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Item. I giue unto my beloved Wife Elizabeth all my House hold Goods, and twenty fiue pounds lawful Money.
Item. I also give all the rest of my whole Estate unto my only Son Abner, The whole or what part of the Said Estate my Executor Shall think proper to be laid out in bringing up or Learning of my Said Son.
Item. I also give unto my Wife's Father and Mother if my Wife and Child Should die before my Son Shall come unto the Age of one and twenty Years the twenty five pounds lawful Money above which I gave unto my Wife and the rest of my whole Estate to be equally divided amongst my Brothers and Sisters and their Heirs.
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Item. I also constitute my beloved Wife Elizabeth above named to be my Executor of this my last Will & Testa- ment
Signed Sealed & declared to be Josiah Plumer ( seal)
the last Will & Testamt of ye above named Josiah Plumer
In Presence of Us Samuel Bucknam Iames Parker Benja- min Parker.
Probated 5 Nov. 1746. Inventory returned 9 April 1746 at £333: 4: 0, old tenor by Jacob Mitchell, Edward King and Gilbert Winslow, appraisers.
Probate Office, 7, 46.
In the Name of God Amen. I Iohn Bartland of Kittery in the County of York and Province of the Massa : Bay in
1 New England Yeoman being very weak in Body but of per- fect Mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God, therefore calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing
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that it is appointed for all men once to die, Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament; That is to Say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and my Body I recom- mend to the Earth to be buried in a decent and Christian Manner at the Discretion of my Executrix hereafter named Nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I Shall receive the Same again by the mighty Power of God; and as touching Such Worldly wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give demise and dispose of ye Same in the following Manner and Form.
Impr I will that all my just Debts and Funeral Charges be raised and paid out of my Estate by my Executrix here- after named as Soon as may be conveniently after my Decease.
Item. I give and bequeath unto Deborah Bartland my well beloved Wife all my Estate both real and personal of every kind and Nature whatsoever and wheresoever during her Natural Life for her Support giving and hereby granting unto my Said Wife (whom I likewise constitute make & ordain my Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testa- ment) full Power and Authority to dispose of or make Sale or Conveyance of my Estate or any part thereof either real or personal for her Support or Maintainance during her natural Life as aforesaid, and after her Decease and her funeral Charges be paid out of Said Estate what Estate of mine that Shall be then remaining I give the one half part thereof to the Poor of the Church at Portsmouth, and the other half part I give to the Poor in the lower Parish of the Town of Kittery aforesaid
And further I will that my Body be buried at the burying Place by or near the aforesaid Church in Portsmouth. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacys & Bequests & Executors by me in any Ways before named willed & be-
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queathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above written
Signed sealed published
pronounced & declared by the Sª Iohn Bartlan as his last Will & Tes- tament in the presence of us ye Subscribers John
Memo the Words (Estate by my) were innerlined before Sign- ing and Sealing. his
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Probated 5 Jany 1746. Inventory returned 1 April 1747, at £1272: 15: 9, by William Whipple, Elihu Gunnison and John Godsoe, appraisers.
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Probate Office, 7, 49.
In the Name of God Amen. I Thomas Card of York in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Husbandman being very Sick and weak but of a Sound Mind and Memory, Thanks be given to God, and calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it's appointed for all men once to die : To prevent Trouble and Dispute among Such of my Children as may Survive me concerning Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I make and ordain this my last Will and Testament And first of all I recom- mend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it & my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent
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Christian Burial by my Executor hereafter named and as touching iny worldly Estate aforesª I give demise & dispose of the Same in the Manner following
Impr I give and bequeath to Martha My well beloved Wife the whole of my Household Goods and one full Third part of my Cattle of all Sorts and all other my personal Estate to her own use and Disposal.
Item. My Will is that my-just Debts funeral Charges and Legacys Shall be paid by my two Sons Iohn Card and Win- chester Card out of that part of my Estate which I hereafter in these presents give and dispose to them in the Proportion bereafter to be mentioned.
Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved Son Iohn Card all that part of my Homestead lying on the Northwest Side of a Line to begin at a certain flat Rock at the Head of a certain Creek between my dwelling House and my Son Winchester's House commonly called & known by the Name of Cock's Creek and to run about North East a little Easterly to a White Oak Tree Standing by the Falls at the Head of the Mill pond Together with my Dwelling House Barn and other Buildings thereon.
Item. I giue and dispose of the remaining part of my Homestead lying on the South East Side of the aforesaid Linie to my Son Winchester Card (excepting only my part of the Mill and Mill Priviledge and priviledge of joining the Dam and flowing the Pond &c. which I intend for my Son Iohn) And I do hereby give and dispose of the Same that is my part of the Mill Dam Priviledge & Priviledge of joining the Dam to the Upland and flowing the Pond &c. to my Said Son John.
Item. I give and bequeath to my aforesaid Two Sons John and Winchester all my Salt Marsh up the River on the South West Branch of the York River and all my Comnon Rights or Shares in the Common and undivided Lands in York aforesaid to be Equally divided between them.
Item My Will is and I giue to my aforesª Sons John and
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Winchester the better to enable them to pay my Debts and Legacys the remaining two Thirds of my Stock of Cattle of all Sorts equally to be divided between them.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth Banks the Wife of Iob Banks Fifty pounds old Tenor · besides what She hath already had in full of her Portion.
Item I give to my Four Grand Children the Children of my Son William Card Deced namely Mary Card five pounds old Tenor Joseph Card Twenty pounds old Tenor Elizabeth Card Five pounds old Tenor and Hephzibah Card Five pounds old Tenor which with the Cost and Charge I have been at in bringing them up Shall be in full of their Portion.
Item. My Will is that my Son Iohn Shall pay Two thirds of the Legacy's aforesaid and my Son Winchester one Third of the Said Legacies. And the Charges of my Funeral and just Debts Shall be paid by them in equal Proportion.
Finally, I appoint my Son Iohn to be Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby utterly disannul all and every Testaments Wills Legacies and be- quests and Exec" by me in any Ways before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this twenty eighth Day of Septem' in the twentieth year of His Majts Reign Annog Domini 1746.
Signed Sealed published & pronounced Thomas Card (seal ) & declared by the Sª Thomas Card
as his last Will & Testamt In pres- ence of us, after ye Words (To be) & (Stead) were interlined and three Words obliterated in 15th Line of ye other Side Iohn Bradbury Lewis Bane Dan' Moulton
Probated 5 Jany 1746. Inventory returned 23 March 1748, at £500: 1: 6, by John Brad- bury, Lowis Bane and Daniel Moulton, appraisers.
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Probate Office, 7, 62.
The last Will and Testament of Andrew Arbuckle of Bos- ton. First I commit my Soul to God who gave it, and my Body to be decently buried, and the Rest of my worldly affairs as followeth. First I leave Fifteen pounds old Tenor to my Mother and to be put into M' Joseph Holts Hands Senior Deacon of the first Church in York for her Use when She has any Occasion for it. More, I leave Fifteen pounds to my Sister McClannen old Tenor. More Fifteen pounds to my Sister Arbuckle old Tenor. Likewise I leave Ten pounds to Rosina Arbuckle old Tenor. More to Andrew McClannen I leave Twenty pounds old Tenor. To Joseph Arbuckle Five pounds, To Elizabeth Arbuckle Five pounds old Tenor To Jo" McClannen jun' Five pounds old Tenor. I leave to Jams Arbuckle jun' my Hat and Wigg. I leave my great Coat to Joseph McClannen. And I leave my Brother Iames Arbuckle Sole Executor over all my Concerns to pay all Debts above mentioned, and to bring in all my lawful Debts due to me. Likewise my Cloaths to Brother John Arbuckle. Witness my Hand this 11th Day of August 1746. Witness my Hand & Seal Andrew Arbuckle (se)) John Cuningham Thomas Cuningham
Probated 6 April 1747.
Probate Office, 7, 67.
In the Name of God Amen. I William Stanley of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England being aged and infirm of Body but of perfect Mind and Memory do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament as follows, viz.
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Imprimis I recommend my Soul to God who gave it and my Body to the Earth to be decently buried in Such manner as my Wife Shall Sec meet and as to what worldly Estate it hath pleased God to give me I give and dispose of in Man- ner and Form following vizt
Impr I give and bequeath unto Hannah my well beloved .Wife the Moiety or half part of all my Real Estate where I now dwell during her Life to be managed for her by my Sons Edward and Joseph Stanlee as also I give to my Wife all my Cattle and all other my moveable Estate within Doors and without during her Life and after her Decease I give the Said Moveables to my Daughter Elizabeth Stanice.
Impr I give to my Well beloved Son Iohn Stanlee five Shillings old Tenor Money to be paid him by my Wife besides what I have already given him.
Impr I giue to my well beloved Son William Stanlee Five Shillings old Tenor Money besides what I have already given him to be paid him by my Wife.
Imp' I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Sons Edward Stanlee and Joseph Stanlee all my Farm where I now dwell which I bougt of Charles, ffrost Esq' and Mr Robert Cutt as also all my Lands in Phillipston when they Shall arrive to the Age of twenty one Years.
Impr I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Elizabeth Stanlee my Lot of Land and orchard thereon at or near Spruce Creek in Kittery which I bought of M William Godsoe, and to her her Heirs or Assigns forever.
And lastly I do appoint my trusty Friend Tobias Leighton of Kittery aforesd to be the Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this twenty third Day of February in ya Eighteenth
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Year of His Majts Reign Annoq Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty four 1744.
Signed Sealed and Delivered by William Stanlee (seal)
William Stanlee aforesª to be
his last Will and Testament
in presence of us, Benja Parker jr John Chadbourn
Sarah Leighton
Probated 6 April 1747. Inventory returned 4 April 1747, at £803: 1: 0, by Tobias Fernald, Francis Allen jun. and Samuel Fernald, appraisers.
Probate Office, 7, 74.
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In the Name of God Amen. The Nineteenth Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Six. I Henry Barter of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Hus- bandman being weak in Body but of perfect Mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God, Therefore calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament That is to Say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the Discre- tion of my Executor 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 demise and dispose of the Same in the following Manner and Form.
Imp's I give and bequeath to Iean my dearly beloved Wife
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one Cow which She the Said Jane Shall See fit to choose out of my Cows two Sheep and one Load of English Hay to be delivered by my Executor to my Said Wife within Six Months after my Decease, And also one Quarter part of my Household Goods and all the Provision Wool & Flax I have at my Decease.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Son Henry Barter Five Shillings lawful Money to be paid by my Execr out of my Estate.
Item. I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Iones my well beloved Daughter and her Heirs Two pounds and ten Shil- lings lawful Money to be paid by my Executor out of my Estate.
Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Sarah Grindle and her Heirs twenty five Shillings lawful Money to be paid by my Executor out of my Estate.
Item. I giue and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Eleoner Creese and her Heirs Five pounds lawful Money to be paid by my Executor out of my Estate.
Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Martha Iones and her Heirs Two pounds & ten Shillings lawful Money to be paid by my Executor out of my Estate.
Item. I giue and bequeath to my Son Richard Barter one Shilling & Six pence lawful Money to be paid by my Ex- ecut' out of my Estate besides what I have given my Son William Barter for keeping and maintaining him the S Richard Barter
Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved Son Willm Barter his Heirs and Assigns forever all the Remainder of my Household Goods with all my Debts and moveable Effects (he paying all that I justly owe and ye Legacies before mentioned) whom I likewise constitute make and ordain my Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testa- ment. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disan- nul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacies
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and Bequests and Executors by me in any Ways before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above written.
Signed Sealed published pronounced Heny Barter (Seal)
and declared by ye S' Henry Barter
as his last Will and Testament In
the presence of us the Subscribers
Richard Robards her
Sarah X Rose mark Benja Parker jun"
Probated 19 May 1747. Inventory returned 8 May 1747, at €379: 9: 0, old tenor, by Roge Mitchell, Nathaniel Hex and Benj: Parker jun., appraisers.
Probate Office, 7, 76.
In the Name of God Amen. The twenty third Day of April Anno Domini 1737. I Deborah Webber of York in the County of York in New England Widow being old and weak and infirm in Body but of perfect Mind and Memory, Thanks be given unto God. Therefore calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to Say, principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and my Body I recomend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the Discretion of my Executor, 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 wherewith it hath pleased
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God to bless me in this Life, I give demise and dispose of the Same in the following Manner and Form.
Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Chil- dren vizt Iohn Webber Benjamin Webber Waitstil Webber, Joseph Webber, Deborah Westcoat Wife of Andrew West- coat (Barsheba who is now in Canada) Dorcas Baker Wife of John Baker all of York aforesd to each of them Five Shilling in Money.
Item I give to my well beloved Daughter Mary Sayward Wife of Joseph Sayward of York aforesd Gent" all my Household Goods Chattels Debts ready Money Plate Jewels Rings Utensils Brass Pewter Copper Bedding Houses Cows Oxen Sheep Hoggs and all other things to me belonging and which I may claim as in Right my own of what kind Nature quality and Condition ye Same may be or are and in what place or Places soeuer the Same may be Shall or may be found as well in my own Custody or Possession as in the Possession Hands Power and Custody of any other Person or persons whatsoever.
Item. I do Constitute make and ordain my trusty & well beloved Grandson Jonathan Sayward of York in the County aforest Gent" to be my Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacys and Bequests and Executors by me in any Ways before named Willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirm- ing this and no other to be my last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal ye Day and. Year herein before written. her Signed Sealed published
pronounced & declared by the Sª Debo Webber as her last Will & Testa- ment in ye Presence of
Deborah
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us ye Subscribers Joseph Plaisted Abraham Nowell Sarah Sayward
Probated 19 May 1747.
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Probate Office, 7, 82.
In the Name of God Amen. The Sixth Day of March Anno Domini &c. One Thousand Seven Hundred & Forty one I Thomas Walker of Pemaquid &c. being Sick in Body but of good and perfect Memory, Thanks be to almighty God, and calling to Remembrance the uncertain Estate of this Transitory Life, and that all Flesh must yield unto Death, when it Shall please God to call I do make and declare this my last Will and Testament in Manner and Form following, First being penitent and Sorry for all my Sins most humbly desiring forgiveness for ye Same I com- mend my Soul unto almighty God my Saviour and Redeemer in whom and by whose Merits I trust and beleiue assuredly to be Saved and to have full Remission and Forgiveness of all my Sins and to inherit ye Kingdom of Heaven, and my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named, and for the Setling of my temporal Estate, and Such Goods Chattels and Debts as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me, I do order giue and dispose of the Same in Manner and Form following ; That is to Say,
Imprimis. I give and here Set down first Two Thirds of the whole to Iane and John Walker my Wife and Son now residing in Ireland and the other Third to James Walker my Brother now residing in Pensilvania in the Town or County of Donegal. And I do hereby make and appoint
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my loving Friends David Allen and Samuel Clarke full and Sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking disannulling and making void all former Wills and Bequests by me made and declaring this only to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the Date above mentioned.
Witness present
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Thomas
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Probated 16 Sept. 1746. Letters testamentary issued to Patrick Rogers, of Pemaquid, 28 Nov. 1746.
Probate Office, 7, 84.
In the Name of God Amen. The Ninth Day of March Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty six seven, I John Rogers of Kittery in the County of York and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Yeoman, being aged and infirm of Body but thro Gods Goodness and Mercy of perfect Mind and Memory and knowing the Uncertainty of this Life do make and ordain this and none other to be my last Will and Testament in the following Manner Vizt. Imprimis, I Commend my Soul into the Hands of God who gave it, and my Body to ye Earth to be buried in Such decent and Christian Manner as my Executors here- after named Shall See meet, and touching Such Worldly Estate as God in His Providence hath given me my Will is Shall be disposed of in the following Manner after my Funeral Charges and just Debts are paid & Satisfied.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved Wife Hannah Rogers a Mocity or half part of my personal Estate forever, and one Half of my dwelling House during her Natural Life, and one quarter part of the yearly profit and Income of my Real Estate during Life as afores That is to
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Say, One full Quarter part of the Lands produce without any Charge to her for Improvement thereof.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Son George Rogers and to his Heirs and Assigns forever one Moiety or half part of my Lands in Kittery aforesd including what I have already given him by Deed which is to be accounted part of his half, to be divided by a Northeast and by East Line through the Middle of every part of my Land, he to haue the South east part thereof, and also my Dwelling House with the Land it Stands on, and to extend Two Rods Northwest from Said House, and Two Rods South West and to run Square over Southeastward to his own Line of his half part and Northeastward by the High Way The Kitchin on the Southwest Side of the House is included in the Said Two Rods.
I also give him the Said George his Heirs and Assigns forever the Moiety or half part of all the Right I have or hereafter may or ought to haue in the Common and undi- vided Lands in the Town of Kittery or Berwick To Have and to Hold to him the Said George Rogers his Heirs and Assigns forever, he paying his part of the Legacys hereafter mentioned to my four Daughters.
Item. I give and bequeath unto beloved Son John Rogers his Heirs and Assigns forever all the remaining half part of all my Lands in Kittery aforesd being the Northwest part thereof and also the remaining half part of my Right in the common and undivided Lands aforesª with the remaining half part of my personal Estate, To have and To Hold to him the Said John Rogers his Heirs and Assigns forever, he paying his part of the Legacys hereafter mentioned to my four Daughters.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Hannah Fernald besides what I have already given her the Sum of Five pounds.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Mary Godsoe the Sum of Five pounds besides what I have already given her.
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Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Margaret Libby the Sum of Five pounds besides what I have already given her.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Keziah Hanscom besides wbat I have already given her the Sum of Six pounds & Five Shillings. All the aforesaid Legacys to be paid by my Said Sons George and John within Four years after my Decease in good Bills of Credit of the new Tenor so called or in old Tenor Four for one, Each of them to pay one Half : And further my Will and Meaning is that if either of my Sons afores Should die and leave no Surviving Issue of his Body lawfully begotten, that then the Surviver Shall have hold and enjoy all the abovesd Lands and Premisses to him his Heirs and Assigns forever he discharging and paying the aforesaid Legacys ; Saving to the Widow if any be of the Decd her Dower dur- ing Widowhood
And I do ordain and appoint my aforesd Sons George and John Rogers Executors of this my last Will and Testament and do hereby utterly disallow revoke and make void all or any former Will or Testament, confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & affixed my Scal on the Day and Date first above written.
John Rogers (Seal) Signed Sealed published and
declared by John Rogers the Testat' to be his last Will
and Testament in presence
of us the Subscribers,
Iames Fogg In° Hammond Ionª Hammond
Probated 6 July 1747. Inventory returned 28 Sept. 1747, at £2436: 16: 0, by William , Tetherly, Joseph Hammond jun. and Nath' Remick, appraisers, besides 1412 acres of land and 6 sheep returned by the Executors and not priced.
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Probate Office, 7,87.
I Nathaniel Raynes of York in the County of York in New England Yeoman being under Bodily Weakness do make this my last Will and Testament after my just Debts and funeral Charges are paid.
Imprimis. I do hereby give and bequeath unto my Dear and wel-beloved Wife and my Son Robert all my Lands Marshes Houses Barns & personal Estate whatsoever (ex- cept what my Son Francis has now in Possession) to be equally divided between them and to be held in Severalty to them and his Heirs forever.
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