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And I intreat & appoint my trusty & well beloved friend Cap:" Lewis Beane to be ye Executor of this my last will & I pray him to confirm & Execute it and let no man alter it
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given under my hand & Seale of confirmation ye day & year above S' in presents of.
William Heath
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Benjamin B Trafton (seal)
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Sworn to 26 August, 1713. Probated 6 Oct., 1713.
Probate Office, 2, 77.
In ye name of God Amen : The Thirtieth day of January in ye year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & . Twelve Thirteen I Joseph Hill of Kittery in ye County of Yorke in ye Province of ye Massachusets Bay in New Eng- land (yeoman) being very Sick and weak in body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given to God therefore Called to mind ye mortality of my body do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament yt is to say principally & first of all I give and recommend my Soul into ye hands of God yt gave it hoping through ye Merits death & passion of my Saviour Iesus Christ to have full and free pardon of all my Sins and to inherrit everlasting life; And my body I commit to ye Earth to be decently buried at ye discretion of my Executrix hereafter named nothing doubting but at ye general Resurrection I shall receive ye same again by ye mighty Power of God ; and as touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give demise & dispose of ye Same in ye following manner & form : That is to Say.
first I will y' all those debts and duties which I do owe in right or Conscience to any manner of persons whatsoever Shall be well and truly Contented and pª, in Convenient time after my decease by my Executrix here after Named.
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Item I give to my welbeloved Son Samuel Hill & to ye Heirs Lawfully begotten by his body forever ye Lands which I formerly purchased of Edward Gilman Maverick Gilman Joshua Downing & William Fry which Lands are Scituate Lying and being in ye Township of Kittery on ye upper side 'of M' Shapleighs mill Creek as may appear by ye deeds for ye Said Lands from ye above Said persons together with all ye housing timber yt I have upon ye Sª Lands he paying unto his Sisters Katherine Hill Mary Hill & Dorcas Hill ten pounds pounds a peice when they Shall come to Lawful age or Marriage yt is to Say five pound in money to each of them and ye other five pound in Cattle at money price, but if it Should So happen yt my Son Samuel Should die with- out Lawful Issue yt then ye Said Land Shall be divided equally among my Surviving Children Excepting & reserv- ing to my Son Joseph Hill ye Liberty of purchasing ye above mentioned Land paying Such Sums of Money to my other Children as ye Sª Lands Shall be Iustly Valued at by indif- ferant men chosen by them to apprize ye Same: I Also give to my son Samuel two oxen & two Cows & to ye Heirs begotten of his body.
Item I give to my well beloved Son Joseph Hill forever ve Lands which I purchased of John Downing Samuel Miller Peter Staple jun", Ichn Searl & Nathaniel Mendum Scituate Lying and being in ye Township of Kittery as by deeds from ye above named persons may more at large appear reference thereunto being had & also a certain tract of Land which I have in ye Township of Kittery afores Lying at y" head of ye Land Called and known by ye name of ye Bay Land & ye Lands of Iohn Gelding & Joshua Downing - Con- taining by Estimation forty four acres together with all ye housing orchards and fences upon ye Said Lands he paying to his Sisters as followeth that is to Say to Elizabeth Hill fifteen pounds ye one halfe of ye Sum in money & ye other half part in Cattle at money price to Hannah Hill fourteen pounds y" one half of ye Sª Sum in money & ye other half in Cattle
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at money price to Abigail Hill twelve pounds Six of it in money & ye other Six in Cattle at money price & to Sarah Hill ten pounds five of it in money & ye other five in Cattle at money price : All ye above mentioned Sums to be paid by him to my above named four daughters when they Shall come to Lawful age or marriage & if it Should So happen yt my Son Joseph Should die without Issue it is my will yt ye above Sª Giuen Lands descend to my youngest Son John Hill & ye Heirs of his body.
Item I give unto my well beloved Son John Hill all yt tract of Land which I purchased of Frances Allen lying near to ye place called Coxes pond in ye township of Kittery & also ye tract of Land which I have in ye aforesd Township lying in partnershp with Stephen Toby : to be possest of ye above Said Lands when he Shall come to ye age of twenty one years, and If my Sª Son John Shall See cause to Sell ye above Said Lands or any part of them when he Shall come to ye age of twenty four years y then his brethren Samuel & Joseph Hill Shall have ye offer of ye Same made to them they giving as much for ye Said Land as any other man.
and if it Should So happen yt my Son Iohn Should die before he comes to ye age of twenty one years then ve Sd Lands Shall go to my other two Sons Samuel & Joseph to be Equally divided betwen them.
Item I give to my well beloved daughters Katharine Hill Mary Hill & Dorcas Hill ten pounds apiece to be paid to them by my Son Samuel Hill when they Shall come to Law- ful age or marriage yt is to Say five pounds to Each of them in money and ye other five pounds in Cattle at money price- - Item I give to my daughter Elizabeth Hill fifteen pounds to be paid to her by my son Joseph when She Shall come to Lawful age or marriage ye one halfe part of the Said Sum to be paid in money ye other halfe part to be paid in Cattle at money price.
Item 1 give to my daugter Hannah Hill fourteen pounds to be paid to her by my Son Joseph Hill when She Shall
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come to Lawfull age or marriage Seven pounds of ye Said Sum to be paid in money ye other Seven pounds in Cattle at money price.
Item I giue to my well beloved daughter Abigail Hill twelve pounds Six of it in money ye other Six in Cattle as they are Sold for money to be paid to her by my Son Joseph when Shee Shall come to Lawful age or marriage.
Item I give to my well beloved daughter Sarah Hill ten pounds to be paid to her by my Son Joseph when She Shall come to Lawfull age or marriage five pounds of it in money ye other in Cattle as they are Sold for money :
and if it Should So happen yt any of my above named daughters Should die before they come of Lawful age to receive ye Legaciss herein bequeathed to them or marriage yt then ye aboue Said Sums to be paid to my wife for ye bring- ing up & Maintainance of my children yt are not of Suitable age to be put apprentice.
Item I give unto my Son Samuel Hill my part of a Small Sloop or boat which I have he paying for ye Iron worke of ye Said boat.
Item I give and bequeath to Susannah my dearly beloved wife ye use & Improvement of all my Estate both real & personal untill my Son Joseph Shall come to ye age of twenty one years for ye maintainance of my children till they come to a Suitable age to be put apprentice Excepting what I have given to my Son Samuel which She is not to have any use or Improvement off: I also give unto her after my Son Joseph Shall come of Lawful age to be possest of ye above Estate given to him the third part of ye incom of all my Lands given to him with ye third part of ye Incom of ye orchards yt are thereon & one third part of my housing & ye improvement of one third part of my Stock of Cattle and all my other goods and moveables for her Support & Main- tainance during her widowhood and if She Should marry again I do then give to her three Suits of apperrel throught- out and ten pounds iu money to be paid to her by my Son
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Joseph & two cows and She Shall theu renoance yo having any further right or interest in any of my Estate forever.
and all ye remainder of my Estate both real and personal with all my houshold Goods & moveables which I have not already disposed of I give to my Son Joseph Hill bis Heirs & assigns forever.
Item I Constitute make & ordain my dearly beloved wife my only & Sole Executrix of this my Last will and Testa- ment and desire & apoint my much respected friends Captn John Leighton & M' Joseph Hammond to be ye overseers of of this my Last will & Testament/ willing my Executrix to take their Councel & advice in ye disposing of my Children when they Shall be of Convenient age to Such places & Callings as they Shall Judge Suitable for them :
And I do also impower my Executrix to pay to those of my daughters yt my son Joseph is hereby ordered to pay Legacies unto yt will be of Lawful age before he Shall be possest of his Estate, to pay to them those Legacies & Sums willed to them which Sums & Legacies She Shall with ye advice of those overseers raise and Levy out of my personal Estate.
And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & dissannull all and Every other former Testaments wills & Legacies be- queasts & Executors by me in any way before this time named & willed Ratifying & Confirming this and no other to be my my Last will & Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal ye day and year above written. Signed Sealed published & declared
by ye Said Joseph Hill as his Last will & Testament in ye presence of us ye Subscribers John Newmarch -
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John Dennet
Thomas Knight
Probated 5 Jan. 1713. Inventory returned at £827: 9: 2, by John Leighton, Jos: Hamond and John Dennet, appraisers, 1 March 1712.
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Probate Office, 2, 79.
In the Name of God Aman I Samuel Nelson being bound to Sea & being of Sound and perfect mind & memory praise be given therefore unto almighty God for ye Same Do make this my Last will & Testament in manner & form following yt is to Say first and principally I Resigne my Sole into ye mercyfull hands of almighty God my Creator aSuredly hop- ing through ye merits of my blessed Saviour to Obtain par- don and Remision of all my Sins & my body to the Earth from whence it was Taken To be Decently Buryed By the Discretion of my herein after namedl Executors & first of all I do Renounce and make Void all wills by me hereto fore made and declare this to be my Last will & Testament in all Such worldly Estate as the Lord in mercy hath Lent mne I dispose thereof as followeth.
Item I give and bequeath unto my Honoured Mother all my moveable Estate whatsoever Except my mare To have and To hold to her and her Heirs forever.
Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved Brother Iohn Nelson twenty acres of Land at burnt Hill To have and To hold To him and His Heirs forever.
Item I give and hequeath unto my Cosen Wm Rackle thirty acres of Land at ye Beach Hill To have and To hold To him and his Heirs forever :
Item I give and bequeath unto Wm" Grant my Mare & Wm Rackle To have ye First horse Colt that come of her.
Last of all I do apoint my dear Mother to be Sole Execu- trix of this my Last will and Testament witness my hand and Seal this Ninth day of Septermbr one Thousand Six Hundred Ninty and Eight
Signed and Sealed in presents of Nicolas Walden Alexander Grant W= Godsoe
Samuel Nelson (Seal;
Sworn to and recorded 12 Feb. 1713-14.
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Probate Office, 2, 90.
In the Name of God Amen William Goodin of ye Town of Kittery in ye County of Yorke in her Majesties Province of ye Masachusets Bay in New England being Sick of Body but of Sound and disposing Sence & Memory ; Blessed be for it Do make this my Last will & Testament in manner as Followeth
First and principally I Resigne my Soul to god that gave it hoping through ye Merits of my Blesed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to obtain pardon & Remission of all my Sins and my Body I Commit to ye Earth; from whence it was taken to be decently buried at ye discretion of ye Executors to this my Last Will & for ye worldly Goods ye Lord hath Lent me after my Funarral Charge & Lawfull Debts is paid I give and bestow as followeth Viz :
14 I give and bequeath unto my Son Moses Goodin that part of my homested Lot of Land Called ye Little Marsh as it was formerly fenced by my Father Tayler and to Extend as far to a pine tree Standing near Square wth Southwest Corner of James Warren Orchard reserueing priviledge for a lane & for Transportation to the Lower part of ye as Qra- tion Shall Call, also I give him fifty acres of out Land at my Marsh and five acres of S' Marsh to him and to his heirs · forever.
2ly I give and bequeath unto my Son William Goodin thirty Acres of out Lands & five acres of fresh Marsh to him and to his Heirs forever.
Bly I give and Bequeath unto my Son Iohn Goodin the upper end of my homested Lot: that part Lying above his Brother Moses ; And Preserveing the Same Priviledges as I have in that given his Brother Moses to him and to his Heirs forever.
4ly I give and bequeath unto my Loving wife Deliverance all my houshold Goods : and to be at her disposing forever and all the Rest of my homested Lot of Land not herein
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Menchened with ye house and Barn Standing thereon : and all the rest of my Goods Chattels vtensils Rights and Cred- its whatsoever Abroad or at home without dores or within I give unto her for her Comfortable Maintainance & for ye bringing up of our Small Children During ye whole term of her Life : If She Lives a widow or during the time of her widowhood.
5ly I give unto my Son Moses & my Son Iames that part of my homested Lot of Land fore Menchened to their Mother after her Death or day of Marriage my trve meaning her day of Marriage if our Small Children be brought up.
Gly My will is that my Son Moses Goodin & Iames Goodin Shall pay an Equall part by apprisment to their Brothers : Adam & Tayler when they Enter upon ye Same.
7ly I give & bequeath unto Each of my daughters Mar- gret Elizabeth Hannah & Mary fourty Shilling apeise to be paid out of my Stock.
: Sly I doe ordain & appoint my Loving wife & my Son Moses to be the Executors to this my Last will and Testa- ment Renounsing and Reuoaking all or any will or wills whatsoever heretofore by me made or Cause to be made : In witness hereof I Set to my hand and Seal this 26th day. of Aprill 1713/ his
Owned Signed and in the preSence of
William
Goodin
Benjamin Nason
Witnesses
Thomas Goodin John Hopper
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Probated 20 March 1714. Inventory returned at £350: 10: 0, by Benjamin Nason, John Happer, and James Warren, appraisers, 1 Ang. 1713.
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Probate Office, 2, 95.
In the name of God Amen I Benjamin Nason of Berwick in the County of Yorke in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England being weak of Body but of Sound Memory & not knowing how it may please God to deal with me do make & ordain this my Last will & Testament in manner and form following. I Comit my Soul to the Lord IeSus Christ & as for my worldly Estate I dispose thereof as Followeth.
Impr after my Iust Debts & Funerall Charges are paid I say I dispose thereof as Followeth. (1) I give & bequeath unto my Son Benjamin Nason my homeSteed Vizt all the land thereto belonging wth all the bluildings Housing out housing thereto belonging I Say I give all my homeSteed lands to Benjamin & his Heirs for Ever: (Excepting twenty Acres out of the Same weh I give & bequeath to my Son William Vizt Six Acres at the water Side & fourteen acres at the head & in Case William die wthout Issue the Same to revert to Benjamin & his Heirs Also the Meadow belonging to the homeSteed farm - I give & bequeath to my Son Ben- jamin & his Heirs forever; & my fifty acres at the beaver dam, and my part of the Neek land betwene Quamphegen falls & Salmonfalls to him my Sd Son Benjamin and his Heirs forever ; and also all my personall Estate within dore's & without Cattle Sheep Swine horsekind tackling & all other named or not named of what Nature kind or quality Soever household goods and whatsoever the Same Consists of I say I give and bequeath to him my Said Son Benjamin forever. & as for my hundred acres land or there abouts Ioyning to Spruce Swamp I give my Executor full power to make Sale thereof for the payment of my Debts if the Case So requirs or if he finds away to discharge them more for his Advan- tage then the S" land to be to him and his Heirs; after they are discharged.
Item I give & bequeath Unto my Six daughters Viz:
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Ledia, Mary, Patiance, Febee, Anne, & Sarah, three pounds p ps in or as money to be paid them by my Executor when he can most Conveniantly do it to Such as are of age & the others when they come of age/
Item I ordain and appoint my well beloved Son Benjamin Nason to be Sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament.
In Wittness whereof I have hereunto Sett my band & Seal the 28 day of Iune Annoq Domini 1711.
Benjamin Nason (Seal) Signed Sealed published
& Declared to be his last
will and Testament in the
preSence of us. Mary Spencer his William X Newton mark John Croade
Probated 11 Ang. 1714.
Probate Office, 2, 98.
These presents Signifies to all persons to whom it may doth or Shall Concern that we the Subscribers all of Kittery in the County of Yorke & within his Majts Province of the MasachuSets Bay in New England Testifie declare & Aver by these preSent that being att the the dwelling house of Moses Bowdy of S' Kittery Mason deceased lately on wends- day the fifteenth of December Instant, he the Sª Moses Bowdy then being ill & daingereous Sick tho in perfect mind & Sound Judgement Expecting his certain & Speedy departure out of this life; did then in the presents of us Nominate & appoint ConStitute & unalterably Establish Reynold Jenkins & William Fry both of S" Kittery in the X County & prouince afore Said to be his trve & Sole Execu- tors & take all his Estate into theit Charge, care, & manage-
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ment both real and perSonable ; & bary him decently also to take care of his Children & Provide for them & bring them up & Improve the Said Estate to ye best & most advantage- ous manner for their vse & advantage To the truth of which the above written we SubScribe our Names this 18 day of Decembr Anno Domini 1714 Samuel Iolinson
John Tydy ber
Eliner
mark E - Bishop
Probated 18 Dec. 1:14. Inventory returned 21 Dec. 1714 at & 47: 00: 1, by John Leighton, Joshua Downing, and Nicolas Shapleigh, appraisers Added to the Inventory the first day of Aug. 1721. £7: 15: 4.
Probate Office, 2, 109.
In the Name of God Amen I Patience Stone of the Town of Barwick in the County of Yorke in his Majt Province of the MasachuSetts Bay in New England widow (and Relict of Daniel Stone late of Barwick aforeSaid) being weak & ail- ing but of Sound & disposing Sence & memory, blessed be God for it Do make this my Last will & Testament.
First & principally I resign my Soul to God that gave it hopeing through the merits of my blessed Lord & Saviour Iusus Christ to obtain Pardon of all my Sins, and my body I Commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the discre- tion of the Executor to this my Last Will & Testament & as for this worldly Goods the Lord hath Lent me ; after my Lawfull Debts & funerall Charge is paid I give & bestow as Followeth.
1. I give & bequeath unto my Son Daniel Stone a pair of Stilliards and one flax Comb.
2. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Rachael Grant one pewter platter.
3. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Patience Way- mouth one pewter platter.
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4. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Libby one pewter platter
5. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Abigail Goodin one pewter platter & two plates.
6. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elisabeth Stone one pewter platter & one Bason & my great Iron pott & two pewter plates.
7. I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Leah Stone one pewter platter & one Chafindish & two pewter plates & my middlein Iron pott.
8. I do give & bequeath unto my two aforeSaid daughters Elisabeth & Leah my two fetherbeds & all the furniture belonging to them both, & all my bed Cloths of every Sort both wooling & Linnin & all my wearing Cloths both wool- ing & Linnin or any other Sort & also my warming pan & Table Linnin to equally divided betwene them both.
9. I give & bequeath unto my Eight daughters to the Six herein already named and to my daughter Mary Martin & Margret Gould all the rest of my Estate Good or Chattels Rights & Credits & vtenSels whatsoever without dores or within abroad or at home to be Equally divided amongst them all
10. I do ordain & appoint my Brother Daniel Goodin to be the Executor to this my Last Will & Testament Renounc- ing & Revoaking all or any Will or Wills by me heretofore made or Suffered to be made ; In Witness hereof I the afore Said Patience Stone have hereunto Set my hand & Seal this Eighteenth day of February anno Dom : one Thousand Seven Hundred & fifteen Sixteen 1743
Signed Sealed & Published/
Patience
marke 22 her Stone (Scal)
in the presents of us bia
Mary X Goodia marke
witnesses
Samuel Goodin
John Hubord
Probated + April 1716. Inventory returned 10 April 1716 ac & 70: 08: 9, by James War- er., Daniel Emery, and Joun Hupper, appraisers.
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Probate Office, 2, 111.
In the name of God Amen The third day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred & twelve thirteen I Peter Lewis of Kittery in the County of Yorke in the Province of the MasachuSets Bay in New Eng- land yeoman, being weak in body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto. God therefore Calling unto mind the Mortality of my body, & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make & ordain this my Last Will and Testament : that is to say ; principally & first of all I give & recommend my Soul into the hand of God that gave it ; & for my body I commend to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the discre- tion of my Executrix nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I Shall receive the Same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching Such worldly Estate where- with it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give de- vise & dospose of the Same in the following manner & form.
First I will that all those debts & duties as I do owe in right or Conscience to any manner of person or persons whatsoever Shall be well & Truly contented & paid or ordained to be paid in convenient time after my decease by my Executrix hereafter nomed.
Item I give unto my Well beloved Son Peter Lewis by these presents a Confermation of all the Land which I have heretofore given him by deeds one bearing date ye 13 day of September Anno Domini 1706 the other bearing date the 29th of January 1713, and also after mine & my wives decease I give to him his Heirs & assigns Eight acres of wood land which Lyes at the head of Roberd Easmans Land & Andrew Haleys Land forever to enjoy it after my wives decease
Item I give unto my well beloved Son Andrew Lewis a Confirmation of the Lands whereon he now dwells & pos- sesses for which I have heretofore given him a deed of gift which is in full of that portion which intend to give him.
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Item I give unto my well beloved Son William Lewis his Heirs & assigns the moiety or one halfe part of that tract of Land which I have in the woods Lying & being in the Town Ship of Kittery Containing in the whole fifty acres be it more or Less forever :
Item I give unto my well beloved Grandson Nathaniel Lewis Son of my Son Morgan Lewis Deceased the moiety or one halfe part of that tract of Land which I have in the Woods Lying & being in Kittery TownShip Containing in the whole fifty acres be it more or Less the whole to be Equally divided betwene my Son William Lewis & my Said Grandson Nathaniel Lewis.
Item I give unto my well beloved Grand children Benja- min Lewis Grace Lewis Elizabeth Lewis Mehetabel Lewis the Children. of my Son John Lewis deceased five Shilling apeace to be levied & raised out of my Estate and paid to them by my Executrix after my decease.
Item I give unto my well beloued daughters Grace Lewis one Cow four Ewe sheep on bed & furniture belonging to it forever and her dwelling in the Lentoe of my now dwelling house So long as She Shall Continue unmarried.
Item I give unto my well beloved daughters Mary Hutch- ins Grace Lewis Anne Tapley Rebecca Pike Elizabeth Lewis Sarah Lewis after the decease of my wife all the household Stuff & other moveables or personall Estate that Shall then be found belonging to my Estate to be Equally divided among them.
Item I give & bequeath unto Grace my dearly beloved wife the vse & Improvement of my whole Estate real & per- sonal during her naturall life for her comfertable Subsistance but if it Should So happen that the Income of my Estate will not maintain her Comfertably that then She hath hereby power & leave to dispose of So much of the moveables as Shall be necessary to Support her.
I do likewise Constitute make & ordain my above said wife Grece to be my onely & Sole Executrix of this my Last
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Will & Testament and I do hereby utterly dissalow revoke & dissanull all & every other former Testaments & Will by me in any ways before this time Willed and Bequeathed Ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be my Last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal the day & year above written.
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