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C. Dr. CoLnY (1800), "eume to this town probably about 1800, and con- timed in town a year or two. From Sanbornton he went to Salisbury, and established a hospital for inoculating for small-pox in the northwesterly part of Boscawen. llis history after this, and before he came to Sanborntou, is not known."
7. Dr. ALEXANDER T. CLARK (1801). (See Vol. II. p. 148 [271].)
8. Dr. EPHRAIM CROCKETT (1802, 1803). (See Vol. II. p. 190 [7].)
9. Dr. ThoMis WKASTER: (1810). (See Vol. II. p. 831 [1].)
10. Dr. Josern M. HARPER (1810), "a native of Limerick, Me., and son of Sammel Harper, studied medicine with Dr. Jonathan Kittredge, of Canter- bury, and commenced practice in Sanbornton in 1810. He stayed in the town but a short time, and removed to Canterbury, where he now resides " (1850).
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11. Dr. PETER BARTLETT, "a practitioner in Salisbury, emne to Sauborn- ton, but after a short stay returned to Salisbury. The year he was at San- bornton is not remembered. Ile afterwards removed to the West."
12. Dr. SYMES SAWYER (1813). (See Vol. II. p. 361 [72].)
13. Dr. Joux CARR (1813). (See Vol. II. p. 96 [1].)
14. Dr. SWEATT (1813), "removed from Boscawen to Sanbornton, August, 1813. He continued in the place until the next year, when he went to New- bury. He was afterwards a surgeon's mate on board a man-of-war. llis remaining history is not known to the writer."
15. Dr. THOMAS P. HILL (1816). (See Vol. II. p. 353 [33].)
16. Dr. MARK HARRIS (1817). (See Vol. II. p. 328 [1].)
17. Dr. OBADIAH E. DURGIN (1820). (See Vol. II. p. 244 [160].)
18. Dr. DANIEL MOWE (1824), "commenced the practice of medicine at Sanbornton Bridge, about the year 1824, and continued in the place a few years, when he removed to Lowell, Mass., where he still resides, engaged in the practice " (1850).
19. Dr. CALVIN MCQUESTON, whose name merely is given in Dr. Abbott's sketches.
20. Dr. NATHANIEL G. LADD (1835). (See Vol. II. p. 430 [77].)
21. Dr. JAMES B. ABBOTT (1843). (See Vol. II. p. 3 [36].)
22. Dr. CHARLES C. TENBETTS (1845 or. 1846), "son of Capt. Bradbury Tebbetts, was born at Northfield, Jan. 13 (14), 1814 (1813). He commenced the study of medicine in 1840, at the Tremont Medical School, in Boston, and completed his studies with Dr. Enos Hoyt, of Nortluleld. He received the degree of M. D. at Hanover, in 1844 [1845, triennial catalogue], and commenced the practice of medicine at Campton, where he remained a few months, and in October, 1845 [1846], established himself at Sanbornton Bridge, where he is engaged in the business of his profession [1850]. Ile married Harriet K., daughter of George L. Sibley, Esq., of Meredith, Feb. 14, 1837, by whom he has one child." (He finally settled at Iron Dale, Mo., and died in the United States service, as surgeon, in that State, May 19, 1863, nged 49.)
23. Dr. EPHRAIM F. WILSON (1846), "son of Dr. Job Wilson, of Franklin, and born at Salisbury, Oct. 30, 1817. HIe commenced reading medicine in 1939, and pursued his studies with his father, and his brother, Dr. Thomas W. Wilson, of Salisbury. He graduated at the Medical Institution, at Castle- ton, Vt., in November, 1845, and in January, 1846, commenced practice at Union Bridge, East Sanbornton."
Thus far the sketches of Dr. Abbott, since the writing of which Later physi- the following are to be named as the principal additional ciaus iu town. physicians residing and doing business in Sanbornton and Tilton : -
24. Dr. BYLEY LYFOND (1857), was the son of Jeremiah and Naomi (Dickey ) Lyford, and was born June 25, 1822, in Stanstead, C. E. Ile attended school in Newbury, this State; studied his profession in Campton, and gradunted at the Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, in 1849. Having practised one year in Campton, three years in llillsboro', and four years in Nashua, he became established at the Bridge in this town, in the eighth year after his gradnation, and here for eighteen years continued in practice till his
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sudden death, Jan. 23, 1875, in his iffty-third year. His disease was hemor- rhage of the lungs; his funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Her- rick. He was highly prized in this and the adjoining towns for his medical skill und kludly sympathy for those In distress; way "widely known throughout this section of the State," and In a notice In the Boston Herald Is called "one of' the ahlest physiclans In New Hampshire." He was murrled In Nashua, March 6, 1851, to Vashtl P. Shattuck, daughter of Hon. Zebadiah and Vashti Shattuck, who was born 1823, in Hillsboro'. Their only child - 1. Josle (Lyford) - was born 1553, in Nashua; married George G. Trowbridge, and How resides in Chelsea, Muss.
25. Dr. JAMES PRESCOTT OSBORNE (1864), was born June 3, 1833, in Pler. mont, being the son of Cyrus and Sally C. (Thresher) Osborne, his father being a native of l'iermont and his mother of Candla. Receiving his academ- leal education mostly at Haverhill and Newbury, Vt., -at the latter school under Prof. Cushing, - he attended medical lectures In various schools, and was graduated at the Dartmouth Medical College In 1855. He first practised ut Felelville, Vt., eight yeurs, till March, 1864, when he sold out his busi- ness for $1,000, exclusive of real estate, and passed the rest of that seasou in the Boston Clty Hospital. In the fall of 1864 he came to Sanbornton Bridge, and entered into partnership with Dr. Lyford for three years, from Dec. 12; since dissolving which (1867) he has maintained an extensive practice by hint- self' till the present. He has enjoyed the patronage of many of the best. families in Tilton, and has been deservedly popular In the adjoining towns, especially at Franklin Falls. His business during several years has amonuted to $5,000 per annum. ile married Sally P. Stanyan; of Wentworth, March 18, 1855. Child : 1. Flora Gertrude (Osborne), born Oct. 6, 1862, in Felelville ; graduated, with great credit, at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, Iss1.
26. Dr. ALFRED W. ABBOTT (1870). (See Vol. II. p. 4 [41]. ) Resigning his situation in Sanbornton to his brother, in the spring of 1881 he established himself in Laconia, and is there entering upon a large and lucrative business, retaining many of his former Sauboruton patrons, especially in the cast part of the town.
27. Dr. FRANKLIN L. MASON (1870) (see Vol. II. p. 480 [38]), resided ou the Sanborn road in Tilton - owning the former Simeon Sanborn place - for about seven years. lle had a successful practice in his immediate neighbor- hood, and in other parts of Tilton and the adjoining towns. A weak condition of the lungs obliged him to give up riding in 1877, and he has since beeu a drug- gist and apothecary in Meredith Village, serving also as a consulting physi- cian when business and health have allowed.
28. Dr. ALBERT ALONZO MOULTON (1874), was the son of Jonathan and Mary (Morse) Moulton, and was born in Meredith, Oct. 6, 1829. Studied medicine at Bristol and ilanover, and graduated M. D. at the Dartmouth Medical College, 1550. He practised in Meredith six years, and in Concord from 1836 till 1874, including one year as surgeon in the Third Regiment N. 11. Vols., by which service his health was seriously impaired. He has pract's -d in Tilton since 1874 to the present, with office in Hill's Block. He mar- ried Anna Maria Sawyer, of Bristol, May, 1850, who died in Concord, June, 1572. His only son and child - 1. Arthur Channing (Moulton) - resides in Colorado.
2. Dr. Jons HI. SANBORN (1874). (See Vol. II. p. 646 [322, 3].) Since
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coming to Franklin his residence and one of his offfees have been, till 1sal, within the limits of the original town of Sanbornton, at the old Jeremiah Sau- born homestead; and his business, while large and increasing in Franklin, has also extended into the conthies of the present Sanbornton.
30. Dr. EDWARD ABBOTT (1881). The last, and now the only physician that claims Sanbornton as his residence and headquarters, having succeeded his brother [26] as above. lle has shown a brave spirit in bailling the unusually severe storms of his first winter's practice, and a skill in many cases remarka- ble for one of his years and experience in the profession. He was born Oct. 15, . 1840, in Concord (see Vol. II. p. + [41]) ; fitted for college at Boscawen and Meriden Academics ; and then turned his attention to woollen maunfacturing, ut West Concord, for six or seven years. Commencing the study of medicine under Prof. C. P. Frost, M. D., of Hanover, he continued it for two years with his brother, Alfred W. Abbott, M. D., in this town ; meanwhile attending three courses of lectures at the Dartmonth Medical College, where he received his degree with the class of 1881. He married Luthera W. Sanborn (see Vol. II. p. 659 [401, 1]), May 3, 1ss1, und soon after gave a brilliant reception at the Academy Hall, which was enthusiastically attended by the numerons friends of himself and his bride.
Besides the above, Dr. C. R. Gound, of Northiteld, Dr. L. M. KNimr (see Physicians of Vol. II. p. 803 [83]), and other physicians of Franklin, and Dr. other towus N. 1 .. TRuk (see Vol. II. p. s1] [8]) and other physicians of Laco- practising in nia, have, from time to time, - and those named till the present, Sanbornton. - been called to render their professional services on the San- bornton side of the rivers.
LAWYERS.
Notwithstanding the " majesty of the law," so worthily set forth by Hooker in his " Ecclesiastical Polity," yet few have been found among the former inhabitants of Sanbornton who needed advice and protec- tion because suffering from its violation on the part of others. The record has come down to us, " No lawsuits among the
Those not re- ferred to in early settlers "; which, though not literally true, accounts
sketched.
Vol. H. here in part for our comparatively brief list of attormys and counsellors-at-law. We give them, like the physicians, nearly in the order of time, with fuller notes, genealogical or biographi- cal, of such as are not named in Vol. II. : -
1. WILLIAM HARPER, Esq. (1785-1809). (See Vol. II. p. 326 [1].)
2. Jony A. HARPER, Esq. (1800). For a few years before removing to Meredith Bridge. (See Vol. II. p. 327 [10].)
5. Hon. DANIEL. C. ATKINSON (1808-1842). (See Vol. II. p. 13 [15].)
4. MATTHEW PERKINS, Esq. ( 1809-1826). See Vol. II. p. 532 [25].)
5. CHARLES JESSE STUART, Esq. (1812-1823?), was the youngest child of Charles and Esther ( Ferguson) Stuart, born in Peterboro', Sept. 20, 17ss ; his grandfather, William Stuart, being a Scotch-Irish immigrant via Lunenburg, Mass., and the first man who died in Peterboro". He graduated at Dartmonth College, 1809; commeneed his practice at the Square, and was there known for several years as a famous singer in the old town meeting-house, under whose 10
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" lead and luspiratlon" the choir dld wonders! Of large size, he "footued up," espeelally ou Thankoglylug days, with his ample cloak thrown gracefully over bis shoulders, - " all fult of musle from head to foot." lle afterwards removed to Lancister; there practled law, and died May 17, 1856, aged forty- seven years elecht nhanh. He married Ellea Austin, Two children : 1. Cloaks, died aged twenty. 2. Aralella; married Prof. F. Bowen, of Harvard Iniver- sity, Camtealdge, Mass.
6. Chants Gui.Mas, Esq. (1826-1933?). (See Vol. II. p. 314 [123 ].)
F. BENJAMIN BOARDMAN, Esq. (18332-1836), was born Feb. 15, 1798, tu South Reading, Mass. ; the tenth chlld and fourth son of Amos' and Mary ( lewis) Boardu (buth born 1555), and the grandson of Amos' (born 1716) and Elizadeth (Smith) Boardian, alt of Reading. He studied law with Sam- nel Fleteher, Esq., of Coucord, and there remalned, studying and teaching, from lots till 1ses; was then admitted to the bur, and first located in Ossipee. lle married Anne, daughter of Thomas Stickney, of Concord, 1826, who was born Ang. 25, 1502. Next settled lu Conway, where his second child and oldest sou - 1. George Lewis - was born, March 1, 1831. Ills residence in Sanboru- ton must have been between that date and Jun. 21, 1837, when his third child and second daughter - 2. Rebecca Long - was born at Gilford (Meredith Bridge). . Ilis house in Giliord was for years the pleasaut home of the judges during the sessions of the courts." Three other children were there born, the young- est, a son, -3. Edward Kirk, -loon Feb. 12, 1844. Leaving Laconia in Ist7, he was settled in his profession at Lawrence, Mass., from 1848 till 1867, when he again repaired to Concord, now in the retirement of age lustead of the ardor of' youth, and there caded his varied and uselal career, April 3, 1sti, aged seventy-three years and three months. Ilis law office, while at Sanbornton Square, was in the building which then stood north of the Lovejoy store, now the premises of the writer of this sketch. The only son of his son : 1. George 1. Boardman, who married Betsey Smart, is, I. Charles Smart Boardman, born Ang. 19, 1859; who has resided several years in Sanborton; was married bby Rev. N. P. Philbrook, Nov. 9, 1881, to Miss Etta M. Page, of Tilton, and having purchased, is now settled as a farmer on the old Ingalls homestead.
(Mr. Boardman being the last of the lawyers at the Square, the remaining six of this list have been settled, as was [3], at the Bridge, now Tilton. )
8. Hon. ASA P. CATE (1840 ?- 1871). (See Vol. II. 1. 104 [45]. ) Judge Cate's law practice was almost wholly on the Sanbornton side of the river, and much of the time in Judge Atkinson's old office, near the Bridge, in company with -
9. BENJAMIN A. ROGERS, Esq. (1840 ?- 1858). (See Vol. II. p. 620 [49 and 50].) lle was a native of Northlield; the son of Benjamin Rogers; remini- bered as a gentleman of ready wit and deeided talent in his profession. The last twenty years he has been a clergymen of the Protestant .Episcopal Church ; settled in Texas, at Austin, and now (1951) at Waco. He has lately published letters of peculiar interest in the Laconia Democrut pertaining to the old-time scenes and characters of Northueld.
10. BENJAMIN M. COLBY, Esq. (1815 ?- 1863). (See Vol. II. p. 168 [>; ].)
11. CHARLES C. ROGERS, Esq. (185s). Still iu practice, - Hill's Block (1831). (See Vol. II. p. 201 [20 ].)
12. FRANCIS R. CHASE, Esq. ( 1866-1876). (See Vol. II. p. 120 [84].)
13. JAMES OTIS LYFORD, Esq., the son of James Lyford, was born in Bos- ton, Mass., June 28, 1555, and was there educated in the public schools till his
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removal with his parents to Canterbury, in 1860. Ile graduated at the New Hampshire Comference Seminary, Tilton, in 1872; studied law at Concord with Messes. Sanborn'and Clark, and with W. T. and H. F. Norris, being mean- while a member of the Constitutional Couvention from the town of Cauter- bury in 1876, and the editor of the People in Concord for two years, lai ;- 1879. Having been admitted to the bar in 1880, he has opened a law office in Tilton, - Eastman's Block, - and there continues, devoting some time also to literary pursuits.
CHAPTER XXII.
CASUALTIES IN SANBORNTON, - SERIOUS OR FATAL ..
" Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by tood and field, Of bair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach."
SHAKESPEARE.
UNDER this head we give, in chronological order, the most remark- able of the casualties alluded to in Vol. II., and if possible, with a somewhat fuller account than is there found; also notices of a few other fatal accidents occurring in town, knowledge of which Fiby-tour dif- ferent notices has come to hand from various sources. Where the date
proposed. is uncertain, the stated year is followed by ( ?). It is pro- posed to enter fifty-four casualties, as numbered, and few only of recent dates.
1. 1766 (?). The first to be recorded was serious rather than fatal. The earliest frame on site of the original Clark house, west of Tin Corner (one of the very first framed dwellings erected in town), before being covered, was ยป ent in two by a large ash-tree blown down upon it" by a violent wind ! It was immediately repaired, and the building proceeded.
2. 1770 (?). Jolm Gibson was drowned in the Middle Bay, above Gibson's Falls, by falling from a boat. This is supposed to have been the earliest instance of drowning in town, and probably the first fatal accident.
3. 1780. Nathan Philbrick, while " clearing " on his brother Earliest acci- David's land, was so injured by the falling of a tree that, dents in town. though able to walk back ( with assistance) to his sister's, Mrs. Ebenezer Sanborn's, on the Sanborn road, he soon after died.
4. July 4, 1795. Joseph Smith was drowned, or more probably killed, by a fall on the dam of his own mill, at the Threshing Mill Brook. (See Vol. II. p. 716 [7].)
5. Ang. 19, 1796. Jacob Hersey was drowned at what has since
been called ". Hersey's Cove." Little Bay. He was bath- Ilerevy's Cove. ing with William Burley and one other young man, and was seized with the cramp. Burley's exertions to save his cousin
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resulted in his own death the December following. The spot has since proved a dangerous one for bathers.
6. May 5, 1799. Nathan Blake was drowned in the Pemigewasset, while running logs over the rapids. (See Vol. II. p. 36 [3]. )
7. Oct. 15, 1800. David Copp was drowned while ferrying a pair of steers, with his brother Thomas. across the ferry at Mohawk Point, to draw wood from the other side for a brick kiln. The steers became restive, and crowded the two brothers into the water. Thomas, being the younger, was resened by his father.
S. Sept. 2, 1801. James Robinson was fatally injured while fell- ing trees near the old mountain road. (See Vol. II. p. 604 [ 2 ].)
9. Nov. 20, 1802. Simon Gilman was drowned in Sanbornton Bay. Ile was coming down with a boat-load of sand for Meredith Bridge, when a squall struck his boat below Pot Island The drowning of and sank it, with himself fastened in it by one leg, which Simon Gilman. was missing when his body was found by Mr. Tuttle, nine (eleven) months afterwards, on the Gilmanton shore, near Horse Point. The boat has never risen.
10. Jan. 9, 1804. Mrs. Edward Kelley was burned to death in the house just east of Kelley Ledge. The house caught fire while her husband, being a deaf man, was ont watering his stock. Her clothes ignited, and she found herself " barricaded in her Thu Kelley Ledge dis- room," probably by wood accidentally piled or fallen uster. against the door. "She was old and somewhat broken in mind," says one anthority ; and another remarks, " Whether sick or intoxicated is a point about which the tradition, softening with the lapse of years into a tender charity, is misty." All that is left of that family in the town is the name, " graven as with an iron pen and lead in the rock [Kelley Ledge] forever."
11. Jan. 22, 1805. Benjamin Smith was ernshed by the water- wheel of the blacksmith and seythe shop, where now the new grist- mutill, in Tilton. (See Vol. II. p. 732 [129 ].)
12. 1805. In the latter part of the winter, an elderly man ( Mr. Morgan?) is said to have been drowned by falling through the ice, on his way to Meredith Bridge, his body not being found till the next June, when raised by the sound of a four-ponud cannon (which had been given to one of the artillery companies) fired several Mysterious drownings of times over the water. 1505.
18. Ang. 13, 1805. Jeremiah Morrison was drowned near Rowen's Point, Middle Bay, when wading out for a boat. His mind had been considerably affected by the last-named instance of drowning : claimed that he had seen " troopers moving over the ice." and other spiritual manifestations ; said he was going to join that
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company " before the year was out, - and thus it proved. Some verses of poetry, written by William Knapp, in reference to the two last- named casualties, are said to have appeared in the Dover Sun the fol- lowing year. The whole account needs further elucidation.
14. 1806 (?). Asa P. Cate was drowned in the Pemigewasset, while bathing. at the age of fourteen yours.
15. April 6, 1808. David B. Prescott was drowned or killed at the Morrison Mill in time of freshet. While repairing underneath the bulkhead. it gave way by pressure of the water and he was
Death of David
carried through and drowned, or killed by the concussion B. Prescott. of the plank against his body. " He was a noted singer, aud was singing a psalm at the time."
16. 1808. The tavern at the Bridge (Tilton), in process of cou- struction, was being shingled, then of two stories ; and Simon Jaques, while reaching up for some shingles, slipped, was precipitated to the ground, and taken up for dead. Hle afterwards recovered.
brothers.
The Jaques 17. Oct. 28, 1809. Stephen Jaques, an apprentice at Mr. Chase's clothier's shop, in Northfield, while riusing a piece of cloth on a log, losing his hold of the cloth, and attempting to recover it, fell into the streamu and was drowned.
18. Dec. 19, 1809. Elijah Rollins was drowned in crossing Middle Bay on the ice ; one account says, " with his two horses " (doubtful Elijah Itullius. thuis early in the season). He was on his way to Mr.
Tucker's, shoemaker, in Gilmantou, for a pair of boots, where he never reported. llis dog returned home wet. " Body found next day by the rising of his fur hat to the surface" ( ?).
19. Jan. 19, 1810, was the " cold Friday " and " a memorable day throughout New England. From the mild teruperature of forty-three degrees above zero, at sunset the evening before, the mercury sank to twenty-live degrees below zero in sixteen hours. This change was attended by a violent, piercing wind, prostrating trees and The "cold Frutay " of lalu. overturning buildings. Young cattle and wild animals were frozen, and many a stage-driver and school-boy re- ceived car-marks which they wore through life." This was occasioned the death of the Ellsworth children, the most tragical event that ever occurred in Saubornton. We give a more extended account than of other casualties, taken, with slight amendments, from the Bostou Journal of March 18, 1800 :-
" The farm-house of their father, Jerendah Ellsworth, on the old New Hampton road, gave way to the violence of the gale, half an hour before sun- rise, the windows being blown in, exposing the whole building to destruction. Mrs. Ellsworth and her youngest child took refuge in the cellar. Mr. Ells- worth covered his two other children in bed and started for his nearest neigh-
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bor's, David Brown's, reaching there at sunrise, and though but a hundred rods distant, yet with feet and face badly frozen and himself unable to stand.
Mr. Brown hastened to the house with his horse and sleigh, ail
Quotations found the Inmates as left by the father, except that the wind had
from the Bos-
tou Journul. blown off the clothes from the oldest children. He loaded mother and children in the sleigh, covered them with the bedding, and started for his own house. Twice the sleigh was overturned by violent gusts of wind. The first time Mr. Brown urged the mother to try and reach his house immediately, as her limbs were beginning to fail. She did so, crawling much of the way ou her hands and kuces; while he, having a second time loaded the half-dressed children, soon found them again scattered upon the frozen snow, with his sleigh broken. Covering the youngest under a luz, he started with the two oldest on foot towards his house. Their Tragical death cries stimulated him to intense exertion; but before he reached of the Elle- the house they were frozen stiff, so as to die in a few minutes
worth children. after. Other neighbors came to the rescue, and the body of the remaining chilld was soon returned. Mr. Brown was blind the rest of his life, in consequence of this exposure, and the children's parents suffered long and severely from their injuries."
20. Jan. 14, 1811. Ephraim Fogg perished on the ice of the Great Bay, between Meredith Bridge and Sanbornton, the cold being intense.
21. April 19, 1811. James Badger was killed by the falling of a tree, while working in the woods, on the present farm of Charles L .. Bowers.
22. Oct. 1, 1812. Daniel Eastman came to a speedy death by hav- ing fastened round his wrist the long halter of a powerful
Dragged by colt. The animal took fright, and he was dragged nearly a coll. one third of a mile, in the vicinity of his father's, Mr. Thomas Eastman's.
23. Feb. 25, 1813. Jeremiah French, Jr., jumped from a high window in a state of somnambulism, and was thus
Somnambulism. killed. (By some, thought to have occurred elsewhere. )
24. June 23, 1814. Elisha Thomas was drowned in Little Bay, by the npsetting of a boat, while ont with one or two others, setting nets for tish. lle was a good swimmer; while his companions, who could not swim, were saved. When leaving home that
A present-
lment. day, he seemed to have a " presentiment," and took up one of his youngest children, a little daughter, and kissed her, giving also the impression to an older child that he was never coming back.
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