Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 47

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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(III) Zeal, son of Richard (2) Skidmore, was born in Danvers, April 11, 1778. He set- tled in Boston where he married, May 4, 1800, Katherine Partrick (see Partrick, III). Chil- dren, born in Boston, Massachusetts : 1. Sarah, born March 27, 1801, died May 21, 1824. 2. William, born October 20, 1803, died July 10, 1815. 3. Deborah, born March 4, 1805, died February 22, 1884; married, November 13, 1825, William Davenport Irish ; the name Irish was dropped by act of legislature in 1846. (See Irish, VI.) 4. Katherine, born Septem- ber 19, 1807. 5. Caleb Strong, born August 24, 1812, died August, 1835. Zeal Skidmore, father of these children, died February 7. 1829, and his wife died February 1, 1846.

(The Irish Line).

John Irish was born in England and lived in the parish of Clisdon, county Somerset. He was indentured to Timothy Hatherly of the parish of St. Olaves in Southwark, county

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Surrey, April 10, 1629, to go to Plymouth and abide with him there five years, having meat, drink, and lodging and five pounds a year, and at the end of that time twelve bushels of wheat and twenty-five acres of land. He settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and in- herited land of Henry Wallis. He was a volunteer for the Pequot war in 1637, and was on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643. In that year he had land granted to him. He had a son John, mentioned below, also a son Elias.

(II) John (2), son of John (I) Irish, was born in 1641 or 1645, died February 21, 1717. He was a carpenter by trade and lived first at Duxbury. He removed to Little Compton. Rhode Island, and in 1678 served as constable. He married, in 1672, Elizabeth , who died March 8, 1707. He married (second) May, 1708, Priscilla Talbot, widow of Samuel Talbot and daughter of Edward and Mary (Peabody ) Southworth. She died June II, 1722. Children: I. David, born 1673. 2. Elizabeth, February, 1674; died young. 3. Jonathan, June 6, 1678. 4. Joanna, June 6, 1681. 5. Sarah, January, 1684. 6. Priscilla, April 30, 1686. 7. Elizabeth, August 28, 1687. 8. Jedediah, October 7, 1688. 9. Content, Sep- tember, 1691. 10. Mary, April 9, 1695. II. John, mentioned below.

(III) John (3), son of John (2) Irish, was born May 1, 1699, at Little Compton, Rhode Island, and died in July, 1773. He married, May 10, 1720, Thankful Wilbur, born June 8. 1700, who survived her husband, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Potter) Wilbur. Chil- dren, born at Little Compton : 1. Edward, born January 9, 1721. 2. Charles, May 30, 1723. 3. Lydia, August 9, 1725. 4. John, December 9, 1727, died October 12, 1756. 5. Levi, Octo- ber 20, 1730. 6. Mary, May 16, 1734. 7. Thankful, June 8, 1737. 8. David. 9. Icha- bod, January 6, 1740. 10. Samuel, mentioned below.

(IV) Samuel, son of John (3) Irish, was born at Little Compton, January 21, 1743. He married Mary Children: I. Benja- min. 2. Simeon, born February 15, 1767. 3. John, mentioned below. Perhaps others.

(V) John (4), son of Samuel Irish, was born about 1770 in Little Compton. He mar- ried, January II, 1795, Nancy Little, daughter of Fobers Jr. and Sarah Little. Children, born at Little Compton: I. Otis, March 30, 1796. 2. George (twin) March 18, 1799. 3. Lydia (twin), March 18, 1799. 4. Sarah, March 20, 1801. 5. John, September 4, 1803.

6. William D., August 6, 1805, mentioned below. 7. Nancy, April 10, 1807. 8. Sophia, March 8, 1811. 9. Benjamin, January 9, 1814. 10. Samuel, July 24, 1817.

(VI) William D., son of John (4) Irish. was born at Little Compton, August 6, 1805, died in Boston, Massachusetts, June 5, 1879. He married November 13, 1825, Deborah Skid- more, born in Boston, March 4, 1805, died there December 22, 1884. In 1846 his name was changed by act of the legislature from Irish to Davenport. Deborah Skidmore was daughter of Zeal and Katherine (Partrick) Skidmore. (See Partrick ). Child of William D. (Irish) Davenport : Sarah Frances Davenport, born in Boston, August 15, 1829, married Ed- win Arthur Paul, born in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, October II, 1825, died in Boston, November 24, 1868. Their son, Arthur Edwin Paul, born October 1, 1853; married Mary Elizabeth Clabby ; children: I. Edwin Arthur, born January 9, 1875. 2. John Henry, born May 17, 1877, died March 9, 1897. 3. Alice Honora, born September 10, 1879, mar- ried Victor Carl (see Carl, III).

(The Partrick Line).

The Partrick or Patrick family, name used interchangeably in the various branches, have as their common ancestor Thomas Kilpatrick, as the name of the family was spelled in the early generations. The origin of the Scotch surname Kilpatrick is the same as that of Kirkpatrick. Both the prefixes Kil (kill) and Kirk mean church. The Kirkpatrick family was established before the year 1200 in Dum- friesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. The early home of the Kilpatricks was Dum- bartonshire and Stirlingshire. In 1619 Nicho- las Pynnar's survey of the Scottish grants in Ulster, Ireland, shows that James Kilpatrick was one of the settlers on the fifteen thousand acre grant of Peter Benson in the precinct of Liffer, county Donegal, and he is presumed to be the ancestor of the Scotch-Irish branch of the family. In 1890 the Kilpatrick family was most numerous in county Antrim, Ireland, where there were sixteen births in that year.

(I) Thomas Kilpatrick, immigrant ancestor, was born in 1674, and came from Coleraine, county Antrim, Ireland, with the first Scotch- Irish pioneers to Boston, with nine sons, and one daughter who was drowned during the voyage. From Boston he went to Wells, York county, Maine, where some of his sons settled. He and five sons located later at Biddeford, Maine, where he was a prominent citizen, ac-

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tive in the church and town. He died there in 1762. Children: Samuel, Andrew, men- tioned below, Thomas, John, and others.

(II) Andrew, son of Thomas Partrick or Kilpatrick, was born in Coleraine, Ireland, about `1710. He came with his father to this country. Soon after coming the family spelled the name Patrick and Partrick without the prefix. He and his brothers John and Thomas were among the twenty-seven Scotch- Irish from Biddeford, Maine, to contract with Colonel Waldo to settle at St. George's. The French and Indian war caused them to leave the settlement. Andrew returned to Boston and located in the adjacent town of Dedham. Children: I. Samuel, born 1733; located in Stoughton ; apprentice to Joseph Billings at the age of fourteen; descendants at Fitzwilliam and other New Hampshire towns. 2. Captain William, mentioned below. 3. John, born 1739; died at Barre, Massachusetts, in 1807. 4. Robert, had twelve children. 5. Jacob.

( III) Captain William, son of Andrew Par- trick, was born in

1741. He settled in Stoughton, Massachusetts, where the records give his name generally as Kilpatrick. He was called Partrick, however, on the revolu- tionary rolls. He was captain in Colonel Brook's regiment. 1777-78; also in the sixth company, Colonel Ichabod Alden's regiment in 1778. He was killed in battle, May 30, 1778. at Cherry Valley, New York. His widow re- ceived half-pay allowance until June 1, 1785. He married at Dedham, November 16, 1768. Deborah Smith, of Dedham. Guardians were appointed by the Suffolk court for his minor children in 1778. Children: I. William. 2. Polly. 3. Phineas, married. July 16, 1795, Betsey White. of Boston. 4. Katherine, mar- ried Zeal Skidmore. (See Skidmore, III). 5. Andrew. born at Stoughton, July 29. 1770.

Increase Sumner. son of Micah R. BARR Barr, was born in New Braintree, Worcester county, Massachusetts, 1801. His ancestors came from England in 1742. He was brought up to the trade of carpenter and builder. In 1835 he removed to Worcester, where he carried on his occupation as a builder, and in 1838 removed to a farm in Oakham, where he continued to reside up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1885. He served while a resident of New Braintree as captain of the local militia company, and was ensign in state militia. He was married to Susan, daughter of William and Jane (Bowen) Rob- inson, of Cohassett, Massachusetts, she being

one of a family of ten children. Her ances- tors came from England in 1636. The chil- dren of Increase Sumner and Susan ( Robin- son ) Barr were: 1. Edwin Clifford, born May 31, 1829, (q. v.). 2. William Robinson, May 23, 1832. 3. Jane, 1835, married Emory Stod- dard. 4. Julia, 1838, married Addison Brown, of Springfield, Massachusetts. 5 Ellen Maria, 1840, married (first ) John Deland and (second) Edward Taft, of Mendon, Massa- chusetts. 6. Catherine Austin, married Cyrus Wilkinson. 7. Carrie, married Myron Butter- field, of Cold Brook Springs, Massachusetts.

Edwin Clifford, eldest son of Increase Sum- ner and Susan ( Robinson) Barr, was born in New Braintree, Worcester county, Massachu- setts, May 31, 1829. He attended the public school at Oakham to which place his father removed from Worcester in 1837, and while not at school worked on his father's farm. When ten years old he worked on the farm of a neighbor some distance from his own home, and in 1844 he began the work of shoemaking in the shoe factory of the Batchelors at North Brookfield. In 1847 he crossed New York state in a canal boat. He obtained a position as a third porter on a Buffalo to Chicago steamer and made one trip on it to the latter city. Upon his return to Buffalo he was ap- pointed first porter, but the outbreak of the cholera tied the steamer up, and he did not sail with her again. Mr. Barr caught the spirit of 1849, and in the following year he was on his way to California by way of the isthmus. The ship on which he sailed to Colon was commanded by Lieutenant (after- ward Admiral) Porter. He had little money with him, so when he arrived at Colon he walked across the isthmus. From Panama he took ship to San Francisco. While on the voyage there was an outbreak of Panama fever on board the ship, and sixty or seventy persons died of it and were buried at sea. Mr. Barr escaped with only a slight attack. He had only three dollars in his pocket when he arrived in San Francisco. He spent this for a ticket to Stockton by steamer. He walked the rest of the way to the mines. Mr. Barr met a man named Fisher, who came from Danielson, Connecticut. Mr. Fisher knew of a man who was a miner at a place some way off, and they decided to look him up. They found him making a fortune, and he would not work with any one else because his mine was so rich. This miner told them of two Welshmen who were in the habit of working their mine for three or four months and then

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going to San Francisco to spend their earn- ings. He believed that the Welshmen would be willing to sell out. They accordingly struck a bargain with the Welshmen, and after a few instructions from the miner, who, by the way, supplied the necessary capital, they went to work. They were fortunate in securing a rich mine, and in a short time they were taking one hundred dollars a day out of it. This kept up for some time, until the ar- rival of the partner's brother from the east. Mr. Barr sold his interest in the mine to his brother, and started in a new partnership with a man named Louis Searles, from Brooklyn, Connecticut. After remaining there for two years he left Mr. Searles and returned to his home, and on reaching Oakham he purchased a life-lease of the farm on which his father lived and he also purchased and conducted a restaurant at Clinton for the next year. He returned to California in 1855 accompanied by a party of adventurers, including an uncle of Robert L. Knight, of Springfield, Massa- chusetts. This time he located on Trinity river in the northern part of the state, and he was quite successful. In 1857 he gave up the gold fields, returning to Massachusetts, and in 1858 opened a restaurant in Springfield, pur- chasing the store and good will of Austin and Alexander Pease, which he conducted 1858- 62. He spent the years 1863-65 in mining in Montana, near Butte, in connection with the restaurant business in the mining camp. In 1865 he determined to abandon frontier life and permanently engaged in the restaurant business in Springfield, locating this time in Vernon street, corner of Main, where he fitted up a first-class restaurant and announced his services to the general public as an accom- plished caterer and his services were immedi- ately and continuously demanded on all large public occasions, not only in Springfield but in the surrounding cities. Besides his busi- ness in Springfield, Mr. Barr also conducted a fine restaurant in Northampton which en- joyed large patronage. His fraternal affilia- tion is with the Masonic order, he being a member of Hampden Lodge and of the Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Nayassett Club. He married (first) in 1852, Adeline Fields Stone. of Oakham, who was born in 1832 and died in 1865. The fruit of this marriage was three sons and two daughters, named in the order of their birth: 1. George Edward, who was proprietor of the Russell House, Spring- field : deceased : left three children : Catherine.

Wilbur, James. 2. Walter Stone, died in in- fancy. 3. Edward Eugene, of Springfield, a promoter. 4. Jesse, deceased. 5. Emma, married John Reed, of Agawam. He mar- ried (second) July 14, 1868, Minerva Emmar -- etta, daughter of Lewis and Bradicea ( Bishop) Arthur, of Keeseville, Essex county, New York, and the only child by the marriage was Walter Sumner, born in Springfield, Massa- chusetts, February 4, 1870. Walter Sumner Barr married Elizabeth, daughter of Theodore and Lena (Dickinson) Hand ; he is a banker in Oneida, New York.

BICKNELL Zachary Bicknell and Agnes his wife sailed from Eng- land in the spring of 1635.

He was forty-five years of age, and his wife thirty-seven. The entire family at this time consisted of Zachary, his wife Agnes, their son John (eleven years of age) and John Kitchen, a servant, aged twenty-three years. This family group formed a part of the com- pany of English emigrants that came with the Rev. Joseph Hull, and were permitted to set- tle at Weymouth, Massachusetts. Zachary Bicknell died within about a year after his arrival at Weymouth, not, however, until he had built a house and established a home, em- bracing twenty acres of unfenced land. His widow soon married Richard Rockett (or Rockwood ), and the home of the Bicknells was sold to William Reade.

(II) John, born in 1624, only son of Zach- ary Bicknell, married (first) Mary, who bore him Mary, John and Naomi. She died March 25, 1657-58, and he married (second) Mary Porter. They had Ruth, Joanna, Experience, Zachary, Elizabeth, Thomas, Hannah and Mary.

(III) Zachary, son of John Bicknell, born February 7. 1667-68, in Weymouth, married Hannah Smith, November 14. 1692. Their children were : Zachary, Hannah, James, Mary, Peter and Joshua.

(IV) Peter, son of Zachary Bicknell, born in Barrington, Rhode Island, 1706, married Rachel and had: Peter, born January II, 1736, died young: Rachel, December 9. 1737, died 1752: Peter, July 24, 1745; Asa. April 13. 1717 : Amey, 1752; Amos.

(V) Asa, son of Peter Bicknell, born April 13. 1747, married in Barrington, Elizabeth Low. June 25, 1769. Their children were : Asa, died aged sixteen years ; Otis, died aged twenty-two years: Relcaf. John Wilson, Will- iam, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Ellery, AAsa, Francis.

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(VI) John Wilson, son of Asa Bicknell, born April 10, 1780, in Barrington, married Keziah Paine, April 14, 1805. She was the daughter of Peleg and Joanna ( Vial) Paine, of Seekout, where he died August 25, 1837, aged eighty-five years. Mr. Paine served as ser- geant in Captain Joseph Franklin's (Reho- both) company, Colonel John Daggett's regi- ment ; he entered service January 7, 1778, and was discharged March 31, 1778. He enlisted again July 30, 1778, and was discharged Sep- tember 10. 1778. He served in Captain Isaac Hix's company, Colonel Josiah Whiting's Bristol county regiment. When a mere lad he became enamored with the life of a sailor, and began making voyages as a boy before the mast. continuing the seafaring life for nearly thirty years, and passing through the various stages of promotion to the rank of captain. He made voyages to the West Indies, to both the east and west coast of Africa, and to China, was twice shipwrecked. About the year 1817 he removed his family from Bar- rington, Rhode Island, where they had made their home during his voyages, to Canterbury, Connecticut, where he kept a hotel; after re- maining here about four years he removed to Canaan, Vermont, where he purchased a farm. Twenty-two years later he sold this farm, and with his family, now grown to manhood and wvomanhood, emigrated to the then new state of Wisconsin, settling in what is now Beloit, Rock county, where he died in 1859. Mr. Bicknell was a prominent Mason, having taken the capitular degrees, and filled the office of grand high priest, and while visiting various places in Wisconsin, for the purpose of es- tablishing and instructing certain chapters, con- tracted a severe cold which terminated in pneumonia, causing his death. Children : George Wilson, born November 7. 1807. Amanda. November 18, 1809. Otis Paine, June 10, 1813. Edwin, July 18, 1814. Al- mira Paine. June 1, 1816. Charles H., March 7. 1818. Andrew .H., February 6, 1820. Martha Wilson, April 19. 1822. Anna Ma- riah. April 19, 1825. Rebecca Warren, adopted daughter.

(VII) George Wilson, son of John Wilson Bicknell, was born in Barrington, Rhode Island. November 7. 1807. After receiving the advantages of the schools of his native town, he went to Providence, where he learned the trade of a jeweler and silversmith, and for a few years followed that occupation in the city of Providence. His life here brought him in daily contact with the family of Dr. Jacob

Fuller, an uncle by marriage, Dr. Fuller hav- ing married Abigail Paine, a sister of Mr. Bicknell's mother. The associations formed here were of the most pleasant and beneficial character. Through the influence emanating from this home he resolved to enter the medi- cal profession, and for several years much of his spare time was occupied in studying medi- cal authorities and reciting to his uncle. It was his custom, while engaged in his trade, to have an open book on the bench before him, that he might pursue his medical studies while at work. Having secured his right to prac- tice medicine, he took a full course in den- tistry. Confident that he was now well quali- fied to embark in his newly chosen profession, and learning of the intention of his father and the remainder of his family (then residing in Canaan, Vermont, to emigrate to the western country, he went to Vermont and joined the New England Emigrating Company, which in- cluded his father's family, and located at a place in Wisconsin, on Rock river, now known as Beloit. After a residence here of three or four years, Dr. Bicknell went further west. locating in Potosi, in Grant county. Before leaving Beloit he had written to Miss Abigail Rawson, of Mendon, Massachusetts, that he was now ready to have her join him in his western home, and according to previous plans Miss Rawson left her Mendon home for Wis- consin, traveling by stage, canal boat and steamboat to Chicago, where Dr. Bicknell met her. They proceeded on to Beloit, and the marriage ceremony was performed at the home of Mr. R. T. Crane. On the death of Dr. Horace White, with whom Dr. Bicknell had been associated while in Beloit, the people there urged him to return to them, which he did about 1847. In 1849 he with several others made the overland trip to California. returning to Beloit in 1852. When the civil war came he enlisted and received a commis. sion as surgeon in the Twenty-second Regi- ment of Wisconsin Volunteers. The severe strain incident to a large practice in this sparsely settled country during the ten years passed in Beloit had gradually been under- mining a once vigorous constitution, and the further exposure of camp life at the front began to develop symptoms of a serious nature within himself, causing his resignation and re- turn to Beloit. But there followed him soon after a commission as acting assistant surgeon, United States army, at Camp Douglas, Chi- cago, Illinois. He continued his services in charge of this camp until it was about to be

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deserted, when he again resigned his commis- sion and returned to take up his private prac tice in Beloit, where he died June 16, 1870. His wife died December 26, 1867. He was a very skillful and therefore successful prac- titioner, and was thoroughly devoted to his profession, enjoying the confidence of all who knew him as their family physician. Children : George Wilson, born August 17, 1843, at Po- tosi, died 1892. John Francis, November 8, 1846, at Potosi. Maria, in Beloit, died in in- fancy. Hattie, in Beloit, died in infancy. Frederick, in Beloit, died aged two and one- half years. Mary Augusta, May 4, 1858, at Beloit, married Richard J. Burdge, of Beloit, where they now reside.

(VIII) John Francis, second son of Dr. George W. Bicknell, was born November 8, 1846, at Potosi. He received his early edu- cation in the public schools of Beloit, and in the preparatory department of Beloit College. When about to enter upon his collegiate course, in response to the call of Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, for more men to fight the battles for the preservation of the Union, Mr. Bicknell enlisted in a company of nine months' men. At the close of his term of service he returned to his home in Beloit, and subsequently entered the employ of a firm en- gaged in the hardware business in Chicago. After the great fire in that city, which oc- curred in October. 1871, he went to the state of Kansas and took up wild land. Being dis- couraged by the tardy development of the country, he sold his claim and returned to Chicago, and in the summer of 1872 came to Worcester. Massachusetts, and entered the em- ploy of E. B. Crane & Company, dealers in lumber, as bookkeeper. In 1879 he was given an interest in the business, succeeding to the place in the firm of William S. Perry, who retired. In June, 1882. Mr. Bicknell with- drew from this firm and engaged in the lum- ber trade on his own account, soon building up a large trade and conducting a successful business, and at the time of his death, Novem- ber 15, 1899, was president of the J. F. Bick - nell Lumber Company of Worcester, Massa- chusetts. He married, June 16, 1875, Hattie M., born April 26, 1844, daughter of Joseph Warren and Nancy Harrington (Gibbs) Spring, of Weston, Massachusetts ( see Spring, V'Il), the ceremony being performed by Rev. William W. Adams, D. D. On returning from their wedding trip they made their home with Mrs. Bicknell's mother, at No. 5 Seaver street, Worcester, where they remained until

Mr. Bicknell built a fine residence, No. 910 Main street, where he died, leaving one child, Roscoe Gibbs, born December 1I, 1881, who received his early education in the Worcester schools, and after taking a two years course at the Worcester Academy entered Dean Academy, at Franklin, Massachusetts, gradu- ating with the class of 1900. He immediately succeeded to the business left by his father. He married, January 25, 1905, Harriet West Kellough, of Boston, and resides in Worcester.

(The Spring Line).

It is believed that nearly all the families bearing the name of Spring in the United States, but certainly in New England, are de- scended from John Spring, of Watertown, Massachusetts, and his wife, Elinor, who died prior to 1656.

The name of the original John Spring ap- pears on the earliest list of proprietors of Watertown, 1636-37. Twenty years later (March 21, 1656-57) he executed a deed of gift to his son Henry of his house and land in Watertown, reserving to himself during his lifetime the north end of the house. After his decease that was to go to Henry. There was also a stipulation that Henry should pay his father an annuity, and after the decease of the father pay John Spring Jr. thirty pounds law- ful money. The children of John and Elinor Spring were: I. Mary, born 1623; married, 1642, John Davis and died a widow in 1656. 2. Henry. 1628. 3. John, 1630. 4. William, July, 1633; settled in Barbadoes, and had a son John, who came to Newton after the death of his father in Barbadoes, and in 1695 se- lected his uncle. John Spring, to be his guar- dian. He made his will August 6, 1698, giv- ing all his estate to Jonathan Green, of New- ton, in token of his kindness and care.

( 11) Henry, son of John Spring, born 1628, was admitted freeman, May 30, 1660. He married (first) January 7, 1657-58, Mehitable Bartlett, and (second) September 12, 1691, Susanna, widow of Gregory Cook. In his will dated June 29, 1695, he mentions his wife Susanna, sons Henry and Thomas, and daugh- ters Elizabeth, Mehitable and Abigail. As carly as 1680 he was elected the "town prizer," his duty being to fix the rate at which agricultural products should pass in the pay- ment of taxes and debts. This office he held until 1695. He was often employed in tak- ing inventories and settling estates His children were: 1. Elizabeth, born October 13. 1659. 2. Henry, March 1, 1662. 3. Mehit-

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 47

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

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