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(II) David, son of Daniel Kennedy, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, July 7. 1683. He removed to Hampton, Connecticut, with his brothers and sisters, and the village in which they lived was named Kennedy Village for the family. He married, November 5. 1718, at Windham (later Hampton ), Margaret Lam- bert, or Lombard. Children, born at Hamp- ton : Sarah, October 13, 1720 ; Hannah, March
3. 1723; Elizabeth, June 4, 1726; David, men- tioned below : Daniel, June 19, 1730, died 1732 ; John, November 18, 1732.
( 111) David (2), son of David (1) Ken- nedy, was born at Windham, or Hampton, Connecticut, March 28, 1728. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, in 1758, in the Seventh company, Captain Benjamin Leet, of Plainfield : Third Regiment, Colonel Eleazer Fitch, and again, in 1759, in Captain George Crary's company, same regiment ( see "French and Indian War Records," vol. ii., coll. x., "Conn. State Hist. Society," pp. 64, 170). He married there, January 10, 1750, Deborah Jen- nings. Children : Sybil, born October 5, 1750; Hannah, August 20. 1752; David, mentioned below : Margaret, September 8, 1757; Nathan- iel, February 1, 1768; Deborah, August 12, 1770: Hadasseh, May 2, 1775.
(IV) David (3), son of David (2) Ken- nedy, was born at Hampton, January 20, 1755. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, a sergeant, some time between 177- and 1781. in Captain Eels' company, in the Connecticut Line, Third Regiment. He appears also as a soldier on the Lexington alarm, under Major James Gordon, of Voluntown (p. 24, "Conn. Rev. War Rolls"). He seems also to have been in Captain Daniel Clark's company, in 1777, at Stillwater, and in Captain Moses Branch's company in 1777-78. Ile married Lucy Jennings. Children: Rufus, mentioned below : Erastus, and Cora.
(\') Rufus, son of David (3) Kennedy, was a soldier in Captain Palmer's company. in the war of 1812, and was in service at New London ( see "Conn. War of 1812 Records," published by the state). He married Polly Hunt. Their daughter, Mary Ann, married John White Freeman ( see Freeman VII).
(The Freeman Line).
( I ) Samuel Freeman, immigrant ancestor, is designated with the title "Mr .. " and call- ed "gentleman" in the records. He came to Watertown, Massachusetts, from Mawlyn, county Kent, England, and had deed of Eng- lish property, July 22, 1640. His house, in Watertown, was burned February 11, 1630. He married Apphia - Children : Henry, gave a letter of attorney, December. 12, 1646. for collection of a legacy from his grand- mother, Priscilla Freeman, of Blackfriars, Lon- don, deceased ; Samuel, mentioned below.
( 11) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Free-
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man, was born at Watertown, May 11, 1638. He must have been closely related to Edmund Freeman, progenitor of most of the Cape Cod families, two of whose sons, Edmund and John, married daughters of Governor Thomas Prince (Prence). The history of Eastham says Samuel Freeman was taken thither by Governor Prince ( Prence), who married his mother. At any rate the Prence and Freeman families were closely allied, and many descend- ants of Edmund and some of Samuel were named for the governor, Prince Freeman. Sam- uel became a prominent citizen of Eastham ; he married there, May 12, 1658, Mercy, daugh- ter of Constant Southworth, who was a son of the second wife of Governor William Brad- ford, and an early settler of Plymouth. Con- stant Southworth made bequest in his will to Mercy Freeman. Constant Southworth married. November 2, 1637, Elizabeth Collier, whose sister Mary married Governor Prince ( Prence ), April 1, 1636. Children of Samuel and Mercy (Southworth) Freeman: Apphia, born De- cember 11, 1660, died young: Samuel, born March 26, 1662; Apphia, Jannary I, 1667; Constant, mentioned below : Elizabeth, June 26, 1671.
(III) Captain Constant Freeman, son of Samuel (2) Freeman, was born in Eastham, March 31, 1669, died June 8, 1745. He mar- ried, October 11, 1694, Jane Treat. She died September 1, 1729, in her fifty-fourth year. Children, born at Eastham: Robert, mentioned below: Jane, September 2, 1697, died young : Jane, March 5, 1698-99; Constant, March, 1700, died at Truro, May 3, 1756; Mercy, born August 31, 1702; Hannah, May 3. 1704: Ed- ward, November 25, 1705; Elizabeth, Febrti- ary 4, 1707-08.
(IV) Robert, son of Captain Constant Free- man, was born at Eastham, August 12, 1606. Ile settled at Truro. He was dismissed from Truro to Pomfret, Connecticut, March 4. 1738- 39. Children: Elijah, mentioned below ; Re- becea, born September 25, 1724 ; perhaps others. James and Samuel were brothers of Elijah.
(V) Elijah, son of Robert Freeman, was born at Truro, January 6, 1722-23. He went to Pomfret, Connecticut, when a boy. He mar- ried, in 1767, perhaps for a second wife, Anne Eldredge. ( Eldred). In 1790 the first federal census gives Elijah Freeman, at Easton, Al- bany county, New York, with two males over sixteen, one under that age and two females.
Children : Prince, mentioned below : Barbara. James, Elijah, Polly and Jonathan.
(VI) Prince, son of Elijah Freeman, was born in 1768. He settled, in 1801, at Virgil. New York, and married Bethia White, at New Canaan, New York. Children : Lurinda, Polly. Anna, Rufus A., James, Peter E., Elijah ; John W., mentioned below, and Orrin Prince.
(VII) John White, son of Prince Freeman, was born in Virgil, New York, January 19. 1809, died December 9, 1878; married Mary Ann Kennedy, daughter of Rufus Kennedy (see Kennedy V). Their daughter Emma. born in Lapeer, New York, January 9. 1849, married. April 7, 1867, George Nelson Valen- tine ( see Valentine VIII). Their son Dwight was a soldier in the civil war, serving three years in the Thirtieth New York Engineer Corps. His son, John W., was a soldier in the Spanish-American war, and participated in the battle at Santiago; was a member of the Ninth Regiment, Regular Army, known as the "Fight- ing Ninth"; after his return he went, with his regiment, to the Philippines, where he was discharged, his term of enlistment having ex- pired.
PATTERSON This surname means, liter-
ally, son of Patrick, and belongs to a large class of
English and Scotch surnames, similarly de- rived. This family is particularly numerous in Scotland, in Stirlingshire, Aberdeenshire. Dumfriesshire, and in other counties. The spelling Paterson is most generally used. The Scotch-Irish, of this name, are very numerous in the counties of Down, Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, where the spelling is usually Patterson. The coat-of-arms of the Bishop of Ross, who belonged to the family of Paterson, is described: Argent, three peli- cans feeding their young in nests, vert, on a chief, azure, as many mullets of the field. The other Patterson arms are like this, or but little varied. Andrew Patterson, who settled at Stratford. Connecticut, before 1690, came from Hamilton, Scotland, and is the progenitor of many of the Connecticut families. Numerous pioneers of this surname came with the Scotch- Irish, about 1720, to New England.
(I) Shubael Patterson, pioneer ancestor, is said to have come to this country from Eng- land, about 1771. He appears to have settled in Berlin, Hartford county. Connecticut. In
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1790, according to the first federal census, Shubael (spelled Sherbial) Patterson had three males over sixteen and three females in his fam- ily. Of his family also doubtless were Edward and Elizabeth Patterson, who, according to the same census, were heads of families there. The name was formerly spelled Pattison pretty generally.
(II) David, son of Shubael Patterson, was born about 1755. According to family tradi- tion he served seven years in the revolution. He appears to have settled before the revolu- tion in Greenwich, Hampshire county, Massa- chusetts, and probably went to Vermont, be- fore the close of the war. David Patterson, of Greenwich, was in Captain Jonathan Bard- well's company, Colonel David Brewer's regi- ment, from Greenwich, in 1775; also in Cap- tain Smith's company, Colonel Marshall's regi- ment, in 1777; sergeant of Captain Josiah Smith's company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's regiment afterward. Further service of David Patterson appears in a company from Mon- tague, Massachusetts, and in Vermont. He married Heath, of Scotch or Scotch- Irish ancestry. They had eleven children.
(III) Lyman Patterson, or Pattison, seventh son of David Patterson, was born at Castle- ton, Rutland county, Vermont, March 28, 1794. He married (first), in 1815, Almira, daughter of Joseph Tuttle, of English ancestry. In 1816, with his wife and one child, Lyman Pat- terson removed from Vermont to the town of Volney, Oswego county, New York. The journey was made in the method in vogue in those days, with ox team, and required eighteen days of travel, and, when he reached his new home, he had but eighteen cents in money to begin life in the wilderness. He cleared a farm, and, in the course of time, became well- to-do, however. His wife died in 1828, and two years later he married (second) Graty Perkins, who died in 1836. He married (third). in 1838, Polly Jeffers. Children of first wife: Almira; George H .; William D., mentioned below. Child of second wife: Sylvanus, died in 1872, aged thirty-seven years. Child of third wife : Orson, drowned at the age of six years.
(IV) William D. Patterson, son of Lyman Patterson, or Pattison, was born in Fulton, New York. He was educated in the public schools of Fulton, and became one of the lead- ing citizens there, having been a trustee and president of the incorporated village of Fulton. For many years he was superintendent of the 18
Oswego canal. He was vice-president and trustee of the Fulton Savings Bank from the time it was organized until his death. In poli- tics he was a Democrat, in religion a Meth- odist. He married Adelia Keeler, a native of Rochester. Children: 1. Hattie A., born in Fulton, died in April, 1911, was the wife of S. F. Hill; one son, Demster. 2. ,Helen L., born in Fulton, wife of Monroe Skeel. 3. William H., mentioned below.
(V) William H., son of William D. Patter- son, was born in Fulton, December 21, 1863. He attended the public and high schools of his native town, and began his business career there as clerk in the dry goods store of Bennett & Stewart. After ten years he bought the dry goods store of C. E. Sacket, and engaged in business on his own account, as partner in the firm of Connell & Patterson. In 1896 he bought the interest of his partner, and since then has conducted the business under his own name. He has a large and flourishing trade, and has added to the business by buying an- other store and making various additions fron time to time. He is interested in various enterprises in Fulton, as stockholder. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of Fulton, and of the official board. In poli- tics he is a Democrat. For ten years he was a member of the board of education of Fulton, and. for two years, a member of the board of public works of the city. He is a member of the Fulton Chamber of Commerce; of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free and Accepted Masons ; of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Masonic Club.
He married, June 10, 1885, Frances L., daughter of Dr. D. E. and Jean Monroe (Miller ) Lake, granddaughter of William and Rachel (Tufft) Miller. William Miller set- tled at Battersea, Ontario, Canada. His wife Rachel was a native of Scotland. William Miller, father of William, married Eleanor, daughter of Jeremiah Utley, and granddaugh- ter of Jeremiah Utley, whose home was in northern Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have one child, Ethel L., wife of W. M. Dun- ham, of Fulton, now of Greene, New York : have one child, Frances Elizabeth.
Robert Potter, immigrant an-
POTTER cestor, came from Coventry, in England, in 1634, and was ad- mitted a freeman of Massachusetts, September 3, 1634. He is mentioned first as a farmer in
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Lynn, Massachusetts, and removed thenee to Roxbury. He became a follower of Samuel Gorton, and, in 1637, he was one of those summoned before the general court for not conforming to the dictation of the church and other authorities. With Gorton and others Potter became one of the owners of a tract of land, purchased of the Indians, called Shawo- mett Purchase, in Rhode Island, afterwards named Warwick, in honor of the Earl of War- wick, who had befriended the exiles from Mas- sachusetts. Gorton came from Groton, Eng- land. Potter was admitted an inhabitant of Aquidneck, Rhode Island, in 1638; on April 30, 1639, he and twenty-eight others signed the compact, on which the civil government of the town rested. Gorton, Potter and others agreed with the Friends in rejecting church ordinances, but differing in other points. The pioncers were not without their troubles in Rhode Island. Potter, Carden, Houlden and Shotten were ordered disarmed and disfran- chised, March 16, 1642, for some religious reasons, it is presumed. In the same year Potter sold his house, at Portsmouth, to his brother-in-law, John Anthony. The persecu- tion by the Boston bigots continued. In 1643 Robert Potter, with others of the Shawomett purchase. was notified to appear before the general court of Massachusetts, on an alleged complaint of Indians, from whom land was bought unjustly. The summons was not obey- ed, the Rhode Island men denying jurisdiction. Captain Cook, with a company of soldiers, was then sent from Boston and besieged the set- tlers in a fortified house. In a parley it was then said "that they held blasphemous errors which they must repent of or go to Boston for trial." They were soon all taken to Boston. excepting Shotten, and seven of them, viz : Gor- ton, Wickes, Houlden, Potter, Carden, Weston and Warner, sentenced to be confined in dif- ferent towns. At the time of their capture their wives and children were forced to betake themselves to the woods, and suffered hard-
ships that resulted in the death of three women. one of whom was the wife of Robert Potter. In reality the sentence of the Puritan Inquisi- tion was that they be condemned to death and executed, provided they attempted to escape or maintained their religious beliefs, which were described as "blasphemous and abomin- able heresies." But the indignation of the general public at the cruelty of the punish- ment eventually caused their release or banish-
ment. Gorton and some associates went to England to present the case to the commission- ers of foreign plantations and naturally enough secured an order reinstating them in the prop- erty at Shawomett, and prohibiting further molestation from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Potter and others of Roxbury were excom- municated for supporting Mrs. Hutchinson.
In 1649 Mr. Potter was licensed to keep an inn ; in 1651 he was a commissioner. He died in 1656, and left a small estate, over which his widow had some difficulties. She married (second ) John Sanford, and she died in Bos- ton. in 1686. Her will was dated March 16, 1686, and proved May 4, following. She be- queathed to the children of John Potter, and to others. His first wife was Isabel who died in 1643, as related. Children of first wife: Elizabeth, born at Roxbury; Deliver- ance, at Portsmouth, 1637; Isabel, at Ports- mouth, died August 26. 1724 ; John, mentioned below.
(II) John, son of Robert Potter, was born at Portsmouth, in 1639, died there in 1694. He was admitted a freeman in 1660. He was deputy to the general assembly from Ports- mouth, in 1667-71-72-80-83. He served in a court martial, at Newport, for trial of certain Indians, charged with being engaged in King Philip's designs, August 24. 1676. He was assistant in 1685-86. He deeded land to his son Robert, October 10, 1687, and he and his son Robert sold land to John Anthony, April 28, 1688. He deeded also to sons Fisher and John and Samuel in 1692-93. Ile married (first) Ruth, daughter of Edward and Judith Fisher : (second) Sarah (Wright) Collins. Children by first wife, born at Warwick : Rob- ert, March 5, 1665: Fisher, July 12, 1667; John, mentioned below ; William, May 23. 1671 ; Samuel, January 10, 1672; Isabella, Oc- tober 17, 1674: Ruth, November 29, 1676; Ed- ward. November 25. 1678: Content, October 2, 1680.
(1]I) John (2), son of John ( 1) Potter, was born at Warwick. November 21, 1669, died February 5, 1711. He married Jane. daughter of Roger and Mary Burlingame. He was killed by the fall of a tree and his widow married, December 27, in the same year. his brother, Edward Potter. Each of the brothers had a son, John Potter, who grew to maturity, each having the same mother. The jury mak- ing an inquest on the death of Potter found him to be "AAxedentolly excesery" to his own
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death. It may be mentioned also that Thomas Fenner, assistant, refused to marry the widow to her husband's brother, on account of the relationship which under English law was a bar. Children of John Potter and wife Jane, born at Cranston : John, before 1695; Fisher, mentioned below ; Mary : William; Amy, and Alice.
(IV) Fisher, son of John (2) Potter, was born September 29, 1706, at Cranston, Rhode Island, died April 28, 1789. He married, No- vember 10, 1728, Mary Winsor, born 1707, died 1789, daughter of Samuel Jr. and Mercy ( Harding or Harden) Winsor. Children, the five eldest born at Cranston, the four others at Scituate, Rhode Island: Philip, August 27, 1729; Samuel, January 10, 1731 : Mary, De- cember 23, 1733: Fisher, June 10, 1735 : Jere- miah, March 3, 1737; Phebe, May 20, 1742; Christopher, mentioned below ; John, Novem- ber II. 1747; Winsor, January 15, 1749.
(\') Christopher, son of Fisher Potter, was born at Scituate, Rhode Island, August 22. 1744, died July 23, 1822. He married, Sep- tember 12, 1765. Wait Waterman. born 1750, died in 1835, daughter of Colonel John and Sally ( Fenner ) Waterman. Children, born at Scituate : William, April 5, 1766; Emor, July 23. 1767; Phebe, February 1, 1769; Pardon : Charles ; Harden, or Harding, mentioned below : Edward ; Isaac D., April 8, 1786 : James : Lillis.
(VI) Harden, or Harding, son of Christo- pher Potter, was born at Scituate, Rhode Island, June 8, 1779, died at Solon, now Taylor, New York, October 22, 1857. Ile came to New York state, when a young man, and made his home at Taylor, where he followed the occupation of farming until his death. He married Ruth Champion, of Stark, Herkimer county, New York, born May 8, 1790, died January 17. 1836. daughter of Dan and Ruth ( Harris) Cham- pion (see Champion V). Children : John, born November 10, 1808, died May 17, 1885: Dan- iel Champion, July 1, 1810. died May 9. 1826 ; Charles, November 28, 1811. died May 10. 1881 : Joel, October 19, 1813. died January. 1908: Erastus, June 7, 1815, died July 17. 1896 ; Harris, born March 31, 1817, died Sep- tember 22, 1885 : Elisha, born August 22, 1819. died February 22, 1821 ; Philander, February 25, 1821, died April 14, 1901 ; Nelson, March 9, 1823, died June 18, 1895 : Chauncy D., Au- gust 20. 1826, died June 16, 1869, soldier in the civil war, Seventy-sixth New York Regi- ment ; Elijah Champion, March 26, 1828, died
September 27, 1855; Edmund, mentioned be- low ; David King, born January 20, 1837.
(VII) Edmund, son of Harden, or Hard- ing, Potter, was born in Solon, now Taylor, Cortland county, New York, September 20, 1830, died at Cortland, April 11, 1906. He was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of blacksmith. For many years he resided in Taylor and Cincinnatus, New York, and was, for some some years, em- ployed by Kingman, Sturtevant & Larabie, in the carriage business, as a blacksmith. When this firm moved the business to Binghamton he went with them and worked there, for ten years, in the same business. In 1893 he came to Cortland, and, for twelve years, was em- ployed by the Cortland Carriage Company. He resided in Cortland the remainder of his life. In politics he was a Republican, and, for twenty years, was postmaster of Taylor. Ile held the office of justice of the peace many years. He was an expert penman and used to give lessons in penmanship. Hle was a mem- ber of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
Ile married ( first ), November 30, 1851. Lillis Cole, of Solon, now Taylor, born in 1832, died April 28, 1861. He married ( second ). November 21, 1861, Jane llalbert, born June 26. 1825. died April 23. 1899. He married ( third ). September 27, 1901, Mrs. Hattie Chat- field. Children by first wife: I. Velma D .. born October 16, 1852, died April 6, 1899: married Andrew Hutchinson ; children: Ed- ward A., Richard D., De Forrest, Harley, Al- bert Hutchinson. 2. Lucy Jane, born May 5 1855, died September 25, 1874. 3. Lafarenza L., born June 23, 1859, died January 22, 1893 4. Herbert Louie, mentioned below.
(VIII ) Herbert Louie, son of Edmund Pot- ter, was born at Cincinnatus, New York, April 20, 1861. He was educated in the district schools of Taylor, New York, and, for six years after leaving school, worked on a farm. He worked also, for a time, at the blacksmith trade. In 1888 he came to Cortland, New York, where he since made his home. For a year and a half he worked for the railroad company, and ten years for Wickwire Brothers. Since 1907 he has been in the trucking busi- ness, on his own account. He is a member of John L. Lewis Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Cortland, and in politics is a Republican. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Ile married. September 9. 1870. Alice M.
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Allen, of Taylor, daughter of Amenzo W. and Mary Elizabeth (Angell) Allen. Children : I. Waldo Roscoe, born June 20, 1881, an elec- trician ; resides in Buffalo; married, in 1901, Celestia Suits; son, Herbert, born January, 1903. 2. Vivian Ruth, born August 17, 1887 ; resides with her parents.
(The Champion Line).
(I) Henry Champion, immigrant ancestor. came to the American colonies, and settled at Saybrook, Connecticut, as early as 1647. His land is described in the records of 1660. Be- fore that date he had sold his lot, on the town plot, to Jonathan Rugg. He removed, with his family, to the east side of the Connecticut river, and became one of the most active found- ers of Lyme, being propounded a freeman, May 12, 1670. The records of that town were begun in 1674, and, on June 18, 1674, a record of his land was made; he owned several lots at this time. Ile lived in the house which he had built on the hill, just east of the meeting house, near the old burying-ground, and he was very likely a farmer, as the remainder of the settlers were. His ear mark was recorded March 24, 1673-74. On March 12, 1671, repre- sentatives of the town of New London entered a complaint against Henry Champion and sev- eral of his fellow-townsmen in the court at Hartford. The trouble between the towns was a strip of land between Bride brook and Ni- antic river, including Black Point, in Lyme, which both towns claimed by virtue of previ- ous grants. New London was fined nine pounds and Lyme five pounds, and these fines were afterwards remitted. His name occurs fre- quently in the records as a grantor or grantee of land. He was a witness of the will of Tobiah Colls, of Saybrook, September 2, 1664, and was a beneficiary in it, as were the other two witnesses. When Sir Edmund Andros received the government of Connecticut, in October, 1687, he ordered an inventory to be taken, August 27, 1688, and Henry Champion's property was valued at thirty-seven pounds. At this time he had given much of his property to his sons. November 1, 1706, there is a deed of gift to his grandson Henry, eldest son of Henry, his son, in which he gives part of his home lot, on Meeting House Hill, and "said Henry was not to put any tenant on this tract during the lifetime of his grandfather or his wife Deborah," who signed the deed of con-
sent "as per marriage agreement." His wife was probably a sister or daughter of one of the early settlers of Saybrook. His second wife was evidently very shrewd, as she in- duced the old man to make a very good mar- riage settlement on her and finally involved him in a law suit with the widow of the ekdlest son, who maintained a strong fight for her rights in the property of her husband. His second wife was Deborah -, and they were married March 21, 1607-98. He died February 17, 1708-09. said to be ninety-eight years old. Children, born in Saybrook : Sarah, 1649; Mary, 1651 ; Stephen, 1653 ; Henry, men- tioned below ; Thomas, April, 1655; Rachel, 165 -.
(II) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) Cham- pion, was born in Saybrook, in 1654, died in the middle of July, 1704, in Lyme. He mar- ried, in Lyme, April 1, 1684, Susanna, daugh- ter of Balthazar and Alice DeWolf. She mar- ried (second) John Huntley Sr., of Lyme. Henry Champion lived on Meeting House Hill. in Lyme, and owned several tracts of land, some by grant and some from his father. He was forty-nine years old at his death. The inventory of his estate amounted to two hun- dred and thirty pounds, more than half of which was real estate. Mrs. Susanna Cham- pion was made administratrix, August 8, 1706. She was given one-third of the property for life, and one-half of the movable property forever. The eldest son was given a double portion, and the others equal shares. Chil- dren, born in Lyme: Henry, January 5, 1684- 85; Joshua, mentioned below ; Susanna, Feb- ruary 25, 1689-90; Samuel, June 18, 1691, died young : Alice, March 15, 1694; Rachel, December 1, 1697; Abigail, June 25, 1699: Stephen, July 5, 1702 ; Mary, October 14, 1704.
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