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(VI) Josiah Hayward, son or nephew of Jonathan Hayward (5), was born at Brain- tree, Massachusetts, in 1766. (See History of Antrim, New Hampshire). In 1772 his mother died, and the following year he went to live with an aunt at Westford, Massachu- setts. He married, 1786, Rebecca Reed, and removed to Auburn, New Hampshire, in 1790. He went thence to Hillsboro, New Hampshire, in 1804 to Alexandria in 1838, to Bristol, New Hampshire, in 1842, and died there in 1845, aged seventy-nine years. His wife and three children died within nine days of spotted fever in March, 1812. He married (second), November 11, 1813, Abi- gail Sawyer. Children: I. Samuel B., born 1787, married Nabby Killam, of Hancock, and removed in 1805 to Rutland,' Vermont. 2. Sarah, born 1789, died unmarried. 3. Re- becca, born 1791, married, November 26, 1815, Silas Rhodes. 4. Josiah, mentioned below. 5. Jonathan, born 1794, served in war of 1812 and was five years in the army. 6. Thomas P., born 1797, died aged eighteen. 7. Betsey, died in 1812. 8. Charles P., born April 6, 1801, married Lucinda Rhodes and (second) Lois Whittemore, of Pembroke. 9. Walter, born March 27, 1803, married Ann Sayles ; (second) Mrs. Peter Bullock. 10. Jonas R., born April 25. 1805, married Maria Sleeper and (second) Mrs. Mary (Webster) Bod- well. 11. Hannah, born April 26, 1807, died 1812. 12. Mary, born August 17, 1809, died 1812.
(VII) Josiah Hayward, son of Josiah Hay- ward (6), was born in 1793. He settled when
a young man in Topsham, Vermont, and be- came a successful farmer. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and served on the school committee for a number of years. He married (first) Betty Gentleman, of Topsham. He married (second) Lydia Pomeroy, of Top- sham. Children of Josiah and Betty Hay- ward: Chastina, Laura, Betty, mentioned above. Children of Josiah and Lydia Hay- ward : Rosanna, Ruth, Josiah Clark, Wil- liam, Putnam, Dorothy, Lydia, Minerva, men- tioned below.
(VIII) Minerva Hayward, daughter of Jo- siah Hayward (7), was born in Topsham, Vermont, in 1830, died January 23, 1908. She was educated in the public schools of that · town. She came to Lowell at the age of fif- teen. She married, March 16, 1851, George N. Osgood, of Andover, Massachusetts. He made his home in Lowell in 1849, at the age of nineteen, to learn the painter's trade. He has been engaged in the business of house painter all his life, as journeyman, foreman and contractor. He has had the painting of most of the buildings in that section of the city where he resides. He invested his savings in real estate shrewdly selected, and the growth of the city has greatly enhanced the value of his lands and houses. During the past five years his attention has been devoted exclusive- ly to the care and improvement of his real es- tate. Mr. Osgood is a Republican in politics, and served one year in the Lowell common council. He belongs to no secret societies. He attends the Congregational church. Mrs. Osgood was a very devout and earnest mem- ber of the church, well known for her benevo- lences and generous support of the church.
George Hayward, father of HAYWARD Charles A. Hayward, Low- ell, was born in Chelsea. Vermont. He was educated in the public schools, followed farming for a number of years, after which he engaged in the business of buying and selling real estate, continuing in the same throughout the active years of his life. He was a patriotic and loyal citizen, willing to sacrifice his life for the preservation of the Union, as was evidenced in the fact that he served three years during the civil war. He was an adherent of the Republican party; he was not a member of any society, preferring to devote his time to his home and business. He married Jane Shaw, of South Royalton, Vermont, who bore him six children: Albert, Lyman, Hattie, Lucinda, Nellie, Charles A.
Charles A. Hayward, youngest child of
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George and Jane (Shaw) Hayward, was born in Chelsea, Vermont, August 4, 1853. He ac- quired a practical education in the public schools of Chelsea, and at the age of fifteen began farming, which occupation he followed until the age of twenty-two, when he came to Lowell and entered the employ of the Walter Parker Company to learn the trade of wood- turner, at which he became highly proficient and has continued along that line in the same shop to the present time (1908), a period of thirty-three years, being foreman of a large force of men, a fact which speaks eloquently for his worth as an employee and the satisfac- tion with which his work is regarded by his employers. He casts his vote for the candi- dates of the Republican party, but has never sought or held office. He is a regular attend- ant of the Congregational church, and is a member of Lowell Lodge, No. 58, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Hayward married first Ella Peck ; there were no children by this marriage. He married second, July 10, 1893, Alice Gatchen, of Nova Scotia, a native of Scotland. Children : I. Fred, born May 3, 1894. 2. Ar- thur, May 20, 1895. 3. Florence Winnie, De- cember 3, 1896. 4. Maria, October 2, 1906.
PARKER This is an ancient English family name derived from the occupation of the progenitors who first used it as a surname, as parcarius, park keeper, and the forms Parcus and De Parco are found in the Domesday Book, eleventh century. It is unlikely that the num- erous English families have the same original ancestor. Geoffrey Parker, for instance, was in England before 925, probably a Saxon, while Johannes le Parker, a Norman, came with William the Conqueror, and was a keep- er of the royal parks. A coat-of-arms be- longing to the branch of the Parker family in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, was in posses- sion of that family and believed to have been borne by their English progenitors: gu. a chevron between three leopard's faces, or. Crest, a leopard's head affronté erased, or, ducally gorged, gu. There were no less than twenty-five immigrants named Parker in Massachusetts alone before 1650. It is not likely that they were all closely related, but there is reason to believe that the Parkers of Reading, Woburn, Chelmsford and Groton were brothers or very near relatives. Abra- ham Parker lived at Woburn and Chelms- ford; his daughter Mary married James, son of Captain James Parker, of Groton, at Chelmsford, December II, 1678. James
Parker was first at Woburn 1640, in Billerica 1654, removed to Chelmsford 1658; thence to Groton, where he died 1701, aged eighty- three years. Another brother of Abrahan Parker, John, was in Woburn 1649, in Bil- lerica 1654, and there died June 14, 1667. Thomas Parker named below was undoubt- edly related to these brothers, and probably was a brother.
(I) Deacon Thomas Parker, born in Eng- land, embarked for America, March II, 1635, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," which was fitted out by Sir Richard Saltonstall, with whose family a tradition connects the Parkers by marriage. He settled in Lynn Village, later called Reading, where he lived in the eastern part, on the old Parker homestead, where Deacon Parker, the last of his family to occupy it, died in 1822. He was an active and prominent citizen, a man of ability and property. He was appointed a commissioner to try small causes, in 1636, and admitted a freeman May 17, 1637. The Parker Geneal- ogy locates his residence within thirty rods of the present town hall of Wakefield, form- erly the south parish of Reading, on the east side of the common adjoining the estate of Rev. Samuel Haugh. He was deacon of the Reading church; selectman 1661, and about five years besides. He was born 1605, gave his age as thirty when he left England, died 1683, aged seventy-eight. His wife died Jan- uary 15, 1690. In his will, dated August 3, 1683, he bequeathed to wife Amy; sons John, Thomas, Nathaniel and Hananiah; daughters Mary and Martha; grandchildren Samuel and Sarah Parker; to John "a great Bible that Boniface Burton gave Me." Children : · I. Thomas, born at Lynn, 1636, married De- borah ; died July 17, 1699. 2. Han- aniah, (q. v.), ancestor of Captain Parker, the Lexington patriot, and of Rev. Theodore Parker. 3. John, born 1640. 4. Joseph, born 1642, died 1644. 5. Joseph, born 1645, died 1646. 6. Mary, born December 12, 1647, married Samuel Dodge, of Beverly, son of Richard. 7. Martha, born March 14, 1649. 8. Nathaniel, mentioned below.
(II) Nathaniel Parker, son of Thomas Parker (1), born in May, 1651, at Reading, Massachusetts; married there, 1677, Bethia Polly, doubtless daughter of John Polly, of Roxbury, and Bethia, daughter of William Cowdrey, of Reading. She was baptized 1657. Nathaniel settled in the West Parish, near what is now the centre of Reading on the Sanborn place, where it is said that he built the first house in that parish and was the
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first person buried in the west parish grave- yard. Children: I. Bethia, born 1678, died young. 2. Nathaniel, born 1679. 3. Stephen, born 1684, died young. 4. Bethia, born 1685, married, 1707, Ebenezer Emerson. 5. Susanna, born 1687, married, 1707, Joseph Underwood. 6. Ebenezer, born 1689, mar- ried, 1714, Mercy Damon. 7. Stephen, born 1692, married, 1713, Elizabeth Batchelder. 8. Caleb, born 1694. 9. Timothy, born 1696. IO. Obadiah, born 1698, settled in Groton, where many of the descendants of Deacon James (I) lived. II. Abigail, born 1699. 12. Amy, born 1701, died young. 13. Amy, born I702. 14. Phineas, mentioned below.
(III) Phineas Parker, son of Nathaniel Parker (2), was born in 1704, in Reading. He had a grant of land in Lunenburg in 1729. He married Martha His house was in Reading, near the residence now or lately of Ira W. Ruggles, but only the old well re- mained at last accounts to mark the site of the ancient dwelling house. The place was sold by Phineas to Rev. Mr. Haven, the first minister in the limits of the present town of Reading, who built the house now or lately occupied by George W. Grourd. He and his son Edmund seem to have been in Groton, a part of which was set off as Pepperell, where Edmund finally lived. Children : I. Ed- mund, mentioned below. 2. Martha, born 1735. 3. Elizabeth, born 1737. 4. Captain Phineas, born 1739, married, 1768, Lydia Monroe, of Lexington, and (second), in 1782, Widow Lydia Damon; removed to South Reading. 5. Lydia, born 1742. 6. John, born 1748. 7. Mary, 1757.
(IV). Edmund Parker, son of Phineas Parker (3), was born in Reading, 1731. He was a soldier in the Revolution. His record in 1775 and 1780 is credited to Reading; 1776 to 1780 his residence is given as Pepperell. He responded to the Lexington alarm with the Reading company, Captain Thomas Ea- ton, Colonel Green ; was from Pepperell, 1776 and 1777, in Captain John Minot's company, Colonel Dike's regiment; in Continental army 1777 to 1780, in Captain Wood's com- pany, Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment, the Sixth Middlesex; in Captain Benjamin Brown's company and Colonel Michael Jack- son's regiment. He married, July 22, 1755, Lydia, daughter of Jonas and Lydia (Boyden) Varnum, (married February 12, 1733-34). Ly- dia Varnum was born at Groton, October 5, 1735, and died August 4, 1756. He married (second), April 13, 1757, Elizabeth Green, born February 23, 1730, daughter of Eleazer
and Anna (Tarbell) Green. The following recorded born in Pepperell: I. Lydia, born July 30, 1756. Children of second wife: 2. Edmund, Jr., born May 23, 1761. 3. Asa, December 29, 1763. 4. Jonas, July 16, 1766. 5. James, mentioned below. 6. John, born October 3, 1774. 7. Elizabeth, January 26, 1778.
(V) James Parker, son of Edmund Parker (4), was born in Pepperell, April 10, 1769. He settled probably on the homestead at Pepper- ell, and married Sarah (Boynton?). Their children: I. Eli, mentioned below. 2. James, born February 4, 1795. 3. Sally, April 8, 1797. 4. Elizabeth, April 5, 1799. 5. Abel Boynton, March 12, 1801. 6. Charles, Feb- ruary 28, 1803. 7-8. Catherine and Caroline, twins, born November 8, 1805.
(VI) Eli Parker, son of James Parker (5), born in Pepperell, April 27, 1793, died July 4, 1841. He was educated in the common schools, and during his youth helped his father on the farm. He learned the trade of cooper. It was the custom in northern Mas- sachusetts and southern New Hampshire for men to do coopering in winters, just as farm- ers of the eastern section were shoemakers in the winter. He was a prominent and in- fluential citizen. He married Lovisa Doug- las. Children: William H., mentioned be- low; Eli B .; Charles F .; James C .; Eliza J .; Francis; Samuel; Francis.
(VII) William Harrison Parker, son of Eli Parker (6), was born in Brookline, New Hampshire, February II, 1819. He received his education in the district schools of what is now a part of Manchester, New Hamp- shire, until ten years of age, when his family moved to Brookline, where he attended the public schools until he was eighteen years old. In 1837 he came to Lowell, and entered the Dracut Academy, remaining for a short time. At the age of twenty he went to work for the Douglas Bros., in their bobbin and shuttle shop, remaining with this firm for seven years. He then started in 1845 with John S. Fuller, a bobbin mill located in Bel- videre. Dissolving partnership with Mr. Ful- ler after six months he engaged in the manu- facture of bobbins and shuttles for the Merri- mack Manufacturing Company, and contin- ued doing work for this company for many years. His own shop being burned in 1856, he moved to Brooks' mills, which he occupied until 1859. He then purchased a portion of the Wamesit steam mills of George W. Fiske, and organized the firm of Watson, Parker & Nichols, Mr. Watson selling his interest in
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1862. Mr. Nichols died in 1866, and his in- terest was purchased by John L. Cheney, with whom Mr. Parker was associated for about eighteen years, finally buying his inter- est in the firm, and joining with him in busi- ness his two sons, under the firm name of Wm. H. Parker & Sons, and continued in the same line of business at 731 Dutton street, until his death. In politics he was a Republi- can, and has served in many positions of hon- or and trust, being a member of the Lowell common council 1861; board of aldermen, 1867, and chosen to the legislature 1869-70, serving in both sessions on the committee on insurance. In 1883-84, 1886-87, he was on the board of overseers of the poor. Mr. Park- er was a director in the First National Bank of Lowell for thirty years, and president from 1896 to 1898; was a director in the Kitson Machine Company; in the City Manufactory and Bristol Manufacturing Company, both of New Bedford; in the Hargraves Mills, and president of the Parker Mills-both of Fall River. He was a member of the Kirk Street Congregational Church, with which he was connected for nearly thirty years, in the char- itable and missionary work of which society he took much interest, aiding its work in the practical manner of a business man. He was universally respected by all who knew him. March 15, 1843, he married Lucy B., daugh- ter of Lowell and Harriet (Hills) Lang, of Tilton, New Hampshire; four children were the issue of this union; Harriet Louise, born August 3, 1845; George Everett, born Octo- ber, 1891. He married, second, December 15, 1849; Walter Lang, mentioned below. Mr. Parker's wife, Lucy B. Parker, died Novem- ber, 1891. He married, second, December 15, 1894, Elizabeth D. Cameron, one of ten chil- dren born to Angus and Euphemia Begg, of Lowell, Massachusetts. There was no issue of this marriage. Mr. Parker died in October 1898.
(VIII) Walter L. Parker, son of William H. Parker (7), was born in Lowell, Novem- ber 29, 1857. He was educated in the gram- mar and high schools of that city. With pur- pose of becoming a manufacturer, he entered his father's spool and bobbin factory, learned the business thoroughly, and was admitted to the firm, later becoming sole owner of the business, at 731 Dutton street, Lowell, un- der the name of the Walter L. Parker Com- pany. In 1898 Mr. Parker was elected pres- ident of the First National Bank, Lowell, and served as such until the consolidation in 1902 of the First National and Merchants'
and Railroad national banks, into the Union National Bank of Lowell, of which he is vice- president. He is a trustee of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, also a member of its invest- ment committee. He is a director of the Parker & Hargraves Mills at Fall River, of the Peabody Manufacturing Company at New- buryport, the Lowell Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and a trustee of the Lowell Gen- eral Hospital. He is a member of William North Lodge of Masons; Mount Horeb R. A. Chapter; Ahasuerus Council; Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Templar, and Massa- chusetts Consistory. Mr. Parker commands the esteem of all who know him.
He married September 7, 1881, Rebecca Alice, daughter of William A. and Lucy (Hutchins) Johnson. Children : Lucille, born July 8, 1882, died in infancy; Harold Hut- chins, born in Lowell, November 8, 1884, a student in Yale College; Allan D., born in Lowell, December 6, 1886, a student at Yale College; Louise Lang, born in Lowell, Sep- tember 16, 1888, a student in Smith College.
William A. Johnson (see William Johnson I), son of Cyrus (8), was born January 24, 1825, at Pelham, New Hampshire. On his mother's side he is a direct descendant of Richard Warren, who came over in the "May- flower." He received his education in the grammar and high schools of Lowell, Massa- chusetts. For many years he was a traveling salesman for the firm of Cutter & Walker, manufacturers of suspenders, etc.,. Lowell; later, in partnership with Mr. George Hawes, of Boston, he manufactured 'his own goods. .He was well known in business circles throughout New England. He made his home in Lowell, and commanded the utmost respect and confidence of his townsmen. He was an attendant of the First Universalist Church, a member of Oberlin Lodge, I. O. O. F .; Chevalier Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Post 42, G. A. R. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in Company H, 6th Regi- ment Massachusetts Volunteers. December 22, 1846, he was united in marriage to Lucy Adams, daughter of David and Sally (Ab- bott) Hutchins, of Rumford, Maine. The fol- lowing are the children and grandchildren: I. Coolidge Robbins Johnson, born March 31, 1849; married Emma O. Churchill, Lowell; children : William Calvin Johnson, Edward Salmon Johnson, Lucy Emma Johnson. 2. Harriet Adelpha Johnson, born March 24, 1851 ; married Marcus D. Cole, of Lowell: children : Charlotte Alice Cole, Marcus John- son Cole. 3. Lucy Ardena Johnson, born De-
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cember 18, 1853; married Frank O. Ireson, of Lowell; child; Harry Reynolds Ireson ; Lucy Ardena (Johnson) Ireson married sec- ond, Nelson H. B. Wardwell, of Lowell. 4. Carrie Augusta Johnson, born August 30, 1855; married Horace H. Bennett, of Den- mark, Maine; children: Coolidge Johnson Bennett; Joseph Roy Bennett; Horace Ralph Bennett ; Raymond Hutchins Bennett. 5. Susie Abby Johnson, born July 10, 1857 ; mar- ried first, Fred Nelson Edgell, of Lowell ; chil- dren : Walter Bowers Edgell; Susie Abby (Johnson) Edgell married second, Emery Francis Blodgett, of Lowell. 6. Rebecca Alice Johnson, born March 21, 1859; married Wal- ter L. Parker, of Lowell; children: Lucille Parker, Harold Hutchins Parker, Allan Douglas Parker, Louise Lang Parker. Mr. Johnson died April 19, 1897, and his widow survived him seven years.
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(II) Lieutenant Hananiah
PARKER Parker, son of Thomas Parker (I), the immigrant, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1638. He settled on land adjoining his father's farm in Lynn Village; was admitted a freeman October 15, 1679; was one of the leading citizens of the town; ensign of military company 1680, lieu- tenant 1684; was one of committee of three appointed 1679 to build a new meeting house; was appointed by the general court on committee to settle disputes as to boundaries between Woburn and Reading; was for sev- en years deputy from Reading in the general court. In 1707 Captain John Brown and Lieutenant Hananiah Parker were chosen to provide a school master for the town school, and hired John Webb. His will was dated May 20, 1703. He married, September 30, 1663, Elizabeth Brown, twin sister of Joseph, born at Reading, December 10, 1647, daugh- ter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Brown. Ni- cholas was born at Inkberrow, Worcester- shire, England, son of Edward Brown, and was a man of property and standing in the community; resident of Lynn ten years, and deputy to general court. Elizabeth (Brown) Parker died February 27, 1697. Lieutenant Parker married second, December 12, 1700, Mary (Bursham), daughter of William Bur- sham and widow of Deacon John Bright. She died January 4, 1736, aged eighty-seven. Parker died March 10, 1724, aged eighty-six. Children : I. John, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born October 24, 1666; married Mar- tha Brown, of Cambridge. 3. Elizabeth, born
June, 1668; married, November 17, 1685, Samuel Cowdrey. 4. Mary, married Samuel Poole, of Boston. 5. Sarah, born February 20, 1672; died October 2, 1673. 6. Hanan- iah, born November 2, 1674; died January 3, 1677. 7. Ebenezer, born February 13, 1676; married Rebecca Newhall, of Reading. 8. Hannah, born April 30, died August 7, 1681.
(III) John Parker, son of Hananiah Park. er (2), born in Reading, Massachusetts, Au- gust 3, 1664; married October 2, 1689, Deliv- erance, daughter of John and Sarah Dodge; she was born March 10 or 15, 1661, and died at Lexington, March 10, 1718. He married second, Sarah He settled on part of Deacon Thomas Parker's original farm in Reading, in the centre of the town, adjoining his father's farm. Three of his deeds have been preserved by descendants. In 1699, ac- cording to one of them, he bought of John Poole a tract of land at the north end of Great Pond-Lake Quanapowit. In 1705 he bought twenty-one acres of Francis Smith, on bounds of Lynn and Reading. He sold to cousin Na- thaniel Parker Jr., eleven acres of land in Reading. He was constable at Reading. In 1712 he removed to Lexington, then called Cambridge Farms, and was elected fence viewer there 1714, and tithingman 1715 to 1731. That he was a prominent and honored citizen is best shown by the fact that he was assigned to the second best seat of the meet- ing house in 1731. He owned a small man- sion house and sixty acres of land in Cam- bridge Village near the Watertown line. He was a joiner by trade, and had a shop in which he made furniture, household imple- ments, etc. He taught his sons the trade of joiner and cabinet maker, and they all be- came skillful wood-workers. He died Janu- ary 22, 1741, aged seventy-eight years. Chil- dren, born at Reading: 1. Sarah, born July 5, died July 9, 1690. 2. Hananiah, born Oc- tober 10, 1691; died, 1711, in expedition against Annapolis, Nova Scotia, in Queen Anne's war. 3. Andrew, born February 14, 1693; married Sarah Whitney. 4. Josiah, born April 1I, 1694. 5. Mary, born Decem- ber 4, 1695 ; died 1709. 6. John, born and died 169 -. 7. Edie, born August 19, 1697; died 1709. 8. John, mentioned below.
(IV) John Parker, son of John Parker (3), was born in Reading, November 8, 1703; re- moved in 1712 with the family to Lexington, and about 1730 to Shrewsbury; married in Shrewsbury, February 18. 1831, Experience, daughter of Peter and Mary (Preston) Clayes. Her parents came from Salem, Massachu-
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setts. She was born in Framingham, No- vember 19, 1702. John and Experience Parker were admitted to the church in Shrewsbury in 1732. The only surviving brother of his wife, Peter Clayes, died 1736, and his wife's father induced Parker to Re- move to Framingham and take the Clayes homestead which was deeded to him January 6, 1737, with the condition that John and Ex- perience Parker should support her parents and give them Christian burial. The estate comprised the home lot (later known as the Colonel David Brewer and the James Fenton place) with eight acres and a half and build- ings, and also fifty-five acres lying on both sides of the road from Caleb Bridges' to the meeting house. Peter Clayes died 1739, and Parker sold part of the home lot and build- ings to James and John Clayes, and built where is now the house of the late Dr. Peter Parker, Framingham. John and Experience were admitted to the Framingham church in 1738; he was selectman; member of the Framingham company of alarm soldiers com- manded by Captain Henry Eames; was an overseer of workhouse and poor; died in Framingham, February 23, 1783. His wife Experience died October 13, 1780. He was unfortunate with his family, as it seems that only two out of seven children survived. His will, on file at Cambridge, mentions children Peter and Submit Bent. Children: I. John, born in Shrewsbury, January 28, 1732. 2. Experience, born in Shrewsbury, October 8, 1733. 3. Hananiah, born in Shrewsbury, baptized September 21, 1735. 4. Abigail, born in Shrewsbury, December 1, 1736. 5. Peter, mentioned below. 6. Submit, born December 3, 1742; married Thomas Bent, Jr. 7. Nathan, baptized in Framingham March 2, 1746.
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