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along with some forty families from that sec- tion, who settled what is known as the "Dover District," at North Boothbay, close to where he lived, and in that immeditae vicinity, some time between 1749 and 1760. (For further facts see Greene's "History of Boothbay," page 465 and following.)
(I) Francis Matthews, immigrant ancestor, was sent over by Mason. He was of Ports- mouth in 1631, of Oyster River in 1633, and at Exeter, 1639-46. He removed to Dover, probably in 1647, having purchased the estate of William Beard in 1640 (see Savage Gen. Index). He bought the William Hilton prem- ises at Oyster River, July 7, 1645, and died in 1648. . He married, as early as 1630, Thom- asine , who died on the homestead at Durham Point, in 1662. Their children were: Benjamin, Walter, see forward; and Martha, who married (first) Snell, (second)
Browne.
(II) Walter, son of Francis and Thomasine Matthews, lived on the Isle of Shoals, "Smut- ty Nose," in 1661. He was constable of the Isle of Shoals in 1658, and died in 1678. His will was dated April 15, 1678, and probated June 25, 1678, as shown by the Exeter county records, New Hampshire. He married Mary , who outlived him, and they had chil-
dren : Samuel, see forward; Susanna, mar- ried - - Young; Mary,who married Senter; and there is a Johanna mentioned as . a sister by Samuel in his will, but it is fair to presume that this refers to his sister-in-law, Johanna Raynes.
(III) Samuel, son of Walter and Mary Matthews, was of the Isle of Shoals in 1683, and died in 1720. He was fined forty shillings for abusing a constable, as the records show. He was also known as Samuel of Newcastle, New Hampshire. He married Raynes, daughter of Francis Raynes who, in his will dated 1693, recorded in 1706, bequeathed to "Sam'l Matthews' wife" and "Sam'l Matthews' children," without mentioning names. The will of Samuel Matthews, dated 1719, probated 1720, mentions the following children : Walter, settled in York, Maine, deeded land in "Smut- ty Nose" to Stephen and John Minott, of Marblehead, in 1727; Francis, possibly the ancestor of John Matthews of Boothbay ; Samuel, see forward.
(IV) Samuel Jr., son of Samuel and (Raynes) Matthews, was married, by Rev. Hugh Adams, November 21, 1728, to Mary Bodge, of Oyster River. They had a son
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Samuel, who was baptized February 15, 1729- 30, and other children, among them probably being John Matthews, of Boothbay.
(V) John, probably son of Samuel and - (Raynes) Matthews, but possibly son of Walter or Francis Matthews, was born about 1730 or 1735, and is known by a plan made in 1757 and recorded in Lincoln county registry of deeds, to have been the owner of a farm of two hundred acres of land on the shore of Back river, opposite Barter's island, in Townsend, now Boothbay. He married, probably at Georgetown, as the record is in that town, August 29, 1764, Janette Barter, who, with her two brothers, Samuel and Jo- seph, and a sister, Elizabeth, children of Sam- uel Barter, of Dover, New Hampshire, later of Boothbay or Townsend, had settled Barter's Island, Boothbay, about 1755. These Barters were descendants of Henry Barter, of Dover, New Hampshire, the original immigrant of that name, who came from England with Will- iam Pepperell in 1675 and settled at Crockett's Neck in Kittery, Maine. The children of John and Janette ( Barter) Matthews were: Mary, married Nathan Dole, of Pownalborough; Elizabeth, married (first) Frederick S. Arnold, (second) Edward Cooper, of Kennebec; Will- iam, had eleven children; Joseph, married Sarah Lamson; John Jr., see forward.
(VI) Captain John (2), youngest child of John (I) and Janette (Barter ) Matthews, was born in Boothbay, May 20, 1779, and was lost at sea, July 19, 1848. He was a seafaring man, master of a vessel during the early part of the nineteenth century, and visited every quarter of the globe; some of his voyages ex- tended over several years. He married (first), April 15, 1804. Rebecca Southard, of Booth- bay, born March 17, 1786, died October 31, 1817, the second of the twelve children of John and Sarah (Lewis) Southard, of Booth- bay, and a granddaughter of John Serrotte, whose children changed the name to Southard. John Serrotte, pioneer, lived on the place next adjoining John Matthews', where he died. He went to Boothbay prior to 1757, from the set- tlement of French Huguenots who had come from the vicinity of Marseilles, France, and had settled at Dresden on the Kennebec in 1752. He was a prominent man in Boothbay, a member of the First Congregational church, and served in the coast defence militia during the revolution. John Southard married Sarah, born 1752, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Dexter) Lewis, of York, Maine, who moved to the Dover district, Boothbay, and soon afterward, but prior to 1757, to Back river.
Joseph Lewis, of Boothbay, born at Chelsea (Rumery Marsh), Massachusetts, January II, 1723-24, was a great-grandson of John and Mary (Brown) Lewis, of Charlestown and Malden, Massachusetts, grandson of Isaac and. Mary (Davis) Lewis, and son of Isaac and Hannah (Hallett) Lewis, of Chelsea (Rumery Marsh), later of York, Maine. John Lewis was in Charlestown as early as 1634, joined the church there in 1644, but soon moved to Malden. He married (first) Marguerite, who died April 10, 1649; married (second) Mary Brown, and died, September 16, 1657. The children of Captain John and Rebecca (South- ard) Matthews were: Alfred, see forward; Edmund; Elbridge, settled in Massachusetts, and became well known as an inventor of agricultural implements; Daniel, settled in Southport, Maine; Caroline; Julia; and Ar- thur. Captain John married (second), about 1820, Mary Barter, born in 1788, and died in 1861. They had children: Frances L., mar- ried Jason Tibbetts ; Stillman B., married An- nabelle N. Tibbetts, and was lost at sea with his wife in 1853; Mary C., married Allen Pinkham.
(VII) Alfred, eldest child of Captain John and Rebecca (Southard) Matthews, was born in Boothbay, August 3, 1806, and died Jan- uary 26, 1879. He was a carpenter, much re- spected in business, and always lived at Booth- bay, although he made occasional sea voyages and was well acquainted with the New Eng- land coast. He was a deacon in the Free Will Baptist church. He married (first) Charlotte Dunton, who was born September 22, 1805, and died April 11, 1845. She was grand- daughter of Timothy Dunton, Jr., an English- man, who with his brother and sister settled in what is now Westport, Maine, prior to 1749, and there he died. His wife, Mary Elizabeth, lived to a great age, tradition says one hundred and eight years, and died in Westport in 1819. Their children were: Jo- seph, John, Samuel, Elizabeth, Sarah, Abner, Timothy and Daniel. Timothy, son of Timo- thy and Mary Elizabeth Dunton, and father of Mrs. Matthews, was born in 1752, and died at an advanced age in Boothbay. He bought a farm in Westport, October 31, 1777, which he later sold. He then settled in Boothbay in 1795, and purchased another farm at the head of Campbell's pond, on which his son-in- law, Alfred Matthews, subsequently lived. Timothy Dunton died and is buried on his homestead farm at Boothbay. He married (first), September 5. 1776, Nancy Smith, of Westport, who died at Boothbay, June 4, 1804.
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Their children were: Timothy, Nancy, Wil- liam and Israel. He married ( second), Jan- uary 15, 1805, Margaret Pinkham, born at Boothbay, March 30, 1781, and had children : Charlotte, married Mr. Matthews; Maria, married his brother, Edmund Matthews; and Lucinda, married Boynton. Margaret (Pinkham) Dunton's line of descent is as follows: (I) Richard Pinkham, immigrant, settled in Dover, New Hampshire, prior to 1642. (II) Richard Pinkham, Jr., son of pre- ceding, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Jr., and Elizabeth (Nutter) Leigh- ton, the latter a daughter of Elder Hatevil and Ann Nutter. Elizabeth (Leighton) Pink- ham was a granddaughter of Thomas Leigh- ton, immigrant, who was a selectman of Dover in 1647-48, having been one of the forty-two petitioners in 1640 for the establishment of a town. (III) John, son of Richard, Jr., and Elizabeth (Leighton) Pinkham. (IV) Ben- jamin, son of John Pinkham, born in Dover, New Hampshire, 1717. He, with two of his brothers, Ebenezer and Solomon, removed to Merryconeag (now Harpswell), Maine, and in 1759 Benjamin moved to Townsend, now Boothbay, where he died, March 2, 1792. He married Judith (V) Solomon, son of Benjamin and Judith Pinkham, married, in 1767, Mary Perry, and lived in Boothbay. They had a number of children, among them being Margaret, mentioned above. Alfred and Charlotte (Dunton) Matthews had children : Edward, born November 16, 1830, was lost at sea in 1851 ; Rebecca, born December 26, 1832, married Sewall Wylie; Georgianna, born Sep- tember 1, 1837, married Llewellyn Baker; El- bridge, see forward; Byron C., born March 31, 1845. Alfred Matthews married (second), 1850, Martha L. Wentworth. By this mar- riage there were no children.
(VIII) Captain Elbridge, fourth child and second son of Alfred and Charlotte (Dunton) Matthews, was born in Boothbay, Maine, Oc- tober 24, 1840. He inherited from his grand- father, Captain John Matthews, a love for the sea, which was fostered in his earlier years by the old man's tales of adventure and per- sonal experience, and so, when a mere lad, he went as cabin boy on a brig, after which he rapidly worked his way upward until at the age of twenty-two years he took charge of a vessel. He sailed as a master mariner con- tinuously for twenty-four years, never having the misfortune to be wrecked, although pass- ing through many trying experiences, includ- ing fire and steamship collision, until he re- tired from seafaring in 1886 to enter upon a
business career on shore. He at once estab- lished himself in the grain and food business at Knightville, South Portland, where he re- built his place of business after it was de- stroyed by fire in the spring of 1894. He opened a second store on Kennebec street, Portland, in 1892, and a third at Woodfords about the same year. In 1899 he retired per- manently from business, having built a resi- dence on Pleasant avenue, Portland, the pre- ceding year. He served two years as alder- man of his ward in Deering. His fraternal affiliations are with: Fraternity Lodge of Deering, and Machigonne Encampment, Inde- pendent . Order of Odd Fellows; Lincoln Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Wis- casset ; and the Improved Order of Red Men. He married (first) at Boothbay, Lovesta Hodgdon, born November 19, 1839, died March 9, 1883, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery. She was the twelfth child of Tim- othy and Frances (Tibbetts) Hodgdon. (See Hodgdon.) Their children were : Fred Vivian, see forward; Chester, born Novem- ber 8, 1866; Genevieve, born August 4, 1870; Leslie Mitchell, died in infancy ; Florence Lo- vesta, born February 27, 1883, was adopted in infancy by her cousins, Dr. Roscoe G. and Laura (Hodgdon) Blanchard, of Dover, New Hampshire. Captain Elbridge Matthews mar- ried (second), October 20, 1884, Florence D., niece of his first wife, and daughter of Zina H. and Rhinda (Reed) Hodgdon, of Booth- bay. They have had one child : Marion Laura, born June II, 1886; married, October 4, 1907, Lester M. Hart, of Portland.
(IX) Fred Vivian, eldest child of Captain Elbridge and Lovesta (Hodgdon) Matthews, was born in Boothbay, September 2, 1865. He went to Deering with his parents, January I, 1874, and has since that time resided there. He was graduated from the Deering high school in 1883, from Hebron Academy the following year, and after spending a season in South America he became a member of the class of 1889 of Colby University, where he was at once elected president of his class, taking the first prize for declamation in the sophomore year, and being a member of Xi Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fratern- ity. Leaving college at the end of the sopho- more year, he read law with Drummond & Drummond, of Portland, and was admitted to the Cumberland bar in October, 1889. He at once entered upon the practice of his profes- sion and has met with marked success. While strictly devoted to his legal profession, he has taken an active interest in public and political
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matters, being several years secretary of the Republican city committee, and frequently a delegate to the conventions of his party. For four years, 1888-91, he was collector of Deer- ing ; for two years, at the time of the organiza- tion of the city of Deering, when the change from the town to the city form of government was made in 1892, he served as Republican member of the board of registration, and for the following two years as city solicitor, hold- ing several minor offices in addition to those responsibilities. In 1897 and 1898 he was the prime mover in the campaign for the annexa- tion of Deering to Portland ; he was the chair- man of the annexation committee in Deering, and successfully conducted an active campaign to that end, presenting the matter before the legislative committee at the session of 1899, when the measure received its final passage and the annexation was consummated. Mr. Matthews is a member of the American Bar Association. Socially and fraternally he is as- sociated with: Deering Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Fraternity Lodge and Una Encampment, of Portland, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Portland Club; Con- gregational Club, of which he was secretary for several years; Maine Historical Society and Maine Genealogical Society. In 1883 he became a member of the Woodfords Congre- gational Church of Portland, with which he still affiliates.
He married, June 25, 1890, Annie B., daughter of Trueman and Harriet (Files) Harmon. ( See Harmon, Files, Phinney.) Mrs. Matthews is a member of the Woodfords Congregational Church, of the Elizabeth Wadsworth Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is prominent in lit- erary, musical and social circles. Mr. and Mrs. Matthews have one child: Vivian Har- mon, born August 14, 1895.
The Files family now numerous
FILES in Southwestern Maine, was es- tablished in this state by the Eng- lish immigrant ancestor who, after seeing arduous service in the wars, removed hither to spend his declining years.
(I) William Files was born in England in 1728. When nine years of age his dislike for his stepfather led him to run away from home and go on board a vessel bound for America, where he hid himself until the vessel was well out to sea; was brought to Massachusetts and sold to pay his passage. He was in the Eng- lish army at the capture of Fort William Henry on Lake George; was taken prisoner
by the Indians along with Zephaniah Harding, of Gorham, but by superior strength, he over- powered his captors, and hiding in a hollow log, he escaped. After his marriage he lived several years in York, Maine, where his first two children were born. About 1760 he moved to Gorham, where he died March 21, 1823, aged ninety-five years. He first built a log cabin, and later a two-story house which was afterward occupied by his great-grandson, the late David F. Files. The log cabin was just south of this house on the opposite side of the road. He married Joanna Gordon, of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, who died January, 1816, aged seventy-five years. Their children were : Ebenezer, Samuel, William, Robert, George, Joseph, Polly, Joanna and Betsey.
(II) Samuel, second son of William and Joanna (Gordon) Files, was born at York, Maine, August 4, 1759, but soon went with his father to Gorham. He entered the revolu- tionary army at sixteen years of age, and is one of the four mentioned in the Massachu- setts Revolutionary Rolls under the name of Files, or File. His record is as follows: "Pri- vate, Captain Hart Williams' company, Colonel Edmund Phinney's regiment ; muster roll dated Garrison at Fort George, December 8, 1776; enlisted December II, 1775; also corporal, Captain Alexander McClellan's com- pany, Colonel Jonathan Mitchel's regiment ; entered service July 7, 1779, discharged Sep- tember 25, 1779 ; service two months eighteen days, on Penobscot expedition; roll dated "Gorham." He lived on his father's place be- tween West Gorham and Fort Hill, where he died April 7, 1835, aged seventy-five years. He married September 28, 1780, Esther Thomes, who died at Gorham, March 1, 1844, aged eighty-one years. She was the daughter of Joseph (2) and Sarah ( Pickering) Thomes, of Gorham, a granddaughter of Joseph and Mary Thomes, first of Falmouth and later of Gorham, and a great-granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Thomes, who lived at Clay Cove, Falmouth (now Portland) in 1718 and united with Parson Smith's church. Chil- dren of Samuel and Esther Files: Samuel, Thomas, Joseph, Robert, Abigail, Eunice, George, Ebenezer Scott Thomes, Stephen, and Sarah.
(III) Ebenezer Scott Thomes, sixth son of Samuel and Esther (Thomes) Files, was born in 1795. After marriage he removed from Gorham to Thorndike, where he and his wife died. He married, May 14, 1818, Patience, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (Crockett) Phinney, of Gorham. Their children who
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married were: Albert H., Mary Ann, Ade- line, Harriett, Robert, Joseph, Esther and Ebenezer. Harriett married Trueman Har- mon (see Harmon, VII.) The Phinneys, a prominent family in the settlement of Maine, from whom Patience descended were of the race of John Phinney.
(I) John Phinney was of Plymouth, Mas- sachusetts and later of Barnstable. His first wife, Christian, died September 9, 1649. He married (second) June 10, 1650, Abigail, wife of Henry Coggin, who died May 6, 1653; and (third) June 26, 1654, Elizabeth Bayley. By the first wife, Christian, he had a son John, and perhaps others, by third wife, Elizabeth, he had Jonathan, Robert, Hannah, Elizabeth, Josiah, Jeremiah and Joshua.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) and Chris- tian Phinney, was born December 24, 1638, and baptized at Barnstable, July 31, 1653. He was a soldier in the swamp fight in King Philip's war in 1675. He married, August 10, 1664, Mary Rogers, whose father, Lieutenant Joseph Rogers, and his father, Thomas Rogers, had come to Plymouth in the "May- flower," 1620. John and Mary (Rogers) Phinney had children: John, Meletiah, Jo- seph, Thomas, Ebenezer, Samuel, Mary, Mercy, Reliance, Benjamin, Jonathan, Han- nah and Elizabeth.
(III) Deacon John (3), son of John (2) and Mary Rogers, was born in Barnstable, May 5, 1665, and died November 27, 1746. He married Sarah Lombard, May 30, 1689.
(IV) Captain John (4), son of Deacon John (3) and Sarah (Lombard) Phinney, was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, April 8, 1693, and died in Gorham, Maine, Decem- ber 29, 1780, aged eighty-seven. He settled in that part of Old Falmouth then called Pre- sumpscot on the river of that name. In May, 1736, he and his son Edmund pushed up river several miles and up Little River and made a clearing and built a camp on what is now called Fort Hill. There he brought his fam- ily, and they were the first settlers of the Gor- ham of to-day. He worked much in the ship yards at Presumpscot and Stroudwater. He was the leading citizen in his neighborhood, a brave, energetic, sagacious man, and looked after the interests of the little colony which soon grew up around him, with the affection and discretion of a father. Beloved and re- spected, he lived to see the forest give way and a flourishing little hamlet stand in its place. He married, September 25, 1718, Mar- tha, daughter of James and Patience Coleman,
of Barnstable. She died at Gorham, Decem- ber 16, 1784, aged eighty-seven. Their chil- dren were: Elizabeth, Edmund, Stephen, Martha, Patience, John, Sarah, Mary G., Cole- man and James.
(V) Colonel Edmund, eldest son of Cap- tain John (4) and Martha (Coleman) Phin- ney, was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, July 27, 1723, and died in Gorham, Decem- ber 15, 1808. He came with his father to Narragansett No. 7 (Gorham) and felled the first tree cut in the town for purposes of set- tlement. He was a man of great activity and energy, and all his life held a prominent place in the business affairs of the town, serving in many public capacities. He was selectman, one of the committee of safety, member of the provincial congress, and representative to the general court of Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the French and Indian wars, serv- ing as a sergeant in both Captain Berry's and Captain Hill's companies ; was a captain in the regiment of Captain Samuel Waldo Jr. about 1764, and in 1772 held a captain's commis- sion in the militia. His love for his country and his devotion to the cause of liberty were intense. In 1775 he received a colonel's com- mission, and was placed in command of the Thirty-first Massachusetts Regiment, which was composed entirely of citizens of Gorham and adjoining towns. This regiment he marched to Cambridge in July, 1775, and when the British evacuated Boston, in March, 1776, it entered the city and was stationed near Fort Hill. January I, 1776, he was com- missioned colonel of the Eighteenth regiment, in which his former command was merged. In the autumn of 1776 he marched his regi- ment to Ticonderoga, and during the follow- ing year he took an active part in the move- ments of the northern army until the surren- der of Burgoyne, when being out of health, he returned to his home to live again in re- tirement with his family. In 1781 he was colonel of the Third regiment of militia of Cumberland county. He joined the church in Windham, February 14, 1748, but was dis- missed December 23, 1750, to unite with the Gorham church, and became one of its first three ruling elders. He married (first) Betty, daughter of Clement and Sarah (Decker) Meserve, who lived at Portsmouth, Gor- ham and Bristol. She was born at Scar- borough, September 2, 1730, and died August 6. 1795, aged sixty-five. Colonel Phinney married (second) November 21, 1796, Sarah Stevens, widow of Benjamin Stevens. The
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children by the first marriage were: Patience, Decker, Sarah, Joseph, Betty, Edmund, Stephen, James and Nathaniel.
(VI) Joseph, second son of Colonel Ed- mund and Betty (Meserve) Phinney, was born March 14, 1757, and died September 10, 1825. He was a farmer and plow-maker. He married, June 18, 1780, Susanna Crockett, daughter of Peletiah and Mary. She was born in Stratham, New Hampshire, May 14, 1761, and died January 15, 1838, aged seventy- seven. Their children were: Mary, Eunice, Hannah, Stephen, Nathaniel, Rebecca, Phebe and Patience, who married Ebenezer Scott Thomes Files (see Files III).
HARMON Nathaniel and John Harmon, brothers, were in Massachu- setts in the second decade of its colonization. From the former have sprung the principal subjects of this sketch, while John settled at Springfield, and from him have come the Harmons of Vermont, Connecticut and New York.
(I) Nathaniel Harmon settled at Mount Wollaston (Braintree), Massachusetts, in 1640, and was made a freeman May 10, 1643. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Bliss, of Rehoboth, and had children : Nathaniel, Mary, John, Sarah, Jonathan and Ephraim.
(II) John, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Bliss) Harmon, removed from Mount Wol- laston, Massachusetts, to Wells, Maine, in 1677. He had been a soldier in King Philip's war, 1675-76, and fought in the decisive con- test of that struggle. He had land in a grant to the soldiers who took part in that war, made by the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, and in 1677 took up that portion of the grant to which he was entitled, on the river in Wells. His wife, whom he married about 1679, was named Sarah. They had children : John, Sarah, Samuel, Mary, Wil- liam and Nathaniel.
(III) Samuel, second son and third child of John and Sarah Harmon, was born in Wells, Maine, June 15, 1686. He purchased several large tracts of land at Scottaway Hill, after- ward known as Harmon's Hill, in Scarbor- ough, Maine, built a mill on the river there, known as Harmon's mill, and settled at the place in 1728. He became a comfortable land owner and a representative man of the sec- tion, and resided there until his death. He married, March 19, 1707, Mercy Stinson; children : Mercy, Sarah, Samuel, Jr., John, William, James and George.
(IV) John (2), second son and fourth
child of Samuel and Mercy (Stinson) Har- mon, was born in Wells, Maine, about 1718, and died in Standish, where he had lived for some years prior to his death. After the close of the Indian wars he removed with his pa- rents to Scarborough about 1728. He was married (first) December 2, 1742, to Mary Hasty, who died December 10, 1753. Their children were: Abigail, Mary, died young ; Daniel, John and Mary. He married (sec- ond) Widow Abigail (Hoyt) Foss and had children : William, Josiah, Elliot, Rufus, Benjamin and Anna.
(V) Josiah, second son and child of John (2) and Abigail (Hoyt) (Foss) Harmon, was born in Scarborough, November 5, 1759, and died in Corinna, about 1845. He pur- chased from Thomas Morton, July 3, 1805, a farm in Standish, to which he removed and on which he lived until May 4, 1827, when he sold it to his son Josiah, of Thorndike. He then removed to Thorndike and later to Corinna, where he ended his days. He was a veteran of the revolutionary war, having served as a fifer, with his brother William as a drummer, while both were still lads. He mar- ried Anna, born March 16, 1764, second child of Peter and Joanna (Shaw) Moulton, and great-great-granddaughter of Henry Moulton, one of the grantees of Hampton, New Hamp- shire. They had children: Peter, Luther, Jo- siah and Elias.
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