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tin, Elizabeth. 8. Elizabeth, married Moses Symmes, of Reading, Massachusetts. Chil- dren : i. . Celia, born at Reading ; ii.
Everett, born at Hartford, Maine; iii. Elizabeth, born at Canton. 9. Jacob Mitchell, mentioned below. IO. Walter Byron, men- tioned below. II. Hannah Maria, married Hiram Childs, of Peru, Maine. Children born at Peru : i. Nettie; ii. Emerson; iii. Clinton; iv. Annie; v. Jennie, born at Woburn; vi. Hiram, born at Woburn. 12. Infant, died young.
(IV) Jacob Mitchell Ellis, son of Martin Ellis (3), was born at Canton, Maine, Novem- ber, 1834. He attended the district schools of his native town. He began to work on the farm when very young, and at the age of six- teen left home to work at North Malden, Mas- sachusetts, for his brother, P. R. Ellis, who was the proprietor of an express business be- tween Boston and Melrose. He returned home, after some months, but two years later again came to Massachusetts and learned the trade of shoemaking at Melrose. He became foreman of a shoe factory there before the Civil war. He enlisted from Melrose and was mustered in July 31, 1861, at Quincy, a private in the Second Battery, Massachusetts Volun- teer Light Artillery, Captain Ormand F. Nims. He received an honorable discharge at Frank- lin, Louisiana, February 15, 1864, and re- enlisted the same day. He was promoted for gallant and meritorious service to the rank of corporal, then sergeant and January 2, 1865, second lieutenant. The Second Battery was the first light battery recruited in the state for three years service and was organized in Boston by Major Cobb. Enlistment began April 18, 1861, and on July 5 following the battery went to Camp Adams, Quincy ; left the state August 8, encamping August 12 at Mt. Clare, Baltimore, Maryland, in General Dix's Department. During November the battery took part in a number of expeditions into Maryland and Virginia for the purpose of suppressing secession sentiment and the re- cruiting of rebel troops, returning after a cam- paign of forty-one days to Baltimore. The battery was attached to General Butler's Ex- pedition against New Orleans, and ordered February 25, 1862, to Fortress Monroe, and April 5 ordered to New Orleans. They moved on Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 31, in Gen- eral Williams's brigade, and June 20 embarked on an expedition against Vicksburg, landing at Ellis Cliffs, June 22, driving out a hostile force : re-embarked and again landed June 25 and June 27 to take part in the bombardment
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of Vicksburg; July 26 they returned to Baton Rouge and August 21, after the battle at Baton Rouge, moved on to Carrollton and thence to New Orleans, where they remained until their return, December 17, to Baton Rouge, having been assigned to General Grover's division, Nineteenth Army Corps, Department of the Gulf. They joined in the demonstration March 13, 1863, against Port Huron and shelled the enemy's works; took part in the Teche Ex- pedition and operations at Fort Bisland, Louis- iana, reaching Alexander on the Red river, May 12, arriving May 25 in front of Port Hudson and began the siege in which the bat- tery was constantly active until the Confed- erates surrenderer July 9, 1863. After that Mr. Ellis was on duty with the battery at Donaldsville and New Orleans. Several ex- peditions were made into the interior after September 17 and there were engagements at Vermillion river and Carrion Crow Bayou, Louisiana. They camped November 16 at New Iberia, remaining until January, 1864, moving thence to Franklin and March 13, 1864, marched under General Banks in his Red River campaign, marching constantly, skirm- ishing and fighting desperately at Sabine Cross Roads, Louisiana, against overwhelming odds, losing nearly all their horses, and making it necessary for the battery to spike most of their guns. The command received new guns on the return to New Orleans, and September 2 moved to Morganza, Louisiana, engaging in numerous scouting expeditions during the win- ter. The battery was removed in the spring to Florida, landing March 10, 1865, at Barranca, marching through incessant rain and deep mud to take part in the Siege of Mobile, Alabama. They invested Fort Blakeley, April 2, 1865, and after the surrender, April 9, marched to Claiborne, Alabama, fighting at Daniels Plan- tation, April II. They were continually on the march for the next seven weeks on the road to Vicksburg, completing a difficult march of six- teen hundred miles June 4, with the loss of many horses and mules in three months. He started for home, July 22, 1865, and arrived in Boston, August 4, 1865, being discharged and mustered out at Gallup's Island, August II, 1865. After the close of the war he served nine years as first lieutenant of Battery C, of Melrose, Massachusetts.
Mr. Ellis has been in the stone mason busi- ness since the war. He was in partnership with his two brothers, Perez R. and Walter B. Ellis, under the firm name of J. M. Ellis and Co. from 1872 several years, as contractors and doing a general express business. Jacob
M. Ellis subsequently engaged in the stone contracting business and in bridge building for the Boston & Maine Railroad Company and others. Some years later he formed a partner- ship with John W. Buswell, of Salisbury, Mas- sachusetts, under the firm name of Ellis & Bus- well Company, of which Mr. Ellis is the presi - dent, with offices at 27 Salem street, Woburn. Among the large contracts taken by Mr. Ellis and the firm of Ellis & Buswell Company were: The stone railway stations at Prospect Hill in 1886; at Somerville Highlands in 1887 ; at Winthrop Hill in 1888; at Somerville Junc- tion in 1889; at North Somerville in 1893; all stone work connected with the separation of grades at Haverhill in 1905; the Blood Brook Arch Bridge at Hanover, New Hampshire; bridge at Brattle street, Arlington Heights, Massachusetts ; Guildhall Bridge at Guildhall, Vermont; bridge at Goffstown, New Hamp- shire ; elevator foundation on Mystic Wharf at Charlestown; all the stone work at Northern Union Station, Boston; the viaduct between Chelsea and Charlestown ; twelve piers and two. abuttments at Thomaston, Maine; the big pier at the Androscoggin river at Lewiston; two piers and two abuttments at Lewiston Lower Falls. The firm controls two excellent quar- ries, one at Biddeford, Maine, the other at Peabody, Massachusetts. Mr. Ellis built his elegant and substantial residence at 27 Salem street, where he has his office as well.
He is a member of the Woburn Unitarian Church. In politics he is a Democrat, and has served his party repeatedly as a delegate to various nominating conventions. He has been an alderman and councilman of the city of Woburn; an overseer of the poor and license commissioner. He was made a Mason at M'el- rose in 1866, and demitted to Mt. Horeb Lodge of Free Masons, March 27, 1872; of Woburn Royal Arch Chapter; of Melrose Council, Royal and Select Masters, January 25, 1873; of Hugh de Payen's Commandery, Knights Templar, at Melrose; of Massachu- setts Consistory, thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite Masonry, at Boston, January 3, 1896; and of the Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine, at Boston. He is also a member of Crystal Fount Lodge, No. 9, Odd Fellows, at Woburn; of the Order of Elks; of Burbank Post, No. 33, Grand Army, and of the Meshawum and Grand Army Club, and was a charter member of U. S. Grant Post, No. 4, of Melrose. He is president of the Peabody (Massachusetts) Granite Company.
He married, June 17, 1851, Betsey Jane Packard, who died in 1861, daughter of
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Moses Packard, of Buckfield, Maine. He married (second), August 26, 1865, Margaret Clinton, in New Orleans, Louisiana, who was born at New York City, November 30, 1839, daughter of William and Catherine Clinton, of New York City. Children of Jacob M. and Betsey J. Ellis : I. Edgar S., mar- ried, September, 1879, Ella De Loria; four children who died and Jacob Joseph Ellis. 2. William Burton, married Georgie Pierce, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and had Leslie B. Children of Jacob M. and Margaret Ellis: 3. George Russell, born June 1, 1866, died May 30, 1872. 4. Ella Gertrude, born May II, 1868, died January 28, 1869. 5. Arthur Clinton, married Lorena Davis, of Stoneham, daughter of George F. Davis, of Stoneham; no children. 6. Infant, born and died May 31, 1873. 7. Maud Abbie, born May 5, 1879, married, March 20, 1901, Harry A. Jones, son of James A. and Mary E. (Hill) Jones, of Stoneham; children: i. Evelyn Margaret, born January 10, 1902; ii. Marianne Arden, born August 15, 1904. 8. Ernest Melville, born May 31, 1883, married, November 4, 1903, Bertha Maria Hurd; children: i. Ernes- tine Helen, born April 4, 1904; ii. Clinton Mitchell, born October 15, 1905.
(IV) Walter Byron Ellis, son of Martin Ellis (3), was born in Canton, Maine, March I, 1836. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, attending the win- ter terms of school until he was twenty years old, and meanwhile working in summer with his father on the homestead. When he came of age he left home and located at Melrose, Massachusetts, and for a year drove an ex- press team from Melrose to Boston for his brother, Perez R. Ellis. He subsequently re- turned to Canton and worked for a year in a saw mill and then resumed farming until 1872, when he returned to Melrose to enter partnership with his brothers, P. R. and Ja- cob M. Ellis, contractors and stone masons, under the firm name of D. M. Ellis & Co., also conducting the express business between Melrose and Boston. After two years the firm was dissolved and he undertook con- tracting on his own account, following it with marked success until 1892, when he was elected superintendent of streets of the city of Melrose. He held the position, giving emi- nent satisfaction to the public that he served until 1899, when he resigned to accept a po- sition with his son, Fred E. Ellis, contractor and stone mason, and he is at present asso- ciated with him. His present home in Win
throp he built together with other buildings necessary for his business.
He is a member of the Universalist church at Melrose, and is a Democrat in politics. He was for seven years engineer of the Melrose Fire Department and has always shown a lively interest in its welfare. He is a member of Oriental Star Lodge, No. 21, Free Ma- sons, of Livermore, Maine; of Waverly Chap- ter of Royal Arch Masons at Melrose; of Melrose Council of Royal and Select Mas- ters at Melrose; of Hugh De Payen's Com- mandery, Knights Templar, at Melrose, and is a thirty-second degree Mason of the Scot- tish Rite. He is a member of U. S. Grant Post, Grand Army. He enlisted August 28, 1863, in Company G, Fourth Maine Infantry, Second Brigade, Third Army Corps, under Colonel Walker and served in the Army of the Potomac; was in the hospital nine months; received an honorable discharge March 28, 1865.
He married, August 26, 1860, Martha Jane Child, who was born at Livermore, Maine, April 20, 1841, daughter of Marshall and Olive (Stetson) Child, of Livermore. Her father, Marshall, was a farmer and was at one time selectman of Livermore. Children: I. Frances Olive, born March 26, 1861, died September 15, 1864. 2. Florence May, born December 2, 1862, teacher in the public schools, New Bedford, Massachusetts. 3. Olive Alberta, born May 20, 1865; married, October 24, 1894, Charles C. Garey, of Med- ford, Massachusetts; children: i. Florence May, born July 24, 1895; ii. Mildred Alice, . August 30, 1896; iii. Marjorie, October 19, 1901. 4. Fred Elihu, born January 15, 1868, married, June 12, 1892, Eleanor G. Thurber; children: i. Margaret, born July 5, 1893; ii. Catherine Frances, March 2, 1895. 5. George Byron, born November 15, 1870, married, November 15, 1892, Jennie Conway; no chil- dren. 6. Walter Russell, born September 21, 1876, died December II, 1879. 7. Emma Gertrude, born January 2, 1878, married, May 3, 1902, Harold Carter, of Melrose; no children.
John Lewis, the immigrant ances-
LEWIS tor, was born in England and settled among the earliest at Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was an in- habitant and planter of that town as early as 1634, and was admitted to the Charlestown Church, September 10, 1644. He removed to
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Malden, an adjoining town. His wife Mar- guerite was admitted to the Charlestown Church, September 7, 1638, and she died at Malden, March IO, 1649. He married (second), April 10, 1650, Mary Brown, be- lieved to be a daughter of Abraham Brown, of Watertown. Lewis had ten acres granted on the "Mystic Side" in 1637. His first lot was four acres. for planting, set off in 1634-35. His house was on the southwest slope of Mill Hill. His widow married Cutler. He died September 16, 1657. Children: I. John born September 12, 1638. 2. Joseph (twin), born March 29, 1640. 3. Mary (twin), born March 29, 1640. 4. Samuel, mentioned be- low. 5. Elizabeth, born September 6, 1642, married Bryant Borden. 6. Sarah, born De- cember 24, 1647, married Joseph Brabrook, born at Malden. 7. Abraham, born Decem- ber 10, 1650, of Rumney Marsh. 8. Jona- than, born January 4, died February 10, 1652. 9. Mary, born January, 1653, married Samuel Penfield. IO. Hannah. II. Isaac. 12. Trial, born January, 1657-58.
(II) Samuel Lewis, of Malden, son of John Lewis (I), was born at Charlestown, Massachu- setts, June 24, 1641. He settled after his father at Malden and was a farmer. He died there February I, 1698-99. He married, 1683, at Charlestown, Sarah Dutton. She married (second), before 1706, Samuel Dix. Children of Samuel and Sarah Lewis: I. Samuel, men- tioned below. 2. Sarah, born December 12, 1689. 3. Abigail, born February 6, 1694-95. 4. John, born March 14, 1698-99.
(III) Samuel Lewis, son of Samuel Lewis (2), was born in 1684-85. He resided in Reading and Lynn, Massachusetts. Married, 1706, Sarah Boutwell, daughter of John and Hannah Boutwell. He was dismissed to the North Parish Church in 1720. Children, born at Reading: I. Sarah, born 1707. 2. Mary, I709. 3. Samuel, mentioned below. 4. Abigail. 5. Ebenezer, 1717, trooper in the French war. 6. Phebe, 1720. 7. Joseph, 1722. 8. Lydia, 1724. 9. Benjamin.
(IV) Samuel Lewis, son of Samuel Lewis (3), was born at Reading, 1714. Married Mary Taylor. He was the father of Timothy Lewis, mentioned below.
(V) Timothy Lewis, born about .1740-45, son or nephew of Samuel Lewis (4), settled first in Reading, whence he removed to Westminster, Massachusetts, about 1772. He bought land in Westminster of Eli Keyes, of Westminster, sixty-four acres in the second division, including house and barn, by deed dated November 1, 1771. He is supposed to
have lived on this farm until November, 1772, when he sold it to Michael Sweetser, of Reading, a relative, weaver by trade, though in this deed the residence of Lewis is also given as Reading. Silas Whitney, of West- minster, bought the rights of various heirs to land in Westminster, March 8, 1777. These heirs were: Samuel and William Sweetser, of Lynn; Timothy Lewis and wife, Martha, Mary and Michael Sweetser; Paul, Cornelius and Lydia, Abigail and Elizabeth Sweetser, all of Reading. He was called of Westmin- ster for the first time in a deed dated April 14, 1778, of land at Westminster sold to Thomas Wetherbee. A few years later he lo- cated in the adjacent town of Lancaster. He and his wife, Martha, mortgaged their farm in Lancaster, April, 1800, to Charles Chase. They deeded land to Samuel Damon, Jr., in Lancaster, March II, 1808. Timothy Lewis died in Lancaster in 1816. His will was dated July 10, 1816, and allowed November 19, 1816. He married, June 25, 1767, Martha Sweetser, who was born September 13, 1741, at Reading, daughter of Michael and Mary Sweetser. Children: I. Martha, born June 27, 1769, married - Gibson. 2. Ede, mar- ried Hanson. 3. Lydia, was one of his executors. 4. Mary, was one of his execu- tors. 5. Timothy, married, October 18, 1799, Nabby Foster. 6. William, mentioned be- low. 7. Pearson. 8. Charles, married at Lancaster (intentions September 2, 1797) Hannah Damon, of Reading.
(VI) William Lewis, son of Timothy Lew- is (5), was born in Lancaster, about 1780. He was probably the William Lewis, of Lancas- ter, credited with Revolutionary service. He settled at Lynn, Massachusetts, where he died. He was a farmer. He married April 15, 1800, Martha Farmer Weston, of Read- ing, Massachusetts, born January 18, 1782, daughter of John J. and Lettice Weston, of Reading. Children: I. William, born at Reading, April II, 1801, died October 23, 1870; married (first), April 9, 1823, Emma Pratt; married (second) Hannah Jewell, of Winchester, New Hampshire: Children, all born at Winchester: i. Francis Weston, born January 13, 1823, married Julia Ann King, of Sudbury, Massachusetts; (children: Emma Frances Lewis; Benjamin K. Lewis); ii. Marshall Pratt, born February 6, 1824, mar- ried Caroline Thomas, of Middletown, Massachusetts (children: George Vernon Lewis; Harriet Olivia Lewis; Carrie H. Lew- is, Frank Lewis, and William Pratt Lewis); iii. Olivia Pratt, born November 19, 1828,
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married Dr. Daniel White, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, had child Ella White; iv. Emma Ann, born June 7, 1831, married Ira Fisher; (second) William Hunt; (third) J. M. Buss (children: Achsa Lewis Fisher, Celia Amanda Fisher, Florence Emma Fisher); v. William H., born November 28, 1832; (chil- dren-Helen Isadore; Mary Lillian). 2. Varnum, born at Reading, 1803, died 1848 at Bolton, Hinds county, Mississippi; removed to Natchez when he was only twelve years old; married twice; children of first wife of Varnum Lewis: i. Elizabeth, married Duke Askew (had Thomas Askew and Ella (As- kew) Knox, of Vicksburg, Mississippi) ; William; Varnum had by second wife, Sarah Moffett, whom he married in 1841; iii. Em- ma S., born October I, 1842, at Bolton, mar- ried, July 4, 1860, Dr. J. C. Clapp, who for forty years was president of the Catawba Col- lege at Newton, North Carolina, a German Reformed clergyman, born in 1833 (their children: Lewis Clapp, born May 16, 1861, died April, 1862; Carol, August 15, 1862; Emma L., June 2, 1864; Milton Clapp, Janu- ary 20, 1866; Ernest, December II, 1867; Crawford, December 13, 1869; Clarence Clapp, February 7, 1873; Rowland Clapp, February 1, 1875, died March 15, 1876; An- nie L. Clapp, February 2, 1877; Edward Clapp, July 7, 1878, died young; Robert Earle Clapp, July 10, 1879); iv. Thomas Varnum Lewis, born at Bolton, 1844, never married. 3. Hanson Beetfield, born Novem- ber 27, 1809, mentioned below. 4. David, married (first), April 15, 1829, Dorcas Smith, of Woburn, Massachusetts; she died Decem- ber 7, 1833, aged twenty-seven; child-Sarah Ann, born November 9, 1833; married (sec- ond) Mrs. Mary W. (Pearley) Butman; chil- dren-ii. Mary Elizabeth, born March 18, 1836; iii. Edward Augustus, October 16, 1838. 5. Dolly.
(VII) Hanson Beetfield Lewis, son of Wil- liam Lewis (6), was born at Reading, Novem- ber 27, 1809. When he was six years old his mother died and he was bound out as an ap- prentice until he came of age to his uncle, John Weston. He worked on the farm, at- tending the winter terms of the district school and later learning the trade of shoemaker. He conducted the old Sweetser place at South Reading for a time. In 1840 he took the Lawrence farm where the Lawrence School is now located and afterwards had the Lemuel Richardson farm on Cross street. He was appointed warden of the town farm in Woburn, April 1. 1856, and his wife matron.
They filled these positions successfully and creditably for a period of fourteen years, re- signing April, 1870, on account of the ill health of Mrs. Lewis. They were highly commended by the town for their faithful ser- vices and kind treatment of their charges. In 1851 he built his house on Highland street when that district was still pasture and wood- land, approached by the old Marshall lane, with scarcely any buildings where now is one of the closely built residential districts of the city. Mr. Lewis had charge of various es- tates in Woburn and was employed in several leather concerns in his later years. He died in Woburn, July 15, 1891. In politics he was originally a Jacksonian Democrat, but his abolition sentiments brought him into the Free Soil party later and he voted for Fre- mont, being after that a Republican for the remainder of his life. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest living mem- bers of the Baptist church with which he united by baptism in June, 1852, and of which he was a faithful, consistent and valued mem- ber. He was upright and honest in all his dealings and was held in the highest regard by his townsmen. He belonged to the Light Infantry and the militia company called the Home Guard during the Civil war.
He married (first), April 10, 1834, at Sa- lem, Massachusetts, Sarah M. Morong, who was born in Salem, July 30, 1813, and died February 21, 1849, daughter of John and Hannah (Nicholson) Morong. He married (second), April 4, 1850, Mrs. Olive (Walker) Weeks, widow of Richard P. Weeks, and daughter of Moses Billings and Oliver (Winn) Walker, of Burlington. She was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, February 18, 1818; died March 28, 1852. Child of Hanson B. and Sarah M. Lewis: I. Charles Edwards, born December 27, 1836, died June 5, 1840. Child of Hanson B. and Olive Lew- is: 2. William Henry, born March 20, 1852, mentioned below. Hanson B. married (third) November 22, 1852, Frances Ann Barker, of Cambridge, born at Piermont, New Hampshire, June 13, 1819, and died De- cember 8, 1890, daughter of Jedediah and Ann (Bailey) Barker, of Piermont.
(VIII) William Henry Lewis, son of Han- son Beetfield Lewis (7), was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, March 20, 1852. He at- tended the public schools of his native town and worked on his father's farm until he was eighteen years of age, when he became a clerk in the grocery store of Cyrus Tay & Company of Woburn. He left this firm to
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enter the employ of J. D. Porter & Company and continued with their successor, E. J. Jencks, for a year. He then operated a ma- chine for a year in the leather factory of Rus- sell & Johnson, but returned to the grocery business and was clerk for E. Dean & Com- pany three years. He was traveling salesman for one and one-half years for T. F. Randolph & Company, dealers in flour and grain ; eigh- teen months in the bakery and ice cream busi- ness on his own account in Newark, and then returned to the grocery business, and for ten years was employed by Fitz & Stanley, of Woburn. In the spring of 1891 he started in his present grocery business at the corner of Mt. Pleasant and Highland streets in Woburn, and has enjoyed a very large and profitable trade. He built a one-story building in 1891 for his business and has added another story and other improvements and additions since then. He resides in the homestead on High- land street, inherited from his father, adjoining the lot on which his store is located. Through square and upright dealing, no less than by his agreeable personality, Mr. Lewis has won the esteem and respect of his townsmen. He has demonstrated his business ability without sac- rificing his integrity. He is a member of the Baptist church of Woburn, and has been a deacon eighteen years and superintendent of its Sunday school for the past two years, and is also a member of its standing committee. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, December 25, 1872, Ella Ame- lia Dickerson, who was born at North Read- ing, December 29, 1853, died February 9, 1907, daughter of John and Abigail (Clark) Dickerson. Her father was a shoemaker and farmer. Child: Cora Winn, born January 2, 1874, married, July 8, 1896, Morlie A. Burnes, of Woburn; children: i. Lewis Richard, born April 5, 1897; ii. Charlotte Isabel, March 29, 1898; iii. Frances Ackman, May 26, 1900, died August 19, 1902; iv. Elizabeth, May 24, 1905; v. and vi. Donald Winn and Harold William (twins), February II, 1907. Mrs. Burnes, the mother of these children, died February 26, 1907.
PRESCOTT The name of Prescott is of Saxon origin and is com- posed by the contraction of two Saxon words, priest and cottage, and therefore signifies priest-cottage, or priest's house. The name has long been known in Eng- land. It was given to a street and a lane or place in the ancient city of London. Prescott is also the name of a market town in Lancashire, and
those of this surname that emigrated to America originally, or their ancestors, origi- nated from this town. Some of the Prescott family had titles and the ancient coat of arms is: "Sable, a chevron between three owls, ar- gent (two in chief, one in base). Crest, a cu- bit arm, couped, erect, vested, gules. Cuff er- mine, holding in the hand a pitch pot (or hand beacon), sable fired proper." The arms of the Prescotts of Dryby, Lin- colnshire, England, which belong to the descendants, particularly of that branch of the family descended from James Prescott of New Hampshire, are described: "Ermine, a chevron sable-on a chief of the second two leopards' heads, or. Crest, out of a ducal coronet, or, a boar's head and neck, arg., bris- tled of the first."
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