History of Cattaraugus County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 99

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The town contains a total area of 29,843 acres, of which 19,830 acres are improved. Its population in 1875 was 1094, a decrease of 295 since 1860.


EARLY SETTLEMENT.


While the settlement in 1817 of Peter and Cornelius Ten Broeck, Richard Tozer, Peleg Robbins, and Levi Peet, in its results, may have been the first permanent one in the territory now known as Farmersville, it is an estab- lished fact that settlements were projected some twelve years previously. In 1805, Asaph Butler, Jeremiah Bur- roughs, John McClure, William Vinton, Calvin Chamber- lain, and Elijah Johnson entered into contracts with the agents of the Holland Land Company for lands in town- ship 5, range 4; and in 1811, Gideon Lewis, Ezekiel Runals, Samuel Blancher, Benjamin Jenks, Jr., William Parks, and George Parks made contracts with the same company for lands in township 5, range 3.


It has not been ascertained that any of these contractors became settlers. If they did, their stay was brief, and no improvements were made. But we have very good evi- dence that settlers, other than those already named, were here as early as 1810 or 1812.


Hon. Smith Parish, of Portville, became a resident of Farmersville in 1821. The country was then a wilderness, comparatively ; there were but few settlers, and they had but a few acres of cleared land each, and things as they then appeared to him are remembered with great distinct- ness. He says that when he came here a deserted log house and barn were standing on a small clearing, situated near the outlet of Mud Lake. The rafters or poles that sup- ported the roof of the house had rotted, and were falling


in, and that both buildings presented the appearance of having been built some ten or twelve years. He learned that the builder and original occupant of the premises was a man named Pixley, who, after living here some two or three years, gave up the undertaking of clearing away the large elms and other giants of the forest, which encumbercd the ground on all sides, and removed farther west.


He also remembers that near the inlet of the same lake was another small log house, surrounded by a little patch of cleared ground. This house had been built and occu- pied by a man named Bradford; yet he thinks that at the time Judge Ten Broeck and his comrades made their settle- ment in the central part of the town, in 1817, these cabins were already deserted, and there is justice in their claim that they were the first permanent settlers.


As Judge Peter Ten Broeck was the pioneer of those men who became the first permanent residents of the town of Farmersville, and as he was, during his lifetime, the prom- inent man of the town, as well as one of the most promi- nent men of Cattaraugus County, we reproduce the following from the " Old Pioneers of Cattaraugus County :"


In 1816, Peter Ten Broeck, a young man twenty-three years of age and of German extraction, left his father's house in Otsego Co., N. Y., to seek his fortune in the far " West." His outfit was scanty, consisting of a single change of clothing, and barely ready money enough to de- fray his traveling expenses. With his pack on his back he traveled alone and on foot the entire distance from Otsego County to Erie, Pa., reaching that borough the latter part of May. He had examined with considerable care the country over which he had passed, and after a rest at Erie for a few days he set out on his return. Taking his route across the country, through Chautauqua County to Conne- wango, Little Valley, and Ellicottville, he reached a small settlement on Ischua Creek, now known as Franklinville, June 6, 1816. Spending a day or two hereabouts, for rest, he renewed his journey homeward, where he arrived in the early part of July.


In October of the same year, accompanied by his brother, Cornelius (who died in Farmersville in 1843), and Richard Tozer, he again started on foot to seek a home in Cattarau- gus. They carried their own provisions, which were replen- ished by purchase from farmers and others living along their route. They were nearly a month on the road, reach- ing Farmersville the latter part of October. As they were on a voyage of discovery, they traveled over what are now the towns of Farmersville, Franklinville, Ellicottville, Little Valley, Great Valley, and a part of Napoli and Connewango. They saw nothing particularly attractive after they left the valley of the Ischua, and finally resolved to return to Frank- linville, or Farmersville, and take up farms in that vicinity.


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Soon after their return to Franklinville, Mr. Ten Broeck was deputed by his associates to go to the land-office at Batavia and contract with the Holland Land Company for three farms. This he did, contracting for 600 acres,-200 for himself, 200 for his brother Cornelius, and 200 for Mr. Tozer. Cornelius and Tozer accompanied him out as far as the Genesee River, where they worked by the day during Mr. Ten Broeck's absence. On his return they had earned money enough to purchase a month's supply of flour, beef, and butter. The flour was baked into bread, and the sup- plies divided into three equal parts, and cach taking his sack on his shoulder, they then again sought their wilder- ness home. Arriving there in due time, they set about staking and " blazing" out their lots. Winter coming on, and no preparations having been made for a stay through it, they returned to Otsego County. In February, 1817, the three returned again, their company increased by the addi- tion of Capt. Peleg Robbins and Levi Peet.


Before leaving, the fall previous, the three new settlers had erected a small log house, and completed it except the roof. The first business of the party, on their return, was to procure the necessary covering for their " log mansion." The first two nights were spent in the inclosure, which was partially covered with canvas. This illy protected the stout-hearted pioneers from the storm, which began the evening they reached there, and continued for thirty-six hours. Snow fell to the depth of three feet ; but notwithstand- ing this, as their necessities were great, Ten Broeck and Tozer with an ox-team made their way through the woods and snow to McClure's saw-mill, 10 miles distant, for boards to cover their log house, which was to serve as an abiding- place for the whole party. The boards were obtained, the house finished as well as it could be, and soon the curling smoke of an old-fashioned log fire was making its way above the surrounding tree-tops. Here the five new settlers labored together, ate, drank, slept, and whiled away their leisure hours, until the following May, when various members of the party erected two or three additional log houses, and the locality began to look like a thriving settlement. This was the establishment of the first settlement within the boundaries of Farmersville, and was upon the site of the present village of the same name.


About the middle of May, 1817, Mr. Peter Ten Broeck caught the " Western fever," and disposing of his land interest to Levi Peet, one of his companions, he, accom- panied by Capt. Robbins, left for the West.


They returned to Farmersville the latter part of August of the same year. Ilere they remained for a few weeks, when Mr. Ten Broeck and his brother Cornelius returned on foot to Otsego County, by the way of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and Rochester.


The greater part of the fall and winter of 1817-18, the brothers remained at their old home in Otsego County. In February, 1818, they returned to Farmersville. The fall of the same year Peter Ten Broeck contracted for 50 acres of land in the southwest part of the town, while his brother settled in the central part, in the vicinity of Messrs. Robbins, Pect, and Tozer. Peter Ten Broeck built a log house the same fall, and in it kept " bachelor's hall" until about 1822, when he married a Miss Freeman,


daughter of Judge Freeman, then one of the judges of the old Court of Common Pleas of Cattaraugus County. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Ten Broeck began to enlarge his landed possessions, adding a little year by year for a period of forty years, until his acres were numbered by the thousands, and his personal estate by the hundred thousands. His farm was about six miles long by one mile wide, and raising, purchasing, and fattening cattle became his principal business. In 1822 he was appointed an associate county judge by Gov. Yates, and continued to officiate in that capacity until 1827. In 1837 he was re- appointed to the same office by Gov. Marcy, and held the office and discharged its duties acceptably until the adop- tion of the new constitution of 1846.


During the interim from 1827 to 1837 he was appointed an agent of the Holland Land Company, charged with the duty of collecting the debts duc the company in the coun- ties of Cattaraugus, Allegany, and Wyoming. He held this appointment until the Holland Land Company sold their interests to other parties, and was for two or three years the agent of the company's successors, represented by the Hon. Staley N. Clarke.


Judge Ten Broeck was a man of iron nerve, and of large proportions, being over six feet in height. In private life he was courteous, of easy manners, cordial and con- fiding to his friends. He attained his high rank as a private citizen, and became the largest land-owner in Western New York by the closest attention to business, and the practice of frugality, without being in the least degree open to the charge of covetousness or penurious- ness.


The settlers before mentioned were all unmarried men except Richard Tozer.


Isolated as they were in their wilderness home, they found it necessary to make some local laws for the govern- ment of their small colony. They drew up a code, signed it themselves, and induced others to sign it as they came in. One section of their mutual statute was as follows :


" If any single woman who is over fourteen years of age shall come to reside in our village, and no one of this Confederacy shall offer her his company within a fortnight thereafter, then, and in such case, our board shall be called together, and some one shall be appointed to make her a visit, whose duty it shall be to perform the same or forfeit the disapprobation of the Company, and pay a fine suf- ficiently large to buy the lady thus neglected a new dress."


Few towns upon the Purchase have been more pros- perous, and it is quite likely that this early regulation aided essentially in the work of founding a new settlement and speeding its progress. These pioncers carried their provisions ten, and even twenty, miles upon their backs through the woods; and, as a contrast between the past and present, as an example of what industry and enterprise will accomplish, it is only necessary to point to the re- markable success of one of their number,-Judge Ten Broeck.


Peleg Robbins, Richard Tozer, and Levi Peet settled upon lot 36, the present site of the village of Farmersville. Here Tozer built the first framed house, which he occupied as an inn for many years. It is believed that he began


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keeping a place of entertainment about 1818. He was also the first supervisor in 1821. Levi Peet erected the first framed barn about 1820, and in it were held the early religious meetings, as it was for some years the most com- modious room in the settlement. He was appointed post- master in 1836.


Nehemiah Parish, a soldier of the Revolution, came from Henrietta, Monroe Co., N. Y., and settled here in 1818. He was accompanied by his sons, Roswell, Shubael, and Zabad. Jeremiah Parish, brother of Nehemiah, also a veteran of the Revolution, accompanied by his son, Smith, became a resident in 1821. The Parishes were from Ver- mont originally. Smith Parish removed to Portville in 1831, and has since been one of its most prominent citi- zens. Among other residents of the town of Farmersville, in 1821, were William Adams, William J. Burns, Simcon Bradford, Solomon Curtis, Jr., Ashbel Freeman, John Flagg, William Gilley, Russell Hubbard (who represented the county in the State Legislature in 1831, and was super- visor for several terms), Lyman Hubbard, Daniel Hodges (who represented the county in the State Legislature in 1825), Joseph Hazleton, James Leland, Thomas Leet, Caleb Lewis, Joseph Mills, John D. Older (a surveyor), William Older, Jesse Older, Elijah Rice, John Rice (2d), Clark Rice, David Rood, Cyrus Rood, William Stillwell, Chauncey Taylor, Lucius Tyler (an carly justice of the peace), Uriah D. Wood, Alfred Willey, Samuel G. White, Moses Wade, and William Wareing.


The settlers of 1822 were Zachariah Blackman (a sol- dier of the Revolution), Franklin Blackman, Jabez Black- man, Gain R. Blackman, Jabez S. Blackman, Ora Bond (an carly justice of the peace, and supervisor for several terms), Brightman Brooks, Robert Bard, Michael Chaffee, Jeremiah Freeman, John Hayford, Zaccheus Lawrence, Zachariah Lawrence, David Norton, Edward Stone, Ed- mund Stone, Erastus Skinner, Frederick Swan, William Springer, David Springer, Henry Saxton, Stephen Town, Alvah Town, and James Worden, who built the first saw- mill, on the outlet of Mud Lake, in 1824.


Previous to 1825, Israei B. Abbott, Tracy Avery, John Aiken, John Barnhart, Solomon S. Butler, Edward Bum- pus, John Bowers, Samuel Butler, Perry H. Bonney, Ezra Belknap, Harry Butler, Preserved Bullock, Artemas Barnes, Alva Burgess, James E. Bishop, Asa Bullard, Solomon Burns, Francis E. Baillet (who was county clerk in 1837, 1843, 1846), Eli Burbank, Jonathan Carpenter, Curtis Car- penter, Zenas Carpenter, Elam Clark, Caleb S. Cooley, Dyar Cowdry, Abram Cayter, Jacob Comstock (who kept the first store in 1828), Ashbel Carter, James Calkins, Curtis B. Devine, William Dunham, Silas Dort, Salmon Dutton, Albert Fancher, Ezekiel Flanders, Frederick Farrington, Timothy Henry, George W. Gillet, Charles Gary, Abner Grinnell, Richard Goodwin, Ira S. Hatch, Ebenezer Harris, Ira Hatch, Hiram A. Hill, John Henry, Peter Holmes, Cicero Holmes, Gordon Henry, Peter Hadlack, William A. Harris, Samuel S. Henry, Ezra Kellogg, Samuel Milliken, Marcellus MeGown, Enoch Richardson, Ebenezer Reed, Ebenezer Reed, Jr., Nathaniel Rowley, Gershom Rowley, Jr., Amos Rose, Benjamin Rose, Jonathan Rich, Jr., William Ross, Simeon Smead, John Squires, Enoch Sanborn, Alvah Skinner,


Asahel Spooner, Nicholas Spoor, James Tarbell, William L. Thomas, Marvel Thayer, Anthony Van Schaick, Jacob Wade, Henry Wade, John D. Wood, James Weston, Oliver Wakefield, Joseph Wedge, James West, and George Wick- wire were residents of the town. From 1820 to 1825 settlements had been rapid and continuous, for we find, by referring to the census reports of the latter date, that the town then contained a population of 636 inhabitants.


Marsena Baker represented the county in the State Legis- lature during the session of 1859.


The first marriage was that of Peter Ten Broeck to Miss Polly Freeman, in 1822.


The first birth was that of Joseph A. Tozer, who was born in 1817.


Mrs. Magdalene Adams died Nov. 7, 1820, but it is claimed that deaths occurred previous to this time; that children of Rice, Hollister, and the widow McCaa, were buried near the southeast corner. of lot 33, township 5, range 4, prior to 1818.


CIVIL HISTORY.


By an act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed March 29, 1821, the town of Farmersville was formed from Ischua, and the territory embraced within its boundaries are, by that act, described as follows : " All that part of the town of Ischua consisting of the fifth town- ship in the third range, and the fifth township in the fourth range of townships, shall be set off from the town of Ischua, and be erected into a separate town, by the name of Farm- ersville; and the first town-meeting shall be held at the house of Richard Tozer, on the first Tuesday of March next, and annually on the first Tuesday of March thereafter."


The following are the proceedings of the first town-meet- ing, and are copied verbatim : " At the first annual meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Farmersville, holden in and for said town, at the house of Richard Tozer, on Tues- day, March 5, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, the following officers were elected, and resolutions passed, viz. : Richard Tozer, Supervisor ; Elijah Rice, Town Clerk ; Russell Hubbard, John D. Older, Peter Ten Broeck, Assessors; Peleg Robbins, Col- lector ; James Leland, Uriah D. Wood, Overseers of the Poor; Lyman Hubbard, William Stillwell, Joseph Mills, Commissioners of Highways ; Solomon Curtis, Jr., Alfred Willey, Peter Ten Broeck, Commissioners of Common Schools; Thomas Leet, Peter Ten Broeck, Russell Hub- bard, Samuel G. White, Inspectors of Common Schools ; Moses Wade, William Burns, Jr., Peleg Robbins, Con- stables ; Daniel Hodges, Levi Pect, John Flagg, William Gilley, Zabod Parrish, Moses Wade, Joseph Mills, Solomon Curtis, Jr., Chauncey Taylor, Alfred Willey, Joseph Haselton, Overseers of Highways.


" Voted, by the frecholders and inhabitants of the town of Farmersville, that pathmasters be fence-viewers, that there be one poundmaster, that Levi Peet be poundmaster, and that his south barnyard be a pound for the year ensuing.


" Voted, that hogs be allowed to run at large until they do damage, and then that the owners of said hogs take care of the same and pay the damage done.


" Voted, that there be the sum of $250 raised for the im- provement of roads.


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" Voted, that there be raised the sum of $25 for the sup- port of common schools.


" Voted, that fence-viewers be allowed $1 per day.


" Voted, this meeting be adjourned to the house of Richard Tozer, in the town of Farmersville, the first Tues- day in March, 1823."


The supervisors, town clerks, and justices of the peace of the town of Farmersville from 1822 to 1878 have been as follows. The years inclusive, opposite their respective names, show the time those offices were filled by them :


SUPERVISORS.


1822-24. Richard Tozer.


1825. Russel Hubbard.


1826. Richard Tozer.


1852-53. Andrew C. Adams.


1827. Peter Ten Broeck.


1854-55. James Nichols.


1828. Russel Hubbard.


1856-58. Marsena Baker.


1829-30. Ora Bond.


1859-61. David Carpenter. 1862. James II. Day. 1863. J. T. Cummings.


1832. Russel Hubbard.


1833-35. George W. Gillet.


1864. William Henry. 1865. Adelbert Carpenter.


1836. Russel Hubbard.


1837-38. Peter Ten Broeck.


1866. William Henry.


1839. Russel Barlow.


1867. Andrew Knight.


1840. Ora Bond.


1868-70. Levi L. Lines. 1871. David Carpenter.


1841-42. Peter Ten Broeck.


1843-44. Solomon Cummings. 1845. Edwin Taylor.


1872-73. A. E. Robbins. 1874-76. Henry S. Merrill.


1877-78. James Caldwell.


TOWN CLERKS.


1822-24. Elijah Rice.


1855. Reuben Cherryman.


1825. Jacob Comstock.


1856. James A. Parker.


1826-27. Lucius Tyler.


1857. Reuben Cherryman.


1828-31. George W. Gillet.


1858-60. Myron Older.


1832-37. Francis E. Baillet.


1838-39. Solomon Cummings. 1840. George W. Gillet.


1861-62. J. T. Cummings. 1863-64. Myron Older. 1865. Franklin Osborn. 1866-67. J. T. Cummings.


1841. Solomon Cummings.


1842-43. Francis E. Baillet.


1868-71. Albert E. Robbins.


1844. Grove B. Graves.


1872. S. C. Rowley.


1845-49. Luther Cross.


1873. D. G. Hubbard.


1850-52. James Nichols.


1874-75. John Worthington.


1853. M. Hayford.


1876-77. Scott Cummings.


1854. Deloss J. Graves.


1878. Melvin E. Smith.


JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.


1822. William Stillwell.


1838. Ora Bond.


Levi Peet.


Solomon Cummings.


William Wareing.


1839. George W. Gillet.


1823. Lucius Tyler.


1840. Ora Bond.


swine.


1,344


1825. Jacob Comstock.


1841. Clark Rice.


1826. Ora Bond.


Gideon D. Walker.


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linen.


3,515


Amount of county tax


$526.19


1827. George W. Gillet.


Joseph Haselton.


1843. Edwin Taylor.


1828. Ora Bond.


Stephen Hardy.


= school districts


10


Public money expended


$150


Number of scholars


441


Lucius Tyler.


1846. Solomon Cummings.


Jacob Comstock.


Hiram Johnson.


1830. Cyrus Keyes.


Russel Hubbard.


1830-31. George W. Gillet.


1847. Edwin Taylor.


1832. Ora Bond.


Samuel W. Wakefield.


Tons of hay.


6,766


Bushels of barley


1,941


¥ buckwheat


2,601


1833. Ora Bond.


1849. Hiram Johnson.


Indian corn


2,655


1834. Cyrus Keyes.


1849. Sheldon Squires.


oats ...


45,340


peas ..


1,115


potatoes ..


24,667


1836. Hiram Bond.


George W. Swift.


1837. Solomon Cummings.


1851. George W. Stanford.


53,615


Clark Rice.


1852. Duma Burr.


1853. Hiram Johnson. Benjamin G. Cagwin. 1854. Silas L. Pect.


1855. Benjamin G. Cagwin.


1856. David Carpenter. 1857. Andrew C. Adams. 1858. S. A. Thomas. 1858-59. Gardner George. 1860. David P. Hooper. 1861. Gardner George. David Carpenter. 1862. Andrew C. Adams.


1863. David Carpenter.


1864. David P. Hooper.


1865. Ebenezer Hungerford.


1866. Andrew C. Adams. John Rockwell.


1867. Abram A. Peet.


Aaron G. Hovey.


1868. David P. Hooper. M. J. Allen. 1869. Clark Giles. 1870. David Carpenter. Nathaniel Jewell.


1871. Samuel A. Thomas. 1872. David P. Hooper. Dodge D. Persons. 1873. N. D. Smith. Edwin Hooper. 1874. H. M. Lawrence. Jedediah Hubbard. 1875. S. M. Thomas. L. L. Carpenter. 1876. Samuel S. Thomas. Hiram N. Robeson.


1877. Abram A. Peet. Rufus E. Cornwall. 1878. H. M. Lawrence.


INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.


The State road from Franklinville to Fairview, which intersects this town diagonally from the southwest to the northeast, was the first traveled highway, and was laid out prior to 1816. The road described as leading from the residence of Cornelius Ten Broeck's to Richard Tozer's tavern, was laid out by order of Pell Tidd and Joseph Cole, commissioners of highways, of the town of Ischua, July 1, 1816.


The Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad crosses the southwest corner of the town, intersecting lots 33, 34, and 35 of township 5, range 4. It was completed in 1872, and has no station in Farmersville.


The Rochester and State Line Railroad enters the town on the north border of township 5, range 3, and passing Brad- ford Flats, a station in Farmersville, it leaves the town on the north border of township 5, range 4, and again entering the town, crosses the extreme northwest corner. This road was completed in the spring of 1878.


Comparative statement of the number of acres improved, assessed value of real estate, value of personal estate, amount of live-stock, productions, mills, manufactories, etc., of 1835 and 1875 :


1835.


6,360


Assessed value of real estate .....


$93,934


personal estate.


$6,500


Number of cattle


2,202


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horses.


373


sheep


3,299


yards of fulled cloth .. "


3,095


unfulled woolens ..


3,297


James Leland.


1842. Solomon Cummings. Amos Wright.


town


$380.20


Number of saw-mills.


1


"


asherics


3


1829. James Leland.


1844. Ora Bond.


James Weston.


1844-45. Felix Baillet.


1875.


Acres, improved.


19,830


Value of real estate.


$922,352


personal estate ..


$326,110


Elijah Anderson.


1848. Jarvis Leonard.


1835. George W. Gillet.


1850. David Carpenter.


" apples.


15,068


Pounds of maple-sugar


Number of horses.


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1846-48. Solomon Cummings. 1849. Jarvis Leonard.


1850. Reuben Cross. 1851. Russel Hubbard.


1831. Jonathan Graves.


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Number of cattle ...


3,542


milch cows


2,333


cows whose milk is sent to factory 2,103


Pounds of butter made in families. 26,928


wool clipped.


3,482


pork made on farms.


76,799


VILLAGES.


The village of Farmersville, situated on lot 36 of the fifth township, third range, and a little southeast of the centre, contains 2 churches (Methodist Episcopal and Bap- tist), 1 hotel, 1 store, post-office, district school-house, cheese-factory, 2 or 3 small mechanic shops, and about 125 inhabitants. Its site was the point selected for settlement by the Ten Broccks, Tozer, Robbins, and Pect, in 1817.


Fairview, a post-office station in the extreme northeast corner, and lying partly in Allegany County, contains a store, cheese-factory, blacksmith-shop, wagon-shop, cooper- shop, and a few dwelling-houses.


SCHOOLS.


The first action taken by the first board of school com- missioners of the town of Farmersville is shown by the following :


" We do certify, that in pursuance of the act entitled ' An act for the better establishment of Common Schools,' passed April 12, 1819, we have formed for a common-school district all that certain part of the town of Farmersville, in the county of Cattaraugus, situated as follows : Lots 25, 26, 27, 33, 34, 35, and the west 100 acres of lot 17, in the 5th township of the 4th range ; and all that certain part of the town of Ischua, in said county, situated as follows: Lots 31, 32, 39, and 40, in the 4th township of the 4th range, and lots 7 and 8, in the 4th township and 5th range, and have numbered the same School District No. 1.


" Given under our hands, at Ischua, this 25th day of April, 1822.


" PETER TEN BROECK,


" SOLOMON CURTIS, Jr.,


" School Commissioners, town of Farmersville.


" MOSES WARNER, JR., " FLAVEL PARTRIDGE,




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