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(V) John (3), son of John (2) and Mary (Tucker) Sargent, was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, August 5, 1749. He was a manufacturer of woolens and established the first fulling mill in that section of Massachu- setts now the center of both cotton and woolen manufactory of the United States. He also conducted a flour mill and had the first mill in which flour was bolted so as to separate the flour from the middlings, by a process of sifting that he introduced. He married, Sep- tember 12, 1771, Elizabeth Bodwell, of Methuen ; children : 1. Asa, born in Methuen, April 25, 1773. (He is supposed to be the Asa Sargent who was a surgeon in the United
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States army in 1800.) 2. Abigail, January 26, 1775, married Stephen Runnells, of Methuen. 3. Molly, Methuen, April 21, 1777, married John Cluff, and had seven children. 4. Elizabeth, May 20, 1779, died 1788. 5. Frederick. April 17, 1781. 6. Sally, May 17, 1783, married Daniel Morrill, of Sutton, New Hampshire. 7. Sophia, April 27, 1785, died 1788. 8. John, May 18, 1787, died young. 9. John Tucker, April 24, 1790, married Abiah M. Frye, and died March 19, 1840. 10. Wil- liam A., January 26, 1792, married Wealthy Austin, of Salem, New Hampshire. II. Eliza B., May 20, 1794, married Ebenezer Kimball. 12. Rufus King, January 13, 1797, married Hannah Shaw, and died at Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, August 29, 1850. 13. Jedediah, Sep- tember. 1799, died young. Elizabeth ( Bod- well) Sargent died in Methuen, Massachu- setts, November 29, 1803, and on October 12, 1804, her husband married as his second wife Dorothy Huse, of Methuen, who was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, in 1773, and died at Methuen, August 8, 1852. The children of John and Dorothy ( Huse) Sargent were: I. Jedediah Warren, born May 2, 1805, married Clara F. Smith, of Newton, Massachusetts. Jedediah Warren Sargent was a Baptist cler- gyman receiving his training in theology at the Newton Theological Institution, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, graduating in 1834. 2. Sulvanus Gilman, February 19, 1807, married Martha A. Richards, of Hallowell, Maine, was a graduate of Waterville College, 1834, be- came a Baptist clergyman and died at Au- gusta, Maine, February 21, 1896. 3. Walter Taylor (q. v.), February 3, 1809. 4. George Anson, February 22, 18II.
(VI) Walter Taylor, third son of John (3) and Dorothy (Huse) Sargent, was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, February 3, 1809. He attended the public school of Methuen, worked in his father's fulling mill, and after 1828 in a woolen mill at Andover, Massachu- setts ; again attended school 1831-32 in South Reading ; Waterville Academy 1833-34; matriculated at Colby College, Waterville, in 1834, but was obliged to leave by reason of continued ill health and he worked in his fath- er's fulling mill in Methuen and in 1836 took up an elective course at Colby and was li- censed to preach by the Baptist church of Methuen. He supplied churches at Billerica and Randolph, Massachusetts, and at Somers- worth, New Hampshire, and in 1837 took his first regular pastorate at Buxton, Maine, and served that church one year. In July, 1838, he accepted a call to the Baptist church at
Damariscotta, Maine, and in August, 1838, was ordained as pastor, the service of ordina- tion being held August 14, 1838. He went from there to Bowdoinham, where he was pastor of the Baptist church in that place up to the spring of 1842, when he went to Mount Vernon, where he served 1843-49; was at Acton, Maine, 1849-55; Sanford, Maine, 1855-57: Green, Maine, 1857-64, where in a very small parish he baptized eighty-four converts. He was in Dexter, Maine, 1864-66; Richmond, Maine, 1866-70; Freeport, Maine, 1870-75; retired from active service in 1875, but continued his residence in Freeport, where he died in 1886. He married, May 3, 1837, Mary L. Hayden, of Winslow, Maine, born February 10, 1817, daughter of General Charles Hayden. The two children born to Rev. Walter Taylor and Mary L. (Hayden ) Sargent, were Charles and Walter, and both died in infancy. The mother died April 30. 1840. The Rev. Samuel F. Smith, of New- ton Centre, author of "America." preached the funeral service of Mrs. Sargent, and min- istered at the burial of her two children, and he had less than three years before conducted the ceremony of the marriage of Mrs. Sar- gent. Mr. Sargent married (second) June 3, 1841, Joan Greenleaf Quint, of Topsham, born in Bowdoinham, Maine, in 1820. Children : I. Mary Ellen, born Bowdoinham, July 28, 1842, married A. R. G. Smith, M.D., of North Whitefield. 2. Maria Frances, born at Mount Vernon, April 26, 1844, married James M. Sanborn. 3. Susan Jane, born at Brunswick, Maine, October 18, 1845, died May 17, 1878. 4. Sarah Elizabeth, born in Topsham. July 16, 1848, married Waterman T. Moore. 5. Anna Louisa, born in Acton, January 19, 1852, mar- ried Edward J. Wight, of Tacoma, Washing- ton. 6. Emma Caroline, born in Acton, Sep- tember 1, 1854, a school teacher in Freeport. 7. William Edward (q. v.). 8. Alice Crosby, June 5, 1864, deceased. 9. Kate Gertrude, June 7, 1866, deceased.
(VII) William Edward, only son of Rev. Walter Taylor and Joan Greenleaf (Quint) Sargent, was born in Sanford, Maine, May 23, 1856. He attended the public schools of Green, Dexter and Freeport, and was gradu- ated at Bowdoin College, A.B., 1878. He was master of the Topsham high school 1878-80; of the Freeport high school 1880-85: princi- pal of Hebron Academy since 1885. He has seen the school grow from sixty students in 1885 to over two hundred in 1908, and he has been obliged to turn scores of applicants away each year. The original endowment of $60 .-
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000 in 1885 has grown to over $200,000, and the buildings to house the students, library, laboratory, gymnasium and classes are among the best appointed in the state. The acad- emy celebrated its one hundredth anniversary in 1904. Professor Sargent is a member of the Baptist church; of the Republican party ; of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; of the Free and Accepted Masons; of the Knights of Pythias, and of several learned societies. He married, August 20, 1883, Ella Caroline Morgan, daughter of Captain Philip and Mary Ann (Dickman) Hale, of Balti- more, Maryland.
The name Runnells is sup- RUNNELLS posed to be of Scotch ori- gin. The coat of arms borne by the family is as follows: Argent masoned, sable upon a chief indented of the last, a plate charged with a rose, gules, barbed and secded, between two fleur-de-lis, or. Crest : a fox passant or, holding in its mouth a rose, as in the arms, slipped and leaved vert. Motto: Murus aheneus esto. Underneath, Runnells.
(I) Sergeant Samuel Runnells was born, according to family tradition, in 1674, near Port Royal, Nova Scotia. The tradition says that he and an elder brother escaped from an attack of Indians or pirates on their father's residence near Halifax and came in an open boat to New England. He resided in Brad- ford, Massachusetts, where he owned a farm. He also owned land in Boxford, and erected a house there. He was admitted to full com- munion in the Bradford Congregational church November 27, 1709. His will was dated March 5, 1744-45 and proved Novem- ber 25, 1745. He married Abigail Middleton, about 1700. She died October II, 1753, and he died October 27, 1745. Children : I. Stephen, born May 14, 1703. 2. Samuel, December 17, 1706. 3. John, March 9, 1710, died young. 4. John, born April 8, 1711, died July 6, 1713. 5. Job, born June 18, 1712. 6. Sarah, born October 31, 1716. 7. Abigail, November II, 1722. 8. Ebenezer, November 20, 1726, mentioned below.
(II) Ebenezer, son of Samuel Runnells, was born in Bradford, November 20, 1726, and baptized the next day. He was a black- smith by trade, and bought January 7, 1744, from the town of Haverhill, a piece of land on the Merrimack river, and March 6, 1748, a lot and dwelling house. He was successful in his business, and dealt largely in real estate. He owned much land in Hollis, New Hamp-
shire, and in Dunstable, Massachusetts. He was engaged considerably in the ironing of vessels, and had an interest in shipbuilding in Newburyport. His residence was situated on the present Washington Square, with the gar- den in the rear extending to the Little river. His shop was on the opposite side of the road, in the rear of the present Christian Baptist church. His will was dated February 10, 1795, and he died August 4, 1795. He mar- ried (first) in 1747, Abigail Sollis, of Bev- erley, who died October 3, 1765. He married (second) Hannah Smith, born in Haverhill, May 31, 1742, died there March 29, 1814. Children of first wife: I. Benjamin, born March 31, 1748, mentioned below. 2. Eben- ezer, born April 21, 1750. 3. John, born Au- gust 14, 1752, died September 14, 1753. 4. Stephen, born July 3, 1754. 5. John, born June 18, 1756, died June 16, 1760. 6. Molly, born July 1758. 7. Abigail, born December 7, 1760. 8. Thomas, born December 14, 1763, died November 16, 1765. Children of second wife: 9. Samuel, born March 15, 1767. 10. Thomas, born February 7, 1769. II. Nathaniel Stevens, born June 23, 1771. 12. Daniel, born October 22, 1773, died September 22, 1774. 13. Daniel, born December 18 (family record says September 22), 1775. 14. Ebenezer, born 1778. 15. Hannah, born April 22, 1783, died February 22, 1787. 16. Hannah, born July 12, 1787.
(III) Benjamin, son of Ebenezer Runnells, was born in Haverhill, March 31, 1748. In 1769 he went to Pownalborough, Maine, and thence to what is now Augusta, where he was one of the first settlers. He afterwards sold his land in Augusta for two dollars an acre. He served about two years in the revolution, and was with the army in New York. He was a private in Captain Timothy Heath's company, Colonel Samuel McCobb's regi- ment June 30 to September 25, 1779. His trade being that of a blacksmith, he helped to forge the chain which was stretched across the Hudson at West Point to keep the Brit- ish ships from going up the river. Meanwhile his family remained at Augusta, in constant danger from the Indians. One night seven Indians came to their house, ransacked it, and spent the night, to the terror of his wife and children. His wife always said that her life was only spared at the intervention of a squaw who was one of the party. In 1778 he re- moved farther up the river and built the first framed house in Waterville, about 1793. He did lumbering, and built a small vessel, claimed to be the first one launched on the upper Ken-
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nebec, and ran it to Augusta, twenty miles, before being rigged. He also built the first saw mill in Waterville, and subsequently the first at Pittsfield. He was the first representa- tive from the combined towns of Waterville and Winslow to the general court at Boston, and became owner of so much land that he was nicknamed "King" Runnells. Later he lost much of his property through the failure of one Shepard, an English contractor, and by other misfortunes, especially by losing on a contract of his own for furnishing masts to be sent to England. He died in Winslow, Maine, June 22, 1802. He married, in 1768, Hepsibah Bradley, of Haverhill, who died December 25, 1798. The family burial ground was selected by her on the east bank of the Kennebec, a mile or two above Waterville. Children: I. James, born January, 1769, in Haverhill. 2. Mary, born May, 1770, in Pow- nalborough, Maine. 3. John, born November 19, 1771, mentioned below. 4. Benjamin, born April, 1773, in Augusta. 5. Stephen, born February, 1775, in Augusta. 6. Ruth, born December, 1776, in Augusta. 7. Abigail, born March 4, 1778, in Winslow, Maine. 8. Rachel, born March 24, 1782, in Winslow. 9. David, born October 5, 1783, in Winslow.
(IV) John, son of Benjamin Runnells, was born November 19, 1771. He resided in Winslow, and later in Clinton, Maine. He married, October 19, 1795, Mary Brown, of Hancock Plantation. He died February 14, 1807, aged thirty-six. His wife inscribed his gravestone with her own hands, at Benton, near Kendall's Mills, and died there in March, 1856. Children, the two eldest born in Winslow, the others in Clinton: I. John, born November 12, 1796. 2. Oliver, born March 14, 1798, drowned near Kendall's Mills, in the Kennebec, November 28, 1818. 3. Damon, born July 11, 1800. 4. Elnathan, born December 8, 1802, died at Winslow, December 1, 1824. 5. James, born May 9, 1804, mentioned below. 6. Benjamin, born July 15, 1806.
(V) James, son of John Runnells, was born in Clinton, Maine, May 9, 1804. He was edu- cated in the public schools and at Kent's Hill, and taught school up to the time he was sixty- five years old. He had schools in Frankfort, Stockton, Searsport and Prospect, Maine. He settled in 1823, in Frankfort, where he re- sided most of his life. His last years were spent on his farm there. He was a lieutenant and afterwards captain in the militia at the time of the Aroostook war. He died in 1886.
In religion he was a Methodist. He married (first) January 12, 1829, Mary Elizabeth Dwelley, of Prospect, Maine, born September 18, 1808, died December 29, 1855. He mar- ried (second) in May, 1859, Rosilla Luce, of Union, Maine. Children, all by first wife: I. Lydia Ann, born January 12, 1831. 2. Wil- liam Thomas Curtis, born October 3, 1835, mentioned below. 3. Artemiza, born August 16, 1840, died at Frankfort, August 6, 1841. 4. Aurelia Adelaide, born July 6, 1850.
(VI) William Thomas Curtis, son of James Runnells, was born in Frankfort, Maine, Oc- tober 3, 1835. He was educated in the public schools and by his father, and studied three years under the tuition of Samuel Johnson, of Jackson, Maine, a graduate of Bowdoin Col- lege. He read law in the offices of Nehemiah Abbott, of Belfast, Maine, and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He began to practice in Searsport in the following year, and has con- tinued to the present time with eminent suc- cess. He was admitted to practice in the United States courts in 1875. In politics he is a Prohibitionist. He has been a member of the school committee of Searsport, superin- tendent of the schools, and county attorney for two years. He married, January 1, 1864, Caroline Sophia Frederika Hansen, born in Elsinore, Denmark, January 27, 1841, daugh- ter of Johan F. and Caroline (Hagedorn) Hansen, of Copenhagen, Denmark. Children : I. William Franklin, born February 18, 1865, mentioned below. 2. Lillian Grace, born Sep- tember 3, 1874, educated by her father, and in the State Normal School, Bridgewater, Massachusetts; teacher in Searsport schools six years, in Rockland (Massachusetts) schools five years, and for the past three years in Melrose, Massachusetts.
(VII) William Franklin, son of William Thomas Curtis Runnells, was born in Sears- port, Maine, February 18, 1865. He was edu- cated by his father, and taught school for sev- eral years. He read law under his father's instruction, and was admitted to the bar in Waldo county in 1886. He practiced his pro- fession in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, and Su- perior, Wisconsin, but after a few years re- turned east and located in Winterport, Maine. He left his practice there to take the position of superintendent and general manager of the foundry business of his wife's father at New- buryport, Massachusetts, which he has held for fifteen years, during that time enlarging the works and becoming a principal owner. Mr. Runnells married, March 20, 1889,
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Eleanor C. Russell, born March 20, 1869, daughter of Edward P. Russell, a prominent manufacturer of Newburyport.
This name spelled variously Bis-
BISBEE bredge, Besbridge, Besbrech, Besbitch, Bresbrech, Bisbe, Bes- bey, Bisby and Bisbee, is now written Bis- bee, the accepted orthography of the family in America. The first and only one we find among the early founders of New England is Thomas Besbeech, of Sandwich, England, who, with his six children and three servants (according to the History of Sandwich by Williams Boys, Canterbury, 1786), were emigrants on the ship "Hercules" of Sand- wich of two hundred tons. John Witherley, master, bound for "the plantation called New England in America with certificate from the ministers where they last dwelt of their con- versation and conformity to the orders and discipline of the church, and that they had taken the oath of allegiance and supremacy." Thomas Harman, vicar of Hedcorn, March 6, 1634, and Thomas Warren, rector of St. Peter's, Sandwich, March 13, 1634, furnished the necessary certificates to this Thomas Bes- beech, and these passengers constitute those who departed on the "Hercules" in or imme- diately after March, 1634-35.
(I) Thomas Bisbee, or as spelled on the ship's list "Bisbedge," must have been a mem- ber of the parish of St. Peter's, Sandwich, England, or the rector, Thomas Warren, would not have issued so important a certifi- cate. The name or fact of his having a wife in his company does not appear, and the pres- ence of three servants establishes his standing as a man of some wealth and position, as does his will in which he bequeathed all his lands in Hedcorn and Frittenden, Old England, to his grandson, Thomas Brown. The "Hercules" on which he reached Plymouth Colony, landed in Scituate Harbor in the spring of 1634, and he at once aided in the foundation of the town incorporated in 1636. The parish records of the early church have been lost, but the first church was regularly formed, a minister set- tled, and a society fully organized January 18, 1634, O. S. A meeting house for public wor- ship had been erected some years earlier, and the pulpit was occupied successively by : Lothrop, Chauncey Dunster and Baker. The first regularly ordained minister of the First Church of Scituate was Mr. John Lothrop, the . ceremony of induction into office were the laying on of the hands of the elders with prayer. These elders were elected, probably,
on the same day on which the ordination ser- vice was held, January 18, 1634, O. S., and they themselves ordained before they per- formed the office on Mr. Lothrop, and at this meeting Mr. Thomas Besbedge was insti- tuted one of the deacons of the church, and in this way he' became a founder of the town, having been made a freeman by the general court of Plymouth Colony, in company with Rev. John Lothrop and three others in 1637. He did not remain long in Scituate, however, as he purchased a house in Duxbury from William Palmer in 1638, and moved his fam- ily into it. In December, 1638, he was one of a committee of eight former or present residents of Scituate to receive a grant of lands at Seipican (now Rochester), but the people of Scituate did not accept the grant, as they had determined to remove to Barnstable, and in 1639 a majority of Mr. Lothrop's church did settle in Barnstable, but Mr. Bis- bee remained in Duxbury, and in 1643 was with William Basset elected deputies to the general court from that town. He next ap- pears as a petitioner from the town of Marsh- field to the general court, and his next move was to Sudbury, where he died March 9, 1674. If he had six children as appears on the ship's list of passengers, three must have died un- married, as only Elisha (q. v.) ; Alice, who married John Bourne, and Mary, who married William Brown, of Sudbury, are found in the records, and there is no mention of them or of his wife in his will which made his grandsons, William and Edward Brown, executors.
(II) Elisha, only known son of Thomas Bis- bee, immigrant, was born probably in his es- tates in Hedcorn, England, and came with his father to America in 1634. The only way we can approximate as to his age is the fact that in 1644 he kept the ferry in Scituate, where Union Bridge was subsequently built. He was a cooper by occupation, and his house at the ferry was used by his son Elisha and a tavern stood on the west side of the highway. The christian name of his wife was Joanna, and the birth of his first child was in 1645, and it is presumable he married in Scituate and that his children were born there. They were : I. Hopestill; born 1645, married, his wife Sarah surviving him, and married (second) Joseph Lincoln, of Hingham, thus becoming his second marriage. 2. John (q. v.), 1647. 3. Mary, 1649, married Jacob Best, of Hing- ham, January 15, 1678-79. 4. Elisha, 1654, married (first) Sarah, daughter of Thomas King, of Scituate, and (second) March 25, 1685, Mary (Jacob) Bacon, widow of Samuel
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Bacon, and daughter of John and Margery ( Eames) Jacob. Ensign Elisha resided in South Hingham, where he died March 4, 1715-16. 5. Hannah, 1656, married, 1689, Thomas Brooks, and Martha, probably his daughter, married Jonathan Turner.
(III) John, second son of Elisha and Jo- anna Bisbee, was born in Scituate in 1647. He married, in Marshfield, September 13, 1687, Joanna Brooks, moved to Pembroke and died there September 24, 1726, his wife having died on August 17, of the same year. Their chil- dren were: I. Martha, born October 13, 1688. 2. John, September 15, 1690, married Mary Oldham. 3. Elijah, January 29, 1692, mar- ried Sarah 4. Mary, March 28, 1693. 5. Moses (q. v.), October 20, 1695. 6. Elisha, May 3, 1698, married Patience Soanes. 7. Aaron, married Abigail . 8. Hopestill, April 16, 1702, removed to Plympton and mar- ried Hannah Churchill.
(IV) Moses, third son of John and Joanna (Brooks) Bisbee, born October 20, 1695, mar- ried and removed to East Bridgewater, where his wife Mary bore him six children, as fol- lows: I. Abigail, who died young. 2. Miriam, born 1724. 3. Charles (q. v.), 1726. 4. Jo- anna, 1729, married John Churchill. 5. Mary, 1733, died young. 6. Tabitha, 1735.
(V) Charles, son of Moses and Mary Bis- bee, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1726. After the revolutionary war he settled in Sumner, Maine, where on June 9, 1874, there was a gathering of his descendants at the old Bisbee Homestead, the invitation to thus meet having been given by Captain Lewis Bisbee, grandson of the patriarch, Charles, who lived at the time on the old homestead and was made chairman of the meeting, and an address was delivered by George D. Bis- bee (q. v.), of the fourth generation from the patriarch. He married Beulah, daughter of Rowse Howland, of Pembroke, probably a de- scendant of Arthur Howland, of Marshfield, who subsequently removed to Pembroke. He was a soldier in the American revolution, his two eldest sons, Elisha and Charles, also taking part in that conflict, and after the close of the war he joined the company of adven- turers who left the old colony town to make a new home in the Maine woods, and he pur- chased land in the township of Sharon ( after- ward Butterfield), and the part of Butterfield in which he settled was incorporated in 1798 as the town of Sumner. In 1783 he visited his land and put up a rude tenement for his fam- ily in the then wilderness, and in the follow- ing spring he with his family took packet from
Scituate Harbor and landed at Yarmouth, pro- ceeding thence through the wilderness on horseback to his waiting cabin, and arrived there June 5, 1784. With the aid of his seven stalwart boys he soon cleared up a good farm and he lived to see his children comfortably settled around him. He died in Sumner, Maine, June 5, 1807, the twenty-fifth anni- versary of his arrival with his family in the place which had grown into a prosperous town. His widow Beulah outlived him nine years, and died September 1, 1816. Their children, all born in Pembroke, Massachu- setts, were: I. Elisha (q. v.). 2. Charles, 1758, married Desire Dingley, of Marshfield, and was a soldier in the American revolution. 3. Mary, 1760, married Charles Ford. 4. Moses, February 21, 1765, married Ellen Buck. 5. John, married Sarah Philbrick. 6. Solomon, September 3, 1769, married Ruth Barrett. 7. Calvin, October 14, 1771, married Bethiah Glover. 8. Rowse, October 17, 1775, married Hannah Caswell. 9. Celia, married Joshua Ford.
(VI) Elisha (2), first child of Charles and Beulah (Howland), was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1757, removed with the fam- ily to the wilderness of Maine after the revo- lutionary war, in which he served as a sol- dier, married, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1779, Mary Pettingill, and his wife and two children accompanied him to their new home in Sumner, Maine, where their other eight children were born. The date of the death of the father and mother is not recorded. The children of Elisha and Mary ( Pettingill) Bis- bee were : 1. Susan, born in Duxbury, Massa- chusetts, March 26, 1780, married Nathaniel Bartlett, of. Hartford, Maine, March 28, 1802. 2. Sally, born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, be- fore 1784, married Gad Hayford, of Hartford, Maine. 3. Anna, born in Maine after 1784, married, March 24, 1805, Stephen Drew, of Turner, Maine. 4. Elisha Jr. (q. v.), May 8, 1786. 5. Daniel, married Sylvia Stevens, of Sumner. 6. Hopestill, April 27, 1791, mar- ried, December 18, 1817, Martha Sturtevant. 7. Molly, January 4, 1794, married Nehemiah Bryant, probably in 1810, and ( second) Lem- uel Dunham, of Hartford, Maine, October 3, 1825, and had four children by each husband. 8. Theresa, married Barney Howard, and had five children. 9. Huldah, married Sampson Reed, of Hartford, had eight children, and died in 1842. 10. Horatio, August 13, 1800. married Eunice White, March 27, 1823, and had ten children.
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