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(V) John, second son and fourth child of Ebenezer and Mehitable (Robinson) Cobb, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 27, 1723. He removed to Rockaway,
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Morris county, New Jersey, attracted to the place by the iron mines, in which business he had became familiar in Taunton, the family always having had an interest in the business from the time his great-great-grandfather, John Cobb, had helped to found the business in Taunton, in 1639. He married Rhoda and by her he had seven children as follows, all born in Parsippany, New Jersey : I. Samuel, baptized June 3, 1753. 2. Sarah, baptized June 3, 1753. 3. Clisby, baptized June 10, 1753. 4. John (q. v.). 5. Rhoda, baptized April 20, 1755. 6. Robert, baptized October 18, 1771. 7. (probably). Thomas, born Janu- ary 16, 1760; a revolutionary soldier, who died January 17, 1845 ; his wife was Clara A., born March 3, 1786, died April 20, 1863; the graves of the revolutionary soldier and his wife are both at Parsippany. John Cobb had another son in the American revolution, Clisby, the third child. He served in Captain Josiah Hall's company, of Denville, New Jersey.
(VI) John (2), third son and fourth child of John (I) and Rhoda Cobb, was born in Parsippany, Morris county, New Jersey, No- vember 24, 1750, and was baptized in the Rockaway Church, June 10, 1753. He had a forge at Troy Hills and Franklin; was sheriff of Morris county, 1792; justice of the peace, receiving his appointment 1797 and a man of large interests and influence in the community. He died December 7 (or 17), 1805, and is buried at Parsippany. He married, October 31, 1773, Ann, daughter of George Parrott, who was born March 30, 1756, died May 17, 1805. The children of John and Ann (Par- rott) Cobb were born in Parsippany, New Jersey, as follows: I. Lucinda, November 2, 1774; died 1777. 2. Eleanor, February 18, 1777 ; died April 12, 1777. 3. Henry (q. v.). 4. John, October 19, 1780; died 1782. 5. John Joline, M. D., August 23, 1784; married Jane Jacobus, July 9, 1811 ; died February 4, 1846. 6. Jane, August 7, 1786; married James S. Condit ; died July 25, 1855. 7. Samuel Allen, January 10, 1790; died September 27, 1795. 8. Israel, November 1I, 1794; died the same year. 9. A son, who died soon after his birth, 1797.
(VII) Henry, eldest son and third child of John (2) and Ann (Parrott) Cobb, was born in Parsippany, Morris county, New Jersey, May 23, 1778. He married Maria Baldwin, of Newark, born January 5, 1786, died March I, 1864. Henry died June 25, 1857, and they are both interred in the Parsippany burial- ground. He was a large landholder in Morris
county, both by inheritance and purchase. The children of Henry and Maria ( Baldwin) Cobb were born in Parsippany, New Jersey, as follows: I. Alexander A. (q. v.). 2. Anna Maria, who married John O. Cordict. 3. John A., November 26, 1810; died March 14, 1880. 4. Archibald, who married a Miss Brown. 5. Cornelia, 1813; died August 30, 1881 ; unmar- ried. 6. Eliza, who was living in Troy, New Jersey, in 1902. 7. Henry, August 9, 1819; died April 15, 1887. 8. Sarah, who married a De Hart. John A. Cobb with his father, Henry Cobb, were owners of the Cobb home- stead property in the town of Troy which his grandfather, John Cobb, purchased from Isaac and Mary Beach, May 15, 1788, and the survey of which property was made by Lem- uel Cobb, May 14, 1788. The homestead was sold by William Ripley Cobb, and the other heirs to John Monteith, of Newark, New Jersey. Lemuel Cobb was born in Parsippany, New Jersey, September 5, 1775 ; married, Au- gust 8, 1819, Elizabeth Shaw, and died June I, 1858. Their son, Andrew Bell Cobb, died January 31, 1873.
(VIII) Alexander A., eldest child of Henry and Maria (Baldwin) Cobb, was born in Par- sippany, Morris county, New Jersey. He was a contractor and builder in Newark, New Jersey, 1845, and married Clarissa, daughter of Phineas and Rebecca (Bryan) Chidester, granddaughter of Ebenezer and Hannah (Haywood) Bryan, and great-granddaughter of Joseph and Sarah (Allen) Bryan. Eben- ezer Bryan, born 1692, settled in East Bridge- water, Plymouth colony, where he married, in 1744, Hannah Haywood, born 1690. They removed to Mendham, New Jersey, where he was judge of "ye County Courts 1738-41 ; major of militia, but known as Captain Bryan." His third child, Japhet, born 1721; married Sarah Allen, in 1742. He was a private in the New Jersey militia and was called out several times in the revolutionary war. The children of Alexander A. and Clarissa (Chidester) Cobb, were born in Newark, New Jersey, as follows : I. John Alexander (q. v.). 2. George B., 1846. 3. Annie M., who married Harry Waters.
(IX) John Alexander, eldest son of Alex- ander A. and Clarissa (Chidester) Cobb, was born in Newark, New Jersey, 1844; died in that city, November 5, 1881. He was gradu- ated at the College of New Jersey, now Prince- ton University, A. B., 1866, became a law student in the office of Theodore Runyon, sub- sequently chancellor of the state, and he was
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admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney at law in 1869 and as a counsellor at law in 1872. He practiced law in Newark continu- ously 1869-81. Mr. Cobb married, December I, 1876, Mary Caroline, daughter of William A. and Caroline (Ward) Ripley, granddaugh- ter of David (1803-1883) and Mary Ann (Wattles) Ripley, and of Erastus and Sallie (Thomas) Wattles; great-granddaughter of Peleg and Mollie (Bartlett) Thomas, and of Rev. William (1768-1822) and Lucy (Clift) Ripley, and great-great-granddaughter of Rev. Hezekiah (1743-1851) and Dorothy Ripley. The Rev. Hezekiah Ripley was chaplain in General Stillman's brigade in part of the cam- paign of 1776 in Washington's army, encamp- ed around New York, Harlem and in New Jersey. Her great-great-great-grandparents were David (1697-1781) and Lydia (Correy) Ripley, and her great-great-great-great-grand- parents were Joshua (1658-1739) and Hannah B. (Bradford) (1662-1671) Ripley. Hannah B. Bradford was the daughter of William (1624-1704) and Alice Richards (1627-1671) Bradford and granddaughter of Governor William (1588-1623) and Mrs. Alice South- wood Bradford, the emigrant progenitor of the Bradfords of New England. This makes Mary Caroline Ripley a descendant in the tenth generation from Governor Bradford and her son, William Ripley Cobb, of the eleventh generation. The two children of John Alex- ander and Mary C. (Ripley) Cobb were born in Newark, New Jersey, as follows: I. Will- iam Ripley (q. v.). 2. Miriam, December 25, 1881 ; married, October 1, 1902, Rufus New- ton Barrows and their children in 1909 were : John Alden and Daniel Newton Barrows.
(X) William Ripley, eldest child of John Alexander and Mary C. (Ripley) Cobb, was born in Newark, New Jersey, November I, 1879. He attended the public schools of his native city; was prepared for college at the Dwight School, of New York City, was stu- dent at Princeton University in class of 1901. He studied law in the offices and under the direction of Hon. John Franklin Fort, of New- ark, New Jersey, and at the New York Law School, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in 1901, and as a counsellor in 1904. He engaged in general practice and came to be recognized as a careful, painstak- ing and discriminating attorney and counsellor, learned in the law and possessed of all the attrib- utes that go to make up a successful lawyer.' He affiliated with the Lawyers' Club, the North End Club and the Wednesday Club, of
Newark. As a young Republican he exerted a strong influence among young men and was not timid in pointing out the defects he found in the older organizations of the party and the necessity of reforms that would keep pace with the new conditions that were to be met and contradicted by the Republican party. His church affiliation was the Protestant Epis- copal faith and he was a member of Grace Church, Newark. Mr. Cobb married, October I, 1902, at Belmar, New Jersey, Annie Wald- ron, daughter of Manning and Julia Condit (Waldron) Force, born in Newark, New Jersey, March 15, 1879, and their child, Nancy Ripley, was born August 2, 1907, representing the eleventh generation from Elder Henry Cobb, of Barnstable.
Descended from an arms- CARPENDER bearing family of county Hereford, England, the Carpenders have been established in America since the middle of the eighteenth century. The first of the line in this country was
(I) George Carpender, of New York City. He is buried, with his wife Elizabeth, in Trin- ity churchyard. Issue: I. George, remained in England. 2. William, in England, for his health, in 1774. 3. Benjamin (?). 4. John, see below. 5. Catharine, married Cap- tain Samuel Bayard. 6. Elizabeth, married Sidney Breeze. 7. Sarah, married Dr. Rich- ard Ayscough, whose daughter Sarah married Colonel William Malcolm. Sidney Breeze and Dr. Ayscough are buried side by side in Trin- ity churchyard. Their grandchildren were made the heirs of Captain Bayard, who mar- ried the other sister, Catharine Carpender.
(II) John, fourth child of George and Eliz- abeth Carpender, born 1721, lived in Brooklyn, New York, and died 1793. He was buried in St. Ann's, Brooklyn, whence his remains were removed to Greenwood Cemetery. He married (first) Marcy Weaver; (second) Catharine Briant ; (third) March 6, 1772, Sarah Stout (died April 21, 1808) widow of James Tag- gart. Children by his third marriage: I. William, see below. 2. Sarah, married Lieu- tenant Colonel William Walton Morris. 3. Frances, married Captain Jacob Stout, who had before married her half-sister Elizabeth, daughter of John Carpender and Catharine Briant. 4. Ann, married (as his second wife) Arthur Breese, of Utica, New York.
(III) William, eldest child of John Car- pender by his third wife, Sarah Stout; born 1773, died 1816, and is buried in Belleville,
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New Jersey. He was a merchant. He mar- married Lucy Weston Grant, who died in 1845, and is buried in Shrewsbury, New Jer- sey. She was the daughter of Edward Butler Thomas and Catharine ( Walker) Grant, both of English birth; granddaughter of John and Martha ( Butler) Grant ; great-granddaughter of Rev. John Grant, canon of Exeter and arch- deacon of Barnstaple, England, by his wife, Elizabeth Weston (who was the daughter of Stephen Weston, bishop of Exeter) ; and great-great-granddaughter of Dr. John Grant, prebendary of Rochester, by his wife, Jane Colchester (who was a descendant of a sister of William of Wickham, founder of Winches- ter College, Chancellor of England, etc.).
(IV) Jacob Stout, son of William and Lucy Weston (Grant) Carpender, was born in Rum- son, Monmouth county, New Jersey, August 15, 1805. He was a merchant and banker in New York City, member of the stock exchange, and for many years secretary of the Atlantic Mutual Marine Insurance Company. Retiring from active business in 1852, he removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he resided for the remainder of his life, and where he died on September 22, 1882. He married, June 21, 1838, Catharine Neilson, born March 17, 1807, died September 21, 1888, daughter of Dr. John and Abigail (Bleecker) Neilson. Chil- dren and descendants of Jacob Stout and Cath- arine ( Neilson) Carpender, the fifth, sixth and seventh generations of this line of the Car- pender family in America :
I. Mary Noel Carpender, born in New York City, August 30, 1840, married, January 21, 1868, Francis Kerby Stevens, son of Henry Hewgill and Catharine Clarkson (Crosby) Stevens.
This branch of the Stevens family descends from Erasmus Stevens, one of the founders (1714) of the New North Church of Boston, Massachusetts. His son, Ebenezer Stevens, lived in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and married Elizabeth Weld, a descendant of Rev. Thomas Weld, one of the first nonconformist clergy- men to flee from England to Holland, who later emigrated to Massachusetts. They were the parents of the distinguished revolutionary patriot, General Ebenezer Stevens, born in Boston, May II, 175I (o. s.), died in New York City, September 22, 1823. (For an ac- count of his career see the very able mono- graph by his grandson, the late John Austin Stevens). He married (second) May 4, 1784, Lucretia Ledyard, daughter of Judge John Ledyard, of Hartford, Connecticut, and widow
of Richardson Sands. One of their children was Henry Hewgill Stevens, born in New York, February 28, 1797; merchant in that city ; died October 6, 1869. Married, Novem- ber 9, 1836, Catharine Clarkson Crosby, died February 6, 1882, daughter of William Bed- low Crosby, who was a grand-nephew of Henry Rutgers and Harriet Ashton Crosby.
Francis Kerby Stevens was born in New York City, August 18, 1839. For some years he was engaged in business in Poughkeepsie, New York, retiring from active life on account of ill health. He was an officer in the civil war (Twenty-third Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry), and was wounded at Chancellorsville. Died in Aiken, South Caro- lina, February 22, 1874. His widow resides in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Children: i. Henry Hewgill Stevens, born November 20, 1869; resides in Roselle, New Jersey; identi- fied with the Union Metallic Cartridge Com- pany of New York; married, June 27, 1901, Ethel Griffin, daughter of George W. Griffin. ii. William Carpender Stevens, born March 13, 1872, resides in New Brunswick. iii. Frances Noel Stevens, born January 13, 1874, resides in New Brunswick.
2. Lucy Helena Carpender, born in New York City, April 1, 1842, married, June 19, 1884, Rev. Charles Edward Hart, D. D., born February 28, 1838, in Freehold, New Jersey, only son of Walter Ward and Sarah (Bennett ) Hart. He is a descendant in the sixth genera- tion of Deacon Stephen Hart, who was one of the original proprietors and settlers of Hart- ford and Farmington, Connecticut (coming with the Rev. Thomas Hooker), through his son, Captain Thomas Hart. The father of Rev. Dr. Hart removed from Connecticut to Freehold, Monmouth county, New Jersey ; he was judge of the court of common pleas of that county, and identified with manufacturing interests. Sarah Bennett, mother of Dr. Hart, was the daughter of William H. Bennett, of Monmouth county, and descended from an old New Jersey family. Charles Edward Hart was graduated from Princeton College in 1858, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1861 ; in the latter year was called to the Mur- ray Hill Presbyterian Church, New York City, continuing there until June, 1880, when he became pastor of the North Reformed Dutch Church of Newark, New Jersey ; resigned that charge in 1880 to accept the chair of English Language and Literature in Rutgers College, which he retained until 1897; from 1897 to 1906 was professor of Ethics and the Evi-
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dences of Christianity in the same institution ; has since been professor emeritus of Ethics ; received the degree of D. D. from Rutgers in I880. Dr. and Mrs. Hart reside in New Brunswick.
3. William Carpender, born in New York City, January 30, 1844. He was long identi- fied with financial interests in New York. being until recently a member of the stock ex- change; resides in Massapequa, Long Island. He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, Union League Club, New York Yacht Club, and Saint Nicholas Society. He married, No- vember 26, 1878, Ella Floyd-Jones, daughter of William and Caroline (Blackwell) Floyd- Jones. i. Edith Carpender, born April 1, 1880, married, November 19, 1905, Edward H. Floyd Jones. ii. Noel Lispenard Carpender, born May 6, 1882, member of the New York stock exchange; resides in Massapequa, Long Island ; married, April 24, 1906, Isabel Gour- ley, daughter of John H. Gourley, and has one child, Isabel Floyd-Jones Carpender, born February 9, 1907. iii. Jeannie Floyd-Jones Carpender, born November 29, 1887. iv. Ella Floyd-Jones Carpender, born October 9, 1892.
4. John Neilson Carpender, born in New York City, November 4, 1845, received his early education in private schools and was graduated in 1866 from Rutgers College as Bachelor of Arts, the degree of Master of Arts being conferred on him in 1869. From the lat- ter year until 1879 he was a member of the New York stock exchange. In 1877 Mr. Car- pender became identified as treasurer with the Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Com- pany of New Brunswick, New Jersey, serving in that capacity until 1885; and he has since been president of the company. He is vice- president and member of the executive com- mittee of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers of the United States. As a citizen of New Brunswick he has always taken an active interest in the affairs of that com- munity. From 1878 to 1882 he was a mem- ber of the common council, and from 1880 to the present time has been the commissioner of the sinking fund. He is president of the John Wells Memorial Hospital, trustee of the Children's Industrial Home, director in the National Bank of New Jersey, and trustee of the New Brunswick Mutual Fire Insurance Company. A member of the Protestant Epis- copal church, he occupies several important official positions in that connection ; is trustee of the American Church Building Fund, presi- dent of the Church Club of the diocese of New
Jersey, and treasurer of the board of trustees of the Episcopal Fund of the diocese of New Jersey. His society and club memberships in- clude the Sons of the Revolution, Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa societies, and the Univer- sity Club and Saint Nicholas Society of New York. He married, in New York City, April 9, 1874, Anna Neilson Kemp, born in New York City, February 18, 1855, daughter of Alfred Francklin and Cecilia ( Neilson) Kemp. Her paternal grandparents were Henry Kemp, of county Kent, England, and Susanne Ur- sula Penelope de la Bruyere, of Huguenot ancestry. Her father, Alfred Francklin Kemp, was born September 12, 1817, in county Kent, England, came to America in early life, and died on Staten Island, September, 1873; mar- ried, May 18, 1852, Cecilia Neilson, daughter of William Neilson, of New York City, and Hannah Coles. Children: i. John Neilson Carpender, born January 16, 1875, graduated at Rutgers, 1897; in mercantile business in New York; resides in New Brunswick. ii. Catharine Neilson Carpender, born December 7, 1876, married, November 26, 1901, Frank- lin Duane, son of Rev. Richard Bache Duane and Margaret Ann Tams, and a descendant of Benjamin Franklin ; they reside in Baltimore ; their children are Howard Duane, born Octo- ber 23, 1902, and Margaret Franklin Duane, born June 7, 1904. iii. Alfred Cecil Carpen- der, born November 27, 1878, died November 10, 1894. iv. Anna Kemp Carpender, born March 15, 1880. v. Henry de la Bruyere Car- pender, born May 15, 1882, resides in New Brunswick; in business in New York. vi. Arthur Schuyler Carpender, born October 24, 1884, officer in the United States navy. vii. William Carpender, 2d, born October 29, 1888, student in Rutgers College.
5. Charles Johnson Carpender, born in New York City, October 31, 1847, was educated under private instructors. In 1870 he organ- ized, with John Nicholson, the firm of Nichol- son & Carpender, and embarked in the manu- facture of wall paper in New Brunswick. Upon the retirement of Mr. Nicholson in 1872 Mr. Carpender established with Colonel Jacob J. Janeway the new co-partnership of Jane- way & Carpender, from which he withdrew in 1888, the firm having since been continued by Colonel Janeway under the original style. Mr. Carpender has always resided in New Bruns- wick. He is a director of various industrial and other corporations, and is a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Saint Nich- olas Society. He married, June 9, 1875, Alice
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Brown Robinson, born November 10, 1850, daughter of Edwin and Frances ( Brown) Robinson. Edwin Robinson, born July 30, 1807, died August 14, 1863, was of Richmond, Virginia, son of John Robinson, and descend- ed from an old Virginia family, related to the Beverly Robinsons of Staten Island and also to the Canadian Robinsons. (See Hayden's Genealogies). He married, October 6, 1836, Frances Brown, of Bedford county, Virginia.
Issue of Charles Johnson and Alice Brown (Robinson) Carpender : i. Alice Haxall Car- pender, born September 5, 1876, married, Oc- tober 30, 1901, Gustavus Abeel Hall, son of John A., of Trenton, New Jersey, and Anna (Abeel) Hall; they now reside in Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Hall is in charge of the inter- ests of the Roebling Company; their children are John Alexander Hall, born November 4, 1902, Charles Carpender Hall, born May 29, 1906, and Abeel Neilson Hall, born July 23, 1907, died April 30, 1909. ii. Charles Johnson Carpender, Jr., born June 6, 1878, resides in New Brunswick; engaged in the chemical industry at Little Falls, New Jersey. iii. Kath- arine Neilson Carpender, born January 2, 1881, died June 29, 1881. iv. and v. twins, born June 17, 1882, Moncure Conway Car- pender, mechanical and electrical engineer at Plattsburg, New York, and Edwin Robinson Carpender, resides in New Brunswick. vi. Sydney Bleecker Carpender, born November 24, 1884, refrigerating engineer in New Bruns- wick.
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LEVIS The first Levis of whom we have any definite knowledge is Philippe I., Seigneur de Lévis, who lived in the twelfth century. The most ancient docu- ment in which he is mentioned is dated Febru- ary 5, 1181, and is signed by him and his wife, Elizabeth. In the year 1200 he assisted in making a treaty of peace between the Kings of England and France. He died in 1204-05. His wife was still living in 1210, but the date of her death is not known. They had five chil- dren-Milon, Gui, Philippe, Alexander and Simon. The second of these, Gui de Levis I., married Guiburge, sister of Simon de Mont- fort, Earl of Leicester. His great-granddaugh- ter. Jeanne (daughter of Gui de Levis III.), married Philippe de Montfort II., a descendant of a brother of Simon de Montfort. There is much evidence of the close relationship of the two families.
The history of the French family is well known, but it is not known when the first Levis
went to England. It is probable, however, that it was during this relationship, as not only was Simon de Montfort a person of great rank, influence and power and naturally gathered about him many of his compatriots, but many of the French settled in England during this period. The first known English record of the family is in the parish register of Beeston, near Nottingham, dated 1558. It is to be noted that Beeston is in the district which was under the influence of Simon de Montfort. The earli- est parish register in England began in 1538. There are earlier dates entered in some of them, but no registers existed until the year mentioned, so they must have been inserted afterward.
The Beeston records began in 1558, and in this first year there is an entry as follows: "1558 Robt. Levis was buryed " At the bottom of the second page of the earliest registry book (1558) belonging to Beeston parish church in the county of Nottingham, the name of "Rich. Levis occurs as one of the churchwardens," and continues on the pages up to the year 1599. Altogether there are one hundred and two entries in the name of Levis, the last being dated January 27, 1768. The last one we are interested in is the baptism of Christopher Levis, September 20, 1621, it being the fifty-fourth Levis entry.
The following wills and administrations relating to the Levis family of Beeston are entered in the York Probate Registry prior to 1652, Nottinghamshire being in the ecclesias- tical district of York.
I. 1580-Christopher Levice, of Beeston- Administration.
2. 1585-Mary Levise, of Alswortha-Will.
3. 1613-Richard Levis, of Beeston-Will.
4. 1616-Christopher Levis, of Beeston- Will.
5. 1616-Richard Levis, of Beeston-Will. 6. 1620-Edwarde Levis, of Beeston-Will.
7. 1638-Edward Levis, of Saxondale-Will.
Of these numbers one and three are the only ones connected with the direct line we are considering, but all have been helpful in establishing the facts. The most interesting will is that of Christopher Levis, who died at Harby, Leicestershire, in 1677. It is dated October 19, 1677, and was admitted to probate December 31, 1677, in the district registry at Leicester. The original will and inventory are still on file and were recently examined by Mr. Howard C. Levis, formerly of Mt. Holly, New Jersey, but now of London.
The exact relationship of Robert Levis men-
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tioned in the table with the others which follow is not known. The Richard who was church- warden is not mentioned in the table as he is not in the direct line, and it is not certain that the Christopher who was buried in 1580 was the son of the Edward who was buried in 1564. This, however, is of no importance as unques- tionably the persons with the name of Levis in this small parish were of the same family. It is also to be noted that Harby in Leicester- shire, where a Christopher Levis died in 1677, is not many miles distant from Beeston. Whether Christopher or his father, Richard, was the first to leave Beeston for Harby is not known, but it was probably the father, as his death is not recorded at Beeston. The early records of Harby parish are not in existence, and in any event would be of little value to us, as Christopher had become a Quaker and there- fore nothing would be recorded in the parish registers.
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