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in 1723 became under a pretence its proprietor. In 1769 it was the office of . Edes and Gill, prominent printers of their day. 37. John Briggs, h. His will, 1666, is in N. E. Hist and Geneal. Reg., July, 1861, p 252. 38. Thomas Hawkins, h. ; sold in 1645 to Theodore Atkinson, a felt-maker. 39. Henry Dunster, President of Harvard Col- lege, h. 40. John Cogan, h. and shop. Henry Dungtr Cogan's will (given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan, 1855, p. 35; also see 1877, p. 106) speaks of his man- sion-house and the h. adjoining (occupied by Goodman Bomstead), and two shops adjoining. One third of the property descended to his widow Martha, who had survived
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Governor Winthrop as his fourth wife. She was a sister of Increase Nowell of Charles- town, and widow, when Winthrop married her, of Thomas Coitmore, of the same town. Joseph Rocke married Elizabeth, daughter of Cogan.
Martha Cogan
Joseph Rufe
41, 42. Rev. John Wilson, h., 2 g., y., and barn, bounding south on Wilson's Lane, now widened and called Devonshire Street. Wilson's will is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct. 1862, p. 343. In 1641 he sold 41 to Sergeant John Davies the joiner, and provided that he should not be John wil for "annoyed with any stincks ; " and Davies in 1646 sold to Edmund Jackson, from whom it passed to Hezekiah Usher, the merchant of a later day, who had removed from Cambridge to Boston in 1646. Usher's inven- tory mentions a dwelling-house, garden, land, and "inward warehouse," with leantos at the dock, - £700 ; the dwelling- house that John Usher lives in, and " outward warehouse " by the town dock. - £570. His descendants are traced in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1869, p. 410.
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43. Anthony Stoddard, linendraper, who in 1644 was suffered to open his "shop window board " two feet into the street, and who bounded east on the " new street " (Ex- change Street). In 1644 he sold the northerly part, fronting on the new street, to James Mattock the Anthony Stoddard cooper, and in the same year this portion passed suc-
cessively to John Synderland and to John Parker the carpenter. In 1646, Stoddard, John Leverett joining with him, sold the southerly part to Henry Shrimpton, brazier. His will, Henry Shrimpton 1666, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan. 1861, p. 76. It was on this corner that the Royal Exchange Tavern stood at a later day. Luke Vardy kept it in 1727, and he was succeeded in 1747 by Robert Stone, and in his time it was a resort of the British officers stationed in the town. It was in this house, in 1728, that the altercation began which ended in the first duel fought in Boston, when Benjamin Woodbridge was killed by Henry Phillips. See Shurtleff 's Boston,
p. 222, and Mr. Scudder's chapter in this volume.
Luke Váddy
Robert Sons
44. Valentine Hill; sold to William Davies, and he in 1645 to Anthony Stoddard. This was the site of the States Arms Tavern, and just before the Revolution the royal Custom-house was here, Bartholomew Green living in the chambers over it. 45. William Davies, Jr., h.
46. William Pierce, along the line of the present 'Change Avenue. (See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1878, p. 319.) On the site forming the lower corner of this avenue, after the middle of the next century, John Mein kept the London Bookstore, the most consider- able in the town ; and here he started the earliest circulating library. Opposite the north- erly end of this estate, where it abutted on the dock, on land reclaimed from the tide, Peter Faneuil built, in 1742, the famous hall, whose history is told in a chapter of the present volume.
47. William Aspinwall, h .; sold to Valentine Hill, who conveyed it to David Sellick in 1641, when it had a barber's shop adjacent to the house. Sellick died in 1654. 48. Valen- tine Hill ; sold in 1641 to Mary Friend ; later owned by James Oliver.
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49. Edward Tyng, h., brewhouse, warehouse. with wharf in front, which he sold in 1651 to James Everill, describing it as "my wharf against the end of the great street," and along which on the south went the "town's way down upon the flats," - which corre- sponds to the present State Street below Merchants Row; and this street was then
Edward Gyny
Thomas Donner. bonner.
designated as " Mr. Hill's highway twenty feet broad," which followed the shore of the Cove to the present Dock Square. Somewhere on the water front of Tyng's estate there were wharves occupied by Thomas Venner,1 and another that Henry Webb was allowed
1 He is styled a wine-cooper, and was later Fifth-Monarchy preacher, and engaged in an of Salem. Returning to England, he became a insurrection; was executed in 1661.
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"to enjoy " in 1647, having bought it of Tyng. In the next century the rich Huguenot merchant, Andrew Faneuil, had his warehouse where Tyng's wharf stood, the present lower corner of Merchants Row. This was in 1732; and later, in 1743, Richard Smith kept here the Admiral Vernon Tavern. In 1750 there seems to have been a change, for in the State Archives there is a peti- Richard Smith tion from Smith to be licensed to keep the Crown Coffee House "at the lower end of King Street," which had been a licensed house for nearly forty years. At the same date James Gooch, Jr., took possession of the " Vernon's Head," as his petition calls it. Smith's predecessor in the "Crown " was widow Anna Swords, and the estate was then owned by Governor Belcher. Robert Shelcock kept it in 1751. It stood at the lower corner of Chatham Row, projecting into the street. It was the first house on Long Wharf, which, after the flats had been filled in below Merchants Row, was projected by Oliver Noyes and others in 1707. Noyes was a selectman and a citizen of prominence ;
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and the town, within a year or two, adopted his plan to build a pier to low-water mark. There is among the papers in the City Clerk's office the original agreement, dated 1709, of sundry merchants for carrying out this project, from which the annexed signatures are taken. In June, 1734, a peti- tion of the proprietors of Anthony, Stoddard the wharf to be allowed to extend it from ten to four- teen feet is signed by James Allen, Samuel Sewall, Thomas Fitch, Jacob Wendell, Andrew Faneuil, William Blin, John Georgen John Perryfh Ctiver evoyes. Daniel Chier~ James Barnes- John Gerrish, James Bowdoin, In? and Thomas Hill, Andrew and Peter Oliver, Habijah Savage and S. Boutineau. Within the next few years a continuous range of warehouses extended down the wharf, for they are delineated in the original sketch of the water front as made by Bonner in 1714, to be mentioned later. Near the "Crown" were the counting-house and warehouse of a noted mercantile firm of the early part of the last century, - Samuel and Cornelius Waldo, - later on Merchants Row, near the Swing Bridge. See a note on the family in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1864, p. 176.
50. Valentine Hill; sold in 1645 to Samuel Cole, who had before this kept a house of entertainment somewhere along the water front in this vicinity. Cole's will, 1666, is given Samuele Dola in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1861, p. 249. This is, too, the nearest point on the original shore to the spot where, in the provincial times, on land reclaimed from the dock, and near the head of the present South Market Street, John Hancock kept store, and by advertisement called upon debtors to the estate of his late uncle, the Hon. Thomas Hancock, to make payment.
51. Isaac Grosse, husbandman, h. 52. Edward Bendall, stone h. with warehouse adjoining. Bendall had been allowed in 1637 to establish from this point a ferry to
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Noddle's Island, and to the ships riding before the town. His lot was just west of 'Change Avenue. 53. George Foxcroft. 54. Robert Nash, butcher, h., g., and outhouses, in- cluding his slaughter-house, which occasioned the town's men more or less trouble from the careless disposition which Nash made of his garbage. He was warned not to kill beasts in the street in 1647. 55. William Franklin, h.
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56. Major Edward Gibbons, h., g., and "housings," including two shops, one occupied by John Newgate, hatter, and the other by Thomas Savage the tailor, Er: gibonot DPilliam Till, better known from his military honors. 57. William Corser, h., which seems to be the lot afterwards occupied by William Tilley, whose wife Alice,
under power from her husband, conveyed it in 1649 to Anthony Stoddard. 58. Valentine Hill, h ; sold to Robert Turner, shoemaker, in 1644. Turner's will is dated 1651. (See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1850, p. 285.) 59. Thomas Buttolph, h. and g. Buttolph's will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1862, p. 159, leaving to his wife Anna his h., yards, stable, barn, and other housing, and after her to his son Thomas. This he calls his " new house." His old house he leaves to Thomas till his mother dies ; then to his son John.
Thomas Butto Bon John Bullolph
60. William Balston, h .; sold August, 1638, when it consisted of h., y., g., and close "back side of Mr. Coddington," to Thomas Cornell or Cornwell ; who sold to Edward Tyng, 1643 ; and he to Christopher Stanley. This one of the three Balston settlers left no male issue. Whitmore, Sewall Papers, ii. 130, 186, corrects Savage in an account of these Balston settlers.
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61. Richard Bellingham, the resi- dence of the Governor probably before he built the house on Cotton Hill. In 1644 he compounded with the town by accepting a piece of marsh on the other side of the dock in lieu of the waste ground before this house. Hereabout, fronting on Dock Square, stood a landmark known in the early part of the next century as Colson's Stone House.
62. Captain William Tyng, h., g., close, great yard, and little yard before the hall window. His inventory is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1876, p. 432. A part of this lot. after Captain Tyng's death, Jan. 18, 1652-53, fell to Elizabeth, his daughter, wife of Thomas Brattle, who
Tho Brattle
died May 10, 1684, when it fell for the most part to his son Thomas Brattle! (Sewall Papers, i. 202 ) Subsequently, in 1694, a part of the estate passed to Mr. Mumford, who afterwards conveyed it to the Quakers for a meeting-house. (Shurtleff, Desc. of Boston, p. 229) On the rear of this lot, after passages had been opened across it, the first wooden
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house of the "Manifesto Church" was erected in 1699, and stood through the provincial period. A part of this lot was conveyed by Brattle to John Wing, and by him to Eliakim Hutchinson. See N. E. Hist. and Gencal. Reg., 1880, p. 43.
63. Hugh Gunnison, vintner, h. He later removed to Kittery. In 1650 Gunnison's, or Gullison's, house is called " The King's Arms," and the estate included a brew-house, barns, stables, etc. ; and in 1651 he and his wife Sarah Hugh. GunJon. conveyed it, according to an inventory printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1880, p. 42, to Henry Shrimpton and others ; and according to Mr. Hassam, when Shrimp- ton made his will in 1666 he called it the "States Arms ;" and when Eliakim Hutchinson became Shrimpton's son-in-law, two years later, it is described as " facing to the head of the dock, and heretofore called the King's Armes." The estate passed next, 1715-19, to William Hutchinson, the son, and in 1721 to Eliakim Hutchinson, the grandson, a loyalist.
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1 This sketch is based on a plan preserved in the City Hall, and of which a copy made by the late W. G. Brooks is in the Cabinet of the Historical Society. The figures stand for the following names and sites: I, Hutchinson ; 2, Billings ; 3, Randall ; 4, Harvard ; 5, Hannas ; 6, Checkley; 7, Jackson ; 8, Rand ; 9, Rawson ; 10, Right; 11, W. Coffin; 12, Millar; 13, J. Tyler ; 14, Tyler ; 15, Hancock; 16, Boyce ; 17, Pemberton; 18, Brooks; 19, Pitts; 20, Watch- house ; 21, Jackson ; 22, Abbott ; 23, Bromfield;
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64. George Burden, a shoemaker, h. There was a wharf opposite his house in 1641, when he had permission to place a vessel at the head of it in which to water his leather. Burden's will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1854, p. 278 ; and see 1880, p. 44, for a note of the descent of this lot. A way round the north side of the cove from this lot to John Lowe's (93) was laid out definitely in 1642. When the town, in 1649, sold the reversion till 1726 of the dock to James Everill, on his paying an annual £6 16s. Iod. " to the school's use," it was then ordered that all the land at the head of the cove " round about by John Glover's (65), George Burden's (64), Hugh Gun- nison's (63), Captain William Tinge's (62), William Franklin's (55), Robert Nashe's (54), and eight foot to the eastward of it is highway ; as alsoe from the eastward sid of the eight foot, and round about bye the corner of Edward Bendall's brick howse (52), and so by Samuel Cole's howse (50), as alsoe to Edward Ting's wharfe (49), shall goe a high way of twentye foote in breadth." This head of the dock was the "common landing place " as . early as 1634, when there was a bridge or pier here.
65. John Glover, h. By will, 1653, he left half his house nearest Mr. Webb's to his wife, and half to his son Habakkuk, with half his tan-yard adjacent ; also to this son half his house next Goodman Hudson's. Another son, John, who had graduated at Harvard
John Claus Babalfuk Flowers Jorn Glower
in 1651, continued to live with the mother. Becoming a merchant, he moved to Swansea ; and returning to Boston in 1690, lived and died (1696) on Summer Street, and lies buried in the Granary Burying-ground. Glover Memorials, p. 149; Sibley, Harvard Graduates, p. 297.
66. William Hudson, Jr., h., g., and brewhouse. This was known as the " Castle Tavern," and Hudson and his wife Anne conveyed it in 1674 to John Wing, who in 1687 "set a room in his house for a man to show tricks in ; " and Sewall records, amusingly, how he went to labor with Wing and convince him of its sinfulness, ending his account : "Sung the 90'h Ps. from the 12th v. to the end. Broke up." (Sewall Papers, i. 196.) In 1694 it is called the "George Tavern." Mr. John T. Hassam traces the subsequent history of this estate in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1879, p. 400.
67. Samuel Greames, h. 68. Sarah Knight, h. 69. Jeremy Houtchin. 70. Francis Dowse. 71. George Burden. West of Burden, Anne Hunne, widow of George Hunne. had a lot. The will of Hunne, 1640, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan. 1853, P. 31.
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72, 73. Thomas Makepeace. This was perhaps the house John Underhill surrendered in 1639 to Thomas Makepeace of Dorchester, whose will, 1666, is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal.
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Reg., October, 1861, p. 323. It was the corner lot (No. 72), on which a well-known Boston merchant, William Tailer, lived, -the same who committed suicide July 12, 1682. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., vii. 56.) His wife was Rebecca, a daughter of Israel Stoughton of Dorchester, and it was with her in this house that Andros is supposed to have taken up his abode when he came to Boston in 1686. The son, William Tailer of Dorchester, became Lieut .- Governor, and rented this house to Edward Lyde, who in 1701-2 bought the property. Sewall Papers, i. 163, 202 ; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1863, p. 239; July, 1864, p. 289.
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74. George Bates, in the rear of Anne Hunne. The will of John Endicott (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1862, p. 333), leaving his property to his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremy Houtchin (E. had no children), mentions his house as "joyning to George Bates on the west."
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75. John Leverett and Henry Pease had lots here. The highway adjoining, the present Portland Street, seems to be the twenty-five foot passage which Henry Pease agreed to " fence out through his lands against the cove, near his dwelling, unto the cross high way by our brother James Everill's," 1639-40. It was on this lot, where now stands the American House, that Joseph Warren in 1764 took up his abode, and began the practice of medicine. He lived then in a house in which Joseph Green, a prominent merchant of his day - not to be confounded with Joseph Green the wit-died, July 1, 1765. Green had bought of Governor Belcher, in 1734, the large house on this lot for £3,600. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., vi. 275.) Dr. Samuel A. Green owns his portrait. 76-86 ; see Plan A, I, etc.
87. James Everill, a shoemaker, h. and large lot, embracing nearly the whole front on Hanover Street, out of which he sold lots to various people. William Tyng acquired a part on Elm Street ; and along Samed Euritos Hanover Street, passing north, were the lots of Francis Dowse, Evan Thomas, a vintner (sold to James Bill), William Corser (sold to John Juan Thomas Chamberlyn), Robert Porter, John Stevenson, and William Hayward. The corner lot on Hanover and Union streets passed to Henry Maudesley about 1653 ; and Shurtleff, Desc. of Boston, p. 628, has traced the title down, until it became the famous " Blue Ball," the home of Franklin's father. It is now cut off by the extension of Washington Street. 88. Edmund Dennis, a small lot. 89-96; see Plan A, 77, 80-86.
PLAN C. 1-7; see Plan D, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16. On the northerly portion of No. 7 the White Horse Tavern stood in the next century. It was kept by Joseph Mor- ton in 1760. 8. Jacob Leger, h. and g. ; bought of Richard Brackett, 1638. Leger's signature here given is from his will, 1662.
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9. William Hudson, Jr., h. and g. ; sold to Richard Carter, a carpenter, in 1639. This lot nearly corresponds to the site of the Lamb Tavern, which stood here before the middle of the last century. Drake says that Colonel Doty was the host in 1760. Adjoin- ing it on the north was the Lion Tavern.
10, 11. Thomas Oliver, h. and g. ; sold in 1645 to Nicholas Shapley. Oliver's will is in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1854, p. 351. This lot seems to have been sold in 1647 by Francis Smith to William Chamberlin; and was later sold to Richard Wilson. Opposite the rear of this lot, on the Common, now the line of Mason Street, the town built in 1717 (it is shown on Bonner's map) the South Writing School. It is de- scribed then as " adjoining to Cornell's lot, over against Mr. Wainwright's."
12. Henry Webb. This lot, about I a., was granted by William Parsons to Richard Carter in 1646. 13. George Burden, g. 14. James Johnson, g. These lots, on the line of the present Mason Street, were granted in 1638 to James Johnson, John Davis,
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Swan of a later day, and still later the famous Washington Gardens of the early part of this century.
15. John Leverett, who sold the south part in 1664 to one Wyard, and he in 1666 to John Wampus, an Indian. (Gleaner Article, No. 6.) 16. Robert Wing, h., " bothi old and new built ;" sold in 1648 to Thomas Painter. He died in 1651. See his will in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., January, 1850, P. 54.
17. Ralph Mason, h. and g .; mortgaged to Matthew Cradock, of London, in 1638, for £17; sold to Thomas Painter. Painter had liberty to sell a house to Ephraim Hunt in 1650. Mason made his mark to his will in 1672. 18. Thomas Clark, h. and g. 19. Mr. Flint, h. and g. 20. Anthony Harker, h. and g .; sold to Isaac Vergoose in 1659, whose
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Isaac Pergoose wife was that " Mother Goose " who, as is claimed, sung years afterwards the famous rhymes to a grand-child, the son of Fleet the printer, who collected the scraps and published them in 1719, - the precursor of many editions since. (See W. A. Wheeler, Noted Names of Fiction, 252 ; and his introduction to an edition of Mother Goose published in New York, 1870: also, N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1873, pp. 144, 311 ; and Sewall Papers, i. 108.) The claim rests on no very secure foundation.
21. Mr. Flint, h. and g. 22. Robert Blott, h. and g. His will is given in N. E. Hist and Geneal. Reg., January, 1861, p. 73. 23. Granted to Richard Sherman's wife in 1637, when Stephen Kinsley had a house plot near by; and Sherman in 1647 sold a half acre to Francis Smith, who the same year deeded two acres, including land bought of Edmund Jacklin. This corner was later owned by Captain Edward Wyllys, and was bought of his heirs by Colonel Vetch in 1712, who in 1713-14 sold it to Captain Thomas Steel. (Sewall Papers, iii. 10.) It was later owned by Thomas Oxnard, the progenitor of the family of that name ;
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FRANCIS SMITH. and at his death, in 1754, it was valued at £1,200. (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1872, p. 4.) 24. Daniel Maud the school-master ; granted in 1637; sold to Edmund Jacklin in 1643. Here at a later day was the shop of the well-known London coach-maker, Major Adino Paddock, - the same who planted, about 1762, before the Granary Burial-ground, the elms which not long since were cut down. The name of the Burial ground was derived from the public granary, which, in 1737, was built on the opposite side of the street where Park-Street Church now stands. The keeper of this granary was for a long time Francis Willoughby. This part of Tremont Street was called " Long Acre " in the provincial times. On a part of this lot, too, was built the Grand Willoughby manufacturing house which formed the east corner of what is now Hamilton Place, and was erected by the Province to encourage spinning and kindred occupations. It dis- appeared in 1806. 25. Richard Cooke, g .; sold to Edmund Jacklin; who in 1647 sold to Francis Smith ; he to Amos Richardson the same year; and later it was owned by Anthony Stoddard, the rich linen-draper.
26. See 32. 27. Jane, widow of Richard Parker, h. and g .; and, intending to marry, she deeded it, in 1646, to her children, - Margaret, John, Thomas, and Noah. 28. William to min Farklono Townsend, h. and g. 29. Edmund Jacklin, a glazier, h. and g .; sold in 1646 to Nicholas Busbie, a worsted weaver. Busbie's will. 1657 (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1854, p. 279), mentions his new dwelling-house. with garden, which he gives to his wife, and after her to his son Abraham. He divided his books, - "phisicke bookes " to son John, and "bookes of divinity or history" to Abraham ; and his "weaving tooles as the two loomes, the one to John Busby in case he come over to New England, or else to William Nickerson the same."
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30. Edmund Dennis, h. and g. 31. Ephraim Pope, h. and g. 32. Extending to 26, about on the line of Bromfield Street, Richard Fair- banks, g .; later owned by William Davis the apothecary. Fairbanks, however, retained a lot in the rear of those on School Street. Wil- liam Aspinwall owned at one time from street to street, and he sold h., g., orchard, and close in 1652 to his son-in-law, John Angier, then making two acres. Another house and outbuildings he sold, in 1652, to Sampson Shoare; and he to Theodore Atkinson, who had for- merly been a servant to John New- gate the hatter. Atkinson sold to Edward Rawson, the Colonial Sec- retary. The street now known as Bromfield Street was long called Rawson's Lane, but became later known as Bromfield's Lane, after a distinguished merchant of the pro- vincial period, - Edward Bromfield, -who lived on the southerly side, about half-way up, where later the Bromfield House stood. (This site was afterwards occupied by the Indian Queen Tavern.) Mr. Brom- field had settled in Boston in 1675, and died in 1734. His family is traced in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., October, 1871, p. 330. 33. Thomas Grubb, h. and g.
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