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(II) Richard, son of John and Mary (Loomis) Skinner, was born in 1646. The name of his wife is not given. He had : John, Richard and Ebenezer.
(III) Richard (2), second son of Richard (1) Skinner, married Hannah Pratt, Novem- ber 24, 1708, and resided in Colchester. Their children were: Richard and Hannah.
(IV) Richard (3), son of Richard (2) and Hannah (Pratt) Skinner, was born in Col- chester, in 1706, died January 2, 1790, in Westchester. He married, February 24, 1736- 39, Patience Rowley, who died August 22, 1784. Children: Richard (died young), Abi- gail, Deborah, Patience, Richard, Abigail, John, Stephen, Patience and Israel.
(V) Stephen, fourth son of Richard (3) and Patience (Rowley) Skinner, was born March 18, 1753, and was baptized April I, 1753. He married (first) October 17, 1775, Mary Foote, who died April 14, 1785; (sec- ond) April 27, 1786, Mary Chamberlain, and resided in Westchester. Children : Mary, Stephen, Alfred, Amasa, Wealthy, David, Sophia and Justin.
(VI) Justin, son of Stephen and Mary (Chamberlain ) Skinner, was born December 29, 1790, died in Jonesport, Maine, 1851. He was a seafarer engaged in the coasting trade, and is supposed to have settled in Maine. He married Rachel Cummings, of Jonesport, born about 1818, daughter of Samuel and
(White) Skinner. Children: I. Elizabeth, married George W. Driscoll; one child, Julia. 2. Nancy, married Moses Leighton ; one child, Melville L. 3. Austin R., mentioned below. 4. William D., married Mary Church ; chil- dren : Nathaniel, Austin, William, Belle, Liz- zie, Emma, Hannah and Carrie.
(VII) Austin Ralph, the elder of the two sons of Justin Skinner, was born in Jones- port, Washington county, Maine, May 24, 1838. At thirteen years of age he went to sea as a cabin-boy. When opportunity offered, he assisted the carpenter and learned ship-car- pentry. He sailed three years before the mast, was then made second and later first mate. During the civil war he was engaged in carry- ing coal from Philadelphia to Pensacola. In 1865 he was in command of his own vessel,
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and for some time was engaged in coasting. He took command of a merchantman sailing between American and European ports and continued till 1888. He then abandoned the sea and resumed work as a ship-carpenter. In the long period he followed the sea many ad- ventures befell him, and being a good story- teller, the tales of life on sea and shore in which he often indulges have entertained his friends on many occasions. He is a member of various secret fraternal orders. He is a member of Portland Lodge, F. and A. M., which he joined in 1866; Bayard Lodge, No. 44, K. of P., Elizabeth City Lodge, I. O. O. F .; Masconoma Lodge, Improved Order of Red Men, of which he is a charter member and a past sachem ; and the Golden Cross. In political affiliation he is a Republican, and in religious faith a Universalist. Austin R. Skin- ner married Carrie Emma, eldest daughter of Hiram and Frances (Romell) Tucker, of Jonesport. Children, six of whom lived to maturity : 1. Carrie E. L., born June 25, 1865, married Frank R. Jones, of Lubec ; children : Frank Harold, Charles Green and Clara Mae. 2. Edmund Henley, September 10, 1867, mar- ried Isabel Spear ; died February 24, 1896. 3. Lizzie Elva, December 2, 1869, married N. D. WV. Schoonmaker; children: N. D. W., Will- iam Van Buren and Ralph Erwin. 4. William A., mentioned below. 5. Andrew York, Sep- tember 15, 1874, married Alice Grimstitch. 6. Bertha Willis, September 24, 1877, died May 5, 1901. 7. Lottie Helen, March 28, 1882. 8. Julia Dyer, February 8, 1885.
(VIII) William Austin, second son of Aus- tin R. and Carrie E. (Tucker) Skinner, was born in South Portland, May 20, 1872. He at- tended the public schools until his graduation from the high school in 1886, and then entered the office of the Cape Elizabeth Sentinel, for the purpose of learning the printing business, and remained there two years and a half. Leaving that place, he entered the employ of the Portland Transcript Job Printing Com- pany, where he was employed some time, and then went with the wholesale firm of Milliken, Cousens & Company, and had a place in the shipping department. January 26, 1908, this firm was burned out and was soon after re- organized as a stock company, under the name of the Clark Eddy Company. He still main- tains his place in the shipping department. He is an ambitious, diligent and successful young man. His secret fraternity membership is con- fined to one order, the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of Bayard Lodge, No. 44, of which he is a past chancellor; also of the
Grand Lodge, and the Past Chancellors Asso- ciation. For one year he was a captain in the South Portland fire department. William A. Skinner married, in South Portland, May 16, 1902, Ida Florence, born September 11, 1877, died September 1I, 1905, daughter of John W. and Mary A. (Sterling) Trefethen (See Trefethen ).
MOSES In the early records of the New England Colonies mention is made of persons bearing the name Moses. As far back as 1637 there were three colonists named John Moses. The earli- est mention is of John Moses, of Plymouth, a Welshman, who settled in that town in 1632. Another John Moses, his son, probably born in England, was of Windsor, Connecticut, where he is first mentioned in 1647. The third John Moses was of Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, and extended mention of him is made below. The name Moses was often spelt Moy- sis, Moises, Moyses and Mosses.
(I) Sergeant John Moses, a Scotchman, of Portsmouth, or Piscataqua, as it was then called, received his first historical mention in a deed dated April 6, 1646, the introductory lines of which are as follows: "Witness these presents that IT'c Geo. Cleeve and Richard Tucker of Cascoe Bay in New England gen- tlem for and in consideration of Seaven yeares Service as an apprentice pformed unto us by John Moses now of Puchatag River we have granted & confirmed unto him the Sd John Moses his heyres and assigns one hundred acres of land. In Cascoe bay," &c. The state- ment above indicates that he was in New Eng- land and entered the service of Cleeve and Tucker as early as 1639. January 13, 1652, John Moysis was granted fifteen acres; De- cember 5, 1636, five acres. In the distribution in 1660 of lands to "All such as were reputed inhabitants and free comyners unto the year 1657." John Moses received eighty-three acres. In the list of subscribers, 1658 to 1666, given by Brewster, to "Maintenance of ye Minister," the first name on the list is that of John Moses, who subscribed one pound. He was a deacon in the first church in the town. John Moses appears in 1665 as one of the signers of a petition favoring the jurisdiction of Massachu- setts over New Hampshire. He is mentioned several times in early histories as Sergeant Moses, and he may have been sent to America as a soldier by Sir Ferdinando Gorges. His settlement was on the south side of Sagamore creek, where he had forty-two acres of land running back toward Bellahac brook, to which
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forty-three acres more were added by the grant of February 3. 1660. This old home- stead of the Moses family is situated in the suburbs of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and in 1906 could be reached only by private roads. At the time mentioned it had been continu- ously in the family name and been occupied by direct descendants of the first proprietor for two hundred and sixty years. The family then had every deed and will touching the title to this land, even the certificate of the first sur- vey. The house then standing was the third over the original cellar. January 6, 1679, John Moses conveyed to his son Aaron one-half of his plantation with certain live stock, to be managed by said Aaron, who was to pay to his father one-half of the profits or increase of the land and cattle. In a deposition made October 16, 1696, John Moses stated he was seventy years old. John Moses married, about 1667, Ann Jones, widow of John Jones; who his first wife was does not appear. His chil- dren by his first wife were: Aaron, a daugh- ter. Elizabeth, and Sarah.
(II) Aaron, son of John Moses, was born at Sagamore creek; there is no record of his death. The town and provincial papers fur- nish evidence of his being a public man who held various civil affairs in town and state, and that he was a lieutenant in Captain Tobias Langdon's company, and was one of the mem- bers of a court martial called by Governor Usher at Newcastle, September 29, 1696. He married, in 1677, Ruth, born June 3, 1660, daughter of Henry Sherborn. It is assumed that he married ( second) Mary, whose family name is unknown. After his death in 1713 his widow Mary was appointed administratrix of his estate. In 1733 his son James was ap- pointed to complete its settlement. The chil- dren of Aaron Moses were: James, Joseph, Josiah, Mark. Martha, Hannah, Abigail and Sarah. A son Aaron, and a daughter Eliza- beth ( Moses) Smith, are mentioned as hav- ing died without issue previous to winding up the estate, September 10, 1734.
(III) Josiah, son of Aaron Moses, was a tanner, and was constable in 1736. He first lived in Portsmouth, and in 1728 sold out there and moved to Islington creek, where he was living as late as 1761. He married, November 12, 1719, Abigail Nelson, of Ports- mouth. Their children, according to the rec- ords of the North and South Church, were: Abigail, George, Mary, Nathaniel and Daniel. (IV) George, son of Josiah and Abigail (Nelson) Moses, was born in Portsmouth, where he was baptized July 5. 1722. He was
the founder of the Scarborough group of the Moses family. The deed records show that "Josiah Moses, tanner, wife Abigail, and George Moses, cordwainer," owned two small lots on Islington creek, Portsmouth. They mortgaged and redeemed these lots, George finally becoming owner of one of them, Oc- tober 4, 1754, "George Moses of Scarborough, York county, Massachusetts, cordwainer, and wife Frances," convey the other lot and the home in which Josiah then lived. George Moses removed from Portsmouth and settled on a farm owned by Joseph Prout on Scot- tow's Hill, Scarborough. in 1754. The chil- dren of George and Frances Moses were: Mary, Sarah. George, Anna, Katherine, David, Josiah and Nathaniel.
(V) George, son of George and Frances Moses, was born at Portsmouth and baptized March 22, 1747. He was a soldier in the revolution from Scarborough, being a private in Captain Samuel Knight's company. He enlisted July 18, 1775, and was in service five months, three weeks and six days, the com- pany being stationed at Falmouth (now Port- land) for the defence of the seacoast. He was also in Captain Benjamin Larrabee's company. Colonel Mitchell's regiment, which marched July 9, 1779, on the Penobscot expe- dition. This term of service was two months, and three days, ending September 12, 1779. He married, August 27, 1772, Anna Harmon. Children : William, John, Anne, Abigail, Aphia and Josiah.
(VI) William, son of George and Anna (Harmon) Moses, was born December 29, 1772, died September 29, 1829. He resided in Scarborough until 1805, when he removed to Buxton, whence in 1822 he went to Eaton, New Hampshire, where his remaining years were spent. He married, January 31, 1796, Anne Milliken, born December 31, 1774, died July 30, 1856. She married ( second) Samuel Berry, of Buxton. Their children were: Cy- rus, Abraham (died young), Frances, Will- iam, George, Mary Fenderson, Horace, Ed- ward and Eliza Ann.
(VII) Cyrus, eldest child of William and Anne (Milliken) Moses, was born September 2, 1796, died February II, 1885. He was a farmer and shoemaker, and resided in Eaton, and Freedom, New Hampshire, Parsonfield, Saco and Standish, Maine. He married, March 20, 1819, Eunice Underwood, born April 2, 1798, died June 23, 1891. Children : Martha J., Abram, Tryphena, David W., John, Thomas Gannett, William C., Eliza Ann and Alonzo.
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(VIII) Abram, second child and eldest son of Cyrus and Eunice ( Underwood) Moses, was born March 24, 1821, died September 2, 1905. For years he was a shoemaker em- ployed in the shops of Cornelius Sweetzer, of Saco, where he always resided. He became a Republican when that party was formed, and always took a lively interest in its progress. He married, in Saco, December 3, 1842, Mary Ann Foss, of Saco, born January 31, 1823, died September 5, 1887. Children : George, Mary Ann, Ellen Augusta, Charles Malcolm and Cordelia Ada.
( IX) Charles Malcolm, fourth child and only son of Abram and Mary Ann ( Foss) Moses, was born August 25, 1851. He was educated in the public schools of Biddeford, and at the age of seventeen years began life as a clerk in a hardware store. Later he was bookkeeper and paymaster in the office of the Saco Water Power Machine Company, which position he had for twenty-nine years. For two years, 1878-80, while living in Biddeford, he was mayor of that city. In 1884 he was one of the presidential electors for the state of Maine, and in 1892 a delegate to the Re- publican National Convention at Minneapolis. In 1898 he was appointed appraiser in the custom house in Portland, and in January, 1900, he had performed his duties so success- fully that he was appointed collector of the port, and has since filled that office with credit to himself and satisfaction to the people and the government he represents. Since Jan- uary, 1898, he has resided in Portland. In politics he is a Republican. and has taken an active interest in public affairs since he was old enough to know what politics means. He is a member of Dunlop Lodge, No. 47, of Biddeford, Free and Accepted Masons; York Chapter, No. 5, Royal Arch Masons, of Saco ; Maine Council, No. 7, Royal and Select Mas- ters: Bradford Commandery, No. 4. Knights Templar. Charles M. Moses married, in Saco, January 17. 1872, Lillian J .. of Saco, born March 22. 1852, daughter of William H. and Frances (McKenney) Deering. One child, Katherine M., born at Old Orchard, August 17, 1881.
A voluminous account of vari- WARREN ous Warren families in New England was compiled by the late Rev. Dr. Israel Perkins Warren, of Port- land ; and from that account the following nar- rative has been taken.
"The family of Warren has been traced by English writers to a Norman baron of Danish
extraction. The Normans and Danes were united in their efforts to make a settlement in the northern part of France and ultimate- ly succeeded in obtaining a footing in that part of the country which from the Normans took the name of Normandy. One of these barons became connected by marriage with considerable families as is related in the fol- lowing account of an English author-'The Danish knight' had Gunnora, Herfastus, We- via, Werina, Duvelina and Sainfra." "Of thesc Gunnora married Richard Duke of Nor- mandy, who had Richard, the father also of Richard, who dying without issue was suc- ceeded in the dukedom by his brother Robert, the father of William the Conqueror ; who by Maud, daughter of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, had Robert Duke of Normandy, Richard, Duke of Bernay, in Normandy; William King of England, Henry King of England, and sev- eral daughters ; one of whom, named Gunered, was married to William, the first Earl of War- ren and Surrey." "Werina, according to a large Pedigree in the possession of Sir George Warren, drawn up and signed by W. Flower, Norroy, and R. Glover, Somerset Herald in 1580, married Asmundde Comitiis villa ( ac- cording to some authorities, though the state- ment is disputed by others). This Werina is said to have had by the said Osmund Hugh Capet, King of France; who had Robert, King of France; who had Henry, King of France ; who had Hugh the Great, brother to Philip, King of France. This Hugh was Earl of Vermandois in right of Adela, his wife, daughter and heiress of Herbert, fourth Earl of Vermandois. Hugh had Isabel married to William, Earl Warren, as above, a match in a very high degree honorable to the family of Warren, as it connected them with the blood royal of France as before they had been with the blood royal of England." "The first War- ren known on the English soil was William, Earl de Warren, who accompanied William the Conqueror, and who, having married the fourth daughter of William, Gundreda, we may believe to have been one of his principal and confidential auxiliaries. He took an im- portant part in the battle of Hastings, 1066, and his services were so highly estimated by the Conqueror that he gave him lands in al- most every county in England. Eight Earls de Warren succeeded to the title and estates of William, Earl de Warren, and finally the eighth earl, by contract with King Edward III, gave up his title and immense property to the King, because he had no direct legal heir." From younger sons of the Duke of
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Warren various families claim to have sprung ; and Warren both in England and America is a very common name.
(I) Richard Warren, merchant of Lon- don, but not one of the "Pilgrims" who went to Leyden, Holland, came to Plymouth in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and died in 1628. He married, before coming to America, Elizabeth March, widow, whose maiden name was Juat or Pratt. She and their five daughters came to Plymouth in the third ship, 1623. After the death of her husband Mrs. Warren joined with the first purchasers of Dartmouth. She died October 2, 1673, aged ninety years. Their children were: Mary, Anne, Sarah, Elizabeth, Abigail, Nathaniel and Joseph. The daugh- ters all married active men of the colony.
( 11) Nathaniel, son of Richard and Eliza- beth (Juat) Warren, was born in Plymouth and died in 1667. He and his brother were prominent men of the colony, and their names occur often in the "Old Colony Records." Nathaniel married, November, 1665, Sarah Walker, who died in 1700. Their children were: Richard, Jabez, Sarah, Hope, Jane, Elizabeth, Alice, Mercy, Mary, John and James.
(III) Richard (2), eldest child of Nathaniel and Sarah ( Walker) Warren, was born in 1646, and removed to Middleborough, where he died in 1696. The name of his wife is not known. His children were: James, Sam- uel, and John, next mentioned.
(IV) John, youngest son of Richard (2) Warren, was born in 1690, and died in Mid- dleborough, March 3, 1768, aged seventy- eight years. He married ( first ) Naomie ; and (second) Ann Read, who died January 8, 1770, aged sixty-nine. He made his will Jan- uary, 1768, and mentions therein his wife Ann, a daughter Ann, and sons James, Na- thaniel and Nehemialı.
(V) James, son of John Warren, of Mid- dleborough, is not mentioned in the Middle- borough records. A James Warren appears in Woodbridge, Connecticut, where he is mar- ried by Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge, of Amity, July, 1744, to Abigail Thomas. From such information as he could obtain, Rev. Dr. Israel P. Warren believed this James to be the son of John Warren, of Middleborough. James Warren lived in what is now Bethany. There is a tradition that he came from Ireland. No trace of the name is to be found in the New Haven records until the above. Mrs. Rich- ards, his granddaughter, with whom his widow lived many years, says that he used to carry his wife behind him on horseback to church
at New Haven. He died during the revolu- tion at the North (probably Ticonderoga), where he had gone to take care of his son Edward, then a soldier and sick. His widow died at the home of her son Edward, Sep- tember 13, 1806. Their children were: Jason, Sarah, Rachel, Abigail, Nathaniel, Jemima, Edward and Richardson.
(VI) Nathaniel (2), fifth child and second son of James and Abigail ( Thomas) Warren, horn in that part of New Haven then Amity Society, now Woodbridge, New Haven county, Connecticut, January 15, 1755, died in Water- town, March 8, 1836, aged eighty-one. He was a shoemaker and a soldier. He resided in Woodbridge during the war of the revolu- tion, and afterward removed to Watertown, Litchfield county. He volunteered in May, 1776, under Captain Nathaniel Johnson, em- barked on board a vessel commanded by Colo- nel William Douglass, of Connecticut, and joined his regiment in New York city. He was stationed in Broad street, from whence he was ordered to Long Island when the Brit- ish landed. After the battle of August 27, 1776, he retreated with the army in the night to New York city, and when it was evacuated September 15, 1776, he was ordered to Turtle Bay and to Harlem Heights. There was skir- mishing on the route. He was taken sick and was sent with other sick soldiers to Horse Neck, a part of Greenwich, Connecticut. On his recovery he joined his regiment at Wright's Mills, soon after the battle at White Plains, October 28, 1776. He was discharged at Peekskill, at Christmas. After the war he had a pension of $48 a year. About 1793 he went to Norwich, where he called his name Nathan Warner, and resided there some years. He died in Watertown, March 8, 1836, aged eighty-one. He married (first), August 7, 1780, Susanna Johnson, who procured a di- vorce from him and subsequently married Levi Hotchkiss, of Derby, where she died March 20, 1839. He married (second) Mary Wedge, born December 23, 1771, at Franklin, Connecti- cut. She survived him many years, residing in New York city. She was living in 1855. His children by first wife were: Betsey, Charles, Marshall, Isaac, Miles, Susan; by second wife: Gurdon, Henry, and a daughter (died young).
(VII) Isaac, fourth child and third son of Nathaniel (2) and Susanna (Johnson) War- ren, born December 23, 1787, died in Goshen, Connecticut, December 14, 1857. He was a shoemaker. After his marriage he settled in Bethany, Connecticut, where he lived till 1841,
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and accumulated a handsome property. He was a man of superior natural endowments, having especially great fondness for history and poetry. Some of his own poctical com- positions possessed considerable merit. But for his unfortunate habits he would have been a superior member of society. He married, September 12, 1812, Leonora Perkins, who died in Scranton, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1878. She was an estimable woman and val- ued member of the Congregational church in Bethany, with which she united in 1837. Their children were: Israel Perkins, William Ed- ward, Susan Harrict, Isaac Watts, Harris Franklin, Cornelia Ann and George Fred- erick.
(VIII) Rev. Dr. Israel Perkins, eldest child of Isaac and Leonora ( l'erkins) Warren, born April 8, 1814, died October 9, 1892. He was named for his grandfather, Israel Perkins, with whom he resided from the age of ten to fifteen years. From the fall of 1829 he was a clerk in the grocery of Amos Thomas, of New Haven, till the spring of 1830. He then went to learn the tailor's trade with E. M. Payne, of Naugatuck, but after three months went to live with B. W. Root, then of South- bury, where he remained in the same pursuit till the fall of 1831. In the spring of that year he became hopefully pious in a revival in that place and united with the Congrega- tional church of Southbury by profession No- vember 6, 1831. Shortly after he commenced a course of study for the ministry. He taught the center district school in Bethany in the winter of 1832-33, and the center district school in Cheshire in the winter of 1833-34, studying in the summers and while in school as he was able. Having no resources except character and energy, he was received as a beneficiary of the American Education Society in 1834, and in the same year entered the freshman class of Yale College. He joined the Society of Brothers in Unity, and in his junior year was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Ile delivered a disserta- tion at junior exhibition, in 1837, and also at commencement, 1838, when he graduated.
In May. 1838, while still a member of col- lege. he became principal of the academy in Upper Middletown (now Cromwell), Con- necticut, at a salary of five hundred dollars a year, and remained there till October, 1839. when he entered the junior class of the Yale Theological Seminary. By special permission of the faculty during his middle ycar he took the studies and lectures of that and the senior year together. June 1, 1841, he was licensed
to preach by the Hartford South Association at their session in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Soon after he began an engagement to preach in Granby, Connecticut, as stated supply, and was ordained and installed pastor there April 20, 1842. After a ministry of three years he was at his own request dismissed, May 1, 1845, and resided during the next year at the home of his father-in-law, Captain Thomas Stow, in Cromwell, preaching as he had opportunity. July 8, 1846, he was installed pastor of the church in Mt. Carmel, Hamden, whence he was dismissed at his own request, September, 1851. In the same month he received a call from the Third Church in Guilford, Con- necticut, which he declined. October 2 fol- lowing he was installed pastor of the First Church in Plymouth, Connecticut, from which he was . dimissed February 3, 1856. After preaching for a few weeks in various places, he received a call to be pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Manchester, which he declined, and subsequently made a visiting tour to the West. During an engagement of three weeks at Grand Rapids, Michigan, he received notice of his appointment as associate secretary of the American Seaman's Friend Society at New York, which he accepted and entered on the duties of that office July I, 1856. He continued there till February, 1859, when he was appointed district secretary of the American Tract Society of Boston, to re- side in New York city. This he accepted, and in May following was appointed secretary to go to Boston and take charge of the publica- tion department of the Society. The following is a list of the works published by him as author or compiler, not including the publica- tions of the society which were edited by him : "The Sisters," 283 pages; "Sadduceeism," 66 pages : "The Crossbearer," 206 pages ; "Snow Flakes," 146 Pages; "The Freedman's Prim- er." 64 pages; "Spelling Book," 160 pages ; "Second Reader," 160 pages; "Third Reader," 264 pages : "Commentary on the Gospels," 386 pages ; "The Soldier's Hymn Book," 64 pages ; "George N. Briggs," 64 pages; "Death of the Soul," 28 pages; "How to Repent; How to Believe; Corpse in a Ball Dress" (tract), 17 pages : "Pemberton Mill," 43 pages; "How to Begin to be a Christian," 75 pages. July 15, 1868, he received the honorary degree of D. D. from Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. Jan- uary 1, 1869, he resigned his office as secre- tary, and entered into partnership with Erastus Blakeslee, of Boston, as publishers and book- sellers in Boston, Massachusetts. In June fol- lowing he was appointed general agent of the
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