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(I) John Hayes, the immigrant ancestor, came from Scotland about 1680 and settled at Dover, New Hampshire, at what is known as the "Corner." His brother Ichabod, who came with him, settled "South" and was progenitor of the Connecticut family. (See Genealogical Register XXXVII, page 287). John had a grant of land at Tole End and Barbadoes in Dover, May 19, 1693-94. He bought consid- erable land from time to time and became a citizen of some prominence. He is buried in Pilgrim lot, Pine hill, Dover, beside his son, Deacon John Hayes. He married, June 28, 1686, Mary Horne. According to tradition she was but thirteen years old at the time of her marriage. Children, born at Dover: I. Dea- on John, Jr., born 1686-87, mentioned below. 2. Peter, resided at Tole End, married Sarah Wingate, daughter of John; died 1762; only child married Dr. Ezra Green. 3. Robert. 4. Ichabod, born March 13, 1691-92, resided at Littleworth, New Hampshire; killed at the mill logging June 1, 1734. 5. Samuel, born March 16, 1694-95, resided on Back river ; mar- ried Leah Dam, daughter of William and Martha ( Pomfret) Dam, November 23, 1720. 6. William, born September 6, 1698. 7. Ben- jamin, born September, 1700. 8. Daughter, married Ambrose, of Salisbury, Mass-
ahusetts. 9. Daughter, married - Phipps of Salisbury. 10. Daughter, married
Ambrose, of Chester, New Hampshire.
(II) Deacon John Hayes, son of John Hays (I), was born in 1686-87, died June 3, 1759, and is buried in Pine Hill cemetery, where his gravestone may be seen. He was deacon of the First Church, Dover, and resid- ed at Tole End, a farming locality a few miles up the Cocheco river from the falls. At his funeral a gold ring was given to the minister of the parish, Mr. Cushing. On this ring was engraved the date of the deacon's death, 1759, and his age, seventy-three years. The ring is now or was lately in possession of Deacon John Hayes, the great-grandson of the donor. He married Tamson (Wentworth) Chesley, widow of James Chesley, who was killed by the Indians September 17, 1707, son of Philip Chesley. She was daughter of Ezekiel and Elizabeth Wentworth, and granddaughter of the immigrant, Elder William Wentworth. She had a son by her first husband, James. She died December 30, 1753, aged sixty-six, and John married (second) Mary (Roberts) Wingate, widow of Samuel Wingate. Chil- dren : I. John, born October 19, 1711, resided at Barrington; died unmarried May 7, 1776. 2. Paul, born September 16, 1713, resided at Barrington ; died April 9, 1776. 3. Deacon Thomas, born September 29, 1715, resided at Tole End. 4. Deacon Elihu, born December 16, 1717, resided at Tole End; married Han- nah Twombley; died March 12, 1751. 5. Hezekiah, born February 2, 1719-20, mention- ed below. 6. Elizabeth, born April 5, 1721, married her cousin, Ichabod Hayes (3). 7. Abram, born February 17, 1723-24, married Montgomery, of Strafford. 8. Robert, born March 21, 1725-26, resided at Green Hill, Barrington. 9. Wentworth, born January 27, 1727-28, resided at Rock; married (first) Mary Mann; (second) Susan (Burnham) Roberts. 10. Samuel, born March 12, 1729- 30, resided at Green Hill, Barrington; died April 22, 1776. II. Jonathan, born April 17, 1732, married Mary Wingate, daughter of his father's second wife; resided at Tole End on the homestead ; died April 15, 1787.
(III) Hezekiah Hayes, son of Deacon John Hayes (2), was born February 2, 1719- 20, and died February 24, 1790. He resided at Barrington, New Hampshire. He married Margaret Cate. Children: I. Mary. 2. Hannah, married her cousin, Daniel Hayes (5). 3. Margaret, living in 1784. 4. Eliza- beth, baptized April 30, 1745, married Moses
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Hayes (5). 5. William, baptized May I, 1748, resided at Poland, Maine. 6. Elihu, born August 18, 1757, mentioned below. 7. Hezekiah, resided at Barrington; married his cousin, Sophia Cate.
(IV) Elihu Hayes, son of Hezekiah Hayes (3), was born at Barrington, New Hampshire, August 18, 1757. He was a farmer and owned much land there. He married, at Barrington, Betsey (or Elizabeth) Davis, born March 2, 1753, at Madbury, New Hampshire, daughter of Samuel Davis (2), born September 26, 1692 ; he had a grant of land in the north part of Madbury which, on his death February 13, 1771, was left to his daughter Betsey. Samuel Davis (2) was son of James Davis (I), one of the earliest settlers of Madbury, which was set off from Dover in 1755; he married, October I, 1688, and lived near what is now the central part of the town. Children : I. Jonathan, born April 25, 1774, mentioned below. 2. Sarah Ann, married Nicholas Pike. 3. Eliza- beth, married her cousin, Deacon Solomon Hayes. 4. Reuben, married -- - and had one son, Reuben.
(V) Jonathan Hayes, son of Elihu Hayes (4), was born April 25, 1774, and died in Madbury, New Hampshire, March 27, 1851. He had a common school education, and worked on the farm until he was twenty years of age. He then removed to New Durham with his bride, where they lived three years, and then removed to Madbury in 1797. Here he took up land and became a farmer. He raised grain, farm produce and cattle, sheep and horses, and was a prosperous farmer for that period.
He married, July 3, 1794, Mary Ham, born at Barrington, April II, 1773, and died at Madbury, December 25, 1859. Children: I. Elizabeth, born December 19, 1794-95, died October 4, 1843 ; married (first), February I, 1816, Hezekiah Hayes, who died March 29, 1816; married (second), December 9, 1817, Paul Randall, and resided at Lee, New Hamp- shire. 2. Samuel Davis, born April 8, 1796, mentioned below. 3. Margaret, born May 4, 1800, married, January 24, 1822, Jacob K. Hayes, and resided on a farm in Barrington, being the fourth generation to occupy the place. 4. Mary, born July 4, 1802, married George Caverno and resided at Strafford, New Hampshire. 5. Sophia, born December 14, 1805, died October 26, 1826. 6. Sarah Ann, born April 29, 1808, married Oliver Cromwell Demerritt and resided in Durham, New Hampshire, and Lawrence, Massachusetts. 7.
Lydia, born January 17, 18II, died January 25, 1817. 8. Charles, born April 3, 1814, mar- ried Clara Augusta McDuffee (Stevens), and resided in Madbury and Dover, New Hamp- shire.
(VI) Samuel Davis Hayes, son of Jonathan Hayes (5), was born at New Durham, New Hampshire, April 8, 1796. At the age of two he removed with his parents to Madbury, which was his home the remainder of his life. He received a common school education, sup- plemented by a few terms at a private school. In 1814 he went as a drummer with the Mad- bury company of state militia to the defence of Portsmouth, and after three days was trans- ferred to the Strafford Ridge company as drum major, to beat all the calls in the same manner that the bugle is used now. He after- wards rose in the ranks until he had held all the offices in the company. He was elected seven times as selectman in Madbury and held other town offices. Immediately after his marriage he moved to a new and comfortable home on the farm adjoining the old Hayes homestead. The house was the successor of the original log garrison of the Daniels family, who had received the farm as a grant and occupied it for three generations. Mr. Hayes was a man of prominence in the community, and enjoyed the esteem of his fellow towns- men to a remarkable degree. He and his wife were of the Orthodox faith, and he was an old time Democrat in politics.
He married, July 1, 1827, Comfort Chesley, born October 8, 1806, died. August 6, 1870, daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Perkins) Chesley, of Madbury. Her father was a farm- er. Children: I. Ann Sophia, born Novem- ber 4, 1829, died January 15, 1902; married, John S. F. Ham, who died December 2, 1903 ; resided at Dover, New Hampshire ; no issue. 2. Samuel Chesley, born February 18, 1834, mentioned below. 3. Charles Woodman, born September II, 1836, married, November 8, 1866, Ellen Maria Weeks, born April 29, 1843, daughter of William and Maria (Black) Weeks, graduate of the Chandler Scientific School of Dartmouth College in 1858; teach- er ; on school committee of Madbury in 1866- 68-71-72; leader in the choir of Congrega- tional church; superintendent of the Sunday school; surveyor and engineer; children: i. Nellie Maria, born May 4, 1870, married, Oc- tober 30, 1895, George E. Crosby; ii. Anna Lillian, born October II, 1873, married Charles Sumner Fuller; iii. Cora Enniette,
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born December 25, 1877, died April 27, 1879; iv. Clara Comfort, born July 12, 1886.
(VII) Samuel Chesley Hayes, son of Sam- uel Davis Hayes (6), was born at Madbury, New Hampshire, February 18, 1834, and died June 20, 1904. He attended the district school in Madbury and also two spring terms at Wal- nut Grove school at Lee, New Hampshire, three terms at the People's Gymnasium and Military school at Pembroke, New Hampshire, and later one term at the academy at South Berwick, Maine. He then taught two terms at Rochester, New Hampshire, during the win- ters of 1853-54 and 1854-55. About January I, 1855, he entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, John S. F. Ham, in the gro- cery business, which was dissolved in the fall of that year, and he engaged in dealing in apples and potatoes for the Boston market. Early in 1856 he took a course in Comer's Commercial College, in Boston, and in April of that year went west with B. Frank Rockley, of Dover, New Hampshire, to Dank Rapids, Minnesota. While there he formed a partner- ship with Hezekiah C. Nute, of Madbury, and George D. Watson, of Rochester, New Hamp- shire, and Charles A. Gilman, to locate, sur- vey and establish the town "Peep-o-day," twelve miles from Dank Rapids. The next year they spent building a road, log house, and mill privilege, and clearing six hundred and forty acres of land. In the hard times of 1857 the others became discouraged and he bought their interests. In 1858 he was clerk in a gro- cery store at Dank Rapids, and in the summer of 1859 returned to Madbury, the owner of more than one thousand acres of Minnesota land. In the fall of 1859 he entered the em- ploy of D. Lathrop & Co., druggists, and learned the business. In 1862 he removed to Ottawa, Canada, and took charge of Booth's saw mill, remaining three years. In the spring of 1865 he returned to Madbury once more and carried on the farm until he went to Bos- ton in 1867. In Boston he entered into part- nership with his father-in-law, Alfred Hoitt, and his brothers-in-law, George S. and Wash- ington Hoitt, in the hay and grain business, under the firm name of A. Hoitt & Sons, at 108 Canal street. After the death of the sen- ior Hoitt Mr. Hayes went into partnership with Washington Hoitt, under the firm name of S. C. Hayes & Co., dealers in hay and straw. In a few years Mr. Hoitt retired from the firm and Mr. Hayes continued the business until compelled by failing health to retire, giving the management of the business into
the hands of his son Alfred. He was a regu- lar attendant at the Congregational church, and in politics was an independent Democrat. He was a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Knights of Honor. He also belonged to the Chamber of Commerce. Being a man of social tendencies, he was a welcome addi- tion to any company, especially for his gift of story telling, and he had a host of friends. He was of powerful physique, weighing about two hundred and thirty pounds, and was six feet, one inch tall.
He married, November, 1860, Elizabeth Susan Hoitt, born March 1, 1835, died Jan- uary II, 1906, daughter of General Alfred and Susan (DeMerritt) Hoitt, of Durham, New Hampshire. Children: I. Harry Edgar, born December 12, 1865, mentioned below. 2. Alfred Samuel, born May 14, 1869, mentioned below.
(VIII) Harry Edgar Hayes, son of Sam- uel Chesley Hayes (7), was born in Madbury, New Hampshire, December 12, 1865. When two years of age he removed with his parents to Boston, where he received his education in the Phillips grammar school, and the Boston Latin school, graduating in 1884. He then entered Harvard College, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1888. In 1890 he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy with the degree of B. S. In the mean- time he was assistant for two years in the scientific department of Harvard, and he was assistant in the mechanical engineering de- partment in 1890-91. He took a post-graduate course in electrical engineering from 1888 to 1890. After 1891 he was employed by the American Telegraph & Telephone Company, of New York City, where he remained until September 1, 1907. He was engaged with superintending the inspection of material used in outside construction and engineering work, having a range of territory as far west as St. Louis and south to Florida. 'For five years he was in charge of the lines and overhead con- struction. He attends the Unitarian church. He is a member of Columbia Lodge of Free Masons at Boston; of St. Paul's Chapter of Royal Arch Masons; of DeMolay Command- ery of Knights Templar; of Massachusetts Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons; of Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers of New York; of the New Hampshire Club. In politics he is an independent Democrat. He married, October 16, 1901, Emma Susan
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Tilton, born at East Kingston, New Hamp- shire, March 14, 1874, daughter of Levi Ben- son and Sarah Frances (Tilton) Tilton, of Exeter, New Hampshire. Her father was a meat merchant. They have one child, Alfred Henry, born September 14, 1906.
(VIII) Alfred Samuel Hayes, son of Sam- uel Chesley Hayes (7), was born at Boston, Massachusetts, May 14, 1869. He attended the Phillips grammar school and the Boston Latin school, graduating in 1887. He graduated from Harvard University in 1891 with a de- gree of A. B. and in the fall of that year went to Europe for travel. During his trip he attended lectures in economics and philosophy for four months in Goettingen University, and then went to Paris and took lectures, a six weeks' course, at the Sorbonne, in the same branches of learning. Upon returning home he entered the Harvard Law School and grad- uated in 1894 with an LL. B. degree. In the January before graduating he was admitted to the bar, and began practice at 61 Court street with Judge Joseph Bennett. After but three months he opened an office at 23 Court street, where he practiced until September, 1896, when he came to his present quarters in the Tremont building, room 937. Mr. Hayes does a general business in corporation and business practice, and is counsel for many corpora- tions. He is also a director in a number of companies. January 12, 1903, he purchased the old Eames place at Hopkinton, Massachu- setts, where he has since resided. He carries on the farm of one hundred and sixty acres, cultivating forty acres, and keeping from sev- enteen to forty head of cattle. He employs five men on the farm.
He attends the Congregational church at Hopkinton. He is a member of St. John's Lodge of Free Masons of Boston, was exalted in St. Andrew's Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Boston, was knighted in De Molay. Com- mandery of Knights Templar at Boston, and is a member of the Mystic Shrine, Aleppo Temple. He is a member of the Boston Art Club, the Boston Athletic Association, the old Boston Dining Club, of which he is president, the Boston City Club, the Armory Athletic Association, the Democratic Club, the Boston Bar Association. He has been admitted to practice in the United States supreme court and the Massachusetts supreme court. He is a Democrat, and was elected to represent his district in the general court in 1898 and served on the committee on Metropolitan affairs. He was a state delegate to the International Ex-
position at Omaha, and was one of the speak- ers for Massachusetts there. Mr. Hayes is the fortunate possessor of a fine tenor voice, and sang in the Harvard chapel in Cambridge, at St. Paul's Episcopal church at Boston and at the Shepard Memorial Church at Cam- bridge. .
He married, June 8, 1899, Sara May Bart- lett, born June 25, 1873, daughter of ยท Bartlett, of Rockland, Maine. They have one child, Robert, born June 2, 1907.
FOWLE George Fowle, of Concord and Charlestown, Massachusetts, died at Charlestown, September 19, 1682, aged seventy-two years, gravestone. His wife Mary, maiden name unknown, died at Charlestown, February 15, 1676, aged sixty- three years, gravestone. George Fowle was a tanner, freeman, March 14, 1638-39, surveyor of arms. His will dated March II, 1681-82, was probated October 3, 1682. Children: I. Hannah, married, 10 (II) 1645, Samuel Rug- gles, of Roxbury, and died October 24, 1669. 2. John, married, 25 (II) 1658-59, Anna Car- ter, of Charlestown. 3. Mary, born at Con- cord, 24 (9) 1640, died young. 4. Peter, born at Concord, 2 (10) . 1641, married Mary Car- ter. 5. James, born at Concord, 12 (1) 1642, see forward. 6. Mary, born at Concord, 9 (12) 1644, died at Charlestown, July 4, 1667. 7. Abraham, married, July 14, 1679, Hannah Harris. 8. Zechariah, married, 24 (10) 1675, Mary Paine. 9. Isaac, married, November 30, 1671, Beriah Bright, of Watertown. 10. Jacob, died 1678, of Boston. II. Elizabeth, born at Charlestown, January 27, 1655-56, died March IO, 1656-57.
(II) Lieutenant James Fowle, son of George Fowle (I), born at Concord, 12 (I) 1642, died at Woburn, December 17, 1690, aged forty-nine years, gravestone; married Abigail Carter, born April 21, 1648, daughter of Captain John and Elizabeth Carter, of Wo- burn. She married (second), April 18, 1692, Ensign Samuel Walker, of Woburn, and mar- ried (third) Deacon Samuel Stone, of Cam- bridge Farms (now Lexington), and died his widow, at Woburn, May II, 1718, aged sev- enty-one years, gravestone. Lieutenant Fowle is the ancestor of the well known Fowle fam- ily of Woburn. His brother Peter, who mar- ried a sister of his wife, died here December II, 1721, but his descendants of the Fowle name settled elsewhere. James Fowle had eight children, from whom a large number
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have descended, who have borne a prominent and distinguished part in the affairs of Wo- burn. Some time between 1686 and 1689 he was appointed an ensign by Governor Andros, and later elected a lieutenant of the local military company. In the documents of the time it is stated that he was previously a trooper. As Andros was unpopular with the majority of the colonists, Mr. Fowle's appoint- ment as ensign and his election as lieutenant met with strenuous opposition, and was the subject of several lengthy documents. How- ever, he was patriotic and enlisted in the Phipps Expedition to Quebec in 1690. This expedition was unsuccessful owing to the ex- cessive cold weather and the incompetence of its commanders, and many of the men com- posing it took colds which ended the lives of a large number. Mr. Fowle lived to get home and died December 17, 1690, as a result of it is confidently supposed the prevailing dis- temper. He appeared first in Woburn in 1666, and had a right in the common lands of the town in 1668. In 1678 he was allowed to take in "a little piece of land behind the Bell Hill," an elevation adjoining his residence known by various names from the first settlement-such as Mount Seir, etc. ; known to-day by the name of Powder House Hill. He was a cordwainer or shoemaker by trade. In his will dated July 30, 1690, probated May 6, 1691, he says "being by a call of God bound for Canada in the Ex- pedition against the French Enemy, and not knowning whether I shall ever return home alive" names wife Abigail, sons James, John, Samuel and Jacob; mentions daughters, but does not call them by name; names his son-in- law Jonathan Wyman, and his pastor, Rev. Jazez Fox.
Children: I. James, born March 4, 1667, see forward. 2. Abigail, born October 15, 1669, married, July 31, 1689, Jonathan Wyman, of Woburn. 3. John, born March 12, 1671, married, July 1, 1696, Elizabeth Prescott, of Concord. 4. Samuel, born Sep- tember 17, 1764, married Susanna Blaney. 5. Jacob, born April 3, 1677, married, November 3, 1701, Mary Broughton. 6. Elizabeth, born September 28, 1681, married (first), March 2, 1699, Timothy Walker, of Woburn, and (second) Lieutenant Stephen Hall, of Med- ford. 7. Hannah, born January 23, 1683-84, married, December 25, 1705, Samuel Trum- bull, of Charlestown. 8. Mary, born July 18, I687.
(III) Captain James Fowle, son of Lieu- tenant James Fowle (2), born at Woburn,
March 4, 1667, died there, March 19, 1714, aged forty-seven years and fourteen days, gravestone ; married, October 2, 1688, Mary Richardson, born March 22, 1668-69, daugh- ter of Joseph and Hannah (Green) Richard- son, of Woburn; she married (second), Dea- con Samuel Walker, and died his widow at Charlestown, October 23, 1748, aged eighty years, gravestone. His homestead was on the site of the present Central House, Main street, Woburn, and he held the office of sergeant in the Woburn militia company from 1693 to 1701, and that of captain from 1712 to 1714. He was called captain in the epitaph on his gravestone now standing in the old yard back of the estate on which he lived. Like other Fowles of his time he had a large landed property. His estate evidently derived from his father, Lieutenant James Fowle, descended to his son, Major John Fowle, in greater part. He was a selectman of Woburn, in 1693-94- 1700-01 (1702 declined) 1703-05-07-14. He was town clerk 1701-14. Children: I. Mary, born June 18, 1689, married, June 17, 1714, James Simonds. 2. James, born July 20, 1691, died October II, 1706, gravestone at Cam- bridge. 3. Abigail, born August 22, 1693, married Jonathan Thompson, of Medford. 4. John, born November II, 1695, see forward. 5. Hannah, born September 13, 1697, married Samuel Walker, of Wilmington. 6. Elizabeth, born August 9, 1699, married, December 28, 1721, Benjamin Newhall, of Lynn. 7. Ruth, born April 16, 1701, died March 3, 1713. 8. Sarah, born July 29, 1703, married, September 14, 1728, James Richardson, of Woburn. 9. Samuel, born June 10, 1705, married, Sep- tember 5, 1727, Susanna Reed. 10. Esther, born May 29, 1707, married, November 2, 1726, Nathan Simonds, of Woburn. II. Mar- tha, born March 12, 1709, married, August II, 1737, Rev. Supply Clapp, of Woburn. 12. Catherine, born September 29, 17II, married, March 4, 1729-30, Irish Whittemore.
(IV) Major John Fowle, son of Captain James Fowle (3), born at Woburn, November II, 1695, died there, September 28, 1775. Married, December 25, 1718, Mary Converse, born January 12, 1702, daughter of Captain Josiah and Ruth (Marshall) Converse, of Woburn. The house Major John Fowle built about 1730 is now standing in Woburn in the angle between Main, Salem and Broad streets, and occupied as a store, It is a large gambrel- roof structure of two stories and was occupied for a long time in its later history as a tavern. Major John Fowle, who is supposed to be
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its builder, derived the land on which it stands from his father, Captain James Fowle, who inherited it from his father, the first James Fowle. Major John Fowle appears to have made a fortune in the sale of the Province Lands granted to the soldiers and their de- scendants in the different wars. The method of speculation was for single individuals to buy up these shares of the legal heirs to the lands and sell that at a profit. The success of the different towns where these new allot- ments were laid out was also the greater suc- cess of the speculator. This Major John Fowle was one of the early owners of Petersborough, New Hampshire, and probably of other places. He was captain of one of the local militia companies, per Woburn tax lists 1738-48, and major, 1749-75, per the same authority. In 1758 he was captain of the East Company of the militia in Woburn, per a bayonet roll of that date. He was in service as a major in Colonel Tyng's regiment from September 9, 1755, to January 3, 1756; this was the period of the French and Indian war. He was a selectman of Woburn in 1741. Children: I. James, born June 13, 1720; married, Novem- ber 28, 1744, Mary Reed, of Woburn. 2. John, born February I, 1726-27, married, De- cember 28, 1759, Mrs. Bridget Burbeen. 3. Josiah, see forward. 4. Mary, born May 12, 1734, married, April 24, 1760, Joshua Wyman, Junior, of Woburn. 5. Leonard, born Janu- ary 8, 1737-38.
(V) Josiah Fowle, son of Major John Fowle (4), born at Woburn, July 14, 1731, died there, February 28, 1805, aged seventy- four years, gravestone. Married, (intention dated 1752) November 25, Margery Carter, born August 3, 1730, died July 1, 1812, aged eighty-two years, gravestone, daughter of Cap- tain Samuel and Margery (Dickson) Carter, of Woburn. He was present at Lexington battle on April 19, 1775, as a member of Cap- tain Jonathan Fox's company from Woburn, and remained in the service for thirty days at that time. Either he or his son Josiah enlisted April 29, 1775, as private in Captain Jonas Richardson's company, Colonel James Frye's regiment, which was present at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. He resided on the estate afterwards occupied by his son, William Fowle, now belonging to James Skin- ner, Esq., on Montvale avenue, Woburn. He was a man of large property, principally in real estate.
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