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The Merows of Cattaraugus MEROW county, New York, herein men- tioned, descend paternally from a well-to-do German family who lived near Hamburg. On maternal line they descend from Robert Daye, who came from England to America in 1634. Carson Merow, scion of an old German family, was born, lived and died in Klein Serker, near Hamburg, Ger- many. He was a farmer in good circum- stances, married and had a family of thirteen children.
(II) John H., son of Carson Merow, was born in 1823, on the Merow homestead, near Hamburg, Germany. He worked at farming in his native land until his marriage and birth
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of two children. Then gathering his savings together, in 1858, he secured passage for the United States for self, wife and two children. The vessel being a slow sailer, twelve weeks were consumed in making the passage. He found his way to Cattaraugus county, New York, settling in the town of Little Valley, where he purchased land in the west part of the town, and prospered. He later added to his original purchase until he had two hundred and twenty-five acres nearly all under cultiva- tion.
He was a hard working man and a good citizen. He had hosts of friends and seemed to be one man for whom everybody had a good word. He met his death, May 6, 1890, crushed by a heavy log which acciden- tally rolled over, while assisting in building a log fence. He married . Children : I. John C. (of further mention). 2. Sophia, born 1852; married Spencer Holdridge; chil- dren : i. Cora, married George Osterstrick and has Velona and Wesley. ii. Homer, married Edith Taylor. iii. William. iv. Jennie, mar- ried Louis Yates, and has Florence, Marian and Olive. 3. William, born February 8, 1859; married, March 14, 1883, Mosella Whipple, born December 27, 1857; children : i. Bert M., born May 15, 1885, married Blanche Guile. ii. Hazel Sareppa, born June 2, 1890; married, October 28, 1907, William Carr. 4. Mary E., born April 21, 1861 ; mar- ried, March 28, 1883, Henry A. Marsh, born December 2, 1855. Children : i. Minnie, born September 4, 1884, married, December 25, 1907, Albert Woulff, and has Marshall, born April 25, 1909. ii. Mabel, born March 25, 1889. iii. Mamie, November 6, 1894.
(III) John C., son of John H. Merow, was born in Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, New York, 1850, died there May 15, 1908. He obtained his education in the public schools, at Chamberlain Institute and at a German school in Otto, New York. After leaving school he worked first at farming, finally go- ing to Olean, New York, where he was em- ployed in Butler's dry goods store. In 1883 he came to Little Valley, where he first clerked in the store of E. N. Lee for about seven years, when he purchased the Rock City Hotel. He rebuilt and enlarged the building, and at the time of his death the Rock City was known as the best kept family hotel in the county. He was a Republican in politics and served on the board of education. He was a mem-
ber of the Lutheran church, and of the Ma- sonic order.
He married, December 11, 1878, Estella Day, born September 17, 1857, daughter of Orrin and Brooksanna (Jones) Day, of New Albion (see Day VII). Children: Clarence, born September 12, 1879, died 1880; Eva M., born June 28, 1889; married, October 1, 1907, John R. Hout, and has Frances M., born De- cember 15, 1909.
Mrs. Estella (Day) Merow survives her husband, a resident of Little Valley.
(The Day Line).
Estella (Day) Merow is a descendant of Robert Daye, born in England, August, 1604, died in Hartford, Connecticut, 1648. He came from England in 1634 with wife Mary, in the ship "Elizabeth," and owned a house on the west side of Garden street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1635. He soon after moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where his name ap- pears on a monument erected in that city to the memory of the first settlers there. He left a goodly estate for his wife and several children. He was the ancestor of all the Days claiming early Connecticut ancestry. The mother of his children was his second wife, Editha, sister of Deacon Edward Stebbins. She is named in his will, May 20, 1648. Chil- dren: Thomas, Sarah, married (first) Na- thaniel Gunn, (second) Samuel Kellogg ; Mary, married (first) Samuel Ely, (second) Thomas Stebbins, (third) John Coleman ; John. Mrs. Editha Day married (second) John Maynard, of Hartford.
(II) John, son of Robert Day, married Sarah Raynard (or Butler?), of Hartford. His will was dated, November 16, 1725, when he was "advanced in years," and proved May 5, 1730. He owned a share in a grist or saw mill, which he bequeathed to his son William. Children: 1. Joseph, died 1726. 2. John (of further mention). 3. Thomas. 4. Mary, married, November 14, 1699, William Clark. 5. Maynard, married, 1714, Elizabeth Marsh. 6. Sarah, baptized September 19, 1686; mar- ried, June 10, 1708, - - Spencer. 7. Wil- liam, baptized April 24, 1692. 8. Joseph, bap- tized June 14, 1699.
(III) John (2), son of John (1) Day, was born in 1677, died November 4, 1752. He moved to Colchester, Connecticut, about 1701. He married (first) January 21, 1696, Grace Spencer, of Hartford, who died May 12, 1714,
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in Colchester. He married (second) Mary -, who died November 2, 1749, aged seventy-four. Children, all of his first wife, the first three born in Hartford, Connecticut : I. Lydia, born April II, 1698; married Joseph Fuller. 2. Mary, born August 14, 1699; married, December 20, 1722, Jonathan North- am. 3. John, born in Colchester, June 6, 1701. 4. Joseph, born September 27, 1702. 5. Benjamin, February 7, 1704. 6. Editha, born September 10, 1705; married, December II, 1729, David Bigelow. 7. Daniel, born March 9, 1709, died 1712. 8. David, July 18, 1710. 9. Abraham, March 17, 1712. 10. Isaac, May 17, 1713. II. Daniel, died 1746.
(IV) A son of John (2) Day, name not known, married and among his children was Noah (of further mention).
(V) Noah Day, grandson of John (2) Day, married Ann Loomis, and had a son Erastus (of further mention).
(VI) Erastus, son of Noah and Ann (Loomis) Day, was born March 4, 1787. He was an early settler in the town of New Al- bion, Cattaraugus county, New York, and a farmer of that town. He married, in 1812, Marion Lee. Children : Asahel, born June 4. 1813; Eli, May 10, 1815; Hudson, August 28, 1816: Wealthy, July 11, 1818; Orrin (of further mention) ; Elias, born July 18, 1827.
(VII) Orrin, son of Erastus and Marion (Lee) Day, was born January 10, 1821, died 1868. He was a farmer of New Albion, cul- tivating the homestead farm, and a man of high character. He married, 1845, Brook- sanna Jones, of Cattaraugus, who was born in Milford, New York, December 16, 1825, still living in October, 1911, at eighty-five years of age, daughter of Moses J. Jones, of Otsego county, prior to settlement in New Albion. Children : Alvin C., born April 18, 1848, died aged fourteen. 2. Frances E., August 3. 1851; married Cornelius Spore ; children : Ernest, Luella, Frank and Jessie. 3. Estella, born September 17, 1857; married John C. Merow. 4. Rosella, twin of Estella, died January 8, 1878. 5. George B., born August 20, 1862.
WILLIAMS Eminent authority, in contrib- uting to the name of Williams, states that the family is one of the most noted of the early New England settlers for intellectual ability and the social and public standing of its members. They
antedated the Christian era, flourished, and came down through the medieval reigns. Burke's "Book of Peerage and Baronetage" says of the house of Williams, of Penrhyn, the most ancient family of the northern prin- cipality of Wales, that it deduces its pedigree with singular perspicuity from Brutus, son of Sylvius, posthumous son of Acencus, son of Acucus, which Brutus was first King of Britain, and began to reign about eleven hun- dred years before the birth of Christ. Other authorities trace them back to several years before the Norman Conquest (1066) from a Welsh chief. From Marchudel of Cyam, Lord of Abergelin, in Denbighshire, one of the fifteen tribes of Northern Wales, is de- scended Endyfid Vycham, Lord of Brynffenigl in Denbighland, a powerful noble of his time, and from whom the royal house of Tudor is claimed to have descended. The eminent family, in common with the royal house of Tudor, Lloyds of Plymog, Lord Moslyn, and other distinguished lines, derive from Mar- chudd ap Cynam, Lord of Carnarvon, founder of the eight noble tribes of North Wales and Powys, contemporary with Rhodri Mawr (Roderic the Great), King of Wales, who succeeded to the throne in 843 and died in 877 A. D.
The first to adopt the name of Williams as a surname was Roger Williams, of Llangibby Castle and the Priory at Uske, county Mon- mouth, England. He was said to be a direct descendant of Brychan Bricheininish, prince and lord of Brecknock, who lived about the year 490. The pedigree also shows the name of Roger Williams, of Flint, Wales, from whom descended John Williams, receiver of Flintshire in the reign of Edward IV., which extended from the year 1461 to 1483, who married for his first wife the daughter and heir of Edward Matthews, of Yorkshire. Their son George assumed the name of Matthew, which has continued to be a family name ever since. The Welsh coat-of-arms has the in- scription : "He beareth sable," showing royalty, and is as follows: Arms, lion rampant argent, armed and langued, gules. Crest: A moor cock or partridge. Motto: Cognosce occa- sionem ("Watches his opportunity"). The Welsh motto: "Y fyno Dwy Y. fidd" ("What God willeth will be.").
(I) Matthew Williams, progenitor of the Essex county, New Jersey, families, born about 1605, was according to the best authority the
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eldest son of Richard Williams, who descend- ed from the Williams family of Glamorgan- shire, Wales. Authority further states that Richard was a kinsman of Oliver Cromwell, a traditional claim of Richard Williams as well, and, moreover, which is not common to other pioneer Williams families of New Eng- land. It is claimed that Oliver Cromwell was a Williams by birth. Coyle states that Crom- well descended from General Williams, of Berkshire, or from Morgan Williams, of Glamorganshire, and called him Cromwell, alias Williams, he having assumed the name from his maternal uncle, Thomas Cromwell, secre- tary of state to Henry VIII., on account of estates to him. Matthew Williams for a time seems to have been at Watertown, Massa- chusetts, from whence, like many other settlers there, allured by the attractive reports of Old- ham and Hall, the pioneer traders and ex- plorers of the Connecticut valleys, came to Pyquaug, the old Indian name of Wethers- field, in 1642. He was doubtless a brother of Thomas, who later settled at Rocky Hill (Old Wethersfield) and a cousin of Richard Wil- liams, of Taunton, born January 28, 1606, son of William Williams, who descended from a family of that name in Glamorganshire, Wales. William Williams was of Synwell, a hamlet in Wotten-under-Edge. According to his will, he speaks of his brother, Mr. Richard Wil- liams.
Matthew Williams, of Wethersfield, was a brickmaker by trade, and a yeoman, which is proved by the earmarks of his cattle, which were recorded in the records. After 1655 he was for a time at Long Island, and eventually at the Barbadoes, though still a householder at the Wethersfield colony, where his family were still living. January 14, 1678, according to Hutton's emigration records, he was grant- ed a ticket-of-leave back to the colony with his servant, a slave. His death probably oc- curred the following year (1679), for in 1680 his widow, Susanna Williams, asked the court at Wethersfield to appraise the estate and di- vide between the sons, and this step on her part probably fixes a conclusive date for the depart- ure of the widow and her three sons, as fol- lows: Amos, now thirty-five years of age, with his wife and three children ; Matthew, twenty- nine years of age; Samuel, twenty-seven, all coming to Essex county, New Jersey, in the second Branford emigration. Samuel settled at Elizabethtown, and Amos nearby ; Samuel
died in 1706. Matthew Williams Sr., mar- ried, about 1644, Susanna Cole, of English birth, probably a sister of James Cole, an early settler there, and in 1639 an original settler and planter of Hartford, Connecticut. Children : Amos, born March 14, 1645; Mat- thew, October 27, 1647, died an infant ; Mat- thew, born May 14, 1651; Samuel, January 4. 1653-4, died at Elizabethtown, 1706.
(III) John, grandson of Matthew Williams, and son of Amos or Samuel Williams, died February 22, 1719. He married, and had a son George.
(IV) George, son of John Williams, was born about 1685. He married and had issue : Obadiah, of whom further; Hezekiah, born 1713, died 1715; George,, born 1714, died 1750; Hezekiah, 1716, died about 1806; John, 1719, died 1788; Experience, 1721; Elihu, 1726; Hannah, 1743.
(V) Obadiah, son of George Williams, was born 1710, died 1748. He married Catherine, daughter of Humphrey Wady, of Long Plain, Massachusetts. Children: John, of whom further ; Sarah, born at Shrewsbury, New Jer- sey, November 10, 1745: married Nicholas Davis (2) ; Ann, born October 26, 1747, died in infancy.
(VI) John, son of Obadiah and Catherine (Wady) Williams, was born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, July 26, 1743, died at Troy, New York, September 18, 1818. He lived for a time in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He married (first) Mary Davis ; six children. He married (second) Martha Peabody, daughter of John Russell, no issue. He married (third) Jane Allen, who died in 1812; nine children. Children by first wife: Obadiah (2), of whom further mention ; David, born 1769, died 1825 ; Jonathan, twin of David, died 1799; Cather- ine, born 1771; Nicholas, 1773, died 1837 ; John Wady, 1775, died 1776. Children of third wife: John, born 1783. died 1855 ; Elihu, 1785, died in infancy ; Hezekiah, twin of Eli- hu, died 1849: Mary, 1787, living in 1857; Elizabeth, 1788, living in 1857; Elihu, (2), living in 1857; Ruth, 1790, died in infancy ; Ruth (2), died in infancy; Thomas, 1793, living in 1857.
(VII) Obadiah (2), son of John and his first wife, Mary (Davis) Williams, was born February 10, 1767, in New Bedford, Massa- chusetts, died 1848. He lived for a time at least in the state of Rhode Island, where at least one of his children was born, but later
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removed to Tompkins county, New York; where he died. He married Dorcas Earl, who died June 24, 1805; (second) Ruth Hadwin, who died March 20, 1855. Children of first wife: Samuel, born February 22, 1791, died March 26, 1875; James, of whom further ; John Earl, born August 18, 1794, no living descendants ; Sarah, October 8, 1796, no living descendants; Eliza, July 3, 1799, died April 22, 1890, married John Mott, and had chil- dren ; no descendants ; Henry, August 5, 1801 ; Ann, September 21, 1803, no living descend- ants. Children of second wife: Dorcas, June 7, 1805, married John Purdy, and had chil- dren ; Catherine, January 10, 1810, married Thomas Carman, died July 8, 1890, no living descendants ; Francis, September 16, 1811, married and had children : Margaret, 1817, died February 26, 1875, married also Thomas Carman, and had children.
(VIII) James, second son of Obadiah (2) and his first wife, Dorcas (Earl) Williams, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, Septem- ber 20, 1792, died September 9, 1872, at Sin- clairville, Chautauqua county, New York, where he is buried with his wife in Ever- green Cemetery. He resided in Tompkins county, New York, later in the city of Ithaca, New York, removing to Chautanqau county, New York, 1834, settling on a farm in the southwestern corner of the town of Charlotte, where he was a well known and greatly respected citizen. He married, at Ithaca, April 17, 1817, Esther, daughter of John and Esther (Pride) Tracy. Children: I. Frederick Tracy, born at Ithaca, New York, February 3. 1818,
died at Ellery, New York, April 3, 1853: married, at Ellery, October 24, 1841, Ann H. Aldrich, born at Ithaca, November 5, 1817, died at Ellery, March 15, 1882, daughter of Tillson Aldrich ; children: Sarah M., mar- ried Gustavus A. Bentley, and Frederick Till- son married Mary Rogers. . 2. Susan, born at Ithaca, New York, June 9, 1819, died at Bayonne, New Jersey, January 3, 1879; mar- ried Willard Tracy Eddy, her cousin ; chil- dren : i. Harriet Emily, died at Washington, D. C., October 22, 1901, unmarried ; ii. Su- san Maria, married William J. Savoye; iii. Willard Tracy, married Harriet Louise Sa- voye; iv. Alice, married Robert A. Smith. 3. Emily, born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1821, died at Lind, Wisconsin, July II, 1886: married, at Charlotte, New
York, August 25, 1840, Josiah Fisher, who died November 30, 1881 ; children: i. Mary, died unmarried. ii. Henry H., married Mary L. Randall. iii. Esther Ella, married George R. Lollin. iv. Jennie M., married George F. Pope. v. George W., married Thirza Mill- man. 4. Henry, born August 12, 1823, died in infancy. 5. Maria, born April 29, 1826, died in infancy. 6. Henry Hudson, born in Hudson, New York, September 26, 1828, died in San Diego, California, in March, 1906; married, in Osawatomie, Kansas, February 23, 1859, Mary A. Carr, born in Perry, New York, August 9, 1841 ; children : i. John Carr, born and died in Kansas, aged sixteen years. ii. George Henry, died in childhood. iii. Min- nie Esther, married George William Walrod, and died May 21, 1902. iv. James Walter, married Josie D. Burroughs. v. Charles Lin- coln, married Pearl Ray. vi. Fannie Sarah, married Charles L. Burns. vii. Mary Henry. 7. Maria, born in Ithaca, New York, Decem- ber 31, 1830, died in Sinclairville, New York, February 16, 1879; married, in Charlotte, New York, May 21, 1855, Lorenzo Sornberger, died at Osawatomie, Kansas, January 26, 1861. 8. George Tyler, born in Ithaca, New York, July 28, 1833 ; married, Freeport, Illinois, Au- gust 24. 1865, Sarah A. Clark ; he was a prom- inent telegraph operator, becoming district su- perintendent, with offices at St. Louis, Mis- souri, and Cleveland, Ohio; children : i. George Hicks, married Eva Mills. ii. Clara Esther, married Charles Shackleton. iii. Ed- ward Hall, married Mary Jane Nichol. iv. Grace Joy. v. Tracy Clark, married Harriet M. Richards. vi. Sanborn Edgell, died in in- fancy. 9. Edwin, of further mention.
(IX) Edwin, ninth and youngest child of James and Esther (Tracy) Williams, was born on the old Williams homestead in the extreme southwestern corner of the town of Charlotte, Chautauqua county, New York, September 19, 1837. He was educated in the public schools and Fredonia Academy. His early life was spent on the farm, which was his home until he reached manhood. He was for a time em- ployed in the neighboring town of Sinclair- ville (two miles east of the Williams farm). Later he removed to Michigan, where others of his wife's family had settled. He pur- chased a farm at Armada, remaining thereon for five years, when he sold out and returned to New York state. For the next seven years Mr. Williams was engaged in merchandising
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in Sinclairville, Chautauqua county, New York, having as partner R. E. Sheldon. The firm was successful, and transacted a large volume of business along the lines of a general country store. At the end of seven years they dissolved, and two years later Mr. Williams resumed business in the same village. For twelve years he continued in general merchan- dising, conducting business under the name of Edwin Williams. He then sold out, and two years later removed to Jamestown, and made his home at 214 Clinton street, where he has since lived a retired life. Mr. Williams has spent an active, busy life, and has won a repu- tation for good business ability, uprightness and square dealing. He has a large circle of warm friends with whom his declining years are spent. He is a member of the Congregational church, having joined the Sinclairville church in early life. He was elected trustee of that church when but eighteen years of age, and when living in Michigan served the Armada church as deacon. He has been a lifelong advocate of temperance, belonging in former years to the Good Templars, and supports the Prohibition party with vote and influence. While living in Sinclairville he served as vil- lage trustee, and took an active part in village public life. At the age of seventy-three (19II) he is active and vigorous, keeping in touch with matters of public importance and retaining his interest in church, city and daily neighborhood happenings. He married, Jan- uary I, 1862, Calista T. Dorsett, born in East- ford, Connecticut, September 8, 1843, daugh- ter of Daniel B. and Harriet F. Dorsett. They have no children.
(The Tracy Line).
(I) Ecgberht, first King of England, reigned 800-838, he married Lady Redburga, and had: Aethelwulf, Aethelstan, and Eadith (St. Edith).
(II) Aethelwulf, son of Ecgberht and Lady Redburga, married (first) Osburga, daughter of Oslac, and had: Aethelstan, Aethelbald, Aethelbert, Aethelbald (2), Aelfred (the Great ), and Aethelswitha. He married (sec- ond) Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald, Emperor and King of France, and great-grand- daughter of Emperor Charlemagne. Judith married (second) Baldwin, first count of Flanders, and became the ancestress of Ma- tilda, wife of William the Conqueror.
(III) Aelfred (the Great), son of Aethel-
wulf and Osburga, married Ealswitha, daugh- ter of the Earl of Lincolnshire, and had : Ead- mund, Eadward (see forward), Aethelwald, Aethelfleda, Aethelgida and Aelfthryth.
(IV) Eadward (the Elder), married (first) Ecguina, and had three children; (second) Ealfleda, and had eight children ; (third) Ead- gina, daughter of Earl Sigeline, and had: Eadmund (see forward), Eadred, Eadburga and Eadgina.
(V) Eadmund (I) married Aelfgifu, and had: Eadwig, Eadgar.
(VI) Eadgar, son of Eadmund (I) and Aelfgifu, married (first) Aethelflaeda (the Fair), daughter of Earl Ordmar, and had: Eadward. He married (second) Aelfthryth, daughter of Ordgar, Duke of Devonshire, and widow of Earl Aethelwold. Children: Ead- mund and Aethelred (see forward).
(VII) Aethelred II. (the Unready), mar- ried (first) Ealfleda, daughter of Earldorman Thored. Children : Edmund (Ironsides) and eight others. He married (second) Emma, of Normandy. Children : Aelfred, Eadward (the Confessor), Goda (see forward).
(VIII) Princess Goda, daughter of Aethel- red II. and Emma, of Normandy, married (first) Dreux, Count of Vexin, in France, called by English historians Count of Mantes, and said to be a descendant of Charlemagne. Children : Gauthier, sometimes called Walter ; Rudolf (see forward) ; Foulgnes, Poutoise.
(IX) Rudolf, son of the Count of Mantes and Princess Goda, also called Rudolph or Ralph de Mantes, was lord of the manor of Sudeley and Toddington, and was created Earl of Hereford by his uncle, Edward the Confessor, and deprived of his earldom in the reign of William the Conqueror. He married Gethe, and had one son, Harold.
(X) Harold, only son of Rudolf and Gethe de Mantes, married Matilda, daughter of Hugh-Lupus, first Earl of Chester and nephew of William the Conqueror. Children: John de Sudeley and Robert de Ewyas.
(XI) John de Sudeley, son of the preced- ing, married Grace, daughter and heiress of Henri de Traci, feudal Lord of Barnstable, in Devonshire. Children : Ralph, who became the heir of his father, and William de Traci, con- cerning whom see forward.
(XII) William de Traci inherited the lands of his mother and assumed her family name, becoming, as a knight of Gloucestershire, Sir William de Traci, and held the lands of his
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brother by one knight's fee. He married Hawise de Born, and left one son and two daughters.
(XIII) Sir Henry de Tracy, of Todding- ton, died about 1246, leaving : Margery, Henry and Thomas.
(XIV) Sir Henry de Tracy, of Toddington, had children: William and Eve.
(XV) Sir William Tracy (the "de" being omitted in this generation), of Toddington, had command in the Scottish war in the reign of Edward I.
(XVI) Sir William Tracy, of Toddington, held high offices. Children: Margery and William.
(XVII) William Tracy, Esq., was of Todd- ington.
(XVIII) Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, was sheriff of the county five years in succes- sion, and died in 1363. He left children : John, Margaret and Dorothy.
(XIX) Sir John Tracy, of Toddington, was a member of parliament and sheriff. Chil- dren : William and Margaret.
(XX) William Tracy, Esq., of Toddington, was high sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1395, and died in 1399.
(XXI) William Tracy, Esq., of Todding- ton, was called to the privy council of Henry IV., and was high sheriff during the reign of Henry V. He married Alice, daughter of Sir Guy de la Spine, and widow of William Gif- ford. Children : William, John and Alice.
(XXII) William Tracy, Esq., of Todding- ton, was sheriff of Gloucestershire during the reign of Henry VI. He married Margery, daughter of Sir John Pauncefort Knight. Children : Henry, Richard and Margery.
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