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The Rev. John+ Wight, born in Dedham, April 22, 1699, died May 8, 1753. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1721. On July 3, 1728, he married Mary Pond, of Ded- ham, who was born November 22, 1706, and dlied June 19, 1735. She was a daughter of Jabez and Mary (Gay) Pond. Her grandfather, Daniel Pond, of Dedham, died February 4, 1697-8. His wife, Abigail Shepard, died July 5, 1661. She was a daughter of Edward Shep- ard, who was born in Cambridge, England, and died in Dedham, Mass. Jabez Pond, born June 6, 1667, died November 6, 1749. On January 11, 1698-9, he married Mary Gay, who was born March 30, 1677, in Dedham, and died July 11, 1731. She was a daughter of Nathaniel Gay, who was a son of John and Joanna Gay. Nathaniel Gay, born January 11, 1643, died in Dedham, February 20, 1712. His wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Starr, died in the same year. Her father, John Starr, was a son of Dr. Comfort Starr, who, with his wife Elizabeth, came from England, and settled in Boston, Mass., where the Doctor's death oc- curred January 2, 1659-60, and his wife's on June 25, 1658. John Starr, born in England,
REDERICK W. WIGHT, of Rockland, son of Hezekiah and Frances (Peirce) Wight, comes of Massachusetts stock, the blood of many of the early families of that State flowing in his veins. On the paternal side he is a descendant in the ninth generation of Thomas Wight, an early settler of Water-{died in Boston, Mass., about 1703. He mar-
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ried Martha Bunker. daughter of George and Judith Bunker, of Charlestown, Mass.
John' Wight, born in Marblehead, Mass., July 15, 1729, married January 6, 1756, Abigail Bowen, daughter of Nathaniel Bowen, of Mar- blehead.
Edward" Wight, born in 1774, probably in Penobscot, Me., died May 26. 1840. In Octo- ber, 1794, he married Hannah Perkins, of Penob- scot. who was born in 1778, and died May 15, 1853. Her father, Daniel Perkins, was a son of John Perkins, and grandson of Jacob Perkins, who came from Ipswich, Mass .. to Maine, and settled in York, where he married Lydia Stover. Daniel Perkins, born in York in 1754, died in Penobscot in 1831. He married in York Abigail Penney, who was of Welsh parent- age.
Edward Wight was born in Penobscot, Me. He died May S, 1885. He married Theodosia Wescott, who was born in Blue Hill. Me., Febru- ary 14, 1801, and died July 22, 1882. She was a daughter of William Wescott. Jr., and grand- daughter of William Wescott, Sr. Her grand- father, a son of Willian Wescott, was born March 10, 1734, in York, Me .: he married, De- cember 29, 1756, Elizabeth Perkins, who was born January 6, 1737. She was a daughter of John Perkins, and grand-daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Stover) Perkins, above mentioned. William Wescott, Jr., born October 24, 1764, died December 14, 1848. His wife, Margaret Haney, who was born December 29, 1769, died June 8, 1852.
Hezekiah8 Wight, born in Penobscot, Me., October 3, 1831, died in Deland. Fla., March 26, 1890. At Rockland, Me., October S, 1854, he married Frances Peirce, who was born Octo- ber 31, 1831, and is yet living. She is a daugh- ter of Joseph Peirce. Her great-grandfather, John Peirce, Sr., emigrating from England to America, settled first in Boston, Mass., whence in 1759 he removed to Fort Point, Me. His wife, Mary James, a native of Warren, Me., died in 1832. She was a daughter of Patrick James. Her grandfather, William James, born in 1689, died October 29, 1770, in Warren, Me., where he had taken up land in 1735. He married Catherine Cunningham. Patrick James, born in 1724, died March 14, 1814: he was married
in King's Chapel, Boston, to Phebe Miller. John Peirce. Jr., whose birth occurred May 17. 1770, was the first child born of white parents at Fort Point, Thomaston, Me. He died July 10, 1850 or 1851. On July 4, 1797, he married Margaret Boyd, who was born in Bristol, Me .. September 5. 1776, and died in Prospect. Me .. in 1853-54. She was a daughter of Joseph and Sally (Fletcher) Boyd, and grand-daughter of James Boyd, who was born in Worcester. Mass., and moved to Bristol, Me., in 1763. Joseph Peirce, son of John, Jr., was born at Prospect Ferry, Me., December 20, 1799, and died August 9, 1853. His wife, Sophia Mellen Moore, whom he married September 29, 1529. was born in Malden, Mass., November 10. 1504 .- and died in Rockland, Me., September 14. 1557. She was a daughter of Joel Moore, and a de- scendant in the sixth generation of John Moore. the immigrant, the line being John1, Jacob.2 Samuel,3 Josiah.+ Joel, Sophia Mellen."
John Moore and his wife Elizabeth resided in Sudbury, Mass. Jacob2 Moore was born in Sudbury, April 26, 1645. On May 29. 1667. he married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Draper) Loker. Samuel3 Moore, born in Sudbury in 1684, died in Framingham. Mass. He married Sarah Haynes, daughter of Peter and Elizabethi (Rice) Haynes, and grand-daugh- ter of Samuel and Elizabeth (King) Rice. Jo- siah+ Moore, born in Framingham, Mass., April 10, 1729, died May 9, 1811. He married. in Marlboro, Mass .. Elizabeth Townsend, who was born about 1738, and died January 21. 1824. Her father, Joseph Townsend, born in 1701. married May 3, 1721, Hannah, daughter of Roger and Elizabeth Bruce, and grand-daughter of John Bruce, who was living in Sudbury in 1672 .. Joel Moore, born in Framingham, July 15, 1768, died April 23, 1859. On May 6, 1795. he married Abigail Bubier, who was born in Marblehead, Mass., October 29, 1770, and died in Rockland, Me., February 5, 1865. She was a daughter of Peter Bubier, and grand-daughter of Captain Christopher Bubier, who was born in 1703, and died in 1786. His wife. Margaret Traviller, who was born in France in 1709, died in Marblehead, Mass., February 2, 1782. Peter Bubier was baptized in Marblehead in 1740. In 1769 he married Abigail Chipman, who was
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born in Salem, Mass., in 1749, and died in Malden, Mass., May 30, 1815.
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Abigail Chipman was a daughter of John Chipman, Esq., of Marblehead, and was a de- scendant of Elder John1 Chipman, who arrived in Boston in 1631, and died in Sandwich, Mass., in 170S. Elder John' Chipman (born near Dor- chester, England, about 1614, son of Thomas Chipman), married in 1646 Hope Howland, daughter of Jolin and Elizabeth (Tilly) How- land, and grand-daughter of John Tilly, all of whom came over on the " Mayflower" in 1620. Deacon Samuel Chipman, born in Barnstable, Mass., in 1661, son of John,' died in 1723. In 1686 he married Sarah Cobb, who was born in Barnstable in 1663, and died in 1743. She was a daughter of Elder Henry1 Cobb and his wife, Sarah Hinckley, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Hinckley, who emigrated from England in 1634, and settled in Plymouth.
The Rev. John3 Chipman (Harvard College, 1711) was born in Barnstable, Mass., in 1691, and died March 23, 1775. He married, first, in 1719, Rebecca Hale, who was born in 1701, and died in 1751. His second wife was Hannah Warren. Rebecca Hale was a descendant of Deacon Robert Hale who came to America in 1630, married Joanna C. Cutter, and settled in Charlestown, Mass. The Rev. John2 Hale, son of Robert,1 was baptized in 1636 in Charlestown, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1657. On December 15, 1664, he married Re- becca, daughter of Henry Byley (or Biley), of Salisbury, Mass. She died April 13, 1683. He married, second, Mrs. Elizabeth Somerby Clark, widow of Nathaniel Clark. Dr. Robert3 Hale, son of the Rev. John2 by his first marriage, was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1668, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1686. He settled as a physician in Salem, Mass. He mar- ried Elizabeth Clark, who was born in Beverly, Mass., in 1684, and died in 1762. Her father, Nathaniel Clark, born in England in 1644, mar- ried at Newbury, Mass., in 1663, Elizabeth Somerby, daughter of Colonel Henry Somerby. She was born in Newbury, Mass., November 1, 1646, and died at Exeter, N.H., March 15, 1716. She survived her husband, and became the second wife of the Rev. John Hale, as mentioned above.
Colonel Henry Somerby, who died in 1652, was a son of Richard Somerby, and grandson of Henry Somerby, of Lincolnshire, England. He married Judith Greenleaf, who was born in England in 1625, and died December 15, 1705. She was a daughter of Captain Edmund Green- leaf, who was baptized in Ipswich, England, January 2, 1574, being a son of John and Mar- garet Greenleaf, and died in Boston, Mass,, in 1671. His wife's maiden name was Sarah Dole.
Judge John+ Chipman, eklest son of the Rev. John,3 was born in Beverly, Mass., October 23, 1722: he died in Falmouth (now Portland, Me.), July 1, 1768. In July, 1744, he married Eliza- beth Brown, who was born in Haverhill, Mass., and died, in 1785, in Sterling, Mass. She was a daughter of the Rev. John Brown, and grand- daughter of Thomas Brown, who married Mrs. Margaret Sherrer Oldham. The Rev. John Brown, a native of Brighton, Mass., married in 1696 Joanna Cotton, daughter of the Rev. Roland Cotton, of Sandwich, Mass. Her father was son of the Rev. John and Joanna (Rossiter) Cotton, of Plymouth, Mass., and grandson of the Rev. John Cotton, Sr., who settled in Boston in 1635, married Mrs. Sarah Storey, and died De- cember 23, 1652. Elizabeth Saltonstall, wife of the Rev. Roland Cotton, was a daughter of Nathaniel Saltonstall. Her father was a grand- son of Sir Richard Saltonstall, of England; and a son of Richard Saltonstall, born in 1610, who married in Ipswich, England, Muriel Gurdon, in 1635 settled in Ipswich, Mass., and died in England in 1694. Nathaniel Saltonstall, a native of Ipswich, Mass., married in 1663 Eliza- beth Ward, daughter of the Rev. John2 Ward and his wife, Alice Edmunds, and a grand- daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, son of the Rev. John Ward, of England.
Hezekiah and Frances (Peirce) Wight be- came the parents of six children, two of whom are living, namely: Frederick W.9 Wight; and Martha Cobb Wight, who was born in Rock- land, Me., January 24, 1871.
Frederick W.9 Wight was born in Rockland, Me., December 28, 1857. On March 6, 1883, he married Izzelle Fifield, who was born in Dexter, Me., a daughter of Gilman and Wealthy (Safford) Fifieldl. Mr. and Mrs. Wight have had three children, namely: Frances Pearl,10
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Bigelow J. Sanborn
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born June 29, 1SS4; and Frederick G.19 and Ralph H.10 (twins), born August 31, 1885. Frederick G. Wight died March 18, 18S6.
IGELOW THATCHER SANBORN, M.D., superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane at Augusta, is one of the best known and most highly reputed medical men in Maine, having occupied his present position for twenty years, his connection with the hospital dating from 1866, when he was appointed first assistant physician, a long and honorable period of ser- vice, requiring ability of an unusual kind, with faithful diligence.
Born in Standish, Cumberland County, Me., July 11, 1839, son of Captain Warren and Jane (Warren) Sanborn, Dr. Sanborn belongs to the old and substantial New England family of this name, whose immigrant progenitors- John and William Sanborne, or Samborne, as the name was spelled for several generations- were carly inhabitants of Hampton, N.H. They were brothers, and it is thought that they came to this country in. 1632 with their maternal grandfather, Rev. Stephen Bachiler, the founder of Hampton, their widowed mother Anne, liis daughter, remaining in England. The historian of that town, however, finds no trace of the Sanborne brothers in Hampton till 1639. A third brother, Stephen Sanborne, is supposed to have returned to England. In 1640 John1 Sanborne, from whom Dr. Bige- low T. Sanborn is lineally descended, was granted land in Hampton. After 1643, owing to the fact that he served for a number of years as Selectman, also on juries and various committees and as a Lieutenant in the militia, his name is frequently mentioned in the records. He was thrice married. His first wife, Mary, daughter of Robert Tuek, of Hampton, was the mother of eleven children.
John,2 born about 1649, also lived at Hamp- ton. He married November 19, 1674, Judith, daughter of Tristram1 Coffin, of Newbury and later of Nantucket, among whose de- scendants are numbered many persons of dis- tinction.
Abner3 Sanborn, born in 1694, the youngest
of ten children, settled at Hampton Falls. He married in 1715 Rachel, daughter of Caleb Shaw. His will, proved in 1780, mentions nine children.
John,4 the fifth child, born in 1723, resided successively at Hampton Falls, N.H., and Falmouth and Standish, Me. His first wife, Lucy, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (James) Sanborn, was the mother of his nine children. She died in 1775, and he married in 1784 Mrs. Betty Pierce.
John," his second son, known as Captain John Sanborn, was born at Hanipton Falls in $1757. He died at Standish, Me., where he had been a resident from early childhood, in October, 1827. His wife. Abigail Jones, of Standish, survived him five years. (The San- born Genealogy, whence these names and dates were taken, states in the appendix, under the heading, "Revolutionary Sanborns," that he was "a pensioner, living in Cumberland County. Me., at. 72, in 1833. Had served in Massa- chusetts line.".
Warren,“ Sanborn, born at Standish in 1802, married in 1822 Jane Warren, daughter of Samuel Warren, of Standish. Born June 22, 1807, she died March 17, 1875. She was the mother of five children: Aravesta D., born in 1830, who married Henry P. Waldron; Me- lintha S., who married John H. Davis; John W. Sauborn, now living in Gorham, Me .; Bigelow Thatcher, whose personal history is given below; and Orville Scott, born in 1841.
Of this household group Bigelow Thatcher was the fourth child and second son. His upbringing on the home farm was conducive to health and the forming of habits of useful- ness. He received his early education in a select school, the town schools of Standish, and at Limington Academy. The study of medi- cine he began in 1863 in the Portland Medi- cal School, completing with distinguished sue- cess the course in the Maine Medical School connected with Bowdoin College, where he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine June 6, 1866. Through the advice of the medical faculty at Bowdoin he was appointed first assistant physician at the State Hospital for the Insane, and on June 16, 1866, entered upon the active duties of that position.
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As a subordinate for seventeen years he so acquitted himself in the discharge of his trusts as to win the confidence of the superintendent, Dr. H. M. Harlow, and the board of managers, and to insure his promotion whenever a vacancy higher up should occur, such places in Maine, happily, not being distributed, as in Western States, if we mistake not, as rewards for politi- cal services. In 1883, Dr. Harlow having been constrained through physical disabilities to tender his resignation, Dr. Sanborn was ap- pointed superintendent. Leave of absence, granted shortly after, enabled him to visit a number of similar asylums and familiarize himself with the latest and most approved methods of management, the results of modern theories of the schools put in practice. The succeeding years have witnessed many im- provements in the Maine Asylum under his skilled supervision. New buildings, wisely con- structed, well adapted to meet the growing needs of the institution, decorative features, as flowers and works of art, appliances for-ree- reation, bear witness to the liberality of the State in caring for the unfortunate inmates and the progressive tendencies of the broad- minded, indefatigable superintendent. One of the newer buildings is named Sanborn Hall. An untiring student, thinker, and writer, Dr. Sanborn has often responded to calls to read papers at meetings of medical societies and to testify as an expert in court in regard to special cases of mental diseases.
He has a valued coworker at the hospital in his accomplished wife, formerly Miss Emma F. Martin, whom he married in 1872.
Dr. and Mrs. Sanborn have an interesting family of children. Maud L., educated at private schools of her native city and of Boston, Mass .; Warren B., educated in the schools of Augusta and at Brown University, and now pursuing a medical course at Tufts College Medical School; Walter M., at present in the Sophomore class of Bowdoin College; and Ray F. Sanborn, a student in the regular academie course of the Augusta High School.
Dr. Sanborn has taken a deep interest in the educational matters of the State, and has contributed many papers to the various medi- cal organizations of which he is a member,
both in and out of the State. Of several of these medical societies he has been the presi- dent.
FREEMAN PATTEN, former Mayor of Gardiner, Kennebec County, was born in this city, June 4, 1846, being a son of Freeman P. and Eliza (Hildreth) Patten.
English records show that Richard Patten in 1119 was living near Chelmsford, Essex County, England, and that his son Richard be- came through marriage the proprietor of Dagen- han Court. A third Richard Patten, some- time Lord High Chancellor, was Bishop of Winchester in the reign of Henry VI. and the founder of Magdalen College, Oxford. John Wilson Patten, son of Thomas Wilson Patten. Esq., of Bank Hall, London, was a member of Parliament and a Colonel in the British army. Thus it will be seen that the family in England was one of high standing. individual members thereof being endowed in large meas- ure with those qualities that command success and lead to honor and distinction.
Some of the English Pattens are said to have migrated in the fifteenth century to Scotland. and thence in 1630 to Ireland. Actor, or Hec- tor, Patten, born in Belfast, Ireland, about 1693. came to America with his brothers William and Robert in 1727 (or, as others say, in 1737). landed in Boston, and soon settled in that part of Saco that is now Old Orchard. Shortly before the Revolution he removed to French- man's Bay, now Sullivan, Me. His son, John.2 born in 1717, married Mary Means, and set- tled in Topsham, Me. He was a Deacon of the church. He died in April, 1795. Some of the descendants of Deacon John" Patten. of Topsham, settled in Bath and some in Bow- doinham, Me. (See Reed's History of Bath.) One of his sons was named Actor.
Freeman P. Patten was born in Bowdoinham. Me., June 2S, 1801, being a son of Aetor Patten (probably the Actor last named above). When a young man he came to Gardiner, where he engaged in the lumber business, both cutting timber and operating a saw-mill for many years, during this time being associated successively with different partners. He died in 1882, after
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a long business career. His wife, Mrs. Eliza Hildreth Patten, who was a native of Topsham, died in 1866.
Freeman Patten, the direct subject of this article, was educated in the public schools of Gardiner and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill. Soon after his graduation from the seminary he began work in a grocery store in Gardiner, where he remained for about three years. He then took Horace Greeley's advice, and went West, finding employment as a con- ductor on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and afterward on the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul Railroad. Mr. Patten's railroad experience lasted about twelve years. In the carly eighties he went to Clinton County, Missouri, and began the raising of high-grade Hereford cattle, purchasing in 1SS1 a large stock farm near Kansas City. In this enterprise he proved very successful, and still continues the business, though no longer giving it his full personal supervision. In conjunction with his partner, Mr. Cornish, under the name of Cornish & Patten, he owns at Osborn, Mo., one of the finest stock farms in the Mississippi valley. This is known as Pleasant Stoek Farm, and contains four hundred aeres, and upon it have been bred some of the finest Hereford cattle in the country. At their Kansas City, Mo., sale at auction in 1899 of thirty head, one bull calf thirteen months old sold for five hun- dred dollars; one eleven months old, for four hundred dollars; and another ten months old, for three hundred dollars. At present his herd contains about one hundred and fifty Hereford thoroughbreds.
While carrying on this business, Mr. Patten was for several years connected with certain Western railroads. In 1892 he returned to his native town of Gardiner, where he has since resided. In the same year he married Miss Susan Mitchell, a daughter of the late John S. Mitchell, of Gardiner, Me.
Mr. Patten is a director of the Oakland Na- tional Bank of Gardiner, and is also engaged in the real estate business here. From early manhood he has been an ardent Republican in politics. Though never an office seeker, he was elected in 1898 to the City Council, in which he served one year. In March, 1899, his friends
nominated him for Mayor of Gardiner: and he was unanimously elected. His administra- tion of two years showed from the start that he was amply possessed of the practical wis- dom, integrity, and general capability that might have been expected from his successful busi- ness career; and the citizens of Gardiner were not long in finding that they had for their Mayor a man not only of first-rate administra- tive capacity, but also of great public spiri: and personal generosity. One of the new in- dustries in Gardiner was a modern shoe fac- tory, giving employment to a large number of people. The volume of its business had so increased that a large addition to the plant had become necessary. Mayor Patten advanced twelve hundred dollars, and from among his friends secured twenty-four hundred dollars more, to complete the additions to the factory. As a slight recognition of his action he was made president of the Shoe Factory Associa- tion, and since the completion of the addition. the concern has been on the high road to sue- cess. In 1896 Mr. Patten built the Patter Block in Gardiner, an imposing building. in which, besides stores and offices, is the post- office, conveniently fitted up by him and a credit to the city. Mr. Patten is a Free Mason, belonging to Lodge No. 317, Osborn, Mo.
G ON. JOSEPH HOMAN MANLEY. of Augusta, Me., Speaker of the House in the State Legislature of 1901. is a na- tive of Bangor, his birth having oc- curred October 13, 1842, while his parents. James Sullivan and Caroline G. (Sewall) Manley. were temporarily residing in that city. His paternal grandfather, Amasa Manley, born in 170. in Royalston, Mass., resided for a number of years. in the early part of the nineteenth century. in Putney, Vt., where he was a jeweler. In 1519 he removed to Maine, and, settling first at Norridge- wock, engaged somewhat extensively and disas- trously in land speculation. Later he removed to a farm in Augusta, where he spent his remain- ing years.
He was a son of Jesse Manley, who was married at Stoughton, Mass., February 15, 1776, to Eunice Holmes, of that town, whose birth took place Sep-
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tember 3, 1755. She was a daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah Holmes. As shown by the records of Stoughton, Mass., Jesse Manley at the time of his marriage was of Royalston, Mass. The mar- riage at Easton, November 27, 1739, of John Manley, of Easton, and Merey Smith, of Stough- ton, is also on record. Jesse Manley belonged to the Easton family of this surname, founded by William Manley, Sr., and may have been a son of John and Merey. William Manley, Sr., was an inhabitant of Easton as early as 1694, having removed from Weymouth. He was the ancestor of all the Manleys of that section. His three sons -William, Jr., born in Weymouth in 1679; Thomas, born in 1680; and Nathaniel-all settled in Easton. Several of the Easton Manleys served as soldiers in the colonial wars and also in the Revolution.
Amasa Manley married in 1806 Lydia French, daughter of Moses French, Jr. Their fifth child, James Sullivan Manley, father of Joseph H. Man- ley, named for a prominent public official of Maine and Massachusetts, Governor of the latter State in 1807 and 1808, was born in Norridgewoek, June 16, 1816. He was fitted for college; but, owing to his father's financial losses, he early turned his attention to business instead of entering Bowdoin, as he had intended. After his marriage, Noven- ber 27, 1839, he resided in Augusta, where he en- gaged in the newspaper business, editing and publishing, in company with Joseph A. Homan, first, the Gospel Banner, a religious weekly, and later on the Maine Farmer, an agricultural paper. He died December 9, 1861.
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His wife, Caroline Gill Sewall Manley, was born in Augusta, April 12, 1816, the eldest daughter of Charles and Sophia (Gill) Sewall. Her father, born in 1790, was the eldest son of General Henry Sewall, of Augusta, and his first wife, Tabitha Sewall, who was his cousin. General Henry Sewall entered the American army at the beginning of the Revolution as a Corporal. He continued in service to the end of the war, rising to the rank of Major, and later he became Major-general of the Maine militia. For thirty-two years he was town clerk of Hallowell and Augusta, seventeen years register of deeds, and from 1789 to 1818 clerk of the District Court of Maine. General Sewall died in 1845, aged ninety-three years. Ile was the son of Henry5 Sewall, of York, Me.,
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