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"Captain Church then ordered the old man and his daughter to go down foremost with their baskets at their backs, that when Annawan saw them with their baskets, he should not mistrust the intrigue. Captain Church and his handful of soldiers erept down also, under the shadow of those two and their baskets. The captain himself crept close behind the old man, with his hatchet in his hand, and stepped over the young man's head to the arms. The young Annawan, discovering of him, whipped his blanket over his head and shrunk up in a heap. The old Captain Annawan started up, and cried out " Howoh."* And despairing of escape, threw himself back again, and lay silent until Captain Church had secured all the arms, &c. And hav- ing secured that company, he sent his Indian soldiers to the other fires and companies, giving them instructions what to do and say. Accordingly they went into the midst of them. When they discovered themselves, who they were, they told them that their Captain Annawan was taken, and it would be best for them, quietly and peaceably to surrender themselves, which would procure good quarter for them ; otherwise, if they should pretend to resist or make their escape, it would be in vain, and they could expect no other but that Captain Church, with his
* This word signified welcome. Among the tribes of the west the same word is now used to signify approbation. Thus when a speech is made which pleases them, at the end of each paragraph they exclaim, " Hoah ! Hoah!" Weld's Travels in America.
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great army, who had now entrapped them, would cut them to pieces. Told them also, if they would submit themselves, and deliver up all their arms unto them, and keep every man in his place until it was day, they would assure them that their captain Church, who had been so kind to themselves when they surren- dered to him, should be as kind to them. Now they being old acquaintance, and many of them relations, did much the readier give heed to what they said ; complied and surrendered up their arms unto them, both their guns and hatchets, &c., and were forthwith carried to Captain Church.
" Things being so far settled, Captain Church asked Anna- wan, 'what he had for supper ? for,' said he, 'I am come to sup with you.' 'Taubut,' * said Annawan, with a big voice, and looking about upon his women, bid them hasten and get Captain Church and his company some supper. He then turned to Captain Church, and asked him whether he would eat cow beef or horse beef ? The captain told him, cow beef would be the most acceptable. It was soon got ready, and pull- ing his little bag of salt out of his pocket, which was all the pro- vision he had brought with him, this seasoned his cow beef. So that with it and the dried corn, which the old squaw was pound- ing in the mortar, while they were sliding down the rocks, he made a very hearty supper. And this pounding in the mortar proved lucky for Captain Church's getting down the rocks ; for when the old squaw pounded, they moved, and when she ceased, to turn the corn, they ceased creeping. The noise of the mortar prevented the enemy's hearing their creeping ; and the corn being now dressed supplied the want of bread, and gave a fine relish with the cow beef.
" Supper being over, Captain Church sent two of his men to inform the other companies that he had killed Philip, and taken their friends in Mount Hope neck, but had spared their lives, and that he had subdued now all the enemy, (he supposed) except this company of Annawan ; and now if they would be orderly and keep their places until morning, they should have good quarter, and that he would carry them to Taunton, where they might see their friends again, &c.
" The messengers returned that the Indians yielded to his proposals.
* This word Hubbard [p. 185] has interpreted to mean, " thank you .. "
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" Captain Church thought it was now time for him to take a nap, having had no sleep in two days and one night before. So he told his men, that if they would let him sleep two hours, they should sleep all the rest of the night. He laid himself down and endeavoured to sleep, but all disposition to sleep departed from him.
"After he had lain a little while, he looked up to see how his watch managed, but found them all fast asleep. Now Captain Church had told Captain Annawan's company, as he had order- ed his Indians to tell the others ; that their lives should all be spared excepting Captain Annawan's, and it was not in his pow- er to promise him his life, but he must carry him to his masters at Plymouth, and he would entreat them for his life.
" Now when Captain Church found not only his own men, but all the Indians fast asleep, Annawan only excepted, who, he perceived was broad awake as himself; and so they lay looking one upon the other, perhaps an hour.
"At length Annawan raised himself up, cast off his blanket, and with no more clothes than his small breeches, walked a little way back from the company." * " By and by he was gone out of sight and hearing, and then Captain Church began to suspect some ill design in him ; and got all the guns close to him, and crowded himself close under young Annawan; that if he should any where get a gun, he should not make a shot at him, without endangering his son. Lying very still awhile, waiting for the event, at length he heard somebody coming the same way that Annawan went. The moon now shining bright, he saw him at a distance coming with something in his hands ; and coming up to Captain Church, he fell upon his knees before him, and offered him what he had brought, and, speaking in plain English said, "Great Captain, you have killed Philip and conquered his country ; for I believe that I and my company are the last that war against the English, so suppose the war is ended by your means ; and therefore these things belong to you." Then opening his pack, he pulled out Philip's belt, curi- ously wrought with wampum, being nine inches broad, wrought with black and white wampum, in various figures, and flowers and pictures of many birds and beasts. This, when hanged upon Captain Church's shoulders, reached his ancles; and another belt of wampum he presented him with, wrought after the former manner, which Philip was wont to put upon his
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head. It had two flags on the back part, which hung down on his back, and another small belt with a star upon the end of it, which he used to hang on his breast ; and they were all edged with red hair which Annawan said he got in the Mohogs [Mohawk's] country. Then he pulled out two horns of glazed powder, and a red cloth blanket. He told Captain Church these were Philip's royalties, which he was wont to adorn him- self with, when he sat in state ; that he thought himself happy that he had an opportunity to present them to Captain Church, who had won them, &c. They spent the remainder of the night in discourse. And Captain Annawan gave an account of what mighty success he had formerly in wars against many nations of Indians, when he served Asumhequin, Philip's father, &c.
" In the morning, as soon as it was light, the captain marched with his prisoners out of that swampy country towards Taunton. He met his lieutenant and company about four miles out of town, who expressed a great deal of joy to see him again, and said it was more than ever they expected. They went into Taunton, were civilly and kindly treated by the inhabitants. Here they refreshed and rested themselves that night.
" Early next morning, the captain took old Annawan, and half a dozen of his Indian soldiers, and his own man, and went to Rhode Island; sending the rest of his company, and his prison- ers, by his lieutenant to Plymouth. Tarrying two or three days upon the Island, he then went to Plymouth, and carried his wife and his two children with him."
Thus was the most daring enterprise successfully achieved by the prowess of a single man. Annawan, being unable to deny but that he had tortured English captives, found no mercy with the English ; and in spite of the intercessions of Church, he was beheaded. This was done while Church was absent from Ply- mouth. Tispaquin, or Tuspaquin, a noble chief of the Narra- ganset tribe, whose capture by Church immediately succeeded that of Annawan, was beheaded with him. The grief and chagrin of Church were great, on finding all his prayers and en- treaties for the life of Annawan utterly disregarded, and the faith of the government, pledged by him to Tispaquin, that his life should be spared, thus shamefully and barbarously trampled upon. "When Captain Church," says his historian, " return- ed from Boston, he found to his great grief the heads of Anna- wan, Tispaquin, &c. cut off, which were the last of Philip's friends."
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Thus fell "the last of Philip's friends," and the last noble chieftains of two once powerful and warlike tribes. Had Rome, in the days of her Cæsar, given them birtli, and an Italian sun smiled on their exploits, history would have proudly chronicled their deeds, and poesy hung with fadeless garlands their honour- ed urns.
" Indulge, our native land, indulge the tear That steals impassioned o'er a nation's doom ; To us each twig from Adam's stock is dear, And tears of sorrow deck an Indian's tomb."
Dwight's Greenfield Hill.
After the death of Annawan, but little worthy of note occur- red in this quarter relating to the Indians. Nearly all the hostile Indians had been either captured or killed, or had submitted themselves to the English; and expeditions against them were considered rather as hunting excursions than dangerous enter- prises. A few Indians lurking around Rehoboth and Seekonk, were all that were heard of in Plymouth colony.
" Since the beginning of December last" [1676], says Hub- bard, "news coming down to Boston that mischief was done about Seaconk and Rehoboth, by some remaining Indians there- abouts, killing their swine and horses ; several persons of Med- field went out after them, and pursuing them by their track, came upon a small party, of whom they took three, one of which escaped while some of the company were going after the rest. Those that were taken confessed there was about 60 that were lurking up and down in those woods. The said two Indians were brought unto Boston the Sth of January.
"A commission was formerly granted to Peter Ephraim, an Indian of Natick, to go out in pursuit of them, with 29 of his company ; a few of the English from Medfield went with him, who, being soon tired with marching in the snow, returned. The Indians kept on in their design, and came across a consid- erable party of the enemy, having traced them till they found where they lodged overnight. They surrounded them early in the morning, as their manner is, and then offered them quarter if they would yield; eight resolute fellows refused, who were instantly shot ; the rest were all seized, the whole number was 12. 'This was done about the middle of January, since which several such exploits have been done by them."
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The names of the Rehoboth soldiers who served in Philip's war have been preserved, and are as follows :
Those engaged in the Narra- Those who served under Major ganset expedition, were, Bradford, were,
John Fitch,
Preserved Abell,
Jonathan Wilmarth, Jasiel Perry,
Samuel Perry,
Stephen Paine, Jun.
Thomas Kendrick,
Samuel Miller,
Jonathan Sabin,
Silas T. Alin,
John Carpenter,
Samuel Palmer,
John Redeway,
James Redeway,
John Martin,
Enoch Hunt,
John Hall,
Samuel Walker,
John Miller, Jun. John Ide,
Noah Mason,
Joseph Doggett,
Samuel Sabin,
. Sampson Mason, Jun.
Thomas Read,
Israel Read,
George Robinson, Nathaniel Wilmarth.
The following catalogue gives the names of those who, at one period of the war, made advances of money, together with the sums they advanced. It shows that many of those, who served as private soldiers in the war, also advanced money to sus- tain it.
George Kendrick, £11 13s. 1d.
Joseph Sabin,
£1 17s. 0d.
Jonathan Fuller,
1 18 8
Gilbert Brooks,
3 14 10
Jo. Miller, sen.
6 5 4 David Smith, 1 17 5
Joseph Buckland, 6 3
0
James Redeway, sen. 14 4
Wid. Abraham Perem, 14 2 0
Preserved Abell, 7 15 1
Rice Leonard,
2
0
G
William Buckland, 2 9 0
James Gilson,
4 18
An. Perry,
14 00
Benjamin Buckland, with the loss of a gun, $ 4 3 10
George Robinson, Jolın Perem,
1 13 10
John Fitch, with the } loss of a gun, 13 6 4
William Carpenter, John Titus, sen.
5 6 3
Thomas Willnarth, sen. 6 12 3
Samuel Carpenter, Widow Sabin,
1 7
6
1 10 6 Francis Stephens, Joseph Peck, 2 10 0
John Ormsby,
2 15 0
David Beers, 17 8
Josiah Palmer,
1 10 10
John Savage, 2
6
8
John Butterworth, jun.
3 11 5
Richard Martin, 1 5 4
Thomas Read,
8 14 4
Thomas Grant, 9 0
Stephen Paine, jun.
10 11 5
Deacon Nathaniel Cooper,& 0 0
4 12 0
Samuel Peck, 9 2 8
8 17 3
11 19 5
Nicholas Ide,
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Robert Miller,
£5 17s. 6d.
Samuel Sabin, 4 14 2
Wid. Mason,
13 5 10
Eldad Kingsley,
9 4
Wid. Rachael Read, ? with a gun lost,
4 3 0
Daniel Allen,
14
0
John Kingsley,
2 4 0
Samuel Homes,
9
0
Moses Reade,
4 1 10
Noah Mason,
15
0
John Reade, sen.
13 18 11
John Jonson,
16
6
William Sabin,
15 5 8
Jeremiah Wheaton,
3
0
Nathaniel Paine,
100
Obadiah Bowen,
2 17
8
Samuel Reade,
17 10
Nathaniel Foulsom,
5
6
Thomas Willmarth, jun.
7
4
Eben. Amidown,
1
6
John Willmarth,
1
2
4
John Crossman,
2
6
Joseph Chaffee,
1 8
8
Benjamin Sabin,
1
0
6
Samuel Bullock,
12
3
James Redeway, jun.
5
0
John Carpenter,
1 18
William Blanding,
7
0
John Titus, jun.
2 7
7
Daniel Smith,
37 11
7
Nathaniel Chaffee.
3 16
6
John Peck,
4 12
6
Robert Fuller,
4 10
3
Deacon Walker,
26 00
0
Richard Bowen,
4 4
8
John Allen, jun.
16
9
Rebecca Hunt,
1 71
John Dogget,
11 1 33
John Hall,
1
6
Samuel Newman,
4 17 10
Total
484 5 5
This, with a few extracts from the town records, closes the history of all the events to be found in the annals of Philip's war, relating to Rehoboth. The history of the town from this period till near the commencement of the war of the Revolu- tion possesses little that is either novel or interesting. A few extracts from the town records are nearly all that we are able to give on this period.
"June 12, 1675. The town being met, being lawfully warned, chose the town council and the townsmen to take care for the provision of the soldiers that are put to answer the war- rant ; and that they shall make a rate for the defraying of the charges both for their soldiers clothes and other necessaries, and for any charges about the former soldiers."
" June 16, 1676. The town engaged a surgeon for three months, who promised to be helpful to the town and do his best endeavour, with the help of God, to cure any of our towne that may be wounded by the enemy ; " and the town was to pay him " three pounds in money, for to procure instruments, and medicines for healing, and also an accommodation of a suitable place, and his diet and twenty shillings a month."
" February 2, 1676-7. It was agreed upon by the town, that the county rate should be made as much as the town hath been out of charges relating to the late war, and that the sol- diers' wages be put into it."
6 0 6
Wid. Carpenter,
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" November 13, 1677. It was voted that Lieutenant Hunt and Ensign Nicholas Pecke should assist the Deacons to go from house to house to make inquiry, what persons have or will do, for this present year, for the maintenance of our Reverent Pastor; to see whether it will amount to fifty pounds ; and also to take care that it may be effectually paid in season."
At the same meeting it was voted also, " that Daniel Smith should write to the young gentleman at Dorchester, to signify to him, that it was the town's desire that he would be pleased to come up and teach a school according to those former invita- tions that our Reverend Pastor made to him."
" It was also voted, that an invitation might be given to Mr. Man for to be helpful in the work of the ministry for this winter, and that the townsmen should take care for to endeavour to affect it; and if Mr. Man cannot be obtained, then the towns- men shall endeavour to obtain any other suitable person for the work of the ministry this season."
April 12, 1678. " The town manifested their earnest desire that Mr. Angier might be treated with by the townsmen, and encouraged to tarry with us untill we see how the Lord will deal with our Reverend Pastor ; the town desiring, that, if it might be, that some hold may be taken of him with speed, that we might not be left destitute : the town manifesting their approbation of him and his labors in the work of the ministry."
The town also voted, that Deacon Walker, John Woodcock, Anthony Perry, and Samuel Peck should be added to "the committee for finishing the meeting house."
April 16, 1678,* the Reverend Noah Newman, the second minister of Rehoboth, died, having filled the sacred office from the year 1668 till the commencement of the illness which ter- minated in his death. The little that can now be collected con- cerning him has been given in pages 57 and 58 above.t A letter written by him to Mr. Cotton of Plymouth, on the day after "Pierce's Fight," giving a minute account of those slain in that battle, was given at page 91, in the account of the Indian war. He is supposed to have been interred in the old burying
* This date is taken from a silver cup in the possession of the Congrega- tional church of Seekonk. The town records give, "Mr. Noah Newman buried April 18, 1678."
t There is an error on the 58th page with regard to the year of his death, which was observed too late to correct in its proper place : his death is there placed in 1676.
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ground near the Congregational meeting-house in Seekonk, though, to mark the spot,
- No stone may tell His name, his worth, his glory."
" April 29, 1678. It was voted that Mrs. Newman, the relict of our late Reverend Pastor, shall have fifteen pounds for this present year, and a sufficiency of wood brought to her gate, if she please still to abide with us, and thus to be paid according to present subscription." It was also agreed upon that the townsmen shall agree with Mrs. Newman in the town's behalf for the diet of Mr. Angier."
" June 20, 1678. The town unanimously agreed that Mr. Angier should have forty pounds a year for his encouragement, and his diet ; and ten pounds of the forty in money, if God ineline his heart to settle amongst us in the work of the minis- try. And this proposal was made for the present, persons man- ifesting themselves to be freely willing for the future to augment to the aforesaid sum, according to their ability and Mr. Angier's necessity. And the townsmen and Deacon Walker were chosen to treat with Mr. Angier about it."
" Lieut. Hunt and Ensign Peck were chosen, and desired to go down with Mr. Angier, the next week, and to do as then is requisite to be done in order to the settlement of Mr. Angier."
" It was also agreed, that there should be a six-acre lot, in convenient time, laid forth below the burial place, for a build- ing of a house for the ministry."
It appears from the tenor of the records, that Mrs. Newman soon removed from Rehobothi. She probably removed to Braintree (now Quincy), the place of her nativity .* August 30, 1678, there is a vote of the town recorded, appointing sev- eral persons as a committee, " to treat with any person or persons that shall be employed by Mrs. Newman, concerning her house and lands." January 17, 1678-9, also " It was voted, for the encouragement of Mr. Samuel Angier to settle amongst us in the work of the ministry, if it please the Lord to incline his heart thereunto, to purpose unto him to give him forty pounds in money, either to the purchasing of the house and lot which were Mr. Noah Newman's, if it please him to buy it, or towards the building of another house and settling himself."
It was at the same time " voted by the town that Mr. Angier shall have the use and improvement of all the lands and mead-
* See page 57.
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dows, and all the privileges belonging to the pastors and teach- ers' lots, as long as he doth continue in the work of the ministry amongst us. It was also voted, that Mr. Angier shall have sev- enty pounds a year for his salary, ten pounds of it in money, and sixty in country pay, as it passeth between man and man."
" June 25, 1679. The town voted, that Mr. Angier shall have, for the two following years, seventy pounds for each year ; ten pounds of it in money, and fifteen of the sixty as money, and the rest of it as it passeth between man and man, and a suf- ficiency of wood to be brought to his house."
" The town chose Gilbert Brooks a deputy to attend the Gen- eral Court."
" July 24, 1679. The raters chosen were Mr. Daniel Smith, John Peck, Ensign Nicholas Peck, Gilbert Brooks, and Wil- liam Carpenter."
" May 18, 1680. Lieut. Peter Hunt and Ensign Peck cho- sen deputies." "Lieut. Peter Hunt, Ensign Nicholas Peck, and Gilbert Brooks, selectmen." " Mr. Daniel Smith, John Reade, Lieut. Hunt, Ensign Peck, Gilbert Brooks, John Peck, and Anthony Perry, townsmen."
" The townsmen acquainting the town, that they had a treaty with Mr. Edward Howard to teach school, acquainted the town with the said Mr. Howard's terms, viz : twenty pounds a year in country pay, and his diet, besides what the court doth allow in that case. The town then did vote and agree that his proposals were accepted, and that the speediest provisions should be made for his maintenance; Mr. William Sabin freely proffering to diet him the first quarter of the year."
" It was also agreed upon that William Blanding should have half an acre of land upon the common, to build a house upon the edge of Rocky Hill. Lieut. Hunt, Samuel Carpenter, and John Peck were chosen to lay out the said land, and set the expense of it, and also to perfix him a time when he shall build ; which if he neglect, he shall forfeit the land to the town again." This is the first time that the name " Rocky Hill " occurs in the town records. This name is still given to a hill, or elevation of some extent, about a mile north-west of " Palmer's river" meeting-house ; and from the character of its surface, no one can dispute its title to the cognomen "rocky."
" October 22, 1680. Voted that the burying place should be fenced in with a stone fence."
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December 16, 1680. A committee was chosen by the town " to sell the meeting-house ; " this committee consisted of Mr. Daniel Smith, Lieut. Peter Hunt. Ensign Nicholas Peck, Gil- bert Brooks, and Anthony Perry.
" May 16, 1681. Ensign Nicholas Peck and Gilbert Brooks were chosen deputies to the General Court ; and Lieut. Peter Hunt, Ensign Nicholas Peck, and Gilbert Brooks, selectmen."
" The same day it was voted and consented to, that the select- men should endeavour the utmost to re-engage Mr. Howard to keep the school another year."
"September 2, 1681. Mr. Daniel Smith, Ensign Nicholas Peck, Gilbert Brooks, Thomas Cooper, Jr. and William Car- penter, chosen raters for the year.
May 17, 1682. There is, of this date, recorded in the town book, a meeting of the proprietors of the "North Purchase," when William Carpenter was chosen "clerk of the community" and sworn.
May 25, 1683. " William Carpenter was chosen, and added to the former committee that was chosen by the town to sell the meeting-house."
December 13, 1683. . At a town meeting the townsmen pre- sented Mr. Taylor, a schoolmaster, and the propositions that he and the townsmen treated upon, viz : that he should have for the present year £5 in money, £10 as money, and his diet : upon which the town voted that he should be engaged for the year ; upon which agreement of the town the townsmen met the first of December, 1683, and did fully agree with the said Mr. Taylor for to keep school one year upon the terms aforesaid."
" May 19, 1684. Sergeant Jonathan Bliss was chosen by the town, and added to the committee to sell the meeting- house."
" Lieut. Nicholas Peck and Gilbert Brooks chosen deputies."
In the year 1685 the court of Plymouth granted to the town a deed of confirmation, of which the following is a literal copy.
CONFIRMATION DEED FROM THE COLONY. " NEW PLYMOUTH, July 7th, 1685.
"At his Majesty's Court of Assistants, held at New Plymouth, July 7th, 1685.
" Whereas at his Majesty's General Court, held at New Plimouth, the 4th of June, 1685, it was enacted that the Court
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of Assistants be a committee, impowered to examine, allow, and confirm all claims of lands of former grants for townships and other grants of Court to particular persons ; which, being by the Court allowed, shall pass the seale of the Colony :- And where- as Mr. Daniel Smith as agent of the town of Rehoboth, an- swered at this court, and showed, declared, and made appear unto this Court by several writings and records, that the bounds of the said town of Rehoboth are as followeth : the first grant of the said township being eight miles square, granted, in the year 1641, unto Mr. Alexander Winchester, Richard Wright, Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. Joseph Pecke, Mr. Stephen Paine, and divers others, for the settling of a town, which is now bounded from Puttkett river by a white oak tree marked near a small run, running into the said river; and from thence by marked trees to a great black oak, marked, standing by the edge of the great plaine ; and from thence by marked trees over the seven mile river, and over the ten-mile river unto a pine tree marked with two R. R., and a trench digged ; and from thence over the plaine to a black oak, marked with an R. and an heap of stones, there standing a great rock within five foot of the tree ; and from thence by marked trees to a black oak marked with an R, and an heap of stones standing on a hill near a small pond ; and from thence to a red oak, marked with an R, and a trench digged by the cedar swamp ; and from thence eighty rod by marked trees in the cedar swamp to a corner tree being a cedar tree marked : and for the eastward bounds from thence southerly to a white oak marked with an R, standing by the road way to Taunton ; and from thence to a chestnut tree marked, standing on a rocky island, with a heap of stones ; and from thence strait to the south-east corner, by Mettapoysett ; the south-east line, at the south-west corner, is a small freshet of water running into the salt river, a little southward of a small island in the river, from thence to an oak, marked, by a swamp where Capt. Willet made a bridge : from thence by a marked tree to a white oak marked with an R, and heaps of stones, near to the house where for- merly Richard Whittacrer dwelt : from thence by marked trees to a white oak, marked, standing in the salt meadows upon a point of upland near to Sowam's river, and over the river to a black oak marked with an R, and a heap of stones by the com- mon road ; from thence by marked trees to a white oak marked with an R ; and from thence a few rods to a great rock with an heap of stones upon the rock ; and from thence over the rocky river by marked trees, to a white oak marked with an R, by Mat-
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