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Pierce, Frank, Company F. Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Nov. 15, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861; wounded Ang. 29, 1862, Bull Run, Va .; appointed corporal Sept. 1, 1862; sergeant ; reënlisted and mustered in Dee. 22, 1863; appointed first lieutenant Company B June 1, 1865 ; mustered out July 17, 1865.
Piper, Francis S., Company 1, Sixteenth Regiment. Enlisted Oet. 8, 1862; mustered in Oct. 22, 1862. Died of disease Ang. 16, 1863, Memphis, Tenn.
Ripley, George J., Company A, Eighteenth Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 5, 1864, for one year; mustered m Sept. 13, 1864, as corporal; reduced to ranks April 27, 1865; discharged June 25, 1865, Manchester, N. H. Roby, Joseph A., Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 14, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861; appointed corporal March 1, 1863; ser- geant May 1, 1863; mustered out Nov. 28, 1864.
Shattuck, Frank, Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 28, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, 1862; mustered out July 8, 1865.
Shehan, Patrick, Company I, Sixteenth Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 11, 1862; mustered in Oet. 23, 1862; mustered out Ang. 20, 1863. Silsby, Robert M., Company E, First Regiment Heavy Artillery. Enlisted Ang. 30, 1864, for one year; mustered in Sept. 5, 1864; mustered out June 15, 1865.
Smith, Daniel, Unassigned Eleventh Regiment. Mustered in July 23, 1864; substitute for Henry W. Farrar; deserted en route to regi- ment.
Smith, Henry, Company F, Fifth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in Oct. 23, 1861; discharged, disabled, Oct. 27, 1862, Washington, D. C. Stickney, Silas S., Company D, Second Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 3, 1861 ; mustered in Sept. 17, 1861; wounded severely July 2, 1863; died of wounds July 15, 1863, Gettysburg, Pa.
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Streeter, Charles H., Company G, First Regiment. Enlisted April 20, 1861; mustered in May 2, 1861; discharged Aug. 9, 1861; enlisted Sept. 5, 1861, in Company C, Seeond Regiment ; mustered in Sept. 17, 1861; appointed corporal; reënlisted and mustered in Jan. 1, 1864; eredited to 'Portsmouth; appointed sergeant July 1, 1864; first sergeant Nov. 30, 1864; sergeant-major March 17, 1865; first lieutenant Company A, May 1, 1865; transferred to Company E; discharged Aug. 16, 1865.
Spooner, Lyman, Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted and mus- tered in Dee. 29, 1863; died July 7, 1865, Savannah, Ga. Buried in national cemetery, Beaufort, S. C .; grave No. 1399.
Thompson, Samuel M., Company I, Third Regiment. Enlisted Mareli 20, 1865, for one year; mustered out July 20, 1865. Also served in Company F, Sixth Regiment, credited Richmond; enlisted Oet. 12, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861, as corporal; appointed sergeant July 1, 1862; first sergeant Sept. 1, 1862; second lieutenant Feb. 3, 1863; diseharge to date April 29, 1863.
Tolman, Lorenzo F., Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Dee. 2, and mustered in Dee. 3, 1861; reënlisted and mustered in Jan. 29, 1864; eredited Stratford; appointed corporal; wounded June 20, 1864, at Petersburg, Va .; appointed sergeant July 1, 1865; mustered out July 17, 1865.
Tolman, Sidney E., Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 15, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, 1862; discharged, disabled, July 20, 1863, Washington, D. C.
Tupper, George W., Company E, First Regiment, Heavy Artillery. En- listed Sept. 1, 1864, for one year; mustered in Sept. 5, 1864; mus- tered out June 15, 1865.
Wallace, George, Company E, Fifth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 6, 1864; mustered in Aug. 7, 1864; substitute for Alvah S. Clark; mustered out June 28, 1865.
Wheeler, Robert A., Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Nov. 19, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861; mustered out Nov. 28, 1864.
Whittemore, Curtis A., Company A, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 15, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, 1862; mustered out July 8, 1865. Died Sept. 11, 1867, Fitchburg, Mass.
Among those living in Troy but who were credited to other towns, were the following :
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Amadon, Henry J., Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 7, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861 ; wounded at Spottsylvania, Va., May 13, 1864; mustered out Nov. 28, 1864. Died at Troy July 27, 1867; credited to Fitzwilliam.
Amadon, James O., Keene Volunteers. Enlisted April 25, 1861 ; reënlisted May 21, 1861, for three years; no further record. Served in a private capacity through the war.
Capron, George I., Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 11, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865. Died at Troy Nov. 17, 1868; cred- ited to Swanzey.
Fisk, Asa B., Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 16, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861; wounded Aug. 29, 1862, Bull Run, Va .; discharged, disabled, Nov. 5, 1862, Alexandria, Va .; credited to Fitz- william.
Lang, Frederick. Served in Twentieth Indiana.
Lawrence, Frederick C., Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 17, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861; discharged, disabled, Jan. 2, 1863, Baltimore, Md. Died at Troy Jan. 25, 1863; credited to Fitzwilliam. Lawrence, Alfred, Troop C, First Regiment, New Hampshire Cavalry. Enlisted April 19, 1864; captured June 29, 1864, Ream's Station, Va. Died of starvation Aug. 19, 1864, at Andersonville, Ga .; grave No. 6144; credited to Marlborough.
Tupper, Alonzo W., Company A, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Ang. 14, 1862; wounded at Cedar Creek Oct. 19, 1864; discharged July 8, 1865. Died at Millers Falls, Mass., June 2, 1874; credited to Swanzey.
The number of men furnished under the different calls of the President, were as follows: April, 1861, two; July, 1861, twenty-six; July, 1862, eighteen; August, 1862, thirteen; February, 1864, two; July, 1864, fourteen; De- cember, 1864, seven, making a total of eighty-two.
Most of those who served in the ninth regiment were hired volunteers, procured from other places, or through the recruiting stations at Concord or Lebanon. At this time and during the year 1864, it was very difficult to procure citizens of the town, to fill the quotas required of the town, and in accordance with a vote of the town
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passed at a meeting held Dee. 5, 1863, the seleetmen hired men to fill up the quotas as necessary. In addition to the bounties paid by the town, the selectmen were obliged to pay in cash, the bounties offered by the United States and the state of New Hampshire, the men thus hired trans- ferring or assigning their bounties to the town.
There is reported as one of the unavailable assets of the town, the sum of thirteen hundred and eighty dollars, due from the United States, for bounties thus paid and which were not refunded, on account of the loss of the assignments before the final settlement with the govern- ment, was made.
Deducting the number of volunteers hired and those who served as substitutes, it makes the number of actual residents of the town who served in the war about seventy.
The soldiers from Troy were fortunate in that the num- ber killed or dying, was not as large proportionately, as in other places. This was not because they were not effi- cient soldiers, or because they were not found in places of exposure or danger. Of the number, two were killed, John Collin and Daniel M. Fisk; one died of wounds received, Silas S. Stickney; one was drowned, George W. Derby ; four died of disease, John Amadon, Alfred Lawrence, Pat- rick McCaffrey and Lyman Spooner. The three last named were buried on southern soil. Several died soon after reaching home of disease contraeted in the service.
The first soldier to be brought here for burial was Luther W. Fassett, brother of D. C. Fassett, who enlisted in Company E, Second Regiment, from Winchester, and who was killed by a rebel guerilla at Evansport, Va., April 2, 1862. Fassett, with others, had been engaged in digging for a gun that had been buried by the rebels, after being abandoned. He, with a companion, started back from where the men were engaged in digging, to procure
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some shovels which were stored in a building about a mile away. They were met by three rebels in citizens' clothes, who had been skulking in the bushes, and who confronted them with loaded carbines. Fassett immedi- ately surrendered, but notwithstanding this, they sent a bullet through his body, while his comrade made good his escape, and the guerillas eluded all efforts to capture them.
The following have become residents of the town since the war, who served from other towns or in other states:
Adams, Edward F., Company E, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 29, 1861; appointed corporal Nov. 28, 1861; sergeant Dec. 1, 1862; first ser- geant Jan. 1, 1863; first lieutenant Oct. 31, 1863; captain April 20, 1864; discharged Jan. 6, 1865. Captain Adams was with the regi- ment in all its battles up to the time he was mustered out, and was promoted through the grades of corporal, sergeant and lieutenant to that of captain.
Applin Charles R., Company B, Fifth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 2, 1861 ; mustered in Nov. 26, 1861, in Company F, Second United States Sharpshooters; reënlisted Dec. 21, 1863; mustered in Dec. 25, 1863: transferred to Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers Jan. 30, 1865 ; assigned to Company B, June 17, 1865; mustered out June 28, 1865.
Brooks, Irving. Thirty-sixth Unattached Massachusetts.
Dort, Asa C., Company D, First New Hampshire Cavalry. Enlisted April 29, 1864; discharged July 15, 1865. Quartermaster sergeant. Dean, John R., Seventh Vermont.
Foster, Andrew, Fifty-third Massachusetts Volunteers. Died April 2, 1895.
Foster, Joseph M., Fifth Vermont.
Gove, Charles H., Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Bulisted Aug. 12, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865.
Lahiff, Thomas J., Troop A, First New Hampshire Cavalry. Eulisted March 10, 1864; discharged May 20, 1865.
Moulton, Edward W., Eleventh Vermont.
Maddox, George F., United States Navy. Steamer "Colorado."
Nash, Oliver L., Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Nov. 28, 1861 ;
wounded Ang. 29, 1862; discharged for disability, Dec. 22, 1862. Rice, Nelson E., Third Vermont.
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Ruffles, Josiah, Company A, Second Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 29, 1861 ; reënlisted Sept. 1862, into Company K, Fourth United States Artil- lery. Reënlisted 1864, at Brandy Station, Va .; discharged at Fort Delaware, Del., Feb. 11, 1867.
Sebastian Charles N., Company A, Second Regiment. Enlisted May 31, 1861. Enlisted Aug. 1862, in Company H, Twenty-third Massachu- setts Volunteers; reënlisted in same company and regiment, Dec. 1863; discharged July 31, 1865. Was in Libby prison, Old Parish prison, New Orleans, and Salisbury prison, N. C., for about a year. Thompson, Charles E., Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers.
Whitcomb, Oliver P., Company F, Fifth Regiment. Enlisted as substi- tute Aug. 11, 1864; assigned to Company D; credited to Grotou; discharged June 28, 1865.
CHAPTER XIII.
HISTORICAL AND TRADITIONAL.
LETTER FROM C. E. POTTER, ESQ., RESPECTING THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OF THE STATE .- THE SUPPOSED MURDER .- THE ROBBERY.
It has been previously stated that Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason obtained from the Council of Plymouth, in 1622, a grant of the territory extending from the Merrimack to the Sagadahock, and back to the great lakes and river of Canada-the St. Lawrence; also, that Rev. John Wheelwright and others, in 1629, pur- chased of the Indians a considerable tract of land between the Piscatagna and Merrimack; and further, that Mason alone, shortly after, obtained a new grant of this very same territory. Some account has been given of the efforts of Mason and his heirs to maintain their title to the ter- ritory. On the 30th of January, 1746, John Tufton Mason, who was then considered to be the legal heir to the soil, sold his interest to a company of twelve men, in Portsmouth, denominated the " Masonian Proprietors." It is also shown that the townships in the vicinity of Monadnock were granted by these Masonian Proprietors. It may not be well understood how the original grant to Mason could be made to include the territory so far west as the Monadnock, and the subject not being perfectly clear to the mind of Dr. Caverly, he addressed a letter of inquiry to C. E. Potter, Esq., of Hillsborough, at that time one of the best historians in the state, who furnished the following communication which may help explain the matter.
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HILLSBOROUGH, Sept. 5, 1859.
My Dear Sir:
On page 235 of the " History of Manchester" (Ante and Post) you will find a history of the sale to the Masonian Proprietors. The purchase by them was a bit of sharp practice on the part of speculators and huck- stering politicians, that would not be tolerated at the present day, as corrupt as the croakers say we have become. Their western and north- ern line was claimed to be a curve or are parallel to the seacoast of New Hampshire, lying betwixt the Piscataqua and a point three miles north of the Merrimack. This claim was undoubtedly an afterthought made for the purpose of taking in a much larger amount of land than was intended in the original grant. This line, which was called the "Masonian curve," and the " Masonian curved line," was surveyed and run ont at various times,-and down to the time of the Revolution, was a fruitful source of vexation. The bounds of New Hampshire as granted to Mason, on the south and southwest, were a line three miles north of the Merrimack and parallel to that river to the "fartherest head thereof" till sixty miles were made, and then the head line extended east till it reached a point sixty miles from the mouth of the Piscataqua and on a line running up that river. This grant was made by the Council of Ply- month, supposing that the Merrimack river had its source in the West, as placed on Smith's and the maps of that time. After the Massachu- setts people discovered that the Merrimack made an elbow at Dracut, and there came from the north, they claimed that the "crotch of the river" at Franklin was the "fartherest head of the Merrimack," and that a large pine three miles north of there, (and called the "Endicott tree," beeanse marked as the line tree imder Endicott's administration) was a bound or line tree on their northern line, which passed east and west through the tree from the coast of Main to the "South Sea."
In 1652, they placed the farthest head of the Merrimack still farther north, at the "Endicott rock," at the outlet of Lake Winnepesankce, and thenee running three miles north, established a point through which their north line extended east and west.
This claim covered Mason's grant and was in controversy down to 1740. In that year the board of "The Lords of Trade" decided "that the northern boundary of the province of Massachusetts be a similar curve pursuing the course of the Merrimack river, at three miles distance on the north side thereof, beginning at the Atlantic ocean and ending at a point due north of Pawtucket Falls, and a straight line drawn from
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thence due west till it meets with his Majesty's other government." This determination was made on the ground that when Massachusetts and New Hampshire were granted, the Merrimack was supposed and laid down as coming from the west.
As Mason's grant ran upon the Merrimack parallel, at three miles north of the river, which was the north line of Massachusetts-when the Lords of Trade determined the north line of Massachusetts in 1740, to be as above described, and where it is at present-the heirs of Mason and afterwards the Masonian Proprietors claimed that their line on the south should conform to that line, and the State Legislature acquiesced in that claim.
It commenced on the line of Massachusetts, at a point sixty miles north from the seashore (three miles north of the mouth of the Merri- mack,) at the southwest corner of Fitzwilliam. Fitzwilliam was granted by the Masonian Proprietors as "Number Four" of the townships granted in the Monadnock country. There were eight of these town- ships. Of these, Nos. IV, V, VI, VII and VIII were bounded westerly by the " Masonian curve." No. IV meluded what is now Fitzwilliam and a part of Troy. No. V. included what was formerly Oxford, but now Marlborough and Roxbury. No. VI was Packersfield, now Nelson and Sullivan, in part. No. VII was Limerick, now Stoddard. No. VIII was first New Concord, then Camden, now Washington. These towns were all originally bounded on the west by the "Masonian curve." No. 1 of the Monadnock grants was what is now Rindge, No. II is now Jaffrey, No. III is now Dublin.
These were called Monadnock No. 1, HI, HI1, etc., and Canada No. 1, 11, etc. Canada No. I is now Mason, No. II was what is now Wilton, and No. III was what is now Lyndeborough. These townships were granted by Massachusetts to the soldiers in the expedition against Canada and their heirs-but the real object was to give the people of Massachusetts the soil, as the government was about to pass out of their hands. So of the Narragansett Townships, No. HII was what is now Amherst, No. IV was what is now Goffstown, mainly, No. V was what is now Bedford, and No. VI was what is now Dunbarton and Hopkinton, or nearly so. Nos. I and II were located in Maine and Massachusetts. These were granted to soldiers and their descendants, that had been in the Narragansett war. Charleston was also called No. IV, being the fourth of a number of frontier towns granted as security against the incursions of the Indians.
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These townships are laid down and named and numbered, as I have mentioned above, in Blanchard and Langdon's Map of 1761, and in Holland's Map of 1784. Thus you will see that Troy was within the grant of Mason as claimed by the Masonian Proprietors. This curve line of the Masonian Proprietors was surveyed soon after the settlement of your town, by Robert Fletcher in 1768 and again in 1769. The two surveys differed, but the difference did not affect the line in Cheshire County. This line of 1768 crossed the Pemigewassett betwixt the towns of Plymouth and Bridgewater, (then a part of Alexandria,) passed through Holderness and the north part of Squam Lake and intersected the State line betwixt Freedom and Eaton, that now are, but at the north angle of what was then "Leavittstown."
This line of 1769, commeneed to divide from that of 1768, at the south corner of Grafton and on the line of what was then called Alex- andria, overplus now Danbury, and passing a little north, crossed the Pemigewassett at the bend of the river above the Livermore Farm in Holderness, and intersected the State line where the Saco crosses the same in Conway.
After the Revolution the controversy as to the Masonian eurve was settled by the Legislature. Jan. 6, 1787, they appointed John MeDuffie, Josiah Bartlett and Archibald MeMurphy, a committee to run and deter- mine the line. They determined upon a straight line as the head line of Mason's Patent. Their report was accepted by the Legislature. This cut off a large segment from their elaim, and the Masonian Proprietors then eame forward and purchased it of the State, for forty thousand dollars in State securities and eight hundred dollars in specie. The State's title was passed to them June 18, 1788, by a Committee con- sisting of Thomas Bartlett, Dudley Odlin and Archibald MeMurphy. Thus ended the Masonian controversy, and leaving Troy still within the Masonian elaim. (See "History of Manchester," pages 520 and 521.)
Yours respectfully,
C. E. POTTER.
On the third of March, 1811, a robbery was committed in what is now Troy, and this occasioned no little excite- ment at that time. The circumstances were substantially as follows: Luke Harris and a young lad by the name of Charles Tolman, were traveling in a sleigh from Marl- borough to Fitzwilliam, on the turnpike road leading from
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Keene to the latter place. Just before sunset they passed Carter's tavern, where Harris saw a stranger mounting his horse, and soon after observed that he was following him. The pursuit was continued about one hundred rods to a wood, where the stranger rode on and passed Harris and kept a little forward of him some distance, then halted and let Harris pass him. Harris rode on and the stranger followed him almost to the falls, and then passed him again.
As they came to a curve in the road Harris saw the stranger take out a pistol and prime it. Near the road that led to Talmon Knights' the stranger stopped and Harris passed him. The stranger then followed Harris a few rods and then passed him, keeping forward till he arrived at a wood path, into which he turned and stopped. When Harris came up, the stranger rode out, presented a pistol towards him and said, "deliver up your money." Harris replied that "he had none of conse- quence." The man then said, "d-n you, deliver up your money or you are a dead man." Harris then gave him his pocketbook. The man ordered him to go back to Keene or he would blow him through. Harris then turned back and the stranger rode off towards Fitzwil- liam. Harris intended to go back and turn up the road to Talmon Knights'. He drove fast and his horse got a little past the road, and in attempting to turn him the sleigh struck a log and was almost upset and Harris fell out. When he got up he saw the stranger coming back. He came up and told Harris he was a rascal, and had deceived him, that he had more money, holding a dirk at Harris's breast while he searched his pockets, then told him to go on to Keene and if he turned back that night, he would be the death of him. The man then rode off and Harris rode back towards Keene until the stranger
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was out of sight, when he turned back and went up the road to Knights', telling him of the robbery and request- ing him to turn out in pursuit of the robber.
The robber went towards Fitzwilliam, and when he had got to a dry bridge about a mile south of the place where he robbed Harris, he met a Mr. Willard driving a team, and a Mr. Powers near him. The robber demanded Willard's money. Willard told him he had none. Robber dismounted and coming up to him with his pistol in his hand, said, "d-n you, why do you dally? Deliver up your money or you are a dead man." Willard took out all he had, only a few cents, and the robber said, "march on, d-n you, march on or I will be the death of you." Willard took Mr. Powers' horse and rode on to Harris' tavern-called to the people to turn out and pursue the robber. He then turned back and stopped at Morse's, called to them to turn out and catch the robber; rode on to Osgood's, called to the people in the house-asked if they had seen any person ride by upon the run. Just at that time the robber stepped out and said, "yes, he has just gone by." Willard saw him and knew him and jumped from his horse; at the same time the robber drew his pistol. Willard seized the pistol, at the same time clinch- ing the man who drew his dirk. The prisoner finally got off and mounting his horse rode away bareheaded, having lost his hat in the scuffle. Willard started in pursuit of the robber, who took the old Turnpike road, but when within about a mile of Fitzwilliam village, being closely pursued, he dismounted and ran into the woods.
Intelligence of the robbery soon spread, and in a short time several individuals were on the ground. The first to discover the robber in the woods was Dr. Samuel Lane of Fitzwilliam. Seeing him coming out of the woods about twenty rods distant, he galloped his horse after him, and
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when within a few rods of him called and asked who he was? Turning and coming towards Lane, the robber said, "I am the man," or "I am the man pursued." When they met, the robber said, "you are a rascal and are in my power," at the same time pulling on his pistol which inissed fire. Lane struck the man with his whip and dis- mounted on the off side (the robber being on the near side). Lane's horse started while he had one foot in the stirrup, dragging him some distance before he got free, when he saw the robber pursuing him with the dirk in his right hand and the pistol in the left. Lane struck off the pistol and closed in with the robber, who attempted to stab him with the dirk, first in the side and then in the shoulder. Lane called out "murder," threw the robber, who immediately turned him under, and made repeated attempts to stab him, but having bent the point of the dirk against his shoulder bone, could not penetrate his clothes after. Lane continued to hold the robber by the hair, crying "murder." Jonas Robinson and a Mr. Starkey soon came up and secured the robber. He was taken be- fore E. Wright, Esq., of Fitzwilliam, and duly committed for trial.
The prisoner's name was found to be George Ryan, and was from St. John's, Canada. On the 10th of the follow- ing May, the prisoner was arraigned before the Superior Court then in session at Charlestown, the defendant plead- ing "not guilty." The trial was set for Thursday, the 16th, when the Court opened at nine o'clock. There were present Hon. Arthur Livermore, Chief Justice; Hon. John Steele, Justice; William K. Atkinson, Esq., Attorney General for the State; J. C. Chamberlain, J. H. Hubbard and Roger Vose, Esqs., for the prisoner. The case was ably conducted on both sides, and the following abridgment of the charge of the Chief Justice to the jury will show
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