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(V) Stephen, son of Anthony and Sarah (Cranmer) Morris, was born 2 mo. 20, 1747, and died at Burlington, New Jersey, October I, 1818. He lived at various times in Burling- ton and Evesham, New Jersey, and was re- membered by his grandson, John Morris, "as. a stately, kindly old gentleman." He married, in October or November, 1770, Bathsheba, daughter of David and Ruth (Silver) Jess, who died May 4, 1834, at Burlington. ( See Jess). Children: I. Jesse, died young. 2. Ruth, born about 1774; died unmarried, and' buried at Burlington, March 17, 1851. 3. Sarah, married Thomas Pancoast. 4. David,. married Elizabeth (Burden) Knight. 5. Mary, born December 1, 1780; died June 16, 1845; married, December 19, 1811, Samuel Butcher. 6. John, born December 3, 1782 ; married, De- cember 24, 1812, Prudence Butcher. 7. Ste- phen, referred to below.
(VI) Stephen, son of Stephen (I) and Bath- sheba (Jess) Morris, was born August 30,
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1788, and died December 25, 1831. He mar- ried, August 15, 1812, Elizabeth, daughter of Job Coles, who was born October 19, 1785, and died May 3, 1841. Children: I. John, born May 8, 1814; died June 1I, 1893 ; mar- ried, May 13, 1838, Mary Katz. 2. Rebecca Wright, born November 16, 1816; died May 28, 1894; married, February, 1859, Charles Delany. 3. Samuel Coles, born August 21, 1818; died July 20, 1860; married ( first ) July 16, 1839, Eliza Harris Johnson; (second), March 14, 1847, Justina Quick. 4. Drusilla Coles, referred to below. 5. Stephen, born April 14, 1823; died February 14, 1889 ; mar- ried, October 31, 1847, Artemisia Curtis. 6. Elizabeth Pancoast, born July 29, 1825; died January 27, 1889; married (first) December 20, 1847, Mary Hutchinson Hoy; (second ),, November 1, 1875, Elizabeth Childs. 7. Eliza- beth Coles, born August 20, 1829; died Sep- tember 21, 1829. 8. Charles Coles, born Au- gust 20, 1829 ; died September 16, 1829.
(VII) Drusilla Coles, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Coles) Morris, was born April 13, 1820, and died October 21, 1900. She married, October 10, 1842, Robert Taylor, son of George and Ann (Ware) Fry, referred to above.
(The Jess Line).
Zachariah Jess, the founder of this family in New Jersey, was probably of English origin. The first authentic record of him is April II, 1709, when he witnessed the will of John Mills, of Chesterfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey. He settled permanently in Spring- field, Hanover township, in the same county, and as a minister among Friends travelled throughout Long Island and New England in 1713 and 1721 ; and his testimonial recorded after his death on the Chesterfield monthly meeting books says he did so "to good satis- faction, and was respected at home; and died in unity with Friends in the Sixth month 1724." He married, January II, 1713 or 1714, Rachel, daughter of Restore and Hannah (Shattock) Lippincott (see Lippincott). She married (second), November 19, 1729, Fran- cis Dawson, of Northampton township, Bur- lington county, New Jersey, by whom she had no issue. Children : David, referred to below ; Zachariah, married, 1750, Hannah Southwick ; Jonathan; Ann, married, November 2, 1743. Caleb Shreve.
(II) .David, son of Zachariah and Rachel (Lippincott) Jess, was born in Burlington coun- ty, New Jersey. The dates of his birth and
death are unknown. According to a not un- common practice of his day he probably divid- ed his estate among his children during his lifetime. He married, at Mount Holly monthly meeting, January 31, 1741-2, Ruth, daughter of Archibald Jr. and Mary (Cowgill) Silver. Children : Rachel, born May 1, 1746, died De- cember 4, 1810, married, March, 1765, Henry Reeves ; Bathsheba, referred to below ; David, married Ann Thackary; Zachariah, married Rebecca Pedrick : James, married Keziah Leeds. (III) Bathsheba, daughter of David and Ruth (Silver) Jess, died in Burlington, New Jersey, May 4, 1834. She married, in Octo- ber or November, 1770, Stephen, son of An- thony and Sarah (Cranmer ) Morris, referred to above.
GROSVENOR The first to bear the name Grosvenor was a captain- general of William the Conqueror, known as Hughlufas. He was the owner of a castle in Normandy, Castle Gros- venor, or the castle of the great hunter. Hugh- lufas, on becoming the owner of the castle added the surname to his own name and there- after was Hughlufas Grosvenor, and it was adopted by his posterity. He was honored with a coat-of-arms, and the motto emblazoned on the shield is "Nobilitatus vertus non stamma charactu." His direct descendant, who was the first of the name to make a home in Amer- ica, was John Grosvenor (q. v.).
(I) John Grosvenor came from England and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay colony, as early as 1673. He was one of the proprietors of the "Masha Maquet Purchase," which became the home of some of his chil- dren, and which after 1703 was known as Pom- fret, in the colony of Connecticut. John Gros- venor was a tanner by trade and occupation and served the town of Roxbury as constable. He was married, about 1671, to Esther Cook, and their children were born in Roxbury, Mass- achusetts, as follows: I. William, baptized in French church at Roxbury. by John Eliot, the minister of the church and the apostle to the Indians, October 14, 1673 ; graduated at Har- vard College A. B. 1693, A. M. 1696. 2. John, born April 6, 1675; killed by Indians on his farm on the frontier, July 22, 1709. 3. Leices- ter, born 1676; died September 8, 1759. 4. Susanna, born December 13, 1680. 5. Eben- ezer (q. v.). 6. Thomas, born June 30, 1687. 7. Joseph, born September 1, 1689. John, the immigrant, died in Roxbury. September 27.
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1691, and his widow, Esther (Cook) Gros- venor, died in Pomfret, Connecticut colony, June 15, 1738.
(II) Ebenezer, fourth son and sixth child of John and Esther (Clark) Grosvenor, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, October 9, 1684. He married Ann Marcy, about 1707, and removed to the Masha Maquet Purchase and became an original proprietor of the town of Pomfret, Connecticut, which was the name given to the purchase in 1703. The children of Ebenezer and Esther (Clark) Grosvenor were all born in Pomfret, Connecticut, as fol- lows : I. Susanna, October 31, 1708. 2. John, May 22, 17II. 3. Ebenezer, December 24, 1713; married Lucy Cheney ; children: Eben- ezer, born about 1740, Yale College, A. B. 1759, A. M. 1762, and A. M. (honorary) Harvard, 1763, was a minister of the gospel, and died in 1778; Elizabeth ; Daniel, born about 1750, Yale A. B. 1769, A. M. 1772, became a minister of the gospel and received honorary degree of A: M. from Dartmouth College in 1792, he died in 1834; Lemuel; Ezra; Chole ; Nathan. 4. Caleb, May 15, 1716. 5. Joshua (q. v.). 6. Moses. 7. Ann, September 24, 1724. 8. Penelope.
(III) Joshua, fourth son and fifth child of Ebenezer and Ann (Marcy) Grosvenor, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, about 1718. He married and had a son Josiah (q. v.).
(IV) Joshua, eldest son of Joshua, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, about 1745. He mar- ried, and his son was named Robert (q. v.).
(V) Robert, son of Joshua Grosvenor, of Pomfret, Connecticut, was born August 20, 1772, and died October 20, 1849. He married Abilene Howe, born March 28, 1775 : died Au- gust 10, 1796, and they had one child, Robert Howe (q. v.). Dr. Robert Grosvenor studied medicine with Dr. Warren and Dr. Jonathan Hall, of Pomfret, Connecticut, and he was licensed to practice in 1792, when only twenty years of age. He settled on Killingly Hill and practiced in the surrounding country for fifty- five consecutive years. He was a physician of the old school and adhered to the heroic medi- cal practice of blood-letting and a rigid course of calomel. He added to his duties as medical practitioner that of manufacturer, and was also considered a shrewd and successful financier. He was one of the proprietors of the Howe Cotton Factory. He was a member of the committee in building the meetinghouse at Killingly, of which he was a member, and was prominent in public affairs, besides being the oracle in most of the households in a large sec-
tion of the country. His wife, Abeline, eldest child of Sampson and Huldah (Davis) Howe, was born March 25, 1775, was of the sixth gen- eration from William Davis, the immigrant of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1642, through Huldah (Davis) Howe (5), David Davis (4), Samuel (3), John (2), to William (I), the immigrant. (VI) Robert Howe, only child of Dr. Rob- ert and Abilene (Howe) Grosvenor, was born in Killingly, Connecticut, April 26, 1796. He married Lucretia Hartshorn.
(VII) Samuel Howe, only child of Rob- ert Howe and Lucretia (Hartshorn) Gros- venor, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, in 1833. He married (first) Ursula Walcott Noyes ; children : Sarah Elizabeth, Ellen Gurley and Hannah Eli. These children did not marry. His wife, Ursula Walcott (Noyes ) Grosvenor died, and May 20, 1862, he married (second) Maria Stricker, daughter of Archi- bald and Hannah ( Wheat) Mercer. She was born January 2, 1827, and by her he had: 4. William Mercer (q. v.). 5. Gertrude Mercer, born October 20, 1865. 6. Maria Ursula, Au- gust II, 1867. Archibald Mercer, the grand- father of these children, was born December I, 1788, and died October 3, 1850. Their grandmother, Harriet (Wheat) Mercer, died February 20, 1854. Their great-grandfather was Archibald Mercer, and their great-great- grandfather was William Mercer.
(VIII) William Mercer, eldest son andfourth child of Samuel Howe, and first child of his second wife, Maria Stricker (Mercer) Gros- venor, was born in New London, Connecticut, June 23, 1863. He was prepared for college by private tutors and was graduated at Will- iams College, A. B. 1885, and at Berkeley Di- vinity School, Middletown, Connecticut, 1888, and received his degree of D. D. from the Uni- versity of New York in 1905. True to the traditions of the family that the professions of medicine and theology were their inherited right, he was admitted to the diaconate of the Protestant Episcopal church through the order conferred on him by Right Rev. John Will- iams, bishop of Connecticut, in 1888, and he was advanced to the priesthood by Right Rev. Abram Newkirk Littlejohn, bishop of Long Island, in 1889. His first official charge was that of assistant minister of Grace Church, Brooklyn, New York, where he served 1888- 90. In 1890 he was called to Trinity Church, Lenox, Massachusetts, where he was rector 1890-95. In 1895 the wardens and vestrymen of the Church of the Incarnation, New York City, asked him to serve that parish as rector,
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and he assumed the office with all its respon- sibilities in 1895, and in 1909 he was still at his post, and with his vicars and other assistants was doing a great work in caring not only for his large congregation on Park avenue, but as well or even better, caring for the poorer classes crowded into the tenement district on the east side above Thirty-fourth street, where the institutional work which he inaugurated and directed was productive of great good in uplifting and encouraging to a better life a worthy class in need of just such ministration. He was made president of the standing com- mittee of the Diocese of New York to the gen- eral convention; trustee of Barnard College for Women, connected with Columbia Uni- versity ; trustee of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City; trustee of the General Theological Seminary, New York City ; trustee of Trinity School, New York City ; and trustee of the Seaman's Institute, New York City. His college fraternity affiliation is with the Chi Psi, and his social and intel- lectual with the Century Association and the University Club of New York. Dr. Grosvenor never married. He is the author of occa- sional sermons and addresses. So far he has found his duty to be that of pastor and priest, and he has refused advancement to the office of bishop on repeated occasions.
DURAND The name of Durand is one of very ancient origin, records ex- tant showing its existence in ecclesiastical history about 1100 A. D. in both France and Italy, the name Dante being a contraction of the Italian form of Durante. It has been a conspicuous and historical family in America, and prominently identified from a very early period, members of it having con- tributed in a large measure to the industrial prosperity wherever the name is dispersed and whose fine abilities were directed to the accom- plishment of valuable results, being ever domi- nated and guided by the most inflexible integ- rity and honesty of purpose.
Jean Durand, progenitor of the Durand fam- ily of Essex county, New Jersey, was a Hugue- not refugee from Toulose, France, and like many of the God-fearing Huguenots who in their religious fervor and independence hated tyranny and oppression of the church and state and fled from France, he left his native land to escape the persecutions there entailed by the memorable revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The family tradition says that this was not alone the cause of his leaving his native
country, but that it was also owing to the loss of a sweetheart who basely betrayed him by wedding another. His name in France was Jean Durand Durapee ; the latter name he dis- carded when he immigrated to England, where in 1684 he was naturalized. For what reason he did not remain in England is not known, but he shortly immigrated to America, coming first to Massachusetts and later to Derby, Con- necticut, where he is mentioned in the records there in 1685. Like all of his descendants Jean Durand possessed great mechanical abil- ity. Whether in France or England he studied or practiced medicine is not known, but it is safe to say that he was versed in the science. for he soon became noted in the Connecticut colony for his medical knowledge. He was known as the "Little French Doctor," and it is said that when not engaged in this vocation he did fine mechanical repairing of watches and jewels, and it is recorded his son Samuel was taught the art. His sons, John and Noah, how- ever, became noted doctors in the colony.
Jean Durand, the immigrant, was a man of great force and character. He was much older than his wife, whom he married about 1685, at Stratford, and came to Derby, taking up his residence near Edward Wooster. in Derby village, where he was made a freeman. His wife was Elizabeth Bryan, born 1680 and bap- tized in 1685, daughter of Richard Bryan and granddaughter of Alexander Bryan. She in- herited quite an estate from her father and grandfather. Dr. John Durand had many land records: November 3, 1704, Sylvester Woors- ter for f12 sells to John and Elizabeth Dur- and land in Derby on Grassy Island, one and one-half acres. June 12, 1712, Ebenezer John- son, for £40 paid by John Durand and Eliza- beth, his wife, sold twenty acres of meadow- land in Derby. September 29, 1704, it was voted to sue Dr. Durand for ye town's high- way, it being for a surrender of the highway where carts can pass. January 1, 1704-05, Dr. Durand made a proffer to the town to leave it to two indifferent men to settle, &c., which was finally arbitrated and satisfactorilly settled. De- cember 15, 1707, he was chosen by the town to be collector of the "minister's rate." It was also voted that Dr. Durand and John Davis and their wives shall sit in third row of seats facing the pulpit. Dr. Durand owned the home- stead of Edward Wooster, the first settler at Derby, and resided in it just opposite where the road from the bridge now enters the river road at the old town of Derby. Dr. Durand claimed damages for encroachment on his land
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after the bridge was built. In 1718 his estate was £55. In the records he was recorded as a chirurgeon or surgeon. The children of Dr. John and Elizabeth Durand: I. John, born November 10, 1700; died March 8, 1773 ; mar- ried, November 5, 1730, Sarah Lum ; died June 2, 1747 ; married (second), June 2, 1748, Sarah Chatfield, who bore him the following chil- dren : i. Jeremiah, born August 8, 1749 ; mar- ried, November 21, 1772, Hannah Trowbridge ; i1. Elizabeth, February 17, 1751 ; iii. Nehemiah, December 7, 1753; iv. Jerirah, November 5, 1756; v. John, February 2, 1758; vi. Susannah, November 13, 1760; vii. Joseph, May 21, 1764. 2. Andrew, born December 16, 1702 ; died Oc- tober 28, 1791; married Jane Andrews. 3. Elizabeth, born June 4, 1705; died young. 4. Noah, born August 27, 1707; died August 6, 1792 ; married (first) November 9, 1742, Abi- gail Riggs ; married ( second) Damaris -
children : i. Mercy, born December 21, 1738; died young ; ii. Mercy, born May 8, 1748. 5. Joseph, born December 10, 1709; died August 6, 1792; married, April 25, 1734, Ann Tom- linson ; children: i. Samuel, born February 28, 1735 ; ii. Joseph, March 28, 1737 ; iii. Noah, born May 12, 1740; iv. Ann, born December 3, 1742; v. Isaac, born August 14, 1745 ; vi. Elea- zer, born October 5, 1754. 6. Samuel, born July 7, 1713; mentioned below. 7. Abigail, bor11 June 2, 1716; married Abner Johnson. 8. Elizabeth, born February 6, 1719; married, August 9, 1738, Joseph Johnson. 9. Ebenezer, born December 7, 1724 ; married, December 17, 1754. Hannah White, and had Ebenezer, born February 24, 1755.
(II) Samuel, son of Jean Durand, was born July 7, 1713; died at Newark, New Jersey, January 27, 1787, in that part now called South Orange. He learned the art of watch tinker. as they were then called, and followed this through life. About 1740 he removed from Connecticut to New York City with his fam- ily, where a farm of considerable area was then situated at the present location of Sixth avenue and Amity and Sullivan streets. Here he practiced his trade, having his bench in the homestead. During the season he cultivated the farm, raising large quantities of wheat and grain. After a time (in 1750) he removed to Newark, New Jersey, where he had farm tracts ; about 1756 he is recorded as a land- owner at South Orange, which was about the time that he removed his family there and set- tled on what is now Jefferson avenue, near the railroad. Here he built the old stone homestead, where in later years his granddaughter, Betsy
(Durand) Beach, lived and died; Fred, son of Asher B. Durand, afterwards purchased the property of the heirs. It was near the spot where John Durand's homestead was destroyed by fire. Here, in what was then called Jeffer- son Village, Samuel Durand followed his trade. Rev. John S. Chapman, husband of Jane Dur- and, who was daughter of Cyrus Durand, and Samuel's great-granddaughter, in his history of Clinton township, speaks of Samuel as "the skillful and modest watch-maker of the vil- lage." He was a man of genial manners, a great hunter and fond of his apple-jack, which he used moderately. He married, in 1742, Mary, daughter of John, born in 1690, and Mary (Tompkins) Bruen. Children : I. Eliza- beth, born July 29, 1743. 2. John, July 16, 1745; mentioned below. 3. Hannah, October 4, 1748. 4. Ezra, February II, 1749. 5. Bryant, January 14, 1751 ; died September 21, 1808; married Prudence 6. Elijah.
(III) John, son of Samuel Durand, was born at New York City, October 16, 1745; died at South Orange, New Jersey, June 25, 1813. He immigrated with his parents to New Jersey, living first at Newark and later going to Jefferson Village, now Maplewood, South Orange, about 1756. His early days were spent at the cooper's trade, but he was an expert mechanic and could make any mechan- ical device. In those days people helped them- selves as well as their neighbors, and an inven- tive capacity became a great service to the community. He was not merely an adept in mechanics but was skilled more especially in the more delicate branches. Besides being able to make and mend every sort of farm imple- ment, he was skilled in the manufacture of jewelry and silverware, such as spoons, ear- rings, etc., and an excellent repairer of watches, clocks, etc. In addition to these valuable and useful achievements he acted as moral counsel- lor to his neighbors. Temperate in opinion, cool in judgment, and inflexibly honest, they could confidently consult him in all their difficulties. While a plain country farmer and a skilled artisan, he was not indifferent to literature, judging by his books, for he was a subscriber to "Gordon's History of the United States," and he also possessed the large folio "Browns Bible," an important publication of the period. His shop, which was on the farm, handy to the traveled road, was the resort of prominent well-to-do men of the vicinity. where they dis- cussed political and social questions, serving as an intellectual exchange, suiting the simple, primitive habits of those colonial days. At
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the breaking out of the revolution he enlisted in the continental army, with his brothers, Elijah and Bryant, but the authorities, discov- ering his skill in mechanics, sent him back to make bayonets, the troops being badly deficient in arms. The family possess one of his bayo- nets stained with blood of British grenadiers. When General Washington had his headquar- ters at Morristown, he expressed his great regret, to a group of friends, that he had broken or otherwise injured one of the lenses of his field-glass. As it could not be repaired, he believed, without sending it to Philadelphia, he would be deprived of its use for many days. One of the company said that he knew of an ingenious artisan at the foot of Short Hills, which was not an hour's ride from Morris- town, who he thought could repair it, and he offered to go and see for the general. The general gladly accepted the proposal and the instrument was taken to John Durand, who was the most ingenious worker on fine brass and iron work thereabouts, and whose skill had made him a necessity among the people of the mountain in repairing watches, clocks, locks, and doing other work requiring delicate and intelligent skill. The field-glass was placed in his hands with the inquiry whether he could put it in repair. Upon examining it he replied that he thought he could. "How long will you want to make it perfect ?" "Not long ; you can have it to-morrow." Within a day or two thereafter, Washington rode down with his friend and escort, through the Short Hills, to the artisan's house. He found that the valued instrument had been put in good condition, "better, as he declared, than it ever was be- fore." After the First Presbyterian Church of Orange had received its charter, Rev. Mr. Chapman was requested to prepare a device for a corporate seal. Upon presenting one satisfactory to the trustees they voted Mr. Durand be requested to execute the work. His bill for the same, paid January 23, 1787, was sixteen shillings. The same seal is still in use. His old ancestral homestead was a hundred feet more or less south of the residence of his son, Asher B. Durand, which he, the elder Durand, built for himself and where he spent the last years of his life. This homestead was destroy- ed by fire about 1844.
He married, November 9, 1779, Widow Rachel (Meyer) Post, born June 13, 1758; died April 26, 18.32. She was the daughter of Isaac and Lydia (Campbell) Meyer. Children : 1. Henry, born November 2, 1780; mentioned below. 2. Polly ( Mary), born October 28, 1782; died
November 28, 1860; married Rufus Freeman, and had the following children: i. William ; ii. Rebecca, married Daniel Crumb: iii. John Durand, married Julia Tucker : iv. Mary Ade- laide, married Henry Mckean ; v. Henry, mar- ried Caroline Crowell ; vi. Lucy, married (first ) Cayle ; married ( second ) - - Miller ; vii. Isaac, married Lucy Weaver. 3. Lydia, born December 21, 1784; died June 24, 1869; married David Tichenor ; children: i. Mary, married George Osborne ; ii. Jemima, married Albert Boise ; iii. David ; iv. Alfred. 4. Cyrus, born February 27, 1787; died September 18, 1868; he was a famous inventor and engraver ; he invented the machine for engine turning which is now used in the engraving of bank notes and ornamental engraving; married (first) Jane Brown ; married (second) August 22, 1822, Phebe Wade, born November 15, 1791 ; died December 26, 1891; children: i. Susan, married Wesley Paradise; ii. Albert, died June 13, 1849; iii. Jane, born April 3. 1823; married Rev. John S. Chapman; iv. Elias Wade, born December 13, 1824; died August 26, 1908; married, December 16, 1846, Emma Averill; v. Berwick, born October II, 1826; died March 26, 1827; vi. Juliet, born December 19, 1827; married (first ) October 16, 1849, William W. Sherman ; married ( sec- ond) Baker; vii. Cyrus Bervic, born July 27, 1835 ; died August 14, 1904; married. August 19, 1863, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Cornelius and Caroline Donaldson ( Tompkins) Mersereau ; Cyrus Bervic was rector of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Peekskill, in 1888, and later and until his death, of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church. at New- ark ; Cyrus B. and Sarah Elizabeth had two daughters : Phebe Jane, born July 4, 1864, and Juliet Mersereau, born September 15, 1868 : Juliet M. married, November 16, 1887, Frank Dempster Sherman, a professor at Columbia College, and had a son, Dempster Durand, born February 19, 1890. 5. Elijah, born July 21, 1789 ; died July 7, 1858 ; married Polly Reeves ; children : i. Isaac, married Dohmn ; ii. Emily ; iii. Jane, married Jabez Brown; iv. Charles ; v. Adeline, married Samuel Question. 6. Isaac Meyer, born February 19, 1792; died July II, 1811; married Nancy Smith ; child, Frances, married James Leonard. 7. John, born March 24, 1794: died October 8, 1821 ; married Mary Foster Ross. 8. Asher Brown, born August 21, 1796; died September 17, 1886; he was the famous scenic artist of New York City: married (first) Lucy Baldwin : children : i. John, born 1821 ; died in Paris,
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