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number but twelve men, with their arms very defective."
About October 9 Upham was with Major Appleton, who had succeeded Major Pynchon in command of the Massachusetts troops. Shortly afterward he was assigned to Captain Johnson's company, took part in the great Narragansett fight, was wounded and carried to Wickford, Rhode Island, after the battle, where he remained until January 6, 1675-6, when he was sent to Rhode Island. He never recovered, but after a long sickness died at Malden, October, 1676. The records of the general court in 1676 tell the sad story: "In answer to the petition of Ruth Upham, widow and relict of Lieutenant Phineas Upham, the court judgeth it meet to order that the bills of charge to chirurgeons, doctors and diet, etc., mentioned in the said petition be payed by the treasurer of the county; and in con- sideration of the long and good services her husband did for the country, and the great loss the widow sustained by his death, being left with seven small children, and not able to carry on their affairs, for the support of herself and family, do further order the treas- urer of the county to pay unto the said widow ten pounds in or as money." She died January 18, 1696-7.
Children : I. Phineas, born May 22, 1659; mentioned below. 2. Nathaniel, born 1661. 3. Ruth, born 1664; died December 8, 1676. 4. John, born December 9, 1666 ; married Abi- gail Hayward. 5. Elizabeth, married October 28, 1691, Samuel Green. 6. Thomas, born 1668. 7. Richard, 1675.
(III) Phineas Upham, son of Lieutenant Phineas Upham (2), was born at Malden, May 22, 1659 ; married Mary Mellins (or Mel- len ), probably in 1682. He inherited from his father the new dwelling house. He was one of the selectmen of Malden from 1692 to 1696 inclusive and from 1701 to 1704, 1709, 1710, 1717; town treasurer 1697 to 1701 inclusive, and during the same time was employed in settling various estates ; deputy to the general court from Malden in 1701, 1702, and 1716- 1718; moderator of Malden in 1717. He died October, 1720 (gravestone). Children : I. Phineas, born June 10, 1682; mentioned below. 2. Mary, born 1685 ; died August 20, 1687. 3. James, born 1687. 4. Mary, born 1689 ; married May 28, 1713, John Griffin of Charlestown, and removed to Middleton, Con- necticut. 5. Ebenezer, married, October 10, 1717, Elizabeth Blanchard. 6. Jonathan, born 1694: of Nantucket. 7. William, born Octo-
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ber 30, 1697. 8. Elizabeth, born 1699 or 1700; married May 19, 1726, Jonathan Dowse, Jr., and died in Charlestown, June 19, 1730.
(IV) Phineas Upham, son of Phineas Up- ham (3), was born in Malden, June 10, 1682; married by Rev. Mr. Wigglesworth, Novem- ber 23, 1703, to Tamzen (Thomasin), daugh- ter of Isaac and Sarah (Bicknell) Hill. She was born December 10, 1685, and died April 24, 1768. He was a yeoman at Malden. He settled, one of the first inhabitants at North Malden. In 1707-8 he was ensign of the Malden military company ; selectman 1707, 1708, 1709, 1710; assessor 17II-12 ; moderator of town meetings 1725-30, 1748 and 1752. His will was made in 1751, and filed for probate April 29, 1766. His wife died in 1768, at the age of eighty-three. Dr. Upham says: "Mr. John Edmonds of Malden, an old soldier, now (1845) eighty-nine years of age, informs me that when a boy he often saw Phineas Upham. He states that he was of medium height, his hair abundant, but of pure white, and his cos- tume that of his times, viz. : breeches, cocked hat, etc. He used to walk about the village with the assistance of an ivory-headed cane, and he had a favorite seat beneath a wide- spreading tree, where he was often seen re- posing. He "valued himself," says Mr. Ed- monds, "on his French blood." The follow- ing interesting account of the old house still standing at Melrose, formerly North Malden, was prepared by Mary Elizabeth Upham, daughter of Orne Upham, who was born in the house and whose Upham ancestors have continued to live and died there since the days of the third Phineas. It is, therefore, the ancestral home of all who descend from Phineas Upham, third, and for that reason should be of especial interest to such. This account was written in April, 1890, at which time the homestead was the property of Orne Upham.
"Phineas Upham, son of Deacon Phineas, and grandson of Lieutenant Phineas, was one of the earliest settlers in North Malden, now Melrose. Accounts differ as to the time of the building of his homestead. The dates 1695, 1698 and 1700 are given by different authorities as the time when the land was granted to him. The old Malden record says : 'Phineas Upham and Tamzen Hill were joined in marriage, ye 23d of November, 1703, by Mr. Wigglesworth,' so we may be sure that soon after the opening of the eighteenth cen- tury, young Phineas and his bride Tamzen were established in their primitive dwelling on
the wooded crest of Upham Hill. The orig- inal house must have been quite small. A family tradition has taught us that it little more than covered the present cellar, which extends under less than half the building. A huge chimney with a fireplace ten feet long, and as high as the main room of the dwelling -rivaled the house itself in size. But it was not long before the family outgrew its narrow quarters.' Then was the first building supple- mented by such additions that it came to be a large, substantial dwelling, thirty feet in length, and two stories high toward the south. On the north the roof sloped nearly to the ground. Later still (and yet so long ago that no one now living remembers it) the sloping roof was raised, so that the house is nearly two stories high on the north, to-day. In the old garret, the original sloping rafters may yet be seen. The front door is away from the street on the south side. Crossing its smooth door stone, we enter a small passage-way from which a few stairs with two square landings lead to the upper floor. At the right a low door-way admits us to a large room, eighteen feet square, presumably the best room of the house. Its low wainscot and high mantel, the broad beams across the ceiling- but a short distance above our heads-and the long hearth of the primitive fireplace-all point to the age of the structure. On the left of the front entry is another room, much like the first. The centre of the house is occupied by the huge chimney, and on the north are the smaller rooms. The oak beams are in many cases eighteen inches thick and the walls are filled with brick and clay. The chimney is made of bricks of many sizes, and clay instead of mortar is used. The fireplaces have been made smaller, within a century, but the orig- inal hearths-in some of which square tiles. are placed-are still left."
Children of Phineas and Tamzen Upham : I. Tabitha, born December II, 1704; married, 1728, Daniel Newhall. 2. Mary, born March 5, 1706; married, 1740, Captain Daniel Goff, of Boston. 3. Phineas, born January 12, 1708. 4. Sarah, born May 31, 1709; died September 25, 1709. 5. Timothy, born Au- gust 29, 1710. 6. Zebediah, born March 13, 1712; died April 28, 1712. 7. Tamzen, born May 5, 1713; died young. 8. Isaac, born July 31, 1714. 9. Jabez, born January 3, 1717. IO. Amos, born September 29, 1718; mentioned below. II. Tamzen, born May 21, 1720; married in 1750 Jonathan Wiley of Lynn. 12. Sarah, born October 21, 1721 ;
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married Benjamin Rice, of Brookfield; 13. Jacob, born April 30, 1723.
(V) Amos Upham, son of Phineas Upham (4), was born in Malden, September 29, 1718; married, March IO, 1740-1, Lois Green. He was a member of the Malden church May I, 1770. He was a farmer at Malden. He died January 23, 1786; his wife died September 20, 18II, aged ninety. Children : I. Amos, born 174I, baptized December 6, following. 2. William, married Hannah Walton; was sol- dier in Revolution. 3. Phineas, born 1744; lived in Amherst, New Hampshire. 4. Lois, born 1745-6. 5. Hannah, born 1748, and died young. 6. Martha, married Samuel Tufts, of Medford, May 29, 1781. 7. Ezra, mentioned below.
(VI) Ezra Upham, son of Amos Upham (5), was born in Malden, in 1759; married, 1782, Sally Watts, of Chelsea, Massachusetts. She died in 1796, aged thirty-eight years, and he married second, February 1, 1798, Sally Abbott, who died November 5, 1852, aged eighty-three. He was a soldier in the Revo- lution, a private in Captain Blaney's company of Malden, marching on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He died at Wilton, New Hampshire, January 12, 1831, aged seventy- two. Child by his first wife: Ezra Jr., men- tioned below.
(VII) Ezra Upham, son of Ezra Upham (6), born in Malden, November 24, 1783, died February 16, 1868. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. When a young man he removed to Wilton with his parents. His father built the house which Ezra Jr. bought, March 4, 1808, for three hun- dred dollars and the care of his father for the remainder of his days. The homestead was in West Wilton, on Bunker Hill, and consisted of sixty acres. He did general farming, shipping butter and eggs to the Boston market after the railroad was built. He had a large dairy, and his farm in many respects was the best of that section. He raised sheep as well as cattle. He prospered and left a considerable estate for a farmer. He was, however, generous to those in need, and distinctly benevolent in his char- acter. He was gifted with a sense of humor, and always kept on the lookout for a good joke or a comical situation. He kept those about him also cheerful and in good spirits. He was an earnest member of the Baptist Church at Wilton. In politics he was a Whig. He was in the state militia when a young man.
He married Bethia Burnap, born Septem- ber 12, 1784, at Temple, New Hampshire, died
March 3, 1874, daughter of Samuel Burnap. Children : 1. Sally Watts, born February 23, 1809; died August 12, 1850; married Decem- ber 21, 1826, Nathaniel B. Holt; children: i. Sarah Lavinia Holt, born December 10, 1828; married Reuel Hannaford ; ii. Nathaniel Abner Holt, born June 20, 1831; married July 4, 1853, Sarah Whitcomb; iii. Adeline Bethia Holt, born April 5, 1834; married Samuel Sargent; iv. George Francis Holt, born June 12, 1836; v. Charles Burnap, born February 28, 1839; married Mary Jerome of Moscow, Idaho; vi. Henry Harrison Holt, born Sep- tember 1, 1841 ; married Mattie Day, of North Easton, Massachusetts; vii. Georgianna Au- gusta Holt, born August 22, 1845, married Andrew Erecson; viii. Lorenzo Upham Holt, born May 12, 1848, married Clara Baker. 2. Bethia, born June 12, 1811; died June 25, 1843; married Abner Holt. 3. Ezra Abbott, born October 18, 1813; mentioned below. 4. Clement, born January 20, 1816, died July 26, 1886; married Almira Wilson Barry of Hold- erness, New Hampshire ; lived in Chelmsford. Children : i. Melintha Hazelle, born June 28, 1844, died December 6, 1892; married No- vember 28, 1866, Frank F. Abbott; ii. Lutyer Clement, born November 8, 1848; married September 5, 1872, Ella M. Putney ; iii. George Howard, born July 5, 1853; iv. Julia Etta, born April 25, 1856; married January 14, 1877, Fred G. McGregor; v. Clara Matilda, born July 15, 1860; married December 20, 1883, Floyer J. Whittemore. 6. Almira, born June II, 1822, died July 26, 1847; married Abner Holt. 7. Lorenzo Dow, born Novem- ber 30, 1825 ; died unmarried, July 31, 1847.
(VIII) Ezra Abbott Upham, son of Ezra Upham (7), was born in Wilton, October 18, 1813. He attended the common schools there until he was eighteen, chiefly during the winter terms, working on his father's farm in sum- mer. He left home at the age of eighteen and found employment with Dr. Thompson, Charlestown, Massachusetts, for two years. He then worked for Deacon David Perham, of Chelmsford, for some time as driver of his milk wagon, and there learned the trade of butcher, and for many years was a dealer in cattle and stock, meat and provisions. At that time every dealer in meats slaughtered his own cattle and followed the ancient trade of butcher. He bought a farm December 6, 1838, of Owen Emerson, containing eighteen acres, afterward adding by purchase until his farm consisted of thirty-five acres and he conducted it in addition to his other business.
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He removed to Bedford, an adjoining town, in 1867, selling his farm to Joseph Reed. He bought a twenty-acre farm in Bedford, but, after living there about nine months, sold it and removed to Arlington, where he continued his business as butcher, having a slaughter house off Medford street and a meat market, in partnership with his son Franklin M. Upham, under the firm name of E. A. Upham & Son. He retired from active business in 1872, and another son, Edward E. Upham, took his place in the firm, the name becoming then Upham Brothers, and continuing thus until 1878, when Edward E. Upham bought out his brother's interests.
Ezra A. Upham, after he retired, lived in Lowell a year, but returned to Arlington, where he died May 1, 1874. He was of very large physique; jovial and cheery in disposi- tion; upright and honorable in business : having the confidence and friendship of his neighbors. He was a member of the Baptist church of Arlington and was deacon of the Chelmsford Baptist church. In politics he was a Republican from the time the party was organized. He was a member of the Middle- sex North Agricultural Society. He was largely interested as a stockholder in the Bos- ton & Lowell railroad and in the Appleton Bank of Lowell. He served in the state mili- tia in his youth.
He married, at Lowell, Almira Morgan Morse, born at Plainfield, Vermont, June 9, 1816, daughter of Friend Moody and Phebe (May) Morse of Lowell. Her father was a tavern keeper. Children: I. Almira Augusta, born January 28, 1837 ; married February 19, 1856, Joseph Augustus Chamberlain, of Chelmsford; child: Hattie Aldula Chamber- lain, born April 12, 1866; married August 27, 1885, Robert G. Shuey; had Clara Almira Shuey, born August 28, 1887, and Lucien Glossbrenner Chamberlain, born October 31, 1895 ; resided at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 2. Har- riet Adeline, born December 2, 1838; died January 5, 1892; married December 3, 1856, Joel E. Pierce, of Chelmsford, later of St. Paul, Minnesota ; children: i. Fred Augustus Pierce, born February 23, 1859; married De- cember 13, 1893, Mrs. Effie May Reed, of St. Paul, and had Grace Harriet Pierce, born April 2, 1895, and James Edgar Pierce; ii. Frank Abbott Pierce, born March 22, 1860; married, May 22, 1890, Mary Luella Part- ridge, of St. Paul, and had, Edwin Paul Pierce, born December 4, 1891, Harriet Mary Pierce, born November 18, 1893, and Mar-
garet Lounell Pierce, born April 30, 1898; iii. William Edgar Pierce, born April 16, 1866, died July 26, 1866. 3. Ezra Abbott Jr., born April 22, 1841; married, February 5, 1863, Lucy Coburn, of Lowell; her daughter Maud Rose, born October 28, 1868, married, May 24, 1892, Frank Eustis, of Minneapolis ; children: i. Grace Genevieve Eustis, born June 14, 1893; ii. Maria Upham Eustis, Jan- uary 5, 1896; iii. Walter Coburn Eustis, July 30, 1898, died March 22, 1902; iv. Frank Coburn Eustis, born August 23, 1902. 4. Edward Everett, born April 10, 1843; men- tioned below. 5. Franklin Monroe, born Sep- tember 10, 1846; mentioned below. 6. Laura Jane, born September 5, 1849; married, Octo- ber 22, 1866, Phinehas S. Bond, of Warren, Maine; child, Everett Phinehas Bond, born December 26, 1867, unmarried. 7. Jennie Elizabeth, born July 6, 1851 ; married Decem- ber 2, 1873, William Wyman, of Arlington, born September 1, 1850, died February 25, 1903; children: i. William Herbert Wyman, born January 18, 1876, died October 12, 1876; ii. Mabel Jennie Wyman, born September 22, 1877; iii. Fred Upham Wyman, born May 29, 1881; iv. Julius Clark Wyman, born Febru- ary 4, 1893.
(IX) Edward Everett Upham, son of Ezra Abbott Upham (8), was born at Chelmsford, April 10, 1843. He was educated in the com- mon schools and at Chelmsford Academy. When sixteen years old he removed with his parents to Springfield, Ohio, and attended school there for two years, subsequently returning to Chelmsford. He went to work soon afterward as clerk in the shoe store of a brother in South Boston. The name of his brother's firm was Pierce & Upham. After six years in this store he went west, locating at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where he engaged in trading, buying and selling cattle, hides, etc. He came east again in 1871 and settled in Arlington and entered the firm of Upham Brothers, succeeding his father in partnership with his brother, Franklin M. Upham. At the end of seven years of pros- perous business he bought out the interests of his brother and continued the business alone until February 20, 1907, when he sold to H. P. Hinckley. In 1871 he bought of Edward Storer his present residence at 15 Avon Place, Arlington. He attends the Baptist church, and belongs to the society, in which he is much interested. In politics he is a Republi- can. He is a member of Hiram Lodge of Free Masons, joining September 28, 1871.
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He was formerly a member of Chelmsford Cavalry, Company F, Massachusetts Volun- teer Militia. He married first, November 22, 1871, Rosella Storer, born at Arlington, No- vember 30, 1846, died October 5, 1872, of heart disease, daughter of Edward and Elmira (Pierce) Storer, of Arlington. He married second, at Shapleigh, Maine, November 3, 1874, Lois Ann Thing, born March 22, 1850, died March 13, 1877, daughter of Charles P. and Dorcas (Ross) Thing of Shapleigh. Her father was a farmer. He married third, Feb- ruary 5, 1883, Mrs. Julia E. (Moore) Emer- son, born August 27, 1859, at Gouldsboro (Bunkers Harbor), Maine, daughter of Isaac and Priscilla (Arey) Moore, of Gouldsboro. Her father was a fisherman and sea captain. Child of Edward E. and Lois A. Upham: I. Lois Alice, born March 8, 1877, at Arlington. (IX) Franklin Monroe Upham, son of Ezra Abbott (8), was born at Chelmsford, September 10, 1846. He was educated in his native town and at Springfield, Ohio, in the public schools. After the family returned to Massachusetts, he was associated in business with his father and became partner in the bus- iness at Arlington under the firm name of E. A. Upham & Son. When his father retired he admitted his brother Edward E. Upham to the firm. He retired from the firm in 1878, and removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he engaged in business under the firm name of F. M. Upham & Company, at II First street. He married, January 22, 1874, Mary Addie Lawrence of Arlington ; children : I. Laura Addie, born June 4, 1875; married, October, 1899, Josiah E. Snow, of Somerville, and had Esther Snow, born March 1, 1901. 2. Mary Lawrence, born October 20, 1876; married May 12, 1893, John E. Brockhouse, of Somerville, Massachusetts. 3. Zula Mor- gan, born February 7, 1881 ; unmarried. 4. Franklin Monroe, Jr., born August 17, 1888.
The Locke family in England LOCKE was the subject of a notice in the Gentleman's Magasine, in 1792. The family was noted then, as it is now, by having as one of its members John Locke, commonly called "the great philoso- pher and metaphysician," whose fame and character are too well known to require a more extended notice. His fame and charac- ter led to considerable attention to his geneal- ogy, and hence appeared the notice in the Gentleman's Magazine and pedigree pub-
lished in connection, cited in the "Booke of the Lockes" (Appendix K and L, pp. 342- 359). From this publication tradition assigned the name of Locke to be of Scotch extrac- tion, spelt originally Loch, but this if so must have been in very early time. When Alfred divided his kingdom into parishes, the home of a great man known by the name of Locke was called after that worthy, Lockstown, or the Town of Locke. There was such a town in England in 1792, where the family at one time became numerous. Later it was called Lockston, or Loxton. Nearby was Locking, a parish, and also a large farm called Lock- inghead. The Locke family in that neighbor- hood considered themselves as descended from a very ancient house, arguing that they gave name to the parishes where they lived before the time of the Conquest, and do not derive their name with a De from the parishes, as is very commonly the case. However, there does not appear to be any especial account of the family before 1350, and John Locke, sheriff of London, 1460 or 1461, is the first in an extant pedigree. It was supposed that he was descended from Thomas Locke of Mer- ton Abbey, in Surrey, where the rectory of Merton was granted to Thomas Locke by Edward III in 1291. In Burke's General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, we find the Locke family coat-of-arms, viz. : Locke (granted 5 July, 2 Philip and Mary, and now borne by Wadham Locke, of Ashton Gifford, County Wilts, Esq., son and heir of the late Wadham, of Rowde Ford House, near Devizes, Esq., M. P .: Per fesse az, and or, a pale counterchanged, three hawks with wings endorsed of the last. Crest-a hawk with wings endorsed, holding in the beak a padlock or.
In New England there appears to be fam- ilies by the name of Locke coeval with the family of William Locke of Woburn, such as that of John Locke, of Hampton, New Hamp- shire, and the Lockes of Rhode Island, be- sides many scattered individuals who settled in the seaport towns, of whom only scant accounts are given. William Locke, the Wo- burn settler, it is claimed was born at Stepney Parish, London, England, and came to this country when a mere boy with his uncle Nicholas Davies, or Davis, and settled in Woburn, on two lots which he paid for in clapboard bolts, and in which town he died June 16, 1720, aged ninety-one years and six months.
(I) William Locke, born at Stepney parish,
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London, England, December 13, 1628, son of William Locke and Elizabeth Locke; married December 27, 1665, Mary Clarke, born at Watertown, December 10, 1640, daughter of William and Margery Clarke of Woburn; she died at Woburn, July 18, 1715, and he died there June 16, 1720, aged ninety-one years and six months. Mr. Locke was a deacon of the Woburn First Church from 1700 until his death in 1720, and a selectman of Woburn 1687 and 1696. His uncle, Nicholas Davis, of York, Maine, in his will dated April 27, 1667, says, "I give unto my Cosson (nephew) William Locke of Woborne two silver spoones & five shillings In Silver." Children, born at Woburn, Massachusetts : I. William, born December 27, 1657, died January 9, 1658. 2. William, born January 18, 1659; married, first, May 29, 1683, Sarah Whitmore, of Cambridge; married second, June 8, 1698, Abigail Hayward, of Woburn. 3. John, born August 1, 1661 ; married first, May 31, 1685, Elizabeth Plympton, of Sudbury; married second, November 30, 1720, Mary (Winn) Wyman, of Woburn. 4. Joseph, born March 8, 1664, married first, Mary - -; married second, Margaret Mead, of Woburn; married third, Hannah Peirce, of Weston. 5. Mary, born October 16, 1666; married March 30, 1692, Samuel Kendall, of Woburn. 6. Sam- uel, born October 14, 1669 ; married first, Ruth -; married second, Mary Day, of Ips-
wich. 7. Ebenezer, born January 8, 1674; married first, October 18, 1697, Susanna Walker, of Woburn; married second, October 14, 1701, Hannah Mead, of Woburn. 8. James, born November 14, 1677, see forward. 9. Elizabeth, born January 4, 1681, married October 14, 1700, James Markham.
(II) James, Locke, son of William Locke (I), born at Woburn, November 14, 1677, died December II, 1745, aged sixty-eight years ; married, December 5, 1700, Sarah Cut- ter, born August 31, 1673, daughter of Rich- ard and Frances ( Perriman-Amsden) Cutter, of Cambridge. His father "let him go to work for himself to get something to begin the world with," and gave him about £30. to help him purchase land to cultivate and live upon, and by so doing considered that he had given him his full portion, but gave him ten shillings more in his will as a token of his love. In 1699 James bought forty-six acres in Woburn near a place called Pine Mountain. This land was in the present northwesterly part of Winchester, near the former Cam- bridge, now Lexington line. The heights has
been called in more modern times Zion's Hill. He also extended his estate till his lands cov- ered a large part of the present Winchester Hills adjoining the present Winchester and Lexington lines. On these hills he built his first house, a short distance from the house of his great-grandson Jonathan Locke, whose place was near the west line of Winchester, formerly Woburn. James Locke held various minor town offices. His property was large for the times, and was inventoried at £1370. His son Jonathan had two-thirds of his real estate. Children: I. Hannah, born July II, 1701; married, November 5, 1722, Thomas Pierce, of Woburn. 2. James, born June 17, 1703; married January II, 1727, . Elizabeth Burnap, of Reading. 3. Ruhannah, born April 23, 1705; married first, June 15, 1726, Benjamin Whittemore, of Concord, who died October 22, 1734; married second, John Bond, of Lexington. 4. Sarah, born July 5, 1707; married, December 25, 1733, William Jones, of Weston. 5. Phebe, born August 15, 1709; married first, September 9, 1731, Daniel Brewer, of Concord ; married second, July 14, 1776, Isaac Hartwell, of Oxford. 6. Rebecca, born. November II, 1711; married, March 6, 1735, William Munroe, of Lexington. 7. Mary, born October 12, 1713; married, Jan- uary 4, 1738, John Wright, of Woburn. 8. Jonathan, see forward.
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