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ESSEX COUNTY IN 1643.
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Essex County was made up of eight towns. The accompanying map shows the territory of each town.1 Salem was made the shire town of Essex County by vote of the general court Nov. 13, 1644; and it has occupied that position ever since.
Dec. 4, 1643, the town appointed a committee to find a room and set up a forge for William Place, the gunsmith.
At the meeting of the seven men, Dec. 11, 1643. John Hardy desired a ten-acre lot about Bass River for his son Joseph, and he was granted ten acres near Mr. Alford's farm, adjoining the old planters' farms. John Jarrett2 was received as an inhabitant, and the next month was granted a ten acre lot, formerly Esdras Reed's adjoining Ryall Side, which was returned to the town April 15, 1644. Two acres of meadow formerly granted to Samuel Edson was ordered to be laid out in the pine meadow near Mr. Kenniston's farm. There was granted to Thomas Moore five acres of land on Darby's side; and Samuel Corney was ordered to have the five acres of land formerly granted to him laid out on Darby's fort side. John Kitchen was granted about an acre of land near Edward Gaskill's ten-acre lot at the Great Cove. Mark Lothrop was received as an inhabitant, and he requested some ground near his kinsman Thomas Lothrop; and the latter desired some meadow. Roger Haskell was granted six acres in the great meadow.
Zaccheus Curtis1 appeared in Salem as early as 1643; re- moved to Reading about 1655; went to Gloucester in 1658; and returned to Salem the next year. From Salem he removed to
born in 1815; died, unmarried, Oct. 22, 1897; 2. Mary G.7, born about 1822; died, unmarried, in Danvers Sept. 15, 1846; 3. Dorcas C.", born April 7, 1824; died, unmarried, Feb. 10, 1912; 4. Lucy H.", born Oct. 28, 1829; died, unmarried, Dec. 31, 1912; 5. William", born May 25, 1832; fruit dealer ; died, unmarried, May 2, 1897. AARON NOURSEG; married Harriet Matilda Kimball Aug. 26, 1840; she died June 29, 1899; he died Aug. 2, 1902; children : I. Elizabeth Prince7, born Nov. II, 1842; died, unmarried, Sept. 10, 1920; 2. Catherine Elizabeth Ellison7, born March 4, 1847; 3. Cynthia B.", born June 28, 1850; married William P. Upham Dec. 1, 1880; 4. Henry Prince7, born Feb. 22, 1862.
HENRY PRINCE NOURSE7; letter carrier; married Edith H. Scott Dec. 28, 1900; children: I. Dorothy K.8, born June 1, 1901; 2. Harriet S.8 born Jan. 8, 1903; 3. Elizabeth F. P.8, born Jan. I, 1905; 4. Harrie K." bn n March II, 1908; died May 23, 1908; 5. Vesta S.8, born Jan. 3, 19II; 6. 8 (twin), born April 27, 1917; died April 28, 1917; 7. - 8 (twin), born April 27, 1917; died May 3, 1917.
1That part of Lynn which was set off to Reading is not included in the map. The towns between Merrimac and Piscataqua rivers constituted Norfolk County.
"He probably came from Rowley, and returned after a few months. 1Zaccheus Curtis; planter; married Joanna - ; died in 1682; she survived him; children: I. John; lived in Boxford and Topsfield; married Mary Look Dec. 4, 1672; died in the spring of 1718; she died in Topsfield Aug. 23, 1745, aged ninety-seven; had children; 2. Zaccheus; lived in Box-
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Rowley Village (Boxford) in 1663. Savage says that he came from Downton, Wiltshire, England, in the James, sailing from Southampton in 1635. He was born about 1619. He brought his wife and children to Salem, and from thence went to Boxford.
From this time on, the town grew very slowly from English immigration, as the war was on, and ships were stopped leaving English ports. Not more than one or two new inhabitants a year were admitted by vote of the town.
ford; married, first, Mary Blake of Boxford Dec. 4, 1673; second, Abigail Stiles; died in the summer of 1712; had children; 3. Sarah; married James Scales of Rowley Nov. 7, 1677; 4. Mary, born in Gloucester May 12, 1659; married, first, John Herd; second, Jonathan Look Nov. 19, 1678; 5. Abigail ; probably married James Mackcarwithe; 6. Ephraim; married Elizabeth Kilburn of Rowley; had children. See Records and Files of the Essex County Quarterly Courts, volume II, pages 131-134, for an interesting statement of Zaccheus Curtis' connection with Gloucester.
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CHAPTER IX.
WENHAM.
EW locations were constantly sought by the people, not only for farms, but for villages. Wenham Lake, the tracts of meadow on Longham brook and Miles River and the plain but fertile land lying northerly of them, now the center of Wenham, were most attractive. The first large grant of land in that section was of two hundred acres made by the town of Salem to Francis Felmingham Jan. 15, 1637-8. This grant occupied the northerly side of Main Street, from the Hamilton town line to the meeting house, and bounded northeasterly by the Hamilton line to Pleasant Pond. But he never lived upon it. The next grant was of two hundred acres made by the town to Samuel Smith April 23, 1638. This grant was along the southeasterly side of Main Street. Upon this tract of land, Mr. Smith built a house, in which he lived until his decease in the late autumn of 1642. Before the town of Wenham was set off, the town of Salem granted to Richard Rayment one hundred acres of upland and ten acres of meadow, within the bounds of Wenham, on Pleasant Pond and the great swamp, the meadow being in the great meadow.
Upon appointment made by the town, the seven men met about establishing a village in that section Oct. 29, 1638. Appar- ently, the seven men decided that this was a matter for the whole town to act upon and at a general town meeting, Dec. 31, 1638, it was "Agreed and voted that there should be a Village graunted to M' Phillips & his company vppon such conditions as the 7 men appointed for the town affaires should agree on."
This Mr. Phillips was Rev. John Phillips, rector of the parish church of Wrentham, Suffolkshire, England. He began his ser- vice at Wrentham in 1609, and continued therein until he was removed in 1638 He turned his attention to New England, where relatives and friends were living in Salem. His wife's
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brother's widow, Mrs. Joanna Ames, had gone to Salem the year before. This was the widow of Dr. William Ames, who was born in Ipswich in 1576, and who entered Christ College in 1613. Doctor Ames preached in Holland, being rector of St. Mary's for a number of years, and intimate with Rev. John Robinson, the Pilgrim pastor, whose extreme views were greatly modified through this friendship. In 1622, Doctor Ames was appointed Professor of Divinity at the University of Franeker, in Holland. When he left this position, he found that he could not secure a living in England because he was a Nonconformist; and early in 1633 he became one of the ministers of the English Congrega- tional Church in Rotterdam, in conjunction with Rev. Hugh Peter, who had been its pastor since 1623. Doctor Ames was there but a few months, dying Nov. 14th of the same year, at the age of fifty-six. His ability and fame as an instructor was so great that many came from Hungary, Poland and Russia to be educated under him; and his writings were held in the highest esteem. It was he who wrote "Puritanimus Anglianus." Hugh Peter said of him: "Learned Amesius breathed his last into my bosom, who left his professorship in Friesland to live with me, became one of my Church's Indepency, at Rotterdam. He was my colleague and chosen brother to the Church, where I was an unworthy pastor."
The second wife of Doctor Ames was Joanne Fletcher. by whom he had two sons and a daughter. They were kindly and bountifully relieved by the magistrates of Rotterdam. Soon after her husband's death, she left Holland and went to Yarmouth. Deciding to go to America, May 10, 1637, she was examined and given permission to sail to Salem to inhabit there. She was then fifty years of age, and her children were Ruth, aged eighteen, William, born about 1624, the eldest, and John, the youngest boy. Ruth married Edmund Angier of Cambridge, and became the mother of Rev. Samuel Angier ; William1 graduated at Harvard College in 1645, became a clergyman and returned to England to assist his uncle, Rev. John Phillips, in the ministry at Wren- tham : and John probably lived with his brother in Wrentham. November 15th, after her arrival in Salem, the general court gave her forty pounds for her relief, calling her "the widow of Doctor Ames, of famous memory, who is deceased."
Thomas Paine of Wrentham, weaver, aged fifty, and his wife and six children were licensed to go to Salem1 on the same day as Mrs. Ames. His wife Elizabeth, aged fifty-three, and
1Rev. William Ames, jr., married, first, Susanna -, who died Jan. 4, 1651-2; and, second, Elizabeth Wales Jan. 26, 1652-3. She died Feb. 19, 1682-3; and he died July 21, 1689, aged sixty-five.
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their six children, Thomas, John, Marey, Elizabeth, Dorothy and Sarah. On the same day, also, John Thurston of Wrentham, carpenter, aged thirty, was licensed to go to Salem to live with his wife and children. Mrs. Margaret Thurston was thirty-two years of age, and their children were Thom- as and John. The widow of Benjamin Smith, a farmer of Northhall, in Wrentham, married, secondly, Henry Chickering, who after her death went to New England.
Rev. Mr. Phillips was deprived of his position as rector of the church in Wrentham Aug. 8, 1638, and he immediately left his homeland for Salem. His arrival was not unexpected. He was twice invited to become the pastor of the church in Dedham, but declined it each time, and remained in Salem.
"Mr. Phillips & company" undoubtedly consisted of Hugh Stacy, John Thurston, Thomas West, widow of Thomas Paine, Austin Kellham, Nicholas Pacy, Philemon Dickenson, Joseph Yongs, Henry Chickering, John Yongs, Mrs. Ames, William Browne, a shopkeeper, and himself.
At the general court Nov. 5, 1639 ,"Whereas the inhabitants of Salem have agreed to plant a village neare the ryver wer runs to Ipswich, it is ordered, that all the land neare their bounds, be- tween Salem & the said ryver, not belonging to any other towne, or person, by any former grant, shall belong to the said village."
Jan. 21, 1639-40, the seven men of Salem received Mr. Phillips as an inhabitant and granted him and William Browne eighty acres of land apiece ; to Mrs. Ames forty acres ; to Henry Chickering and John Yongs fifty acres each ; to Austin Killham, Nicholas Pacy, Philemon Dickenson and Joseph Yongs, thirty acres apiece ; and to Hugh Stacy,2 John Thurston,3 Thomas West4 and widow Paine twenty acres apiece. These grants were made upon condition that the grantees remain in this plantation and use the premises.
Mr. Phillips received a third invitation from the church at Dedham, and this time he accepted, Nov. 1, 1640, and removed thither. Henry Chickering went with him. Mr. Chickering owned the Nurse farm at Salem Village, and lived there in 1639,
1See volume I, page 444.
"Hugh Stacy lived in Marblehead; children: I. John, baptized Oct. 9, 1642; 2. Deborah, baptized Oct. 22, 1643; 3. John, baptized March 29, 1646; lived in Marblehead; married Agnes -; died March 23, 1705; she died June 19, 1715; had children.
3John Thurston went to Newbury before 1641.
4Thomas West came in the Mary and John in 1634, and lived in Salem in 1644.
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although he did not obtain a deed of it until he had removed to Dedham in 1641. It had been granted to Townsend Bishop, who conveyed it to Mr. Chickering Oct. 1, 1641 ; and Mr. Chickering conveyed it to Gov. John Endecott Oct. 4, 1648.1 Mrs. Ames removed to Cambridge, where she died Dec. 21, 1644.
Mr. Phillips remained in Dedham only a short time; and Oct. 26, 1641, he and his wife sailed for England, experiencing a long and disastrous voyage. The next year he resumed his pastorate in Wrentham. In 1643, he was appointed one of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster. He was growing old and infirm, and his nephew, William Ames, was appointed as his col- league. Mr. Phillips died Sept. 2, 1660, aged about seventy-five.
Mr. Phillips married Elizabeth, sister of Doctor Ames, Jan. 6, 1611-2, at Wrentham. Doctor Ames had helped him in his studies, and influenced him in Puritanism.
Rev. Hugh Peter had friendly correspondence with Mr. Phillips, and the following is one of his letters :-
Dearly beloved Sir,
I have received yrs., and thanke you hartely for that you write concerning Mr. Ward; truly he hath done not well, making many suffer through his melancholly fitts; I pray wish him to come away; we haue a place or two (as I write) looke [ing] for good men, and this cuntry cannot supply [them].
Mr. Burgesse is answered, but how the bookes will come into men's hands is a question. Dr. Ames wilbe here settled the next moneth, and we shall desire both to see you. The Lord our God make us useful each to other, and both to the churches of God.
Good Sir, let us learne howe thinges goe with you the next visita- tion. We suppose things doe . The Lord in mercy doe you good in all things, in whome I am,
Yrs., HU. PETER
Rotterdam, 23 of June, 1633.
[Addressed :]
To the Reverend, my very worthy friend, Mr. Phillips, at Wren- tham. these, &c., &c. Leave this letter with Abraham Wheeler's wyfe.
Mr. Phillips was a man of good learning, sound doctrine, consistent life and laborious useulness, "a very profitable and useful preacher," and obnoxious to Matthew Wren,2 by whom he "was chased out of Old into New England for his Nonconform- ity." Ile came back, nevertheless.
1Sce volume I, pages 289 and 334, for grant and plan of the farm. 2Bishop Wren was uncle of Sir Christopher Wren, England's famous architect.
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Dec. 3, 1641, the selectmen granted to Phineas Fiske twenty acres of land "more at the village nere the pond."
Before his final departure for England, Rev. Hugh Peter went to Wenham Lake and standing upon a conical mound1 on its shore about half-way between the highway and the point of land projecting into the lake, preached to the people who assembled there, from the text: John III: 23, "In Enon, near to Salim, for there was much water there." This little hil- lock was subsequently known as "Peter's pulpit," and it was leveled about 1850, for the site of the new ice-houses of Addison Gage & Company.
Aug. 24, 1639, the Salem church considered the matter of establishing three villages, at Danvers, Wenham and Manchester. The subject was brought up for discussion several times in sub- sequent church meetings.
Nov. 29, 1642, the town granted to Richard Pettingall2 a ten acre lot at Enon, to Henry Haggett3, the cow keeper at Enon, a ten-acre lot there, and to George Ingersoll twenty acres to be laid out near his other land at Enon. Pettingall and Haggett lived there for some years. Jan. 23, 1642-3, the town granted to William Sawyer twenty acres of land and two acres of meadow, all at Enon. Two days later, the town granted to John Small ten acres of land at Enon on the west side of the great pond, to Robert Tuke five acres of land at the great pond, to Henry Reignolds and John Boorne five acres each at the great pond, and to William Allin, Robert Allin, Thomas West and Michael Sallowes ten acres each at the great pond. It was also ordered that Jeffry Massy should have at the great pond his twenty acres formerly granted.
Feb. 15, 1642-3, the town granted to Richard Prince, Hugh Stacy and Christopher Yonges a ten-acre lot each at Enon, pro- viding they shall go to reside there within twelve months, to John White six acres of meadow there and to John Abby ten acres of land there, in exchange for ten acres near Bass River. Five days later, the selectmen granted to Thomas Skelling4 fifteen acres of
1The town seal of Wenham preserves a view of this mound.
2Richard Pettingall married Joanna Ingersoll; lived in Wenham until he removed to Newbury, about 1650; children: I. Richard, baptized in Salem Feb. 9, 1644-5; 2. Nathaniel, born Sept. 21, 1654, in Newbury ;
3. , born Nov. 15, 1657; 4. (son), born Jan. 16, 1659.
"Henry Haggett was born about 1594; married Ann ; lived in Wenham; died Jan. 24, 1677-8; she survived him; children, living in 1676: I. Henry ; 2. Moses; 3. Mary; 4. Deliverance; 5. Hannah.
Thomas Skelling probably lived here only a short time removing to Gloucester. His wife Deborah was born about 1623. They had two children : I. Deborah, born Aug. 22, 1640; 2. Thomas, born Nov. - , 1643. A Thomas Skillin died at Salem Dec. 30, 1676, leaving a widow named Mary.
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land at Enon. July 8, 1643, the town granted to Christopher Hersome1 ten acres of land at Enon.
In preparation for the establishment of a village at Enon, the dividing line between Ipswich and Salem was determined by a committee of eight, four being appointed by each town. The representatives from Salem were .Joseph Yongs, Roger Conant, Jeffry Massye and John Balch. The committee met and wrote their report March 27, 1643. This was allowed and recorded by the general court at its session May 10, 1643. The following is a copy of the agreement as thus recorded :-
The 27th of the First Month, 1643.
At a meeting by us whose names are underwritten, chosen by the towns of Salem & Ipswich, & haveing full power either towne to agree & determine of the bounds between the said townes, do in the behalfe of each towne agree & determine the same as followeth: Imprimis, wee conceive that the meeting houses of the two townes stand from each other north north east haulfe a point easterly, & south south west haulfe a point westerly ; whether it bee exactly so or no, wee are fully agreed that the line betwixt the two townes shall run as followeth, vi :: From the bound tree near John Fairfeilds house west north west halfe a point northerly, & east South east haulfe a point southierly, as the trees are marked both wayes from the said bound tree.
WILLI : HUBBERD, JOHN TUTTELL, JOSEPH YONGS, ROGER CONANT, JEFFRY MASSYE, JOHN BALCH, THOM : HOWLETT, JOHN GAGE.
Sept. 7, 1643, the general court established the town of Wenham by the following laconic vote : "ordered that Enon shallbee called Wennam. Wennam is granted to bee a towne, & hath liberty to send a deputy."
The History of Wenham states that a little meeting house was erected in 1641, but a church was not organized until Oct. IO, 1644. John Fiske removed thither from Salem, and was its pastor until his removal to Chelmsford in 1655. An at- tempt to form a church early in 1644 did not succeed. In his Journalª Governor Winthrop wrote: "At Wenham there was a public assembly for gathering a church, but the magistrates and elders present, finding upon trial, that the persons appointed were not fit for foundation stones, they advised them not to pro-
"Christopher Hersome lived in Wenham, and soon died. Widow Mary Hersome died there in 1646.
"Winthrop's Journal, volume II, page 177.
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ceed, which they obeyed." Edward Johnson, in his Wonder- Working Providence of Sions Saviour1, wrote, in 1654, as fol- lows: Salem "was helpful to this her little sister, nourishing her up in her own bosom, till she came of age, being beneficial to her besides, in giving her a good portion of Land; . is very well watered, . the people live altogether upon hus-
bandry . . yet are they no great company, they were some good space of time there before they gathered into a Church- body, the godly and reverend Mr. John Fisk went thither with them, at first setting down as a planter among them, yet withal he became helpful in preaching the Word unto them when they were but a few in number, they afterward called him to the office of a Pastor."
The earliest town records of Wenham are practically lost. As far as town officers are concerned, William Fiske is the only one known at first. He was the first town clerk and constable .. He also conducted the ordinary or public house. Joseph Batch- elder was the first representative to the general court.
In preparation for the township, Samuel Smith and John Fiske, on whose land the first meeting house was probably built, each gave ten acres of their land to the new town that it might be divided into house lots, on which the new settlers could build and live, constituting a little hamlet, the center of which was where the public buildings now stand. The land was divided apparently into two-acre lots. The first of the town records is devoted to this. It reads as follows :-
The 2 day of ye first month 1642.
There is giuen vnto Wenham Twenty acres of ground being laid out of eyther side of ye meeting house. Ten acres giuen by Mr Smith out of his fearme & laid out by him begining wth the bounds at ye vpper end of Phinehas Fiske Lott & soe to ye swampe; & the other Ten acres giuen by MT John ffiske being laid out Joyneing to it on ye other sª of ye meeting house :
It is ordered & Agreed vpon at this o' meetinge yt such as haue any ground graunted of that weh is giuen to ye Towne weh lyes about ye meetinge house, such shall Come & liue vpon it themselues, & if not to lay it downe to ye plantation, & if any shall build vpon it &c. & after remoue themselues & make sale of the same it is ordered that the Plantation shall haue the first pfare & giue there Answere in a short time before they make sale of it to any other.
12 Day of ye 3mº: 1643.
There is graunted Two Acres of Ground by ye Meeting house to M' Hubbard for ye easemt of his family vpon ye Conditions speci- fied in ye former Order.
1Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour, page 189.
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4 Day of ye 10mo : 1643.
Esdras Read is graunted Two Acres by ye meeting house, accord- ing to ye fformer ordered specifyed
The 23 Day of ye 4™º: 1644
Richard Goldsmith haue two Acres Graunted by the meeting house to dispose of weh way he please.
Christopher Yongs haue Two acres graunted by ye meeting house according to ye order made ye 2 day of ye Imº : 1642.
The division line between Salem and Wenham was not agreed upon until 1667. At first the natural division was where no one lived, and that is, it ran through the woods west of the pond and east of it through meadow land. The agreement made in 1667 as follows :-
A true Record of an agrement of a boundary betwene Salem & wenham the 29 Imo. 1667.
we whose names are here underwritten being met together to agree of bounds betwene Salem & wenham Eastward from ye great pond doe determine as followeth yt ye brook which Cumeth out of ye great pond shall be ye bounds betweene ye towns aforesaid untill it meeteth with that brook which cometh from longham & so taking ye brook for the bounds to the eastward sid of richard Dodges farme Leaving out the medow to Salem & exempting them from all rates & dues & demands to wenham & from thence by ye edge of ye meadow called longham1 to ye uper end of sd medow at turnup swamp: to ye east end of the pond, our neibours who have medow in longham buting upon our comon shall have trees to fence their medow & liberty for carting.
CHARLES GOTT RICHARD KEMBALL
THOMAS FFISK
mark WILLIAM X DIXSIE SAMUELL CORNING JOHN RAYMENT HUMPHREY WOODBERRY JOHN WEST W his mark IOHN PATCH 2 his mark
Some years after Beverly was set off from Salem, the line between Beverly and Wenham was settled practically as it is now. Wenham's territory thus became considerably larger than it was at first.
1The first reference, in 1656, to Longham is that of a place called long ham. It is possible that the name arose from the original shape of the territory of the town of Wenham, which was that of an elongated ham. In this agreement it is not applied to the brook, but to "ye meadow called longham." As ham means a village or town in the Saxon language, long ham applies, certainly, to a town of this great length, but very narrow.
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MONSIEUR CHARLES DE LA TOUR.
T a meeting of the seven men, Jan. 8, 1643-4, there was granted to Thomas Goldsmith1 all the waste land be- tween the water side and his ten-acre lot on the north side, reserving the way; and to John Simonds all the waste land between the lots of Hugh Laskine and Stukly Wesket and the water side, excepting the high- way. There were also granted to William Lord four acres of land, "as now laid out," near the swamp in the South field, ad- joining to the three acres Mr. Friend bought of Richard Graves ; to Michael Sallows a ten-acre lot in the place formerly John Abys; and to Thomas Gardner a parcel of land to set a house upon near the old mill on the ten-acre lot side. Francis Johnson was given authority to exchange six or seven acres of his farm upon the plains, and provided that there should be a convenient cart way to the farm. At this meeting, Joseph, son of George Harris, deceased, was apprenticed to John Thorndike and George Harris, aged about eight years, to Thomas Goldsmith.
At their meeting, February 5th, it was ordered that the lots that are laid out next to Goodman Leech's, at the great hill, as namely, Jacob Barney's and Richard Ingersoll's, should all deter- mine with a straight line, at the top of the hill at the marked tree where Laurence Leech's lot ends. There was also granted to Ralph Fogg the swamp next to William Lord's ground, and to John Endecott the land at the head of the river between Mr. Read's and Mr. Endecott's farm, excepting the salt marsh granted to Mr. Read, and being the land which was granted to Richard Norman and others, whose proprieties Mr. Endecott had bought. It was ordered that Margaret Page be sent to the jail in Boston as a lazy, idle and loitering person, where she might be set at
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