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His children were James, Augustine, Lewis, Charles, Morris, John, Isabella and Arabella.
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James died unmarried November, 1764, from being thrown from a horse, aged 24.
Augustine married widow Mary Elizabeth Willett Van Ranst, and their children were James, (generally called "Jimmie") who married Elizabeth, daughter of "Judge Jesse Thompson" of Pine Plains, Governeur Morris, Elizabeth, and Amelia Maria, all born in Pine Plains, at the site of the Benjamin Strever residence, probably in that old house now gone. In this connection it may be stated that Miss Mary Elizabeth Willett, daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth Willett, married first-Graham being her second husband-Cornelius Van Ranst, and the Cornelius Willett Van- Ranst, of Pine Plains, was their son and only child. (See Van Ranst lineage). Augustine Graham was his father-in-law. Mr. Graham moved to Deerfield, Oneida county, N. Y., and died there, Dec. 25, 1815.
James Graham, more generally known in Pine Plains years ago as "Jimmie," born 1774, was the eldest son of Augustine Graham of Pine Plains, and the only male descendant of the Graham brothers that settled in this town. He married Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of Judge Jesse Thompson (see Thompson Lineage) in 1798. She was born 1779. It is said he built "the stone house " under the mountain, now owned and occupied by Charles Thomas, which is on the Graham lands on Lot 27, the house and farm being in the south part of the town cast of Stissing Mountain. James emigrated to Deerfield, Oneida County, N. Y., where he deceased August 29, 1855. His wife deceased in 1846. He was the last resident of the name in this town. Their children were Jane, Thompson, Julia, Abi- gail, Eliza and Catharine. All have deceased. Julia has left descendants in George Coventry, of Utica, N. Y., and Mrs. Wilbur McKee, of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., each now living (1896).
Elizabethi sister to James above married John Weaver, has descend- ants. Amelia Maria married George L. Tisdale.
Graham, Lewis, was supervisor of North East Precinct in 1779, '80, '81 and '84. Was married and had a daughter Margaret who married Abra- ham W. Walton, who was a resident of the town for some years. Lewis Graham was one of the Judges in Westchester County, to which county he moved upon leaving Pine Plains, and deceased there. (See p. 69.)
Graham, Charles, was a captain in the revolution and signally dis- tinguished in the battle at White Plains. He was Town Clerk of North East Precinct in 1774 and '75, was unmarried, and it is said died at Pine Plains. (See p. 68.)
Graham, Morris, brother to the above, all sons of James Graham and Arabella Morris, was town clerk of North East Precinct in 1772 and '3, and supervisor in 1774. He was a member of the first Provincial Congress of New York in 1775, and of all the subsequent conventions of that body, in- cluding the formation of the state constitution in 1777. In 1778 he was a
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member of the Assembly from this district. He never married, and died at Deerfield, Oneida County, N. Y., in 1805 or '6, at the home of his sister, Arabella Graham. (See p. 69.)
Graham, John, another brother, married Julia Ogden, lived in Mor- risania nntil 1821, then moved to New York City where he lived until his. decease in 1832. They had children Lewis, Thomas, Arabella, James, Charles and Euphemia. Charles was a lawyer, married Sarah Hunter in 1809. In a letter to his Aunt Arabella in 1821 he speaks of his children Julia Matilda, John Hunter, Charles Colden, William Irving, James Law- rence and an infant not yet named. Julia Matilda, his daughter, married in 1833.
Graham. Isabella, sister to the above brothers, married Jonathan Landon, their marriage license bearing date December 11, 1771. He came- to Pine Pine in 1773, and was prominent as a civil officer of the town, un- til his death in 1815. From that branch are the present families of Thomas, the only descendants of the Grahams in this town. Their children were- Richard M., Arabella who married Amos Ketcham, Ann who married Ed- ward Thomas, (descendants now living in the town,) Mary who married John Church, and Rebecca. (See Landon lineage.)
Graham, Arabella, sister to Isabella, above, and to the brothers, never married. Deceased in Deerfield, Oneida County, N. Y., in 1840, aged ninety. While she lived she was the encyclopedia genealogical of this Gra- ham race. She preserved the records and remembered the traditions of the family, and it is to be doubted whether any other family in this vicin- ity and perhaps in the county, had as many heirlooms of ancestry and lin eage in a direct and connected line so remote as was in her keeping of both fact and tradition. The most of these have passed into the possession of Mr. George Coventry, formerly of Utica, and his sister, now Mrs. Wil- bur S. McKee, of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., who are respectively Graham descendants.
In the Partition Deed of the Little Nine Partners (see p. 31) James Graham, son of Augustine, had among other numbered lots, number 48 and 29. Lot 48 commenced (the southwest corner) where now Myrtle Street, Pine Plains, intersects the "South Street" road, and thence north to the Columbia County line, thence east about a mile and a quarter and the same distance on the south side of the lot. Lot 47 joined it on the west, the north and south road being very nearly the boundary, and was the George Clarke lot. Lot 29 adjoined these two lots on the south nearly half on each. It was these two Graham lots, (Nos. 48 and 29,) of the seven lots that fell to James Graham in the division, that his (James') heirs selected for their respective future homes. At the decease of James Graham Jnne 24, 1767, these lots and another one in the southeast part of the town, Lot. 14, were occupied, the parties paying yearly rentals. Morris Graham, the acting executor of the will makes this accounting of moneys received in
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1767 and 1768. "June 24, 1767, cash in the house at James Graham's, £42, 12s, 3p. Cash of Yonkhonce for rent, £6. (He and the following men were living on the above mentioned Graham lots in Pine Plains, and the amounts are for rent.) Cash of Melius, £4, 5s. Cash of Row, (Michael,) £6, 15, 6. Cash of Weaver, £4. Cash of Hoffman, £4. (These were for 1767.) In 1768, cash of Yonkhonce £6. Cash of Melius £6. Cash of Me- lius £1, 15s. Cash of Hoffman £8. Cash of Row £6, 10s. Total cash received by executors £95, 17s, 9p. June 13, 1768, cash received of Mrs. Morris on interest at different times for which the executors gave bond, £300."
Morris Graham came to Pine Plains at once after his father's decease, (1767,) and had charge of all the matters pertaining to the estate until about 1772. He selected the south part of Lot No. 29 for himself, and meanwhile built the "stone house " thereon near Halcyon Lake, now used by Mr. Frank Eno as a tenantry. (See cnt p. 52.) It was of the old colonial style, was the first and only stone house built in the town, much talked about, and now well preserved. The stone was quarried and picked from the surface of the land near by, and lime for laying them, and plastering was made in a kiln within a stone's throw by the side of the road south of the house. Its size on the ground main part is twenty-four by thirty-four.
During these years, 1767-1771, as executor for the estate, his business was principally farming and building, the latter principally being done on his "Stone House" farm. He had cattle, hogs and horses. ] In 1770 he drove a lot of cattle to Morrisania and for his expenses, including his own back, he charged £5, 6s, 6p. The names of parties with whom he had ac- count from 1768 to 1771 is a bit of interesting history. They are Hanscrist Wagoner, Joseph Rodman, Joseph Jesup, Elisha Phelps, Hendrick Weaver, Alexander McIntosh, Phineas Rice, Adam Weaver, Hendrick Yonkhonce, Doctor Lewis (for corn), James Atwater (rye), Joseph Harris (blacksmith), John Woolsey (smith), Peter Van Louvan, Clement Overbaugh, Jacob Melius, Timothy Downs, John Lowe, Doctor Newberry (physician), Alex- ander Bryan, John Stewart (merchant), Duncan Stewart, Henry Sherburn (smith), William West, Hon. George Herrick, William Melius. This list is interesting as showing contemporaneous settlers in and near Pine Plains whose names could not be obtained from any other records.
The general settlement however, of the Graham family took place in 1773. October 18th and 19th of that year Jonathan Landon, from West- chester County-who had married Isabella Graham-made a survey, assist- ed by the Graham Brothers, of lot 48, one of the lots in the Little Nines allotted to James Graham, and in the November following he surveyed Lot 29, allotted also to James Graham, and subdivided each lot into farms for the respective members of the family. Morris, as already noticed, had the south part of lot 29 on which he had built his "stone house," Augus- tine, his brother, took the west half of the north part of the same lot which
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included the later known Strever Corners, where Augustine built his first house. His land extended north to the George Clarke Lot No. 47, and in- . cluded the now Duchess Depot and Knickerbocker store. In addition to this Augustine had sixty acres from the south part of lot 48, commencing near the now Pokeepsie & Eastern track, from thence to near now Myrtle Street. This was known in later times as belonging to Adam and Benja- min Strever. John Graham, another brother, had the east half of the north part of Lot 29, which included the now Burnap Jordan dwelling and that part of now Daniel Pool farm east of the road passing his house, if continued on the same direction southerly. John did not live here many years, if at all. He lived in Morrisania and later in New York (see above). The remainder of Lot 48, after taking ont the sixty acres to Augustine, was divided to Lewis, Charles, Arabella and Isabella (Mrs. Landon.) Lewis had that part of Lot 48 commencing at the north line of Augustine, his brother, near the Pokeepsie & Eastern Railroad and thence north to or near the Hoffman Mill. It included all the now village of Pine Plains, in - cluding the cemetery as now. The eastern bounds were not far from the now Pokeepsie Railroad Depot, the east line running north parallel with the west line on the street. Pine Plains village is indebted to the Grahams for its site, and to Lewis Graham in person. He built the log block house in 1773 or '4, known later as the " Brush House," now owned by Mr. Isaiah Dibble who in 1881 put on siding and other repairs as it now appears. The frame and main partition were made from oak logs hewn square, and the house had a large entry and hall way in the center and a large room on each side of the hall. Mr. Isaac Huntting has an arm chair made by Henry Englekee from an oak log taken from the house when the repairs were made in 1881. Arabella Graham had the northwest part of Lot No. 48, commencing at the north line of Lewis Graham, thence north to the north line of the lot at the Columbia County line. She owned the Hoffman Mill property and the farm adjoining. Isabella Graham (Mrs. Landon) had the east half of Lot 48, or nearly all of it, and built a barn and house near where Robert Thomas now lives. The house is gone but the barn is there now.
Robert Thomas now owns a portion of the original Graham-Landon acres and is a discendent of Isabella Graham. This Thomas family are the only Graham descendents in the town. This Isabella Graham portion, included the first Peter Husted and Culver Tannery at Hammertown. In
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1787 Jonathan Landon and Isabella sold fifty-six acres including the tan- nery site to Cornelius C. Elmendorph, who ten years later, 1796, sold the same to Peter Husted, who soon after started a tannery.
[NOTE .- On page 104 is mention of the bridge built at Hoffman's Mills in 1818. This was to replace one built there in 1794 according to the fol- lowing account:
"May 1794, Israel Curtis, road master, Dr.
"To Lewis Graham farm 68 feet timber £1, 14s.
"To Isabella Graham farm 44 feet timber £1, 2s.
.
"To { gallon and one pint rum for the raisin the bridge 5s." James Stewart and Christopher Shultz were the commissioners of highways.]
Soon after the settlement of the Grahams here as above, in 1773, came the war of the Revolution, which unsettled the settled throughout the country, and in the cause for freedom the Grahams were foremost and to the front. Morris, Charles and Lewis were in the American army. Dur- ing the seven years of the war or soon after, some of the family sold out. Lewis and John went to Westchester county and Morris it is said devoted a large portion of his estate, if not quite all, to the support and maintenance of the regiment of which he was Colonel. (See above for his decease.) Augustine who married Mrs. Van Ranst as above, held to the ancestral acres with great tenacity, and became the principal manager of all the unsold and undivided Graham lands in the patent, concerning which he had a deal of trouble by suits of ejectment, title and possession which financially embarrassed him greatly.
April 1, 1784 the next year after the close of the revolutionary war he gave this bill of sale to his brother Morris.
"A bill of sale given by Augustine Graham to Morris Graham for the whole of his movable estate, viz. : his negro man Philip, and negro wench Salina, and her four children Joe, Robin, Jonathan and Moses, with three old cows and three heifers, two four years and one three years old, two yearlings, one a heifer and the other a steer, one two year old steer, and three old mares, wagon, plows, sleighs, harrows and all other his farming utensils. To have and to hold to the said Morris Graham, his heirs and assigns forever the above bargained premises, the full possession of which was given by delivery to the said Morris Graham, his brown mare Cate in the name of the whole. Entered and recorded the 1st day of April, 1784, in presence of Andrew White and Arabella Graham."
He remained in this town however twenty years or more afterward, living at the Strever forks of the road south of the village, where in July 1799 he built the barn 25-44, the frame being there now, having been recently sided, and October first the same year (1799) commenced building the present house there 30x35 under a contract to have it enclosed for fifty dollars he finding every thing. Down to this time he had lived in the old house a little south of the present one, which stood there until a few years since.
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Five years before, he wrote this brief letter to his son "Jimmie."
"Dear James- I have just arrived last evening. I can't get a wagon to come up with me. I have brought little Jane up with me and a box with some things. I wish you would make it convenient to come down to Homes' with a wagon for me and you will much oblige your father and friend. AUGUSTINE GRAHAM.
MR. JAMES GRAHAM.
July ye 14, 1795."
"Little Jane" was a daughter of Cornelius Van Ranst. (See Van Ranst Lineage).
Ham, Martin, is said to have been the first settler of the name in this town. He and John Houghtaling as partners purchased about 1,200 acres on Lot 46, Little Nine Partners, in 1769. This tract is west of the village about a mile and a half, some of which is now owned by Robert Ham, a descendant, and another portion is the Levi Best farm now in that family. A short distance northwesterly from the now Best residence is the old " Ham House," 22 x 32 with lean-to, said to have been built about 1780, and was the residence of Frederick Ham, Sen., a son of Martin. (See cut p. 63.) Martin Ham and and Margaret had sons 1st, John, 2d, Frederick, 3d, Jacob, 4th, Peter.
John had sons, 1st, Frederick, and 2d, Martin, who emigrated to Greene County, near Cairo.
Frederick had sons 1st, John the father of Richard and Wandell, 2d, Jacob, father of Frederick and Henry, 3d, Peter, father of Frederick T., 4th, Frederick (Captain), who emigrated to Claverack, Columbia County, and left many descendants in that county. Frederick, the father of the above, was many years a prominent farmer, and the most prominent of the name in the town. His business life was from 1780 to about 1824. In addition to the sons above he had daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret, Hannah, Phebe, Caty and Rebecca. To rear and care for so many chil- dren to honorable manhood and womanhood, who later brought thrift and happiness to many hearth stones and good to society, in his humble special occupation (farming) and not lack meanwhile for competence, is a consum- mation honorable and praiseworthy, and one not all can reach. He was many years an elder in the Greenbush Vedder church, and filled all the duties pertaining to his family, his neighbor and his God.
Jacob, third son of Martin above, settled on the Levi Best farm above mentioned. Had no children.
Peter, fourthi son of Martin, born February 12, 1763, deceased Novem- ber 5, 1844, had sons Jolin, Jacob, Jeremiah, Derrick, Frederick, Robert and Benjamin. Robert his son is now (1897) living in the paternal home- stead house built in 1792 and since repaired. He is now, 1897, ninety- three. The ancestor was one of the German Palatines.
Harris, John, the first of the name in the town, was the son of John Harris and Rachel Moss, of Wallingford or Derby, Conn., later of Corn- wall, and later of "Oblong," son of Daniel Harris and Abigail Barnes of
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Middletown, Conn., son of Daniel Harris and Mary Weld, of Boston, Mass., son of Thomas Harris and Elizabeth, who came from England previous to 1630. John Harris, above, was the founder of the "Harris Scythe " indus- try in Pine Plains, although not the first maker of the Harris scythe. (See " Harris Scythes," p. 306.) The church relations of this branch were Con- gregational, John the father being a deacon in the church in Cornwall pre- vious to his immigration to the Oblong about 1750. In 1753 he signed a petition to have Rev. Abraham Reinke, a Moravian preacher, returned to the mission near Sharon. John Harris was born in Derby in April, 1744. His father deceased when he was about fourteen, and his mother soon after married David Owen, of Salisbury. John then went to his Uncle, Joseph Harris, then a blacksmith at the Andrus Rowe Corners, about a mile north of the now Shacameco Station on the N. D. & C. Railroad. He married Mary Gamble about 1770. She was born February 25, 1752. Their chil- dren were Mary, born January 10, 1774, John, Jr., born November 2, 1776, Rachel, born February 23, 1778, Hannah, born February 27, 1780, Israel, born March 23, 1782, Lois, born March 2, 1784, Elizabeth, born July 25, 1788, Eunice born 1790, Ann born -? James born 1794. Mary married Judah Thompson and settled in Washington County, N. Y. John, Jr., married Elisabeth -? of Salisbury, Conn., in 1794, where his eldest son, James Harvey, was born November 3, 1795, and a second son John, Sep- tember 7, 1798. John the father deceased at Lambsgreen. England, Feb- ruary 6, 1798, in his 23d year. Rachel married Eliakim Lapham, son of Parzi Lapham, of Stanford, Duchess County. They were married at the Harris Mill homestead in Pine Plains by Judge Jesse Thompson, January 5, 1800, settled first in Columbia County on a farm adjoining Martin Van Buren, later moved to Stuyvesant, and later to Penn Yan, N. Y., where they have descendants. Hannah, born at Andrus Rowe Corners, married John W. Righter, of Pine Plains. They have descendants now living in the town in Mr. John Righter and children. Israel married Phebe Barker, October 28, 1808, daughter of Col. William Barker, of Amenia, and Chloe Bronson, a daughter of John Bronson. Lois married Periam Thompson, of Washington County, N. Y., nephew of Judah Thompson, the husband of Mary. Elisabeth married James G. Husted, April 18, 1821. She deceased March 10, 1869. They have descendants now living on the borders of Stan- ford and Pine Plains in the wife and children of Mulford Conklin. Eunice married Cyrus Burnap of Pine Plains in November 1820. She deceased October 22, 1821. Ann married Henry Knapp, of Broome County, N. Y. James never married, deceased at Penn Yan 1871. John Harris, the father of these, deceased Nevember 27, 1814. His widow, Mary, deceased in Pine Plains December 20, 1834. Israel Harris, of the above family, was the only brother that lived in the town. He was commendably prominent in the town officially and as a citizen. He held many town offices when North East included now Pine Plains and Milan, was the last supervisor of North
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East and Pine Plains united-Milan having been set off-and was the first supervisor of now Pine Plains. He was a member of the legislature in 1820-21. July 1, 1818, he was appointed Colonel of the 20th Regiment of the New York State Militia. He deceased in Pine Plains at the old house (now repaired) near the Harris saw mill, March 4, 1831, in his 49th year. He married as above and had children John J .. William Barker, Israel Vic- tor, Silas Gamble, Myron, Eunice and Mary. In 1836 or "7 John J. and William B. emigrated to Liverpool, near Syracuse, N. Y., where they jointly had purchased a farm. They lived together on this farm until the decease of John in 1864. Each was highly esteemed. Politically they were decided republicans, William taking an active part in the "Jerry Rescue " scheme, as it was called. He was decided in his opinions, and made many political speeches. The two brothers were members of the Presbyterian church, William being a deacon thirty years. John deceased at Liverpool, December 13, 1864, and William deceased there November 11, 1866. Wil- liam left two children, a daughter and son. Adell the daughter married Philip Coons, and lives (1897) at Pontiac, Ill. William, the son, lives at Bathgate, North Dacotah, and is the only descendant (1897) of this Israel Harris family bearing the name. Israel Victor, Silas Gamble and Myron, the other sons of Israel Harris, emigrated to Western Michigan from 1837 to 1839. Silas and Israel Victor settled in Grand Rapids. Silas, on a re- turn visit to Pine Plains in 1851, had an attack of typhoid fever and de- ceased at the home of Col. Silas Harris August 4th, that year. Israel Vic- tor deceased in Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 17, 1886, aged 71. He and Silas were bachelors. Myron settled on a farm near Grand Rapids where he deceased 1880. He married and has descendants, a daughter Myra, the wife of Mr. Burnap Jordan, who lives on one of the Israel Harris homesteads, being one of them. Eunice, one of the daughters of Israel Harris married Henry Akin, December 28, 1841, emigrated to Lockport, Ill., and in 1843 settled on a farm, where she and her husband lived until 1875, then moved to Vermillion County, Ill., and from thence in 1881 to Fort Collins, Colorado, where she deceased February 16, 1896, aged 72. She was an estimable woman and has left many descendants. Mary, the other and youngest daughter of Israel Harris, married William Herrick, of Salt Point, Duchess County. She is the only one living (1897) of the sons and daughters of Israel Harris. Her husband is living, each are infirm, and they have one daughter.
Harris, Seth, son of Joseph, of another branch of this family tree was cousin to John Harris the scythe maker. He married Isabella Gamble, sister to the wife of John, emigrated to Burlington, Vermont, where his wife deceased. He emigrated from thence to Kingsbury, N. Y., and from thence to Pine Plains about 1810, and took an interest in the Harris Scythe manufacture. (See p. 308.) He had sons, Silas and John, and a daughter Elisabeth, who was said to have been a beautiful and accom-
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plished woman. Seth Harris married 2d Susan Husted, a daughter of Peter and Polly Husted, and had two daughters Susan and Mary. Susan married a Mr. Ayres of Elmira, N. Y., has descendants, and Mary married Ambrose Smith son of Isaac Smith, Esq., of a Pine Plains family. Seth Harris deceased at Hammertown, Pine Plains, February 2, 1842, in his 80th year.
Harris, Silas, son of Seth, (see cut p. 311,) married Maria, daughter of Edward Puggsley, had two daughters Margaret and Mary. Margaret married Mr. John Luqueer and deceased without descendants. Mary married Mr. Theodore Pomeroy of Pittsfield and deceased leaving three daughters, Fanny, Margaret and May; and one son, Silas H. They have descendants, none of whom live in Pine Plains. (For more of Silas Harris see p. 310 and following.)
Harris, John, brother to Silas, married Hannah Righter, had chil- dren Walter, Stickle, Hiram and possibly others. He deceased in Albany. (See page 310.)
Hartwell, Niles, son of Abraham Hartwell and Mary Lawrence of Spencers Corners neighborhood, North East, came to Pine Plains in 1810 or '11, as clerk for Hoffman & Winchell in the old red store on the now Charles Morgan Corner. He was born July 29, 1782, and married Mary Winchell, a daughter of Philo Winchell, and had daughters Mary, Julia and Chloe. Chloe married John F. Hull, for many years a cashier of the Fallkill Bank, Pokeepsie. He has descendants now, 1897, living there. Mr. Hartwell was in the Hoffman and Winchell store until their dissolu- tion in 1821 or '2, Mr. Hoffman retiring, when he became a partner with Mr. Winchell, under the firm "Winchell & Hartwell." They continued until 1832, when Mr. Hartwell retired from the firm and commenced mer- chandising on his own account in the store on the now Bowman Opera House corner. [Note-see cut of this corner p. 208. This store was the old school house building, which stood nearly opposite the now Philip Pies- ter residence, and was moved to the corner and converted into a store by Henry Hoffman, Esq., about 1826, he having purchased the lease of Ebene- ner Dibblee at the public sale of his estate on Tuesday, March 14, 1826. It was on the George Clarke land, and on the "Dibblee farm," which he, Ebenezer Dibblee, had secured by lease from Clarke during two lives, dated October 2, 1797, containing one hundred and thirty-three acres and three quarters of land. Mr. Hoffman sold this lease to Justus Boothe, May 1, 1829, for eighteen hundred dollars. John Peter Keeler was the first merchant in the store, was there in 1826, '7, '8 and '9, and was succeeded by a man named Westover, who failed in 1830 or '31.]
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