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List of Letters remaining in the General Post Office, New-York, October 10, 1771.
(C.) Archibald Campbell, Hackinsack.
(N.) Trever Newland, Stafford, New-Jersey.
JAMES CONN | WRITING MASTER, at Elizabeth- Town, | BEGS leave to inform the Public in general, and his employers in particular, that he intends to open his School on Monday the 4th of November, and hopes to have the satisfaction of finding the In- habitants heartily engaged with respect to the Edu- cation of their children ; which (if that should happi- ly be the case) would conduce much to the Encour- agement of the Teacher.
As the said CONN has engaged to teach Writing and Arithmetic in the Grammar School, wou'd fur-
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ther inform the Public that he professes to teach English Grammar, and Merchants Accompts, ac- cording to the Italian Method ; Geometry and Trig- onometry, Plain and Spherical ; Surveying, Naviga- tion, Gauging, Dialling, Algebra, &c. &c.
As also, the most useful and most difficult Part of Geography, viz. Drawing Maps and Charts, either Plain, Mercator, Spherical, or Conical; together with their Explanation, and the Reason why each Kind are drawn in the Manner they are.
Furthermore, the said CONN, at leisure Hours, en- graves Shop Bills, Bills of Parcels, Bills of Exchange or any Kind of Writing for the Rolling-Press, and in the neatest Manner.
N. B. Any Gentlemen who shall please to favour him with their Commands, may depend on having them executed as compleat as in London.
NEWARK RACES.
A Purse of TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS to be run for on Tuesday the 29th of this present Inst. October, (if a fair Day, if not the first fair Day) free for any Horse, Mare or Gelding, not more than 34 Blood, (Mr. Whitehead Cornell's Horse Steady, and Mr. Timothy Cornell's Horse Richmond, excepted) the Horses to carry Weight for Age and Blood, viz. Three Years old, 34 Blood, to carry 7 Stone 7 lb. 1/2 Blood, 6 Stone 7 lb. 14 Blood, 6 Stone. Four Years old, 34 Blood, 8 Stone 7 lb. 1/2 Blood, 7 Stone 3 lb. 14 Blood, 6 Stone 10 lb. Five Years old, 34 Blood, 9 Stone 3 lb. 1/2 Blood, 7 Stone II lb. 14 Blood, 7 Stone 4 lb. Six Years old, 34 Blood, 9 Stone 10 lb. 1/2
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Blood, 8 Stone 3 lb. 14 Blood, 7 Stone 10 lb. Aged, 3/4 Blood, 10 Stone ; 1/2 Blood, 8 Stone 7 lb. 14 Blood, 8 Stone. Not less than three reputed running Horses to start. Horses to be shewn and entered the Day be- fore running, with William Bott, paying 30 s. En- trance, or double at the Post. No one Person to run two Horses, nor be concerned in running their Horses in Partnership, or dividing the Purse. Proper Cer- tificates to be produced from under the Hand of the Breeder, or the Owner put upon Oath, if disputed, to their Horses Blood and Age. To run two mile at a Heat ; the Horse that wins two Heats the first to have the Purse. Proper Judges will be appointed to deter- mine all Disputes that may arise. The Horses to start at 2 o' Clock.
N. B. The Entrance Money to be run for the Day following, by all but the winning and distanced Horses.
To be sold at public Vendue, on the 13th day of No | vember next, at the House of WILLIAM WRIGHT, | Tavern-keeper, in Perth-Amboy, in New-Jersey. |
Three-tenth Parts of a Propriety, or Twenty- fourth Part of all the unlocated Lands in the East- ern Division of the Province of New-Jersey, afore- said, being Part of the Share of Propriety of the late D. D. J)unstar, deceased, died seized of ; together with three-tenth Parts of one Twenty-fourth Part in common of the valuable Tract of Land called Romo- pock,1 in Bergen County, and Province aforesaid ;
1 For a brief note on the Romopock (or Ramapo) tract, see N. J. Archives, XIX., 425.
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together also with a proportionable Part of the Pro- prietory House in Perth-Amboy aforesaid. The Title to the same may be seen at the Proprietor's Office in Perth-Amboy aforesaid, kept by John Smyth, their Register. The Sale will begin at two o'Clock in the Afternoon, when the Conditions will be made known.
SAMUEL WOODWARD, and NATHANIEL WOODWARD.
-The New York Gazette ; and the Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1043, October 21, 1771.
The Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen, in Communion of the Church of England, in America, at their last meeting held at Perth-Amboy, unanimously chose his Excellency our Governor a Member of that Corporation ; and have accordingly presented him with an Address on the Oc- casion, to which he was pleased to return an obliging answer.
-The New York Gazette, or, The Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1485, October 21, 1771.
PHILADELPHIA, October 28. Thursday last was married Dr. WILLIAM BARNET, jun. of Elizabeth- Town, to Miss BETSEY STOWE, of this City.1
-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 250, October 21 to October 28, 1771.
October 22, 1771. A CAUTION to the PUBLIC.
About the 3d inst. a small young man, who call'd
1 For a sketch of Dr. Barnet, see N. J. Archives, 2d Series, I., 452.
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his Name Ward, (in Company with two others, who went by the Names of Thompson and Johnson) came to my Store in Fairfield and passed a Five Pound Bill, which proved to be a Counterfeit of the last Emission of New-York Money Bills ; and it is thought these Men had with them Counterfeit Money of all Sorts, of New-Jersey, and New-York Bills and Dol- lars. Ward is about 6 Feet 5 Inches high, had on a short brown lapelled Coat, a red double breasted Waistcoat, and black Breeches. Thompson, about 5 Feet 10 Inches high, thin Visage, black Complexion and Hair ; had on a dark brown broad Cloth Coat, and a striped Waistcoat. Johnson about 5 Feet II' Inches high, fair Complection, light Hair, and had on a light blue Coat. Whoever detects and brings these Fellows to Justice, will do a Benefit to the Public. JOSEPH HANFORD.
To the PUBLIC.
WHEREAS the Trustees of Queen's College, in New- Jersey, at their Meeting in May last (the Honoura- ble Frederick Smith, Esq; presiding) did fix said Col- lege at the City of New Brunswick, and at their last Meeting, held according to appointment of the form- er, on the fifth of this Instant, at the Place aforesaid, (his Excellency William Franklin, Esq; presiding) it was unanimously agreed, that in order to carry this Institution into immediate Execution, an able well qualified Person be elected and appointed Tutor, to instruct the Students who shall offer themselves, in the learned Languages, liberal Arts and Sciences, in order to prepare them for the usual Degrees; and
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for that Purpose elected, constituted, and appointed, Mr. Frederick Frelinghousen,1 who is also to teach the English Language grammatically. The Trustees have likewise ordered that the Revd. Messieurs John Light,2 Jacob R. Hardenberg,3 and Johannis M. Van Harlingen4 together with the Tutor aforesaid, do take upon them the Government and direction of the said Institution until a well qualified President can be procured. The Publick is therefore notified, that the said College will be opened on the second Tuesday of November next, at the Place appointed, where proper Attendance will be given. It is supposed that the Character of the Gentleman appointed Tutor is become so well known, by discovering his singular Genius in the Course of his studies at Nassau Hall, (where he had a liberal Education) that it needs no farther Recommendation from us .- The Public may depend upon finding good and suffi- cient Board at private Houses at said Place, and as cheap (if not cheaper) than at any other Places where Colleges are erected .- As said College is cal- culated to promote Learning in general for the good
1 For sketch of Frederick Frelinghuysen, see ante, pp. 266-267; and 2d Series. II., 279.
2 For sketch of the Rev. Johannes Leydt, see N. J. Archives, XIX., 519.
3 For sketch of the Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenberg, see N. J. Archives, 2d Ser- ies, II., 116.
4 The Rev. Johannes Martinus Van Harlingen was b. near Millstone, in 1724. He is said to have entered the College of New Jersey as a student, but his name does not appear in the list of graduates. He went to Holland to study theology, and was licensed by the Classis of Amsterdam. April 6, 1761, and ordained by that classis May 4, 1761, as minister in the American churches, Returning to this country he was called to the Neshanic and Sourland churches, which he served from 1762 until his death in 1795, with zeal and fidelity. Until near the close of his life he preached exclusively in the Dutch language. He was a member of the first board of Trustees of Queen's College, and worked to secure its original en- dowment. He m. 1st, Sarah Stryker; 2d, Elizabeth Van Deursen .- Corwin's Manual, 4th ed., 829; Centennial of New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 429.
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of the Community, therefore the Gentlemen Stu- dents may expect to be treated with becoming Can- dour, without any Discrimination with Respect to their Religious Sentiments ; and will also have Op- portunity to attend the divine Worship of different Denominations in said City-The Students offering themselves to enter said College, shall be admitted into such of the Classes as they shall be qualified for.
By Order of the Trustees, JACOB R. HARDENBERG, Clerk.
New-Brunswick, the 10th Oct. 1771.
-The New York Journal, or The General Adver- tiser, No. 1503, October 24, 1771.
To be SOLD by the SUBSCRIBERS,
A plantation, situate on Rancocas Creek (well known by the name of the Spaw) near Mount-holly, Burlington county, West New-Jersey, containing about 158 acres, be the same more or less, with a good frame house thereon, and stone cellar under the same, a good kitchen, and other outhouses ; 50 acres whereof drained meadow, in good bank ; and an extraordinary spaw-spring near the house, none to exceed it perhaps in America. Also a lot of ground in Philadelphia, situate on the south side of Cedar-street, beginning at the corner of a lane on the side aforesaid, and extends along the said street about 225 feet, and back 300 feet, containing by computation 3 acres, with 2 tenements, and a good barrack stable thereon; the one a brick house, 2 stories high, with a well of good water at the door ;
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is now occupied as a tavern; the other a frame ditto, one story, all in good tenantable repair, and may be rented for 30l. per ann. part of the aforesaid lot is subject to a groundrent of 35s. sterl. per an- num; the whole being part of the real estate of John Hatkinson, late of Mount holly, deceased. Any per- son inclining to purchase the latter, may enquire concerning the premises, and know the terms of sale, by applying to James Bringhurst, or John Bispham, at Richard Parker's, in Philadelphia, or the Execu- tors ; or to view the plantation, may apply to Eliza- beth Hatkinson, in Mount-holly, and know the terms of sale, by applying to either Elizabeth Hatkinson, Executrix, or John Hinchman, Executor.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE.
On Second Day, the 28th of this instant October, at the late dwelling-house of James Borden, 1 de- ceased, in the township of Evesham, in the county of Burlington, two large yoke of working oxen, one pair of working steers, milch cows, cows with calf, young cattle, 30 or 40 hogs, a likely parcel of sheep, several good horses, a large quantity of Indian corn, rye and wheat, green corn, two iron-bound waggons, ploughs, harrows, gears, chains, edge tools, of several sorts, and sundry other farming utensils and household goods. The vendue to be- gin at ten o'clock on said day, and continue from
1 For some account of the Borden family (which, however, relates more par- ticularly to the line of Col. Joseph Borden, and does not mention the James Bor- den above), see N. J. Archives, XXIV., 651-5, note. James Borden was probably the son of Francis3 (Francis2 Richard1 ) Borden, and was b. 4th of Sth mo., 1722. He advertised a farm for sale at Evesham, Burlington county, adjoining his own, in March, 1766 .- N. J. Archives, XXV., 55.
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day to day till all is sold. Also at the same time and place, will be exposed to public sale, a valuable plantation and tract of 160 acres of good wheat land, adjoining to the above premises, situate in the township aforesaid, about 12 miles from Philadel- phia, and 7 miles from Burlington and Mount-holly ; about 120 acres whereof is cleared, and within fence, and the remainder woodland. There is on said premises, a good framed house, with a cellar under the whole, a well of excellent water near the door, and a young bearing orchard of good fruit. Like- wise, 21 acres of banked meadow, lying on the south side of Rancocas Creek, about a mile and a half from the premises, which will be sold in lots, or together, as may best suit the purchasers. The conditions of sale will be made known, at the time and place afore- said; where attendance will be given. JANE BOR- DEN, Executrix, JOHN CLARK, and JOHN COXE, Exec- utors.
A servant lad to be disposed of, who has 4 years to serve.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2235, October 24, 1771.
TO BE SOLD, or LETT.
A Tract of LAND, situate on Manto's Creek, in the township of Deptford, in the county of Gloucester, containing 4439 acres well timbered ; with a new saw-mill, on an excellent stream, which affords a sufficien y of water to saw in the driest time ; with houses and all other conveniences, in ex- cellent order for carrying on the business of said
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mill, and is one of the best situations in that part of the country, in a thick settled neighborhood, contig- uous to a good transportation, being five miles from a good landing on Timber-creek, and four miles from a landing on said Manto's creek, twelve miles from the town of Gloucester, and ten from Ladd's Cove.
ALSO, TO BE SOLD,
30 acres of cedar swamp; on a run called Still- Run, part thereof extraordinary good, having never been work'd in ; also 84 acres of fine land well tim- ber'd, adjoining the same, and but four miles distant from the abovesaid mill.
60 acres of cedar swamp that has not been work'd in, situate in the township of Deptford, on the main branch of Morris's river, called Scotland Branch, nearly adjoining Jacob Frease's saw-mill.
104 acres and an half of cedar swamp in Deptford township, on a branch of Great Egg harbour river, called Faraway, it lies contiguous to a good trans- portation, being about three miles from said river ; it lies in three surveys, and may be divided to suit the purchasers.
20 acres of tide meadow improved, of the richest and best quality all under good bank, and part of it fit for grass seed, at the mouth of Raccon creek, nearly opposite the town of Chester.
1000 acres on Absecon beach, affording very good pasture ; and is an extraordinary place for raising and keeping cattle, horses, and sheep, and part there- of well timbered with red cedar. .
$35 acres on Brigantine beach, having the like ad-
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vantage ; also a dwelling-house and other improve- ments.
1500 acres of land and marsh, the greatest part thereof the best kind of salt marsh, lying on the west side of Great Egg harbour river, and on Gibson's creek, and is an excellent place for raising and keep- ing stock ; it lies in several surveys adjoining each other, and may be divided to suit several purchasers ; there is also on said place a dwelling house, with some improvements, and one of the best fishing places on Great Egg-harbour river, where is caught great quantities of Rock and Pearch, &c.
Also a tract of very good land pleasantly situated on the river Delaware, in Sussex county, a little above Easton and Philipsburgh, and near the Marble Mountain, containing 185 acres, well timber'd, part thereof improved, and is the plantation where Mor- decai Winter lives ; bounded by lands now or late belonging to Isaac and Joseph de Cow, Thomas Wotherill, and Daniel Smith.
6 acres on said Marble Mountain, some part thereof well timbered, and a large quantity of good marble therein, nearly opposite Easton ; bounded by lands late Daniel Coxe's and by Delaware river, and lies very convenient to transport marble down said river to Philadelphia.
The purchasers paying part of the money down, may have time for the remainder, paying interest, and giving security, if required. Any persons inclin- ing to purchase, may depend on an indefeasible title, from HANNAH LADD, near Woodbury, in Glou-
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cester county, New-Jersey, of whom the terms of sale may be known.
ALL persons having any demands against the es- tate of JOHN LADD,1 Esq; late of said county, deceased, are desired to bring them in, to be adjust- ed : and such who are indebted to said estate, are requested to make speedy payment to the aforesaid HANNAH LADD, Executrix.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1507, October 24, 1771.
D R. GRAHAM, Oculist and Aurist, takes this method to acquaint the inhabitants of British America in general, that he may be consulted at his appartments at Mrs. Dugdale's in Arch street, be- tween Second and Third streets, in this city, in all the disorders of the eyes, and in every species of deaf- ness.
The anatomy and diseases of the human body in general, has always been his favorite study ; but the structure and diseases of those tender and important organs to which nature has assigned the most useful offices of life, the eyes and ears, have for several years, particularly engaged his attention : from thence he hath deduced, on rational principles, methods of cure improved and confirmed by the nicest observations in the course of a most exten- sive practice. Were he to mention the great num- bers he has restored to, or otherwise assisted in their sight or hearing, (many of whom had been deemed incurable by other practitioners) it would far exceed
1 For a sketch of John Ladd, see N. J. Archives, X., 224.
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the limits of an advertisement ; successful practice, low charges, and the closest attention to his patients, he is assured, will recommend, and be a better tes- timony of his skill and abilities, than anything he might advance in his own behalf. All therefore that Dr. Graham chuses to say concerning his medical abilities, is, that after several years study at the just- ly celebrated university of Edinburgh, he has trav- elled and attended upon the hospitals and infirm- aries in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, &c as well as the lectures of the most eminent professors in sev- eral parts of Europe.
Notwithstanding this city is at present supplied with practitioners in physic and surgery, gentlemen eminent in their profession, worthy and capable of the great, the important charge with which they are intrusted ; yet the above considerations, added to his having had more experience as an oculist and aurist, than, perhaps, any other physician or surgeon on this vast continent, the success which has attended his practice, the moderation and tenderness he shews to even the poorest individual, encourage him to hope for some share of the favour of the candid and respectable inhabitants of these parts of British America, who can readily distinguish true merit from pretended knowledge.
Those patients who chuse it, or whose disorders require it, may be attended at their own houses. The POOR who apply, properly recommended, will be assisted GRATIS, with advice, medicines, or manual operations, as their respective cases may require ; and for that purpose he will appropriate every Sat-
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urday from eight o'clock in the morning till noon.
To Dr. Graham.
Elizabeth-Town, New-Jersey,
Having been troubled for many years with a weakness and humour in my eyes and eyelids, I thus publickly declare the cure I have received through your means, after having applied to many doctors, and used a great variety of medicines in vain.
JOHN MOORE.
Elizabeth-Town, May 16, 1771.
These are to certify all whom it may concern, that my daughter, Hester Baker, 11 years of age, had the misfortune to be born deaf and dumb, hath received very considerable advantage in point of hearing, and now begins to speak several words, of which she has hitherto been altogether incapable, thro' the means which Dr. Graham, under God, has lately made use of in her behalf; as witness my hand, JACOB BAKER.
To Dr. Graham,
Newark, East New-Jersey.
SIR,
In gratitude to you, and for the benefit of my fellow creatures, I thus freely acknowledge the cure I have received of a Fistula Lachrymalis of my left eye, and of a running accompanied with deafness of my left ear, tho' of many [years ?] standing.
DANIEL TURNER.
Newark, East New-Jersey.
After being afflicted with a severe and constant head[ache ?] and almost total blindness, (my case being of Gutta Se [ ? ] ) for about six years, I have thro' God's blessing, recovered my sight, and am perfectly cured of my head- ach, thro' the means that Dr. Graham has applied, for which I thus publick- ly present him my hearty thanks.
THEOPHILUS PIERSON.
To Dr. James Graham,
Bound-Brook, New-Jersey, Sept. 15, 1771.
I take this method to return you my hearty thanks for being the means, under God, of curing my son of a film over his right eye, occasioned by the small-pox, so that he has now recovered his sight perfectly.
ADRIAN HOUGLAND.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1507, October 24, 1771. Supplement.
NEW-YORK, October 28. | On Saturday last ended our Supreme Court, at which William Davidson
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was convicted of Felony, and received Sentence to be hanged on the 15th of November next - Anthony Costigon indicted for General Larceny, but found Not Guilty ; and Samuel Mount, was tryed, but found Not Guilty on two Indictments ; the first for attempting to pass a counterfeit Bill of New-Jer- sey, and the second for altering two other Jersey Bills of Credit, and attempting to pass one of them.
New- Jersey, Middlesex County, 1 ss. 1 By Order of Stephen Skin- ner, and Jonathan Frazer, Esquires, two of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said Coun- ty; Notice is hereby given to all the Creditors of Samson Croker, and David Wright, Insolvent Debt- ors to shew Cause, if any they have, before the said Judges, on Friday the 15th of November next, at Two o'Clock, at the House of Elijah Dunham, in Perth Amboy, why an Assignment of the said Debt- ors Estates should not be made to Assignees, for the Use of their Creditors, and they be discharged from their Confinement, agreeable to an Act of the Gen- eral Assembly of said Province of New-Jersey, past for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
October 24th, 1771.
-The New York Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1486, October 28, 1771.
PHILADELPHIA, October 28. | A few days ago, a small sail boat was overset, by a flaw of wind, on her passage from this city to Salem ; by which acci- dent Richard Hacket, Samuel Smith, and a lad were unfortunately drowned. Joshua Huddy, another
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passenger, after being in the water about three hours, got to shore in a small canoe. Hacket and the lad are since found. Both the deceased men were married and left a number of small children.
Trenton, October 23d, 1771.
ALL Persons indebted to the Subscriber, by bond, bill, or book debt, are desired to make imme- diate payment. Any person that has any just de- mands against him, is requested to call and receive the same, as he intends speedily for England.
ROBERT SPENCER. -The Pennsylvania Packet, No. I, October 28, 1771.
BOSTON, October 24. | Notice is given in the London Papers of the 31st of August, that a fifth and final distribution of prize money to the officers and soldiers that were at the surrender of the Havanna the 12th of August 1762, will begin on the 28th of October: Those belonging to Major Gor- ham's corps, the Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New-York, &c. on the 28th of November. The shares not then demanded, will be ready to be paid on the first Thursday in every Month for three years to come, by Jonathan Gartan, in Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury.
PHILADELPHIA, November 4. | Monday, the 14th Ult. died in Bristol, the Rev. Mr. JONATHAN DOWNES, late a fellow of St John's College, in the University of Cambridge, and Rector of St. Peter's Parish, in the Island of Barbados. On the 15th, his
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remains were interred in St. Mary's Church, Bur- lington.1
WHEREAS I the Subscriber made application to the House of Assembly, setting forth my misfortunes, and praying that the Honourable House would take the same into their consideration, and grant me re- lief in the premises, and the benefit of the Insolvent Act at that time in agitation-and by an act passed in the year 1769, the Honourable Assembly was pleased to exempt any person from arrests for any debts contracted before the publication thereof, but at the same time, subjected any future estate ac- quired (if any) to the demands of any creditor who would sue for the same; And whereas having con- sidered the great disadvantages I should labour un- der, if I was deprived of the means of laying out for the benefit of my creditors and myself what I gained by my indefatigable industry, by being thus liable to any il !- natured creditor, I again applied to the Assem- bly, and set forth these unhappy circumstances, and my earnest wish and desire justly to discharge my debts, but that it would be totally impossible for me to do it without their further assistance, and prayed that they would exempt my goods and chattels from being taken in execution for the space or term of five years. The Assembly having taken into con- sideration my unhappy circumstances, were pleased to comply with my request by an act passed in March 1770, being the supplement to explain the act
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