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CUTT'S HILL. This hill is on the road to Durham Point, just below the house of the late Col. Joseph Burnham. On the south side of it is Cutt's spring, a source of excellent water. Here is the land purchased over two hundred years ago by John Cutt or Cutts of Portsmouth, first president of New Hampshire. Thomas Doutie (written " Doughty " in President Cutt's will), "resident at Oyster River," sold John Cutt, of Portsmouth, Oct., 1657, land, marsh, dwelling-house, etc., bought of Wil- liam Roberts, who was then in pos- session thereof. This farm and half of the " plantation" near it, which President Cutt bought of William Williams, were bequeathed to his son Samuel, and now belong in part, if
not wholly, to the heirs of Col. Burn- ham, and the heirs of H. A. Mathes. The name is now generally written Cutts.
The highway to Durham Point for- merly led around Cutt's hill to avoid its steepness, but was finally run directly across it, by way of a short cut. "What name can be more unluckily short ? " says Benjamin Disraeli, speaking of John Cuts, commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to receive a haughty ambassador from Spain, who, accustomed to the long sonorous names of Spanish dignita- ries, considered the brevity of Cuts' name a just ground of complaint.
CUTT'S MARSH. "A fresh marsh, commonly called Cutt's marsh " is mentioned Ap. 15, 1719, in a deed from James Burnham to Robert Burnham. This marsh, still owned by the descendants of said Robert, is on the west side of Cutt's brook, opposite the Burnham house, on the way to Durham Point. It is other- wise called Adder's Swamp.
DAME'S FALLS. This name is now given to the falls at the upper end of Lee Hook, from the sawmill there, owned by the sons of Mr. Israel Dame. They were previously called Mathes' falls, from John Mathes, at that time the proprietor. On the state map of Lee in 1803 they are called Hill's falls. (See Hill's Falls.)
DAME'S POINT. This point, so called on Whitehouse's map of Dover, is between the Cochecho river and the month of Fresh creek, at their junction, where Wm. Pomfrett had a grant of 100 acres the 5th, 10 mo., 1652, laid out June 5, 1674. WVm. Pomfrett, March 26, 1675, out of love and affection to his grand-
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child Wm. Dam, then about 20 years of age, son of John Dam, Sr., con- veyed to him all the upland and meadow granted said Wm. Pomfrett the 5th, 10 mo., 1652, "lying and being from ye mouth of Fresh creek, on ye western side towards Cochecho -that is to say, it runs up from Cochecho river by said creek's side, from ye mouth thereof, the creek being the bounds thereof on ye east- ern side. And from the mouth of Fresh creek it runs up the river, which is ye bound on ye south and by west side." These bounds were renewed, at the request of Pomfrett Dam (son of Wm.), June 9, 1724.
Another DAME'S POINT is on the Newington shore of Little Bay, at the lower side of Welshman's cove, where John Dam, Sr., of Dover had a grant of 40 acres of upland in 1652, laid out the 10th, 11 mo., 1656, between Richard Cater or Carter's land and that of Elder Nutter. This point is often called Joshua's Point, from Mr. Joshua Pickering, the late proprietor, by whose heirs it is now owned.
DAM'S WINDMILL, otherwise DAME'S. Mentioned May 4, 1736, when John Tebbets, Jr., "of Cochecho, in Do- ver," Jeremiah Tebbets, Jr., and Tam- sen Tebbets, conveyed to James Clark one half of a 40 acre grant to their grandfather John Meader, March 23, 1702, laid out Feb. 28, 1705-6, on the south side of ye Back river, " which land now lyes between ye sd Back river and Wm. Dam's windmill, being on ye east side of Samuel Davis's land, joining to John Twomb- ley's, having said Twombley's on the east side joining to it at full length ; " the west side of said grant, joining
to Samuel Davis's, being reserved for Wm. Hill, Jr. In their deed to Wm. Hill, that same day, Wm. Dam's windmill is again mentioned, and this land is stated to have been given to their mother Sarah Tibbets by her father. This windmill, other- wise called Drew's windmill, stood on Pudding Hill, and seems to have been owned in common by Wm. Dam and Clement Drew. (See Pudding Hill.)
DANIEL'S BROOK. This brook rises among the marshes in Horn's Woods, and empties into Crummit's mill- pond, Durham. The name is derived from John Daniel, who had land in this vicinity before April 11, 1694, when 40 acres were laid out to John Bickford, " beginning at a white oak on the hill at the south side of the old dam at the head of the Creek," dividing this tract from John Daniel's, and running thence W. S. W. 47 rods to the brook that also divided their lands. Forty acres were laid out to John Daniel Nov. 13, 1713, " on the north side of the brook going to Lubberland, the next brook to his home field, beginning at a black ash tree in the grassy swamp near the parting of the brooks." Joseph Wormwood, in 1810, conveyed to Eliphalet Daniel land on the south branch of Mathes's mill-pond, that formerly belonged to Gershom and Benjamin Mathes, Jr. The Daniels farm is now owned by Mr. James Meader. (See Edgerly Brook.)
DAVID'S LANE. This lane, so named from David Daniels, is in Madbury, and extends from Nute's corner to the house of Mr. Charles W. Hayes, whose farm was originally owned by the Daniels family, seven
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generations of which are said to lie buried at the foot of the Hayes gar- den. The old Daniels house was a garrison.
DAVIS'S BROOK. See Beaver Pond.
DAVIS'S HILL. This hill is in the south-western part of Lee, and so named from Mr. Obadiah Davis, whose house stands at the foot. On the top of this hill once lived Miriam Clement, a reputed witch of local notoriety.
DEAD WATER BROOK and NECK. Tristram Heard of Dover, in his will of Ap. 18, 1734, gives his grandsons Joseph Knight and Tristram Warrin 30 acres of land at a place commonly called Dead Water. Tristram War- ren, of Berwick, Me., conveyed to Joseph Hanson, Esq., March 19, 1754, all right to 30 acres of land in Dover, granted to his honored grand- father Tristram Heard March 19, 1693-4, and laid out on the north side of the Cochecho, between ye mouth of Black Water brook and Dead Water neck-the same land which Tristram Heard, deceased, gave Joseph Knight (son of Robert Knight) and Tristram Warren in his last will and testament. Seventeen acres of land were laid out to Joseph Hanson, Jr., Nov. 5, 1741, on the east side of the river Coche- cho, in a place called Dead Water Neck, opposite the 37 acres laid out to him that same day on the other side of the river (see Sandy Log Hill), beginning at the mouth of Dead Water brook, and running up said brook as it goes to the head, and so along the ridge of the hill, as the hedge fence goes, to a white birch marked I. H., thence S. by W. to a large cove in said river, bounding the same by said river down to the mouth of said
brook where we began-which land said Hanson had for some years im- proved. Oct. 28, 1765, Humphrey Hanson (and Joanna) conveyed to his brother Ephraim Hanson, inn- holder, 17 acres on ye east side of the Cochecho, at a place called Dead Water Neck, laid out to their father Joseph Hanson, Esq., Nov. 5, 1741.
Deadwater Brook empties into the Cochecho on the east side, over 40 rods above the upper Eelweir falls. The Neck lies between this brook and the Cochecho river.
DEAN'S MARSII. This marsh is spoken of in the Durham records of Jan. 29, 1733-4, as " above Newtown river," meaning, of course, that part of Oyster river which flows through Newtown in Lee. Its name, not per- petuated, was derived from John Dean, who was slain by the Indians July 18, 1694, as he came out of his house by the saw-mill, at the falls where is now Durham village. His wife and daughter were carried up the river and left in a spruce swamp in the care of an old Indian, from whom she made her escape with her child. This daughter afterwards married Stephen Jenkins, who, Nov. 19, 1729, with "Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Dean, deceased," conveyed to Ann Kinket, widow, " land in New town, the old possession of John Dean, deceased." Ann Kincaid after- wards married Thomas Potts. "Potts' bridge " on the highway from John Snell's to Benjamin Clark's, in New- town, is mentioned Oct. 12, 1790.
DEMERIT'S MILL: This mill is mentioned in the Dover records Dec. 8, 1734, when a petition was made for a road " from Demerit's mill to the Mallego road at the Saplings."
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It was built in 1722 by Eli Demerit, Jr., maternal ancestor of the writer. It stood in the fork of the Bellamy and Mallego rivers, just above the bridge, and at a later day was called the Hook mill, from a remarkable bend in this part of the Bellamy river.
In the Granite Monthly of Dec., 1881, is an interesting account of a suit brought against Ely Demerit, Jr., " planter," by Capts. Timothy and Paul Gerrish, by which it appears that the said Demerit and others, supposing the Gerrish right to the rivers did not extend to the branches, had begun in May, 1719, to build a dam across the Bellamy, about eighty rods above the mouth of the Mallego. An action for trespass was brought against him, his estate was attached to the value of £100, and he was summoned to appear at the Septem- ber term of the Court of Common Pleas. The trial came on at Ports- mouth, Sept. 3, 1719. One of the judges on the bench was Col. James Davis of Oyster River; and among the witnesses appeared old Parson Buss and his son, and John Thomp- son, all of the same place. John Buss, Jr., testified that "the Damm in controversy is between six and seven miles above Capt. Gerrish's upper mill as the river runs." This implies that Gerrish then had two mills at the lower falls. The verdict was against Demerit, and he appealed to the Superior Court. But it was a struggle against one of the monopo- lies of that early day, which had existed from the time when Major Richard Waldron acquired control of the Cochecho, and his son-in-law, John Gerrish, control of the Bellamy.
Demerit lost his case again ; but the Gerrishes, by an indenture of May 30, 1722, finally granted Ely Demerit, Sr., Ely Demerit, Jr., Derry Pitman, and Samuel Chesley, four parts in six of the water-privilege in contro- versy, for two years.
Ely Demerit strengthened his claims by acquiring land in the vicin- ity, ten acres of which were laid out Nov. 1, 1734, " on the north side of Bellamy river, near the hook mill, be- ginning at a stake by the road that comes down to the wading-place below the mill." And ten acres, part of a grant to Sylvanus Nock, were laid out to Ely Demerit, Jr., June 11, 1735, beginning at a red oak tree " near his land above the hook mill, said tree north of Sam1 Davis's house." And so persistently did said Ely re- tain his hold of the mill he built here, that it was still in his possession at the time of his death. In his will of Jan. 10, 1758, he gives his son Ebenezer all his " Right, Title, and Interest in and unto the saw mill standing upon ye falls in Bellemin's Bank freshet at ye Hook, commonly so called," and all his right in said freshet.
This mill gave an impetus to the lumber business in that part of the township, and promoted its settle- ment. It long bore the Demerit name, and became one of the prominent landmarks of Dover. "Demerit's mill" is repeatedly mentioned in the early grants and laying out of roads. The name was often abbreviated to Merit. Joseph Rines had 10 acres laid out Ap. 7, 1735, " beginning at a pitch pine tree on the west side of ye road that leads from merit's mill to the head of the township, two rods from Israel Hodgdon's north corner." Ten
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acres were laid out to Maul Hanson, May 12, 1735, " at the Sou West side of the road that leads from Merrit's mill to the head of the town at Joseph Rines's." And five acres were laid out to Win. Hill Ap. 9, 1736, begin- ning at the west side of the road, about 10 rods S. W. of Merrit's mill, and bounded partly by Merrit's mill- pond.
A vote was passed at a town meet- ing "at Cochecha," Aug. 16, 1736, " that a highway be layed out from ye road that leads from Madberry up to ye mill now in possession of Eli De- merit and others, across over to ye way that leadeth from Littleworth to Mallego, said road to be two rods wide."
The cost of rebuilding the Hook mill-dam in Oct., 1758, according to the accounts of Ely Demerit, amount- ed to 155 £., 15s. for the work alone, without reckoning the materials.
It is evident from the above men- tioned records that the true Bellamy Hook is at the mouth of the Mallego, and not the bend in the river below.
Another " Demerit mill" was built by the same Ely, Jr., about half a mile south of his garrison, on Demer- it's brook-a streamlet that empties into Johnson's creek at Back river. This mill was in operation till the first part of this century, and a por- tion of the dam still remains. Seep.278
Dishwater mill, on Oyster river, in Lee, is also often called Demeritt's mill, as the name is now written.
DENBOW'S BROOK, otherwise DEN- BO's. Mentioned Aug. 15, 1743, when Joseph Davis of Durham conveyed
to John Sambon, " cordwinder," 2 acres, 42 rods, of land, beginning at said Davis's N. E. corner, at the country road near Denbo's brook, and running N. by W. to the mill-pond (at Durham falls), bounded N. E. by land said Sambon bought of James Smith. In Smith's deed to Sambon, June 13, 1743, this brook is called " Long Marsh brook," one branch of it taking its rise in that marsh. The other branch rises at the Moat. It is sometimes called Horsehide Brook where it crosses the Newmarket road, south of Broth Hill.
It was no doubt from the Moat, and partly by means of Denbow's brook, that Valentine Hill proposed to construct a canal from Lamprey river to Oyster river-probably the first canal projected in New England. The 14th, 11 mo., 1655, he obtained " free liberty to cut through the com- mons for drawing part of the water of lamperele River into Oyster river, for the supply of his mill," provided no injury be done other grants of land or water, and that he should build bridges wherever his new feeder interfered with the highways, and that this water-course should cease if he should throw up the grant of Lamperel river.
The name of Denbow's brook was no doubt derived from Salathiel Denbow, who owned land on the west side of Long marsh before 1713.1 And Richard Denbo had a grant of 20 acres of upland, laid out, Oct. 14, 1713, "on the west side of Colley's marsh, near his father's place, on the east side of the road that goeth from Oyster
1 Salathiel Denbow served in the French and Indian wars of that period. A pension for a " hurt " received was granted him Dec. 1, 1730. (N. H. Prov. Pap., 4: 581, 723.)
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River to Lubberland." This name is now written Dinsmoor.
DIRTY BROOK. Mentioned March 19, 1693-4, when John Bickford had a grant of 60 acres on "the south side of the durty brooke, going to the second falls," at the upper side of Benj" York's land. John Bickford conveyed this land to John Smith Ap. 8, 1703, when dirty brook is again mentioned. Part of John Smith's grant of 50 acres, June 23, 1701, was laid out Ap. 3, 1705, " on the north side of the durty brook," bounded one side by "follet's path," thence running westward to the brook. This land was near the sec- ond falls in Lamprey river. He had another grant of 20 acres Oct. 2, 1729, at the upper side of his grant of 1701, " lying between Follet's bridge path and the Durty brook." It joined the lands of Burnum, God- dard, and Stevenson.
Dirty brook is in the Packer's Falls district, Durham, and empties into the Moat. It once had sufficient power to run a shingle-mill.
DIRTY GUT. Mentioned Ap. 11, 1694, when George Braun had a grant of 20 acres " at the durty gutt." Geo. Brawn, March 10, 1703, con- veyed to John Downing a tract of land near Bloody Point, on the west- erly side of Pascataqua river, "on ye place called the dirty gutt," granted him by the town of Dover in 1694. This land was laid out to John Down- ing with 140 acres he bought of Joseph Hill. James Place of New- ington, Ap. 26, 1736, conveyed to John Hodsdon one acre on the south side of Capt. Downing's land, for- merly Jos. Rawlins', beginning at a place called the durty gut, joining on
the north easterly side land at sd gut that formerly belonged to Jos. Rich- ards, and running up towards the Pitch-Pine plains, which said acre James Place bought of Samuel Ben- son, and Benson of Jos. Rawlins. Wm. Vaughan conveyed to Geo. Huntress, Sr., Feb. 5, 1708, a tract. of land in the Long Reach, beginning at ye river's side at Canney's cove, and running W. S. W. to a certain place called the Durty Gutt in the way that goes from Rawlins's to the Pitch-Pine plains, etc. (See the Gore.)
The name of Dirty Gut has not been perpetuated, but it is appar- ently the brook, or a branch of it, which empties into Pickering's cove near Birch Point. This brook has two branches, both of which rise in the old Pitch-Pine plains of Newing- ton. One rises in the so-called " Langdon pasture," in the lower plains; and the other above, east of the parsonage land, but is fed chiefly by Coleman's spring. They both cross the road from Fox Point to Portsmouth, one a little below Stony hill, now Pine hill, and the other further down. They afterwards unite in one brook which finally empties into Pickering's Cove.
Another Dirty Gut is mentioned Ap. 9, 1703, when a highway was laid out "from the Oyster bed at Oyster river to the country road at the durty gutt by Abraham Clark's." Abraham Clark lived near the divid- ing line between the Oyster River precinct and Dover proper, as appears from a vote at the town- meeting of Ap. 22, 1706, that the inhabitants of Dover Neck should keep in repair the road from Hilton's
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Point to Abraham Clark's; and the inhabitants on the north side of Oyster river should keep the road in repair from said Clark's to Oyster River falls.
DIRTY LANE. Mentioned Oct. 7, 1713, when Joseph Beard conveyed to Ralph Hall all right to his father's land, bounded S. by the lane from high street to the back core, and W. by the lane formerly called Dirty lane. This lane was at the lower part of Dover Neck, between high street and Back river. It seems to have been a part of Low street.
DIRTY SLOUGH. Mentioned March 19, 1693-4, when 30 acres of land were granted to " Isaac gold by the durty slow, below beach hill." And again Jan. 9, 1721, when Wm. Leathers gave his son Thomas a tract of land on the northwest side of the way to Beech Hill at ye place called the Dirty Slough. This slough is a gully on the borders of Durham and Madbury, a little west of the Tom-Hall road, on the way to Beech Hill.
The name of Dirty slough is some- times given to the brook that empties into Bunker's creek, in Durham.
DISHWATER FALLS and MILL. See Oyster River Falls.
DOE'S NECK. This neck, now in Newmarket, but once a part of ancient Dover, was so called from Sampson Doe, to whom Richard Waldron conveyed, March 22, 1709, all that neck of land between Lam- perell river and Goddard's creek in the township of Dover, formerly granted by said town to Peter Coffin of Exeter. (See Lamprey-River Neck.) Nathaniel Doe, Ap. 19, 1745, conveyed to Ralph Cross of Newbury
half of a farm commonly called Doe's Neck, consisting of 120 acres, with dwelling-house, and barn southward of the house, the land extending from the barn to Lamperel river, then E. on said river to the Great Bay, and by said Bay northerly to a fence northward of Martain's layn, so called, then up the creek (God- dard's) to a rock eastward of Burch Point, near the place where people commonly pass over, and from said rock to a large red oak by the upland above Burch point, then along said creek to the fence between said Doe's land, and that of Samuel Smith of Durham. (See Lamprey River Neck and Martin's Lane.)
DOVER. This name was given to the settlement at Hilton's Point as early as 1639, if not before. It was changed to Northam in 1641, but the name of Dover was restored in 1642. "A Combination for government " was formed by the inhabitants of Dover, Oct. 22, 1640, and the settle- ment remained independent till its union with Massachusetts, which was consummated Oct. 9, 1641. C. W. Tuttle, in his Historical Papers (p. 333) says it is an error to give the name of " Dover Combination " to the local form of government of 1640, because the word "Dover" does not appear in the document. It was merely endorsed, " The Com- bination for government by ye people at Pascataq." The name, however, is in constant use, and serves to dis- tinguish it from the combinations at Exeter and Strawberry Bank. And it is appropriately so called, because it was formed by and for the Dover settlers. This Combination was the only charter of incorporation Dover
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ever had, till it was made a city June 18, 1855. * The township of Dover formerly comprised, not only Dover proper, but the present town- ships of Durham, Lee, Madbury, Somersworth, and Rollinsford, the greater part of Newington, and a portion of Greenland and New- market. " Sa. WecomoRahmet p. 267
The name of Dover, in a restricted sense, was sometimes given in early times to the settlement on Dover Neck, by way of distinction from that called "Cochecho," around the lowest falls in the Cochecho river. " The road from Dover to Cochecho" is mentioned May 5, 1718, meaning the road from Dover Point. (See Cochecho.)
DOVER GARRISONS.
I. PETER COFFIN'S GARRISON. The N. H. government ordered, March 13, 1683-4, that the houses of Peter Coffin, Esq., and Richard Otis be immediately fortified as " by-garri- sons for Cochecho," for the security of the inhabitants in their vicinity. (N. H. Prov. Pap., 1:499.) Cof- fin's house is mentioned May 27, 1671, when Richard Waldron con- veyed to Peter Coffin one fourth of the sawmill works on the south side of the river Cochecho, with one fourth of all grants and privileges thereunto pertaining. Also six acres of land on the south side of the river, adjoining " ye two acres of land upon part whereof ye sd Peter Coffin's house now stands, which sª Peter formerly bought of his father-in-law Edward Starbuck." Coffin's garrison and mill were burnt by the Indians June 28, 1689. The Rev. Joshua Moodey of Portsmouth implies that this was a judgment on Peter Coffin, who was
one of the Justices at Moodey's trial in 1684. (Ibid., 1 : 523.) Coffin himself, however, escaped the fate of Col. Waldron, having treated the Indians more equitably, as shown by his securing from them a title to his lands at Squamanagonick and at the second falls in Lamprey river. Cof- fin's garrison is said to have stood on an elevation, now cut down, between Orchard and Waldron streets, in the rear of Varney's block, about sixty feet from the line of Central Avenue.
II. TRISTRAM COFFIN'S GARRISON. This garrison, built by Tristram, son of Peter Coffin, escaped destruction in the Indian attack of 1689. Where it stood is uncertain, but it is supposed to have been on the high land near the present Belknap school- house on Silver street, which is part of the old Littleworth road. Elipha- let Coffin conveyed to Joseph Han- son, Sept. 5, 1735, two acres of land in Dover, bounded S. by the highway to Littleworth, W. by David Wat- son's two-acre home lot, N. by Leah's field, so called, and E. by "' a small gore claimed by Mr. Richard Wal- dron yt lies over against ye pound, being the very same land where Tris- tram Coffin, father of Eliphalet, for- merly lived." Tristram's son of the same name, however, lived near the lowest falls in the Cochecho. Peter Coffin, son of Eliphalet, conveyed to John Gage all right and title to the mill privilege at the lower falls in Cochecho river, on the south side, " being near ye dwelling house of Capt. Tristram Coffin." S. The Pound. f.280.
III. GERRISHI'S GARRISON. Men- tioned in the Journal of the Rev. John Pike, Dec. 25, 1692, when, as he states, "A dolefull and tremen-
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dous noise was affirmed to be heard in the Ayr nigh Capt Ger : Garrison, which Continued (with a little inter- mission) near half an hour."- " Money pd for diating of soldiers at Capt. John Gerrishes Garason" is mentioned in 1692. (N. H. Prov. Pap., 17: 621.) Two soldiers are mentioned as " serving his Majesty " in Capt. Gerrish's garrison from Jan. 7, 1695, till Feb. 6, following. (Ibid, 17: 648.) This garrison no doubt stood near Gerrish's mills at the lowest falls in the Bellamy river, but the precise spot is not known.
IV. HAYES'S GARRISON. This was a minor garrison of a later day, which, according to Sanford & Evert's atlas, stood west of the Cochecho river at the foot of Wink- ley's hill, at the junction of the road to Barrington and that to Tolend falls. It is elsewhere spoken of as "the garrison of Lieut. Jonathan Hayes," who died Ap. 15, 1787. It was taken down in 1812.
V. HEARD'S GARRISON. This garri- son, built by Capt. John Heard of the Dover Combination of 1640, stood on a small hill, west of Garrison Hill, at the lower side of the ancient cartway, where is now the garden of the Bangs residence. It escaped de- struction in the attack of 1689, at which time John Heard was already dead. The allowance made by the government for the subsistence of soldiers at Dame Heard's garrison in 1692 and 1693, is given in the N. H. Prov. Pap., 17: 621, 629. Five sol- diers were ordered to be stationed at " Samuel Heard's garrison " in 1693. (Ibid., 2 :103.) Orders were given Oct. 20, 1693, that only two soldiers be left at Heard's garrison. This
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