Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume III, Part 87

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 818


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(IV) Isaac (2), eldest son of Isaac (I) and Marjory ( Bruce) Walker, was born in Woburn, July 12, 1707. He was by trade a tailor, and was known by his familiar friends as "Tailor Isaac." He married, about 1730, Sarah Breed, and they had five sons: Joseph, 1732: Ezekiel, 1735; James (q. v.), 1739; Isaac, 1741 ; Samuel, 1745; all born in Pen- acook ; he lived in the "Garrison House" erected by his father, and died there Septem- ber I, 1782. He removed to Penacook, Mas- sachusetts (now New Hampshire), before the organization of that town, and was an original proprietor, taking part in the formation of town government under the direction of the general court of the province of Massachu- setts Bay in 1725. The name of the town was changed to Rumford in 1730, and in 1765, when the boundary between New Hampshire and Massachusetts was fixed, the place became Concord, New Hampshire.


(V) James, son of Isaac (2) and Sarah (Breed) Walker, was born in Rumford, Mas- sachusetts, April 2, 1739. He married Ruth Abbott and had children, including James, mentioned below.


(VI) James (2), son of James (I) and Ruth ( Abbott) Walker, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, July 26, 1778. He married a Miss Charles, and lived in Stowe, Maine, and had eight children, as follows: Judith, Sally, Abigail, Susan, Samuel, James, Barnes, Isaac. James (2) Walker was killed by being run over by an ox team while driving home from Portland, the accident taking place at Standish Plains, Maine.


(VII) Isaac (3), fourth son and youngest child of James (2) Walker, was born 1799, in Stowe, Maine, was educated in the common district school of his native frontier town, and was brought up on his father's farm. On reaching manhood he bought a farm in Frye- burg, Maine. He married Eliza Colby, who was born in Fryeburg in 1806, and they had four children, as follows: Simeon Colby, died January 12, 1860; Sarah Elizabeth, Augustus


Hall, Olive Chandler. He was a Whig in state and national politics, and served as a member of the board of selectmen of Frye- burg. He was a member of the Congrega- tional church of that town. He died 1840.


(VIII) Augustus Hall, youngest son of Isaac (3) and Eliza (Colby) Walker, was born in Fryeburg, Maine, December 22, 1833. He was educated in the public school, Bridg- ton Academy, at North Bridgton, and Bow- doin College, where he passed through the freshman and sophomore years, and then en- tered the junior class of Yale College, and was graduated A. B. in 1856. He then read law in the office of D. R. Hastings, of Lovell, Maine, and with the law firm of Fessenden & Butler, and he was admitted to the bar in 1858. He practiced law in Anoka, Minnesota, up to July, 1859, when he returned to Maine on account of the severe illness of his brother, Simeon Colby Walker, who died January 12, 1860, and he thereupon began the practice of law at Fryeburg Village, and he carried on a success- ful practice there up to October, 1861, when he returned to Lovell, Maine, and was equally successful for twenty years. In June, 1881, he went to Bridgton, where he opened a law office and became president of the Bridgton Savings Bank; was elected state senator for two terms, 1881-82, and in the senate he served as chairman of the committee on legal affairs and as a member of the committee on towns, and was the only lawyer on that com- mittee. He served as judge of probate for Oxford county for thirteen years; was made a member of Delta Lodge, A. F. and A. M .; of the Oriental Royal Arch Chapter, and Ori- ental Commandery, Knights Templar. He married, October 1, 1863, Mary E., daughter of Stephen Thurston, of Bangor, Maine, and they had one daughter, Alice Thurston, born October 12, 1865. The mother died March 26, 1875, and the daughter August 24, 1876. November 17, 1881, Mr. Walker married his deceased wife's sister, Emma Thurston. He is an attendant of and contributor to the work in the Congregational church at Bridgton, Cumberland county, Maine, where he reads and practices law.


WALKER George Summerfield Walker, one of the genial and intelli- gent citizens of Watertown, whose friends are numbered by the list of his acquaintances, is a native of the county and a scion of one of the earliest American fam- ilies.


(I) The records of Rehoboth, Massachu-


augustus H. Walker.


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setts, show that one of the original proprietors of the town was "Widow Walker," whose property in 1643 was valued at fifty pounds sterling. After 1646 the name disappears from the records, which may have been due to her removal to another town, with her sons.


(II) James Walker, of Taunton, Massa- chusetts, son of "Widow" Walker, of Reho- both, was born in England 1619 or 1620, but our search has not discovered the place in which he was born. He was probably a pas- senger on the "Elizabeth," Master William Stagg, who sailed his ship from London, April 15, 1634, as the names of James Walker, aged fifteen, and Sara Walker, aged seventeen, servants, and that of Jo. Browne, a baker, and William Brassy, a linen draper, in Cheapside, London, had signed their certificate of their conformity. On the same ship were Richard Walker, aged twenty-four, and William Walker, aged fifteen, and their certificate was signed by Sir William Whitmore and Sir Nicholas Ranton. This is the first and only time the name appears on any ship's list of passengers before 1655, and there is only one year variance between the age of this James Walker and the records of the gravestone in the Walker burial place in South Taunton, where he was buried. The ship "Elizabeth" landed at Nantesket, or Hingham, in Massa- chusetts Bay, and William, one of the pas- sengers, went to Salem. The Richard Walker named was a son of Richard, of Saugus, or Lynn, the father having preceded him. Sara, his sister, married John Tisdill, of Duxbury, and James married Elizabeth Phillips. As Taunton was originally a portion of the town of Dorchester, the settlement in that place is entirely reasonable. These three Walkers, evidently cousins, distributed as follows : James and Sara settled in Taunton with John Browne, their uncle and guardian. William in Eastham, and Richard joined his father in Lynn. James is first recorded as being in Taunton, 1643, being enrolled as able to bear arms, the list appearing : "Mr. John Browne, Mr. William Poole, John Browne, James Walker." James Walker, the Hingham im- migrant, 1634, son of "Widow" Walker, the mother of all the Walker immigrants of this period, was a settler in Taunton, Massachu- setts Bay Colony, before 1643. He was a


member of the committee appointed to dis- tribute the portion of the relief fund for those suffering from Indian warfare, and when the division was marked between Massachusetts Bay colony and Plymouth colony he was a deputy to the Plymouth court for sixteen


years from 1654. He was a member and chairman of the town council of war, 1667, and again 1675 and 1678, and one of the council of war of Plymouth colony in 1658- 61-71-81. He was assigned in the division of lands ninety-six acres. He had no military title, but was content to be a servant in both church and state. The children of James and Elizabeth ( Phillips) Walker were: I. James, 1645-46, married Bathsheba Brooks, died June 22, 1718. 2. Peter (q. v.). 3. Hester, 1650, married Joseph Woods, had four children, and died April 9, 1696. 4. Eleazer, 1662, never married, died December 15, 1724. 5. De- borah, married George Goodwin, died about May, 1726.


(III) Peter, son of James and Elizabeth (Phillips) Walker, was born in Taunton, 1649, married Hannah Hutchinson, and was engaged in the town business with Hon. James Phillips. He had three sons and three daugh- ters, as follows: I. Peter (q. v.). 2. Ed- ward, 1692, married Mercy Richard. The name "Peter" is retained in each successive generation that lived in Taunton to the fifth and sixth, and as no child named Peter ap- pears in the Woburn or Lynn families it is reasonable to assume that Peter, the immi- grant, was the earliest determined ancestor of Charles Francis Walker, of Gardiner, Kenne- bec county, Maine, and this would place Peter, of York, Maine, who married Hannah Hutch- inson, in the third generation from James, the immigrant of Rehoboth and Taunton.


(IV) Peter. (2), supposedly son of Peter (I) and Hannah (Hutchinson) Walker, and grandson of James Walker, was born about 1689, and lived in York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and removed to Kennebunkport, where he married and had a son Joshua.


(V) Joshua, son of Peter (2) Walker, of York, Maine, born about 1705, lived in Ken- nebunk, where he married Hannah Perkins.


(VI) John, son of Joshua and Hannah (Perkins). Walker, born in 1739, came to Litchfield, Maine, from Kennebunkport in 1798, and settled east of Oak Hill on the road leading from the Hall school house to Litch- field Corner. He served in the American rev- olution, and was ensign of his company. He was married in 1759 to Elizabeth Burbank, and he died in Litchfield, Kennebec county, Maine, May 2, 1816, aged seventy-seven years. The children born in Kennebunkport and who came with him to Litchfield were: I. Captain Lemuel. 2. Betsy, married Jonathan Walker, and died in Litchfield, March 14, 1846. 3. Sarah, married Harrison Downing.


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4. Hannah, married Bracey Curtis, lived in Kennebunkport. 5. Ebenezer, died May 22, 1805, aged twenty-nine years. 6. Miriam, married James Alexander. 7. Esther, mar- ried Gould Jewell. 8. Eunice, married Robert Johnson, September 23, 1810. 9. Joshua, born June, 1780, married Sally Huntington in 1808. (VII) Captain Lemuel, son of John and Elizabeth (Burbank) Walker, was born in Kennebunkport, Maine, about 1765. Captain Lemuel married (first) Hannah Allen, born in Kennebunkport about 1760, died in Litch- field, Kennebec county. He was a sea captain and carried on an extensive trade with the West Indies, making repeatedly successful trips between New England ports and the ports of the West Indies. He served when quite young in the American army in the rev- olutionary war, and he was a pensioner before taking up life as a seaman. Among the ves- sels captured by the French in 1799 was "the ship 'Phoebe,' Captain Lemuel Walker from Kennebunkport." He was a representative in the general court of Massachusetts before he removed to Gardiner, Maine, in 1802. He served on the school committee of Litchfield after 1805, and was also on the school com- mittee. He married Hannah Allen, and their children were : I. Samuel, lost at sea. 2. William, lost at sea, having sailed from Bath, Maine. 3. George, married Abigail Springer, November 25, 1813. 4. James, married Mar- garet S. Chase, December, 1825. 5. Elvira Daley, May, 1830. 6. Hannah, married Thom- as Dennis, November 16, 1813, and lived in Hallowell. Maine. 7. Elizabeth, married John Dennis, November 26, 1807. 8. Amelia, mar- ried Thomas Lord, January 30, 1820, and. lived in Hallowell, Maine. 9. Lemuel, died August 6, 1828. 10. John, died November 3, 1847. II. Charles, married Achsah Sawin, and lived in Boston. 12. Betsy, died August 12, 1828. 13. Joshua (q. v.). -


(VIII) Joshua, son of Captain Lemuel and Hannah (Allen) Walker, born in Litchfield, Maine, March 24, 1806, married, December 24, 1829, Hannah S., daughter of Jeremiah and Annie (Springer) Potter. She was born in Litchfield, August 5, 1806. He was a farmer, and he owned sixty-eight acres of good farming land in Litchfield, which he cul- tivated up to 1850, when he sold his farm and removed to Richmond. He was a man of public spirit, and was greatly interested in the welfare of the town of Litchfield, where he was a member of the school board and a sur- veyor of highways. He was a Whig in party politics, and was a prompt attendant at all


public meetings and at the polls at every elec- tion. He was a member of the Free Baptist church. Mr. Walker died in Richmond, Maine, March 28, 1851, and his widow died in the homestead, May 20, 1853. They had six children, all sons, born in Litchfield, as follows: I. Jeremiah P., September 27, 1830, married Elizabeth Call; was a soldier in the civil war and died in Maryland. 2. Samuel W., May 31, 1832, died May 20, 1853. 3. James (q. v.), September 24, 1834. 4. George W., October 6, 1837, died at St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota, January 15, 1856. 5. Ed- win, March 9, 1841, died September, 1906; married Harriett Howell, and lived in Ded- ham, Massachusetts. 6. Isaac N., June 29, 1843, died in Limestone, Maine, July 8, 1861.


(IX) Captain James, third son of Joshua and Hannah S. ( Potter) Walker, was born in Litchfield, Maine, September 24, 1834. He was a pupil in the public schools of Litchfield, and when he left school was quite young, but a rugged, healthful youth. He was first em- ployed in the lumber and saw mill business in Richmond, Maine, for the Foster & Spaulding Company, and after three years such service he went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he spent one year in prospecting with the inten- tion of settling in the great west. At that time Minnesota was the frontier of civiliza- tion and did not prove attractive to young men brought up in New England. He returned to Maine, Gardiner, and formed a partnership with Mr. Bridge, and they built a sawmill at Limestone in 1857, and conducted it success- fully up to the outbreak of the civil war in 1861. This event changed all his plans, and his patriotism was fired as the news of the danger to the safety and stability of the United States increased with the repeated disasters that met our army at the beginning of the war, and he abandoned the sawmill and en- listed. October 31, 1861, in the Fifteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and was assigned to Company E, which was recruiting at Fair- field, and the regiment was sent to the south- west as a part of the expedition of General Benjamin F. Butler, sent to capture New Or- leans and open the Mississippi river in co- operation with the naval fleet of Rear Admiral Farragut and Captain Porter. He was ap- pointed sergeant of the company, second lieu- tenant, September 2, 1863; captain, May 9, 1865. His regiment followed the fleet up the river on transports and landed at New Or- leans upon the capitulation of that city, suc- ceeding the capture of the forts. He first saw active field service at Camp Parapit. Pensa-


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cola, and then in the defense of New Orleans. He accompanied the Bank's expedition into Louisiana and up the Red river, seeing and taking part in the battles that ensued in Lou- isiana and Texas. While in Texas his regi- ment re-enlisted for the war, and the winter of 1863 was spent in Texas. The regiment was transferred from the southwest to the National capital in the spring of 1864, and he was in the battles before Washington, at Har- per's Ferry, Leesburg and in the Shenandoah Valley under the gallant and unresistible Gen- eral Sheridan. In August, 1864, the regiment was sent on a vacation furlough in Maine, and in September they were ordered to Martins- burg, Virginia, and they guarded the army supplies held in the Valley of the Shenandoah, spending the winter at Stephenson's Station, and in the spring, when the confederates evac- uated Richmond, were sent up the valley, and marched to head off any such movement. The regiment was at Charlestown, Virginia, when the news of President Lincoln's assassination startled the country and shocked the world, and this regiment was ordered to Washington to guard the city. On May 24, 1865, the regi- ment took part in the grand review, and soon after was ordered to Savannah, Georgia, and thence into South Carolina to protect the citi- zens in the disturbed condition of local affairs, pending the formation of state government. This duty sent the regiment to the various court houses in the state, and they continued on such duty up to July 5, 1866, when the veteran regiment was mustered out of the United States service.


On returning to Gardiner, the veteran sol- dier engaged in the brick manufacturing busi- ness at Richmond, Maine, and in 1869 sold out the brick business and engaged as a box manu- facturer and a manufacturer of spruce excel- sior, and this business he carried on success- fully up to 1903, when he transferred the busi- ness to a ready purchaser and began the manu- facture of doors, sash and blinds with his son, Charles F., under the firm name of James Walker & Son, and they employed over twenty trained workmen in the business con- tinually. He became a prominent factor in the Republican party in Maine, served in both branches of the city government of Gardiner. and was mayor of the city in 1897-98. He is a director in the Gardiner National Bank and a trustee of the Gardiner Savings Bank. His military service was recognized by the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States through the Commandery of Maine, electing him to companionship, and by the Grand


Army of the Republic through Heath Post, No. 6, of Gardiner, Maine, receiving him as a comrade and electing him commander of the post. He is also a master workman in the Ancient Order United Workmen, and a mem- ber of the Free Baptist church. He was mar- ried, August 21, 1864, to Julia, daughter of Annis and Sarah (Edgcomb) Douglass, and their children, born in the city of Gardiner, are : Charles Francis and Clara Ellen.


(X) Charles Francis, eldest child and only son of Hon. James and Julia (Douglass) Walker, was born in Gardiner, Maine, Sep- tember 19, 1872. He was prepared for busi- ness life in the Shaw Business School of Au- gusta, Maine, and on completing the course as prescribed in that school entered his father's manufactory as a clerk and overseer, and in 1903 he was made a partner, the firm being James Walker & Son. Like his father, he is an earnest Republican, and by right of inheri- tance became a member of Danforth Maxcey Camp, Sons of Veterans, of Gardiner. He was also admitted to membership in the Gar- diner Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. He was married, October 12, 1893, to Gertrude, daughter of Charles and Mattie E. (Kimbal) Hamilton, of Randolph, Maine, and their children, all born in Gardiner, Maine, are: I. Madeline Hamilton, born July 22, 1894. 2. Helen, April 30, 1895. 3. James Lee, January 2, 1896. 4. Julia, September 12, 1902, died aged six months. 5. Marion E., May 21, 1907, died January 21, 1908.


BOYNTON The members of this early immigrant family in America trace its pedigree through many generations in this country and England to the time of the Conquest. In a sequestered rural neighborhood bordering on the town of Bridlington and not far from the shore of the North Sea, in the eastern part of Yorkshire, England, stands the ancient village of Boyn- ton, which derives importance from its having given name to the family of Boynton, and their principal seat for centuries. The manor house was from a very early period the residence of the Boyntons, the family sent forth branches into the neighboring villages, at an early pe- riod, East Heslerton and Wintringham being the abode for several generations of that branch whose descendants, William and John, came to New England in 1637 and settled at Rowley, Massachusetts.


(I) Bartholomew de Boynton, who was seized of the manor of Boynton in 1067, was the first mentioned as having used the name as


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a surname. He was succeeded in his estite by liis son.


(11) Walter de Boynton, son of Bartholo- inew de Boynton, was living in 1091.


(111) Bruis de Boynton, probably a son of Walter ( 1) de Boynton, left his name on a document dated 1120.


(IV) Sir Ingram de Boynton, knight, suc- ceeded Bruis de Boynton, and lived in 1159. He left a son, his lieir.


(V) Thomas de Boynton, son of Sir In- gram de Boynton, married and left at least one son.


(VI) Robert de Boynton, son of Thomas (1) de Boynton, flourished in 1205, and by his wife, daughter of Thomas Burgh, Esq., left a son.


(VII) Ingraham de Boynton, son of Rob- ert (I) de Boynton, was living in 1235 and 1258. He married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Walter Grindall, by whom he had one child or more.


(VIII) Walter (2) de Boynton, son of In- graham (I) and Margaret (Grindall ) de Boynton, lived in 1273, and married the daugh- ter of Ingram Mounscaux, and had issue.


(IX) Ingraham (2) de Boynton, son of Walter (2) de Boynton, was living in 1272 and 1307. He married a daughter of St. Quintine and had one child or more.


(X) Sir Walter (3) de Boynton, son of In- graham (2) de Boynton, was knighted in 1356, being in the service of the Prince of Wales, in Brittany. He married a daughter of William Alton, and left issue.


(XI) Sir Thomas (2) de Boynton of Ac- clam, son of Sir Walter (3) de Boynton, was lord of the ancient demesne of Boynton, of Acclome and Aresome. in right of his mother, and of Rouseby, Newton, and Swaynton, by his wife Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Sir Gifford Rossells, of Newton, Knight. He left a son.


(XII) Sir Thomas (3) Boynton, Knight, son of Sir Thomas (2) de Boynton, married Margaret, daughter of Speeton, of Sawcock, and left issue.


(XIII) Sir Henry Boynton, Knight, son of Sir Thomas (3) Boynton, joined Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who had taken up arms against Henry IV, in 1405. They were defeated and Sir Henry, with seven others, was executed at Sadbury, in Yorkshire, July 2, 1405. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Merrifield, Knight, and by her had daughters, Janett and Elizabeth, and two sons, Thomas, who died at the age of twelve years, and William, next mentioned.


(XIV) William, son of Sir Henry Boyn- ton, married Jane, daughter of Simon Hard- ing, and left a child or children.


(XV) Sir Thomas (4), Knight, son of William (1) and of Jane ( Harding) Boyn- ton, made his will July 28, 1408, which was proved on September 6 following. He mar- ried Margaret, daughter of William Normin- ville, and they had two sons-Henry, the elder and heir, and Christopher, the subject of the next paragraph.


(XVI) Sir Christopher, younger son of Sir Thomas (4) and Margaret ( Normanville) Boynton, had his seat at Sadbury, in York- shire. He married the daughter of Sir John Coignes, of Ormesbury, Knight, and had is- sue.


(XVII) Sir Christopher (2), of Sadbury, Knight, son of Sir Christopher ( 1) Boynton, also had estates in Heslerton and Newton, and in the parish of Wintringham. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Wanford, by whom he had one son, William, who died without issue. By his second wife, Jane, daughter of Robert Strangeways, of Kelton, he had daughters, Elizabeth and Jane, and two sons, Sir Christopher, whose male issue is ex- tinct, and Robert, next mentioned.


(XVIII) Robert (2), son of Sir Christo- pher (2) and Jane (Strangeways) Boynton, of East Heslerton, died in 1526, leaving by his wife Anges sons : John, of East Heslerton : Richard, of Newton, who died in 1539; Will- iam, a priest, and James, mentioned in the next paragraph.


(XIX) James, son of Robert (2) and Ag- nes Boynton, of Wintringham, made his will in 1534 and died the same year, leaving a wid- ow Jane and sons Roger, William and Chris- topher.


(XX) Roger, eldest son of James and Jane Boynton, was also of Wintringham, and re- sided at Knapton, in that parish. He died in 1558. By his wife Jenet, daughter of Watson, he had sons: James, Richard, Will- iam, Edmund, and a daughter Alice.


(XXI) William (2), third son and child of Roger and Janet ( Watson) Boynton, re- sided also at Knapton, in Wintringham. He died in 1615, leaving a widow Margaret, who was his second wife; sons Francis, Daniel, John and William, and daughters Anne and Margaret.


(XXII) William (3), youngest son of William (2) and Margaret Boynton, was ex- ecutor of his father's will, and residuary lega- tee. He continued to reside at Knapton, where his sons William and John were born. (Men-


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tion of the latter and descendants appears in this article.)


(XXIII) William (4), son of William (3) Boynton, was born in 1606 at Knapton, East Riding, Yorkshire, England. With his brother John he embarked at Hull in the fall of 1638 and arrived in Boston that same year. The party was under the charge of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, and they settled in Rowley, Massachu- setts, where William Boynton was assigned a lot of land on Bradford street, to which he subsequently added by extensive purchases in various parts of the county. During his life- time he gave a farm to each of his children, and the remainder of his estate he left to his wife, Elizabeth Jackson, who came with him from England. In the records he is called a planter and weaver, but in the deeds he is called a tailor. He must have been a man of education and influence, for he taught the school from 1656 to 1681, and was probably the first person employed as schoolmaster in the town. The children, born in Rowley, Mas- sachusetts, were: John, Elizabeth, Zachariah, Joshua, Mary, Caleb and Sarah.


(XXIV) Joshua, third son and fourth child of William (4) and Elizabeth (Jackson) Boynton, was born March 10, 1646, at Rowley, Massachusetts. In 1673 his father gave him a farm in Newbury containing a hundred acres, where he lived more than fifty years. He was a soldier under Major Appleton in the wars at Narragansett in 1675, and also under Cap- tain Brocklebank when the latter was slain by the Indians in April, 1676. Joshua Boynton was thrice married. His first wife was Han- nah Barnet, of Newbury, to whom he was united April 9, 1678. She died January 12, 1722, at Newbury, and he married widow Mary Syles, of Rowley, who died July 28, 1727. On October 30 of that year he married Mary, widow of his cousin, John Boynton. There were twelve children in all, of whom the first five at least belonged to the first marriage. There is some discrepancy in the dates of birth of the others, and the record gives the last seven as born at Rowley. Joshua Boynton's will was proved November 12, 1736, showing that he had reached the age of ninety years.




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