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1 The church was without a settled pastor from 1868 to 1872, from 1874 to 1877, and from 1879 to 1890, although Rev. Mr. Macfadden supplied the pulpit for several months previous to his installation, March 27, 1890.
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FIRST BAPTIST SOCIETY.
As early as 1682, a Baptist Society was formed in New- bury, but liberty to worship God according to the dictates of conscience was not then allowed in the colony of Massachu- setts Bay and only a few persons joined the society.' After a brief struggle it was discontinued, and was not reorganized until forty years after the incorporation of Newburyport.
In 1804, meetings were held in a schoolhouse on Marlbor- ough street, and Mr. Joshua Chase preached there for several months. May 2, 1805, a church, consisting of eighteen or twenty members, was organized by the name of the Baptist Church of Christ in Newbury and Newburyport, and on the twentieth day of June following Mr. Chase was ordained to the work of an evangelist, by a council of ministers from Brentwood, Berwick, Rowley and Danvers. Soon after that date Mr. Chase removed to another field of labor.
August 30, 1805, Elder John Peak, who had previously been settled in Barnstable, Mass., came to Newburyport and, after a brief visit, consented to return and preach for the new- ly organized church for one year, at a nominal salary, in a suitable building to be provided near the centre of the town. November 21, 1805, Josiah Plummer, Ralph Cross, William Currier and others were granted liberty to use the town house for public worship.2 Meetings were held there for nearly two years, and afterwards in the " Tabernacle " on Temple street, Rev. John Peak officiating.3
In January, 1807, a committee, previously appointed, re- ported in favor of building a brick meeting house on Liberty street, seventy feet long and sixty feet wide. The report was accepted, plans were prepared, materials purchased, and work on the building begun in the month of April following.
March 4, 1808, Joseph O'Brien, Josiah Plumer, Samuel
1 History of Newbury (Coffin), p. 135.
2 Newburyport Town Records, vol. II., p. 330.
3 The firewards reported, April 24, 1815, that the building known as the Tab- ernacle was unsafe, and the selectmen were requested to have it removed. A committee, appointed by the firewards, reported, November 6, 1815, that the owners of the building had taken it down.
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Newman, and others associated with them, were incorporated by the name of " The Proprietors of the Meeting House of the First Baptist Society in Newburyport."' On the tenth day of June, Joseph O'Brien and others conveyed to the proprietors above-named land on Liberty street with the brick building thereon.2
The meeting-house was probably completed in August and dedicated September 1, 1808. Rev. John Peak was installed pastor, Tuesday afternoon, February 7, 1809. Under his care the church steadily increased in numbers. February 26, 18II, Henry Merrill, Jesse Dorman, Ebenezer Pulcifer, Joseph Young, Joeeph Lovett, Jonathan C. Lewis, John Gilman, W. Gilman, Eben Dunnells, John Knowlton, Southey Parker, John Hale, Dennis O'Brien, Abijah Wheeler, Emanuel Sew- ard, John Page, Thomas Ordway, Joseph O'Brien, Enoch Pike, James Brackett, William Halleday, Robert Pierson, Billings Putnam, " and others associated with them in their particular religious persuasion and belief " were incorporated by the name of the Baptist Society of Newbury and New- buryport.3
The meeting house was destroyed in " the great fire," May 31, 18II. Disheartened, but not discouraged, the society applied for and obtained permission to use the court house for public worship.
June 10, 1811, Rev. John Peak was appointed agent "to solicit and receive such donations as the wealthy and benevolent may be disposed to bestow " upon the society for the erection of a new meeting house.4 He travelled through the New England states and went as far south as Richmond, Virginia, collecting several thousand dollars from the friends of the church in the places he visited. Soon after his return to Newburyport, in October of that year, a meeting was called to decide when the new house of worship should be erected and where it should be located. The proprietors of the old
1 Acts and Resolves, 1807-1808, ch. 91.
2 Essex Deeds, book 184, leaf 187.
3 Acts and Resolves, 1810-18II, ch. 89.
4 Memoir of Elder John Peak, written by himself (1832), pp. 110-125.
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meeting house, owning the land on Liberty street, insisted that the new house should be erected there. Several promi- nent members of the society objected and proposed a location at the south end of the town, while others living at the north end favored the purchase of land in the vicinity of Olive street.
After several months delay, the proprietors of the old meet- ing house were authorized, February 13, 1812, by the Gener- al Court, " to sell and convey, by private contract or public auction, the walls of said meeting house and the land under the same, and apply the proceeds in such manner, as they the proprietors may think best."I
On the thirteenth day of April following, Thomas Merrill conveyed to Henry Merrill, treasurer and agent for the Bap- tist church and society in Newbury and Newburyport, a lot of land on a street, forty feet wide, called Silk street in the church records, now known as Congress street, extending from Olive to Kent street.2 On this land a small brick meeting house was erected, with galleries, at a cost of about four thousand dollars. It was dedicated to the worship of God in July, 1812.
For several years, the society was embarrassed and annoyed by a suit-at-law brought by the proprietors of the old meeting house to recover a portion of the money collected, but the claim, although pressed with vigor, was disallowed by the court. Dissension, resulting from this controversy, interfered with the growth and development of the church, and Rev. Mr. Peak considered it advisable to resign. . His resignation was ac- cepted to take effect August 1, 1818. He was succeeded by Rev. Hosea Wheeler.
In 1832, during the pastorate of Rev. Nathaniel W. Wil- liams, the meeting house was enlarged and a number of pews added. In April, 1845, a bell, weighing one thousand and ninety-six pounds, was purchased and placed in the steeple, then nearly completed.
April 9, 1846, Rev. Nicholas Medbery, who had been pastor
1 Acts and Resolves, 1811-1812, ch. 107.
2 Essex Deeds, book 199, leaf 17.
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of the church for three years, resigned, and his resignation was accepted on the twentieth day of April following. During the next two or three months fifty-three members asked for letters of dismission. They subsequently organized a new church, and, under the pastoral care of Rev. Mr. Medbery, erected a meeting house on Green street.
In 1848, Rev. Paul S. Adams was installed pastor of the Congress Street Baptist church and society. He was suc- ceeded by Rev. Benjamin I. Lane in 1850. Rev. James Bar- naby was installed in 1855, and Rev. James N. Sykes in 1859. From its organization in 1805 to its dissolution in 1869 the following named persons have been pastors of the church :-
Rev. John Peak, from 1805 to 1818.
Rev. Hosea Wheeler, from 1818 to 1822.
Rev. Josiah Houghton, from 1823 to 1829.
Rev. Bartlett Pease, from 1829 to 1831.
Rev. Nathaniel W. Williams, from 1831 to 1836.
Rev. William B. Jacobs, from 1836 to 1938.
Rev. Jonathan Aldrich, frmo 1839 to 1840.
Rev. Albert N. Arnold, from 1841 to 1843.
Rev. Nicholas Medbery, from 1844 to 1846. Rev. Paul S. Adams, from 1848 to 1850.
Rev. Benjamin I. Lane, from 1850 to 1854.
Rev. James Barnaby, from 1855 to 1858.
Rev. James N. Sykes, from 1859 to 1866.
After the resignation of Rev. Mr. Sykes, in 1866, the so- ciety had no settled minister. In February, 1869, the church united with the Green Street Baptist church and formed a new church, but the meeting house on Congress street was not sold until several years later. April 30, 1873, an act author- izing the society to sell its real estate and pay over the net proceeds to the treasurer of the Baptist society, organized in 1869, was passed by the General Court.1 The prop- erty was purchased by Rev. Daniel P. Pike December 3, 1877.2 The bell remained in the belfry until the meeting house ceased to be used as a place of public worship, when it
1 Acts and Resolves, 1873, ch. 251.
2 Essex Deeds, book 989, leaf 5.
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was taken down and sold for the benefit of the aBptist Society of Newburyport.1
GREEN STREET BAPTIST CHURCH.
April 11, 1846, several persons, who had withdrawn from the First Baptist church, in Congress street, met at the resi- dence of William Gunnison to make arrangements for the organization of a new church. They voted, on the seven- teenth day of April following, to hire Washington hall and invite Rev. Nicholas Medbery to preach for them. On the seventeeth of May, a covenant of faith was adopted and a - council called to complete the organization of the church. On the third day of June, four deacons were chosen and Rev. Nicholas Medbery was invited to become pastor of the new church, " to be called for the present the Central Baptist Church. of Newburyport."
Delegates from Baptist churches in Salem, Salisbury, Hampton Falls, Rowley and Lowell met in Washington hall on the morning of June sixteenth, and, after a brief session, voted to meet, in the afternoon, at the First Presbyterian meeting house, on Federal street, to receive in Christian fel- lowship the newly organized church. Rev. Mr. Medbery was installed pastor in the same place on the evening of the same day.2
June 15, 1846, Ebenezer and Sarah W. Hale sold a lot of land on the corner of Green street and Brown square, to William Gunnison, and others, proprietors of a meeting house to be erected there.3 The Green Street Baptist Meeting House corporation, organized February 1, 1847, in compliance with the provisions of the sixty-second chapter of the supple-
1 The land on Congress street, with the meeting house thereon, " excepting the bell in the belfry," was purchased by Orin J. Gurney, April 9, 1880, and is now used as a box factory. The bell was sold to the city of Newburyport and used for several years on an engine house in Purchase street. In 1895, it was pur- chased by John T. Brown, and presented to the proprietors of Oak Hill cemetery.
2 The church records give the date as June 16, 1846, but a card signed by Wil- liam Gunnison, Paul T. Winkley, George Perkins, William Bragdon, and Andrew S. Flanders, " standing committee of the Central Baptist Church," published in the Newburyport Herald, June 23, 1846, gives the date of installation as June thirteenth.
3 Essex Deeds, book 368, leaf 241.
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ment to the Revised Statutes, built on this lot of land a con- venient and commodious house of worship, which was com- pleted and dedicated February 9, 1848.
At a meeting held on the fifteenth day of May following, it was voted to change the name of the church from "Central Baptist" to "Green Street Baptist Church and Society of Newburyport."
In 1856, the Green Street Baptist Meeting House corpo- ration conveyed the land with the meeting house thereon to the Green Street Baptist society."
In January, 1869, the Salem Baptist association recommend- ed the dissolution of the two Baptist churches in Newburyport and the organization of one new one. On the twentieth day of that month the Green Street Baptist church voted to unite with the Congress Street church in forming a new church to be known as the Baptist Church of Newburyport.
May 13, 1869, the land and building on the corner of Green street and Brown square was conveyed to the Baptist Society of Newburyport by the Green Street Baptist Society of Newburyport.2
Ministers of the Green Street Baptist church and society from 1846 to 1869 :-
Rev. Nicholas Medbery, 1846 to 1852. Rev. John G. Richardson, 1853 to 1856. Rev. Noah Hooper, 1856 to 1860. Rev. Robert A. Patterson, 1863 to 1865. Rev. Joseph Wassall, 1866 to 1868.
BAPTIST CHURCH AND SOCIETY OF NEWBURYPORT.
January 25, 1869, the Baptist Church in Newbury and New- buryport and the Green Street Baptist Church in Newbury- port were dissolved by mutual consent. Assisted by a commit- tee, appointed by the Salem Baptist association, the members of these two churches united and formed, the same day, a new church now known as the Baptist Church of Newburyport. On the, twenty-second day of February following, a new relig-
1 Essex Deeds, book 542, leaf 248, and book 703, leaf 133.
2 Essex Deeds, book 772, leaf 249.
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ious society, called the Baptist Society of Newburyport, was organized under the general laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a committee was appointed to sell the meeting houses on Congress and Green streets and erect a new one elsewhere.
Rev. Francis W. Bakeman was installed pastor of the church and society September 17, 1869. He resigned in
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September, 1871, and was succeeded by Rev. George H. Miner, who entered upon his duties as pastor September 2, 1872.
Finding it impossible to dispose of the Congress and Green streets meeting houses to advantage, the society, unwilling to assume the responsibility of building a new one, voted in January, 1873, to repair and remodel the Green street house. It was raised from the level of the street to a height suffi- cient to allow of the construction of a vestry room and parlor
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in the basement. A new pulpit, new pews and a new steeple were built, and other improvements and alterations made.
In May, 1899, a stained-glass window, the gift of Mrs. Solomon Bachman, daughter, and Mrs. M. S. Bernheimer, granddaughter, of Mrs. Sally Dow Clement, was presented to the society and dedicated on the eleventh day of June. It bears the following inscription :-
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen. In memory of Sally Dow Clement. Born December 24, 1798, Died April 29, 1880.
The centennial anniversary of the organization of the first Baptist church in Newburyport was celebrated on the seventh and ninth days of May, 1905, Rev. George H. Miner deliver- ing an historical address, to which the reader is referred for further information relating to the growth and development of the church since its organization, May 2, 1805.
The ministers of the Baptist Church and Society of New- buryport from 1869 to 1905 have been as follows :-
Rev. Francis W. Bakeman, 1869 to 1871. Rev. George H. Miner, 1872 to 1876. Rev. John T. Beckley, 1877 to 1883. Rev. Eugene E. Thomas, 1884 to 1888. Rev. Louis A. Pope, 1889 to 1901.1 Rev. George H. Miner, 1901 to 1905.
PEOPLE'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
In 1819, Rev. John Adams, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, came to Newbury and preached for sever- al successive Sundays in a schoolhouse on Marlborough street. Subsequently, a church was formed, and October 5, 1825, a
1 On account of ill health, Rev. Mr. Pope was granted leave of absence Sept. 26, 1900, for six months. Rev. Mr. Miner supplied the pulpit from October I, 1900, until January 1, 1901, when Rev. Mr. Pope's resignation was accepted and Mr. Miner was called to the pastorate, which office he held until May 15, 1905.
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meeting house built in the preceding summer on a private way now known as Purchase street, was dedicated.1
March 5, 1827, John Adams and Benjamin Brown of New- buryport, Cutting Pettingale, John P. Noyes and John Thurlo of Newbury, and Elias French and Caleb Pike of Salisbury were incorporated by the name of "The Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Newbury and Newburyport."2
PURCHASE STREET MEETING HOUSE.
In 1851, a part of the town of Newbury, including the meet- ing house owned by the above-named trustees and their suc- cessors in office, was annexed to Newburyport and the name of the church was changed to " The People's Methodist Epis- copal Church in Newburyport."
1 History of Newbury (Currier), pp. 387, 388.
2 Acts and Resolves, 1826-1827, ch. 112.
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In 1869, while Rev. John Capen was pastor, the meeting house was remodeled and enlarged, but the work was not com- pleted until March 25, 1871, when the building was re-dedi- cated to the worship of God.
In 1888, while Rev. F. K. Straton was pastor, the meeting house was again enlarged and a tower, or steeple, erected at a cost of nearly three thousand dollars. In 1901, the interior of the main building was painted, the ceiling frescoed, and the social rooms renovated and refurnished.
At the present time, Rev. William J. Kelly is pastor of the church, having been appointed by the presiding bishop at the New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in April, 1905.
WASHINGTON STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
October 17, 1826, Abraham Perkins sold a lot of land on Liberty street, Newburyport, where the first Baptist meeting house stood previous to the " great fire " in 1811, to Barthol- omew Otheman, Michael Wormstead and Nathan Haskell, " a committee for erecting a Methodist Episcopal Church in said Newburyport,"I and on the tenth day of November following William Alexander agreed to build, for the committee, a brick meeting house, of certain specified dimensions, on the land purchased.2
The building was completed and dedicated Wednesday, June 20, 1827, and a church, consisting of fifteen or twenty members, was organized by Rev. Bartholomew Otheman.3
In 1834, Enoch Huse, Charles Peabody, Benjamin Pinder, Nathaniel Pillsbury, John Dole, Benjamin Gunnison and John Dodge, Jr., were incorporated by the name of " The Trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Newburyport,"4 and the land with the meeting house thereon was subsequent- ly conveyed to the above-named trustees, their associates and successors.5
1 Essex Deeds, book 242, leaf 155.
2 Essex Deeds, book 244, leaf III.
3 Newburyport Herald, June 19, 1827.
4 Acts and Resolves, 1834, ch. 181.
5 Essex Deeds, book 271, leaf 249.
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During the pastorate of Rev. Leroy S. Brewster, a new meeting house was erected on the corner of Olive and Wash- ington streets and dedicated Thursday afternoon, November 2, 1865. The brick meeting house and land on Liberty street was sold to Stephen M. Pillsbury May 15, 1865.1
WASHINGTON STREET MEETING HOUSE.
The church is now known as the Washington Street Metho- dist Episcopal Church of Newburyport. Rev. Howard S. Wil- kinson, the present pastor, was appointed April 12, 1904, by Bishop Goodsell, presiding at the New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal church.
FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH AND SOCIETY.
In December, 1834, a few individuals, who met together for religious instruction, in Newburyport, decided to organize a church and adopt a liberal creed. A covenant was agreed upon and officers chosen at a meeting held in Phoenix hall April 13, 1835.2 The next year the annual meeting was held in the same place.3
For several years the society had no settled minister and depended upon clergymen from Boston and elsewhere to sup- ply the pulpit. In 1840, land on the corner of Middle and
1 Essex Deeds, book 973, leaf 41.
2 See notice published in Newburyport Herald April 9, 1835.
3 Newburyport Herald, April 1, 1836.
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Fair streets was purchased,' and the corner-stone of the meet- ing house laid on the thirty-first day of March, Rev. Hosea Ballou, of Boston, delivering an address appropriate to the occasion.
Rev. William M. Fernald was pastor of the church in 1840 and 1841. Rev. Darius Forbes was installed October 5, 1842. He resigned in 1845. Since that date the pastors of the church have been Rev. Edwin A. Eaton, Rev. James Shrigley, Rev. A. R. Abbott, Rev. Daniel M. Reed, Rev. Willard Spaulding, Rev. J. E. Bruce, Rev. T. Borden and Rev. J. H. Hartley. After 1875, the society had no settled minister, although services were held nearly every Sunday in the meeting house until 1878.
The land on the corner of Middle and Fair streets, " with the meeting house standing thereon," was conveyed to Jere- miah R. Ireland, Mary J. Hurd and Luther Dame November 13, 1879.2 It was sold at public auction, on the twenty-second day of December following, to Rev. Daniel P. Pike, trustee for the First Christian (Baptist) Society of Newburyport ;3 and religious services were held in the meeting house until the death of Rev. Mr. Pike in 1887. Hon. Edward P. Shaw pur- chased the property June 2, 1888.4 The meeting house was then converted into a shoe shop and subsequently into a fac- tory for the manufacture of patent shoe dressing. It was destroyed by fire August 5, 1899.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND SOCIETY.
In 1838, Rev. Daniel P. Pike, minister of a church at Salis- bury point, occasionally held evening meetings, in private houses, in that part of Newbury then known as Belleville. In April, 1840, he secured a suitable room in the vicinity of Brown square, Newburyport, where he preached for several consecutive Sundays. On the seventh day of May, a church was organized, and three ruling elders, three deacons, and other church officers chosen.
1 Essex Deeds, book 316, leaf 236.
2 Essex Deeds, book 1028, leaf 64.
3 Essex Deeds, book 1033, leaf 252.
Essex Deeds, book 1226, leaves 524, 526 and 258.
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August 10, 1843, Rev. Mr. Pike purchased a lot of land on Court street,1 and December 27, 1844, the frame of a meet- ing house for the " First Christian Society of Newburyport " was raised.2 The building was completed and occupied the following year. Services were held in the Court Street meet- ing house until 1873, when the property was purchased by the Right Reverend John J. Williams, bishop of Boston, for the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Newburyport.3
Rev. Mr. Pike subsequently preached in Central hall on Pleasant street and Lincoln hall on the corner of State and Middle streets, Some members of his congregation, however, dissatisfied with his theological views and political theories, leased the Baptist meeting house on Congress street and held services there for one or two years.
Meanwhile, Rev. Mr. Pike continued to preach in one of the above-named halls until December 3, 1877, when he pur- chased the Congress Street meeting house, and invited his friends to follow him there. In 1880 he considered it advis- able to secure a more convenient place of public worship near the centre of the city, and December 22, 1879, he purchased the meeting house erected by the Universalist society, on Middle street. Services were held there until his death, De- cember 4, 1887. Soon after that date the church, of which he had been pastor for nearly fifty years, ceased to exist.
CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
In 1841, Rev. Patrick Canavan of Dover, N.H., came to New- buryport once a month to celebrate mass and administer the sac- raments of the Roman Catholic church. Services were held for nearly two years at the residences of Hugh McGlew and others, but in 1843 the vestry of the First Presbyterian society was purchased and removed to a lot of land on Charles street, con- veyed by Mr. McGlew to the Right Reverend Benedict Fen- wick of Boston, " in trust for the use and benefit of the Ro-
1 Essex Deeds book, 338, leaf 216.
2 History of Newbury (Coffin), p. 285.
3 Essex Deeds, book 885, leaf 223.
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man Catholic Religious Society in Newburyport."I The vestry, remodeled and repaired, served as a chapel until the church on Green street was completed in 1853. Father Can- avan had charge of the parish until the spring of 1848. He was succeeded by Rev. John O'Brien who came to Newbury-
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port, where he remained until December, when Rev. Henry Lennon was appointed pastor of the church.
May 6, 1851, Moses E. Hale and John Osgood sold to John H. Nichols, of Salem, a lot of land on Green street. On the twelfth day of the same month Mr. Nichols sold this land to John B. Fitzpatrick, bishop of Boston.2 April 27, 1852, the corner-stone of the Church of the Immaculate Conception
1 Essex Deeds, book 339, leaf 234.
The Society was known by the name of St. Mary's for twenty-five or thirty years after land on Charles street was purchased.
2 Essex Deeds, book 444, pp. 272 and 284.
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was laid with appropriate ceremonies. The building, with the exception of the steeple, which was not finished until twenty years later, was completed and dedicated March 17, 1853.
Rev. Henry Lennon died July 13, 1871. He was buried near the southeast corner of the church on Green street, but was afterwards removed to the Catholic cemetery on Storey avenue. In August, 1871, Rev. Arthur J. Teeling was appointed pastor of the church and entered at once upon the duties of his office. In 1872, he purchased for a parochial residence the house previously occupied by Father Lennon on Court street, and then turned his attention to the work of building a spire to the church, which was completed in March, 1874, and to the hanging in the belfry of a bell from the foundry of Meneely & Co., West Troy, N. Y. A month later, land on Storey avenue was purchased for a cemetery. It was laid out with avenues and paths, and consecrated by Archbishop Williams early in the summer of 1876. The parochial school buildings on Court and Washington streets were erected in 1879.
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