Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume I, Part 30

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 680

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(III) Edward (3), son of Edward (2) and Rebecca (Barsham) Winship, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 9, 1684, died May 15, 1763. He was tythingman in Lexington in 1714; fence viewer, 1716; con- stable, 1717. He owned the covenant in Lex- ington, September 1, 1706, which is probably the date of his removal to that town. He was a wheelwright. He married, about 1705, Sarah Manning. Children: Edward, of further mention ; Rebecca, born August 22, 1709, mar- ried John Manning; Sarah, born June 28, 1712; Jonathan, died young; Mary, born June 25, 1716; Jonathan, born May 28, 1719, mar- ried Elizabeth Cutler; Isaac, born June 8. 1724.

(IV) Edward (4), son of Edward (3) and Sarah (Manning) Winship, was born August 25, 1706, died December 7, 1773. He was a wheelwright, and resided at Lexington, Massa- chusetts. He married Esther who died October 10, 1785, aged eighty-five years. Children: Thomas, born October 25, 1729; married Sarah Harrington; Benjamin, of fur- ther mention; Edward (5), born January 18, 1733; married Hepzibah Laughton; Joel, No- vember 13, 1734; married Elizabeth Grant ; Amos, died young; Mary, baptized 1738; Esther, born January 21, 1739, died April 28, 1789, unmarried; Evebell, February 2, 1743: Joshua, January 27, 1748.

(V) Benjamin, son of Edward (4) and Esther Winship, was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, April 12, 1731. He married Abigail Children: Benjamin (2), of further mention ; Abel, baptized September 12, 1756; married Abigail Muzzry.

(VI) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) and Abigail Winship, was baptized at Menot- omy, Massachusetts, March 30, 1755, died in Cattaraugus county, New York. He lived in Lexington and Salem, Massachusetts. He married, April 4, 1788, Mary, daughter of John Adams. Children: Joseph, Isaac, Han- nah, Mary, Emma, Benjamin, and Eunice, married a Bardien, of Syracuse, New York ; has C. W., son. Joseph and Isaac went to the state of Georgia where they became very rich.

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During the civil war their fortunes were swept away but with the restoration of peace they' retrieved their fallen fortunes and died very wealthy.

(VII) Benjamin (3), youngest son of Ben- jamin (2) and Mary (Adams) Winship, was born, 1796, died in Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, New York, December 10, 1851. He served in the war of 1812 and received a land warrant from the government for his services. After his death an additional grant of land was made to his widow. In 1817-18 he located on a farm at Little Valley Center, now Elk- dale post office. He made the journey from New England with a yoke of oxen and a wagon, being six weeks on the journey. He contracted for five hundred acres of land. In 1832 he received a deed for the first fifty acres to which he added until he had a good farm of one hundred and fifty-six acres. He was a man of influence in the town, serving as assessor, town clerk and commissioner of highways. He is buried in the cemetery near the homestead, with father, mother and wife.

He married, in 1823, Hannah Sanders, of Ashford, born in Salem, Massachusetts, daugh- ter of James Sanders. Children: 1. Nathan, born June 29, 1824, died at Tunnel City, Wis- consin, April 14, 1866; he married Eunice Wheeler and settled on a farm in Little Val- ley. In 1856 he sold it and removed to Wis- consin, where he was first a farmer, then mer- chant and postmaster, at Tunnel City: chil- dren : i. Marilla, married Dr. William Donald; ii. Albina, married Charles Tarr; iii. Alice, married Warren Page; iv. John E., married Eliza Woodward. 2. Charles, born 1826, died May 1, 1880; settled on a farm in his native town, Little Valley, and was also a carpenter ; served as overseer of the poor ; married (first) Eveline Stark; children : i. Emory, married Ida Raysey ; ii. Erastus, married Ollie Wheel- er ; iii. Charles (2), married Carrie McMillan ; married (second) - - Smith, child, Deva. 3. Benjamin S., born 1828, died April 15, 1882; was merchant and liveryman at Little Valley, then moved to Wisconsin, where he was in the hotel business ; later a merchant and lum- berman; married China Thompson. 4. Joseph, born September 1, 1833, died September 23, 1881 ; was a school teacher in Cattaraugus county ; moved to Wisconsin where he was a farmer and teacher; served in Union army during the civil war ; married Laura W. Well- ington; children: Addison and Nellie J. 5.

Isaac, born 1835, died 1906; settled on the homestead farm and was a noted breeder of thoroughbred and standard Holstein cattle. He was a Democrat ; was supervisor, justice of the peace twelve years, and overseer of the poor; married Adeline Stark; child, Robert, married Lizzie Newell and has a daughter, Nellie. 6. Truman, of further mention. 7. Esther, went west as a teacher; married, in Wisconsin, E. D. Carter, and settled in Hum- bird; children : Edwin, died in the Black Hills ; Mamie, Harry M. and Archie.

(VIII) Truman, youngest son of Benjamin (3) and Hanmah (Sanders) Winship, was born in Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, New York, September 26, 1837. He was educated in the public schools with two terms at select school, and grew to manhood on the old home- stead farm that was his birthplace. For sev- eral years he was a partner with Isaac, his brother, in operating the farm and in the fancy Holstein cattle business. In 1863 they divided the farm of two hundred and fifty-eight acres, Truman taking a small acreage, and then pur- chasing the Donaldson farm adjoining, mak- ing a valuable tract of three hundred and ten acres. He was a successful farmer and stock breeder, his herd of Holsteins being of excep- tionally high grade. He was also interested in lumbering, cutting, logging and rafting down the river to city markets at Pittsburg and Cin- cinnati. His dairy interests were large and he was one of the largest cheese manufacturers in that section. He was an active, energetic, successful business man, and shared his pros- perity. When his daughters married he gave to each a part of the home farm, and was lib- eral in all his dealings. He is now practically retired from arduous business cares but retains an active interest in the lumber business at Little Valley. He is an uncompromising Dem- ocrat and served as highway commissioner. In religious faith he is a Congregationalist, serving as trustee of Little Valley church.

He married, May 30, 1860, Candis, born April 24, 1838, daughter of Edwin Fairbrother, a farmer and shoemaker, who came to Mans- field, New York, from Vermont; married Eliza, daughter of Amos and Olive (Bruce) Jackson. Children of Edwin and Eliza Fair- brother: 1. Irwin, married Helen Pierce; children : Frank and Adelaide. 2. Candis, married Truman Winship. 3. Orlando, mar- ried Mary Wenn; children: Eldon, Emma, Anna, Arthur and Oscar. 4. Emmeline, mar-

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ried Burton Chapin; children : Alinead, Ger- trude and Edith. 5. Alonzo, married Berthuna Crippen ; children : Frank, Jennie, Cora and Mary. Children of Truman and 'Candis Win- ship: 1. Edwin S., born April 7, 1862; mar- ried, November 8, 1883, Mary A. Stevens, born May 17, 1861. Children : i. Ara F., born August 22, 1884; married, September 12, 1908, Vera McKilburn; has Dorothy M., born June 17, 1909, and Marian E., May 17, 1911; ii. James B., born June 18, 1890, deceased. 2. Minnie E., born May 26, 1866; married, March 30, 1887, Willis T. Eighme, born June 10, 1858; children : i. Eugenia C., born June 24, 1900; ii. Richard P .. , February 8, 1902. 3. Alvina A., born March 10, 1870; married, May 11, 1890, Burt L. Stratton, born November 19, 1868; children : i. Marjorie B., born November 10, 1892; ii. Mabel Mae, August 27, 1897. 4. . Tessa May, born September 6, 1871 ; married, February 15, 1890, Merritt P. Chase, born May 7. 1868. Children: i. Lelah L., born December 13, 1890; married, June 1. 1910. Warden Buffington ; ii. Helen L., February 15, 1892 ; iii. Truman W., December 26, 1904.

MARK James Mark was born in 1788, and came from Delaware county, New York, in 1808, at the age of twenty years, to Fredonia, New York. He served as a private in the war of 1812 under Captain Hale, in a company of militia at the defense of Buffalo, and took part in the battle of Black Rock, and witnessed the burning of Buffalo. In after years he was widely known in the northern part of the county as a manu- facturer of pearl ash from salts of lye, or black salts, then the chief cash commodity of the settlers. In 1836 he removed to the village of Hamlet, New York, in the town of Ville- nova, and in partnership with John Z. Saxton, of Fredonia, began business as a general mer- chant and manufacturer of potash and pearl ash, continuing long and successfully in these lines. He died in 1855. He married Lucy Woodcock, a native of Vermont. Children, the first six born in Fredonia, the seventh in Hamlet: 1. Lucy E., married Eri Spencer. and died in 1860. 2. Charles LeRoy, men- tioned below. 3. Dr. Andrew J., died in 1860. 4. Professor George A. 5. Harriet A., married Albert M. Woodcock. 6. John F. 7. Janette, died in 1887: married William Delaney.

(II) Charles LeRoy, son of James Mark, was born at Fredonia, New York, August 12,

1822, and died at Winter Park, Florida, De- 'cember 24, 1904. He attended the public schools and Fredonia Academy until 1836. when he removed with his parents to the vil- lage of Hamlet, Villenova, New York. He spent the winter of 1843-4 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He made the journey largely by water, the railroads not having reached that section, and the journey by canal, river and lake, occupied two weeks. Returning with health much improved in 1845, he became a partner with his father in the general mer- chandise business and the manufacture of pot and pearl ashes, continuing until the year 1851. During the next two years he was in the same line of business, in partnership with Martin Crowell. In 1855 he engaged in business alone as a general merchant, and continued for about five years. At the age of thirty-eight. having accumulated a competence, he retired from active business and made his home for a few years at Middletown, near Cincinnati. Ohio. Afterwards he returned to Fredonia and lived there during his last years. After he retired, however, he traveled extensively with his wife, spending a year in California, two or three years in Colorado, and during the winter months for nineteen years he went to Florida, where he owned an orange planta- tion and a fine residence at Winter Park. For more than thirty years he spent the months of August and September at various summer re- sorts in the United States and Canada, seeking relief from hay fever, from which he was an annual sufferer. Mr. Mark was a member of the board of managers of the State Normal School at Fredonia from 1877 until his death. He was a man of conspicuous public spirit. lending his aid and support to all movements for the welfare of the community, and con- tributing freely of his wealth to various public enterprises. To the Barber library he gave a donation of $1,000, and at a cost of $2,000 erected two beautiful public fountains in the parks of the village. He and his wife were members of the Free Baptist Church in Ham- let until they removed to Fredonia, when they joined the Presbyterian Church. He married. September 3, 1846, Julia Peirce, daughter of Dr. Austin and Mary Ann (Sterling) Peirce. of Hamlet, granddaughter of Gurdon Peirce ( see Peirce).

(III) Professor Edward Laurens Mark. only child of Charles LeRoy and Julia ( Peirce) Mark, was born at Hamlet, New

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York, May 30, 1847. He attended the public schools and Fredonia Academy, where he was prepared for college. He entered the Univer- sity of Michigan, and was graduated in the class of 1871 with the degree of bachelor of arts. During the following year he was an instructor in the university. In 1872-73 he was employed by the government in the north- ern boundary survey, marking the line between the United States and British America. In 1873 he went abroad to pursue his studies at the German universities, and after taking his doctor's degree at Leipsic in 1876, returned to America to accept the chair of zoology in Harvard University, a position he has since filled with distinction, being at the present time head of the zoological department of the uni- versity. In 1898 Dr. Mark spent a Sabbatical year abroad with his family, visiting various institutions of learning and observing the zoological instructions given abroad. Upon his return to his duties at Harvard, a number of his former students and his associates con- ceived the project of publishing a volume of five hundred pages to be known as the "Mark Anniversary Volume," to commemorate the completion of twenty-five years of successful and productive labor as professor of zoology . in Harvard University. The project was well carried out, and the volume was presented at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Washington, D. C., in December, 1903. Among the contributors to the volume were: President Theodore Roosevelt, who was a student under Professor Mark; a Japanese professor of Tokio, Japan ; and professors in various American colleges. The work is embellished with numerous en- gravings, with a fine portrait of Dr. Mark for the frontispiece. It contains a list of the scientific publications from the zoological laboratory under Dr. Mark's direction. In 1904, Dr. Mark, representing Harvard, and Dr. Bristol, representing New York Univer- sity, spent the summer in the Bermuda Islands, establishing and organizing a biological station.

Professor Mark married, in 1873, Lucy T. King, of Dunkirk, New York, born in Cherry Valley, Ohio, daughter of Edwin and Eunice (Brigham) King. Children: I. Kenneth Lamartine, born at Leipsic, Germany, August 26, 1874; married Florence Wetherbee, of Roxbury (Boston), Massachusetts; he was formerly assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard College, and is now professor in the

same subject at Simmons College, Boston. 2. Freedrica, born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 7, 1880; married Professor George H. Chase, professor of archaeology, Harvard University ; child, Thomas King Chase, born at Cambridge.

(The Peirce Line).

(I) Thomas Peirce, the immigrant ances- tor, came from England in 1633-4 with his wife Elizabeth, and settled in Charlestown, Massa- chusetts. He was born in England in 1583-4, and died October 7, 1666; his wife was born in England in 1595-6. She was admitted to the church at Charlestown, January 10, and he February 21, 1634-5. He was made freeman May 6, 1635. On September 27, 1642, he was chosen one of twenty-one commissioners to the general court "to see that Saltpetre heapes were made by all the farmers of the colony." He made his will November 7, 1665. Chil- dren, born in Charlestown: John; Samuel; Thomas, mentioned below; Robert; Mary : Elizabeth ; Persis; Abigail, born June 17, 1639.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) Peirce, was born in 1608, and died November 6, 1683. He lived in Charlestown Village, now Woburn, Massachusetts. He was often called Sergeant Thomas Peirce. He was admitted to the church February 21, 1634. He was in Woburn as early as 1643, and was taxed there in 1645. In 1660 he was selectman there, and often afterwards was on the committee for dividing the common lands. In 1668 he was on the general court committee appointed for that purpose. He married, May 6, 1635, Eliz- abeth Cole, who died March 5, 1688. Chil- dren : Abigail, born August 17, 1639; John, March 7, 1643; Thomas, June 21, 1645; Eliz- abeth, December 25, 1646; Joseph, September 22, 1648, died February 27, 1649; Joseph, August 13, 1649; Stephen, July 16, 1651 ; Sam- uel, February 20, 1654, died October 27, 1655; Samuel, mentioned below ; William, March 7, 1658; James, May 7, 1659; Abigail, November 20, 1660; Benjamin.

(III) Samuel, son of Thomas (2) Peirce. was born April 7, 1656, and died July 5, 1721, at Woburn, where he lived. On July 28, 1721, he was administrator of his father's estate. He married, December 9, 1680, Lydia Bacon. who was born March 6, 1656, and died Decem- ber 5, 1717. Children, born in Woburn: Samuel, mentioned below; Lydia, born May 25, 1683; Joseph, March 28, 1685. died young ;

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Isaac, March 22, 1687; Abigail, February 27, 1689; Sarah, June 22, 1691; Ruth, February 14, 1693; Tabitha, August 28, 1697, died Sep- tember 30, 1697; Tabitha, March 10, 1700.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Peirce, was born at Woburn, November 25, 1681, and died January 26, 1774. He lived at Woburn and Wilmington, Massachusetts, and at Mansfield, Connecticut. He married, June 14, 1705, Abigail Johnson, who died March 16, 1787. Children : Samuel, born June 3, 1706; Josiah, July 13, 1708; Abigail, February 28, 1711; Esther, February 7, 1715; Seth, men- tioned below ; Enoch, March 22, 1719.

(V) Seth, son of Samuel (2) Peirce, was 'born November 30, 1716, and died December 5, 1794, at Mansfield, Connecticut, where he lived. He married, November 10, 1743, Eliza- beth Nye, of Tolland, Connecticut, who was born in 1680, and died May 14, 1749. Chil- dren : Seth, mentioned below; Elizabeth, born June 2, 1748; Enoch; Dan.

(VI) Seth (2), son of Seth (1) Peirce, was born September 12, 1744, and died in Homer, New York, in 1835. He married (first), April 17, 1767, Bethiah Fields, who was born in 1745, and died September 18, 1807. He married (second), in 1813, Patty Rindge, who died in 1829. Children, by first wife: Sarah, born November 20, 1767; Lucinda, September 14, 1769; Bennett, Sep- tember 12, 1771, died March 17, 1773; Gurdon, mentioned below; Bennett, July 14, 1775; Samuel, May 23, 1777, died August 26, 1778; Samuel, May 20, 1779; Elijah, April 27, 1781 ; Seth, February 17, 1784; Daniel, March 16, 1786; Elizabeth, September 12, 1788; Bela, April 13, 1792.

(VII) Gurdon, son of Seth (2) Peirce, was born August 31, 1773, and died February 7, 1875. He lived at Thetford and Norwich, Vermont, and at Pitcher, New York. He mar- ried, in 1796, Thirsa Smalley, who died in 1861. Children: Almira, born 1798; Austin, mentioned below; Minerva P., January 25, 1803; Francis S., February 6, 1806; Royal S., January 8, 1812.

(VIII) Dr. Austin Peirce, son of Gurdon Peirce, was born September 2, 1799, in Thet- ford. Vermont, and died June 17, 1861. He lived at Villenova, Chautauqua county, New York, where he settled in April, 1829, living there the rest of his life. He was graduated from the Medical College at Fairfield, New York. He practiced medicine until 1850, when

he was attacked with a spinal disease and kept to his bed for nearly twelve years. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. For a number of years he was supervisor of the town, and he was repesentative to the general assembly in 1841 and 1842. He married, March 17, 1826, Mary Ann Sterling. Chil- dren: Julia M., born October 9, 1829, mar- ried, September 3, 1846, Charles L. Mark (see Mark) ; William P., born March 25, 1830; Ellen E., December 18, 1831 ; Lucius G. C., February 5, 1836; Theresa M., September 2, 1838; Gurdon L., January 25, 1841 ; Henry A., October 11, 1843; Austin L., June 9, 1848.

FREEMAN This old English name is un- doubtedly derived from the condition of the first who assumed it as a surname. In that ancient day the holding of slaves was a common custom in England, and undoubtedly the condition of a freeman was something of which to be proud. The family has long been established in Amer- ica, and has borne no inconsiderable part in promoting the progress and development of the nation, and this has been the patronymic of several distinguished citizens.

(I) Edmond Freeman, born in England, in 1590, came to America in the ship "Abigail," in July, 1635, with his wife Elizabeth and children Alice, Edmond, Elizabeth and John. He settled that year in Lynn, Massachusetts, and presented to the colony twenty corselets, or pieces of plate armour. He was subse- quently in the Plymouth colony, and with nine associates was recognized by the government as a suitable person to originate a new settle- ment. He was admitted freeman at Plym- outh, January 2, 1637, and resided for a time in Duxbury, settling in what was subsequently incorporated as the town of Sandwich. Most of the grantees of this town were formerly residents of Lynn. Mr. Freeman had large grants of land, and was evidently one of the foremost men in the enterprise. He was elected as assistant to the governor, and com- missioner to hear and determine courses with- in several contiguous townships. He was one of the first judges of the select court of Plym- outh county. During the persecution of the Quakers he opposed the course of the authori- ties, and was at one time fined ten shillings for refusing to aid in the "baiting" of Friends under pretense of law. He was highly re- spected, a man of firm principles and decisive

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action, yet quite unobtrusive, without personal ambition, of unerring integrity and sound judgment. He died in 1682 at the advanced age of ninety-two years, and was buried on his own land on the hill, in the rear of his dwell- ing at Sandwich. It is the oldest burial place in the town, and his grave and that of his wife are marked by two boulders which he placed in position after her death, and called, from fancied resemblances, "the saddle and pillion." His home was a mile and a quarter west of the present town hall, and near the junction of the old and new county roads to the Cape. His wife died February 14, 1676. Children : Alice, Edmond, Elizabeth, John, and Mary.

(II) Major John Freeman, second son of Edmond and Elizabeth Freeman, was born about 1627, in England, and died October 28, 1719, at his home in Eastham, Massachusetts. In 1650 he bought land in Sandwich, on Skauton Neck, called by the Indians, Arquid Neck. He was among the earliest settlers of Eastham, and was conspicuous in military service in the Indian wars. He is first en- titled lieutenant, subsequently captain, and later major. He was a large landholder, and very active in civil affairs, being selectman ten years from 1663; deputy to the general court eight years from 1654, and assistant to the governor several years beginning with 1666.

December 7, 1692, he was appointed judge of the court of common pleas. For many years he served as deacon of the church, and was regarded as one of the fathers of Eastham. He married, February 13, 1650, Mercy, daugh- ter of Governor Prince, born 1631, died Sep- tember 28, 1711. Children: John (died young), John, Thomas, Patience, Hannah, Edmond, Mercy, William, Prince, Nathaniel and Bennett.

(III) Lieutenant Edmond Freeman, fourth son of Major John and Mary ( Prince) Free- man, was born in 1657, probably in Sandwich, and died December 10, 1717, in Eastham. He resided in that part of the town called Tonset, and was a distinguished citizen, serving many years as selectman, and carrying a large influ- ence in the community. He married (first) Ruth, daughter of William Merrick, and (second) Sarah, daughter of Samuel Mayo. Children: Ruth, Sarah, Mary, Isaac, Ebene- zer, Edmond, Experience, Mercy, Thankful, Elizabeth, Hannah and Rachel.

(IV) Ebenezer, second son of Lieutenant Edmond Freeman, was born about 1687, in

Eastham, and died June 11, 1760. He was the first of the family to settle in the district called Billingsgate, in that part of Eastham which afterward became the town of Wellfleet. He married, October 12, 1710, Abigail, daughter of David and Anne (Doane) Young, born September 28, 1688, died June 12, 1781, in her ninety-third year. Children: Jenette, born December 17, 1711; Thankful, February 15, 1715; Anna, June 6, 1717; Ebenezer, No- vember 30, 1719; Edmond, probably 1722; Isaac, about 1733.

(V) A son of Ebenezer Freeman, believed to be Edmond.

(VI) Elmer, grandson of Ebenezer and Abigail (Young) Freeman, was born in Well- fleet, Massachusetts, in 1787. He lived in Worcester county until 1816, when he removed to Chautauqua county, New York, settling at Jamestown, where he died in 1857. He came to Jamestown in company with Rufus Pier. They built a two-story shop on First street, opposite the present Erie depot, and began the manufacture of hats grading from cheap wool to the finest beaver. In 1830 Mr. Freeman built a shop on Main street just below the Tew building, afterwards occupied by Dr. Frank Ormes as an office. The shops on Main and on First streets were run in full operation for several years, and were among the boasted early industries of Jamestown. For two or three years Mr. Freeman had his home at Cross Roads, then built a residence on the north corner of Cherry and First streets, near his hat shop. He was a prosperous business man, and one of Jamestown's foremost citi- zens. His wife Amanda, was born in 1790, died 1859, and is buried in Lakeview cemetery beside her husband. Children: I. Lucy, born 1812, died 1889; married Robert V. Cunning- ham. 2. Maria, born 1814, died 1897 ; married William P. Proudfit. 3. Horace, removed to Belvidere, Illinois, where he died. 4. Hull, of further mention. 5. Henry, lost on steamer "Erie," on Lake Erie. 6. Hannah, born 1822, died 1882.

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Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, Volume I, Part 30

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Publication date: 1912 Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 680

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 680