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He married Diana Avery, born May, 1822, daughter of Andrew and Hannah (Felch) Avery, of Topsham. Children: I. Myra. 2. Isabelle, married John Wright, of Topsham, and had two children. 3. Alonzo Dustin, married Lavina Whitehill, of Ryegate, Ver- mont, and had four children. 4. Almira, mar- ried Moses Smith, of Topsham, and had four children. 5. John Carlton, born March 29, 1854, mentioned below. 6. Frank Charles (M. D.), born March 24, 1855, a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania ; married, March 24, 1883, Fanny Knapp, of West Newbury, Vermont ; she was born at Haverhill, New Hampshire, January 27, 1863; children: i. Esther May, born October 13, 1886; ii. Elmer Knapp, born
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August 3, 1891. 7. Amanda, born April 27, 1856, married, April 27, 1875, Rufus Row- land, of Topsham; children: i. Mary Eliza- beth Rowland, born December 19, 1879, mar- ried, November 27, 1899, William B. Mann, of Oakville, Connecticut, and had Marjorie A. Mann and Beatrice E. Mann; ii. Fred Ernest Rowland, born September 6, 1885. iii. Char- lotte B. Rowland, born May 18, 1889. 8. Jen- nie, married Charles Smith, of Topsham, and had three children. 9. Charles, married Flor- ence Carruth, of Topsham, and had one child. IO. George, married Grace Davenport, of Topsham, and had four children.
(IX) John Carlton Hood, son of John Hood (8), was born at Topsham, Vermont, March 29, 1854. He was educated in the common schools, and at the age of sixteen went to Ryegate, a nearby town, where he worked for several years-three years for Wil- liam Gibson, one year for Theodore Smith, two years for Hugh Gibson and one year for Martin Hall. At twenty-five years he was married, and purchased the Daniel Randall farm of one hundred acres, situated in the east part of the township. He later added one hundred acres and did general farming. He made butter and kept hogs. For twenty-four years up to 1901 he remained in Topsham, when the entire property was destroyed by fire. After an absence of six months in Cali- fornia, he again returned to Topsham and re- sumed farming till 1903, when he sold out and removed to Winchester, Massachusetts. He purchased the Wells property of twenty-three acres, sitiuated in the west part of Winchester, near the Arlington line. Mr. Hood is a suc- cessful milk raiser and carries a herd of forty- five to fifty head of the best Jersey cattle. He has a large retail trade among the first families of Arlington. Mr. Hood has in the past been engaged extensively in lumbering, and has bought and sold large quantities of lumber ; while in Topsham he dealt extensively in horses and cattle, to good profit. He attends the Congregational church at Arlington. He is a Republican and has been road surveyor. He is a member of the Arlington Men's Club. He married, October 2, 1879, Luseba Jane Clark, born September 5, 1856, daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Buchanan) Clark, of Ryegate, Vermont. They had one child, Sam- uel Clark, born July 9, 1880, mentioned below.
(X) Samuel Clark Hood, son of John Carl- ton Hood (9), was born at Topsham, Ver- mont, July 9, 1880. Up to the age of fifteen he received his education mostly from his
mother, who fitted him for a higher course. He subsequently entered Montpelier Seminary, where he took a four years course, graduating with first honors, and then entered the Univer- sity of Vermont, where he graduated in 1904 with a degree of M. S., having taken the scien- tific course. In the spring of 1904 he entered the Department of Agriculture at Washing- ton, District of Columbia, and was later ap- pointed the head of the experiment station at Orange City, Florida. The government is here experimenting in the culture of drug plants such as camphor, etc., and under Mr. Hood's efficient management is meeting with success. Mr. Hood is a free thinker in reli- gion, and a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Odd Fellows at Burlington, Vermont, and of numerous college fraterni- ties. He married, October 6, 1905, Nellie Eva Parmenter, born April 19, 1881, daughter of George and Jane (Sanders) Parmenter, of Montpelier, Vermont. They had one child, Alfred John, born July 6, 1906, died July 9, 1906.
William Buck (1585-1657), the BUCK immigrant ancestor of Silas Ed- ward Bucks, was a passenger on the ship "Increase" on the voyage from Eng- land to New England that terminated at Bos- ton, Massachusetts Bay Colony, April 15, 1635. He settled in the subsequently organ- ized town of Newe Towne, and on May 2, 1638, the name of the place was changed to Cambridge. He had carried on the business of ploughwright in England, and continued that vocation in the new settlement. He was accompanied to New England by his son, Roger Buck, and died in Cambridge, January 24, 1657 (O. S.), and on his death his son Roger filed an inventory of his property, April 3, 1658, from which it appears that his estate was located on land known as West Field, northeast of Garden street on the highway leading to the Great Swamp (Raymond street ). He had built a house and shop, and with his son carried on the business of making plows for the neighborhood farmers. In the records no mention is made of his wife or of other children, and he was either a widower, or had sought his fortune in America in com- pany with his son Roger, leaving the other members of his famly in England.
(II) Roger Buck (1617-1693), the only recorded son of William Buck, the elder immi- grant, was eighteen years of age when he
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arrived in Boston, and he worked with his father in manufacturing plows. His name appears subsequently as an officer in the town government as a sheriff or prosecutor, whose duty it was to inflict punishment on convicted criminals, and he is recorded in 1668 as hav- ing carried out the sentence of the court by publicly whipping the culprits. He married, and about 1685 removed from Cambridge to Woburn, and died there November 10, 1693. His wife Susan. was the mother of seven chil- dren, all born in Cambridge, and named ac- cording to the town records in the order of their birth: Samuel, John, Ephraim (q. v.), Mary, Ruth, who married Thomas Baverick, and on her father's removal to Woburn pur- chased and lived in his house in Cambridge ; Elizabeth, who married Joshua Wood; and Lydia, who married Henry Smith.
(III) Ephraim Buck (1646-1721), third son of Roger and Susan Buck, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 26, 1646, and removed with his father to Woburn, having on January 1, 1670, married Susan Brooks. They had nine children, all born in Woburn, and named successively : Saralı, who married Thomas Grover ; Ephraim, Jr. (q. v.) ; John, John Samuel, Eunice, Ebenezer, and Mary, who married Nathaniel Pike.
(IV) Ephraim Buck, Jr., first son and sec- ond child of Ephraim and Susan (Brooks) Buck, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, July 13, 1676, and lived in that town up to 1706, when he apparently removed to another town, but there is no obtainable record of his life and death after leaving Woburn. He was married December 8, 1697, to Esther Waget, and five children were born in Woburn and named in the order of their birth: Sarah, who married William Fisk, of Andover ; Hes- ter, Ephraim (3), who married (first) Abi- gail Peirce, and (second) Mary Wood, of Reading, Massachusetts; Susanna, Isaac, the last child of which a record was found but no date of birth except the approximate one of 1706.
(V) Isaac Buck, the youngest known child of Ephraim and Esther (Waget) Buck, but the date of whose birth and death could not be definitely ascertained beyond the year 1706, was living in Woburn, December 3, 1729, as on that date his marriage to Ruth, daughter of Joseph Graves, of Smithboro, Worcester coun- ty, at Reading, Middlesex county, is recorded. The newly married couple removed to South- boro on the estate of Joseph Graves, but of which they sold their right and title October
19, 1757. Previous to this time they had two children born to them, Isaac (q. v.), and Esther, who married Elisha Bruce, Jr., of Southboro. Whether they had other children at Bolton, the place of their future residence, does not appear.
(VI) Isaac Buck, Jr., son of Isaac and Ruth (Graves) Buck, was born either in Wo- burn or Reading, Middlesex county, about 1730, and removed with his father to South- boro, when Isaac, Sr., took possession of the estate of his father-in-law in that town. About 1755 Isaac, Jr., married Mary Richards, and a record is preserved of two children of Isaac and Mary (Richards) Buck: Isaac Buck (3) and Susanna, who married Elisha Bemis, No- vember 14, 1793.
(VII) Isaac Buck (3) eldest son of Isaac and Mary (Richards) Buck, was born in Southboro, Worcester county, Massachusetts, September 27, 1757, and he removed with his parents to Bolton, where he was a member of the provincial militia in Captain Benjamin Hastings' company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment, and at the first call for minute-men in 1775, he marched to Cambridge, where he was transferred to Captain James Swan's company in the regiment commanded by Colo- nel James Crafts in 1776. He next joined the regular Continental army and was assigned to Captain Redding's company in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gamaliel Bradford in 1777. In 1778 he was in captain John Hough- ton's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regi- ment, and served in that regiment up to 1780, when his term of service expired. He was married May 15, 1780, to Patty Phillips, of Lancaster, and the same year he rejoined the American army as a member of Captain Thomas Jackson's battery in Colonel John Crane's Third Artillery, and served for one year. The children of Isaac and Patty ( Phil- lips) Buck were: Silas (q v.), and Isaac (4), who lived also in Sterling.
(VIII) Silas Buck, eldest son of Isaac and Patty (Phillips) Buck, was born in Sterling, Worcester county, Massachusetts, about 1781, and was brought up in that town where he was a farmer, carpenter and millwright. He appears to have dealt quite extensively in real estate, as he owned property at West Sterling and Holden, and frequently bought and sold property. He was married March 13, 1793, to Deborah Beaman, of Sterling, and they had children: I. Silas Beaman (q. v.). 2. Tamar Eddy Buck ( 1812-1891), who married Eze- kiel Hills, and had children. 3. John Sawyer,
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of Cambridge. 4. Sally, who married Sewell Richardson, of Sterling, and had children. 5. James Orison (1818-1893), who married Azu- bah, daughter of Elisha and Chloe (Pratt) Smith, natives of New York state. . 6. Mary Davis (1819-1904), who married Jeremiah W. Smallidge, and had four children. 7. Dolly Wilder ( 1824-1904), who married Warren Willard Barron, and had five children. 8. George, born in 1826, married Lucy Ann Allen, and had four children. 9. Deborah Elizabeth (1830-1902), who married Alfred Wheeler Crossman, and had two children.
(IX) Silas Beaman Buck (1810-1899), eld- est son of Silas and Deborah ( Beaman) Buck, was born in Sterling, Worcester county, Massachusetts, July 18, 1810. He was a car- penter and builder in Cambridge, Massachu- setts, from 1837 to 1874, when he retired with a competent fortune. He was married June 14, 1837, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Jere- miah and Lucretia (Fulton) Smallidge, of Medford, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, granddaughter of Fulton, who was a first cousin of Robert Fulton, the designer and constructor of the steamboat "Clermont," the first vessel to successfully demonstrate the practicability of using steam as a motive power in water navigation, and great-grand- daughter of Fulton, the immigrant ancestor, who came from Kilkenny, Ireland, to Lancas- ter, Pennsylvania, about 1730. The five chil- dren of Silas Beaman and Mary Elizabeth (Smallidge) Buck were: I. Mary Elizabeth (1839-1903), who married Benjamin Reed Rand, of Cambridge, by profession a convey- ancer. She died leaving a husband but no children, February 27, 1903. 2. William Sam- uel (1841-1880), married, 1869, Isabella Ellis, of Cambridge ; was a soldier in the Civil war,. 1861-1865, serving in the Fortieth Massachu- setts Volunteer Infantry for three years, and died June 6, 1880. 3. Sarah Augusta, born 1842, married, 1875, A. Leander Floyd, a member of the dry goods firm of Floyd Broth- ers & Company, Boston, Massachusetts. She died September 1, 1907. They had no chil- dren. 4. Anna M. (1844-1851). 5. Silas . Edward Buck (q. v.). Silas Beaman Buck died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 18, 1899.
(X) Silas Edward Buck, son of Silas Bea- man and Mary Elizabeth (Smallidge) Buck, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 20, 1847. He was a pupil in the public school of Cambridge, and his first business position was with Parker, Wilder & Company, the
well known commission dry goods merchants of Boston. He remained with this firm for nine years, and at the end of that time opened a store in East Cambridge for the sale of gentlemen's furnishing goods at retail. He conducted this business for three years, and then engaged in the coal business in connec- tion with the firm of Joseph A. Wellington & Company, and he was with this firm for nine years, when he was offered a partnership, and on May 1, 1887, the firm of Wellington & Buck succeeded that of Joseph A. Wellington & Company, and the business was continued at 211 Bridge street, East Cambridge. On the death of his partner, Joseph A. Wellington, August 1, 1888, he continued the business alone, but retained the firm name under which he was carrying it on in 1907. Mr. Buck was married November, 1874, to Ellen Antoinette, daughter of Joseph Abbott and Ellen (Smith) Wellington, granddaughter of Nehemiah Wel- lington, of Middlesex county, and cousin of Austin C. Wellington (q. v.), of Cambridge, and Frederick W. Wellington, of Worcester, Massachusetts. Silas Edward and Ellen An- toinette (Wellington) Buck had no children. They resided in Cambridge, and have a sum- mer home at Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Mr. Buck is a member of the New England Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Putnam Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; and of the Cambridge Chapter Commandery, Knights Templar. He became a trustee of the East Cambridge Savings Bank, and a mem- ber of the common council of the City of Cambridge in 1889, and a member of the board of aldermen of the city in 1890.
(For early generations see Ephraim 4).
(V) Ephraim Buck, son of Eph- BUCK raim Buck (4), was born in Wo- burn, Massachusetts, October II, 1702. Married, July 26, 1726, Abigail Peirce ; married (second), May 9, 1728, Mary Wood, at Reading, Massachusetts. He resided at
Woburn and Wilmington, Massachusetts. Children, born at Wilmington : I. Samuel, born February 15, 1729, married, March 25, 1746, Mary Killam. 2. Ephraim, born February 13, 1731, married, September 30, 1756, Hannah Killam. 3. Mary, born July 28, 1736. 4. Abigail, born April 19, 1738. 5. Asa, born February 26, 1741, married, October 9, 1766, Joanna Corneal (Cornell). 6. Nathan, born February 16, 1744, mentioned below. 7. Es- ther, born September 13, 175I.
Silas &. Buck
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(VI) Nathan Buck, son of Ephraim Buck (5), was born in Wilmington, Massachusetts, February 16, 1744, and died there March 9, 1830, aged eighty-six, according to the record. He married Elizabeth Thompson, of Wilming- ton, December 31, 1790. She died, his widow, October 27, 1836, aged seventy-three. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Cap- tain Timothy Walker's company, Colonel Green's regiment, on the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, and later. He was drafted by the committee of safety in 1777 for the pur- pose of reinforcing the northern army. Chil- dren, born at Wilmington: I. Nathan, born October 17, 1793, mentioned below. 2. Jona- than, born October 7, 1795. 3. Benjamin, born October 10, 1797. 4. Rhoda, born April 19, 1800. 5. Mary, born August 2, 1804. 6. James, born August 10, 1807.
(VII) Nathan Buck, son of Nathan Buck (6), was born in Wilmington, Massachusetts, October 17, 1793, and died there May IO, 1884, at the advanced age of ninety years, six months and twenty-three days, according to the town record. He married Abigail Clark, born in Milford, New Hampshire, daughter of Richard and Abigail Clark, who died June 22, 1843, aged forty-six years. He married (sec- ond) Ann (Nancy) - -, who died Novem- ber 4, 1844, aged forty years. He married (third), March 25, 1845, Charlotte Caldwell, of Woburn. He was a farmer and shoe man- ufacturer. Children: 1. Abigail, born No- vember 22, 1812, married, September 26, 1837, John Brooks Tay. 2. Nathan Otis, died Au- gust 4, 1822, aged seven months and seven days. 3. Nathan Edwin, born July 27, 1823, married, December 25, 1853, Elvira V. Bowles. 4. Otis Clark, born December 18, 1825, men- tioned below. 5. Susan Carter, born April 5, 1828, married, January, 1857, Horace Shel- don. 6. Emily Maria, born June 27, 1835, married, June 12, 1860, James Skilton.
(VIII) Otis Clark Buck, son of Nathan Buck (7), was born at Wilmington, December 18, 1825. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and assisted his father in the manufacture of boots and shoes. When twenty-one years old he engaged in the business of butcher and dealer in meats and provisions in Wilmington, following it with success during all his active life. He retired a few years ago, and is now living in Wilming- ton. He served the town very efficiently and acceptably on the board of selectmen several years; for six years was overseer of the poor and assessor. Both in private, business and in
positions of trust and responsibility that he has filled, he has displayed much ability and great energy. He married (first) Esther Gowing, who was born in Amherst, New Hampshire. He married (second) Caroline R. Howard, of North Reading, who died April 21, 1902. Children of the first wife: I. Daughter, born 1852, died August 31, 1852. 2. Esther Elizabeth, born July 18, 1853, married Edward M. Nichols. Children of the second wife : 3. Arthur Otis, born January 19, 1858. 4. Caroline Frances, born April 30, 1860. 5. Alma Quimby, born February 19, 1862. 6. William Clark, born February 25, 1864, men- tioned below. 7. Emily Maria, born April 6, 1866. 8. Helen Howard, born May 23, 1868. 9. Francene A., born April 26, 1871. All the children were born at Wilmington.
(IX) William Clark Buck, son of Otis Clark Buck (8), was born in Wilmington, February 25, 1864. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, graduating in 1881 from Wilmington high school. He has been in the employ of J. M. Forbes & Co. in Boston, for twenty-five years. He is at present one of the commissioners of a munic- ipal light board of Reading, Massachusetts. He is a notary public and justice of the peace. He is a member of the Congregational church of Reading, Massachusetts, and has been treasurer of the parish for several years. In politics he is a Republican. He has resided in Reading since 1886. His home is at 46 West street. He married, August 25, 1886, Sallie U. Flint, of North Reading, born April 24, 1866, daughter of Isaac and Mary J. (Cutts) Flint. Her father was a farmer, and is deceased. Children: I. Marion F., born October 21, 1888, is a junior in Mt. Holyoke College. 2. Malcolm R., born May 1, 1890, is a freshman at Amherst College, and a mem- ber of the football team. 3. Laurence H., born June 27, 1892. 4. Edith A., born April 26, 1895. 5. Robert L., born April 24, 1898. 6. Richard C., born March 5, 1902.
Peter Shumway, the immi- SHUMWAY grant ancestor, was of French Huguenot ancestry. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, when many Huguenots sought refuge in America, he came, about 1695, to Massachu- setts, and located in Topsfield. The name was originally spelled Chamois or Charmois. We are told that the home of this family in France was in the neighborhood of St. Maixent, in
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the old Province of Poitou. Shumway came at the same time that Peter Faneuil and other French Huguenots came, and he was doubt- less with the body of settlers who made their home in Oxford, Massachusetts, where his son, a few years later, was a settler. Peter Shumway resided also at Salem Village, or Danvers; was a soldier in King Philip's war; and on account of that service his son years afterward petitioned for a grant of land. Peter was the progenitor of all of this name in this country. He married Frances
Children: I. Peter, born at Topsfield; men- tioned below. 2. Dorcas, born at Topsfield, October 16, 1683; married Valentine Butler. 3. Joseph, born at Topsfield, October 13, 1686. (II) Peter Shumway, son of Peter Shum- way (I), was born in Topsfield, June 6, 1678. He married February II, 1701, Maria Smith, who died January 17, 1739. It is said that her father built the third house having a cellar in Boston. Shumway married second, Febru- ary 28, 1740, Mary Dana. He settled in Ox- ford, not with the original settlers and pro- prietors, but on the right of Joshua Chandler, bought September 13, 1713. His home lot in Oxford embraced that now or lately owned by Josiah Russell. His family has been one of the best known and most respected of the town ever since. Children: I. Oliver, born at Box- ford, June 8, 1701 ; baptized at Topsfield, May IO, 1702. 2. Jeremiah, baptized at Topsfield, March 21, 1703; mentioned below. 3. David, baptized at Topsfield, December 23, 1705. 4. Mary, baptized at Topsfield, May 9, 1708; married Caleb Barton. 5. Samuel, born March 6, 17II, at Boxford; baptized April 22, 17II. 6. John, born at Boxford, June 26, 1713, bap- tized August 15 following. The following were born at Oxford: 7. Jacob, born March 10, 1717. 2. Hepsibah, born April 1, 1720; married November 12, 1741, Obadiah Walker. 9. Amos, born January 31, 1722.
(III) Jeremiah Shumway, son of Peter Shumway (2), was born in Boxford, Massa- chusetts, in 1704; baptized at Topsfield, where his parents attended church, March 21, 1703- 4. He married November 13, 1729, Experi- ence Larned (or Learned) who was born in 17II, the daughter of Isaac Larned. He set- tled in Oxford, Massachusetts, on the Ithiel T. Johnson place, on Lot H. 185, with his father, and remained there until 1755, when he ex- changed farms with his brother-in-law, Isaac Larned, Jr., and removed to the Shumway homestead, near the site of the Johnson House, Lot H. 64, selling it in 1773 to his son Peter,
and buying Lot H. 172 on Long Hill, where he died. · Children: 1. Jeremiah, born Septem- ber 12, 1731 ; married December 4, 1758, Abi- gail Moore, daughter of Elijah Moore, a sol- dier in the French war; Jeremiah died April 13, 1679. 2. Experience, born March 28, 1733; married Thomas Read. 3. Peter, born April 29, 1735; mentioned below. 4. Mary, born March 28, 1737 ; died young. 5. Martha, born November 27, 1738; married August 17, 1758, Joseph Willson, son of Jacob Willson. 6. Elizabeth, born November 3, 1740; married Amasa Kingsbury. 7. Isaac, born November II, 1742; married November 14, 1769, Re- becca Groo, of Douglas. 8. William, born December 4, 1744. 9. Solomon, born Febru- ary 19, 1747. 10. Samuel, born April 18, 1749. II. Benjamin, born November 27, 1752; soldier in Revolution; married April 4, 1775, Eunice Outnam. I2. Mary, born August 5, 1757, married Jonathan Coburn.
(IV) Peter Shumway, son of Jeremiah Shum- way (3), was born at Oxford, Massachusetts, April 29, 1735, and died August 30, 1828, aged ninety-three years. He was a soldier in the French war; a private in the Continental army, Captain Fish's company, Colonel Shep- pard's regiment, enlisted first April 4, 1777, and remaining in the service until 1782, in the third and fourth Worcester county regiments under Captains Moor and Thomas Fish. He married June 4, 1759, Rebecca Leavens, who was born June 29, 1743. This Revolutionary service may not be his, there being several of the name old enough to be in the Revolution from Oxford. His wife died at Oxford, March II, 1826, aged eighty-two years. Peter had the Shumway homestead and resided there all his life. From 1772 to 1796 he was an innholder at Oxford. Children, born at Oxford: I. Martha, born January 20, 1760; married Amasa Kingsbury. 2. Zerviah, born January 18, 1762; died young. 3. Elijah, born February 6, 1764; married Chloe Griggs and settled at Pomfret, Connecticut ; he died July 2, 1821; she died February 8, 1859. 4. Re- becca, born June 4, 1766; died young. 5. Eliz- abeth, born August 3, 1768; married Jonathan Kingsbury ; married second, November 29, 1798, Samuel Coburn. 6. Noah, born Octo- ber 4, 1770. 7. Leavens, born August 25, 1772 ; married Thankful Johnson, daughter of Comfort Johnson, of Sturbridge; settled at Monson ; died April 12, 1830; she died at Ox- ford, June 21, 1856. 8. Parley, born Novem- ber 12, 1774. 9. Peter, born December 6, I777, mentioned below. IO. Rebecca, born
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November 6, 1780; married David Prince. II. Zerviah, born July 1, 1785 ; died June 20, 1817, unmarried. 12. Polly, born February 21, 1790; died April 8, 1808.
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