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Col. William (1712) resided in Boston, but had a country-seat in Dorchester. He was identified with the military, and commanded one of the regiments raised for the capturing of Port Royal. In the fall of 1711, he arrived with her Majesty's commission as lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, a position which he held from Oct. 4 of that year until Nov. 9, 1715, when he became acting Governor, and served until the arrival of Gov. Shute, Oct. 4, 1716, whose friends bought for him the Governor's commission for one thousand pounds. Col. William Tailer ( 1712) was then superseded by Lieut .- Gov. Dummer (1702), but was reappointed lieutenant-governor April 14, 1730, and held that office until his decease, March 8, 1731-2. He was in England in 1721, and was sent with Spencer Phipps as commissioner to treat with the "Six Nations " Indians at Albany, and " empowered to promise a bounty for every scalp, if they would go out against the enemy (French) ; but they met with little success." He favored the private- bank party, and Mr. Hutchinson says he was "a gentleman of no great fortune and whose stipend from the government was trifling." He was a member of the council from 1712 to 1729 inclusive, and was appointed a justice of the peace June 30, 1702, and reappointed Dec. 19, 1728. He became a member of the First Church in Boston, and served many years as a deacon. He died at his country-seat in Dorchester, while holding the office of lieutenant-governor, March 8, 1731-2, aged fifty-five years.
The New England Journal of March 13, 1731-2, contained the following obituary notice : " The corpse of the Hon. William Tailer, Esq [1712], Lieut. Governor of this Province, was interred at Dorchester, with great honor and respect. The bells of this town [Boston] were tolled from eleven o'clock to five. The cannon of his Majesty's Castle William, of which he was the beloved Captain, were discharged at their funeral distance, the flag being half raised. The pall was supported by his Excellency, Gov. Belcher, the Hon. William Dummer [1702], Addington Davenport [1692], Thomas Hutchinson [1694], Elisha Cooke [1699], and Adam Winthrop [1694] Esqr's. The funeral was attended by a great number of gentry in their coaches, &c." All of the pall supporters except Gov. Belcher were members of the Artillery Company.
Samuel Oakes (1712). AUTHORITY: Boston Records.
William Tailer (1712). AUTHORITIES: An- nals of King's Chapel, p. 184; Eliot's Biog. Dict .; Mem. Hist. of Boston; Drake's Iist. of Boston.
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"The inventory of his estate was, - real £8282 ; personal, £1049. 19. 3 - of which there were 177 ounces of silver plate."
He was captain of the Artillery Company in 1712, the year in which he joined the Company.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1712 is as follows : -
"April 7. 1712. Then voted by the Artillery Company, that the four training daies shall be on the Second Tuesday in each Training month, the Election day only excepted, which is to continue to be on the first Monday in June.
"Then the Rev'd Mr. Peter Thacher of Weymouth was chosen to preach the . Artillery Sermon, and the then Commission officers, with Col : Samuel Checkley [1678] and Lt Colo Savage [1699] and Maj. Thomas Fitch [1700] were desired to request it of him.
" May -. It was accepted by him."
Rev. Peter Thacher, of Weymouth, who preached the Artillery election sermon in 1712, was a son of Thomas Thacher (1671), of Boston, and nephew of Rev. Peter Thacher, of Milton, who delivered the election sermon before the Artillery Company in 1695. Rev. Thomas Thacher, who delivered the Artillery election sermon in 1654 and 1671, was a grandfather of Rev. Peter, of Weymouth. The last named was born (bap- tized) in Boston, Aug. 26, 1677, and graduated at Harvard College in 1696. He was ordained Nov. 26, 1707, as the pastor of the church at Weymouth, where his grandfather, Rev. Thomas, was first settled. After a pastorate there of fifteen years, he removed to Boston and took charge of the New North Church. He had many opposers. "The services of installation were interrupted by tumult and force," and one result was a seceding of members from the New North Church and the formation of another which eventually became known as the " New Brick." He served as pastor of the New North Church from Jan. 27, 1723, until his decease.
His mother was Mary Savage, daughter of Major Thomas Savage (1637). His father died in 1686, but his mother survived until 1730, when she gave all her property to her son, Rev. Peter, of the New North Church, who married Hannah Curwin, Oct. 14, 1708, but had no children. He died Feb. 26, 1738.
The officers elected were : Charles Hobby (1702), captain ; Edward 1713-4. Hutchinson (1702), lieutenant ; Thomas Smith (1702), ensign. Joseph Hiller (1709) was first sergeant; Samuel Haugh (1711), second ser- geant ; John Hunt (1709), third sergeant; James Tileston (1711), fourth sergeant, and Jonathan Williams (1711), clerk.
In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht was signed, by which Nova Scotia or Acadia was made over and ceded to Great Britain, including Port Royal or Annapolis, and all other places belonging to or claimed by France in those parts, except Cape Breton. A treaty was also made with the eastern Indians soon after. Thus peace came at length to the long harassed colonists, but they were sorely pressed by the results of war. Bread and wood were especially scarce and high in Boston.
Judge Sewall (1679) wrote under date of May 30, 1713, " [Court] adjourned to June 2, because of the Artillery."
The members recruited in 1713 were : James Alford, Francis Parnell.
Edward Winslow
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James Alford (1713), of Boston, son of Capt. Benjamin (1671), and brother of Col. John (1714), of Charlestown, was born in Boston, July 19, 1691. He was elected constable in 1721, and clerk of the market in 1723, but, declining to serve, paid the usual fines. He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1737-
Francis Parnell (1713), merchant, of Boston, son of Francis and Dorothy Parnell, was born Sept. 26, 1693. He married, Oct. 27, 1715, Elizabeth Southac. He was elected clerk of the market in 1718 and 1720, declining to serve the latter year, and was a tithing-man and a member of a Boston militia company in 1719. In the latter, he rose to the rank of captain.
He was one of those disaffected by the installation of Rev. Peter Thacher as pastor of the New North Church, in Boston, in 1719; was one of the founders of the New Brick Church, and prominent in the erection of its meeting-house, which was dedicated in May, 1721. Mr. Ephraim Eliot says, in his work, "They placed the figure of a Cock as a vane upon the steeple [of the New Brick] out of derision of Mr. Thacher, whose Christian name was Peter."
Capt. Francis Parnell (1713) was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1718, its ensign in 1720, and lieutenant in 1721.
He died suddenly at Boston, in October, 1724.
The record of the Artillery Company for 1713 is as follows : -
" April 14, 1713. Then the Rev'd Mr. Sampson Stoddard was chosen to preach the Election Sermon and the Commission officers, with Colo. Checkley [1678] were desired to manifest the same to him. Then voted by the Artillery Company That the training daies shall be on the first Monday in each training Month as formerly.
"October 5 1713. Then voted by the Artillery Company of the Massachusetts, That Colo. Samuel Checkley [1678], Lt. Colo. Thomas Savage [1693], Major Thomas Fitch [1700] and Capt Thomas Hutchinson [1694], with the present Commission officers for this Company, be appointed a committee to Treat with and lease out, to any person or persons that may present, the farm belonging to said Company, not exceeding the term of twenty-one years."
Rev. Samson Stoddard,1 who delivered the Artillery sermon in 1713, was a son of Samson Stoddard, of Boston, and grandson of Anthony Stoddard (1639). Simeon (1675) and Simeon, Jr. (1702), were respectively uncle and cousin of Rev. Samson Stoddard. The latter graduated at Harvard College in 1701. He settled in Chelmsford, July 25, 1706, and died there, Aug. 23, 1742. His birth date is not given in the records of Boston. According to the Records of the First Church, he was baptized Jan. 12, 1691, when he was twelve years of age.
The officers elected were : Edward Winslow (1700), captain ; John 1714-5. Gerrish (1700), lieutenant ; Jonathan Pollard (1700), ensign. John Alford (1714) was first sergeant; Jonathan Williams (1711), second James Alford (1713). AUTHORITY : Boston Records. Francis Parnell (1713). AUTHORITIES: Bos- ton Records; Whitman's Hist. A. and II. A. Com- pany, Ed. 1842.
' " [1713] June I. Mr Stoddard of Chelms- ford preaches the Election Sermon I. Sam. II : 30, 'Them that honor Me I will honor.' Made an Excellent Discourse." - Sewall Papers, Vol. II., p. 386.
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sergeant ; John Sale (1704), third sergeant ; Daniel Goffe (1712), fourth sergeant, and Daniel Henchman (1712), clerk.
In the year 1714, another church was established in Boston, by a division in the Old North Church. The new one was called the New North Church. Mr. Drake, in his History of Boston, p. 544, gives the names of its seventeen original founders, of whom Erasmus Stevens (1720), Caleb Lyman (1732), John Pecker (1733), John Goldthwait (1720), William Parkman (1711), Joshua Cheever (1732), were, in the years indicated, members of the Artillery Company. The three deacons first elected were members of the Old North Church, viz. : Robert Cuniby (1691), Edward Proctor (1699), and James Clark. Rev. Cotton Mather, not willing these brethren should be dismissed to the New North Church, three other deacons were elected, one of whom was Caleb Lyman, who joined the Artillery Company in 1732. Col. Ephraim Hunt (1717) was elected a deacon March 8, 1726. William Parkman, son of William (1711), was the last ruling elder in this church. He was elected in 1743, and died about 1776. Every pastor of this church, from 1714 to 1852, except one, was a preacher before the Artillery Company, viz. : Rev. Peter Thacher, in 1712 (when minister at Weymouth) ; Rev. John Webb, in 1719; Rev. Andrew Eliot, in 1750, and Rev. Francis Parkman, in 1815.
The members of the Artillery Company recruited in 1714 were: John Alford, Nathaniel Balston, Jonathan Barnard, Thomas Chamberlain, John Darrell, John Eliot, Benjamin Gerrish, James Gooch, Benjamin Hiller, John Holyoke, Samuel Holyoke, Edward Pell, Gillam Phillips, John Wheelwright.
John Alford (1714), merchant, of Charlestown, son of Benjamin (1671) and brother of James Alford (1713), was born in Boston, July 5, 1685. Nov. 12, 1713, he married Margaret, daughter of Col. Thomas Savage (1693).
Oct. 22, 1708, the selectmen "Ordered that Samuel Thorn be employed to take down the fence two rod in length between Capt Alfords [1714] & Mad" Shrimpton's Land, for ye Laying open of Centry Street." The same year the selectmen named " the way leading from Beacon Street, between Capt Alford's land and Madam Shrimpton's pasture," Centry Street.
He was elected constable of Boston in 1717, but refused to serve, and his case being taken to the quarter-sessions by the selectmen, he was excused by the justices. He was an overseer of the poor in 1720 and 1721, and May 6, 1729, he was appointed, with Henry Deering (1682) and Nathaniel Cunningham (1720), to prepare a letter of instruc- tions for the representatives of Boston.
Jan. 16, 1753, in reply to the desire of Thomas Hancock, the selectmen reported the extent of Centry Hill, and the highway leading up to it from the Common. They said that " the hill on which the beacon stands, and which is the property of the town, is six rods square, and the highway (Centry Street) leading up to the hill from the Com- mon, between the land of John Alford [1714] and the land now of Thomas Hancock, Esq., late Col. Samuel Shrimpton's [1670], is thirty foot in width throughout the whole length."
He was one of his Majesty's councillors from 1730 to 1733, and was appointed a justice of the peace March 4, 1723-4 ; reappointed Dec. 29, 1731, for Suffolk County, and was appointed to the office for Middlesex County, Sept. 2, 1725.
John Alford (1714). AUTHORITIES: Boston Shurtleff's Topog. Des. of Boston; Quincy's Ilist. of Records; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1852; Harv. Coll.
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He sold to William Molineaux, in 1760 (see Gleaner article XLII.1), one hundred feet on Beacon Street, being the lot on which Mr. Molineaux built his mansion-house.
" The worshipful John Richards [1644] " gave by will " to Mr. John Alford [1714]," his nephew, " son of Benjamin Alford [1671], all that piece or parcel of land lying near Beacon Hill." According to Gleaner article LIII.,1 Mr. Alford (1714) sold, in 1732, a small lot thereof to Ebenezer Messenger, and in 1735 conveyed to Thomas Hancock a lot on which the stone mansion of the Hancock family was erected.
Col. Alford (1714) was especially distinguished as the founder of the Alford Pro- fessorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, at Harvard College, and for the giving of a large sum to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians of North America. He was a gentleman of great wealth, "and highly respected in his public and private character." He died Sept. 30, 1761, leaving no issue.
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1714.
Nathaniel Balston (1714), of Boston, son of Jonathan and Susanna Balston, of Boston, was born July 27, 1687. Nathaniel Balston (1714) married (perhaps second marriage), June 22, 1727, Hannah Hurst. He was a tithing-man and member of a militia company in Boston in 1708 and 1709, clerk of the market in 1711, and was elected constable in 1724, but refused to serve and paid the fine. In 1735, he was on a committee to petition the Legislature for an abatement of the town taxes; in 1741 was an auditor of the accounts of the overseer of the workhouse, and in 1740 and 1744, he was auditor of the town treasurer's accounts. June 30, 1712, Nathaniel Balston was approved and recommended by the selectmen as a "retaylor," in Milk Street. From 1743 to 1753 inclusive, he made the "General walk or visitation of the town" with the prominent men of the place. He was appointed a justice of the peace June 28, 1740.
He was clerk of the Artillery Company in 1715, second sergeant in 1716, ensign in 1726, and lieutenant in 1728.
Jonathan Barnard (1714), of Boston, son of John (1677), and grandson of Lieut. Matthew Barnard (1660), was born Jan. 14, 1692. He was elected constable in 1725, but declined and paid the fine. April 18, 1733, Jonathan Barnard (1714) was assessed ten shillings for repairs on the pump "standing in the towns ground in Corn Hill" (corner Washington and Court streets).
He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1716.
Thomas Chamberlain (1714) was a carpenter, of Boston. He married, Aug. 18, 1715, Hannah Welch. He was a constable of Boston in 1718, and a viewer of shingles and measurer of boards, etc., in 1720 and 1721.
In the fall of 1708, Thomas Chamberlain (1714) built himself a house on Orange, now Washington, Street, and April 29, 1714, was permitted to lay a sewer from it, “down as farr as the Sea." Feb. 4, 1717, his petition for a license as an innholder "at ye
Nathaniel Balston (1714). AUTHORITY :
Boston Records.
Jonathan Barnard (1714). AUTHORITY :
Thomas Chamberlain (1714). AUTHORI- TIES: Boston Records; Drake's Landmarks of Boston.
Boston Records.
1 Fifth Report of Boston Record Commissioners.
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House known by ye Name of the White Horse " was allowed by the selectmen ; but to sell beer and cider in 1718 was disallowed. The White Horse Tavern was "at the South End," nearly opposite where Hayward Place now is.
He was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1721.
John Darrell (1714), of Boston, son of John, was born Aug. 28, 1685. He married, Nov. 7, 1706, Rachel Thwing, an aunt of Col. Nathaniel Thwing (1736). He was on several important committees of the town : to provide a more effectual watch, 1736; to prevent frauds in wood measurement, 1739 and 1743, and to regulate the firing of chimneys. May 22, 1741, he made a motion in town meeting, that " a committee be appointed to wait on his Excellency, to advise some measure to protect such coasters as may be bringing wood, provisions, etc., from being impressed on board his Majesty's ships of war, lying in the harbor."
John Darrell (1714) lived on King, now State, Street. He was appointed a coroner, Dec. 23, 1731. He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1723, its ensign in 1737, and was lieutenant in the militia. He was a member of the West Church, and a deacon for some years. His will was proved Dec. 3, 1746.
John Eliot (1714), of Boston, son of Joseph, was born in Boston, March 17, 1692. Benjamin (1707) was an uncle of John (1714). The latter was a great-grandson of Jacob, who was a brother of Rev. John, the apostle to the Indians, and of Philip Eliot (1638). John Eliot (1714) married, June 4, 1719, Sarah Downes. He was clerk of the market in 1720; was again elected in 1722, but declined. In 1734, he was one of four citizens who agreed, at their own expense, to put the land of Jonathan Willis " into a proper posture to erect buildings for a market thereon, and keep the same in good repair for ten years." The town thanked the gentlemen for their offer, but the project of the market was defeated.
He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1721.
Benjamin Gerrish (1714), merchant, of Boston and Charlestown, son of John and Elizabeth (Waldron) Gerrish, of Dover in 1669, brother of Capt. John (1700), and uncle of John, Jr. (1718), was born in Dover in 1686. Benjamin (1714) was a cousin of Samuel Gerrish (1709), the bookseller, son of Joseph Gerrish, of Wenham. Benjamin (1714) married, (1) June 28, 1716, Martha Foxcroft, daughter of Francis Foxcroft (1679), of Cambridge. She died April 14, 1736, and he married, (2) June 22, 1738, Abigail Bunker, who died March 10, 1749. He died June 23, 1750, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and was buried in Charlestown.
In 1719, he served as clerk of the market, which was the only town office he held. He probably removed to Charlestown about 1740. He was taxed there from 1741 to 1748. In the latter year he sold "ship tavern" to Ebenezer Breed. His house in Charlestown had the river on the southeast and the lane to Barber's Wharf on the northwest. Major Moses Deshon (1737) was one of his heirs.
He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1715, and was captain in the militia.
John Darrell (1714). AUTHORITY: Boston
ton Records. Benjamin Gerrish (1714). AUTHORITY: Bos- Records.
John Eliot (1714). AUTHORITY : Boston
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James Gooch, Jr. (1714), distiller, of Boston, son of James and Hannah Gooch, was born in Boston, Oct. 12, 1693. He married, Sept. 30, 1715, Elizabeth Hobbie.
March 5, 1722, the selectmen granted permission to James Gooch, Jr. (1714), to erect a " distill house " on his land in the westerly part of Boston "near the Mill pond"; and July 30, next following, he erected a dwelling-house "on his land in the westerly part of Boston." Probably these buildings were erected on Salem Street (once called Green Lane) ; for Mr. Gooch, Jr. (1714), in 1736 petitioned for the paving of that lane, and agreed to pay for the whole work, if the town would repay him within three years. His will is dated 1732, and was proved June 5, 1738.
He was third sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1717, and ensign in 1733.
Benjamin Hiller (1714), of Boston, son of Joseph and Susanna Hiller, was born in Boston, Jan. 19, 1687. He was a brother of Joseph, Jr. (1709), and married, Feb. 10, 1714, Elizabeth Russell. He does not appear to have held town office.
He was clerk of the Artillery Company in 1716 and 1717, and fourth sergeant in 1717.
John Holyoke (1714), of Boston, son of Elizur and Mary (Elliot) Holyoke, was born Feb. 10, 1683. He married a Mrs. Green, of Cambridge, and died without issue. He was a brother of Samuel (1714).
John Holyoke (1714) was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1718. He was elected constable in 1728, but was excused. In 1730, he served as clerk of the market, and the next year paid the fine rather than serve as constable. He held the office of scavenger in 1735, 1739, and 1743.
Samuel Holyoke (1714), school-master, of Boston, son of Elizur and Mary (Elliot) Holyoke, was born in Boston, March 21, 1694. He married, Jan. 4, 1724, Elizabeth Bridgham, daughter of Joseph (1674). He was a brother of John (1714), and of Edward, president of Harvard College, 1737-69.
He was elected clerk of the market in 1718, and, in 1726, instead of serving as a constable, paid the fine. March 12, 1732, Samuel Holyoke (1714) was elected " master of the school lately kept by Mr. Edward Mills, deceased," at a salary of one hundred and twenty pounds per annum, and have " the use of the house Mr. Mills lived in." March 10, 1734, his salary was increased thirty pounds, and May 17, 1738, fifty pounds more were added to it, per annum. This school - called the Writing School, in Queen, now Court, Street - was held in a house erected in 1698. Jan. 30, 1698-9, the select- men "Ordered that the school-house lately built in the Prison Lane [Court Street] on the side of the Hill, over against the land of Capt. Samuel Sewall [1679] remain fenced in and no more of said Hill be improved by building," etc. Samuel Holyoke (1714) taught this school from 1732 until his decease, in 1768.
Oct. 10, 1739, "Mr Samuel Holyoke [1714] informs [the selectmen] that the Town's House, wherein he dwells, wants repairs." Oct. 24, Capt. Armitage and Mr. Colson being desired, upon the motion of Mr. Holyoke (1714), entered the roth instant, to view the school-house in Queen Street, report, " they find repairs necessary." This
James Gooch (1714). AUTHORITY : Boston Records. John Holyoke (1714). AUTHORITY: Boston Records.
Samuel Holyoke (1714). AUTHORITY: Bos-
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language seems to imply that the school-master lived in a part of the school-house. In 1740, Mr. Holyoke (1714) informed the selectmen that "the Town House wherein he lives and keeps his school is leaky and wants repairs." The number of scholars in this school in 1741 was fifty-three ; in 1751, ninety, and in 1761, two hundred and forty-nine. During a few of the last years of his teaching, his salary was eighty pounds per annum.
He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1719, clerk in 1727 and 1731, and its ensign in 1729. He died March 16, 1768, and was buried in the Granary Burial-Ground.
Edward Pell (1714), painter, - - or " paper stainer," according to the ancient roll, - of Boston, son of Edward and Elizabeth Pell, was born in Boston, Oct. 19, 1687. He was a brother of William Pell (1716). He drew the plan of the New Brick Church which was erected at the North End in 1720-1, on Middle Street. It was said at the time " to be the handsomest meeting-house in the Province." He was one of the founders of that church. He had formerly been a member of the New North Church, but was one of the members aggrieved on account of the installation of Rev. Peter Thacher, Jan. 27, 1720. He became a captain in the militia ; was first sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1716, ensign in 1722, and lieutenant in 1726.
His will, dated 1735, was proved March 22, 1736. Inventory, four thousand seven hundred pounds.
Gillam Phillips (1714), merchant, of Boston, son of Samuel (1693) and Hannah (Gillam) Phillips, was born in Boston, Oct. 4, 1695. He married, Aug. 6, 1725, Mary Faneuil, daughter of Benjamin and sister of Peter Faneuil, of Boston. He was not prominent in the affairs of the town, though belonging to that class, wealthy and cultured, who were first in all the benevolent and progressive matters of the town.
April 18, 1733, Mr. Benjamin Walker brought in his bill for repairing the pump standing in the town's ground in Cornhill, or near the corner of Court and Washington streets. The expense was assessed upon the store-keepers and dwellers who frequented the pump, among whom were Dudson Kilcup (1727), Jonathan Barnard (1714), Gillam Phillips (1714), Capt. Daniel Henchman (1714), and Capt. Samuel Rand (1720).
Gillam Phillips (1714) was a member of Christ Church, senior warden in 1729, and Dr. Snow gives his name in a list of the pew owners. It was at Mr. Phillips's (1714) request that Pudding Lane, Devonshire Street, between State and Water streets, was made " more strait," by the taking of some of his land, which he gave to the town in 1746.
He was fourth sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1716, and he died Oct. 17, 1770, aged seventy-five years.
John Wheelwright (1714) was a merchant in Boston. He married Mary Allen, Oct. 20, 1715. He was chosen a scavenger of Boston in 1734 ; naval officer at Boston in 1737 ; examiner of the accounts of the overseer of the workhouse, March 30, 1741 ; was one of the auditors of the town treasurer's accounts from 1740 to 1755. He gave, May 25, 1735, the sum of fifty pounds, to be paid " in timber, at the market price," toward the
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