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WILLING, JOHN (For previous record see War with France)-Sergeant ; dis hatend. July #1. 1501.
W MED. ELIAS -- Private. Lieutenant Colonel- Commandant William W. Burrows In ur hement : delisted. at Washington. 1. 1. January 2. 1-12. for three years: ner, 22: born, Elizabeth. N. F .; discharged. December 24. 154: reenlisted, at Headquarters. Marie Corps. Washington. D. C .. December 24. 1904, for three years, a private. Lieutenant-Co: mel-Commandant Franklin Wharto's Itachment ; promoted Corporal. May 15, 1505: Corporal, Sorond Lienten int Thomas Towne's Detachment, on Sloop-of- War "lornet." Master Commandant I-ane Chauncey. February 4. 180G: reduced to private, Mix 20. 1806: final record unknown. WELLS, ENOCH ( For previous record see War with France)-Sergeant ; reduced to private, July 21, 1M2: discharged, at Washington, D. C .. June 18, 1803, expiration of servier; re-enlisted, at Headquarters. Marine Corps, Washington, D. C., October 13. IN. for three years, a private, Lieutenant Colonel-Commandant William W. Burrows Detachment : promoted Corporal, May 1. 1501: discharged, January 17. 1806.
WHEFLER. FRANCIS-Private, First Lieutenant Newton Kerne's Detachment : enlisted, at Gosport Navy Yard, Va .. March 27. 1501. for three years; age, 24; born, Middlesex County. N. J. : deserted. April 20, 1804,
Wintr, WILLIAM-Private, Captain Franklin Wharton's Detachment : enlisted. at Philadelphia. Pa .. July 15, 1802, for three years ; age, 22: born, Trenton, N. J .: deserted, July 26, 1502; captured from desertion, Angust 5. ISO2; deserted. August 25. 1502; arrested and committed to jail in Baltimore, Md., September 4. 1502; brought to Headquarters, Marine Corps, Washington, D. C .. September 15, 1802: died. March 6, 1503.
WHITE, GEORGE-Private. Second Lieutenant Edward Hall's Detachment : enlisted, at Philadelphia, Pa., May 28, 1805, for three years ; age. 22; born, Bridgeton, N. J. : private, Second Lientenant Thomas Towne's Detachment. on Sloop-of-War "Hornet." Master Commandant Isaae Chauncey, February 4, 1806. at Charleston. S. C .: disebarsed, March 29, 1808.
WILLIAMS, PETER ( For previous record ser War with France)-Private, Captain Franklin Wharton's Detachment, at Philadelphia. T'a., October 15, 1801; re-eulisted, ar Philadelphia, Pa., July 6. 1803. for three years, a Corporal, Captain Franklin Wharton's Detachment ; Corporal, First Lieutenant William S. Osborn's Detachment, or Frigate "Philadelphin," Captain William Bainbridge. July 24, 1803; taken prisoner with the capture of the Frigate "Philadelphia." of harbor of Tripoli. Mediterranean Squadron, October 21, 1803, and confined a prisoner of war, at Tripoli, until exchanged. June 3. 1505; discharged, September 30, 1805. expiration of service.
WOOD, WILLIAM ( For previous record see War with France)-Private: captured from desertion, November 17, 1812: deserted, December 10, 1502.
INDEX.
War With Tripoli, Africa, 1801-1805.
Aarons, James, 5. Atkinson, Isaac, 5.
Bainbridge, Joseph, 3. Bainbridge, William, 3. Barber, Jonathan, 5. Bates, John, 5. Batton. Richard, 5. Betts, Japhet, 5. Boyd, George, 5. Brown, John, 5. Brown, William, 5. Bryant, William, 5. Buck, Nathan, 3. Burrough, Charles, 5. Barrows, Charles, 5.
Carlisle, Ebenezer, 5. Carpenter, James, 5. Carrington, Benjamin, 5. Chambers, Matthew, 5. Christie, William, 5. ('lark. John, 5. Collins, John, 5. Combes, Lawrence, 5. Cook, Ebenezer, 5. Cooper, William, 5. Cozens, Grorge, 5. Crane, William M., 4. Cnper, William, G. Corrie, William, 6. Curry, John, G.
Dailey, William, 6. Daniels, Mark, 6. Davis, David, 6. Davis, John (2), 6. Dencon, David, 4. Delaney, Daniel, 6. Dickson, Daniel, 6. Doogan, William, 6. Dagan, William, 6.
Evans, Samuel, 4.
Fisher, John (2), 6. Flick, Abraham. 6. Foster, Mahlon, 6. -
Francisco, John, 6.
Gamble, Thomas, 4. Gano, John, 6. Gano, Stephen, ti. Goldsmith, William. 6. Graham, William, 6.
Hamfield, John, 6. Ilance, Daniel, 6. Hand, Silas, 6. Heaton, Tuttle, G. HIntchins, Samuel, 7.
Inyard, Lewis, 7. Ivins, Samnel, T.
Johnson, James, 7. Justice, William, 7.
Kingsland, Nathaniel, 7.
Langley, William, 7. Lawrence, James, 4. Letts, John, 7.
Mahony, Jeremiah, 7. McDonald, Thomas. 7. McGill, James, 7. Mitchell, Amos, 7. Mitchell, Thomas, 7. Moore, Samuel, 7. Morgan, John (2), 7.
Nixon, George, 7.
Pancoast, Asa, T. Parcells, Samuel, 7. Peppard, Jacob, 7. Peppard, William, T.
Reed, Charles, 7. Regans, Isaac, S. Roberson, William, S. Robinson, Damel, S. Robinson, Robert, S.
Service, Daniel, S. Seward, Joseph, S. Smallwood, Thomas (2), S. Snook, Jeremiah, S. Somers, Richard, 4. Southard, William, S. Spalding, John, S. Stewart, Charles, 4. Stewart, Joseph, S. Stewart, William, S.
Taylor, Jacob, 8. Tichenor, Peter, S. Tingey, Thomas, 4. Tiper, William. S. Tompkins, Caleb, 8. Towser, Skadrick, S. Trenchard, Edward, 4. Tucker, Stephen, 9. Typer, William, 9.
Van Camp, John, 9.
Walling, John, 9. Ward, Elias, 9. Wells, Enoch, 9. Wheeler, Francis, 9. Whit, William, 9. White, George, 9. Williams, Peter, 9. Wood, William, 9.
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RECORD
OF
OFFICERS AND MEN OF NEW JERSEY
IN THE
War With Great Britain, 1812-1815.
War With Great Britain, 1812-1815.
Nearly two months before war was declared between the United States and Great Britain, New Jersey had begun to place herself in a condition to defend her seacoasts and harbore. The Congress of the United States passed the following.
AN Acr to authorize a detachment from the militia of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the U'united States be, and he is hereby authorized to require of the Executives of the soveral states and territories, to take effectual measures :: organize, arm, and equip, according to law, and hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning, their respective proportions of one hundred thousand militia, officers included, to be apportioned by the President of the United States, from the latest militia returns in the department of war; and, in cases where such returns have not been made, by such other data as he shall judge equitable
SECTION 11. And be it further enacted, That the detachment of militia aforesaid shall be officered ont of the present militia officers, or others, at the option and discretion of the constitutional authority in the respective states and territories ; the President of the United States apportion- ing the general officers among the respective states and territories, as he may deem proper, and the commissioned officers of the militia, when called into actual servico, shall be entitled to the same pay, rations and emoluments as the officers of the army of the United States.
SECTION 111. And be it further enacted, That the said detachment shall not be compelled to serve a longer time then six months after the; arrive at the place of rendezvous; and during the time of their service "he non-commissioned officera, musicians and privates shall be entitled to the same pay and rations as is provided by law for the militia of the United States when called iato actual eervice.
SECTION IV. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be and he hereby is authorized to call into actual service any part, or the whole of said detachment, in all the exigencies provided by the constitution, and the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates of the said detachment shall be subject to the penalties of the act, entitled "An Act for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for those purposes, passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five," and if a part only of said detachment shall be called into actual service, they shall be taken from such part thereof as the President of the United States shall deema proper.
SEOTION V. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of whipping, as provided by several of the rules and articles of war, as now used and practiced, stoppage of pay, confinement aad deprivation of part of the rations shall be substituted in such manner as hereinafter provided.
SECTION VI. And be it further enacted, That any non-commissioned officer or private belonging to the aforesaid detachment of militis, who shall, while in actual service, be convicted before any court martial of any offenee, which before the passing of this act might or con !! have subjected such person to be whipped, shall, for the first offense, be put under euch stoppages of pay as such court-martial shall adjudge, ret exceeding the one half of one month's pay for any one offense ; bnt euch offender may, moreover, at the discretion of such court-martial, be coz- fined under guard, on allowance of half rations, any length of time, not exceeding ten days for any one offense, or may, at the descretion of st.ch court-martial, be publicly drummed out of the army.
SECTION VII. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one million of dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to be paid cot of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, towards defraying any expenses incurred by virtue of the provisions of this act.
SECTION VIII. And be it furt'er enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force for the term of two years from the passing thereof, and no longer.
H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. H. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved April 10, 1812. JAMES MADISON.
On the 25th of April, 1812, Governor Joseph Bloomfield isaned an order to mobilize five thousand of the militia of the State for immediate service.
The following is the text of this order :
GENERAL ORDERS.
HEADQUARTERS, TRENTON, April 25th, 1812. J
The President of the United States having required the Executive of this State to take effectual measures to organize, arm and ego.p according to law, and hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning, five thousand men, officers included (that being the quota of this State of one hundred thousand militia of the United States required to be detached by an act of Congress, passed on the 10th instant, entitled "An act to authorize a detachment from the militia of the United States "), and to have the same detached, and duly organized in companies, battalion9, regiments, brigades and divisiona, within the shortest period that circumstances will permit :
The Commander-in-Chief of New Jersey orders, that the Commandants of the several brigades detach the officers and men conformably to the foregoing requisition, from the corps under their respective commands, according to the following detail :
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BRIGADES.
Major-General.
Brigadier-Generals.
Brigade-Majors.
Chaplains.
Quartermasters.
Surgeons.
Captains.
Sergeants.
Corporals
Drummers,
Matrosses.
Majors.
Captains
Cornets,
Surgeon.
Adjutant.
Paymaster.
| Quartermaster.
Sergeants
Corporals.
Saddlers.
Farriers
Dragoons.
Majors
Adjutants.
Paymasters
Surgeons.
Surgeon's Mates.
Drum-Maiors
Fife- Majors
Captains
Lieutenants,
Sergeants,
Corporals.
Drinamers
Fifers
Privates.
Total.
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1
1
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Burlington ..
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1
24 1
1
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...
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...
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...
...
...
...
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5
1
1
1
-
5,
20
20
5
co
205
273
Salem ..
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
5
=
-
1
4
4
16
16 4, 4
232.
315
( Bergen
20
1
1
...
...
5
en
CA
201
20 0 5
332
141
Essex
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
2
27
1
1
:
- 5
5
20
20|
51 5
326
419
Morris.
1
2
1
co
1
22
1
2
2
22
-
1
4
16.
16
4 4
287
399
[ Middlesex.
...
...
...
...
...
...
..
...
...
...
...
1
1
1
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
2
2
1
23
1
1 ...
...
...
1
1
-
61 6, 6
21
24
3×5
516
( Hunterdon.
Sussex ..
1
CO
CA
00
co
co
co
00
3
3
130
Field pieces and caissons
Lientenant-Colonel.
Ist Lieutenauts
2d Lieutenants.
CAVALRY.
INFANTRY.
GENERAL AND BRIGADE STAFF.
ARTILLERY.
1
21
1
1
21
1
2
2
2
...
1
:
1 77 -1
28
28| 7| J
7
466
1
1
1
1
1
1
...
H
16 16
4 182
6, 12
6
6
6
6
6
0
6
24
24; 6 6
305
471
2
1
1
-
4
4
4
16
16| 4 1
303
395
Gloucester ..
419
Cumberland ..
5
1
1
...
2
2
1
1
CO
12
12
CO
1
...
: ...
...
1
1
...
1
1
1
00
1
1
1
1
...
...
...
.. 4
...
...
...
:
1
16
-
1
5
5
20
20 5
5
333
133
Monmouth
1
1
6
...
2
...
:
...
:
...
CS
3
3
12
12 3, 3 co
195
257
{ Somerset
13
...
1
1 ...
...
599
-
-
-
-
1
6157 57 07 228 22> 57 57| 3,750 5,000
1
16
...
...
:
:
5
3
00
:
...
1
1
1
1
Ist Lieutenants.
2d Lieutenants
Fifers.
1
1
...
...
Lieutenant-Colon Is
Quartermasters
Sergeant-Majors.
Quartermaster-Sergeants.
Ensigns.
Aids.
1
5 318
5
1
2
1
:
21
:
...
Surgeon's Mate.
Trumpeters.
1
5
WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN, 1812-1515.
The Commandants of brigades, regiments, battalions, squadrons and companies are called upon to use every exertion in their power to detach the officers and men from their respective commands on or before the next battalion days of exercise; and the several Brigade-laspectora tor, in case of their absence, the officers appointed by the Commandants of brigades to do the duty of Brigade Inspectore) shall muster the officers and inen placed in requisition on or before the next days of review and inspection of the several regiments, squadrons and independent battalions ; and the several Commandants of brigades will direct correct inspection returns to be made of the names, grades and corps of the officers and mon which may be detailed from their several brigades, and cause copies thereof to he transmittol to the Adjutant-General within ten days after the reviews of the regimenta, squadrons and independent battalions, that the same may be returned without delay to the Secre. tary at War.
The officers aud men must be armed and furnished with blankets and knapsacks, and ready to march whenever called upon. Major-General Benjamin Ludlow will take the command of this detachment.
By prompt obedience to this requisition, and by conduct and bravery in the field, should there be occasion to take it, the militia of New Tersey will sustain the character they acquired during the Revolutionary War, while they assert the rights of our insulted country, maintain the independence of the nation, and support the Government of their choice.
By order of the Commander-in-Chief,
JAMES J. WILSON, Adjutant-General.
On the 4th of May, General James J. Wilson, Adjutant-General of the State, supplemented this order by a letter to the several general officers of the Siate giving the details for this contingent called into service. On the 27th of March, Governor Joseph Bloomfield had been appointed a Brigadier-General in the United States Army, and on the 8th of June be issued his orders asonming command of the third military district, with headquarters at New York City. War with England was officially declared on the ISth of June, and during that month the detail was made for the five thousand troops required from New Jersey as its quota of the one hundred thousand militia called into the service of the United States by the act of Congress dated April 10th, 1812.
General Bloomfield announced the declaration of war at 9.30 o'clock on the morning of June 20th, from his headquarters at the Battery in New York. This was the first military announcement to troops of the declaration of war. He also ordered a detachment of the militia to be posted at Panlng Hoeck, now Jersey City, for military instruction and discipline. This force consisted of eleven companies of about three hundred men under Major Isaac Andruss, and they arrived at Fort Rich.nond, Staten Island, on the 20th of August. Six thousand dollars had been appropriated by the Legislature of New Jersey to equip these men. In the meantime, General Bloomfield had been relieved, August 11th, by Brigadier-General John Armstrong, of the United States Army, and General Bloomfield, still Governor of New Jersey, proceeded nnder orders to Plattsburg, on Lake Champlain, with a force of about eight thousand men collected for the invasion of Canada.
On the 2d of September, in response to a requisition from General Armstrong, the Honorable Charles Clark, Vice President of the Cennei!, who, in the absence of the Governor, exercised the supreme executive power in the State, issued the following order :
GENERAL ORDERS.
HEADQUARTERS, TRENTON, September 26, 1812. 1 ?
Brigadier-General Armstrong, of the United States Army, commanding New York and its dependencies, having by an order of the 28th ultimo required of the Executive of the State of New Jersey a second detachment, " consisting of five hundred non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, with a competent number of officers " to rendezvous at the encampment near Powles Hook, to relieve the detachment now on duty -- the Commander in-Chief therefore orders: That Major-General budlow detach " five hundred non commissioned officers, musicians and privates, with a competent number of officers," from the five thousand men (officers included) detached from the militia of this State hy General Orders of the 10th of April last ; and the comman ling officer of this second detachment will receive orders from Major-General Endlow to repair on the 1Sth instant with said detachment to the encampment near Powlos Hook, and on his arrival to report himself to Brigadier General Armstrong.
By order of the lion. Charles Clark, Vice President of Council of the State of New Jersey, exercising in the absence of the Governor tho supreme executive power in said State.
Major-General BENJAMIN LUDLOW, Commandiog Detachment from New Jersey Militia.
JAMES J. WILSON, Adjutant-General.
By this order a second detachment of five hundred men were directed to rendezvous at the encampment at Panlus Hoeck for ninety days' service, relieving the five hundred men or dered there on the June previons. The detachment of Major Andruss, at Fort Richmond, was relieved by six companies from Lientenant-Colonel Joseph Jackson's regiment of militia.
On the 16th of November, Governer Aaron Ogden, who, on the 29th of October, had been elected Governor of the State in place of Joseph Bloomfield, issued orders for the entire militia of the State to hold itself in readiness for service at only twenty-four honre' notice. The lan- guage of this order is here given :
GENERAL ORDERS.
HEADQUARTERS, ELIZABETHTOWN, November 16th, 1812. )
The Commander in Chief of the Militia of New Jersey, in consequence of a particular communication made to him by the General com- manding at New York and its dependencies, thinks it prudent to direct that all the nuiform companies, whether of cavalry, artillery, light infantry or riflemen, within the State, do hold themselves in readiness, npon a previous notice of twenty-four hours, to take the field duly Equipped, each man having one good blanket and four days' provision ready cooked. The Captains commanding companies of artillery will make contracts, on behalf of the United States, for a suitable number of horses and drivers (by the day) to transport their respective field pieces and their apparatns, to be paid only from the time of the order to march ontil their return; and, also, will take immediate measures, such as are allowed by law, to put into good order everything necessary for such transportation.
Each Captain of an uniform company will make an immediate return of the present state of his company, both as to the men aod their munitiona, adding guch general remark-, in regard to their present ability to take the field, as he may think proper, and transmit. the same to the Commander-in-Chief without delay.
As these volunteer corps, in all suddon emergencies, form the first and best defense of the State, it is hoped that such as may be able will display their zeal in joining themselves to some one or other of these uniform companies, as circumstances or inclination may lead, thus proving themselves a race of Jerseymen not unworthy of their fathers. AARON OGDEN,
Commander-in-Chief of the Militia of New Jersey.
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WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN, 1912-1515.
The uniformed militia of New Jersey then consisted of twenty-five hundred men, and this force was made subject to the call of General Armstrong, who was in command of fortifications of New York City and harhor.
During the year of 1812 the detached militia of New Jersey was called out for the defense of the seaboard, and was stationed at three points, Sandy Hook, Staten Island and l'aulus Hoeck. The troops at Paulus Hoeck, however, were in a camp of instruction. They received their pay from the State of New Jersey, and were not considered as heing in the service of the general government. The official return of the detached militia for 1812 shows the following force, all infantry, in service :
From August 17th-September 25th, twenty-three officers, fifty-two non-commissioned officers, two hundred and ninety men.
From September 17th-November 30th, twenty five officers, fifty non commissioned officers, three hundred and sixty- eight men.
On the 21st day of January, 1813, Adjutant-General John Beatty reported to His Excelloney Governor Ogden, Commander-in-Chief, that, in compliance with his order of the 16th of November last, he had received a return showing that sixteen troone of cavalry, eleven compames of artillery, thirty companies of light infantry and seven companies of riflemen, with a total force of two thousand three hundred and seventy enlisted men, were ready for service, and that there was a " general readiness and zeal expressed by these uniforma corpa to comply with the instruction of the Commander-in-Chief to take the field in defense of the State," although their arms and munitions are deficient for actual service.
On the 20th of February, 1813, a law was passed by the Legislature of New Jersey appropriating five thousand dollars to enable Governor Ogden to take proper measures for the defense of the coast.
On the 24th of March the Governor issued a general order from his headquarters at Elizabethtowo, enjoining upon " every enrolled militia- man to provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints and a knapsack, a pouch to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges suited to the bore of his mnaket, each cartridge to contain a sufficient quantity of powder and ball; or if a rifleman, with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch and powder-horn, twenty balls enited to the hore of his rifla, and one-quarter of a pound of powder; or if a dragoon, with a serviceable horse, at least fourteen hands and a half high, a good saddle, mall pillion and valise, bolsters, a breastplate and crupper, a pair of boots and spurs, a pair of pistols, a sabre and cartouch box to contain cartridges for pistole "
On the Ilth of May six companies of Colonel James Abraham's regiment of two hundred men were sent to the Navesink Heights for thirty days' service, or until relieved; they remained there until the 15th of September, when they were discharged, with the thanks of the Governor. This order is in the following very complimentary language :
NEW JERSEY MILITIA-
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" The Commander-in-Chief avails himself of the present occasion to express his satisfaction at the degree of patience, per-everauce and general orderly conduct which has been manifested by those who have thos served out this term of duty. In a situation eo novel, under the performance of unaccustomed services, and with so many other excitements to discontent from misrepresentations, in regard to the length of time they were liable to be retained, and the authority under which they were to be discharged, it is matter of much commendation that so many have had the patriotism, the virtue and the firmness to contiune until this time."
"These will now return home, with honor, with their pay, and with their regular discharges, which, it is most sincerely hoped, will exempt them from future drafts during the present war; & condition far preferable to thst of those who, so ill advisedly, have deseried the present service."
" The officers and men will be pleased to accept of this assurance of the Commander-in-Chief, of his friendly regards, his thanks for the services they have performed, and his best wishes that happiness and prosperity may always attend them " * * * * * * * * * EF
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JOHN BEATTY, Adjutant-General.
Many of the men who were in service during the year 1813 were not mustered into the United States service, but, being ordered ont by the Governor, were independent militia detachments not subject to the orders of the Commander of the Third Military District, akhongh he was consulted by the Governor of the State as to their proper distribution along the seacoast. The following is the official report of the detached militia in service during the year 1813:
INFANTRY, 1813.
Officers.
Non-Commissioned Officers.
Privates. 84
7
9
91
From May 24th to September 30th, From May 28th to September 18th, From July 15th to September 30th, 5
4 16
17
158
15
99
CAVALRY.
From May 9th to September 18th,
5
8 42
ARTILLERY.
2
16
From May 11th to September 18th,
I RIFLEMEN. 2
4
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On the 14th of July, 1814, William Pennington, who was elected Governor of New Jersey October 28th, 1813, issued his order for five thonsand men to hold themselves in readiness for immediate service. This is the text of the order :
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