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(VII) John Clement Jr., son of John Cle- ment (I) and Kezia (Clement) Hopkins, was born near Haddonfield, now Collinswood, Au- gust 23, 1861, and is now living in Moorestown, Burlington county. He was educated in the select schools of Haddonfield, Friends' high school, Moorestown; Race Street Friends' School in Philadelphia, and Pierce's Com- mercial College. He then went into the mill business with his father, at eighteen years of age, and has been engaged in that ever since, and now that his father has retired he has en- tire charge and control of the business. He is a member of the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia. In 1889 he married Clara A.,
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daughter of Henry and Margaret Burr, of Vincentown, and has two children, both born in Moorestown : Margaret and John Irick.
The township of Sputhold, REEVES Long Island, embraces the shorter of the two long and narrow peninsulas that form the extreme eastern end of that island. Its average width is less than three miles at high water, and its length twenty-two miles. The first settlement by Europeans was made in 1639-40 by settlers of English birth and characteristics. The pre- served records of the town of Southold begin with 1651. Before that date we have only clouded and questionable recollections handed down by family memory. In the burial ground of the first church, one of the oldest in the island, are found graves of the early settlers by the name of Reeve, which give a bit of genealogical data: I. "Here lyes ye body of Nathan Reeve, son to John and Martha Reeve, aged twenty-two years five months and eleven days. Dec'd March ye 1, 1724". 2. "In Mmory of Martha ye wife of Mr. John Reeve, who died May 16th, 1762, in the 87th year of her age". 3. An old and somewhat obliterated inscription : "Here lyeth ye body of W Reve who d in the 49 yea of his age, dyed April ye 29, 1697. 4. "In memory of Mr. Samuel Reeve, who departed this life April 15, A. D. 1769, aged sixty-three years, three months and twenty-two days". Joshua and Mary Reve buried five young children : Ketyry died Octo- ber 3, 1772; Abigail, October 7, 1772; Mary, October 8, 1772; Benjamin, October 23, 1772, and Mary April 1, 1764. Another stone records: "Here lyes the body of Mr. Joseph Reeve Aged eighty years Dec'd April ye 22nd 1736, and "Here Lyss ye body of Mrs. Eliza- beth Reve, wife of Mr. William Reeve who died January 3rd, 1738-9 in ye 40 year of her Age.
John Reeve, of Southold, was probably in the same generation with Walter Reeve, a colonist of West Jersey, who came to that province some time prior to 1682 and settled in Burlington county. He probably came from Southold, Long Island, a member of the Reeve family who came from England to Southold about 1650. John and Martha Reeve of Southold had sons: John, Elisha, Walter, Samuel and Jonathan, all names common to the names in the family of Walter Reeve of Burlington county (q. v.).
(I) Walter Reeve, a native of England, is found in Burlington county, New Jersey, be-
fore 1682. He was the owner of a farm on Rancocas creek, which he purchased from Daniel and Mordecai Howell in 1688, and was living on the homestead which he estab- lished and occupied up to the time of his death in 1698. Walter Reeve, besides carrying on a farm, engaged in trade with foreign ports, as he shipped an invoice of "cheese, flour and beef" to John Britt, a merchant of the island of Barbadoes, West Indies, April 3, 1691. (New Jersey Archives). He owned at the
time of his death two plantations or farms, one of one hundred-sixty and one of two hun- dred acres. He had children by both his first and second wives. The name of his first wife is not preserved, but by this wife, he had probably : I. John, (q. v). 2. Susanna. 3. William, born in England, or Southold, Long Island, and came with his father and family to Burlington county, New Jersey, before 1682 ; he was a farmer, and probably a man of fam- ily at the time of his father's death, and had charge of one of the farms left by his father. William's children as far as any records exist, were: i. Samuel, named in will of his uncle Samuel, the youngest child of Walter, the im- migrant. ii. Elizabeth, licensed January 12, 1736, to marry Isaac Atkinson. iii. William, born about 1716, married Sarah , who survived him; he died July 24, 1763. iv. Jo- seph, born on his father's farm on Rancocas creek, New Jersey, about 1720 ; married Jane who survived him ; in his will, August 26, 1767, proved September 26 same year, all his children are married except Jane, whose tombstone is in St. Andrew's burying-ground, Mount Holly, on which is stated her parentage. The children of Joseph and Jane Reeves (the name then taking on the final s), were born in Burlington county, New Jersey, as follows: I. John, August 1, 1740, died Febru- ary 26, 1800; married Mrs. Sarah (Reeves) Paterson (his cousin) who was born March 4, 1737 and died April 6, 1807. 2. Henry, June 27, 1749; died November 23, 1840: married February 8, 1772, Hannah, daughter of Ben- jamin and Dorothy Furness, who was born May 15, 1753, and died November 17, 1824. 3. Joseph, born 1753; died October 26, 1801; married, license dated August 8, 1782, Eliza- beth Toy, born 1757, died May 17, 1830. 4. Abraham ( 1764-1838). 5. Meribah, married Edward Lenthicum, marriage license dated September 20, 1783. 6. Jane, 1764, died June 14, 1783; married July 18, 1782, James Cop- puck. Walter Reeves, progenitor of the Bur- lington family of Reeves, in will made May
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16, 1698, proved June 18, 1698, names his wife Anne and all his children then of age, omitting the names of the children by his second wife, then infants in the language of the law. His widow made her will September 23, 1732, and it was proved July 31, 1733, she having sur- vived her husband nearly forty years. The
children by this marriage were: 5. Walter, born about 1684, married Ann ; died March 21, 1754. 6. Jonathan, made his will March 18, 1724-26, in which he names his wife Mary, his brother Walter, his cousins Esther and Solomon Curtis ; Matthew Hewlings "son of his wife," who at the time of her marriage to the testator was the Widow Hewlings. 7. Elisha. 8. Caleb, died before May 8, 1753. 9. Samuel, married Mary Hill, license granted by Friends' meeting, January 2, 1735. In his will, dated October 2, 1737, he names his wife Mary and "Samuel, son of my brother Will- iam" as his legatees.
(II) John, eldest son of Walter, the pro- genitor of the Reeve family in Burlington county, New Jersey, was born probably in England, and came with his father and mother to Southold, Long Island, or he may have been born in Southold. He went with his father and the other children born in Southold to Burlington county, New Jersey, where he re- sided on his father's farm and was granted the right to keep a ferry between Burlington and Philadelphia in 1704, by Governor Corn- bury, the ferry privilege being among the most valuable franchises in the gift of the colonial governor. This ferry was an open boat with sails, and rates for passengers and freight fixed by his franchise, and there is no record of his departure from the strict terms of the contract, which was a monopoly, and many jealous and watchful eyes were upon him, anxious for a breach. He owned large landed estates in Burlington county, and was, as were the family at the time, members of the Estab- lished Church and attendants of that church in Burlington. It is believed that he died in Bur- lington, but may have died at the home of one of his sons who removed to Gloucester county. In an inventory of his estate, dated November 8, 1748, he is styled "late of Bur- lington county." His estate was appraised at over 1300 pounds, which made him among the very wealthy men of his time. He is styled in a deed executed by his son, Thomas Reeves, of Deptford township, Gloucester county, New Jersey, "son and heir at law of Walter Reeve." He was mar- ried in Burlington county, at the house of
Thomas Revell, Esqr., a noted surveyor, on July 22, 1695, to Ann Bradgate, and they had three sons born of the marriage, and possibly other children. Their sons were: I. Thomas, as eldest son the heir to his estate, born about 1700, in Burlington county. He lived in Well- ingborough, where he owned large estates and was a well-to-do farmer. In 1734 he conveyed two large tracts of land to Thomas Wetherell, and removed to Deptford township, Gloucester county, where he died December 2, 1789, aged eighty years. 2. Henry (q. v.). 3. Abraham, married Susan Bryant; children: Henry, James, William, Hannah ; Charlotte and Exer- cise.
(III) Henry, second son of John and Ann (Bradgate) Reeves, was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, about 1702, and died in Gloucester county, New Jersey, in 1745 or early in 1746. He was brought up as a farmer. He obtained a license to marry Abigail, daugh- ter of James and Abigail (Lippincott) Shinn, February 26, 1728, and they removed to Glou- cester county, where he purchased two hun- dred acres of land from George Ward. His will was dated October 24, 1745, and proved January 20, 1766, at which time his six chil- dren were all under age, and his wife and his brother Thomas Reeves were made executors. Children of Henry and Abigail (Shinn) Reeves, born in Gloucester county: I. Hope, married Joseph Haines, of Burlington, license granted November 2, 1748. 2. James. 3. Ann. 4. Abraham, born about 1748; probably the Abraham Reeves licensed to marry Mary Ward, license dated February 24, 1769. 5. Henry (q. v.). 6. Mary.
(IV) Henry, third son and fifth child of Henry and Abigail (Shinn) Reeves, was born in Gloucester county, New Jersey, December 31, 1742, died in Northumberland township, Burlington county, New Jersey, April 2, 1809. He was a farmer in Northampton township, Burlington county, New Jersey ; was a mem- ber of the Mount Holly Meeting, Society of Friends. He was licensed by the meeting. March 2, 1765, to marry Rachel, daughter of David and Ruth (Silver) Jess, and grand- daughter of Zechariah and Rachel (Lippin- cott) Jess, and of Archibald and Mary (Cog- hill) Silver. Children of Henry and Rachel (Jess) Reeves, born in Northampton town- ship: I. Isaiah, January 27, 1766, died March 16, 1851 ; married Tabitha Maulsbury, Decem- ber 6, 1795 ; children : Benjamin, Abigail, Allen, Rebecca, Clayton, Barzillia, Zechariah, Ed- mund N. and William W. Reeves. 2. Joel, Oc-
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tober 14, 1767 ; married Hannah Gaskill; died September 12, 1840. 3. Abigail, March 2, 1770, married Samuel Rogers; died February 21, 1849. 4. Eli, March 9, 1773; married, June IO, 1798, Amy Carty ; died. June 5, 1818; no children. 5. Sorepta, January. 17, 1774; mar- ried May 13, 1801, buried January 17, 1849, had one daughter. 6. Mary, February 29, 1776; married November 12, 1800, Isaac Carr ; died 1857 ; had children. 7. Abraham (q. v.). 8. Rachel, June 8, 1781, died May 8, 1782. 9. Henry, March 7, 1783 ; married September 20, 1804, Mary Rokestraw, died December 19, 1831. 10. David, August 2, 1786; married De- cember 23, 1807, Grace Renaer, died December II, 1840. II. Zechariah, January 2, 1789; married Sarah T. Coles, died January 27, 1854. 12. Ann, February 19, 1791, died October I, 1870. 13. Rachel, August 23, 1793, died March 9, 1830.
(V) Abraham, fourth son and seventh child of Henry and Rachel (Jess) Reeves, was born in Northumberland township, Burlington coun- ty, New Jersey, July 29, 1778, and died there February 3, 1836. He married ( first) January 13, 1803, Hope Stratton, who died July 30, 1819; (second) April 12, 1821, Mary Matlock, who died March 27, 1838. He was a farmer, and member of the Society of Friends. Chil- dren of Abraham and Hope Stratton Reeves, all born in Northampton township, Burling- ton county : I. Mary, December 5, 1803, died February 6, 1828. 2. Elwood, October 16, 1810; married (first) October 11, 1832, Eliza- beth Woolman, (second) Eliza Woolman. He died August 3, 1871. 3. Israel, April 16, 1814; married June 22, 1850. 4. Henry, August 21, 1816; married, November 30, 1848, Hannah Allen. Children of Abraham and Mary ( Mat- lock) Reeves. 5. Rebecca, February II, 1822 ; married July 4, 1855, Mordecai C. Haines. 6. Joseph, February 1, 1825 ; married May, 1855, Elizabeth Reeves. 7. Anna, September II, 1826; married August 2, 1849, John J. Lytle. 8. Stacy (q. v.). 9. Rachel, March 22, 1830; married July 4, 1849, Abraham C. Brown. 10. Mary, October 5, 1831 ; married, May 31, 1853, James Lasell.
(VI) Stacy, second son and fourth child of Abraham and Mary ( Matlock) Reeves, was born in Northampton township, Burling- ton county, New Jersey. He learned the trade of carpenter and builder, and established the firm of Stacy Reeves & Sons, 1611 Filbert street, Philadelphia, of which his sons Albert A., Mark B. and Henry became partners June 16, 1828, and died March 8, 1903. He married
Ann Satterthwaite, November, 1849. Chil- dren, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Al- bert A .; Mark B .; Rachel; Mary; Henry (q. v.).
(VII) Henry, third son and fifth child of Stacy and Ann (Satterthwaite) Reeves, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1861, and died April 22, 1910. He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and the academy at Media, Pennsylvania, 1874-76 ; learned the carpenter's trade, and be- came a partner with his father and two elder brothers, of the firm of Stacy Reeves & Sons, 1611 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. He was in- dependent of church creeds, but with his fam- ily he attended the Lutheran church. His polit- ical faith was that of the Republican party. He was made a member of the New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania by right of inheritance, and is treasurer of the organization. He was also a member and treasurer of the Master Builders Exchange of Philadelphia, and a member of the Carpenters Craft of that city. Many of the beautiful buildings of Philadelphia owe their beauty, stability and honest workmanship to the firm of Stacy Reeves & Sons. Henry Reeves married, September 10, 1884, Cath- erine S., daughter of Joseph Randlaw. She was born April 16, 1865, and by her marriage with Henry Reeves became the mother of four children born in Philadelphia as follows: I. Mabel Gertrude, January 17, 1887, who be- came a teacher. 2. Helen, September 24, 1889. 3. Edith, January 6, 1892. 4. Katharine, March 28, 1900.
DURAND Dr. John Durand, founder of the family of his name in New England and New Jersey, was born in La Rochelle, France, in 1667, and died in Derby, Connecticut, March 29, 1727. He was educated as a physician in the schools of France, but being a Huguenot, and still a young man when Louis XIV. revoked the Edict of Nantes, October 22, 1685, he determined to emigrate to the new world, and consequently came over to New York about 1694. After a short stay in that city he went to South Caro- lina, but soon returned, and after spending a few years in New Rochelle, Westchester coun- ty, New York, finally settled in Connecticut, going first, in 1696, to Milford, and later to Derby, where he died. He married, about 1698, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Bryan, who was baptized in November, 1685. Her mother is said by Savage to have been Eliza- beth Powell, but this is questioned by some
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authorities. She was living in 1756. Children : John, born November 10, 1700; Andrew ; Eliz- abeth, died in infancy ; Noah ; Joseph ; Samuel, referred to below; Abigail; Elizabeth; Mary; Ebenezer.
(II) Samuel, son of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Bryan) Durand, was born in Derby, Con- necticut, July 7, 1713, and died in Newark, New Jersey, January 27, 1787. He married Mary, supposed to have been the daughter of John and Mary (Tompkins) Bruen, of New- ark, although Mr. Frederick Beach, of Los Angeles, California, believes that she may pos- sibly have been Mary, daughter of Israel and Sarah (Barrett) Coe, and granddaughter of Stephen and Sarah (Nichols) Barrett. Chil- dren, the first three born in Derby, the others i11 Newark: Elizabeth; John, referred to below ; Hannah, Ezra, Elijah, Bryant, referred to below.
(III) John, son of Samuel and Mary ( Bruen or Coe) Durand, was born in Derby, Connecti- cut, July 16, 1745 or 1748, and died in Camp- town, or Jefferson village, then a part of Springfield township, Essex county, New Jer- sey. He married Rachel (Myers) Post. Chil- dren : Henry, referred to below ; Mary ; Lydia ; Cyrus, referred to below ; Elijah ; Isaac ; John ; Asher Brown, referred to below; John ; Eliza- beth.
(IV) Henry, son of John and Rachel (Myers-Post) Durand, was born in Camp- town, New Jersey, November 2, 1780. He married Electa Baldwin. Children: William, born April 14, 1806, died September 26, 1822, unmarried ; Rachel, born July 14, 1808, died September 26, 1822, unmarried; Theodore, born July 26, 1810, died March 3, 1837 ; James M., referred to below; Cornelia, born Febru- ary 22, 1816; George, May 4, 1819, died Sep- tember 22, 1822; Lydia, born July 30, 1823, married John Crawford; William, born Sep- tember 2, 1828.
(V) James M., son of Henry and Electa (Baldwin) Durand, was born in Camptown, New Jersey, March 23, 1813. He married Sarah A. Carroll. Children : Henry ; Wick- liffe Baldwin, referred to below; Wallace ; Frank ; Celia ; Sarah.
(VI) Wickliffe Baldwin, son of James M. and Sarah A. (Carroll) Durand, was born about 1840, and died in Newark, New Jersey, December 15, 1906. He married Jane A. Taylor. Children : Henry, referred to below ; Jane A .; Grace, married H. B. Dorrance; Marie Louise, married Charles M. Echeverria ; Beatrice.
(VII) Henry, son of Wickliffe Baldwin and Jane A. (Taylor) Durand, was born in New- ark, New Jersey, December 24, 1865, and is now living in that city. He received his early education from a private school and graduated from the Newark Academy in 1882. He then entered the firm of Durand & Company, manu- facturing jewelers, and rose step by step in their employ until 1903, when he became secre- tary and treasurer of the corporation. He is a Republican in politics, and a communicant of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Newark. He is a member of the Essex Club and of the Essex County Country Club; and besides a director of Wilkinson, Gaddis & Company, is a director of the Merchants National Bank of Newark, and of the Irvington National Bank, and president of the Irvington Building and Loan Association, and secretary of the Manu- facturing Jewelers Association of Newark. He married, in St. Stephen's Church, Newark, November 4, 1891, Blanche Earl, daughter of Elias Ackerson and Alice Blanche ( Earl) Wil- kinson (see Wilkinson). Children: Prudence Earl, born November 8, 1892; Henry (2), January 30, 1898; Elias Robert, June 14, 1902.
(IV) Cyrus, son of John and Rachel ( Myers- Post) Durand, was born in Camptown, New Jersey, July 27, 1787, and died in Newark, in 1868. He was for the most part self-educated, and at fourteen years of age began making sleeve buttons and finger rings in his father's shop. He next learnt the trade of silversmith, and when nineteen years old took up the clock- making trade and invented his first machine. Under the advice of John Taylor he turned his attention to lathes for turning brass and iron work, and the present high character of our banknote engraving is mainly due to his inventions, and it may truly be said that he was, when in prime of life, the "inventive genius, the mechanical brains, of Newark." When he died he was master of twenty-four different occupations. He married, August 16, 1822, Phebe, daughter of Elias Wade, who was born November 15, 1791, and died in De- cember, 1891, over one hundred years old. Children : Susan ; Albert ; Jane; Elias W., the distinguished engraver, landscape painter, and fruitgrower ; Juliette ;. Beswick ; Cyrus B.
(IV) Asher Brown, son of John and Rachel (Myers-Post) Durand, was born in Camptown, New Jersey, August 21, 1796, and died in Maplewood, same county, September 17, 1886. He received his first lessons in engraving in his father's workshop, cutting monograms. In 1812 he was apprenticed to Peter Maverick,
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a11 engraver of New York City, and four years later became a member of the firm. His first original work was "The Begger," after a painting by Samuel Waldo, and he was the en- graver of what is probably the best known en- graving in the United States-John Trum- bull's celebrated painting, the "Declaration of Independence." He contributed many engrav- ings to the "annuals" of his day, and also many heads for the National Portrait Gallery. In 1836 he took up landscape painting, and Rob- ert W. Weir calls him "one of fathers of American Landscape." Some of his paintings now hang in the Corcoran Gallery, Washing- ton, D. C .; and a number were exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in 1876. In 1826 he was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design and, from 1845 to 1861 its president. He married (first), Lucy Bald- win, of Bloomfield; (second) Mary Frank, of New York. Children, three by first marriage : John, Caroline, Lucy, Frederick F., Asher, Eugene H.
(III) Bryant, son of Samuel and Mary (Bruen or Coe) Durand, was born in New- ark, New Jersey, April 26, 1753, and died in Camptown, New Jersey, September 21, 1808. He married Prudence, daughter of Caleb and Hannah Brown, of Connecticut Farms. Chil- dren : Caleb Brown, born 1776, married widow Hannah Brown, of South Orange; Hannah, born 1779; Samuel, referred to below; Isaac, born 1786, married Phebe Brown; Daniel, born 1789; Josiah, born 1792; Phebe, born 1795.
(IV) Samuel, son of Bryant and Prudence (Brown) Durand, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, November 1, 1782, and died April 2, 1871. His wife's name is unknown. Chil- dren: Oliver, referred to below; Mary, or Polly.
(V) Oliver, son of Samuel Durand, mar- ried Mary Edwards. Children: Oscar, re- ferred to below; Harriet.
(VI) Oscar, son of Oliver and Mary (Ed- wards) Durand, was born in 1834, and died February 4, 1899. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Gershom and Nellie Bernart. Chil- dren : Katharine J .; Frank, referred to below ; Sarah Bernart.
(VII) Frank, son of Oscar and Elizabeth (Bernart) Durand, was born in Chatham, Morris county, New Jersey, April 8, 1861, and is now living at Manasquan, Monmouth coun- ty. He received his education in the public schools of Elizabeth and Long Branch, New Jersey, and then began reading law in the latter town with Hon. John E. Lanning, and was
admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in June, 1882, and as counsellor in February, 1887. Since then he has been engaged in the general practice of his profession in Asbury Park, New Jersey. For sixteen years he was in partnership with John F. Hawkins, Esq., the firm name being Hawkins & Durand, and after the dissolving of this partnership he prac- ticed alone until 1907, when the present firm of Durand, Ivins & Carton, consisting of Mr. Durand, Charles H. Ivins and James D. Car- ton, was formed. Mr. Durand is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He married, in Perry, Georgia, June 6, 1894, Florence Eliza, daughter of Lyman and Mary Elizabeth (Boynton) Bates, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, May 19, 1869, and died October 28, 1909. Children : Frank (2), born March 9, 1895 ; Walter Bates, July 1, 1896; Mary Elizabeth, October 23, 1902. Children of Lyman and Mary Eliza- beth (Boynton) Bates : Walter, married Nelly Page; Florence Eliza, referred to above Edith S.
ULMER George B. Ulmer, of Moores- town, New Jersey, is a descend- ant of an old Pennsylvania fam- ily that were landowners in that state for sev- eral generations. His great-grandparents were Frederick and Margaret Ulmer, of Pennsyl- vania. Another branch of the family, taken from the "History of Thomaston, Maine," consisted of three brothers-Captain John Ulmer, born in Germany, 1736, was brought to Waldoboro, Maine, 1740, married Catharine Remilly, died in August, 1800; Captain Philip M. Ulmer, an American general; and George Ulmer, born 1755, died January, 1826; settled at Ducktrap, Maine; was a soldier of the revolution, major-general of Sixth Division of militia, sheriff of Hancock county, senator of Massachusetts and Maine.
(II) George, son of Frederick and Mar- garet Ulmer, was born June 4, 1790, died in the year 1840. He was a resident of German- town, Pennsylvania. He was a shoe manufac- turer, and employed what was then a large force of journeymen-seventeen. There being no machinery for making shoes in those days, these men were really shoemakers, each be- ginning and finishing a shoe. In addition to his business Mr. Ulmer owned and conducted a large farm in Germantown. He married, in 1811, Mary Magdaline Knoop, born No- vember 19, 1790, daughter of Philip and Eliz- abeth Knoop. Children: Albert, George B .;
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Mary Magdaline, born March 21, 1820, widow of John Graham (she is the only surviving member of this family), Melinda, Elizabeth Catherine, Margaret, Susanna and Sarah.
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