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Walter Chamberlain, private; enlisted Nov. 11, 1862; died at New Or- leans, La., May 7, 1863.
Benjamin J. Clark, private ; enlisted Sept. 6, 1862; discharged Aug. 20, 1863.
Michael Ford, private ; enlisted Sept. 20, 1862; discharged for disability June 17, 1863.
John A. Franklin, private; enlisted Sept. 16, 1862 ; discharged Aug. 20, I863.
Nathan S. Harris, private; enlisted Sept. 13, 1862 ; detailed as wagoner ; drowned on the way home in the Mississippi River Aug. 6, 1863.
Andy Holt, corporal ; enlisted Sept. 15, 1862 ; promoted to sergeant Mar., 1863; discharged Aug. 20, 1863.
George T. Jones, corporal; enlisted Sept. 6, 1862 ; promoted to sergeant ; discharged Aug. 20, 1863.
John H. Karr, private ; enlisted Sept. 16, 1862 ; died at Vicksburg, Miss., Aug. 10, 1863.
Joseph Mason, private ; enlisted Sept. 5, 1862 ; discharged Aug. 20, 1863. John C. Ordway, corporal ; enlisted Sept. 25, 1862 ; discharged Aug. 20, 1863.
William H. Ordway, private ; enlisted Oct. 31, 1862 ; discharged Aug. 20, 1863.
Eben J. Palmer, corporal ; enlisted Sept. 11, 1862 ; died June 30, 1863, at Baton Rouge, La.
George B. Raymond, private ; enlisted Oct. 8, 1862; discharged Aug. 20, 1863.
William P. Steele, private; enlisted Oct. 4, 1862 ; discharged Aug. 20, 1863.
Eighteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. Thomas Livermore, Colonel.
Service in the Army of the Potomac.
George W. Bosworth, private; enlisted Sept. 20, 1864; commissioned captain Oct. 13, 1864; discharged June 10, 1865.
First New Hampshire Cavalry. John L. Thompson, Colonel.
Service in the Army of the Potomac.
James Anderson (substitute ), private; enlisted Apr. 5, 1864; deserted. James G. Arnold (substitute), private ; enlisted Apr. 6, 1864; wounded severely at Kearneysville, Va., Aug. 25, 1864; discharged May 30, I865.
Austin Blood (substitute), private; enlisted Apr. 8, 1864 ; appointed cor- poral; wounded Nov. 12, 1864, at Middleton, Va .; died of wounds Nov. 15, 1864, at Winchester, Va.
John C. Carkin, private; enlisted Mar. 10, 1865; discharged July 15, I865.
Charles Moore, private ; enlisted Jan. 1, 1864 ; no date of discharge.
Rufus Orcutt, private ; enlisted Feb. 18, 1864 ; discharged July 15, 1865. Joseph Wetherbee, private; enlisted Feb. 16, 1864; appointed corporal May 1, 1865 ; discharged July 15, 1865.
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First Company Heavy Artillery.
Merrill T. Spalding, private ; enlisted July 22, 1863 ; discharged Sept. II, 1865.
Veteran Reserve Corps.
Cyrus Brackett (substitute), private; enlisted April 15, 1864 ; deserted. United States Colored Troops.
David E. Proctor, captain ; commissioned Feb. 10, 1864; severely wounded Nov. 28, 1864, at Point of Rocks, Va .; brevetted major March 13, 1865 ; discharged Dec. 10, 1865. At the celebrated Crater fight before Petersburg, Va. He is said to have been the first white soldier to enter the mine after the explosion.
George T. Woodward, captain; enlisted March 3, 1864; wounded at the explosion of the mine at Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864 ; brevet- ted major March 13, 1865 ; discharged Dec. 21, 1865.
Adolphus Boyku (substitute), private ; enlisted Aug. 19, 1864 ; discharged Oct. 20, 1865.
John W. Boone (substitute), private ; enlisted Sept. 22, 1864; discharged Oct. 31, 1865.
Miscellaneous Organizations.
Gorham B. Clark, private; enlisted Sept. 1, 1862, in the 5th Mass. Regt; discharged July 2, 1863 ; enlisted March 26, 1864, in the U. S. Signal Corps; died July 24, 1865.
Everett E. Cram, private ; enlisted March 29, 1864, in U. S. Signal Corps; discharged Aug. 25, 1865.
William Langdell, private ; enlisted Aug. 30, 1861, in Co. H, 14th U. S. Infantry ; captured May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Va. ; died at the Andersonville Prison, Sept. 25, 1864.
Jonathan H. Stephenson enlisted Sept. 9, 1861, in Co. H, 14th U. S. In- fantry ; discharged Aug. 30, 1864 ; died Dec. 27, 1864.
John P. Raymond enlisted in U. S. Signal Corps, March 29, 1864; dis- charged Dec. 16, 1865.
Otis Harwood in Mass. Regiment.
William H. Ordway enlisted April 5, 1864, in 2nd Mass. Cavalry ; dis- charged May 8, 1865.
United States Navy.
Joseph Leacher, landsman ; enlisted June 25, 1864 ; discharged Oct. 25, 1864.
George Powers (substitute); enlisted Sept. 23, 1864 ; deserted Sept. 28, I864.
John Price (substitute) ; enlisted Sept. 28, 1864; deserted Oct. 17, 1864. Henry Smith (substitute) ; enlisted Sept. 28, 1864 ; discharged Feb. I, I865.
William Teague, seaman ; enlisted Sept. 3, 1861 ; discharged Nov. 21, I862.
John Thompson, seaman; enlisted Sept. 28, 1864; died in Hospital at New York, Feb. 6, 1865.
Marine Corps.
John Fox (substitute) ; enlisted Sept. 27, 1864; deserted Oct. 2, 1864.
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Robert Griffin (substitute) ; enlisted Feb. 1, 1865; discharged Feb. I, 1869.
John Hartman, corporal ; enlisted Dec. 31, 1864 ; deserted Jan. 20, 1865. Herman Wolf, drummer; enlisted Jan. 28, 1864 ; discharged Jan. 28, 1869.
Lafayette Artillery Company
Enlisted Aug. 1, 1864; discharged Sept. 23, 1864 ; service at Fort Consti- tution, Portsmouth, N. H.
(See History of the company in another chapter.)
OFFICERS.
Joel H. Tarbell, Captain
Andy Holt, Corporal
Eli C. Curtis, Ist Lieut.
Charles F. Tarbell, Corporal
Charles H. Holt, 2nd Lieut.
Edwin H. Putnam, Corporal
John Gage, Ist Sergeant
Stephen P. Holt, Corporal
Abner K. Lewis, Sergeant
William J. Herrick, Corporal
Benjamin G. Herrick, Sergeant
Samuel S. Cummings, Corporal
Edwin Patch, Sergeant
Moses C. Fuller, Corporal
William N. Ryerson, Sergeant
John C. Carkin, Corporal
William F. Barrett, Drummer.
PRIVATES.
Calvin A. Abbott
Isaac Lowe
Oliver H. Bixby
George W. Parker
Ward N. Cheever
George B. Raymond
Benjamin J. Clark
Orrin P. Russell
Charles W. Conant
Jotham S. Stephenson
Orrin N. Cram
Amos P. Swinnington
Asher Curtis
William W. Woods
Hiram F. Curtis
Charles Young
Alvin Dean
ยท Lafayette Herrick
David S. Draper
George W. Holt
Elverton G. W. Duncklee
Albert J. Kidder
Alfred T. Ford
Edmund J. Parker
John H. Goodrich
Eleazer Putnam
Levi P. Hadley
Fred A. Richardson
Samuel N. Hartshorn
William P. Steele
Benjamin F. Holt
William R. Stephenson
Jason Holt
Samuel E. Swinnington
Charles L. Hubbard
Alfred C. Woodward
Alvin J. Ford
George W. Young
THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
The first soldier named on this monument deserves more than a passing notice ; for the reason that he was not only the first man from our town to fall as a victim of our Civil War, but he was also the first soldier from our state to die for the preservation of the union. Harvey Holt was killed in the first battle of Bull Run by a fragment of a shell which exploded near him while he was in the heat of the conflict. When the Grand Army of the Republic organized a Post here, it took the
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name of Harvey Holt Post, No. 15, of the G. A. R., in his honor.
This Post in 1871 voted to place all its surplus funds at inter- est with the view of procuring a soldiers' monument. By the aid of an appropriation of $250 from the town and the money raised by the members the monument was erected in 1879, and stands near the highway at the South Cemetery, an honor both to the living and the dead. Upon it are inscribed the names of all Lyndeborough soldiers who fell in the conflict and whose dust reposes under the sunny skies of a now united country.
EAST FACE.
I. Harvey Hclt, Co. I, 2nd Regt., N. H. V. Killed at first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.
2. George R. Follansbee, Co. B, 8th Regt., N. H. V. Died of disease at Ship Island, Miss., May 1, 1862.
3. Corp. John A. Hartshorn, Co. G, 2nd Regt., N. H. V. Killed at Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862.
4. Walter Chamberlain, Co. G, 16th Regt., N. H. V. Died of disease at New Orleans, La., May 7, 1863.
NORTH FACE.
5. Frederick S. Manning, Co. I, 5th Regt., N. H. V. Killed at Gettys- burgh, Pa., July 2, 1863.
6. Nathan S. Harris, Co. G, 16th Regt., N. H. V. Drowned near mouth of White River, Ark., Aug. 6, 1863.
7. John H. Karr, Co. G, 16th Regt., N. H. V. Died of disease at Vicks- burg, Miss., Aug. 10, 1863.
8. Corp. Austin Blood, Troop C, Ist N. H. V. Cavalry. Died of wounds at Winchester, Va., Dec. 10, 1864.
9. Elnathan Hodgman, Co. E, 8th Regt., N. H. V. Died of disease at Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 9, 1865.
WEST FACE.
IO. Edward P. Ross, Co. B, 8th Regt., N. H. V. Killed at Port Hudson, La., June 14, 1863.
II. Jotham P. Draper, Co. E, 8th Regt., N. H. V. Died of disease at Baton Rouge, La., May 16, 1863.
I2. John R. Butler, Co. G, 16th Regt., N. H. V. Died of disease at New Orleans, La., June 28, 1863.
13. Corp. Eben J. Palmer, Co. G, 16th Regt., N. H. V. Died at Baton Rouge, La., June 30, 1863.
14. Sergt. William Langdell, Co. A, 14th U. S. Infantry. Died in An- dersonville prison, Ga., Sept. 25, 1864.
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REVIEW.
In a review of the financial condition of the town, the year after the close of the Civil War, the selectmen made the follow- ing statements :
" The whole number of men furnished by the town, not in- cluding the ninety days' men at Portsmouth, is one hundred and ten. The amount of Town bounties paid, including the $1,375 paid in 1863 for men who were not credited, is $17, 140.00. The amount paid by individuals for substitutes is $5,090.00."
"We believe the war expenses of the town below the aver- age of the towns in the State, in proportion to the number of men furnished." "Will it not, then, be good policy for us to pay a part of the Town debt the present year? We hope every tax payer will feel a deep interest in the prosperity of the Town, and act accordingly."
The votes of the town certainly indicate a readiness to be liberal with the soldiers and to borrow funds to assist any dependents who might be in circumstances of need. The agents of the town, after the war was over, turned the attention of their fellow citizens to an immediate effort to reduce their debt. These points cannot fail to be viewed as commendable. Honor to whom honor is due !
VIEW FROM WALKER'S HILL, LOOKING SOUTHERLY.
CHAPTER XI.
LYNDEBOROUGH'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHER TOWNS.
GREENFIELD.
From military affairs we turn back to give a brief account of the later changes in boundary lines.
It was previously shown that a large tract of the old township, Salem-Canada, was cut off in order to form township No. 2, 10w Wilton. "This was the most unkindest cut of all," in the opinion of the old inhabitants of our town, for it began, in 1749, a series excisions which are unpleasant to recall. To atone, as it were, for the land cut off on the south side, there was added an equal quantity on the north side ; but although the acreage may have been made equal, "the new agreed not with the old," and in time trouble ensued. By means of this addition, our old town extended as far north as what is now Greenfield village, and the added tract was called "The Lyndeborough Addition."*
Two years later, in 1751, if its chartered measurements are to be trusted, New Boston received 2,700 acres out of this addi- tion. This, with other territory further north, constituted the " New Boston Addition," which formed the main part of Fran- cestown at the date of its incorporation, June 8, 1772.
But even after the incorporation of this large tract into New Boston first, and afterwards into Francestown, there still re- mained a large strip of the original " Lyndeborough Addition," at the northwest corner of the town. The addition was made while our town was yet Salem-Canada. But in 1753 the name was changed to Lyndeborough, covering both the remainder of Salem-Canada and its addition.
The town continued thus till the war for independence was in full progress. During this war an annoying petition came from the inhabitants of " Parsonses Corner," so-called, requesting to be set off to "Duxbury School Farm," in order to make up a town. Lyndeborough was notified by the legislature of their request, and directed to show reasons, if any they had, why this should not be done.t The town voted to oppose the petition, and chose Capt. Levi Spaulding to present objections to the Gen-
*Batch., XXV, pp. 358, 360. Francestown History, pp. 10, II. Cf. also, Batch., XXVIII, pp. 58, 71, with XXIV, p. 175, and XXVII, pp. 408, 410.
See Hammond, XII, pp. 519 to 521.
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eral Court. The objections prevailed, and in Hammond's words, " The project did not succeed."
But the Revolutionary War had scarcely closed before the town was requested by citizens in the northwest part of Lyndeborough in Sept., 1783, that they might be set off in order to form a new town. The town voted to dismiss the subject. But at the No- vember meeting in 1783 the request was urgently repeated, and then a vote passed that the northwest part of the town be set off according to the plan exhibited. It was carried by the petition- ers only. They next petitioned the legislature to be set off as a town, and the legislature notified Lyndeborough to present rea- sons, if any there were, why it should not be done. The town decided to assign reasons against the request, and for this pur- pose chose Capt. Levi Spaulding, Ephraim Putnam and Major Peter Clark as their committee. The reasons were assigned and strongly expressed. They were, briefly : -*
I. To set off the N. W. corner of the town as proposed, would leave the town in such shape that it could not be supposed long to exist as a town.
2. Separation as requested would make the maintenance of the gospel very burthensome to the remaining people of the town.
3. The town had borne its part with patriotic zeal and fortitude in a long and distressing war, from which it was still suffering. Its people regarded the General Court as the guardian of their civic interests, and now desired from it protection, in every proper way, from unnecessary and hurtful division and expense, at least, until they have more fully dis- charged their proportion of the public Debt.
These reasons were subscribed to by the selectmen and fifty- one others, under date of Dec. 12, 1783.
But the petitioners were persistent, and the next year, agree- able to an order of the Senate and House of Representatives, the Town of Lyndeborough presented an earnest remonstrance against granting their desire, and gave their reasons. They stated that : - t
As to the Town of Lyndeborough being very large, as is set forth by the petitioners, it was at first laid out but six miles square, except a little corner that New Boston took off on the North East. Afterwards a large piece was taken off from the South part and added to Wilton by Joseph Blanchard Esq., agent for the Masonian Proprietors, which was a great dammage to this town. For the piece that was added on the north, in lieu of it, we cannot expect to hold when they request to be set off to Francestown, it being but about a mile from Francestown meetinghouse. * * The Southeast part of this Town by Reason of their distance from the meetinghouse petitioned the General Court in 1779, to be taken
* Hammond, XII, pp. 511, 512. t Ib., p. 513.
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off, and together with Duxbury School Farm and part of Amherst to be incorporated (into) a distinct town by themselves. But the Honorable Court viewing the plan of this town and considering its circumstances re- solved that the request ought not to be granted.
As to the present petition before the Honorable Court, their request appears to us so extravagant & unreasonable that it is a matter of won- der to us that men so zealous for the public worship as the petitioners express themselves, should so fail in the second branch of Duty, viz. Love to their neighbor. For it appears to us that their petition cannot be granted without the destruction and annihilation of the town as your Honors may see by the plan of that part of the town that will be left. The true state of the matter will we trust appear so plain by the plans exhibited, * * * & what may be said on the day of hearing, that we humbly refer the matter to your wise consideration & paternal care of us trusting that it will be settled agreeable to Justice & Equity.
Permit us further to add that we could wish to accommodate the own- ers & few inhabitants of said Slip of Land agreeable to their plan & make that the centre of a fine town bounded out as they please, could it be done without so great expence as the ruin of this town. Likewise we think & take it to be the minds of the town & that they are heartily will- ing to allow to their brethren the petitioners that belong to this town, a full equality of privilege as to the place of meeting by moving the meet- inghouse to the Center or some other way that may be thought best. But we cannot be reconciled to the thought of having the town torn to pieces according to the request of the petitioners. Therefore it is the prayer of this Town that the prayer of the petitioners may not be granted, for which the Town of Lyndeborough as in duty bound will ever pray. Signed by,
Levi Spaulding Committee in Ephraim Putnam behalf of the Town Peter Clark of Lyndeborough.
In response to this petition and remonstrance, the General Court appointed a committee to consider the situation, and con- fer with committees appointed by both the town and the petition- ers. The committee from the legislature advised compromise and concession, for the present, at least. The other committees con- ferred together, and arranged terms of agreement for five years, which terms are given in the report of the committee for the town as follows : - *
REPORT.
We the subscribers being a committee chosen by the Town to consult with the petitioners in the Northwest part of the town with regard to an accommodation agreeable to the advice of a committee from the Gen- eral Court, upon considering the matter on all hands think proper that the town make the petitioners the following offers, (viz. ) that our Rev- erend Pastor go to preach with the petitioners four Sabbaths out of five of what money the said petitioners pay towards the yearly support of the
*T. Rs. II, p. 133.
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gospel in this Town. (They) shall draw in proportion to the yearly sal- ary for the term of three years from the 7th. day of September, 1785. The Sabbaths the preaching is with the petitioners to (be) equally divided through the year, and the meeting to be held in the centre of the peti- tioners (or as near as may be with conveniency ) provided the petitioners shall remain with the town as they are at present for the above said term. Lyndeborough, Feb. 2, 1785.
Ephraim Putnam Jonas Kidder Committee.
Levi Spaulding
This report was read and accepted at an adjourned meeting of the town on the first Wednesday in February, 1785.
The matter was thus set temporarily at rest. The agreement appears to have been faithfully kept.
But at the end of the specified five years, the northwestern part of the town again showed great activity. . The record of the town meeting, Feb. 1, 1790, is, in part, as follows : -
First, Chose Dr. Benjamin Jones Moderator.
Secondly. After reading the petitions presented to the town by the Northwestern part of this town, also part of the inhabitants of the Society Land, also the Inhabitants of Lyndeborough Slip, after considering of the several Petitions, Voted to choose a committee to consist of seven (viz) Levi Spaulding Esq., Dr. Benjamin Jones, Benjamin Killam, Peter Clark, Lieut. Amos Whittemore, Joseph Herrick, John Reynolds, com- mittee to consider the Petitions, & report to the town at an adjourned meeting what ought to be done respecting them, the meeting adjourned to the first Tuesday in March next at one of the clock in the afternoon.
When reassembled the first Tuesday in March, the committee finding the impropriety of their choice made report nothing done.
Voted, to choose a committee of three to consider the situation & re- port what they think right & just to do. Levi Spaulding, Nehemiah Rand Esq., & Peter Clark were chosen the Committee; & the meet- ing adjourned to the first Tuesday in April.
Met according to adjournment. Heard the report of the committee ; which follows :
To the inhabitants of the Town of Lyndeborough in Town-meeting as- sembled on the sixth day of April 1790.
We your committee chosen to take into consideration the several Peti- tions now lying before the town by several inhabitants signed, request- ing to be set from the town and annexed elsewhere,
Beg leave to report, That having taken said Petitions severally with the several petitioners into our consideration as also the situation & circumstances of the remaining part of the Town with its inhabitants, are fully satisfied it will not by any means be for the benefit & welfare of the Town to grant the Petition of the West or Northwest part of this Town in full at this present conjuncture of time.
With respect to the Petition of such as would wish to be annexed to & incorporated with the Society & Gore into a town, we say that their being voted off in full, according to the limits in said Petition set
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forth, would leave the remaining inhabitants under very unhappy cir- cumstances indeed & open a door for such unhappy differences too plain to discernment of every one. However, as we are willing to gratify the petitioners so far as may reasonably comport with the conveniency of the old Town, according to situation of the meetinghouse & other cir- cumstances, we think it may be advisable for the town to vote off the two tier of which is called the Lord Proprietors Lots, on the West side of the Town which will gratify Benjamin Killam & others in full & the other petitioners of the Society & Gore & this Town in part .* As to the Petition of a number of the inhabitants who request to be set off to. & annexed to Francestown, we advise that if in case the whole of the peti- tioners on the West side of the town will accept of & be easy with the two tier of Lots aforesaid, t that the prayer of their petition be granted, & not otherwise at the present.
All of which is humbly submitted by your committee.
Levi Spaulding 1 Peter Clark Committee.
A true copy, attested pr. Ephraim Putnam, T. Clerk.
The above report was accepted by vote of the town at its meeting, Apr. 6, 1790.#
But the petitioners renewed their appeal to the General Court, and in response a committee of the Court was appointed at its session in June, 1790, to consider the petition of the inhabitants of the northwesterly part of Lyndeborough, etc., and to view their situation and report thereon. The report favored their in- corporation, according to a description printed in Hammond's Town Papers, Vol. XII, pp. 528, 529.
The town opposed the separation as proposed by the report. By way of remonstrance against it, they forwarded to the legis- lature a record of the proceedings of their town meeting in re- gard to it, as follows : -
To the Honorable the Senate & House of Representatives in & for the State of New Hampshire.
The Memorial of the Town of Lyndeborough humbly Sheweth.
Agreeable to the Order of the Honorable Senate & House of Repre- sentatives upon a petition preferred to them last June by a Number of the Inhabitants of the Westerly part of this Town and Others, praying to be Set off from this Town & Incorporated into a Town by themselves.
The Town at their Meeting on the 27 Day of December Instant took the Matter into their Consideration agreeable to an Article in the war- rant for said Meeting & Voted as follows (viz).
Ily. That it appears Evident to us that if More of this Town Should be Set off to the Petitioners than we Voted to them at a Meeting of this Town last April it will Intirely break up the Town & that it Cannot Sub- sist as Such, after So large a part of it is taken off.
* See Plan in Batch. XXVII, p. 410. t That is, the two tier joined to Francestown. #T. Rs., II, p. 201.
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2ly. Therefore Voted that the Prayer of this Town be presented to the Honorable Court at their next Sessions at Concord on the first Wednes- day of January next by our Member in Said Court, praying that the prayer of the Petitioners may not be granted, farther than this Town Voted them at the aforesaid Meeting
3ly. Voted that in Case the Honorable Courts Committee Should Re- port different from the aforesaid Vote of this Town, or Report that more of said Town be Set off to Said Petitioners than Said Town have Voted, & if the Reasons that may be Offered Should not be Sufficient to Con- vince the Honorable Court that this Town have Voted off to the Peti- tioners as much of said Town as is Consistent with Reason & Justice, then Voted to pray the Honorable Court to grant us a Committee upon the Expence of the Town to take a View of that part of Said Town Called the Old Town, that the Situation of the whole Town with all the Circumstances that attend it may be taken into Consideration, as the late Honorable Committee by the Order of the Honorable Court were Con- fined to View the Situations of the Petitioners only.
4ly. Chose Peter Clark Levi Spaulding Esq., & Lieut. Jeremiah Carle- ton a Committee to Assign Reasons to the Hon1 Court why the prayer of the Petitioners Should not be Granted.
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