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Wilmer Judson Dorman. son
DORMAN of Charles A. and Ella B. ( Billings) Dorman ( see sketch of Billings family), was born in Bloomington, Illinois, November 15, 1873. He came to Free- dom, Maine, with his mother when a young child and attended the public schools of that town and the East Maine Conference Semi- nary at Bucksport, Maine. He has been in the banking business since completing his school- ing. For nine years he was clerk in the Na- tional Bank at Belfast, Maine. In 1900 he was appointed assistant treasurer of the Belfast Savings Bank and in 1905 was made the treas- urer. a position he still holds. In politics Mr. Dorman is a Republican. He is a prominent Mason. a member of Phoenix Lodge, No. 22, Free Masons. Belfast ; of Corinthian Chapter, Royal Arch Chapter of Belfast : of King Solo- mon Council, Royal and Select Masters ; of Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar, of Belfast ; of Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, Lew-
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iston. Maine; of the Scottish Rite, Rockland ; Consistory, Portland, Maine. He has taken the thirty-second degree in Masonry and is well known throughout the state in Masonic circles. In religion he is Unitarian. Hle mar- ried, June 5. 1895, Bertha E., born November 13, 1871, daughter of John HI. and Nancy M. Emery. of Belfast. Their daughter, Hope Dorman, was born at Belfast, January 1, 1904.
Joseph Palmer was doubtless
PALMER of the Hampton, New Hamp- shire, and Haverhill, Massa- chusetts. family of Palmers. He was born, it is said, in Methuen, Massachusetts, August 3, 1782, though not recorded there. With his brothers Nathaniel and Jeduthan he settled in Islesborough, Maine. The Islesborough his- tory states that Nathaniel Palmer married Sally Pendleton and that Joseph married Su- key Pendleton, doubtless her sister, October 29, 1806 (intention dated April 16, 1805). The family records state that Joseph married Sally ( Sarah) Pendleton, April 16, 1806. His wife Sarah was born in Islesborough. Decem- ber 26, 1781, and died November 7, 1863. When a young man Joseph settled in Lincoln- ville and lived there until after the birth of his children. He came to Belfast in 1832 and resided until 1845-46, when he removed to Searsmont, where he died, March 9, 1852. He was a shipwright by trade. Children, born in Lincolnville: 1. Oliver, February 2, 1807. 2. Lemuel Rich, February 22, 1809, mentioned below. 3. Almira O., March 27, 1811. 4. Bar- ker B., January 10, 1813. 5. Priscilla P., Au- gust 7, 1815. 6. Sarah P., May 10, 1818. 7. George D., August 18, 1820. 8. Eliza P., Au- gust 19. 1822. Eliza P. (MIrs. Edwin Moore ). of East Douglass, Massachusetts, is the only surviving child ( 1908).
Oliver Pendleton, son of William Pendle- ton, lived on the lot where Hotel Islesbor- ough now stands below Dark Harbor. He sold his land to Elisha Eames and re- moved to Camden, Maine, thence to Hope, Maine, where he died at an advanced age. Children : 1. William, married, January 9. 1795, Nancy Pendleton, of Islesborough. 2. Alexander. resided at Northport, returned home after an absence of sixty years and died November 19, 1886, aged one hundred years. 4. Ambrose. 5. James. 6. Sally. married Nathaniel Palmer, of Belfast (intention dated April 16, 1805). 7. Sukey, married, October 29, 1806, Joseph Palmer.
(II) Lemuel Rich, son of Joseph Palmer, was born in Lincolnville, Maine, February 22, 1809, died in Belfast, May 3, 1879. He was educated in the common schools, and followed the trade of shipwright. He was naturally a good mechanic and had an inventive turn of mind. He became a ship builder at Belfast and was in active business there to the time of liis deatlı. In politics he was a Republican, and was at one time street commissioner of Belfast. He was an active member and liberal supporter of the North Congregational Church. He married ( first), December 17, 1832, Susan- na R. Hanford, born in Camden, Maine, June 17, 1812, died August 14, 1849. Children : I. Rev. Edwin B., graduate of Bowdoin Col- lege; Congregational clergyman; treasurer of the Massachusetts Home Mission Society for twenty years; married Thirza MI. Field, of Brunswick, Maine; children: Edwin, Eva, Francis, Susan, William. 2. Susan M., born September 7, 1835, married James M. Craig ; children: Charles M. and Edwin P. Craig. 3. Mary E., born September 11, 1837, married George F. Smith, druggist, Searsport, Maine ; children : Francis, Fannie and Fred B. Smith. 4. Dwight, died aged two. 5. Dwight Parker, born March 31, 1843, mentioned below. 6. Lucy A. E., born May 9, 1845, lives with her sister, Mrs. Craig, Belfast. Lemuel Rich Pal- mer married (second) Mary P. D. Hanford, who died March 7, 1856, sister of his first wife. Child, Joseph H., born November 22, 1850. Lemuel Rich Palmer married (third), September, 1857, Frances A. Little, of Castine, Maine. She died April 12, 1887.
( III) Dwight Parker, son of Lemuel Rich Palmer, was born in Belfast, Maine, March 31, 1843. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He enlisted in Company I, Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment of Volun- teers in the civil war, September 10, 1862. He saw much active service in Louisiana and took part in the engagements at Irish Bend, Brazier City, and Port Hudson at the time of its sur- render. He marched an aggregate of more than eleven hundred miles. He was appointed a corporal January 8, 1863, and was honorably discharged August 17, 1863. After leaving the service he returned to Belfast and became clerk in a grocery store for three years, and was then associated with Mr. Cooper in the lumber business two years. He worked at Chicopee, Massachusetts, for three years and finally returned to Belfast. Since 1882 he has been a merchant in Belfast, dealing in gentle- men's furnishings and fancy goods, and has been very successful. In politics he is a Re-
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publican. He married, November 10, 1880, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Elizabeth ( Whittier) Patterson, of Bel- fast. (See Patterson. )
The surname Paterson, or PATTERSON Patterson, means simply the son of l'atrick, and belongs to a large class of English surnames similarly formed. The family is particularly numerous in Scotland, in Stirlingshire, Aber- deenshire Dumfriesshire, and the spelling Pat- erson is most generally used. The Scotch- Irish of this surname are very numerous in the counties of Down, Antrim, Armagh, Lon- donderry and Tyrone, spelling the name usu- ally Patterson. The coat-of-arms of the Bishop of Ross, who belongs to the family of Paterson : Argent three pelicans feeding their young or in nests vert on a chief azure as many mullets of the field. The other Patter- son arms are but slightly varied or just like this.
( 1) Robert Patterson, the immigrant an- cestor, was born about 1713. He resided in Saco, Maine, where he was a prominent man, and where he died in 1797, aged eighty-four. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He drew lots No. 4, 32 and 37 in Belfast, Maine, for his sons, but never lived there himself. His four sons, Robert, James, Nathaniel and Will- iam, were among the first settlers of Belfast in 1770, and the others came soon after. Chil- dren : 1. Robert Jr., born about 1742, died Oc- tober 9, 1829. 2. James, born 1744, died Feb- ruary 18, 1824, married Jane or Jenny Jame- son. of Pepperelborough. 3. Nathaniel, born 1745, mentioned below. 4. William, born in Pepperelborough, April 5. 1746, married Mary, daughter of John Mitchell; died May 16, 1828. (II) Nathaniel, son of Robert (1) Patter- son, was born in 1745, died November 12, 1825. He resided in Belfast, Maine, on lot No. 32, on the eastern side of the river. He married Hannah Jameson, sister of the wife of his brother James. She died May 26, 1843, aged ninety-nine years. Children : I. Robert, born June 9, 1771, mentioned below. 2. Star- rett. April 4, 1774, lost at sea December 9, 1802. 3. Martin, April 17, 1777. 4. Sally, August 30, 1779, married Abner McKeen. 5. Hannah, April 18, 1782, married Isaac Senter. 6. Nathaniel, October 30, 1785, died 1834.
(III) Robert (2), son of Nathaniel Patter- son, was born June 9, 1771, died in Salem, Maine, March 19, 1847. He married Jane -. He was a prominent man in Belfast,
and one of the charter members of the second church, incorporated in 1820. He was in the war of 1812. He was one of the founders of the Belfast Social library Society, formed April 21, 1800. He was one of the company which built the first toll-bridge over the Bel- fast river at the narrows in 1801, at a cost of six thousand dollars. Children: 1. Nathaniel, died February 19, 1797, aged three years, nine months, nine days. 2. Nathaniel, born Jan- uary 26, 1798, mentioned below. 3. John T. 4. Alfred.
(IV) Judge Nathaniel (2), son of Robert (2) Patterson, was born January 26. 1798, died March 18. 1872. He was admitted to the bar at Castine, Maine, in 1823, and after practicing in Belfast for several years, in 1831 established himself at West Prospect, now Searsport, Maine. He afterwards returned to Belfast, and was town clerk from 1847 to 1850, and clerk of the judicial courts from 1849 to 1859. In 1860 he was elected judge of the police court, a position which he held until his death. He married Mary Elizabeth Whittier, of Belfast. Children: I. Augusta Jane, married Wilbur O. Colby, of Belfast, Maine. 2. Mary Elizabeth, married, Novem- ber 10. 1880, Dwight Parker Palmer ( see sketch of Palmer family herewith). 3. Grace Whittier, married William B. Briggs, of Brockton.
The surname Wescott, West- WESCOTT cott or Westcote is of ancient English origin, taken from the names of parishes in which the progenitors lived. The parishes of this name are in Gloucestershire, Berkshire. Buckshire, etc.
(I) Richard Wescott, immigrant ancestor, was born about 1660. The same name occurs in Great Torrington, England, where, Novem- ber 17, 1611, a Richard Westcott married Mary Parsons. We find a Richard Westcott also in Connecticut at an early date ; his widow Joanna married, after his death, in 1682, Na- thaniel Baldwin and had three children by the second husband. (P. 440, N. E. Reg. 1870.) (P. 154 N. E. Reg. 1853. ) He mar- ried Hannah, born about 1670. daughter of Andrew Haley, of the Isle of Shoals and Kit- tery. Her father was, in fact, called the "King of the Shoals"; he built a sea-wall to connect two islands and improve the harbor, fourteen rods long, thirteen feet high and fif- teen feet wide. Haley's Island was named for him. He bought land in York in 1662 and sold land there in 1684. He married Deborah, daughter of Gowen Wilson ( see sketch), and
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she was administratrix of his estate, appointed December 2, 1697: children: i. Andrew Haley; ii. William Haley; iii. Deliverance Haley, married George Berry, January 1, 1702: iv. Elizabeth llaley, married, 1695. John Nelson ; v. Deborah laley, married Rich- ard Crockett ; vi. Hannah Haley, married Richard Westcott; vii. Rhoda Haley, married Samuel Skillings. ( See sketch of George F. Hlaley, Saco, Maine, in this work.)
The estate of Andrew Haley was divided in 1724 and the receipts of the heirs are re- corded in York Deeds (fol. 232, vol. xi). Hannah Wescott, widow of Richard, receipted for her share June 4, 1724 ; Richard Crockett, Nicholas Hilliard and Samuel Skillings gave receipts at about the same time to Andrew Haley Jr., their brother-in-law. Children of Richard and Hannah Wescott : I. Richard, born about 1700, married Mary -, and had Anna, born at Falmouth, Maine, Novem- ber 13, 1736. and probably others. 2. William, mentioned below. 3. Andrew, of York, bought land where he dwells of Joseph Webber, of York, July 22, 1730, land described as at Cape Neddick.
(II) William (1), son of Richard Wescott, was born about 1690-1700, at York, Maine. He was a witness to the deed of land to An- drew Wescott ( Westcoat ) July 22, 1730, sign- ing with a mark, and was doubtless of age. Children : 1. William, born in York or Fal- mouth. 2. Richard, married, October 23, 1760, Elizabeth Bayley, at Falmouth1. 3. Elizabeth, also of Falmouth. 4. Josiah ( ?), married Mary Fost, of Scarborough, November 15, 1760. All these and probably others were children of his brothers, if not his, there being no others of the name in the county.
(III) William (2), son of William ( I) Wescott, was born about 1730, probably in York. He settled in Scarborough, Maine, on the place since known as the Theodore Libby farm. Mr. Wescott was the famous "Post Wescott." of revolutionary times, and was known to every one on the road from Boston to Portland and in all the region about Cum- berland county. It is said that he carried the first mail between Boston and Portland, and was employed by Washington during the war in carrying despatches and in carrying letters from the soldiers to their families in Maine. Some of his descendants have in their pos- session a cane given him by General Wash- ington. When about to start with despatches in which the general took much interest, he was looking for a stick with which to urge forward his horse, when Washington told him
to take his cane, which was more substantial than a switch, and hurry off. The cane is now an heirloom highly prized. On all great days, more particularly the general muster day, he usually made his appearance at Gorham vil- lage to visit his sons Reuben and Edmund. He was always polite and courteous, and al- ways with something pleasant to say to all. He always attracted attention, with his erect, stately figure and fine horsemanship; his long cane or staff, which he grasped in the old- fashioned style, a few inches below the top ; dressed in the old Continental style, with cocked hat, single-breasted coat with large brass buttons and standing collar, with long waist and wide skirts; short breeches, high quartered shoes with silver buckles, four inches square, long stockings fastened to his breeches at the knee with large silver buckles. This was his dress, and he never abandoned it dur- ing his life. He lived during his later years with his son Clement at North Yarmouth, where he died at an advanced age. He mar- ried, at Falmouth, September 22, 1756, Mar- garet Meserve, of Pearsontown, Maine. Chil- dren: 1. Joseph, killed in battle in Rhode Island during the revolution. 2. Reuben, mar- ried, December 4, 1783, Abigail Dam. 3. Isaac, settled in Kittery. 4. Sally, married Small, of Limington, Maine. 5. Ed- mund, mentioned below. 6 Charlotte, married Barstow. 7. Hannah, married, No- vember 15, 1802, Thomas Morton. 8. Clem- ent, married, March 6, 1804, Sally Marr and settled in North Yarmouth. 9. Dorcas, mar- ried, October 23. 1800, Samuel Whitney ; re- moved to Cumberland. 10. William, married, October 23, 1806, Lydia Marr, and settled in Scarborough.
(IV) Edmund, son of William (2) Wes- cott, was born March 7. 1769, died January 14, 1836. He settled in the north part of Gor- ham, Maine, at White Rock, on a seventy- acre lot, now or lately owned by Wiley Davis. He married Hannah Morton, who died De- cember 11, 1835, aged fifty-six, daughter of James Morton, of Gorham.
Children: 1. James, born September 12, 1795, married, April 30, 1815, Dorcas Libby ; married (second) Hannah Hanson. 2. Al- mira, October 7. 1796, married, June 25, 1817, Jeremiah Bullock ; married (second) Deacon Andrew Cobb, of Bridgton ; died April 25, 1857. 3. Edmund, October 13, 1798, died young. 4. Anna, born November 15, 1799, died August 15, 1800. 5. Anna, July 4, 1800, married, March 1, 1821, Benjamin Libby Jr. 6. Charlotte, May 2, 1802, married, Novem-
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ber 5, 1826, Joshua Chadbourne, of Baldwin. 7. Clement, April 4, 1804, mentioned below. S. Harvey, April 7, 1806, married, December 5, 1829, Caroline Sturgis. 9. Elliot, March 7, 1808, died June 19, 1811. 10. Harriet, Sep- tember 1, 1810, married, June 8, 1829, Daniel Murch. II. Martha, November 26, 1812, died November 15, 1813. 12. Martha, July 15. 1814, died May 5, 1815. 13. Major M., May 15, 1816, married, December 15, 1849, Harriet Whitmore, of Paris. Maine. 14. Elizabeth, March 23. 1820, married (first) William Chadbourne : ( second) Captain J. I. Stevens. 15. Emily, July 15, 1823, married Henry Chadbourne, of Standish.
(V) Clement, son of Edmund Wescott, was born at Gorham, April 4, 1804. He was edu cated in the district schools, and followed farming for an occupation. He removed from Gorham to Knox, Maine, where he bought a farm and spent most of his active years. He married Mary Webb. Children: 1. Horace W., born 1830, mentioned below. 2. Edmund. 3. John W. 4. Charles E. 5. William, died in the service in the civil war. 6. Frank, died young.
(VI) Horace W., son of Clement Wescott, was born in Gorham, 1830, died in Knox in 1897. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the wheelwright's trade. He es- tablished himself in business in Thorndyke. Maine, where he lived for several years. In 1880 he went to Montana state, and for the next six years was engaged in lumbering. He returned to Knox and carried on his farm there the remainder of his life. He was a prominent citizen of Knox, having served the town as treasurer and selectman. He was a Republican of much influence and zeal. He was a member of the Thorndyke Lodge of Free Masons. He married Adeline S. Hall, born in Thorndyke, 1832. Children : I. Jen- nie H., married Willis Richardson, a farmer in Knox; children : Theron and Horace W. Richardson. 2. Dr. Addie M., medical student at Cornell. 3. Israel, died in 1904. 4. Clem- ent W., born February 27, 1867. And three who died in infancy unnamed.
(VII) Clement W., son of Horace \V. Wes- cott, was born in Knox, February 27, 1867. He attended the public schools of his native town and Freedom Academy (Maine) and the East Maine Conference Seminary, at Bucks- port, Maine. For a number of years he taught school in various places in the vicinity of his home. He was engaged in the banking business from 1889 to 1891 at Bar Harbor. He accepted a position as bookkeeper in the
Belfast National Bank in 1891 and was elected cashier in July, 1893. In 1905, when the Belfast Bank went into liquidation, Mr. Wescott became cashier of its newly organized successor, the City National Bank. He is well and most favorably known to business and banking men in that section of the state, and is counted among the shrewdest and most sagacious bankers of the county. A man of agreeable manner and attractive personality, of sterling integrity and straightforward hon- esty, Mr. Wescott has done much to advance the interests of his bank, while at the same time doing his utmost to promote business and develop the resources of the community. In politics he is a Republican, and he married, May 31, 1904, Susan Ethel, daughter of Bounds Crossman and Sarah Bean ( Whitten ) Dinsmore, of Belfast. Bounds Crossman Dinsmore, born in China, 1823, died 1898, the son of Thomas and Susan ( Crossman) Dins- more. Thomas Dinsmore was born in Bow- doinham, Maine ; children : Bounds C., Sarah, Esther, Henry. Charles, Philip, Thomas and Thomas Dinsmore. The Dinsmores came orig- inally from the north of Ireland to London- derry and Windham, New Hampshire. The father of Thomas came to Bowdoinham. Sarah Bean (Whitten) Dinsmore was born in Montville, Maine, in 1843. Mr. and Mrs. Wescott have one child, Helen Dinsmore, born April 30, 1905.
Joseph Linscott was the LINSCOTT pioneer of this family in Maine. In 1750 his name appears among the settlers of Harpswell, Maine. He came thither from Boston, Mas- sachusetts, according to the most reliable rec- ords preserved by the family. He bought a farm on what was then and for a long time called Great Sebascodegan. It has since been known as Great Island and Harpswell Island. Its beautiful coves and shores yearly attract thither many tourists. In 1760 this island was crowned with stately trees, and its forests were full of wild beasts. There was one trail leading towards where the village of Brunswick now stands. Sharp rocks and dangerous ledges lay around the shores of this island. On a high point of land he erected a home which became a place of great joy, peace and neigh- borly kindness. On the sea he became a fish- erman whom no storm could frighten. His neighbors were descended from some of the best families in Massachusetts, but all ad- mitted that he was of the truest "gritty stock." He was a man of integrity and very helpful
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in the town where he lived. The name of the wife of Joseph Linscott has not been found in any of the family records. The following list of the children was collected after much research: Samuel, born 1751; Joseph, who died at twenty-eight years ; John, who was the ancestor of the sturdy branch of the Linscott family that has so long lived in and near Brunswick; Moses, born 1758, who was lost at sea and left one son, James, who was adopted by Captain Stephen Sinnett, of Orr's Island, and became the father of a large fam- ily: Betsey, who married Josiah Totman, of Harpswell. All these children married into the best families of Harpswell, Maine.
( II) Samuel, son of Joseph Linscott, was born May 10, 1751, at Boston, Massachusetts, and died at Chesterville, Maine. He was a man of medium stature but of hardy frame. He was one of the most adventurous fisher- men on the Maine coast. The few books of his day were read with great eagerness, and he became a very well informed man. His house stood near the bridge which connects Orr's Island with Great Island, and many stories of its hospitality and good cheer are still preserved. The old records state that he responded to the first call of his country and took an active part in the battle of Bunker Hill. Ile was a patriot of the truest type, and gave hope and cheer to many in the darkest days of the revolutionary war. After the close of this war the pioneer spirit of his fathers burned brightly in his heart, and he made many trips to far eastern points on the coast of Maine. He thus made it easy for many of his neighbors to found homes in new places. Before 1799 this hardy Joseph Linscott, with Dummer Sewall and Abraham Wyman, pene- trated into the forests of Maine, and were the first white settlers in what is now Chesterville, thus helping to found a town which was famed far and wide for the honest and sturdy character of its people. The deep religious life which the pioneers imparted to this town was carried out widely into the world by men and women of the truest missionary spirit, and its influence is still seen in many descend- ants of the "gritty stock." Parson Sewall, the famous missionary of Maine, often spoke as enthusiastically of Joseph Linscott as Elijah Kellogg did of another branch of this family. Samuel Linscott married, January 20, 1775, in Harpswell, Maine, Dorcas Dunning, born September 29, 1758, in Harpswell, and died July 25, 1843, at Chesterville. She was a noble woman, and descended from the most influential family of Dunning, whose ancestor
came from Ireland and early settled at Brunswick, Maine, giving a line of sturdy people also to York and Harpswell, Maine. She was the daughter of Deacon Andrew Dun- ning, born at York, Maine, and early re- moved to Harpswell with his good wife, Han- nah ( Shepherd ) Dunning, of York. The children of Samuel and Dorcas (Dunning) Linscott were: 1. Charity, born December 25, 1776, married John Wheeler. 2. Daniel, born March 10, 1779, was drowned when a young man. 3. Samuel, born May 26, 1782, married Eliza Bradbury. 4. Andrew Dunning, born September 7, 1785, married Polly Chaney. 5. Joseph, born February 27, 1786, married Bet- sey Whitney. 6. Jacob, born April 25. 1792. 7. Betsey, born May 4, 1794, married William Chaney and James Spratt. 8. Dorcas, born March 16, 1795, died March 3, 1829. 9. Dan- iel, born March 19, 1799, in Chesterville, Maine, married Elizabeth Stafford, becoming the head of a fine family line. 10. Shepherd, born April 1, 1800, in Chesterville, died Octo- ber, 1855 : married Pamelia Sewall and Esther Horn.
( III) Jacob, son of Samuel and Dorcas (Dunning) Linscott, was born April 25, 1792, in Harpswell, and died September 8, 1817, in Chesterville. He was a man who inherited a very large share of the indomitable and noble spirit of his ancestors, a neighbor of the truest type, and one whose good influence was felt far and wide. He was helpful in every im- portant matter in the history of his town.
"A sturdy man among the pines of Maine,
He left = record free from shade or stain, His life was short, but made an impress deep On scores of lives on land and stormy deep."
Jacob Linscott married Betsey Whitney, born October 3, 1795, and their children were : Joseph A. ; William S., born July 7, 1814; Lu- cinda, born March 20, 1816.
(IV) Joseph Addison, son of Jacob and Betsey ( Whitney) Linscott, was born August 13, 1812, in Chesterville, and died in 1895. He made a fine record as a scholar in the schools of his native town, as well as in Far- mington, Maine, Academy and Kent's Hill Seminary. After this he studied law with Joseph Sherburn, of Phillips, Maine, and was a very successful lawyer at Phillips and Far- mington, also postmaster fat Phillips, and was county attorney and clerk of the courts. He was cashier of what was then known as the Sandy River National Bank, which is now the First National Bank of Farmington. He served very acceptably on the governor's coun- cil, and was register of probate 1850-54. He
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