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spelled Bowerbank) is found in the Domesday Book. At a later date the spelling was Bowbank. Some of the American lines have preferred the spell- ing Burbancke. Most if not all the New Eng- land families using the spelling Burbank, are descended from John Burbank, who settled in Rowley, as below.
(I) John Burbank, immigrant ancestor, born in England, about 1600, settled in Rowley, Massachusetts, where he was admitted a free- man May 13, 1640, and was recorded in the same year as a proprietor of the town, and held various town offices. By will made April 5, 1681, in which he calls himself "aged and de- creped," proved April 10, 1681, he bequeathed to wife Jemima; sons Caleb and John ; grand- son Timothy, son of John; a grandchild who lived with Captain Saltonstall; his daughter Lydia and her husband. He was married twice. His widow Jemima died March 24, 1692-3. Child of John and Ann Burbank: I. John, removed to Suffield, Massachusetts, now Con- necticut, about 1680 ; married Susanna, daugh- ter of Nathaniel Merrill; had two wives later. Children of John and Jemima Burbank: 2. Timothy, born May 18, 1641 ; buried July 14, 1660. 3. Lydia, born April 7, 1644; mar- ried Foster, of Ipswich. 4. Caleb, mentioned below. 5. Mary, born May 16, 1655 ; buried July 12, 1660.
(II) Caleb Burbank, son of John Burbank (I), born at Rowley, May 19, 1646; married Martha, daughter of Hugh Smith, May 6, 1669. He resided in Newbury and Rowley. His will, dated February 15, 1688, proved March 25, 1690, mentions his "honored moth- er" as living; makes his wife executrix, but not giving names of his children. His widow married, second, John Hardy, of Bradford, Massachusetts, July 3, 1695. Children of Caleb and Martha Burbank: I. Caleb, born May 1, 1671; married January 2, 1693-4,
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Lydia Garfield, of Watertown ; married second, August 31, 1698, Hannah Acy; he died at Boxford, February I, 1749-50; she died Jan- uary 8, 1762. 2. John, born March 20, 1672, died unmarried. 3. Mary, born November 26, 1675 ; married April 6, 1698, Joseph Hardy Jr., of Bradford. 4. Timothy, born January 24, 1677-8; died unmarried. 5. Martha, born February 22, 1679-80 ; married March 9, 1697- 98, Daniel Gage. 6. Eleazer, born March 14, 1681-2; resided at Bradford. 7. Samuel, mentioned below. 8. Ebenezer, born June 28. 1687, lived in Boxford.
(III) Samuel Burbank, son of Caleb Bur- bank (2), born in Rowley, or Newbury, July 15, 1684; settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and later removed to New Hampshire, where many of his descendants have lived.
(IV) Samuel Burbank Jr., son of Samuel Burbank (3), born in Haverhill, 1716; mar- ried April 1, 1740, Eunice Hardy, of Bradford. About 1742 he removed from Bradford to Nottingham West (now Hudson), New Hampshire, where he was a prominent settler. He married second, October 15, 1766, Sarah Hardy, of Bradford, Massachusetts. Children : I. Jacob, born at Bradford, October 19, 1741. 2. Samuel, born August 30, 1745; married Eunice Pettingill ; progenitor of the Boscawen, New Hampshire, branch of the family. 3. Jonathan, mentioned below.
(V) Jonathan Burbank, son of Samuel Burbank (4), born in Nottingham West, now Hudson, 1759, died March 4, 1836. He was a soldier in the Revolution, private in Cap- tain Peter Cross's company, Colonel Moses Nichols's regiment, 1778; also private in Cap- tain William Read's company, Colonel Bald- win's regiment in New Hampshire, 1776. Children : I. Eli, born December 4, 1790; died October 8, 1858. 2. Samuel, mentioned be- low. 3. David, born May 25, 1794; died July 14, 1812. 4. Jonathan, born July 16, 1797; died August 28, 1830. 5. Hannah, born Sep- tember 13, 1799; died February 7, 1826. 6. John, born August 8, 1801; died March 29, ' 1827. 7. Cummings, born May 25, 1805 ; died October 31, 1825.
(VI) Samuel Burbank, son of Jonathan Burbank (5), born at Hudson, formerly Not- tingham West, July 9, 1793 ; died there March 17, 1868; he married, December 4, 1828, Har- riet Rogers, born April 17, 1805, at Billerica, Massachusetts, daughter of William Rogers. Her father married first, November 29, 1787, Susanna, daughter of Jonathan Pollard; she died February 25, 1789, and he married sec- ond, December 10, 1789, Hannah, daughter
of Oliver Farmer. Samuel Rogers, father of William, born February 2, 1722-3, married April 18, 1751, Rebecca Farmer, daughter of Oliver ; she died August 30, 1809; Samuel died August 30, 1809. William Rogers, fath- er of Samuel, born December 13, 1680, died July 7, 1736; his wife Abigail died January 9, 1754, aged seventy-three. John Rogers, fath- er of William, born September II, 1641, mar- ried October 10, 1667, Mary, daughter of Daniel Shedd; lived at North Billerica. John married second, Abigail, widow of William Rogers, of Charlestown; John Rogers was killed by Indians August 5, 1695, at Billerica. John Rogers, the immigrant, father of John, was born in England, 1594, also lived in Wat- ertown, Massachusetts ; married, about 1640, Priscilla Dawes, of Boston, who died April 21, 1663; he married second, November 3, 1653, Abigail Martin. Rogers settled in Wenham, and about 1656 in Billerica, where his descend- ants have been numerous to the present time. Harriet (Rogers) Burbank died at Lowell July 13, 1872. Children of Samuel and Har- riet (Rogers) Burbank: I. Charles Henry, mentioned below. 2. Gertrude Elizabeth, born August 27, 1840; died December 15, 1844. Both were born at Lowell, whither the parents moved when young.
(VII) Charles Henry Burbank, son of Sam- uel Burbank (6), was born in Lowell, Massa- chusetts, October 5, 1838. He received his early education in the public schools of Lowell and at Williston Seminary. Upon leaving school he became associated with his father in the clothing business in Lowell. After a few years he engaged in business as a dealer in clothing under the firm name of Gilman & Burbank, then under the firm name of Bur- bank & Winnek, then Burbank & Co., when he became the first editor of the Lowell Morn- ing Mail, a position he filled with conspicuous ability and success. He resigned in 1885 to accept the position of city librarian of Lowell, an office he was holding at the time of his death, April 21, 1894. He was a clear thinker and able writer, and exerted a great influence for good in the community, as an upright, honorable and fearless newspaper man can, commanding the respect alike of friends and opponents. In politics he was a Republican and he contributed much to the upbuilding and growth of his party in Lowell. He was a member of Kilwinning Lodge of Free Ma- sons of Lowell. He married, December 12, 1861, Frances Abby Worthen, born in Low- ell, May 6, 1838, daughter of George Wash- ington and Elizabeth (Clark) Worthen. Their
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only child was Samuel, born September 6, 1866, who was educated in the public and high schools of Lowell; is at present manager of the Sorosis shoe store, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. He married Annie May Thompson, of Lowell, and have no children. .
CRAIG Andrew Craig, the immigrant ancestor, was born in Scotland, about 1700, of an ancient and well-known family. In 1725 he went to Ul- ster Province, in the north of Ireland, where so many Scotch people settled, and five years later joined the great tide of emigration to America. He arrived in Boston, February 28, 1730, and settled soon afterward in Wrentham, Massachusetts. He married in Scotland, Janet Todd.
(II) John Craig, son of Andrew Craig (1), born in Scotland, October, 1721, removed with his parents to Ireland and thence to America. He died April 27, 1803, at Wrenth- am, where he lived during his adult years. He married Mary Skinner, who died June 18, 1788. Children, born in Wrentham: I. John Jr., born about 1754; mentioned below. 2. Elias, born September 27, 1756, removed to the Fort Western settlement in Hallowell, 1779; hatter by trade; married December 31, 1788, Hannah, daughter of Dr. John Mc- Kechnie; she died April 12, 1790, and he mar- ried second, November 28, 1793, Olive Ham- lin, and he removed to Fayette, Maine, where he died May 6, 1837; was soldier in the Rev .. olution. 3. Enoch, born September II 1758; in Continental army until 1780; settled in Farmington, Maine; was a prominent man. 4. Jesse, born August 3, 1764; settled in Au- gusta, Maine; was hatter in the employ of brother Elias; married Sarah Ware, of Wrentham; resided in Worcester, Massachu- setts; children: i. Nabby, born August 13, 1792; ii. Elias, December 23, 1793; iii. James Ware, August 21, 1796; iv. William Stearns, January 22, 1799; v. Elias, March 1, 1801.
(III) John Craig, son of John Craig (2), was born about 1754, in Wrentham, Massa- chusetts. He was a soldier in the Revolution from Wrentham in the Rhode Island cam- paign of 1776-7, in Captain Lemuel Kollock's" company, Colonel Wheelock's regiment; also corporal in Captain Ebenezer Buck's company, Colonel Joseph's regiment, General Lovell's brigade, July 30, 1779, in the Penob- seot campaign. Between 1777 and 1779 he settled in Maine, as did several of his broth- ers. He resided in Augusta or vicinity.
(IV) John Craig, son of John Craig (3), born in or near Augusta, Maine, about 1790; married Mehitable Wingate, of an old New Hampshire family. Children: I. Nancy. 2. Augustus. 3. Shepherd. 4. George, en- listed in Civil War from Augusta, Maine; killed at battle of Bull Run. 5. Albert Win- gate.
(V) Albert Wingate Craig, son of John Craig (4), born February, 1836, in Augusta, Maine; married Elizabeth Stone. They set- tled in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Chil- dren: I. Mary A. 2. Carrie N. 3. Clara. 4. Hannah A., mentioned below. 5. Flor- ence G. 6. Maud E. 7. Charles Stone. 8. John A.'
(VI) Hannah Alberta Craig, daughter of Albert Wingate. Craig (5), was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, June 14, 1868. She married first, Frederick Dockham. Chil- dren, all born in Boston: I. Myrtie N. Dock- ham, born February 24, 1884; married Clar- ence Howard Everton, and had Dolores A. Everton, born February 24, 1906; died Sep- tember 3, 1906. 2. John Craig Dockham. 3. Clara May Dockham. .4. Charles Dock- ham. 5. Lillian E. Dockham, born Septem- ber 8, 1886; married June 7, 1905, Ben- jamin A. Hotchkiss of Essex; child, Her- bert Craig Hotchkiss, born May 27; 1907. Hannah Alberta (Craig) Dockham married second, Charles H. Dearborn, was born at Alney, Maine, September 3, 1866, son of Le- roy and Eveline (Reed) and grandson of Ben- jamin Reed. He had one brother, Augustus Leroy Dearborn. He was educated in the public and high schools of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and at Comer's Commercial College of Boston. He is a hotel proprietor in Boston. He is a member of the Odd Fel- lows; has been through the various chairs of Knights of Malta; and is an active member of Council, Royal Arcanum. Charles H. and Hannah A. Dearborn have one child: Albert Craig Dearborn, born in Boston, April 22, 1899.
Thomas Keating, son of
KEATING Keating, was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1836, and received his education in the common schools of his native parish. He left home at the age of thirteen, and came in 1849 with the great movement of population from Ire- land to America. He made the voyage with his elder brother Michael. He obtained em- ployment as a gardener in Melrose, Massa-
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chusetts, and passed the remainder of his life in that town. He invested his savings in the livery stable business when still a young man, and built up a large and flourishing establish- ment from a humble beginning. He was known far and wide as an expert judge of horses, and he was a shrewd and careful buy- er and trader in horses. In politics Mr. Keating was a Democrat in national affairs, but independent in municipal affairs. He was never a candidate for office himself, though a bulwark of his party and the staunch supporter of many Democratic candidates. He died at Haverhill, 1895, aged fifty-nine years. He married first He mar- ried (second) Ann Fleming, who was born in Ireland. Children of his first wife: Thomas and James. Children of Thomas and Ann (Fleming) Keating: 3. William E., married Jennie Prior, of Randolph, Massachusetts, and had three children: Joseph, Mary and Marguerite. 4. John J., mentioned below. 5. Philip S., married Agnes McSweeney.
(II) John J. Keating, son of Thomas Keat- ing (I), was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1871. He was educated there in the public schools, graduating from the Melrose high school. He started upon a mercantile career as clerk in the store of Hawley, Fulsom & Martin, of Boston, wholesale dealers in men's furnishing goods, and continued with this concern for four years. Then for some seven years he was clerk for the firm of Farrar & Seeley in the same line of business, at Melrose. In 1898 he embarked in business in clothing and furnishing goods for men, in a store in the Post Office block. He was successful from the first and his store prospered. In 1900 he had outgrown the original store and concluded to take larger quarters, and he removed to his present location. He carries a large stock of men's furnishing goods and clothing. He is independent in politics. He is a member of the Young Men's Catholic Lyceum and was its first president, serving three years, and was formerly a director of the Melrose Cycle Club in its palmy days. He is a charter member of the Knights of Columbus and has held in suc- cession all the offices in that body, including that of grand knight. He is a member of the Melrose Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a life member of the Melrose Ath- letic Club. He is a charter member of the Melrose Board of Trade, was formerly its sec- retary and active in the work of the board. Mr. Keating has devoted much time and en- ergy to the matter of inducing new industries to locate in Melrose and in encouraging home
industries as much as possible. He is fond of out-door sports and a leader in athletics in Melrose. He is one of the most popular and best known of the younger business men of the city.
Miss Zipporah Sawyer, of
SAWYER Medford, is descended from William Sawyer (I), of Lan- caster, Massachusetts, who married Mary She was admitted to the church in Lancaster, April 8, 1711. William and Mary Sawyer had a son William, who was baptized November 18, 171I.
(II) William Sawyer, the oldest child of William and Mary Sawyer, baptized 17II, married Hannah Whitcomb, of Lancaster, August 25, 1732. Their oldest son William was born about 1733.
(III) William, oldest son of William and Hannah (Whitcomb) Sawyer, born about 1733, married Sarah - about 1757. They were among the early settlers of Bolton, a town set off from a part of Lancaster. They had a son Benjamin, born September 10, 1758.
(IV) Benjamin Sawyer, born in 1758, lived in Bolton. He married Rebecca Houghton, December 6, 1781; served in the Revolution- ary war. Children of Benjamin and Rebecca (Houghton) Sawyer, all· born in Bolton: I. Rebecca, born March 16, 1782. 2. Levi, born October 1, 1783. 3. Benjamin, born Febru- ary 19, 1785. 4. Betsy, born April 27, 1786, died young. 5. Jonah, born August 31, 1787. 6. Sally, born October 27, 1788, died young. 7. William, born April 30, 1792. 8. John, born February 17, 1794. 9. Lucy, born Oc- tober 3, 1795. 10. Betsy, born September 6, 1797. II. Cephas, born August 20, 1800. 12. Sally, born July 3, 1803.
(V) Dr. Levi Sawyer was born in Bolton, Massachusetts, October 1, 1783, and died March 16, 1844. He worked on his father's farm till he was twenty-one years old, studied medicine with Dr. Whitman, in Stow, Massa- chusetts, and attended lectures at the Har- vard Medical School. He went to Charles- ton, South Carolina, and practiced his pro- fession there for eleven years. Later he re- turned to his native town, opened an office, and had a large practice in Bolton and the adjoin- ing towns. Like most country physicians he also had a farm. He married, November 8, 1818, Hannah Nourse, born August 5, 1797, daughter of Barnard and Hannah (Barrett) Nourse. Children of Dr. Levi and Hannah
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(Nourse) Sawyer, born in Bolton: I. Zip- porah, born August 31, 1819. 2. Sterling Konisky, born November 20, 1821, died Sep- tember 17, 1902 ; married Sarah B. Whitcomb, daughter of Asa Whitcomb. He was a farmer and lived in Bolton. Children of Sterling K. and Sarah (Whitcomb) Sawyer were: Alice and Minnie Lincoln, both died young; George W. and Charles H. The latter married Emma Bowers, and they have two children-Zip- porah and George Konisky. 3. Rufus, born December 31, 1823. His early education was obtained in the schools of Bolton. Afterwards he attended the Academy at Amherst, Massa- chusetts, and graduated at the Bridgewater normal school in 1846. He commenced teach- ing in his native town of Bolton, and subse- quently taught in Danvers, Massachusetts, and at the Fann school at Thompson's Island, Bos- ton Harbor; also in Chelsea. He came to Medford in August, 1852, became principal of the Swan school, and subsequently was prin- cipal of the Everett school for thirty-four years, which for many years was one of the largest grammar schools of Medford. In 1886, after thirty-four years as principal, he resign- ed his position and closed a very successful career as teacher in Medford. When he com- menced his work in Medford, Rev. Hosea Bal- lou, first president of Tufts College, was chair- man of the school committee. He was alike popular with the school committee, his teach- ers, pupils, and their parents. He attended the first parish school (Unitarian), and was a member of the parish committee. He was a skilled chess player, and was president of the Boston Chess Club for many years. He was an interested member of the Medford Im- provement Society while that town was in active operation, and of the Fells Association, and was enthusiastic in his efforts to co-oper- ate with Elizur Wright, Sylvester Baxter, George E. Davenport and others in securing the beautiful and picturesque territory, now known as Middlesex Fells for public use. He was an active member of the Medford Gun Club, and was very fond of outdoor life. He never married, but lived with his sister at their home on Salem street, Medford, where he died August 4, 1896.
(VI) Zipporah Sawyer, born in Bolton, August 31, 1819, has had a very successful career as a teacher. She taught in the schools of Marlboro and Newburyport, and came to Medford, Massachusetts, July 4, 1857. At that time Rev. Charles Brooks, author of "History of Medford," and Judge Harlow, were members of the school committee. She
was a teacher in the Medford schools for eighteen years, resigning in March, 1875. Most of the time her position was that of first assistant in the Everett school, of which her brother, Rufus Sawyer, was principal. On her resignation in 1875 she was immediately honored by an election as a member of the school committee, which place she filled most acceptably for eighteen years. Her long ex- perience as a teacher, her sympathy with chil- dren, and her intimate knowledge of their pa- rents and home life, made her especially valu- able as a member of the school board. She is an honorary member of the Teacher's Guild, and has made a generous contribution to their permanent fund. She is a member of the First Parish Church, and the Woman's Alliance, connected with that organization. She is a life member of the Medford Historical So- ciety, is greatly interested in its work, and has done much to promote its success. She con- tinues her active interest in her native town of Bolton, and recently made a generous contri- bution of books to its public library. It seems incredible that a person who is seen so often at church, and the meetings of the Historical Society and other places, could have been born the same year as Queen Victoria, who, after sixty-three years on the throne, passed to her rest several years ago. Miss Sawyer, by con- tinuing her interest in educational, religious, historical and practical work, and keeping in touch with outdoor life, never grows old.
BLAKE Jasper Blake, immigrant ances- tor, born in England, settled about 1650 in Hampton, New Hampshire. His wife Deborah is said to have been a sister of Rev. Timothy Dalton and Philemon Dalton. Certain it is she was their relative and named children for them. Blake bought the house lot of Thomas Ward about 1660, and also owned other tracts of land, among them being one of eight acres a few rods north of Oliver Lane's present residence, where he probably resided during much of his life in Hampton; and a farm of one hundred acres, received from Rev. Tim- othy Dalton by a deed of gift. Blake died January 5, 1674, and his widow died Decem- ber 20, 1678. Children: I. Timothy, born October 16, 1649; died January 6, 1718; mar- ried Naomi Sleeper. 2. Deborah, born Jan- uary 15, 1652; married Eleazer Elkins. 3. Israel, died December 3, 1678. 4. John, born October 31, 1656; died March .29, 1716. 5. Sarah, born February 14, 1659; died Sep-
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tember 29, 1660. 6. Sarah, born June 30, 1661. 7. Jasper, born November 16, 1663; died December 19, 1678. 8. Samuel, born June 6, 1666. 9. Dorothy, born September 17, 1668; died Octber 28, 1737; married Na- thaniel Locke. 10. Philemon, born May 23, 1671 ; mentioned below. II. Maria, born March 1, 1673.
(II) Philemon Blake, son of Jasper Blake, born May 23, 1671 ; married January 20, 1698, Sarah Dearborn, daughter of Henry. Dear- born. Children: I. Elizabeth, baptized April 13, 1701; married Samuel Lane. 2. Joshua, born July. 1701 ; see forward. 3. De- borah, born October 13, 1703; married De- cember 30, 1725, Benjamin Veazey. 4. Phil- emon, born March 12, 1706; married Lydia Boulter. 5. Sarah, born February 24, 1708; married November 13, 1729, Jeremiah Bean, of Kittery. 6. Henry, baptized December 10, 1710.
(III) Joshua Blake, son of Philemon Blake (2), born in July, 1701; married January 20, 1729, Jemima Children: I. Henry, born 1729. 2. Jeremiah, born 1731; men- tioned below. 3. Jemima, born 1733. 4. John, born 1736.
(IV) Jeremiah Blake, son of Joshua Blake (3), was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1731. He married first Abigail Locke; sec- ond Sarah Gove, daughter of Enoch Gove and granddaughter of Ebenezer Gove of Hampton, New Hampshire. Ebenezer Gove was born June 23, 1671, and married Judith Sanborn. His father, Edward Gove, was of Hampton, November 28, 1665, when he sold land in Salisbury, Massachusetts, to Ezekiel . Worthen; he married Hannah Titcomb; he died May 29, 1691. Judith Blake, who was born May 8, 1740, daughter of Nathan Blake, cousin of Jeremiah, married Bradbury Rich- ardson, and settled at Moultonborough, New Hampshire. The census of the United States, taken in 1790, showed that Ebenezer Blake, of Moultonborough, had in his family three sons of sixteen years or over, two un- der sixteen, and three females. Enoch Blake, of the same town, had a family of six sons under sixteen and three females. Paul Blake had two sons under sixteen, one over sixteen, and four females in his family.
(VI) John Blake, grandson of Jeremiah Blake (4), was born about 1785, in Moulton- borough, New Hampshire. He made his home in Sandwich, New Hampshire, near Moulton- borough. He married Susan Frost, of Tewks- bury, Massachusetts. Child, John, mentioned below.
(VII) John Blake, son of John Blake (6), was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, May, 1811; married Adeline Reid, born in Windham, New Hampshire, daughter of John Reid, and granddaughter of General Reid, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, the great military leader of New Hampshire with Stark. Her mother, Isabella Hopkins, was a relative of Governor Stephen Hopkins, who signed the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island, and a descendant of Mr. Ste- phen Hopkins, who came in the "Mayflower." Blake settled at Danvers, Massachusetts, where he attended the First Congregational Church at Danvers Center. In politics he was a Whig. He was a school teacher and later a farmer and shoemaker in that town. Child, John Albert, mentioned below.
(VIII) John Albert Blake, son of John Blake (7), was born April 15, 1843, at Dan- vers, Massachusetts. He received a common school education. He . removed from Dan- vers to Lexington, where he lived one year, thence to Haverhill, where he lived seven years. Since 1892 he has made his home in Malden, Massachusetts.
He enlisted July 13, 1863, in the United States navy, and was wounded by a piece of shell, in an engagement off Charleston har- bor, South Carolina, on board the "New Ironsides" (the most famous iron-clad of the civil war period), while bombarding Forts Wagner, Sumter and Moultrie Island. On account of his injury he was discharged in 1864. After the war he engaged in the man- ufacture of boots and shoes, and has built up an extensive and prosperous business, hav- ing large shoe factories at the present time in Danvers and Haverhill, Massachusetts and in Calais and Woburn, Maine. Mr. Blake was formerly a Democrat, and as such was elected representative to the general court from the Danvers district in 1878 and again in 1879. In 1896, during the Bryan free sil- ver campaign, he voted for the Republican national ticket, and again in 1900 and 1904, voting for Mckinley and Roosevelt. He is a faithful member and liberal supporter of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he is a vestryman.
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