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HISTORY OF BOOTHBAY.
XIV.
BANKS.
The Boothbay Savings Bank was incorporated February 5, 1872 ; on the 29th of that month they organized, and elected Allen Lewis, President ; D. W. Sawyer, Vice President, and W. F. McClintock, Secretary and Treasurer. The trustees were Allen Lewis, D. W. Sawyer, Luther Maddocks, Robert Montgomery and W. F. McClintock. It was opened for busi- ness April 10, 1872. Its first report, as it existed September 30, 1872, showed :
Liabilities.
Deposits,
Profits,
$813.25 10.50
$823.75
Resources.
Notes secured by collaterals, $350.00
Cash on hand and deposit,
403.12
Expenses,
70.63
$823.75
On January 22, 1873, M. E. Pierce was elected secretary and treasurer, and he was succeeded by D. W. Sawyer Janu- ary 22, 1876. On January 15, 1877, the trustees voted the treasurer $66.33 for the last year's services. Moses R. White was elected president January 17, 1883. R. G. Hodgdon suc- ceeded at the decease of Mr. White, his election dating January 17, 1893. D. W. Sawyer sent in his resignation as treasurer October 10, 1886, and on January 18, 1887, Byron C. Mat- thews was chosen his successor. Others who have served as trustees have been Moses R. White, Cyrus Mckown, M. E. Pierce, R. G. Hodgdon, Joseph Nickerson, John H. Blair, George B. Kenniston, Alonzo R. Nickerson, Isaiah Lewis, Samuel Boyd, Keyes H. Richards, Willard T. Marr.
A fair impression of the growth, benefit and conservative management of this bank may be gathered from the following exhibit :
Deposits October 14, 1905,
$329,573.68
Reserve fund,
18,678.59
Undivided profits,
5,817.25
$354,069.52
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Dividends paid and credited depositors, first year, $ 50.98
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1905, 10,068.64
Total State tax paid since organization,
$ 34,589.67
Total dividends paid depositors since organization, 163,015.98
The first location of the bank was on Atlantic Street, in the counting room of M. E. Pierce's store. Soon after the election of Mr. Sawyer as treasurer it was moved to a wooden building standing where Gregory's Block now stands. From there to its present situation it was moved in 1886.
The First National Bank of Boothbay Harbor was organized and opened for business October 15, 1900, with the following officers, who continue to the present : K. H. Richards, Presi- dent; O. S. Yates, Vice President; John A. Maddocks, Cashier ; Sewall T. Maddocks, Assistant Cashier, with C. R. Tupper, C. J. Marr, K. H. Richards, Fred H. Harris, C. M. Cook, O. S. Yates, A. H. Davenport, Thomas W. Baldwin, John A. Maddocks, Directors. The first statement, issued December 13, 1900, showed deposits of $24,192.72. The statement of date September 25, 1905, showed :
Capital stock, Surplus and profits, Circulation, Deposits,
$25,000.00
9,551.04 25,000.00
124,704.00
$184,255.04
The number of deposit accounts at the close of 1905 were 423. A savings department was opened in March, 1903.
XV.
POSTAL AFFAIRS.
On April 23, 1793, the Portland postmaster gave public notice that after that date mails would leave that office at six o'clock A. M., Mondays, arriving at Wiscasset at one P. M., Tuesdays ; returning, leave Wiscasset Thursdays at six A. M., arriving in Portland at one P. M., Fridays. In 1794 the post route was extended to Camden and post offices were established there and in Thomaston and Warren. There was no post office nearer than that at Wiscasset until one was established in Boothbay in 1805. A complete list of postmasters for each office, together with dates of establishment and terms of ser-
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vice, is given on pages 305-308. By consultation of family records and maps, where the offices have been kept may be easily determined.
Postage stamps were not authorized until 1847 and prepay- ment of postage was not compulsory until June 1, 1856. A uniform rate of postage was first established in 1863. Previ- ous to that date postal rates were governed by the distance. There was one rate for Boston, another for New York, still others for places at greater distances. At one time the rate was two shillings from Boothbay to New Orleans. It may often be observed in ledgers from our old business concerns that postage was charged like anything which might have been purchased at the store. One trip a week constituted the service from Wiscasset to Boothbay from 1805 to 1840, when that service was succeeded by two trips per week, Tuesdays and Fridays. These sufficed until 1860, when the service became tri-weekly. In 1871, by representations of our representative in the Legislature, George B. Keuniston, of the wants of the community, without petition, to Hon. James G. Blaine, daily service was established through his influence at the department.
Since that time service has gradually increased until the present. During the summer season ten separate mails arrive and the same number leave the office daily, as follows : two from and to Bath by boat; two from and to Wiscasset by stage ; two from and to East Boothbay and Linekin by stage ; one each way between here and Monhegan, West Boothbay Harbor, Squirrel Island and Bayville. In winter the last two are discontinued and Monhegan reduced to tri-weekly ; also one Bath and one East Boothbay trip is canceled. The A. M. boat trip down from Bath, returning in P. M., formerly com- menced after July 4th, continuing until September 1st ; now it commences May 1st, running until September 20th. The first rural delivery, with Fred Robie Kelley as carrier, was established June 1, 1905, from the Boothbay office, covering twenty-two and one-half miles, running out in each direction from the Center. When but one office existed in town, in 1826, the total postal receipts of Boothbay were $56.28. In 1895 the gross receipts of the Boothbay Harbor office were $1,711.30; nine years later, for 1904, they reached at the same office $3,890.51.
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XVI. THE ICE BUSINESS.
This business was first commenced on a large scale when the Knickerbocker Ice Company leased the Campbell's Ponds and erected their houses at the shore, opposite Hodgdon's Island, in 1876. That plant has exceeded all others up to the present, having buildings of greater capacity and more capital invested. It is now merged in the Metropolitan Ice Company. Following this the Maine Ice Company, C. B. Church, Wash- ington, D. C., president, was established at West Harbor, where by damming Campbell's Cove that sheet of water was transformed into an ice pond. The superintendents were Eben Haley and A. M. Powers. This concern was sold to Luther Maddocks, C. R. Tupper, G. P. Hodgdon and George W. Greenleaf in 1904, and is now operated by Luther Maddocks, lessee of the others' interests. It has valuable features, like the Metropolitan Company, for winter shipping as well as storage.
Other ice establishments now doing business are the Booth- bay Harbor Ice Company, Mill Cove; Merrill Lewis, Lewis Pond ; William E. Sawyer, Southport ; F. C. Littlefield & Co., Atlantic Street ; Frank Blake, East Boothbay ; Samuel Boyd, Bayville. Luther Maddocks has in the past operated at Mill Cove, Echo Lake and other ponds; and, for a time, D. W. Hodgdon cut at Echo Lake. Besides an unusual home con- sumption, by means of the summer resorts, a great market for ice has been made in recent years on account of so much of the coast bait trade centering herc.
FAMILY HISTORY.
FAMILY HISTORY.
A CAREFUL study of the early population of Townsend will cause one to arrive at two leading conclusions : first, that the early settlers about the Harbor, who were, practically, all Scotch from the north of Ireland, were made up of a colony, for the most part, the members of which were acquainted in Scotland before emigrating, and in several instances related by intermarriage in that country ; second, that the settlement next in importance, occurring some twenty to thirty years later about Dover, Back River and North Booth- bay, was made by families from about Dover, Durham and Mad- bury, in New Hampshire, and York, Kittery, Berwick, Wells and Kennebunk, in Maine, and that these families, like the others, were acquainted and in many instances related before coming here. A comparatively small area from the three counties, Antrim, Londonderry and Tyrone, Ireland, sent the one clan, while the territory the principal part of which was composed by the eight towns named sent the other. The Scotch element came for the most part in the fall of 1730, but others of the same blood and fatherland, already in Massachusetts or New Hampshire, were added soon after, like the Beaths who came in 1731. Now and then a family came later from Ireland to join them, like the Reeds, in 1743, the McKowns, in 1763, or Leishman, in 1764.
The coming of those settling in the northern part of the town was not so concerted, for the distance was not so great nor the effort so much. It was more irregular, but bearing evidences of the influence that acquaintance and relationship exert in such cases.
To produce some instances in support of my conclusions in this matter : William Fullerton, oldest of the name in Towns- end, married Jennet Beath, sister to Walter Beath, oldest of his family here, some years before coming to America. A
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genealogist in the Beath family, who has made much research in her lineage, finds an Affa McFauland married by one of the Beath ancestry and a Jennet Montgomery by another, genera- tions before American soil was reached. The wife of Andrew Reed was Jean Murray, who was an aunt to the Rev. John Murray and thought to be related to the other John Murray who founded the family of that name in these towns. The Rev. John Murray was a cousin to Patrick McKown, the founder of that family. The mother of Patrick McKown was Nancy Ford, related to Abner Ford, a Dunbar immigrant. The Reed and McCulloch families were related by marriage before coming to America. Several other similar instances exist. The Boyds and Montgomerys were from the same locality in Ireland as those who came in here under Dunbar, and there are abundant indications that they came into the neighboring settlement of Pemaquid at the time the others settled in Townsend. Later both families came across the Damariscotta, but settled by its banks and thus were midway between their kin and friends on either side.
Now let us view the northern neighborhood. Joseph Giles, first of his name in town, married Martha, sister to Benjamin Pinkham, who founded that family here. Back in Dover, N. H., we find the marriage of Mark Giles, grandfather of Joseph, the Townsend pioneer, to Lydia Tibbetts, a collateral line to the ancestors of the present Tibbetts family in Boothbay. Then Nathaniel Tibbetts, who founded the Boothbay family, married Elizabeth Giles, sister to Joseph. At the start, proba- bly before settling in Townsend, the two pioneers of the Barter and Matthews families intermarried. John Matthews married Jennet Barter and Joseph Barter married Lydia Matthews.
These relationships may be shown in many other instances, but I feel impressed that the reader, with the suggestions I have prefatorily presented, together with the consideration of the several family records, will arrive at a similar conclusion. I have made the greater part of my effort to rescue the oldest first. No structure is of much consequence if the base is defective. Therefore I have tried to reach each family when its founder came upon Townsend or Boothbay soil and give a careful trace to the present. The earliest members of each
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family have received the most careful attention, for if those old matters are not now put in print it will become more diffi- cult to do so as time progresses, records become lost or worn out, and the aged people, those links between the past and present, are no more.
The limits of this volume enforce a method of condensation in form, but it is believed that the form affords a clear and perfect understanding of the descent and relationship. While a similarity exists, there are several new features in the form in which the family records are presented, varying considerably from the usual plan. I have divided the extinct names from the existing ones in the towns, and from the importance of the former in their time, and their connection to the present through intermarriages and descent through female lines, present them, but in briefer form. Many names appear upon the early rec- ords that I failed to connect with present families, which I dropped.
Some difficulty has been experienced in case of the Hodg- don and Dunton families, the early members in each case being partly in Boothbay and partly in Westport. A similar diffi- culty has occurred to mar satisfactory work on the families of Burnham, Dodge and Sherman, living partly in Boothbay and partly in Edgecomb. Omissions and errors must be expected among so many dates, and the considerate reader, who realizes that town, probate and family records often fail to agree, will, I trust, be lenient in such cases. A visit to any of our ceme- teries is all that is needed to indicate the percentage who have had no stone erected to their memories. The Southport rec- ords, as is well known, were burned a few years ago, so that very little relating to the families in that town is to be had except that existing on the old Boothbay books prior to 1842. I will here make the suggestion that it would be an easy matter in a town of that size to obtain from each family its own rec- ord and properly transcribe it. A continuation from what is presented in these pages could at this time be easily made by each family, thus preserving for descendants an unbroken rec- ord of ancestry. The following abbreviations will be used to save useless repetitions.
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a., aged. ae., in the year of. abt., about. b., born. bap., baptized.
bet., between.
Cas., Casualty Chapter.
chil., children.
coll., college. com., commission. d., died or death.
dau., daughter.
fam., family.
grad., graduated. inf., infancy.
inv., inventory.
m., married or marriage. n. d., no date.
pub., published.
prob., probated.
q. v., which see.
rec., record.
res., resides or resided. rem., removed. set., settled.
8. p., sine prole, no children. unk., unknown. unm., unmarried. w., wife. wid., widow.
B., Boothbay. B. Ctr., Boothbay Center. B. H., Boothbay Harbor. Bre., Bremen.
Bris., Bristol.
Dam., Damariscotta.
Dres., Dresden.
E. B., East Boothbay. Edge., Edgecomb.
Is., Island. Jeff., Jefferson.
Mon., Monhegan.
New., Newcastle.
Noble., Nobleboro.
No. B., North Boothbay.
South., Southport. Wal., Waldoboro. West., Westport. Wis., Wiscasset. White., Whitefield.
PART I. EXTINCT NAMES.
ANDREWS.
John Andrews was b. in Ipswich, Mass. He m. Patty, dau. of Daniel and Mary Knight, 1794, and set. in No. Yarmouth, from where he moved to Bris. in 1808. He then bought Fisherman's Island and one-half of Damaris- cove of his wife's father and engaged in sheep-raising. In 1812 he bought part of the McFarland property at the head of the Harbor and a few years later commenced bank fishing, running one vessel, the Six Brothers. Their chil. were: I, Jeremiah, m. Elizabeth Burnham, Essex, Mass. II, Sarah, m. Ebenezer Clifford. III, Mary, m. William Robinson, White. IV, Eliza- beth, m. Winthrop Andrews. V, Sophia, m. Baker Elliott, Boston. VI, John, Jr., m. Susan, dau. of Edward B. Sargent. Jeremiah and John, Jr., succeeded to the business and later sold to Paul and Benjamin Harris. Jere- miah then moved to Ipswich, where he d. at middle age. John built where the late Sewall S. Wylie lived and engaged in brickmaking, his yard being at the head of the Harbor. He sold to Wylie in 1858 and moved to Mouse Is., where he built and lived until 1864. He then moved to Falmouth and d. in Portland in 1891. His wife d. in 1886. Their chil. : Angelia, Emma A., Euphesena E., Martha S., Elliott B., Sarah F., Rosaline.
BALL.
Samuel and Mary Ball lived at Pig Cove. He d. in 1800. The known chil. were: I, Levi, m. Judy Crommett, 1788. II, Thomas, m. (1) Sarah Holbrook, 1794; (2) Betsey Horn, 1795. III, Sally, m. Solomon Pinkham, Jr., 1795. IV, a dau. who m. Amos Gray, an early owner of Squirrel Is., where they lived. Levi Ball had a dau., Sally, who m. Ebenezer Decker, 1806. The family set. at Pig Cove abt. the close of the Rev. War.
BABB.
Thomas and Caroline Babb lived on South. They had six chil., b. bet. 1830-41: Mary Eliza, Alexander Bennett, Nancy J., Zebulon G., Caroline, Angelia.
BOOKER.
This fam. lived at what was known as Hardscrabble, on road bet. B. H. and E. B. Five of them were in the Rev. War. Joseph Booker, at advanced age, d. Nov. 8, 1830. He had two sons, Joseph, Jr., and John, both of whom had fams. Chil. in these fams. were b. bet. 1815-30. They were intermar- ried with the fams. of Bryer, Wheeler, Rackliff, Hutchings, Lewis and others.
BORLAND.
Capt. John Borland was b. in Ireland, Apr. 1, 1752 ; was living in B. in
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1778, when he m. Mrs. Sarah Campbell. See tables for official positions. He rem. to Dam. Mills abt. 1795, dying there Oct. 11, 1814 ; his wife d. Jan. 7, 1827. A son kept the hotel there for many years. His chil. were b. in B. except the youngest, and bet. 1779-96. They were: Sally, John, Jr., Sam- uel, James, Polly, Betsey C. He lived in No. B. He was a prominent ship- builder in his later years at Dam.
CARLTON.
Stephen and Hannah Carlton lived in B., opposite where Dennis S. Wylie does. He was an influential man in town affairs and appears in the official tables. They are thought to have moved into the interior of Maine soon after 1800. Their chil., b. bet. 1787-1801, were: Joshua, Sarah G., Charlotte O., Payson.
CASWELL.
Several of this name appear irregularly in early records, but one fam. is fully recorded, that of Samuel and Hepsibah. They lived at the southern end of Barter's Is. Eight chil. were b. bet. 1818-37, viz. : Samuel, Jr., Sally, Eunice, Rufus, Jason, Thomas, Alfred, Phineas. The father d. Dec. 5, 1837.
CATLAND (CATLIN).
The early records show several publishments of members of this fam. They were numerous in New. and Bris. Only one fam. lived in B., Joseph, who m. Betsey Adams, 1802. They had three sons, b. bet. 1803-08, Ira, Joshua and Joseph, Jr. The father d. May 18, 1808.
CHAPLES.
Nothing in B. history has a more romantic touch than the traditions that have come down to us about John Chaples. He set. alone at Cape Newagen probably as early as 1750. It has been said that his correct name was Chap- pelle, but anything as to antecedents is entirely wanting. The early settlers about the island, who found him there when they came, always regarded him mysteriously. He was said to have been a fugitive from crime. Some thought him to have been a buccaneer, in fact various were the stories attached to him and his career. He built his cabin abt. six rods northerly from the shore, opposite the rocky island just west from Jerry's Is. About ten rods southwesterly from his old abode is the famous Chaples Chair, in the rocks and crags at the shore, where he was wont to sit, watching for sea birds, upon which he largely lived. He brought a wife there and they had chil., how many is not known. He had a son, John, Jr., who in turn had a son of the same name. The last John was last of the name in town. He lived until 1865. His wife, Cordelia, d. May, 1863. They had two daus., Filinda, b. 1856, and Elida, b. 1858. The original settler had a dau. who m. Corne- lius Horn, 1772. Her name is recorded Masse, and it is said of her that she was little short of a giantess. Her sons were men of great size and strength. Her husband was a runaway sailor from a vessel lying at Damariscove Har- bor. He constructed a raft and reached Cape Newagen, taking refuge with Chaples' fam. His name was Cornelius Conrad, which he at once changed to Horn. From this m. sprang the Horn fam., now extinct, that by clerical errors has been sometimes confounded with Orne. John Chaples in his later years, and his sons afterward, conducted a fishing business at the Cape.
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CROMMETT (CRUMMETT ).
John Crommett lived at the Harbor and was a constable in 1767. His antecedents are unk. His w.'s name is unk. They had five chil. : I, Eliza- beth, m. Thomas Rives, Jeremisquam, 1771. II, Judith, b. 1763, m. Levi Ball, 1788. III, Martha, m. Stephen Rollings, 1786. IV, Jeremiah, m. (1) Sarah Floyd, 1777; (2) Judith Knights, 1780. V, Joshua, m. Sarah Adams, 1790. Both sons were prominent in town affairs. Jeremiah's chil. were b. bet. 1783-90 : Rebecca, Abigail, Martha, Elizabeth. Joshua's chil. were : Sally, Jane, Patty, John, Rebecca, Polly, Nancy, Joshua. He moved with his fam. to China, where he d. Oct. 24, 1852 ; his w. d. Mar. 25, 1830.
CURRIER.
William Currier m. Patience Smith, 1801. They lived on South., north- erly from Gray's, on the east shore, but do not appear in the records after 1835. They had ten chil .: Eleanor, 1802; Sarah, 1804; William, 1805; Jacob, 1807; Almira, 1809; Benjamin S., 1811; Mary, 1812; Elijah, 1815; John S., 1817; Joseph S., 1819. The father and son Elijah d. 1819, leaving the mother with nine chil. Benjamin became master of a fishing schooner before reaching his fifteenth birthday. He had a successful and eventful career at sea and set. in San Francisco, where he published an autobiogra- phy, covering his career, in 1880. His descendants live in California. The other members of this fam. are not traced.
DAVIS.
Israel Davis came to B. before 1750. He m. Sarah, dau. of John and Lydia McFarland. He lived near the head of Campbell's Cove, was mod- erator of the first town meeting in B. and captain during the Rev. War. He was a leading citizen. He sold Thomas Hodgdon, Jeremisquam, 200 acres of land, Sept. 21, 1767, situated bet. the Campbell's Ponds and Cove and the Sheepscot. They had eight chil .: Charles, 1750; Sarah, 1751; Hannah, 1755; Israel, Jr., 1757; Betty, 1763; John Dresser, 1766; Prudence, 1768; Mary, 1772. Of the above, Hannah m. Andrew Reed, son of Henry, 1773. The mother d. Sept. 20, 1772. At the close of the Rev. War the fam. moved to Pownalboro.
DAWS ( DAWES, DAWSE).
Ebenezer Daws set. among the rest of the early ones at Back River, coming from the westward. His w.'s name is unk., but tradition says she was sister to John Matthews. They are known to have had two sons, John and Jonathan. The Back River home was where Albion Lewis lives. John m. Mary, sister to Patrick McKown, coming with her brother to America, 1763. They were m. in 1768. Their home was where the Dolloff homestead was, on road from E. B. to B. Ctr. They first built a log house, but later the frame one now on the place, which was the first building contract taken by John, Jr., and Thomas Leishman. They had no chil. In Patrick Mc- Kown's will, 1779, occurs the clause that his sister should "take my youngest son, John, and my daughter, Nancy, as her own." This son became the well-known Major John McKown and the dau. m. John Ingraham. John Daws was a sea captain, in the foreign trade; he d. Nov. 4, 1811. She lived many years in Major Mckown's fam., but boarded with the Handleys in her last years at her old home. She d. Dec. 16, 1825, a. 83. Jonathan Daws m.
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Elizabeth Barter, 1768, and lived on his father's homestead. They had ten chil., b. bet. 1770-88 : John, Lydia, Mary, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Lois, Abi- gail, Patty, Jenny, Sally. The father was a sea captain and d. Mar. 27, 1812. The chil. set. elsewhere.
DIXON.
John and Dianna Dixon lived on Mckown's Point and reared a fam. of eleven chil. Though nine of these were sons not one appears on the tax list of either town now. They follow: John, Jr., 1847; George William, 1849; Eden S., 1851; Eugene, 1853; Josiah F., 1855; Amanda O., 1857; Franklin, 1859; Albion J., 1861; Jacob E., 1862; Ulysses S. G., 1867; Lillian, 1870. The father d. June 8, 1883; the mother d. Apr. 12, 1885. Nearly all of the sons followed the sea.
DOLE.
Nathan Dole, a native of Pownalboro, m. Mary, dau. of John and Jennet Matthews, after the d. of his first w. He set. in 1793, date of second m., on the farm now owned by Paul Conkling, building a house near the creek. Three sons by first m. are untraced; by the second were three daus., b. bet. 1794-1805, Anna, Sarah, Phebe. The father d. June 28, 1830.
DURANT.
William Durant was b. in France and came to America under Lafayette to take part in the Rev. War. In our early records his name is spelled to follow the pronunciation (Durong). He set. in B. before 1790, for that year he m. Ruth Burnham. Later he rem. to Edge. and then returned to B., set- tling near B. Ctr. They had four chil .: 1, William, Jr., b. 1792. II, David, unm. III, Hannah, m. Pearson Burnham. IV, Martha, m. - Martin; set. in Portland.
William Durant, Jr., m. (1) Hannah, dau. of Andrew and Hannah Reed, 1817; (2) Mrs. Jane Kennedy, 1839. They lived on the homestead near the Ctr. Their chil. were: 1, Mary A., b. Oct. 8, 1818; m. Edwin Auld, q. v. II, Sarah G., b. Dec. 9, 1820; m. (1) David Harvey; (2) James G. Pierce. III, Jane L., b. Jan. 30, 1823; m. Elbridge Love, q. v. IV, Ephraim Reed, b. Aug. 31, 1825; d. 1839, see Cas. V, John, born Aug. 2, 1829, q. v. VI, Margaret M. VII, Rosanna Auld, m. Rufus Campbell, q. v. The father d. Feb. 16, 1865; the mother d. Aug. 29, 1838.
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