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raim Savage and wife Elizabeth sold a thou- sand acres of land at Whigby on the Kenne- bec, alias Woisqueage, January 6, 1714-15, to John and Hannah Butler "for parental affec- tion." Butler deeded back some of the land on Hanover Island, Georgetown, February 20, 1720-21. This land was bounded by land of John Minot and others. Ephraim deeded back this land to his daughter Hannah, widow of John Butler, April 9, 1730. Richard Whar- ton, of Boston, owned much land in what is now Georgetown. By permission of the court, Ephraim Savage, administrator of his estate, sold this land to a syndicate of Boston men, of whom Stephen Minot was one. Minot was extensively interested in land along the Ken- nebec and about Georgetown. The land in which we are specially interested was on the island of Arrowsic, now in Georgetown, and was called Pleasant Cove, when James Minot, of Boston, who inherited it from Stephen Minot, sold it to Arthur Noble, November 3, 1733. This was part of the land that Eph- raim Savage deeded to the Pejepscot Com- pany, as Stephen Minot and others in this land speculation, called it. It was in the second division of this land and consisted of eight hundred acres on Winnegance creek on the Kennebec along Fiddlers beach adjoining land of Adam Winthrop. The deed states that the farm was "in the present tenure and occupation of James Savage and Thomas Williams." So we know that at the time Ephraim Savage sold the land or very soon after James Savage occupied it. That he was a nephew, son of one of Ephraim's numerous brothers, seems certain. Again James Savage is mentioned, January 5, 1729, in a deed of John Butler, son-in-law of Ephraim Savage, as occupying a farm on land deeded Butler by Ephraim Savage. If not the same farm it was part of the original property owned by Ephraim Savage or Richard Wharton at Ar- rowsic.
Ephraim Savage married (first) Mary Quincy, daughter of Edmund Quincy Jr., of Braintree; (second) Sarah, February 26, 1678, daughter of Rev. Samuel Hough. She died in 1687 and he married (third) April 12, 1688, Elizabeth Symmes, widow of Timothy Sym- mes, daughter of Captain Francis Norton, of Charlestown. She died April 13, 1710, and he married (fourth) January 8, 1713, Eliza- beth (Brown) Butler, daughter of Abraham Brown and widow of Peter Butler. Chil- dren of first wife, born in Boston and all died young. I. Mary, November 19, 1671. 2. Mary. April 8, 1673. 3. John, November 30,
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1674, graduate of Harvard, 1694. 4. Han- nah, August 7, 1676. Children of second wife: 5. Sarah, October 27, 1678-79, married Joshua Wells. 6. Mary, November 10, 1680; married Zechary Trescott. 7. Richard, Sep- tember 15, 1682. 8. Elizabeth, January 8, 1685. 9. Hannah, January 17, 1687, married (first) John Butler; (second) about 1730 Parmenter.
(III) James, nephew of Ephraim Savage and son probably of his younger brother, John Savage, was born before 1700, probably in Maine. As stated above, he was a tenant of land owned by Ephraim Savage, later by John Butler and Stephen Minot on Arrowsic, Georgetown, Maine, before 1729. He went there, the local history tells us, to carry on the farm for Stephen Minot. In 1745 he bought a farm of three hundred acres at Nequasset of Edward Hutchinson. The title of the land was in dispute and Thomas John- son, from whom Hutchinson had his title, obligated himself to pay costs and expenses in case the purchaser was harassed by lawsuits. Children of James and Christian Savage: I. Catharine, born about 1725, married James Grant, of Wiscasset. 2. Mary, married James Savage, of Georgetown, mentioned below. 3. Jane, married Bryant Robinson, of George- town. 4. Sarah, married George Bolton. 5. John, removed to Cushnoc in 1762. 6. Dan- iel, born 1729, came to Cushnoc in 1762; was tythingman there and took part in the organ- ization of the town of Hallowell, of which he was selectman eleven years and town clerk ; captain in the Bagaduce Expedition; married (intention dated November 16, 1753) Eliza- beth Robinson, who died December 16, 1764; married (second) August 7, 1766, Anna John- son, who died December 3, 1826; he died Jan- uary I, 1795, aged sixty-six years. 7. Ed- ward, removed to Hallowell, about 1762 ; mar- ried, November 18, 1757, Mary Hall.
(IV) James (2), nephew of James (I) Savage, was born about 1720. He married Mary Savage, his cousin, of Georgetown, daughter of James Savage (3). Hannah Savage, who married John Reede, of Topsham (intention dated December 1, 1743), was probably his sister.
(V) James (3), son of James (2) Sav- age, was born about1755 at Georgetown. He was a soldier in the revolution in Lieutenant Nathaniel Tibbetts' company under Major William Lithgow in 1779, defending the sea- coast in Lincoln county, Maine. Children : Asahel, mentioned below; Susannah, Mary, Abagail, Hannah, Deborah, Johanna.
(VI) Asahel, son of James (3) Savage, was born at Kingfield, about 1790. He mar- ried, in 1814, Jane Perry, a native of Maine. He was a member of the Congregational church ; a Democrat in politics and a well-to- do farmer. Children: I. Americus, born June 9, 1816. 2. Stillman Stone, November 4, 1817, mentioned below. 3. Joseph, October 29, 1819. 4. Cyrus, September 9, 1821. 5. Perry, June 19, 1823. 6. Marinda, November 11, 1825. 7. Asahel Jr., January 19, 1828. 8. Hiram, September 4, 1830. 9. Solomon, June 29, 1832. 10. Sarah Jane, August 10, 1834. All born in Kingfield, Maine, except Solomon and Sarah Jane, who were born in Freeman, Maine.
(VII) Stillman Stone, son of Asahel Sav- age, was born at Kingfield, Maine, November 4, 1817. He married Sarah, born May, 1841, daughter of George and Sally Locklin. Chil- dren: I. George A., born April 6, 1842. 2. Marinda Thompson, March 14, 1845, married Charles Wellington Young. (See sketch of Young family herewith). 3. Stillman Stone Jr., October 17, 1850. 4. Stephen L., July 27, 1856. 5. Belinda A., June 2, 1861.
LOCKE The immigrant ancestor of the Locke family, a section of which is written below, was a pioneer in the New Hampshire settlement, where he was a prominent citizen and long remem- bered for his useful life and tragic death.
(I) Captain John Locke, according to tra- dition, came from Yorkshire, England, in 1644, or 1638, as some accounts say, and "first settled at Dover, New Hampshire, where he owned a right of land," thence he moved to what is known as Fort Point, in New Castle, and from New Castle to Sagamore Creek, where he lived until 1655, when he removed to Hampton. The foregoing is only tradition and not fully relied on. This statement as to him is found in the Portsmouth records : "And likewise John Locke is to have a house lot between John Jackson's and William Cotter's rails, the lot eight acres. At a town-meeting held this first day of January, 1656," at a meeting January 22, 1660, "John Locke hav- ing eight acres to have eight more," and the same year there was laid out to him eight acres from Stony Brook towards John Jones, 24 pale wide and 40 pale back into the woods upon a South West line. John Locke of Portsmouth, carpenter, and wife Elizabeth sold James Drew a new dwelling house and eight acres of land March 23, 1661, and Sep- tember 8, 1674, he sold eight acres to William
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(Collier ?) "divided land in Portsmouth." At a town meeting in Portsmouth, March 8, 1666, he subscribed five shillings for Mr. Moody, the minister, and the same year Captain Locke was fined five whether shillings or pounds, or for what is not stated, "Oct. 26, 167I a note drawn on Hen. Dering, Constable, to pay John Locke 125," probably for car- penter work done for the town. From the town records, it seems that Captain Locke "sat down with common lands at Josselyn's Necks" much against the wishes of the pro- prietors within the town of Hampton, and that trouble grew out of it; but on the 8 or 28 of March, 1667, the town records show the fol- lowing action was taken: "Upon the motion of John Locke, who desireth to yield himself to the town of Hampton as an inhabitant here amongst us, being already settled upon Jos- selyn's Neck in Hampton bounds, the towne hath accepted of ye said Locke for an inhabi- tant accordingly," and thus the "Squatter" was transformed into an "inhabitant" and there he resided the remainder of his life. The Hampton town records state that "John Locke Senr. was killed by the Heathen in his lot at work upon Aug. 26, 1696." This stated that he was killed by the Indians as he was reaping grain in his field; that the Indians had a grudge against him on account of his having been very active against them and in- strumental in defeating them in several of their attempts to destroy the inhabitants of the seacoast; and that at this time the In- dians, eight in number, came with an express design (as appeared afterward) to avenge themselves in his death; and having accom- plished their bloody purpose, returned again without any other material damages. Another account says that a boy who was with him secreted himself under some bundles of grain and escaped, and that Captain Locke, after being shot, struck one of the Indians with his sickle and cut off his nose. Years after- ward a son of his met a noseless Indian in Portsmouth; the recognition was mutual, but whether vengeance followed we are not in- formed. Captain Locke was about seventy years of age at his death. About 1652 John Locke married Elizabeth, the daughter of William Berry (who was probably the first settler of Hampton), at a place called Sandy Beach, now Rye. She was living in Febru- ary, 1707. According to the records the chil- dren of John Locke were: John, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Alice (or. Elsie), Edward, Try- pheria, Rebecca, Mary, William, James and Joseph.
(II) Nathaniel, probably son of Captain John and Elizabeth (Berry) Locke, was born in 1661, and died November 12, 1734. He married, June 22, 1688, Dorothy, daughter of Jasper Blake. He is said to have had nine- teen children, but the names of only twelve are on record. They were: John, Dorothy, Try- pheria, Elizabeth, Rachel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Samuel, Jonathan, Deborah, Abijah and Tim- othy.
(III) Captain Nathaniel, second son of Nathaniel and Dorothy (Blake) Locke, was born October 18, 1698. He married (first) Abigail Prescott, born March 23, 1703, daugh- ter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Prescott, of Hampton. She was lost at sea, on her passage from her home in Maine to Boston. He mar- ried (second) Mary Stubbs. He settled in Falmouth (Portland), Maine, where he died about 1780.
(IV) John, son of Captain Nathaniel Locke, was born in 1742, lived in Falmouth, Maine, and died there in 1810. He married Susan- nah Locke, who was born in 1730 and died in 1825.
(V) Ebenezer, son of John and Susannah Locke, was born September 8, 1774, died No- vember II, 1831. He married (first) Jan- uary 3, 1801, in Falmouth, Maine, Hannah Tewksbury, born November 29, 1780, died October 15, 1825. He married (second) July 25, 1828, Mrs. Ann Pomroy, a widow with four children, who was born June 10, 1770. His children, all by the first wife, were: I. Susanna, born January I, 1802, died Decem- ber 15, 1826. 2. Hannah, September 28, 1803. 3. Ebenezer, November 12, 1805, died Novem- ber 21, 1844. 4. John Mason, see below. 5. Stephen, March 9, 1809, died September 26, 1831. 6. Nathaniel, March 8, 1812, died De- cember 9, 1873. 7. Joel, October 1, 1815. 8. Miles Standish, May 17, 1818, died February I, 1881. 9. Lucy, December 9, 1821, died August 18, 1843. 10. Elizabeth, July 19, 1824, died April 9, 1896.
(VI) John Mason, second son of Ebenezer and Hannah (Tewksbury) Locke, was born May 15, 1807, died April, 1883. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and lived in Falmouth Foreside. He married Phebe Pom- roy. Children : I. Cordelia P., born April 16, 1842, married Charles D. Thompson ; children : i. Charles Edward, married Cora Thomas ; ii. Stephen C .; iii. Mabel, died young; iv. Ches- tena Warren, married Elmer Lowell and had two children, Philip Eugene and Glenda Locke: v. Bertha, died aged eighteen; vi. Fred Pomroy, died young ; vii. Florence Isa-
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bella; viii. Nellie Elizabeth, married Harry White, lived in Waterbury, Connecticut. 2. John Mason, born April 22, 1844, married Nellie Bridges; children: i. Phebe, married Emery Dennison and had Hazel and Edward; ii. Elizabeth. 3. Edward Howard, born Feb- ruary 28, 1846, married Chestena Freeman ; children : i. Walter I., married Alma Levin; ii. Mildred H., married Franklin Skillings, one child, Mabel; iii. Mary Edna, married George Sprague, one child, George Edward. 4. Stephen Brainard, see below. 5. Warren Gil- man, born January 29, 1851, married Eliza- beth Moore.
(VII) Stephen Brainard, third son of John Mason and Phebe (Pomroy) Locke, was born in Falmouth, Maine, August 25, 1848. He was educated in the public schools. He learned the trade of sailmaker, engaged in this in- dustry on his own account and had a pros- perous business in Portland, employing a large number of workmen. He attends the Con- gregational church, and votes the Republican ticket. He is a member of Hodatta Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Una Encampment, and Munjoy Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He married, in Portland, April 8, 1874, Susan Jane Sargent, daughter of Fitz Edward and Clarissa Jane (Hood) Sargent, granddaughter of David and Mary (Davis) Sargent and sister of Mrs. Thomas S. Laughlin, of Portland; she died January 29, 1909. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Locke: I. Harry Warren, born December 19, 1874, a stenographer, resides in Portland. 2. Elmer George, born September 6, 1882, in the em- ploy of the Clark Eddy Company, of Port- land. 3. Lester Sargent, born June 2, 1884, died November 21, 1885. Mr. Stephen B. Locke died January 29, 1909.
The name and family of BOOTHBY Boothby are of great an- tiquity, and may be traced back at least a thousand years. One distin- guished antiquarian states that about the year 800, King Egbert divided the Saxon nation into counties, hundreds and wapentakes, and that one of the latter sections in Lincolnshire was named Boothby. In the same county was a market town named Boothby-Paynell ; and also a manor house called Boothby. The historians, Cambden and Leland, say that these places received their name from the Boothby family, then resident there. More modern writers have objected to this theory, because few surnames existed at so remote a
period. The family tradition is that the name in its rudimentary form was derived from a Danish tribe named Bobi that settled early in Britain, and that the present house is de- scended from the chiefs of that tribe, who settled in Lincolnshire. Ethnologists are of the opinion that the name is of undoubted Danish origin; it is certain that it is neither Roman nor Saxon. The Boothby pedigree was compiled by Dr. Sanderson, who subse- quently became bishop of Lincoln, and the original manuscripts in Latin are preserved in the British Museum. He traces the family through more than twenty generations, from Thedoric de Botheby, knight, Lord of Botheby, who married Lozelina, who laid the founda- tion of Croyland Abbey church and endowed the same in the year 1114. The seat of this family is at Ashburn Hall, county Derby, and the present owner is Sir Charles Brooke Booth- by, born in 1856. One of the more interest- ing of the recent ancestors was the second Sir Brooke Boothby, who succeeded to the estate in 1789. He was a poet and author of some note, and was one of the literary circle of which Dr. Erasmus Darwin, Miss Seward and the Edgeworths were members. Perhaps he will best be remembered as the father of the lovely little Penelope Boothby, who died young, but whose portrait is one of the most celebrated of the great Sir Joshua Reynold's canvasses. Thousands of people, who have no other association with the name of Booth- by, have probably seen a reproduction of this picture of the little girl in the quaint mob cap, with the modestly folded hands, and have felt a sympathetic interest in her history. The arms of the Boothby family are : Argent, on a canton ; sable, a lion's paw, erased, in bend argent. The crest is a lion's paw, erased, erect, or. The motto is: "Mors Christi, mors mortis mihi," which may be rendered: The death of Christ is the annihilation of death for me.
(I) Henry Boothby was born in England, migrated to Ireland, married and had children there, and came to Kittery, now in Maine, about 1720. His brother Thomas, who had been with him in Ireland, came by way of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Wells, Maine. It is possible that Henry Boothby moved to Scar- borough with his sons, and was the Henry Boothby whose name appears as a charter member of the Black Point church. It is known that he had two sons: Thomas, whose sketch follows; and Samuel, who settled in Scarborough. There was also a Jane Booth-
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by, who might have been a daughter of Henry, who was published with John Moore (2) at Kittery, December 18, 1742.
(II) Thomas, son of Henry Boothby, was born in Ireland in 1700, and died at Scar- borough, Maine, March 25, 1758. He came to Kittery, Maine, with his father about 1720, and settled at Scarborough between 1730 and 1736. The intention of his marriage to Lydia Came was recorded at Kittery, January 8, 1725. They had seven children: I. Jonathan, born December 1, 1725. 2. Samuel, whose sketch follows. 3. Joseph, May 19, 1729, mar- ried Susan McClellan, of Portland, and lived at Scarborough. 4. Miriam, April 17, 1733, married John Deering at Kittery. 5. John, April 27, 1735, died young. 6. Eunice, No- vember 22, 1736, married Philip Aubin, and died in 1756. 7. Lois, November 22, 1736, married Isaac Deering.
(III) Samuel, second son of Thomas and Lydia (Came) Boothby, was born at Kittery, Maine, February 10, 1727, and died some time after 1783. On July 3, 1752, he married his first wife, Susanna Milliken, of Scarborough, by whom he had three children: I. John, born February 21, 1753. 2. Eunice, March 10, 1755, married Joseph Merrill, and lived at Liver- more, Maine. 3. Susanna, March 10, 1757, died in 1833. Samuel Boothby's second wife was Molly Deering, whom he married Novem- ber 14, 1765. They had seven children: I. Richard, born July 22, 1766, married Anna Staples and settled in Saco. 2. Paulina, April 5, 1771. 3. Susanna, March 31, 1773, died April 7, 1805. 4. Anna, May 19, 1775. 5. Cornelius, November 18, 1777, married Mar- garet - and settled in Saco. 6. Jeremiah, September 30, 1780, married Abigail M. E. and settled in Saco. 7. Lemuel, No- vember 13, 1783, married Rebecca Moulton and settled in Saco.
(IV) John, eldest child of Samuel Boothby and his first wife, Susanna Milliken, was born February 21, 1753, probably at Scar- borough, Maine, and died January 27, 1840. He made his home in Saco, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. On Novem- ber 24, 1773, he married Elizabeth Milliken, of Scarborough, who died November 27, 1833. Five children of this couple are recorded: I. Isaac, born October 10, 1774, married Hannah Foss and settled at Leeds, Maine. 2. Lydia, January 25, 1777, married Hamilton Jenkins. 3. Stephen, whose sketch follows. 4. Susan, December 1, 1781. 5. Rev. John, September 30, 1787, married Anna Foss, and made his permanent home at Saco. Isaac Boothby, the
eldest son, was a man of resolute will and great endurance. He cleared field after field at Leeds, Maine, till he had one of the largest and best farms in town. Boothby's hill, north of Leeds Center, was named for him. He also engaged largely in the live stock business, and carried many a drove of sleek bullocks to the Brighton market. Although possessing but limited educational advantages, he was a natu- ral mathematician, and was endowed with a keen and logical mind. Elder John Boothby, the youngest of these children, like his brother Stephen, lived to be ninety-one years of age. He spent his early years in Leeds, but returned to Saco in 1815, and made his permanent home on a large farm where a brick mansion was erected. He was ordained in the town of Wayne, October 12, 1812, the services being conducted out of doors in an ox cart. He spent the early years of his ministry as an evangelist, preaching in six states. He was engaged in the ministry more than sixty years, and was held in great esteem by his younger brethren, who vied with each other in doing him honor. His commanding and stately presence at the conference, during his old age, was a benediction.
(V) Stephen, second son of John and Eliza- beth (Milliken) Boothby, was born at Saco, Maine, November 7, 1779, and died June 5, 1871. When a young man he went to Leeds, Maine, and took up a farm on which he lived till death. There was an old house on the place, which he bought for fifteen dollars, and he occupied this dwelling for some years. He had had no educational opportunities in early youth, but after his marriage he determined to learn to read. In later years he became as good a scholar as some who had had advan- tages in childhood. He was an owner of ex- tensive lands in Leeds and Wayne, which he sold to many natives of the Saco valley, who were induced to settle in those towns. Mr. Boothby was a staunch Republican, and at- tended the Baptist church. His first wife and the mother of all his children was Susan (Buzzell) Boothby, of Winthrop, whom he married about 1807. They were the parents of Rev. Samuel, whose sketch follows. Will- iam, born October 1, 1810. Abigail, who died young. Stephen Boothby married (second) Hepsabeth Tibbetts, of Wells, Maine; she died September 1, 1838. He married (third) Mrs. Hannah (Churchill) Page.
(VI) Rev. Samuel (2), eldest child of Stephen and Susan (Buzzell) Boothby, was born at Leeds, Maine, 1808, and died at Lew- iston in that state, July 9, 1884. He received
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a common school education, and remained on the farm till of age. He was baptized and united with the Baptist church in Wayne in 1830, and was ordained in 1840. Shortly be- fore he began preaching he bought a farm in Leeds. He served as pastor at Turner Bridge four years, and afterwards at Wayne for five years. He labored for a year as a missionary in Aroostook county, under the auspices of the Maine Baptist Convention, and then entered the service of the American Foreign Bible So- ciety, where he continued till 1883. After 1857 he lived at Lewiston, Maine, where he acted as local missionary. He was a good man, a good husband and father, a good citi- zen, a good church member, a good minister of the New Testament. On May 1, 1831, Rev. Samuel (2) Boothby married Sarah Lead- better, daughter of Samuel and Betsey (Parcher) Leadbetter, of Leeds, Maine. She died at Lewiston, June 12, 1887, and it was said in her obituary: "Her devoted and self- sacrificing life will ever be fragrant in the memory of her four surviving children, and many others who knew and loved-her." Eight children were born to Rev. Samuel (2) and Sarah (Leadbetter) Boothby: I. Susan E., May 2, 1832, married Orson Lane, of Leeds. 2. Colonel Stephen, whose sketch follows. 3. Elias P., September 22, 1835, died October 31, 1840. 4. Viora G., July 8, 1838, married Or- son Lane, of Leeds, after the death of her elder sister. 5. Roswell C., whose sketch fol- lows. 6. Emma S., February 9, 1842, mar- ried. Willard Lothrop, of Leeds. 7. Sarah H., March - 19, 1851, married Frederick B. Stanford, of Brooklyn, New York. 8. Mari- etta, July 12, 1853, died September 22, 1872. (VII) Colonel Stephen (2), eldest son of Rev. Samuel (2) and Sarah (Leadbetter) Boothby, was born at Leeds, Maine, October 23, 1833, and died of wounds incurred in the civil war, June 5, 1864. He entered Water- ville College in 1853, and was graduated in 1857. He afterwards taught school, and also served as an instructor and lecturer for teach- ers' institutes, under the state superintendent of education. In the spring of 1861 Mr. Boothby formed a partnership with Mark H. Dunnell, afterward a member of congress, and engaged in the practice of law in Portland with flattering prospects of success; but they had scarcely entered upon their legal career before the civil war broke out, and both men responded to their country's call. Stephen Boothby entered the First Maine Cavalry as first lieutenant of Company F, and was pro- moted to a captaincy the next year. He was
on duty with his company till appointed ma- jor in April, 1863, with the exception of a few months in the autumn of 1862, when he acted as aide de camp to the military governor of Frederick, Maryland. In July, 1863, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, which rank he held until his death. While skirmish- ing at Shepardston, he was badly wounded in the back, but remained some time in the saddle. He was allowed a furlough, and returned home, where he stayed a short time to recu- perate. On May 10, 1864, he led a charge in the battle at Beaver Dam Station, Virginia, and was shot through the right breast and shoulder, which necessitated the operation of exsection, and the removal of the right arm at the shoulder joint. After a wearying ride over the rough roads in an ambulance about Richmond for five days, he was placed on a hospital boat, and his splendid courage and indomitable will kept him up so that hopes were entertained of his recovery, but he died in a hospital at Point Lookout, Maryland, June 5, 1864, in his thirty-first year. His body was taken to his father's home at Lewis- ton, and received a military funeral. Almost the entire Cumberland bar, of which he was a member, was present, and a large military escort followed the body to the grave and fired the last salute. The horse he rode in the field was led in the procession.
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