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(II) Robert Rand, son of Robert Rand (I), was born in England and doubtless came over with his father. As he was not mentioned in the will of Alice Rand, his father's widow, it is presumed that he was a son by a former marriage. He was a farmer at Woodend in the northerly part of Lynn; was living there in 1649 and died there November 8, 1694. His wife, Elizabeth, died August 29, 1693. Children : I. Robert, born about 1653. 2.
Zechariah, mentioned below. 3. Hannah, born August, 1657, married, September 18, 1682, Jacob Knight or King, and died August 29, 1683. 4. Elizabeth, married Joseph Hall. 5. Mary, married Nathaniel Kirtland. 6. Sarah, married, July 1, 1674, Ephraim Hall.
(III) Zechariah Rand, son of Robert Rand (2), was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, about 1655 : married, April 2, 1684, Ann Ivory. He
died in 1705-06, and his estate was adminis- tered by his widow who married (second), September 15, 17II, Samuel Baxter. Chil- dren, perhaps not in correct order : I. Daniel, born about 1686, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, drowned in Mystic river, October 31, 1695; cordwainer by trade at Charlestown. 3. Eliz- abeth, married, (published December II) 1726, David Rice, of Weymouth. 4. Mary, born at Lynn, married, July 13, 1735, Ebe- 1ezer Tarbox. 5. Anna, married, May 21, 1730, Benjamin Eaton, of Lynn. 6. John, died June 4, 1730, in thirty-third year : mar- ried, October 24, 1723, Sarah Dudley.
(IV) Daniel Rand, son of Zechariah Rand (3), was born in Lynn about 1686. He was in Shrewsbury in 1718 when house lot No. II was granted to him, and he was one of the founders of the church there. His son Solo- mon was the first person baptized after the church was organized and Rev. Job Cushing ordained the minister. Daniel Rand married, January 18, 1720,. Mary Keyes, daughter of Major John and Mary (Eames) Keyes. She was born in 1700 and died March 5, 1757. John Keyes was the son of Elias and grand- son of Robert, the immigrant. Children of Daniel and Mary Rand, born at Sudbury : I. Mary, born October 12, 1721, died young. 2. Solomon, born March 13, 1723, baptized De- cember 15, 1723, probably named for the eld- est of her mother's brothers who perished in the burning of their home in August, 1723. 3. Mary, born January 25, 1725. 4. Thankful, born December 6, 1727. 5. Sarah, baptized August 23, 1730, married Timothy Wheelock. 6. Phebe, born January 1, 1733, married, July I, 1755, Samuel Bigelow. 7. Rezinah, born 1735, baptized August 10, 1735 ; married Joel Whittemore in 1761 and died December 29, 1768. 8. Daniel, born November 10, 1738, died in 1742. 9. Levinah, baptized October II, 1741, di-d 1742. TO. Levinah, born July 14, 1743, married John Keyes Witherbee. Child of Daniel and his second wife, Martha Bruce, married November I, 1759: 1I. Daniel, born July 12, 1760.
(V) Solomon Rand, son of Daniel Rand (4), was born March 13, 1723, died July, 1801. Married, September 15, 1741, Deborah Dodge, daughter of Jabez Dodge, of Ipswich. She was admitted to the Shrewsbury church in 1742, and died Julv, 1810, aged eighty-four years. Her brother, Rev. Ezekiel Dodge, was the minister at Abington, Massachusetts. Her father, Jabez Dodge, was born in Ipswich, March 22, 1686, removed from Ipswich to Worcester, thence to Shrewsbury. He was
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son of Richard Dodge, the immigrant, of Sa- lem and Beverly, and grandson of John Dodge, of East Coker, Somersetshire, Eng- land. Children: I. Colonel Daniel, born Oc- tober 15, 1742, settled in Rindge; captain in Revolutionary war, colonel of militia later, representative to general court ten years. 2. Anna, born October 2, 1744, married, 1765, Colonel Jonathan Wheeler, of Grafton. 3. Ezekiel, born March 24, 1747, mentioned be- low. 4. Solomon, born March 5, 1750. 5. Wareham, born February 3, 1752. 6. Jasper, born July 2, 1754, died 1756. 7. Deborah, born December 9, 1756, married Daniel Baker. 8. Jasper, born March 10, 1760. 9. Artemas, born July 5, 1763.
(VI) Ezekiel Rand, son of Solomon Rand (5), was born at Shrewsbury, March 24, 1747; settled with his brothers Daniel and Solomon in Rindge, New Hampshire. He was ensign in his company at the battle of Bunker Hill and remained with his company until the end of the siege of Boston. He was a lieutenant in Colonel Enoch Hale's regiment in 1778. He was a man of exemplary charac- ter and good abilities. He died May 17, 1826; his widow September 23, 1833. He married Anna Demary, daughter of John Demary. Children : I. Ezekiel, born November 26, 1780, at Rindge. 2: Asaph, born November 24, 1782. 3. Absalom, born September 3, 1784. 4. Jasper, born August II, 1791.
(VII) Absalom Rand, son of Ezekiel Rand (6), was born at Rindge, New Hampshire, September 3, 1784, died April 5, 1855. Mar- ried (first), September 28, 1806, Mary Win- ship, of Charlestown, who died May 21, 1818; married (second), November 25, 1821, Sarah Gill, of Concord, who died June 23, 1857. Chil- dren, all born in Charlestown, Massachusetts : I. Charles W., born March 28, 1807, died No- vember 7, 1847. 2. John W., born November I, 1808, died April, 1833 at sea. 3. Nathan, born May 22, 1810, died August 25, 1830. 4. Mary, born December 5, 1812, died March 12, 1840; married, 1840, Orange Harvey. 5. Ezekiel, born August 9, 1814, died March 20, 1816. 6. Anna D., born October 9, 1816, died April 27, 1877. 7. Sarah, born January 5, 1818, lied same year. Children of Absalom and Sarah (Gill) Rand: 8. Edward Turner born December 19, 1823, mentioned below. 9. Sarah, born January 6, 1826, died September 15, 1861. 10. Benjamin S., born May 9, 1828, died May 18, 1875. II. Hannah G., born July 23, 1830, died October 3, 1887. 12. Caroline, born April 26, 1833, died February II, 1872.
13. John F., born March 29, 1838, died May 27, 1905.
(VIII) Edward Turner Rand, son of Ab- salom Rand (7), was born December 19, 1823, in the old family residence, Cordis street, Charlestown, where his father settled in 1803. At the age of nineteen he began to learn the trade of soap making, and in 1816 started in the business of soap manufacture on his own account and became very successful. His first factory was on the present site of St. Mary's Church. In 1835 he removed his business to Charlestown Neck to a new factory that he built for his own use. In January, 1856, he entered partnership with William A. Byam, another successful manufacturer, and they continued in business together with the utmost harmony and good profits for a period of forty years. Mr. Rand retired from business in 1895, a year before his death. Mr. Rand used to relate with some satisfaction and pride that although very young he was present at the Lafayette reception with his father and mother, and he was also in early childhood a witness of the laying of the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument and was just one min- ute too late to see the capstone adjusted, twenty-seven years later, when the monument was completed. He took part in the upbuild- ing and development of the town and was in- tensely interested in its affairs. He attended the formal opening of the dry dock at the United States navy yard at Charlestown and saw the historic "Constitution" docked there with Commodore Hull himself on the deck, June, 1833. With other boys of Charlestown he saw the burning of the Ursuline Convent, August II, 1834. For more than ten years he was an active member of the Bunker Hill En- gine Company, and a member of the board of engineers in 1851-52. He was in the board of aldermen in 1873, the last year in which Charlestown had its own municipal govern- ment. He was a member of the Massachusetts Society of the American Revolution, the Mas- sachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association. He was interested in the Training Field School Association; his own early education was received in the Training Field and Bunk- er Hill Schools in Charlestown. He was a member of the 999 Artillery Club of Charles- town. He died January 27, 1896, and was buried in Mount Auburn cemetery. He was a citizen of many substantial qualities, upright and honorable in every walk of life, and en- joyed the respect and confidence of his asso- ciates in business and, indeed, of all who knew
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him. He married, April 25, 1850, Frances E. Blodgett, daughter of Nathan Blodgett; she was born in Somerville, June 25, 1827, died January 7, 1898. Children : I. Alfred, born August 27, 1851, died May 9, 1877 ; educated at the public and high schools, graduating in 1868 from the high school and in 1872 from Harvard College, A. B., cum laude. 2. Eliza- beth Frances, born May 15, 1857, married Frank W. Goodrich; resides in Somerville ; no issue.
PELTON John Pelton, the immigrant an- cestor, was born in England about 1616, and is thought to have belonged to the Pelton family of Essex whose history extends to the time of William the Conqueror. . The ancestor of this family was granted the estate known later as Pelden Manor after the battle of Hastings, and his descendants held it until about 1358. John Pelton came to Boston, Massachusetts, about 1630. He had land in Boston before 1634 on the south side of Essex street, from Wash- ington street easterly. He removed to Dor- chester in 1635 and was a proprietor there. He also was one of the forty-seven owners of the Great Lots. He married Susanna
about 1643. He died in Dorchester, January 23, 1681. His will dated January 3, 1681, twenty days before his death, and proved March 16 following, mentions his wife Susan- na ; his sons John, Samuel and Robert, and his daughter Mary. His widow died May 7, 1706. Children : 1. John, born early in 1645, bap- tized March 2, 1645. 2. Samuel, mentioned below. 3. Robert, born about 1650, mariner, lost at sea July, 1685. 4. Mary, born about 1653, baptized February 18, 1654.
(II) Samuel Pelton, son of John Pelton (I), was born in Dorchester in 1646, baptized January 25, 1646-47. He married, July 16, 1673, Mary Smith, daughter of John Smith, quartermaster of Dorchester, mariner. Mr. Pelton lived in Dorchester until about 1687. when he went to Bristol, Rhode Island, where he lived on Mount Hope farm. After several years he removed to Seekonk, Massachusetts, where he probably died about 1713. His wife owned the covenant at Dorchester, October 22, 1682. Of their children the first five were born in Dorchester, the remaining three in Bristol, Rhode Island : I. Samuel, born Janu- ary 26, 1675. 2. Mary, born May 29, 1678, married, December 12, 1712, Nathaniel Col- burn. 3. Deliverance, born July 31, 1680. 4. John, born January 9, 1682. 5. Ithamar, born
May, 1686. 6. Henry, born December 10, 1690, mentioned below. 7. Sarah, born March 23, 1693. 8. Benjamin, born September 3, 1698, died at Hopewell, New Jersey, in 1775. (III) Henry Pelton, son of Samuel Pelton (2), was born at Bristol, Massachusetts, now Rhode Island, December 10, 1690, on the Mount Hope farm on which his father then lived. He removed to Groton, Connecticut, where he married, April 29, 1712, Mary Rose. He died at Groton in 1763. He was a farmer and a man of high standing in the community. He gave farms to his sons Paul, February 14, 1745, and July 15, 1760, and to Reuben and Thomas. His son Paul agreed to care for his parents for the remainder of their lives. Chil- dren, all born at Groton : I. Samuel, born De- cember 16, 1714, married, June 17, 1736, Sybil Yeomans. 2. Thomas, born July 22, 1717, married, July 9, 1740, Hannah. Avery. 3. Paul, born May 14, 1720, married, August 20, 1743, Mary Avery. 4. Preserved, born January 24, 1722. 5. Lemuel, born February 22, 1724, married, April 8, 1747, Mary Cornwell. 6. Reuben, born January 24, 1726. 7. Robert, born June 9, 1728, married, August 19, 1751, died June 21, 1789. 8. Moses, born 1728, mentioned below. 9. Ephraim, born June 12, 1732, married Mary Spelman.
(IV) Moses Pelton, son of Henry Pelton (3), was born at Groton, Connecticut, about 1728, married, about 1750, Mary Whipple. They lived in Somers, Connecticut, and his house was standing in 1880 and may be at present. He died April 16, 1778. On the Lexington alarm Pelton marched with the Groton company, Captain Solomon Wills, Col- onel Spencer, and served at Roxbury from May until December 1, 1775. He was killed by a cannon ball from the British shipping while retreating from New York. He was one of the early settlers of Somers. Children : I. Moses, born June 27, 1751, died June 19, 1809; married Dorothy Benton. 2. Joel, born November 5, 1753, mentioned below. 3. Han- nah, born at Somers, died May 10, 1754. 4. Mary, born February 26, 1754. 5. Hannah, born August 30, 1755, died in Somers unmar- ried February 16, 1817. 6. Lemuel, born 1757. 7. Elizabeth, born November, 1763.
(V) Joel Pelton, son of Moses Pelton (4), was born at Somers, Connecticut, November 5, 1753. He served in the Revolution ; then went east and settled in Maine, first at Wool- wich, afterwards in Washington, Jefferson and finally Madrid, where he died March 7. 1856, aged one hundred and three years. He went to Madrid in 1810 and stayed there six
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years, then to Washington for twelve years and back to Madrid. He was a tanner and farmer. He was an industrious man, vigorous in mind and body and of good health and great strength. He was in Captain Brigham's com- pany, Colonel Obadiah Johnson's regiment, in 1778; later of Captain Paul Brigham's com- pany of the Fifth Connecticut Line, organized in 1781 from the former First and Eighth Regiments. He drew a pension for his ser- vice and when over eighty years of age used to walk to Augusta to receive it. Children: I. Sarah, born probably at Woolwich about 1781, married Ebenezer Runlet, of Wiscasset. 2. Thomas, born August, 1783, married, about 1804, Betsey Gray. 3. Joel, Jr., born March IO, 1785, married, July 4, 1810, Jerusha Thomas ; died September 29, 1865. 4. Bridget (always called Mary), born at Woolwich, Maine, in 1786, married Richard Parks, men- tioned below. 5. Simon, born about 1788, went to sea and never returned. 6. Alexander, born September 24, 1791, married, July 31, 1820, Ann Mayberry; (second), June 4, 1835, Louisa Leman; (third), June 23, 1839, Sarah A. Young ; he died May 4, 1879. 7. Timothy, born January 26, 1792, married, December 28, 1812, Mercy Hinckley. 8. Mary or Polly, born at Jefferson, Maine, in 1793, married, 1810, at Phillips, Maine, Aaron Huntoon, son of Jonathan Huntoon, of Wiscasset; died at Madrid, October II, 1852. 9. Moses, born January 9, 1794, married, January 17, 1827, Jane Stinson. 10. Miriam, .born at Jefferson, Maine, April 20, 1799, married, December 25, 1818, Franklin Perry. II. Eliza, born at Washington, April 17, 1800, married, October 21, 1822, Isaac Benson, son of Seth. 12. Abi- gail, born at Jefferson, May 20, 1803, married (first) Hutchins ; (second)
Leman ; (third) Trask; (fourth) Franklin Perry, who married first her sister Miriam. 13. Hannah, born October 28, 1804, married in Lincoln county, July, 1826, Job Perry, son of David Perry, of Wayne, Maine. 14. Nancy, born about 1806, married William Pinkham; resided at North Union, Knox county, Maine. 15. Almira, born at Washing- ton, May 13, 1809, married at Madrid, Sep- tember 28, 1830, Aaron Wells ; died there Feb- ruary 26, 1868.
(VI) Mary Pelton, daughter of Joel Pelton (5), was born in Woolwich, Maine, married Richard Parks, who was born in 1787 and died February 3, 1871, son of Frederick Parks, of Winnegance, (Bath) Maine. She died Janu- ary I, 1835. They lived in Richmond, Maine. Frederick Parks was one of the pioneer set-
tlers after the Revolution in the town of Rich- mond, Maine. He married a Miss De Con- stant, of a French family; children: John, settled in Bath, Maine; Harriet, married Lewis; James, Richard, Daniel, Thomas, Chetham. Richard Parks was farmer. Children of Richard and Mary (Pel- ton) Parks : 1. Margaret Frith, married James. G. Briry ; children : i. Alva Richard; ii. Edgar Snow Briry. 2. Frederick Jennings, born in Richmond, Maine. 3. Elwell, born in Rich- mond, resides in Brookline, Massachusetts ;. no children. 4. Solomon Davis, born in Rich- mond. 5. Delia A., born in Richmond, mar- ried a Mr. Jones, of Hope, Maine. 6. Alfred Lewis, born in Richmond. 7. Chetham, born. January 31, 1831, mentioned below.
(VII) Chetham Parks, son of Richard (6) and Mary (Pelton) Parks, was born in Rich- mond, Maine, January 31, 1831. He received. his early education in the public schools of his. native place, the school at Kent's hill and at: Litchfield corner. He spent his youth on the farm of his father. He learned the trade of carpenter. He fell from a building March 25, 1851, and broke his leg. After recovering he became clerk in the general store of D. & A. Allen, who were also ship builders. He be- came bookkeeper for the firm and took advan -. tage of every opportunity to gain more educa- tion, going to school at Kent's hill during the- hours he could be spared from business in 1853-54. He was employed as salesman in Spear's store one year. In 1856 he went to work for Alfred Perry of Winnegance as clerk and bookkeeper. He finally engaged in busi- ness on his own account in Richmond in com- pany with his brother-in-law, James G. Briry, under the firm name of Briry & Parks, dealers. in meats and provisions. He left Richmond April 7, 1857, and spent two years in Lake. City, in the southern part of Minnesota, but concluded to return east. On his return De- cember 21, 1858, he went to work at the car- penter's trade in Boston. Then he bought out the business of Richard P. Roe, provision dealer, 84 Cambridge street, and continued this business from 1864 to 1877 in Boston under his own name without a partner. He sold out to Melvin Toothaker and removed to Somerville. Since then he has been in the real estate business and largely occupied with the care of his own property in Somerville.
He married, February 1, 1864, Augusta A. Lee, daughter of Parks and Eliza (Morse) Lee, of Bath, Maine. She was born in Maine, died December 27, 1877. Their five children all died in infancy. He married (second)
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Lavinia Wilbur, daughter of Benjamin and Ruth Wilbur, of Pembroke, Maine. They have one child, Chetham, Jr., born at Somerville, September 23, 1889, now a student at Mitchell's school, Billerica.
REVERE
Jean Rivoire, the immigrant ancestor of the Revere family of Massachusetts, belonged to
the ancient and distinguished family of Rivoires or De Rivoires of Romagnieu, France. They were Huguenots and some of the family fled from France during the Catho- lic Inquisition. He married Magdelaine Malaperge. Children : I. Simon, eldest son, was a refugee from France; went first to Hol- land and afterwards settled in the Isle of Guernsey, Great Britain; took with him the coat of arms of the family, on a silver seal ; and these arms were afterwards registered in the French Heraldry Book, in London, at the Heralds' Office. 2. Apollos. 3. Isaac, men- tioned below.
(II) Isaac Rivoire, son of Jean Rivoire (I), was born about 1670 in France; married in 1694 Serenne Lambert. They had several children, one of whom was named Apollos. The following account of his birth was written in the family Bible by the father and a copy of it sent to Colonel Paul Revere, Boston, by Matthias Rivoire, a second cousin, of Martel, near St. Foy, France. "Apollos Rivoire, or son, was born the thirtieth of November, 1702, about ten o'clock at Night and was baptised at Riancaud, France, Apollos Rivoire, my brother, was his Godfather and Anne Maul- mon my sister-in-law his Godmother. He set out for Guernsey the 21st of November 1715." According to the late General Joseph Warren Revere, Apollos, the father of the famous Paul Revere, became the true heir and lineal representative of his brother, Simon de Rivoire, and the American branch of the family, consequently, is the legal heir at the present day. All the other heirs having be- come extinct, the American family would in- herit the titles and estates if any now remained to inherit.
(III) Apollos Rivoire, son of Isaac Rivoire (2), was born in Riancaud, France, November 30, 1702. As stated above he set out for the Isle of Guernsey, November 21, 1715, and must have reached the home of his uncle by the time his birthday arrived. He was then thirteen and was apprenticed to his Uncle Simond who soon afterward sent the boy to Boston, Massachusetts, with instructions to
his correspondents to have him learn the gold- smith's trade, agreeing to defray all expenses. He learned his trade of John Cony, of Boston, who died August 20, 1722. Revere's "time," valued at forty pounds, was paid for, as shown by the settlement of Cony's estate. During the year 1723 he returned to Guernsey on a visit to his relatives, but determined to make his home in Boston and soon came back. He established himself in the business of a gold and silversmith, and modified his name to suit the demands of English tongues, to Paul Revere. But for many years the surname was variously spelled in the public records, "Reverie" and "Revear" being common. About May, 1730, he "removed from Captain Pitt's at the Town Dock to the north end over against Colonel Hutchinson's." This house was on North street, now Hanover, opposite Clark street, near the corner of Love lane, now Tileston street. He was a member of the New Brick or "Cockerel" Church, so called from the cockerel weather vane which is still in ser- vice on the Shepherd Memorial Church, Cam- bridge. Samples of his handiwork have been preserved. A silver tankard owned now or lately by Mrs. William H. Emery, of Newton, Massachusetts, was made about 1747 for Re- becca Goodwill, whose name and the date are engraved on it.
After he had been in business a few years he married, June 19, 1729, Deborah Hitch- born, who was born in Boston, January 29, 1704. She died in May, 1777; he died July 22, 1754. Children: I. Deborah, baptized February 27, 1731-32. 2. Paul, born December 21, 1734, mentioned below. 3. Frances, born July, 1736, baptized July 18. 4. Thomas, bap- tized August 27, 1738, died young. 5. Thomas, baptized January 13, 1739-40. 6. John, bap- tized October II, 174I. 7. Mary, baptized July 13, 1743. 8. Elizabeth (twin), baptized July 13, 1743, died young. 9. Elizabeth, bap- tized January 20, 1744-45. There were twelve in all.
(IV) Colonel Paul Revere, son of Paul Revere (Apollos Rivoire) (3), was born in Boston, December 21, 1734, and was baptized December 22, 1734, the following day. He received his education from the famous Mas- ter Tileston at the North grammar school, and then entered his father's shop to learn the trade of goldsmith and silversmith. He had much natural ability in designing and drawing and became a prominent engraver. He taught himself the art of engraving on copper. His early plates, of course, were crude in detail, but they were forceful and expressive, and his
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later work was characterized by a considerable degree of artistic merit and elegance. His unique abilities show to the best advantage in his craft of which he was a master. His ser- vices to the colonies in the struggle for inde- pendence and afterward by his skill as an en- graver and artisan were as important, perhaps, as his military achievements, to the cause of liberty. One of his triumphs for the Ameri- can cause was the manufacture of gunpowder at Canton, Massachusetts, when the only source of supply was in the vicinity of Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, the proprietor of which was hostile to the establishment of Revere's plant. He succeeded, however, and thus greatly strengthened the resources of the Northern army. He was also employed by the government to oversee the casting and manufacture of cannon, to engrave and print the notes issued in the place of money by Con- gress and by the state of Massachusetts. In addition to his shop, he established an impor- tant hardware store on Essex street, opposite the site of the famous Liberty Tree that was the center of much of the patriotic demonstra- tion of pre-Revolutionary times. There was apparently no limit to the variety of work suc- cessfully essayed by Revere, for it is shown on abundant testimony that in his younger days he practiced with much skill the making and inserting of artificial teeth, an art that he learned of an English dentist temporarily lo- cated in Boston, and he also designed many of the frames that surround the paintings of his
friend, Copley. These were, however, but in- cidents in comparison with the bolder under- takings of later years. In 1789 he established an iron foundry of considerable capacity and in 1792 began to cast church bells, the first of which, still in existence, was for the Second Church of Boston. He cast many bells, of which some are still in use in the old parish churches of Massachusetts. He took his son, Toseph Warren Revere, into business with him. Brass cannon and many kinds of metal work needed for the building and equipment of the ships of the navy were manufactured for the government. He invented a process of treating copper that enabled him to hammer and roll it while heated, thus greatly facili- tating the manufacture of the bolts and spikes used in his work. In many respects the most important of all his enterprises was that of rolling copper into large sheets, established in 1800, aided by the United States government to the extent of ten thousand dollars, to be repaid in sheet copper. It was the first copper rolling mill in the country. The plates were
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