Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 114

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824


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Jonathan Ellinwood bought, September 9, 1740, land of a company of which Robert Hale and others of Beverly were members, the property being at Woodstock. He bought land there March 30, 1738, of John Kathan, and September 7, 1740, an adjoin- ing lot of John Peake, who took a mortgage on the land, as stated above. John Peake was guardian of the minor children of Jonathan Ellinwood, with Jabez Lyon as surety. Peake was surety on the widow's bond with Joseph Wright.


Children of Jonathan were : 1. Thomas ; mentioned in the settlement of the estate, apparently the only son of age during the father's life. 2. Ephraim, born 1735: settled in Woodstock. 3. Joanna, born 1739. 4. Mary, born 1741.


(IV) Thomas Ellinwood, son of Jonathan Ellin- wood (3), was probably born in Beverly before his father came to Woodstock, about 1710. He bought land in Woodstock, October 23, 1730, of Jabez Lyons, of Woodstock, half of lots 82 and 83. He bought more land March 20, 1734-5, of Benjamin Childs. He bought lots 86 and 87 of Ichabod Davis and William Davis, of Brookline, Massachusetts, January 5, 1740, and more land originally laid out to Samuel Lyon, of Roxbury. February 17, 1742, bought of Edward Sumner, of Roxbury. He sold out about 1745 and removed with a colony of Wood- stock families to Brimfield, Massachusetts. He sold land in the first division, fourth range lots 85, 86 and 87 to Jabez Lyon, who had helped settle Jona- than's estate. He was not married when this deed was passed. He was a joiner or carpenter by trade. At Brimfield where he went in 1746 or 1747 he was a very prominent citizen. He was selectman and assessor in Brimfield in 1748, when his name first appears in the town history. He was selectman also in 1769 and 1775. He was also assessor in 1766- 67-73-74-75-76-80-81-8.4.


He married, probably for his second wife, Re- becca. Livermore, widow of Edmund Livermore, of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, which adjoined the old home town of the Ellinwoods in Woodstock. In 1760 one of her two Livermore children was already married to Eliphalet, brother of Nehemiah Allen, who was guardian of the two children, and who bought the real estate of Edmund Livermore sold hy order of the court. He paid one hundred and thirty-two pounds for the fifty-acre homestead at auction.


Children of Thomas Ellinwood were: I. Han- aniah ; soldier in the revolution. 2. Dr. Daniel (see forward). 3. Thomas, Jr .. horn about 1760; died in


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Athol in 1840, leaving sons. Frederick, Thomas, and George Benjamin, and relatives Austin and Benja- min, who owed him money; he married Persis. 4. Jonathan ; soldier in the revolution from Brimfield.


(V) Dr. Daniel Ellinwood, son of Thomas Ellin- wood (4). was brought up in Brimfield, Massachu- setts. He was born there about 1746 and educated in the schools there. He studied medicine under Dr. Israel Trask, one of the noted physicians of his day. When Dr. Ellinwood looked about for a place to practice he decided on Athol, Massachusetts. Dr. Trask was the son of Benjamin Trask. Dr. Trask sold land in Athol to Dr. Ellinwood March 29. 1779, and Dr. Ellinwood settled there. He married Lucy. Children were born probably in Athol, Massa- chusetts. Dr. Ellinwood died at Athol in 1794. The inventory of his estate was filed December 3, 1779. Six of his children were under age at the time of his death.


Children of Dr. Daniel and Lucy Ellinwood were : I. Daniel, born about 1775. 2. Senaca. 3 James (see forward ). 4. Justus: settled in Hub- bardston in 1812; married Sophia McClenathan, July 14. 1814; he died September 4, 1844; she died Sep- tember 21, 1851; they had six children. Lucy married Artemas Wilder, of Petersham (intentions dated February 21). 1808. 6. Abigail, married Dr. Chaplin. of Athol, Massachusetts.


(VI) James Ellinwood, son of Dr. Daniel Ellin- wood (5), was born at Athol, Massachusetts, about 1780. He is buried in Athol, where he died. He was a carpenter by trade and a skillful mechanic. He worked at his trade in Boston for a number of years. He married Rebecca Higgins of Mount Desert, Maine. (See sketch of M. P. Higgins for a sketch of her ancestors.) After his marriage he removed to Athol, Massachusetts, and settled on the farm on the border of Phillipston, where he lived the rest of his days.


Children of James and Rebecca (Higgins) Ellin- wood were: 1. Elvira. 2. Cynthia. 3. Horatio N. 4. Eliza. 5. Daniel (see forward). 6. Edwin O. 7. Euceva. 8. Tilden. 9. Lucy.


(VII) Daniel Ellinwood, fifth child of James Ellinwood (6), was born in Athol, Massachusetts, September 13, 1814. He attended the district schools of his native town. He was apprenticed to his brother, Captain Benjamin Twitchell, of Athol, at the mason's trade. He followed his trade all his life. He was known as a workman of unusual skill, and he was known far and wide for his stucco work. He finally came to Worcester, where he re- mained for two years, working at his trade. He left Worcester to go to Michigan, where he had decided to locate with his family, but returned sick, after the household goods were packed for the trip. He had to give up the change and settled again in Athol in 1850. Shortly afterward he bought a farm which he conducted in addition to his work as a mason. He died there March 16, 1879.


He was an active member of the Methodist Epis- copal church and with Asa Waite and Mr, Estey was one of the founders of the Trinity Methodist Church which was at first located in Park street. He was for many years a member of the Second Advent Christian church at Athol. He was a charter mem- ber of that organization, and for many years a dea- con of the church. He was a man of exemplary character, highly esteemed in both church and civil life. He was a Republican in politics. but never an office sceker. He was a member of Worcester Lodge, No. 56, of Odd Fellows. He married Octo- ber 6. 1835. Dulcinia Chase, daughter of Moses and Miriam (Twitchell) Chase, of Athol, Massachusetts.


Moses Chase was a blacksmith in Athol many years.


Children of Daniel and Dulcinia (Chase) Ellin- wood were: I. Leroy Sunderland, born August 21, 1837; died April 18, 1839. 2. Miriam, born January 17, 1839; married Franklin Sawtelle, of Athol. and they have two children : Jennie and Albert. 3. Leroy, born December 4, 1840; married Emily Homer, of Westboro, Massachusetts, and they have five chil- dren : Flora, Ada, Daniel, Edith, and Alphonzo. 4. Sarah, born January 17, 1842; married Samuel F. Parsons, of Woodstock, New Brunswick, and had four children, all deceased. 5. Hannah Maria, born July 30, 1843: married Eliphas S. Gage, of Wor- cester. (See sketch.) 6. Edwin, born March 29, 1845; married Clara Webster, of Athol, and they have six children : Cora-Mabelle, Edwin-Clyde. Daniel-Webster, Henry-Ovil, Arthur-Winfred ( de- ceased), and Eva-Gladys. 7. Daniel Webster, born February 21, 1847 (mentioned below ). 8. Eugene, born May 21, 1851. 9. Eva Rebecca, born February 8, 1854; married Harry M. Leland, of Worcester, and they have three children: Ernest, Maud-Helen and Stanley.


(VÍÍI) Daniel Webster Ellinwood, son of Daniel Ellinwood (7), was born in Athol. Massa- chusetts, February 21, 1847. He received his edu- cation in the common schools of Athol up to the age of eighteen, when he came to Worcester and served an apprenticeship with A. T. Burgess, a mason and contractor, serving the customary three years. He remained another year in the employ of Mr. Burgess. in 1869 he entered in business for himself, in partnership with Anthony Potter. The partnership was dissolved after six months, and since then Mr. Ellinwood has been in business alone. His office is at his home, 10 Winslow street. He has been the mason and contractor for many notable buildings. Among those for which he was the mason are: the Salisbury street school house; the Abbott street school house: several brick build- ings on Pleasant street : the Millbury street school house ; large business blocks for John E. Day, also for G. Henry Whitcomb. of Worcester, and the Heywoods, of Gardner. Massachusetts.


He attends the Second Advent church, Piedmont and Chandler streets, Worcester. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Damascus Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Worcester.


He married, April 29, 1869, Anna Eliza Withing- ton, daughter of Josiah Muzzy and Isabella Bab- cock (Smith) Withington, of Harvard. Massachu- setts. Her father was a farmer. Their children are: I. Hattie Dulcenia, born February 24, 1870, unmar- ried, lives with her parents. 2. George Francis, born March 30, 1873; married Lois M. Magoon, of Bristol, Vermont, daughter of Rev. John B. Ma- goon : they reside at Thomaston, Connecticut, where Mr. Ellinwood is principal of the high school, and also superintendent of the schools of the town; they have one child, Leonard Webster Ellinwood, born February 13, 1905.


(VIII) Dr. Eugene Ellinwood, son of Daniel Ellinwood (7), and brother of the preceding, was born in Athol, Massachusetts, May 29. 1851. He re- ceived his carly education in the district schools of his native town. At the age of seventeen he at- tended the New Salem Academy, where many noted Worcester county men received part of their training.


He entered the dental office of Dr. James Hemen- way, of Athol, to learn dentistry. After two years of study and experience he went to Woodstock, New Brunswick, where he practiced for a year, but wishing to study further he went to Philadelphia


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and entered the Pennsylvania College of Dental Sur- gery, graduating from there in 1872 with the degree of D. D. S. He opened an office in Clinton and resumed practice. About eighteen months later he had an opportunity to buy the practice of Dr. J. B. Walker, whose office was at the corner of Main and Elm streets, in Worcester. Since buying this busi- ness Dr. Ellinwood has continued in the same of- fices to the present time. He has met with con- stant success in the practice of his profession. He built a residence in 1876 at 14 Winslow street, and seven years later sold it to his brother, D .. W. Ellin- wood, and built his present home at 47 Piedmont street. He attends the Park Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican and has frequently served his party as delegate to senatorial and other conventions. He was the organizer and director of the Fraternal Aid Society that was afterwards called the Massachusetts Benefit Association. He was treasurer and director of the Single Tax Club of Worcester, and organizer and assistant treas- urer 'of the Basin Mining and Milling Company, of Portland, Maine. He is a member of the Massachu- setts Dental Society, formerly a member of the Connecticut Valley Dental Association up to the time it was merged into the Massachusetts Dental Society. He has been a member of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, and is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge of Odd Fellows, Worcester.


He married Abbie Priest, February 3, 1876, daughter of Ira and Sarah Jane (Brocklebank) Priest, of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Her father was an official of the Massachusetts state prison for many years. The only child of Dr. Eugene and Abbie ( Priest) Ellinwood is Ralph Waldo, born Febraury 21, 1883; now a student in Harvard University.


GAGE FAMILY. Robert Gage (I), the pro- genitor of Eliphas S. Gage, of Worcester, was born about 1690. He lived in Weston, formerly Water- town, Massachusetts, where his children were born. His widow Mary died in Lincoln, Massachusetts, March 14, 1777, at an advanced age. Their chil- dren: 1. Robert, · Jr., born April 14, 1720, mar- ried, April 3, 1747, Susanna Smith, of Waltham. 2. Isaac. born September 26. 1721, estate administered November 8, 1751. 3. Philip, born August II, 1723, married. March 7, 1744-45, Anne Priest; settled in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. 4. Rachel, born July 23, 1725. admitted in full communion in the Water- town church, December, 1742; died January 19, 1746. 5. Jonathan, mentioned below. 6. Lydia. 7. Alice, born 1732.


(II) Jonathan Gage, son of Robert Gage (1), was born probably in Weston, 1725. He married Ruth Underwood (published April 4. 1752). They had a son, Jonathan, born in Lincoln, Massachusetts, October 6, 1755, mentioned below.


(III) Jonathan Gage, son of Jonathan Gage (2), was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts, October 6, 1755. He was a soldier in the revolution, taking active part in the fighting April 19, 1775; a private in Captain William Smith's company of Minute Men; Colonel Abijah Pierce's regiment ; corporal later in 1775 in Captain Nathan Fuller's company, Lieutenant-Colonel William Bond's (Thirty-seventh) regiment. He was a corporal in the Continental army for three years-1777 to 1780-in Captain Abijah Child's company, Colonel John Greaton's regiment. He lived during the revolution in Lin- coln and Weston, but removed later to Berlin. He bought land at Leicester, while a resident of Berlin, of John Brigham, of Northboro, April 30, 1785. He


settled finally on the old Dr. Parsons place in the northwest part of Leicester on the road leading to Zolva Green's. The old house has long since been torn down. He married Mary Brigham. Their children, born in Leicester, were: 1. Levi, born Au- gust 9, 1786, see forward. 2. Silas, born April 13, 1788. 3. Mary ( Polly), born April 15, 1790. 4. Brigham, born November 17, 1793.


(IV) Levi Gage, son of Jonathan Gage (3), was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. August 9, 1786. He was a farmer by occupation. He mar- ried Nancy Barnes. Children: Levi; Anson, men- tioned below : Marian Brigham, Silas, Willard, Her- vey and Nancy, all deceased but Hervey and Nancy. Levi Gage taught school in his younger days, as did his wife, Nancy Barnes.


(V) Anson Gage, son of Levi Gage (4), was born August 25, 1815. He married Rhoda Fidelia Chapin in November, 1840. He died September, 1889. The mother died December 10, 1891, in Wor- cester at the home of our subject : both are buried at Northfield, Massachusetts. Among their children was Eliphas S., mentioned below. Isabelle Ellen died an infant. Edward A., born February 8, 1843, and died in 1857. Elliot Chapin, born July 3, 1847, re- sides in Worcester. Anson Gage, the father, was in politics a Republican and prominent in the Ad- vent church.


(VI) Eliphas Samuel Gage, son of Anson Gage (5), was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 15, 1841. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. When a young man he was em- ployed for some two years in piano manufactories at Montague and Irving, Massachusetts. He came to Worcester in 1866 where he learned the trade of paper hanging and followed it until his health failed him and he took up the real estate business which he has since followed. In politics is a Republican, being on the Republican Central Committee some five years; was justice of the peace in Worcester over twenty-one years; is a member of the Advent Christian church : belongs to A. F. & A. M., Royal Arch Chapter, Hiram Council.


He married, April 11, 1865, Hannah Maria Ellin- wood, daughter of Daniel and Dulcinia (Chase) Ellinwood. Their children are: I. Minnie Isabel, born September 24. 1866, graduate of the Worcester schools and the Worcester State Normal school in 1888: she taught one year in Spencer public schools and has since, except for two years in mission work in the south, taught in the Worcester schools. being at present a teacher in the Salisbury street school ; member of the Advent Christian church of Wor- cester, and for several years a member of the Wo-


man's Mission board of the Advent Christian de- nomination, taking a very active part and spending two years in the south, as before mentioned. 2. Edward Anson, born June 4, 1869, graduate of the Worcester high school and of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class of 1803; now assistant inspector of ordnance in the United States navy. stationed at Quincy. Massachusetts ; married, June 15. 1896, Edith Newton; children-Donald Newton and Sydney Vernon. 3. Frederick Eugene, born July 22, 1873, educated in the public and high schools of Worcester and an Indiana Business College ; now assistant foreman of the operating department of the American Steel and Wire Company. Worces- ter; member of Plymouth Congregational church ; married Mary L. Frisbie: child: Marjorie Chase. 4. Arthur Chase, born May 23. 1880, educated in the Worcester public and high schools; now travel- ing salesman for the Plunger Elevator Company of Worcester; unmarried.


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DR. CHARLES CLINTON SCOTT. William Scott (I), of Hatfield in New England, was prob- ably the son of Benjamin Scott, the immigrant, of New Braintree. Benjamin and Hannah Scott were inhabitants of Braintree in 1643. Their children were Hannah, married Christopher Webb, Febru- ary 18, 1654-55; John, born December 25, 1640; Peter, born March 6, 1643; Benjamin, died 1683. Benjamin Scott's widow Hannah married, Septem- ber 21, 1647, John Harbor.


William Scott married January 28, 1670, Hannah Ellis (or Allis), of Braintree, the daughter of Will- iam Ellis, who settled in Braintree in 1639, was admitted a freeman May 18, 1640, was a deacon of the church, removed to Hadley, then to Hatfield, was lieutenant, assistant of the court in 1676, died September, 1678. Very little is known of William Scott. His children were: Josiah, see forward; Richard, born February 22, 1673; William, Novem- ber 24, 1676; Hannah, August 11, 1679; Joseph, March 21, 1682; John, July 6, 1684, died February 8, 1692; Mary, 1686; Mehitable, September 9, 1687, died September 18, 1687; Jonathan, November 1, 1688, died young; Abigail, November 28, 1689.


(II) Josiah Scott, eldest child of William Scott (1), was born in Hatfield. He was one of the proprietors of Bernardston, Massachusetts. He mar- ried Sarah Berrett. Their children: Josiah, born November 29, 1699, settled in Whately; Sarah, Sep- tember 9, 1701; Hannah, May 30, 1704; Benjamin, May 31, 1708, married Jemima -, and settled in Whately ; died 1792; Mehitable, May 4, 1711; Moses, see forward; Ruth, November 25, 1715.


(III) Moses Scott, sixth child of Josiah Scott (2), was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, February 3, 1713. He settled on his father's grant of land in Bernardston, and as these grants were to the men engaged in the fall fight in King Philip's war in May, 1676, William Scott (I) was undoubtedlyy one of the soldiers. Moses Scott was a selectman in 1761. He built a bridge near his saw mill in 1760. Moses Scott was captured with Sergeant Hawks, August 20, 1746, with his wife and two sons, one of whom died in captivity. He returned from Canada and served again in the last French war with Captain Clesson. He died at Bernard- ston, July 23, 1799, aged eighty-six years. He mar- ried, August 24, 1742, Miriam Nash, daughter of Ebenezer Naslı, of Hadley. Their children : Eben- ezer, born 1743, was the first white male born in Bernardston, see forward; Moses, Jr., born 1745, died in Canada, February II, 1747.


(IV) Ebenezer Scott, elder son of Moses Scott (3), was born in Bernardston, the first male child of white parents, in 1743. When two or three years old, he was captured by the Indians and taken to Canada, where he was sold to the French. He re- turned to Bernardston with his father. He served in the revolutionary war and drew a pension late in life. He removed to the adjoining town of Ver- non, Vermont, where he died in 1826. The names of his children have not been secured; some of them were: Eleazer, born 1788, married Sarah Strickland, of Gill, settled in Vernon; Robert, see forward; Lemuel, settled in Fletcher, an adjacent town.


(V) Robert Scott, son of Ebenezer Scott (4), was born probably in Bernardston, Massachusetts, or a town in that vicinity in Massachusetts or southern Vermont, in 1763-64. He died in Bakers- field, Vermont, in 1833, aged sixty-nine years. He was brought up in Vernon, Vermont. He lived for a time after his marriage in various towns in the vicinity. He settled first in Townshend. He re- moved to Bakersfield, an adjoining town, in 1804,


and his descendants are living there at present. He was the first of the name in that town. He had ? farm. but his regular occupation was carrying the freight from Bakersfield to Boston and return.


Ile married Hannah Hesseltine, about 1690. Her sister, Judith Hesseltine, married. 1782, Ebenezer Brigham, who was born March 3, 1761, in Sutton, Massachusetts. The mother of Jlannah Hessel- tine married (second) Silas Whitney.


One of Robert Scott's children was named for Ebenezer Brigham. Both Robert and his wife are buried in . the Bakersfield cemetery. Children of Robert and Hannah (Hesseltine) Scott were: Thomas Woodburn, born about 1792, in Townshend, married Jerusha Shattuck ; their son, Hamblet H. Scott, inherited the homestead and still lives on the original farin of Robert Scott; Nancy, born about 1794, married Solomon Hull, is buried at North Fairfield, Vermont ; Russell, died at the age of twen- ty-six years and is buried at North Fairfield; Eben- ezer Brigham, see forward; Nahum, removed to Palmyra, New York.


(VI) Ebenezer Brigham Scott, generally called Brigham, son of Robert Scott (5) was born in Townshend, Vermont, 1797. He removed with his parents to Bakersfield in 1804 and went to school there. The opportunities in those new towns in Vermont for good schools were not favorable. He was a soldier from Bakersfield in the war of 1812. Though he was under age at the time of his enlistment he was of unusual size and was ac- cepted. He removed to Oakham, Massachusetts, in 1832, and worked for a traveling merchant. Later in life he settled in Spencer and conducted a farm. He died in Spencer in 1860.


He married (first), 1815, Caroline Potter, whose ancestry is given herewith. They were divorced and she married (second) Levi Janes, of Bakersfield, and had three children: Marther Baker, Charles Wesley and Caroline Potter Janes. E. Brigham Scott also married (second), April 28, 1838, at Oak- ham, Ann Thompson, of Spencer, Massachusetts. Children of Ebenezer Brigham and Caroline ( Pot- ter) Scott were: Whitney, born January 14, 1816, died 1830; Ebenezer Woodburn, see forward ; Nancy Caroline, born January 22, 1821, married ( first), July 7. 1844, Josiah Lyon, son of Aaron and Betsey Lyon, he was born 1817 and died 1863; she married (second) Willard Howe, son of Aaron and Elizabeth Howe, he was born 1815 and died 1888, she married (third) . Rowell ; they lived in Paxton ; Mrs. Rowell is living with her daughter, Mrs. Partridge, (1906) at 423 Pleasant street, Worcester. Luke Cullin, born July 4, 1824, married, November, 1846, Lizzie Ball. Joseph Barker, born November 27, 1826, married, January, 1856, Amanda E. Young, born 1838, daughter of Francis and Sarah Young ; he was a soldier in the Mexican war and never came north afterward, but settled at Dade, Bastrop county, Texas, where he was living in 1903.


(VII) Ebenezer Woodburn Scott, son of Eben- ezer Brigham Scott (6), was born in Bakersfield, Vermont, January 20, 1818, in the log cabin on his fatlrer's farm. The opportunities for education were scarce. The Bakersfield school at that time was in a log house and school was kept but a few weeks each year. When he was fourteen years old his mother died and his father decided to come to Massachusetts. They traveled on foot nearly two hundred miles to Oakham, where his father and he both were employed by a traveling merchant. He was paid $7 per month and his father $15 per month, and he used to say that the wandering life was rather pleasant. After three years he went to work in the slaughter house of John Corey at


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Watertown, and in the course of four years had be- come an important factor in the business. He and Mr. Corey's son were partners in a livery stable business for a time. In 1852 Mr. Scott came to Rutland with his six children and settled on the Charles Spooner farm on the Paxton road, where he lived for twenty-three years. In June, 1877, he removed to his late home, the former parsonage of the Congregational church. In politics he was a Democrat. He was a highway surveyor and mem- ber of the school committee. He cast his first vote for Van Buren in 1840 and voted the Demo- cratic ticket until 1896, when he was against the free silver Democratic candidates. He attended the Congregational church. In his younger days he belonged to an artillery company and to a fire en- gine company. He died July 27, 1902, at the age of eighty-four years.


He married Sarepta White, of Sturbridge, who died October 4, 1888. Their children: Mary, mar- ried C. B. Linton, of Brooklyn, New York, and has three sons: Caroline, married H. J. Davis, of Rutland, and has six children; Ebenezer Woodburn, Jr .. resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a milk dealer, was in the Forty-second Massachusetts Regi- ment in the civil war; Elizabeth A., married the late Denny E. Mason; she resides in Rutland; Charles Potter. born in Watertown, Massachusetts, July 24. 1849, a farmer of Holden; has a son Harry and daughter, Della; Etta, married Warren W: Bryant and they have two sons and a daughter ; their home is in Princeton, Massachusetts; Clinton Brigham, see forward; Adelia Maria, died when fourteen years old.




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