of St. John the Baptist, South- over. The history of the Warren family has been written and is exceeded in interest and antiquity by none in England.


The family described in this sketch were, according to tradition, of a Scotch family. The Scotch Warrens were descended from the Yorkshire, England, branch of the descend- ants of the Earl. The earls of Warren and Surrey held much landed property in York- shire after the conquest and they built Con- ingsburgh Castle and founded the Priory of Coningsburgh, which was connected with the mother house of Lewes Priory. The coat-of- arms of the Yorkshire family of Warren is: Chequy or and azure on a bend gules three leopards rampant of the first. The prominence of the Warren family is shown, it should be said, by the fact that twenty Warren families of Ireland possess coats-of-arms and forty or more in England. There are no armorial fam- ilies in Scotland, according to Burke, though doubtless many descendants have lived there from time to time. General Joseph Warren, the hero of Bunker Hill, born 1741, son of Joseph, born 1696, grandson of Joseph, born 1663, and great-grandson of Peter, of Boston, born 1628, is not known to be related to the family of this sketch, though tradition tells us that there was some connection. The relation- ship is probably very distant.


(I) James Warren, immigrant ancestor, was born in England or Scotland, and tradition says that he was among the prisoners that Cromwell sent to New England after his vic- tory over the royal troops at Dunbar in the north. James Warren settled in Kittery, Maine, in the upper part of the town, now South Berwick, before 1656. He had several iv-56


grants of land and held various town offices. He was selectman several years. His will was dated December 9, 1700, and proved Decem- ber 24, 1702. His wife Margaret was a native of Ireland. Her will was dated December 13, 1712, and proved October 15, 1713. Children : I. Gilbert, born 1656. 2. James, 1658; men- tioned below. 3. Margaret, 1660. 4. Grisel, March 6, 1662. 5. Jane.


(II) James (2), son of James (1) Warren, was born in 1658, and inherited the homestead in Kittery. He served as selectman of the town in 1701-02-03, and held other town offices. In 1713 he was one of a committee of six to treat with a like committee of Kit- tery on the division between the towns. In 1719 he was appointed a surveyor to run the division line. He married, in 1691, Mary Foss, daughter of John and Elizabeth Foss or Frost, of Dover, New Hampshire. Children: I. Mary, born February 23, 1692. 2. Margaret, November 5, 1694. 3. James, January 9, 1698. 4. Rachel, August 26, 1700; died September 13. 1703. 5. Gilbert, April 30, 1703. 6. John, mentioned below.


(III) John, son of James (2) Warren, was born December 16, 1705. He lived in Berwick, and owned considerable real estate. His house was standing in 1898. He was a member of the grand jury, and at the inferior court at York in 1730-37, and held various offices in Berwick up to 1762. His will was proved February 24, 1769. He married Mary Heard, born June 10, 1709, daughter of Tristram and Abigail Heard, granddaughter of the immi- grant John and Elizabeth Heard, of Dover. New Hampshire. John Heard was of the Dover combination in 1640 and Tristram in- herited the garrison house of his father at Garrison Hill, Dover, saved by Elder William Wentworth in the massacre of 1689. Children : I. John, born March 5, 1731. 2. Tristram. 3. Nathaniel. 4. Ichabod, March 14, 1736. 5. Pelatiah, mentioned below. 6. Kezia, married, May 28, 1747, Alexander Grey. 7. Margaret, married Thomas Frost. 8. Mary, married, August 29, 1765,


(IV) Pelatiah, son of John Warren, was born in Berwick, Maine, and was not of age when his father made his will in 1768. He settled in Royalsborough, now Durham, Maine, and was a blacksmith and farmer. He served in the revolution, was at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was in Captain John Lane's company. enlisted from North Yarmouth, July 29, 1775. discharged November 1, 1775. He probably re-enlisted, as he is accredited in a list of pen-


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sioners from Royalsborough. He lost an eye in the service. He removed to Monmouth, Maine, in 1797. He married, June 18, 1777, Sarah Parker, in old North Yarmouth. Chi !- dren: I. Rebecca, born March 24, 1778. 2. William (twin), September 2, 1779. 3. Na- thaniel (twin), September 2, 1779, mentioned below. 4. Pelatiah, June 21, 1781. 5. Sarah, August 23, 1783. 6. Samuel, March 29, 1786. 7. Lydia, May 9, 1789. 8. Sabina, June 9, 1791. (V) Nathaniel, son of Pelatiah Warren, was born at Durham, Maine, September 2, 1779. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He married Prudence Ann Jordan. Children : I. Patience, born November 4, 1819. 2. Eliza- beth, born September 28, 1823 ; married Heze- kiah Murray (see Murray, II).


( II) Isaac Fowle, son of George FOWLE Fowle (q. v.), born at Charles- town, 1648, died there October 15, 1718, in his seventieth year (gravestone). Married, November 30, 1671, Beriah Bright, born at Watertown, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 22, 1649, youngest daughter of Henry and Ann ( Goldstone) Bright. Henry Bright was one of the leading citizens of Watertown, a deacon of the church, selectman, and was de- scended from a distinguished English family. Isaac Fowle was admitted freeman May 3, 1676. In that year, with his brother Zechariah, he served in King Philip's war, and was after- wards a lieutenant in a military company at Charlestown. His will, dated December 4. 1717, probated November 9, 1718, bequeathed ment of all his estate, real and personal, so long as she should remain his widow. His wife and son Henry were appointed executors. Henry died about 1724, and she died, as Isaac's widow, at Charlestown, October 7, 1734, leav- ing a will bequeathing her estate to the six children of her daughter, Abigail (Fowle) Smith. Beriah Fowle was taxed in Charles- town in 1721 and 1729-34. Children, born at Charlestown : 1. Abigail, June 16, 1674, died there young, drowned in well, August 26, 1677. 2. Isaac, August 31, 1676, see forward. 3. Abigail, August 7, 1679, died 1730; married. 1699 or 1700, Captain William Smith, born at Charlestown, March 24, 1666-67, died there June 3, 1730. 4. Henry, April 3, 1686, died about 1724; married, September 3, 1715, Bethia Stimpson, born at Charlestown, March 16, 1680-90, died there August 20, 1744, daugh- ter of Andrew and Abigail (Sweetser) Stimp- son, of Charlestown. She married (second ).


May 10, 1732, Captain Henry Davis, mariner, of Charlestown, and survived him. 5. Bright (son), February 16, 1689-90, died there Sep- tember 11, 1690.


Captain William Smith, who married Abi- gail Fowle, was a wealthy shipmaster and merchant of Charlestown. They had a son, Isaac Smith, born 1719, died 1787, who was one of the wealthiest merchants of Boston and the largest ship owner of his day. He was a liberal contributor of funds to carry on the revolu- tion. He married Elizabeth Storer. William Smith, son of Isaac Smith, born 1755, Har- vard College graduate, 1775, was also a mer- chant of Boston and was a soldier of the revolution. He married Hannah Carter, of Newburyport, and they were parents of Thomas Carter Smith, who became a sea captain, was treasurer of the Lewis Wharf Corporation of Boston, 1842 to 1880, and well-known as a mian of strong character. Captain William and Abigail ( Fowle) Smith had another son, Rev. William Smith, graduated from Harvard Col- lege, 1725. for nearly half a century pastor of the church at Weymouth, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel John Quincy, of Mt. Wollaston, Massachusetts, a direct descendant of Rev. Thomas Shepard, the eminent Puritan divine of Cambridge, and a great-grandniece of the Puritan preacher. Rev. John Norton, of the Hingham meeting- house, Boston. Rev. William and Elizabeth (Quincy ) Smith had a daughter Abigail who became the wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams. The


to his widow Beriah the full and sole improve- . above shows that she was great-granddaughter,


through her father, of Isaac and Beriah ( Bright ) Fowle.


(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (I) and Ber- iah ( Bright) Fowle, was born at Charlestown, August 31. 1676. Married, December 1, 1698, Rebecca Burroughs. Children: 1. Isaac, born at Charlestown, August 5, 1699; married, at Boston, March 15, 1722-23, Ellen Bridge, born at Boston, August 6, 1702, daughter of Sam- nel and Christian Bridge. They lived in Bos- ton and were members of the First Church, of which Rev. Thomas Foxcroft was then pas- tor. He performed the marriage ceremony for them, and upon the records of this church are the baptisms of seven sons and nine daughters born to them during the years 1724 to 1747. both inclusive. Isaac Fowle was a cooper. 2. Nathaniel. born at Charlestown, March (bap- tized 15) 1701-02. 3. Henry, born at Charles- town, February 15. 1703-04, died in infancy. 4. Henry, born at Charlestown. September 7.


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1707, see forward. 5. Rebecca, born at Charles- town, September 1, 1709.


(IV) Henry, son of Isaac (2) and Ellen ( Bridge) Fowle, was born at Charlestown, September 7. 1707. died at Medford, Massa- chusetts, May 11, 1756. Married ( first) Janu- ary 29, 1736, at Medford, Sarah Peirce, of Medford, who died there March 7, 1736-37, aged twenty-seven years. Married (second) March 6, 1738, Dorothy Secomb, born at Med- ford, January 24. 1715-16, died there May 5. 1791, daughter of Richard and Anne Secomb. Children, all born at Medford, the first by wife Sarah and the remainder by wife Dorothy: I. Sarah. October 26, 1736; married, at Medford, December 13, 1757, James Webber. 2. Doro- thy, July 4, 1739; married at Medford, Decem- ber 16, 1765. Samuel Whitmarsh. 3. Henry, March 15, 1740-41. died at Medford, June 13, 1810: married (first) at Medford, January 8, 1765-66, Mary Patten, died July 14, 1778, at Medford, aged thirty-two years; (second) at Medford, November 28, 1782, Rebecca How- ard, died at Medford, August 1, 1810, less then two months after the death of her husband, aged fifty-six years. Henry Fowle was a tailor. 4. Rebecca, March 30, 1743 ; married at Med- ford, May 12, 1763, John Raymond. 5. Isaac, June 22, 1745. 6. Ann, March 22, 1746-47; married at Boston, May 19, 1768, Captain John Skillings. 7. Nathaniel, January 5, 1749-50: married Rhoda Clapp. 8. Jonathan, see for- ward.


(V) Jonathan, son of Henry and Dorothy (Secomb) Fowle, was born at Medford, Mass- achusetts, January 1, 1752, died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, November. 1828. Married Sarah (Sally) Makepeace, born at Norton, Massachusetts, December 14, 1760, died at West Roxbury, now that part of Boston called Jamaica Plain, December 14, 1799, on the thirty-ninth anniversary of her birthday, and the same day that President George Washing- ton died. She was daughter of Captain George Makepeace, of Norton, who married Sarah Pearson, of Norton, May 12, 1757, when she' was at the age of only fifteen years one month sixteen days. Captain Makepeace was a prom- inent citizen of Norton, where he filled some of the most important and responsible offices, including that of town treasurer in 1772. About the commencement of the revolutionary war he removed to Boston, was a captain in that war, and is spoken of as a brave and energetic officer. There is a muster roll at the State House, Boston, of Captain George Makepeace's company. Colonel John Daggett's regiment.


that marched December 8, 1776, on an alarm in Rhode Island, and another of a company which he commanded in Colonel George Will- iams's regiment, that marched October 13, 1777, to Tiverton, in Rhode Island. When first in Boston he had a grist mill on Mill creek at the north end. In 1777 he bought "a certain house on the Town Dock" near his mill, and in 1782 and again in 1794 bought land near the drawbridge by Mill creek. For a number of years he was engaged quite largely in com- mercial business on Long Wharf, and was at one time one of the largest traders at the West Indies. During the depredations of the French on our commerce he was one of the largest suf -. ferers, having had several very valuable vessels and cargos taken. After these severe losses he removed in 1802 from Boston to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he owned mills called "Fide Mills," which he carried on for a num- ber of years, removing in 1815 to Charlestown, where he spent the remainder of his days in a spacious and elegant mansion which he owned. He died there in October, 1819, aged eighty- five years, and his wife died there ten years later. April 9, 1829, at the age of eighty-seven years.


Jonathan Fowle was a coach or chaisemaker in Boston, one of the most prominent and reputable in this line of business, and there is evidence in the amount of real estate which he owned at various times and the inventory of his estate after his death that he accumu- lated considerable property and was a very well-to-do man for his times. According to the first national tax census in 1798, he owned three shops and twenty-six hundred feet of land on the corner of Water and Leverett (now Congress) streets, assessed at $5,500, also a house and two thousand and sixty-four feet of land on the south side of Milk street, at that portion which is now Post Office Square. This was his homestead, and the house must have been quite pretentious, as it is described as a wooden dwelling containing nine hundred and sixty square feet, three stories, twenty-four windows, and valued at $2,500. He also owned a twenty-three acre tract of land on Washington and Amory streets, West Roxbury, where he bought a summer home in which he resided all the year round after he retired from business. He sold this place about 1824 and removed to Cambridge. Massachusetts. It was in the West Roxbury home that his wife died in 1799, and a portion of this house is still in existence. Mr. Fowle purchased this tract of land in 1790 for $3, 100,


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and since then one-half of it has brought $90,- 000. The land now occupied by the Notre Dame Academy, opposite Townsend street, was a part of this tract, and the well-known Amory Grove is also a portion of it. Many apple trees on this estate were set out by Jon- athan Fowle and his son, George M. Fowle, and were more than one hundred years old when cut down in 1909. Among the papers of General William Hull, of Boston, after his death, was found the following receipt: "Bos- ton, March 16, 1781. Received of Col. Wm. Hull, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars for a chaise and harness. Jonathan Fowle." After removing to Cambridge, Jon- athan Fowle made a will dated August 20 1824, which is on file with quite a number of other probate papers connected with it, at the East Cambridge registry of deeds. The in- ventory of his estate includes his dwelling house at Cambridge and a house and land at 4 Wharf street, Boston, also one-half of a tomb in Boston, this being one of the old tombs still preserved at the southerly end of Boston Common. The most of his estate at his death was in Boston bank stocks and real estate mortgages. The inventory totals nearly $20,- 000, in addition to bad notes due him amount- ing to about $4,000, and other property which he spoke of as having disposed of before death to his children. He bequeathed all his estate to his children. In the description of old flags at the State House, Boston, appears the fol- lowing: "The time-worn and weather-beaten bunting flag draped above the north columns was made in 1781 for Jonathan Fowle of Bos- ton. The thirteen stars are arranged in his- torical lines." This flag was presented to the commonwealth, February 22, 1906, by a grand- son of Jonathan Fowle, and is of the original design adopted by congress, and is thought to be the only one of the original flags of this de- sign in existence. The following letter from Governor Curtis Guild, of Massachusetts, is self-explanatory and exceedingly interesting :


Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Department, Boston, February 28, 1906.


My Dear Mr. Fowle :-


I take great pleasure in formally accepting the flag tendered by you to the Commonwealth as a gift. In making the gift you were good enough to state that this flag, with its thirteen stars, was manufactured by your grandfather in 1781, that it was flown over Fort Independence in Boston Harbor during the war of 1812, when your father, then a member of the Boston Rangers, was a part of the garrison of that post, and since your father's death


I understand that it has been in your possession. I cannot too highly commend the spirit of patriotism which has induced you to offer this interesting relic to the Commonwealth. The love for the flag which is inherent in the breast of every true American cannot be too frequently stimulated. I accept your gift in the spirit you so generously manifest and beg to assure you that the flag passed into the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, who will place it in an appropriate position where, with similar emblems, it will continue to give its message to the young Americans.


With high respect and esteem, believe me,


Cordially yours,


CURTIS GUILD, JR.


Mr. George W. Fowle,


Jamaica Plain, Boston.


Children of Jonathan Fowle: I. Sarah Makepeace, born at Boston, August 20, 1786; married Dr. Theodore Dexter, of Boston. 2. Ann S., born at Boston, November 27, 1787, died there June 16, 1875, in her eighty-eighth year ; married Nathaniel Fowle, jewelry dealer of Northampton, Massachusetts, and resided in that city. 3. Jonathan, Jr., born at Boston, October 2, 1790, died at Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, 1829; married Ann ; had sev- eral children born in Philadelphia. He was a lawyer there. 4. George, born at Boston, Jan- uary 5, 1793, died there August 31, 1793. 5. George Makepeace, born at Boston, February 3, 1796, see forward. 6. Lucretia, born March 21, 1798, died October 7, 1859; married, De- cember 8, 1817, Samuel Abbott, born at North Andover, Massachusetts, June 29, 1787, died August 10, 1852, son of John Lovejoy Abbott, of North Andover. For many years Samuel Abbott was a prominent merchant of Charles- town, Massachusetts.


(VI) George Makepeace, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Sally) (Makepeace) Fowle, was born at Boston, February 3, 1796, died at Arlington, Massachusetts, November 26, 1874. Married at Boston, January 26, 1819, Mar- garet Lord Eaton, born at Boston, February 3, 1796, on the same day as her husband, died at West Roxbury, May 23, 1870, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Allen) Eaton, of Bos- ton. In early manhood Mr. Fowle engaged in the service of the United States government and was sent to Westfield, New York, at the extreme westerly end of the state, on Lake Erie, to establish a custom house to handle goods imported from Canada. When but seventeen years of age, as a member of the Boston Rangers. He had served in the garri- son at Fort Independence during the war of 1812, thus giving evidence of that martial spirit which has always been an inherent character-


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istic of the Fowle family, and was not long in Westfield before he became a member of the militia and as colonel of a regiment was quite a factor in that section. While he was there, in 1824, General Lafayette made his second visit to this country, his mission being to attend the laying of the corner stone of Bunker Hill Monument. It was during this visit that con- gress voted him $200,000 in appreciation of his services to this country during the revolu- tion, and also a tract of twenty-four thous- and acres of land in the then distant west. Being curious to have a look at his real estate, he traveled across the country by the old stage coaches, and on his way passed through West- field, where he stopped a couple of days and was given a royal reception. Mr. Fowle, as head of the militia regiment, had a prominent part in the arrangement and carrying out of the programme, which included an elaborate ball, in the evening, at which Lafayette engaged in the first dance with Mrs. Fowle.




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