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Edward Bates settled at Weymouth, Massachu- setts, James at Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Clement in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Clement Bates brought with him in 1635-he then being forty years of age-his wife Anna, also aged forty, and his five children, as follows: James, aged fourteen ; Clement, aged twelve; Rachel, aged eight; Joseph. aged five; Benjamin, aged two; and two servants ; and there was born to them in Massachusetts a son Samuel. March 24, 1639. On September 18, 1635, Clement Bates received a grant of five acres of land on Town street-now called South street, Cohasset, which land has been in the possession of the original grantee and his descendants for two and a half centuries.
Joseph Bates, born in England, 1630, married in Hingham, Massachusetts, January 9, 1657, Esther Hilliard ; was selectman in 1671 and later. He died April 30, 1706. She died June 3, 1709. They had nine children, all born in Hingham, Massachusetts : Joseph, September 28, 1660; Esther, August 29, 1603; Caleb, March 30; 1666; Hannah, October 31, 1668; Joshua, August 14, 1671; Bathsheba, January 26, 1674; Clement, September 22, 1676; Ellenor, August 25, 1679; Abigail, October 16, 1780.
(III) Joseph Bates, son of Joseph (2), born September 28. 1660. married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Martha Lincoln. He died November 3, 1714. She died March, 1752, aged ninety years.
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They had six children: Mary, Joseph, Jonathan, Rachel, Susanna and Hester.
(IV) Joseph Bates, son of Joseph (3), born in Hingham, Massachusetts, March 6, 1687, married Deborah, daughter of Samuel and Hannah ( Gill) Clap. He died in 1750. He was a deacon in the church. They had five children, all born in Hing- ham, Massachusetts : Joseph, May 6, 1714; Deborah, April 2, 1716; Samuel, March 25, 1718; Jonathan, March 27, 1720; Mary, April 10, 1723.
(V) Samuel Bates, son of Joseph (4), born March 25, 1718, in 1737 married Mercy Beal. He died, aged seventy-one, in 1789. They had twelve children, all born in Hingham: Mordecai, June 29, 1738; Hannah, March 11, 1740; Joseph, June II, 1742; Samuel, November 15, 1744; Mercy, February 15, 1747; Adna, November 14, 1749; Mary; 1752; Mary, February 15, 1755; Susanna, March II, 1756; Jonathan, May 5, 1757; Mary, April 30, 1760; Thomas, January 12, 1763.
( VI) Samuel Bates, son of Samuel (5), born November 15, 1744, married Martha, daughter of Jonathan and Priscilla (Lincoln) Beal, who died in 1905. He died November 3, 1801, was drowned off Cohassett Rocks. They had nine children, all born at Coliassett, Massachusetts : Deborah, December 9. 1765; Eliza, January 20, 1767; Obadiah, August 20, 1769; Bela, May 10, 1772; Laban, April 3, 1774; Sarah, January 26, 1777: Newcomb, April 17, 1779; Samuel, January 1, 1783; Sybil, February 1, 1786.
(VII) Obadiah Bates, son of Samuel (6), born August 20, 1769, was a private in Captain Peter Lothrop's company of (Cohassett) Massachusetts militia in the war of 1812; he married Hannah Beal, of Cohassett. He died October 20, 1831, aged sixty- two years. She died November 11, 1841, aged seventy years. They had six children, all born at Cohassett : Elijah, April 25, 1796; Martha, December 25, 1797; Hannah Loring, August 10, 1799; Mary, May 5, 1802; Ann Beal, December 12, 1803; Joseph, April 12, 1805.
Theodore C. Bates, youngest son of Elijah and Sarahı Fletcher Bates, is third in descent from Obadialı Bates, who was a private in Captain Peter Lothrop's company, ( Cohassett ) Massachusetts militia, in the war of 1812.
He is third in descent from Ensign Ebenezer Beal, Jr., who was ensign of Captain Thomas Jones' fourth company of Hingham militia in Colonel Josiah Quincy's regiment, January 21, 1762.
He is fourth from Captain Ebenezer Beal, Sr., of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was captain of the Hingham company in Colonel Benjamin's company in the Third Suffolk regiment, which marched to the relief of Fort William, August 15, 1757.
He is fifth from Lazarus Beal, of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was a representative to the Masaschusetts Bay Colony or general court in 1719 and 1720.
He is sixth in descent from Lieutenant Jeremiah Beal, of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was an en- sign of the Hingham Foot Company, May 11, 1681. and a lieutenant, March 30, 1683, and a representa- tive to the Massachusetts Bay Colony or general court in 1691, 1692 and 1701.
He is seventh in descent from Lieutenant John Beal, of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was a dep- uty in the Massachusetts Bay Colony or general court from 1649 to 1659.
Fle is sixth from Captain Thomas Andrews, who was captain of the Hingham company in 1690.
He is seventh in descent from Joseph Andrews, who was a deputy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony or general court from 1636 to 1638.
1-Ie is sixth from Samuel Clapp, son of Thomas
Clapp, of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was a deputy from Scituate to Plymouth from 1680 to 1686, from 1690 to 1691, from 1692 to 1696, from 1699 to 1703, 1705 to 1709 and 1714 and 1715, making twenty years.
He is seventh from Thomas Clapp, who was a deputy to Plymouth court in 1649.
He is eighth in descent from Edmund Hobart, of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was a deputy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony or general court in 1639, 1640 and 1642.
He is sixth in descent from Lieutenant James Lewis, of Barnstable, Massachusetts, who was lien- tenant of the militia company in Barnstable (1678).
He is fifth in descent from Lieutenant Benjamin Loring, of Hull, who was ensign of the militia in Hull from 1713 to 1715. He was a deacon in the church. He held many town offices-town treasurer 1709, town clerk, 1717.
He is third in descent from Major Daniel Fletcher, of Concord, Massachusetts, who was born in Concord, Massachusetts, October 18, 1718.
He is second in descent from Captain Jonathan Fletcher, who was born in Acton, Massachusetts, January 21, 1757.
He is fourth in descent from Lieutenant Jonathan Hartwell, of Littleton, Massachusetts ( 1692-1778).
He is fifth in descent from John Hartwell, of Concord, Massachusetts, who was a soldier in Cap- tain Thomas Wheeler's company at the Indian am- buscade and siege of Brookfield, August, 1675, in King Philip's war.
He is sixth in descent from William Hartwell, of Concord, Massachusetts, who was a corporal of Concord company and quartermaster of Captain Thomas Wheeler's company, October 15, 1673.
He is fifth in descent from Cornet Samuel Fletcher, of Concord, Massachusetts, who was bugler in Concord company, and in Captain Thomas Wheeler's company in 1675, and was with Captain Thomas Wheeler's company at the Indian attack in Brookfield, Massachusetts.
He is fifth in descent from Ensign Thomas Wheeler, Jr., of Concord, Massachusetts, son of Captain Thomas Wheeler, and ensign of the Con- cord company, which was commanded by his father, Captain Thomas Wheeler, in King Philip's war at Brookfield, Massachusetts, in 1675. At the time of this battle or Indian ambuscade and siege, Captain Thomas Wheeler was severely wounded and his horse killed, whereupon Ensign Wheeler, his son, placed his father on his own horse, and took his father out of danger, and in doing so was twice severely wounded in the attempt to rescue his father from the perilous position and pursuit by the In- dians, during the retreat of the ambuscade, in which so many of Captain Thomas Wheeler's inen were killed and wounded; he kept close beside his father until he caught a horse, whose rider had been killed by the Indians; he then, with Captain Thomas Wheeler, and the few soldiers who were escaping and being closely pursued by the Indians, was by the aid of two friendly Indians, brought back by a cir- cuitous route, unknown to the soldiers, to the forti- ficd house at Brookfield, arriving there just before the several hundred savages came and laid siege to the fortified house so fiercely and destroyed and burnt the houses of the town.
He is sixth in descent from Captain Thomas Wheeler, of Concord, Massachusetts, who was in command of the Colonial soldiers and the inhabi- tants when attacked by the Indians at Brookfield, when the town was destroyed and so many of its inhabitants killed in 1675. The narrative of Captain
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Thomas Wheeler regarding the attack on Brook- field by the Indians in August, 1675, is one of the most interesting of official records of the state archives of the hardships endured by the early set- tlers of Massachusetts and in King Philip's war.
He is sixth in descent from Lieutenant Simon Davis, of Concord, Massachusetts, who served under Captain Thomas Wheeler at the Brookfield ambus- cade and siege August, 1675, in King Philip's war, and who, after Captain Wheeler's wounds became so serious, was one of those who was by Captain Wheeler placed in command of the soldiers at Brookfield in the fortified house.
There were five ancestors of Theodore C. Bates with Captain Thomas Wheeler at the ambuscade by the Indians and the siege of the fortified house, or fort, at Brookfield, Massachusetts, August 5, 1675, namely :
Captain Thomas Wheeler, Ensign Thomas Wheeler, Jr., Lieutenant Simon Davis, Cornet Sam- uel Fletcher, John Hartwell.
(VI11) Elijah Bates, son of Obadiah Bates (7), born April 25, 1796, married Sarah Fletcher, young- est daughter of Jonathan and Lucretia Emerson Fletcher. Sarah Fletcher was born in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, May 3, 1799, and died in Worcester, Mas- sachusetts, September 28, 1890. Jonathan Fletcher, her father, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 21, 1758, and died in Boston, January 16, 1807. Lucretia Emerson, wife of Captain Jonathan Fletcher, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, August 4, 1764. She married Jonathan Fletcher, May 20, 1782. Lucretia Emerson Fletcher died in Thomaston, Maine, July 7, 1800. They had four children : Francis, Susan, Lucretia, and Sarah.
Elijah Bates was born in Cohasset, Massachusetts, April 25, 1796, died in North Brookfield, Massa- chusetts, September 6, 1863. He was a furniture manufacturer in Boston, Massachusetts, where lie gave seven years to learn liis trade. He moved with his wife and only child to North Brookfield, Mas- sachusetts, in 1820. Then Brookfield was the largest town between Boston and Springfield, on the Con- necticut river. He was the first of his name in the town. For many years, in addition to manufacturing furniture, he did an extensive business manufac- turing large wooden boxes for shipping boots and shoes, for several large boot and shoe manufacturers in North Brookfield and the adjoining towns. He was a successful business man and although he was unfortunate in meeting several heavy losses by fire, having no insurance on his property destroyed, no man ever lost a dollar by dealing with him. He held many different town offices, having been selectman and assessor for many years. He took a deep in- terest in the old "Liberty Party" and the Anti-Slav- ery agitation ; and when the war of the rebellion came, he encouraged his sons to offer their services for the Union cause, and one of them, Thomas, was the first person to enlist from North Brookfield.
THE FLETCHER FAMILY. "The Fletchers are supposed to be of Norman descent, and to have come over with William the Conquerer, as there was a family of their name in the Southern part of Normandy," so says Bentham in his "Baronetage of England." The family name of Fletcher has always been an honorable one in England, and there are three Fletchers holding Baronetcies, and many others have high offices in the army and navy, and also in civil life.
The first of that name known to have come to this country was Robert Fletcher, who was born in Oxford, England, in 1592, as shown by the records of his death found in the town records of Concord,
Massachusetts. He settled in Concord, Massachu- setts, in 1030, being thirty-eight years of age when he came to America. He brought with him his wife and two sons, named Luke and William, and a daughter named Carey, also a brother William, who afterward settled in Middletown, Connecticut. Robert Fletcher was a wealthy and influential man. He died in Concord, Massachusetts, April 3, 1677, aged eighty-five years. He had five children : Luke, William, Carey, Samuel and Francis.
Francis Fletcher, the fifth child of Robert Fletcher, was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1636, and married, August 1, 1656, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of George and Catharine Wheeler. He re- mained with his father in Concord, and became, like his two older brothers who settled in the adjoining towns, a great land owner. He was re- ported "in full communion with ye Church" in Concord in 1677, and was admitted a freeman the same year. His wife Elizabeth died June 14, 1704. They had eight children, viz : Samuel, Joseph, Eliza- beth, John, Sarah, Hezekiah, Hannah and Benja- min.
Samuel Fletcher, oldest son of Francis Fletcher, was born August 6. 1657, and married Elizabeth Wheeler, April 15, 1682. He was a selectman of Concord many years, and town clerk from 1705 to 1713. He died October 23, 1744, and his wife lived but three days after his death. They had eleven children, all born in Concord, Massachusetts, viz: Samuel (who died young), Joseph, Elizabeth, Sarah, John, Hannah, Ruth, Rebecca, Samuel, Ben- jamin and Timothy.
Joseph Fletcher, second son of Samuel Fletcher, was born in Concord, Massachusetts, March 26, 1686. He married for his first wife, Elizabeth Carter, December 20, 1704, and married, as his second wife, Hepzibah Jones, July 11, 1711. He was made a deacon of the church in Acton, Massa- chusetts, in 1738, and was a member of the com- mittee to apportion the land to be set off from Con- cord as "Concord Village" in 1723, afterwards called Acton in 1736. He died September 11, 1746. He lived on the site where his grandfather, Robert Fletcher. first settled. By his first wife he had three children: Lucy, Abigail and Lydia. By his second wife he had five children: Lucy, Elizabeth, Daniel, Charles, Elijah and Ruth.
Daniel Fletcher, fifth child and first son of Dea- con Joseph Fletcher, was born in Concord, Massa- chusetts, October 18, 1718. He was a lieutenant in Captain David Melvin's company from March to September, 1747, and was stationed at Northfield. He was captain of a company in 1755 in His Ma- jesty's service, coming from Acton, Massachusetts, and served from September 10 to December 30, 1755. fifteen weeks and six days, as signed by Daniel Fletcher. Boston, Massachusetts, March 4. 1756. (See Vol. 94, p. 70, on Muster Roll of the Company in State Archives at Boston. Mass.)
In Vol. 95. p. 320, "The Alarm List," whereof Samuel Davies was captain. Daniel Fletcher's name appears also as captain. This list included those who were held in reserve, such as clergymen, dea- cons in the church, etc., 1757. Again, in the Massa- chusetts Archives, Vol. 136. p. 504, is an account for billetting soldiers on their return from Lake George in 1758. On March 133. 1758, Daniel Fletcher enlisted in Colonel Ebenezer Nichols' regi- ment in the Canada Expedition, in which expedi- tion he was wounded and taken prisoner. He en- listed at that time from March 13 to November 28. 1758. as appears in Vol. 96, pp. 416 and 418, lipon a Muster Roll of a Company of Foot in His Majesty's service in the French .war, under the
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command of Captain Daniel Fletcher, in a regi- inent raised by the Province of Massachusetts Bay for the reduction of Canada, under Colonel Eben- ezer Nichols. In Vol. 98, pp. 157 and 158, upon the Muster Roll of a Company in His Majesty's service, under the command of Captain Daniel Fletcher, it appears that he rendered service in the capacity of captain from November 2, 1759, to Au- gust 1, 1760. In Vol. 98, p. 452, upon a Muster Roll of Officers and Men in Captain Daniel Fletcher's company, in Colonel Frye's regiment, in the service of the Province of Nova Scotia, he served as cap- tain from January 1, 1760, to the time of their dis- charge, August I, of the same year. In 1768, Cap- tain Daniel Fletcher was a member of the Honour- able House of Representatives of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, begun and held at Boston, county of Suffolk, on Wednesday, the 25th day of May, Anno Domini, 1768. (See the Journal of Massachusetts Bay, May, 1768, to April, 1770, No. 16, p. 4, Captain Daniel Fletcher acting member.) In 1772 Captain Daniel Fletcher was appointed on a committee of public affairs. On June 26, 1776, under Field Officers of the Regiment raising for Quebec, New York and Ticonderoga, John Cummings, Esq. was elected brigadier-general of the forces destined to Canada. ( See Vol. 26, p. 277.) On June 5, of the same year, James Brickett, Esq., was elected in the room of John Cummings, who declined to be colonel of the regiment to be raised in Middlesex county. Jonathan Reed, colonel, Benjamin Brown, lieutenant-colonel, Daniel Fletcher, major. (See Brooks' Militia Of- ficers, 6-months Men, Continental Balances, Vol. 28, p. 28, red mark, and p. 72.) (See also Vol. 26, p. 277, Roll and Abstract of the File, and Staff Officers as proposed in the Spring of 1776, Col. Reed's Regi- ment, in the Northern Army in the Service of the United States of America; Jonathan Reed to be Colonel, from Littleton, Mass .; Benjamin Brown to be Lieutenant-Colonel, from Reading, Mass. ; Daniel Fletcher to be Major, from Littleton, Mass .; William Emerson to be Chaplain, from Concord, Mass .: John Porter to be Adjutant, from Littleton, Mass. : Edmund Monroe to be Quartermaster, from Lexington, Mass .; David Taylor to be Sergeant, from Charlestown, Mass .; Ezekiel Brown to be Ser- geant's Mate, from Concord, Mass.) At the same time, his son, Jonathan Fletcher, was in the revolu- . tionary war as a private in Captain Samuel Reed's company of Minute Men, in Colonel William Pres- cott's regiment, as is demonstrated by the fact that the name of Jonathan Fletcher is on file of the Revolutionary Rolls of Massachusetts among the names "For the Muster Roll of Captain Samuel Reed's Company of Minute Men, in Colonel Wil- liam Prescott's Regiment, who, on and after the Igth day of April last ( 1775), did march in con- sequence of the Alarm on that day;" dated at "Lit- tleton, February 19, 1776." (See Vol. 56 Coat Rolls.) He served as a Minute Man at the Lexington Alarm six days, from April 19 to 24, 1775.
Major Daniel Fletcher was elected by the Massa- chusetts assembly, June 26, 1776, or after the revo- lutionary war had commenced, as a major in the Third battalion, destined to Canada. (See Vol. 26, P. 277. Revolutionary Rolls at State House.)
Major Daniel Fletcher died in Acton, Massa- chusetts, December 15, 1776. in the fifty-ninth year of his age, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery at Acton, about one mile cast from the center of the town.
Major Daniel Fletcher, first son of Deacon Joseph Fletcher. was born in Concord, Massachu- sets, October 18, 1718. He married Sarah Hart-
well, of Westford, Massachusetts, the intention of marriage having been entered November 12, 1741. They had nine children, all born in Acton, Massa- chusetts: Daniel, Charles (who died young), Peter, Sarah, Ruth, Joseph, Charles, Jonathan and Betsey.
Jonathan Fletcher, eighth child and sixth son of Major Daniel and Sarah Hartwell Fletcher, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, January 21, 1757. Major Daniel Fletcher, father of Captain Jonathan Fletcher, was connected with the Revolutionary war very early in the struggle, of which fact there is abundant evidence. Jonathan Fletcher enlisted April 24, 1775, in Captain Abijah Wyman's company, Colonel William Prescott's regiment, as from Lit- tleton, although his father, Major Daniel Fletcher, was a citizen of Acton. (See Vol. 16, p. 76, Massa- chusetts Revolutionary Rolls.) He was in the battle of Bunker Hill, in which battle Colonel Prescott's regiment suffered such severe loss of life. He served eight months or more in the revolutionary army at the siege of Boston under General Wash- ington. (See Vol. 56, Coat Rolls, p. 66, October 3, 1775, also Vol. 16, p. 76.) Vol. 57 contains Jona- than Fletcher's autograph. Under figure seven of indexes of that volume, in Captain Abijah Wyman's company, is the receipt of Jonathan Fletcher for supplies, dated November 14, 1775. On January 15, 1776, his name appears on the roll of Captain David Wheeler's company, in Colonel Nixon's regi- ment, as a fifer from Acton, Massachusetts. (See Vol. 24, p. 73. Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls.) In 1777 he was a private in Captain George Minot's company, Colonel Samuel Bullard's regiment. (See Vol. 21, p. 79, Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls.) Jonathan Fletcher is recorded as a lieutenant, Feb- ruary 27, 1778, and was on the pay roll of Captain Jacob Haskin's company, Colonel John Jacob's regi- ment. (See Vol. 2, p. 83, Massachusetts Revolu- tionary Rolls.) How much before that time he was commissioned as a lieutenant, we are unable to find by the records. From the pay rolls, it is thought it must have been nearly or quite a year. He served five months and twenty days from February 27, 1778, as a lieutenant in this company. (See Vol. 2, p. 83. Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls.) (Vol. 46, p. 162, shows Lieutenant Jonathan Fletcher's ac- counts from December 1, 1778 to January 1, 1779.) He was in continuous service as a lieutenant, until we find that he had been commissioned as captain in the Ninth Company of the Seventh Regiment, on July 27. 1780. (See Vol. 28, p. 66, Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls.)
On November 1, 1781, the town of Fitchburg was required to pay certain soldiers who had not been paid for service, among them was Captain Jonathan Fletcher, who received from the selectmen of Fitchburg, one hundred and five pounds and mile- age for seventy-five miles to each of his men, by order of the general court. The soldiers constitut- ing his company came from the towns of Lexing- ton, Acton. Westminster and Fitchburg. (See Vol. 33. D. 535, Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls.) He remained as Captain until the close of the war, so that from the time he was commissioned as lieu- tenant, made him in continuous service as lieuten- ant or captain nearly or quite six years, and as pri- vate or officer from the very commencement of the revolutionary war, April 19, 1775 (being then but eighteen years of age), in the battle of Lexington to its final termination in 1783. Captain Jonathan Fletcher had a very elegant sword presented to him by the soldiers of his company at the close of the war, which sword was destroyed at the time the Bates family residence at North Brookfield was burned in 1844. There was also destroyed at that
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time a large family Bible, prepared by Captain Jona- than Fletcher, and containing a perfect and full record of the Fletcher family, extending back through many generations and branches.
Captain Jonathan Fletcher was a warm personal friend of Paul Revere and also of General Henry Knox. After the close of the war General Knox became a very large owner of real estate in St. George's, Maine, and went there to live in 1795, afterwards removing to Thomaston, Maine, where he died on October 25, 1806. Captain Jonathan Fletcher accompanied General Knox to Maine and remained there, near or with him, for several years, until the death of his wife, Lucretia Emerson Fletcher, who died in Thomaston, July 7, 1800. Captain Jonathan Fletcher went to Boston, Massa- chusetts, and died there January 16, 1807, and was buried in Copp's Hill burial grounds, near the Old North Church, with Masonic honors. He was a member of Saint Andrew's Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Boston, Massachusetts.
Thus it is clearly shown that both Major Daniel Fletcher and his son, Captain Jonathan Fletcher, were very patriotic soldiers in the colonial and revo- lutionary wars, especially is this true of Jonathan, who at the early age of sixteen years entered the ser- vice as a private in the minute men of 1775, and who merited and received several promotions, and remained in the revolutionary army until the close of the war, during six years of which he served as a commissioned officer, the first three being as a lieutenant, the last three as a captain.
Captain Jonathan Fletcher, son of Major Daniel and Sarah Hartwell 'Fletcher, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, January 21, 1757. He was married on May 20, 1782, in Acton, to Lucretia Emerson. She was born in Acton, August 4, 1764, and died in Thomaston, Maine, July 7, 1800. Captain Jonathan Fletcher died in Boston, Massachusetts, January 16, 1807.
Sarah Fletcher, fourth and youngest daughter of Captain Jonathan and Lucretia Emerson Fletcher, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 3, 1799. She was married on August 2, 1818, in Boston, Massa- chusetts, to Elijah Bates, born in Cohasset, Massa- chusetts, April 25. 1796. They were married by the Rev. Jolin Murray, of Boston. Elijah Bates died in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, September 6, 1863. Sarah Fletcher died in Worcester, Massa- chusetts, September 28, 1890.
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