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Wm. Constable gave to his brother James, a power of attorney to sell lands, March 16, 1798,T and, to secure the confidence of Europeans, and others in the validity of his title, he procured from Alexander Hamilton, Richard Harrison, J. O. Hoffman ( attorney general of the state) Daniel McKinnen, and other eminent lawyers, a certificate, that they had examined his conveyances, and believed them perfect.
On the 22d of March, 1797, ** Constable conveyed to Marvel Ellis of Troy, the town of Ellisburgh, in accordance with an agreement, dated April 11, 1796, except 3000 acres, conveyed March 17, 1797, to Robert Brown, and Thomas Eddy, in the southwest corner of the town.tt This tract was long without a resident agent, and from being settled by squatters, it acquired the unhallowed name of No God. In June 1804, Brown and
* Inman was the father of Henry Inman the celebrated artist.
t Sec. office Deeds 25, p. 208.
§ Ib. 39, p. 62.
T Sec. Office deeds, 41, p. 623.
it Oneida deeds, 7, p. 331.
¿ Sec. Office Deeds, 24, p. 35.
|| Ib. 36, 37, p. 214.
** Herkimer deeds, rec. April 22. 1797.
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Eddy sold half of the tract to Geo. Scriba, and the latter to Wm. Bell. The remainder was exchanged for a farm in New Jersey, by Lord Bollingbroke. Ellis's Purchase, according to Medad Mitchell's survey of Aug. 1795, was 51,840 acres, but by a sub- sequent survey of B. Wright, it covered 52,834 acres. A part of No. 10. (Sandy Creek) was conveyed Nov. 16, 1796, to Mrs. H. M. Colden, for the Earl of Selkirk. Ellis, on the day of his purchase, mortgaged it for the payment,* and in 1801, he became insolvent. In Jan. 1802, Constable filed a bill in chancery, against Ellis, and his creditors, to foreclose for equity of redemption. On the 22nd May, 1803, Wm. Constable died, and his executors, James Constable, John McVickar, and Hezekiah B. Pierrepont, were advised that the title was perfected by the answer to the bill in chancery, but, to put all questions forever at rest, they deemed it advisable to proceed, to foreclose. It was accordingly advertised, and sold, under the direction of Thomas Cooper, master in chancery, at the Tontine Coffee House, N. Y., March 1, 1804, to Daniel McCormick. On the 2nd day of March the executors of Constable, conveyed the town to McCormick,t and on the 3d, the latter reconveyed to the executors.t On the 26th of April 1819, a deed of release,§ from the heirs of Wm. Constable, was executed to H. B. Pierrepont, from whom the title of the unsold portions passed to his son, Wm. C. Pierrepont, who has in like manner acquired the title of Lorraine from Constable.
The eleven towns were divided by ballot between the com- pany,|| August 5th, 1796; Harrison & Hoffman receiving numbers 1, 4, 5, 8, and 10, or Houndsfield, Champion, Denmark, Rodman, and Harrisburgh, and 1,283 acres of Constable's, No. 2 ( Worth), which had been added to make up the amount purchased, and was used in " making change." Low received 2, 7, and 11, or Watertown, Adams, and Lowville, with 1,576 acres of the present town of Worth; and Henderson, 3, 6, and 9, or Rutland, Henderson, and Pinckney, with 649 acres in Worth.
These proprietors disposed of their towns as follows: No. 1 was sold, the north half to Henry Champion and Lemuel Storrs, June 30th, 1797,T and the south part ( 15,913 acres) to Peter Kemble and Ezra Houndsfield, for $4,000, March 10th, 1801, who have sold the most to actual settlers, through the agency of E. Camp. The sales of the north part will be given in our account of that town. Nos. 2, 7, and 11 were sold by S. Stow, M. S. Miller, and I. W. Bostwick, of Lowville, agents for Low. No. 3 was first partly conveyed to actual settlers by Asher Miller,
* Herk. B, p. 254.
# Oneida deeds, E. 492.
Il Sec. deeds 28, p. 504.
Oneida deeds, E. 490.
§ Jefferson deeds, U, 45.
T Oneida deeds, A, 35.
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and Abel French; when the remaining interest of Henderson was conveyed to Dr. Isaac Bronson, of Greenfield, Ct., who gave its agency to his brother Ethel Bronson, with whom it continued till death, when it was transferred to George White, who com- pleted the settlements with settlers. No. 4 was sold to Champion and Storrs* ( with the north half of 1), and by N. Hubbard and A. Lathrop, agents, it was sold to settlers. No. 6 began to set- tle under the same agents as 3. In 1806, Jesse Hopkins was appointed agent, and continued about 15 years. Certain lots amounting to 5,716 acres were sold to Isaac Bronson, June, 10th, 1807, for $10,003.44,f and settled by the agents of the latter. No. 8 was settled for the proprietors by I. W. Bostwick, agent at Lowville. Harrison and Hoffman continued tenants in common of 5, 8, and 10, until may 1, 1805.1 In July, 1809, an instru- ment was executed, securing certain interests of Hoffman to Thomas L. Ogden and Abijah Hammond,§ and on the 5th of January, 1810, Hoffman conveyed to Harrison his interest in these towns.
The greater part of township 2 (Worth) fell to the share of Harrison and Hoffman. It was laid out by Medad Mitchell in 1795; and, December 23d, 1797, these proprietors made a par- tition, and Harrison conveyed the north half to Hoffman, who, July 16th, 1798, made a conveyance to Daniel McCormick and Charles Smith, in trust, to sell and convey and to keep the money till certain debts were paid.|| Several subsequent trans- fers were made, which we have not deemed of sufficient public interest to trace. The title to the south part remained with Harrison many years, and has but recently been opened for set- tlement.
The boundaries of the Eleven Towns were surveyed by Ben- jamin Wright, in April and May, 1796, and from his field book, the original of which, received from Robert McDowell, Esq., is before us, the following interesting memoranda are quoted. These notes enabled the purchasers to estimate the relative value of the several townships, and formed the first accurate data pos- sessed in relation to the country south of Black River. The remarks on towns now in Lewis County are omitted.
1. [Houndsfield.] This township is poorly watered, along the southerly line, but is very fine soil of land, and quite level. There it only one swamp, which is near the three mile stake [south side], and is a dead, marshy spot of thirty chains in width, and appears to extend N. and S. on the line for some distance. The timber is, near the lake, oak, hickory, chestnut, and some
* Jeff. deeds A, 112.
¿ Jeff. deeds A, 137.
Il Oneida deeds F. 604.
* Jeff. deeds A, 112.
§ Jeff. deeds P, 131.
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beech, maple, ash, birch and ironwood. On the east line of this town, there are many small streams of very fine water. The land is descending westerly, and a very fine soil, except a large swamp near the four mile tree, which is some marshy, and tim- bered with ash, hemlock, &c. There is some exceedingly good pine timber on this line. The other timber is beech, maple, bass, elm, ash, ironwood, birch, &c. Pretty level, some gentle ascents and descents. Along the river there is an excellent body of pine timber of fine quality. The land along the river is handsome, but not more than four or five inches to a rocky, flat solid stone, which has large vacancies or seams, and the like, where you may find cracks in the rocks of ten feet to the bottom, and not more than four inches wide. Along the bay, there is a pretty good country, except some marshes, where the streams come in. The shore in many places along the bay, is a per- pendicular rock of 25 or 30 feet, and a very bold, deep shore, some flat, rock shore, and almost all is very stony. Some marshes along the lake, near to the peninsula, and some small streams, which all make a meadow or marsh, where they enter the lake; contains 26,048 acres.
2. [Watertown.] Along the river there is some pretty good land, and some that is broken and rocky. The river is amazing rapid, and rocky; some falls along the river which may be made good mill seats and some excellent pine timber along the river. On the east line is a fine country. Near the three mile tree, is a swamp of very fine ash timber, which will make excellent meadow. There are some steep ascents, and descents, which are all excellent soil. Timber, beech, maple, bass, elm, ash, birch, and some pine and ironwood; near the river some oak and walnut. On the south line is maple, bass, ash, beech, birch and elm. A very fine soil and pretty well watered with small streams, and some large ones. The west line is of a good quality. There are some fine mill seats in this town, which on the map are marked " falls," and " rapids." To speak generally, I think this to be an excellent township, and scarce any poor land on it. Will settle very fast, if laid in lots, and sold to settlers. Con- tains 26,804 acres.
3. [Rutland.] Along the river very rocky, and some very good land; very few streams emptying into the river. There is a very fine mill stream and various mill seats, near the Black River, where it falls into the river; a fall of six feet, very curious in- deed for mills. Along the river, there are two falls of fourteen and six feet, which together with the rapids, that extend for a number of miles, make up a great fall in the river. The east line is a very fine country and handsomely timbered with maple, beech, bass, ash, butternut, elm and some pine and hemlock; on
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the south line there is a pretty good country, and timbered with maple, beech, bass, ash, elm, birch and hemlock. Along the line on the west side, it is a very good tract of land, and well tim- bered. This town appears to be exceeding good; all the waters are clear and good, and are formed altogether from springs which arise on the land. The town in general is most excellent soil, and very well watered, with large and small streams, and I think would answer any person's expectation for settling. Contains 27,604 acres.
4. [Champion]. The west line of this town is in general excel- lent land, and has no steep ascents and decents of consequence on it, but gentle slopes interspersed with small streams of excellent wa- ter. There are some fine mill streams, which have good mill seats on this line. A fall on a considerable stream of water, which runs northerly, and falls into Black River, is a most excellent mill seat. The country is timbered with maple, beech, basswood, birch, ash, elm, butternut, and some few hemlocks. "Along the river there is a very good country after you are a small distance from the river, and timbered with maple, beech, bass, ash, elm, and but- ternut, and some pine, and hemlock. There is a number of good mill seats on the streams which empty into the river, and a num- ber of rapids. The Long Falls, may be made good mill seats. This township is exceedingly good soil, and beautifully timbered, watered exceeding well and with excellent water, some lime- stone along the river, and some few ledges of other kinds of stone, of excellent quality for building stone. I have not traversed the interior part of this town, but from every appearance, it is an excellent township. It has almost every good quality that can be fixed in one township of land. Exceeding fine timber, and many mill seats; some fine timber, but not much that I have seen. Contains 25,708 acres.
6. [Henderson]. The south land of this town is exceedingly good land, and is timbered with maple, beech, bass, ash, elm, some oak, and hickory; near the mile tree on the south line, there is a swamp of cedar, and some pine, ash, &c. The east line is timbered with maple, beech, bass, elm, ash, birch, &c., very fine soil, and pretty level, some swamp but all good, and will make excellent meadow, and are filled with valuable timber. The north line is a pretty level country, some gentle ascents and descents, and some oak, chestnut, hickory, ash beech, ma- ple, and some pine on it. Along the Hungry Bay there is a very handsome beach, and very fine land along all the whole distance around, until you pass a peninsula when you come to where the shore is a perpendicular rock, of from 30 to 80 and in some places nearly 100 feet. The land does not ap- pear to be very good near the shore of these rocks, and no streams
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whatever. A cedar swamp lies along on the top of the bank for a considerable distance. After you are at Stony Point you will find the lake shore of flat rocks, and the appearance of the coun- try to be pretty good; some marshes, and some cold hemlock land. Where the shore is not rocky, there are very large stones. The largest stream in this town is Stony Creek, which has a pond about three miles up, of 400 acres and a dead cranberry marsh around the pond. There are some fine mill seats on Stony Creek, below the pond, but none above. The marsh around the pond is very poor, and very miry. To speak generally, this is a pretty good town: has a good harbor, on the S. W. part is Stony Creek Bay.
7. Adams. This is a very good township. On the south line, it is a very fine country, and very handsomely timbered, with maple, beech, bass, ash, elm, birch, butternut, and some excellent fine timber. Along the east line, there is some pine timber, and all the soil is fine; the timber in general is maple, elm, bass, ash, beech, birch, iron wood, butternut. It is a pretty level country, some undulations and some excellent swaly land. On the north line, there is very fine soil, and handsome timber of maple, bass, ash, beech, birch, elm, butternut, and some iron wood. The principal streams are Stony Creek and the north branch of Big Sandy Creek. This branch is a large stream of 1 ch. 80 lks., width, in general, and has some very fine interval, and is almost all flat rock bottom. There are some appearances of mill seats on this branch, and I suppose probably very good ones, but I have seen nothing of that kind. Some very fine springs of water, which are scattered over the town, and are of good quality. To speak generally, the town has every good quality. Millseats, springs of excellent water, pine timber, limestone, clay, maple, beech, bass, ash, butternut, birch, iron- wood, pine, oak, and some chestnut timber, gentle ascents and descents, fine soil, black mould, and loam in general.
8. Rodman. The north line of this town is a very fine soil, and in general pretty level; some hills and some gentle ascents, all of which are very fine. It is timbered with maple, bass, ash, elm, beech, birch, butternut, and some few hemlocks, which are near the banks of the streams. There is some pine on this line, but not a plenty. On the east line there is a pretty good country, excepting it is cut to pieces much with the streams, all of which make large gulfs, which are from 40 to 150 feet deep. On the south line, is a pretty good country, very finely watered with streams. The timber in general is maple, beech, bass, elm, hemlock, spruce, ash, birch, soft maple and some iron wood. On the west line there is very fine land, which is timbered as the rest, The north branch of Big Sandy Creek passes through
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Title of the Islands.
this town, near the N. W. part, and makes very fine intervals along its course. This is a fine mill stream, and has a sufficient quantity of water for all seasons. There are also some other streams, which run through this town, on which are fine mill seats. Some pine timber on this town, but not in abundance.
These notes close with the following comparison of the proba- ble relative value of the several towns. Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, are very little to choose in point of quality. 6 is best situated, but 7 is most excellent. 5 would be called best by those New England people, on account of the luxuriance of the soil on Deer Creek. 2 is an exceeding good town, but is not so good as 7. 8 and 9 are very good towns. 10, the north part is ex- ceedingly good. 11, the west part is excellent. 7 has the preference for quality and situation together, and 6 for situation only of the whole. No 1 is well situated, but I fear has not good mill seats on it. 8 has excellent millseats and 9 also, but is some broken. 10 is bad in the south line, and 9 also is cold and hemlocky."
The islands in the St. Lawrence, and Lake, were included in the original contract* of Macomb, with the state, of June 22, 1791, but, from the uncertainty about the boundary, they were not patented till long after. The claim of Macomb passed to Daniel McCormick, and was recognized by the commissioners of the Land Office, Jan. 28, 1814, when they directed the surveyor general to survey such islands as were clearly within the limits of the state, at the expense of the owner, and a release of damage was to be granted, should the lands so laid out, hereafter be in- cluded in Canada, upon the running of the boundary. McCor- mick sold his interest to D. A. and T. L. Ogden, which was also sanctioned by the commissioners, May 14, 1817. For running the boundary agreed upon by the treaty of Ghent, Gen. Peter B. Porter, was appointed commissioner, and Samuel Hawkins, agent for the United States, and John Ogilvie, commissioner on the part of Great Britain, who met at Regis, and after carefully ascertaining the line of 45º north Lat., by a series of astronomical observations, proceeded thence in two parties, one to Lake Champlain, and the other up the river. In 1818, the latter had reached Ogden's Island, and in 1819 their labor was completed. Patents were issued for the islands, as follows:
All the islands in the state, between a line drawn at right angles to the river, from the village of Morristown, and a meri- dian drawn through the western point of Grindstone Island to Elisha Camp, Feb. 15, 1823. These islands contained 15,402.9 acres, of which Grindstone Island contained 5,291, Well's Island
* Land office minutes, vol. 2. p. 192.
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8,068, and Indian Hut Island 369 acres, with several smaller ones, without names. Patents were also issued to Camp on the same date to Stony Island, 1,536 acres; Calf Island 34.8 acres; Little Galloo Island 48.8 acres; the mos tof Galloo Island 2,216.2 acres; and Willow Island 2 acre. A patent to the United States, for 30.75 and 5 acres on Galloo Island, was issued Dec. 11, 1819, and to Melancton L. Woolsey, Nov. 3, 1823, for Gull's Island 6.5 acres, and Snake Island 1.4 acres. Cherry Island, in Chaumont Bay, 108.4 acres; Grenadier Island 1.290 acres, and Fox Island 257.5 acres were patented to Hezekiah B. Pierrepont, and others, Oct. 1, 1824. 500 acres on the western part of Carlton Island were patented to Charles Smyth, Oct. 2, 1828 .* A partition deed was executed between Pierrepont, and Joshua Waddington and Thomas L. Ogden, Nov. 10, 1824, by which the former received Grenadier and Cherry Islands. They were sold, Feb. 19, 1825,f for $?000, to Wm. and Gerardus Post of N. Y. These islands had been occupied many years by squatters, who with great re- luctance yielded possession. Incidents, connected with surveys and titles, will be given in our account of the several towns, and in their place, sketches of several of the characters who figured in these transactions.
The jurisdiction of a part of Galloo Island was ceded by the legislature to the United States for a lighthouse, by an act of April 21, 1818; that of Tibbets Point (about three acres) Jan. 25, 1827; that of Horse Island April 26, 1831, and of a part of Carlton Island June 21, 1853. In these cessions the state retains concurrent civil and criminal jurisdiction.
CHAPTER IV.
TOWNS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.
ADAMS, taken from Mexico, April 1st, 1802.
ALEXANDRIA, taken from Brownville and Le Ray, April 3d, 1821.
ANTWERP, taken from Le Ray, April 5th, 1810. BROWNVILLE, taken from Leyden, April 1st, 1802. CAPE VINCENT, taken from Lyme, April 10th, 1849. CHAMPION, taken from Mexico, March 14th, 1800.
CLAYTON, taken from Orleans and Lyme, April 27th, 1833. ELLISBURGH, taken from Mexico, February 22d, 1803. HENDERSON, taken from Ellisburgh, February 17th, 1806.
* See our account of Cape Vincent.
t Jefferson deeds, V. 417.
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HOUNDSFIELD, taken from Watertown, February 17th, 1806. LE RAY, taken from Brownville, February 17th, 1806. LORRAINE, as Malta,* from Mexico, March 24th, 1804. LYME, taken from Brownville, March 6th, 1818. ORLEANS, taken from Brownville, April 3d, 1821. PAMELIA, taken from Brownville, April 12th, 1819. PHILADELPHIA, taken from Le Ray, April 3d, 1821. RODMAN as Harrison,* from Adams, March 24th, 1804. RUTLAND, taken from Watertown, April 1st, 1802. THERESA, taken from Alexandria, April 15th, 1841. WATERTOWN, taken from Mexico, March 14th, 1800. WILNA, taken from Le Ray and Leyden, April 2d, 1813. WORTH, taken from Lorraine, April 12th, 1848.
At the time when the county began to settle, its territory was embraced in two towns of Oneida County. All south of Black River was a part of Mexico, and all north of the river belonged to Leyden. The subdivisions that had preceded these, were briefly as follows: In 1788 (March 7), Whitestown was formed as a part of Montgomery County, embracing all north, south, and west, to the bounds of the state, from which, by successive divisions, many hundred towns have since sprung. Steuben was formed April 10th, 1792, from which Leyden was erected, March 10th, 1797, embracing besides its present limits, all east and north of the river in this county and Lewis. By the same act the town of Mexico was formed, with most of Oswego, the south part of Jefferson, and west half of Lewis for its limits, and from this town, Champion, Watertown, and Lowville, were formed, March 14th, 1800, by one act; Adams, April 1st, 1802, and Ellisburgh, February 22d, 1803. Simeon De Witt in his map of the state east of the preemption line, published in 1802, adopted the following names to the towns in the county.
Penet Square, now in Clayton and Orleans, PENET.+ Great tract number four, CASTORLAND.
Purchase of the French Company, CHASSANIS.
Bl'k R. Tract, No. 1, now Houndsfield, HESIOD. 66 66 2, 66 3, Rutland, MILAN.
" Watertown, LEGHORN.
66 66 66
4, Champion, HOWARD.
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66 66 Henderson, HENDERSON.
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66 Adams, ALEPPO.
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7, 8, Rodman, ORPHEUS.
Town of Ellisburgh, MINOS.
Boylston Tract No. 1, now Lorraine, ATTICUS. 66 66 2, " Worth, FENELON.
But one of these has since been preserved.
* Changed to their present names, April 6th, 1808.
t A manuscript map of 1798 gives the name of Penet's Square as Richeland.
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Adams.
ADAMS,
Was formed from Mexico, embracing townships No. 7 and 8, on the 1st of April, 1802, the first town meeting being held at the house of Eliphalet Edmonds. The town derived its name from president John Adams.
Notes from the town records .- Wolf bounties of $5 were offered in 1803; of $10 from 1804 to 1814; of $15 in 1815. In the latter year a bounty of $10 was offered for wild cats, and $1 for foxes. A special meeting was held December 20th, 1815, and these bounties were rescinded. In 1818, a wolf bounty of $10 was offered. Panther bounties of $10 offered in 1811, 1813.
In 1822-3, the poor upon the town were voted to be sold at auction, to the lowest bidder. In 1823, the town voted against adopting the poor house, and house of industry, recommended by the supervisors. In 1812, a penalty of $5 voted for allowing Canada thistles to go to seed. At a special town meeting, passed November 29th, 1842, the sum of $500 was voted for repairing the state road from Rome to Sackett's Harbor in the towns of Redfield and Boylston.
At the first town meeting of Adams, held March 1, 1803 the following town officers were elected: Nicholas Salisbury supervisor; Phineas Keith, clerk; D'Estaing Salisbury, John W. Smith, David Grommon, Jr., Thomas White, assessors; Isaac Baker, collector; Thomas White, David Comstock, overseers of the poor; Paul Stickney, Jacob Kellogg, Simeon Hunt, commissioners of highways; Isaac Baker, and Anson Moody, constables; Daniel Comstock, David Smith, George H. Thomas, George Cooper, fence viewers; Jacob Kellogg, Benjamin Thomas, pound keepers; Abraham Ripley, James Perry, Enan Salisbury, John Cowles, Consider Law, Solomon Robbins, Heze- kiah Tiffany, Thomas White, Daniel Mansfield, Asa Davis, Squire Read, Abel Palmer, overseers of highways; David Com- stock, Simeon Hunt, deer reeves.
Supervisors. 1803-12, Nicholas Salisbury; 1813, Jacob Kel- logg; 1814-17, N. Salisbury; 1818-20, Eliphalet Edmonds; 1821-26, Wm. Hart; 1827-28, Isaac Baker; 1829-30, Cyrus Eddy; 1831, Chauncey Baker; 1832, Isaac Baker; 1833, Cyrus Eddy; 1834, Wells Benton; 1835, David J. M. Howard; 1836, Isaac Baker; 1837, Samuel Bond; 1838, D. J. M. Howard; 1839-40, John H. Whipple; 1841, Robert B. Doxtater; 1842-43, Rufus Herick; 1844, Abram Sheldon; 1845-47, Joseph L. Green; 1848, Charles Potter; 1849-52, John C. Cooper; 1853, Joseph C. Green.
Adams, or No. 7, fell to the share of Nicholas Low, in the
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subdivision of the eleven towns, by ballot, and was surveyed by Benjamin Wright in 1796, into 56 lots, numbered from west to east, and from north to south, commencing near Henderson Bay, and ending on the line of Lorraine. Mr. Wright complained of local attractions, that rendered it impossible to run straight lines. The lots varied in contents from 240 acres to 676 acres, and the whole made an aggregate of 26,505 acres.
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