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grantees the lands of the town were set off into lots and drawn for by the stockholders of the company. However, there was a strip of land in No. 7, and commonly called " the garter," which was conveyed by Caleb Benton, on behalf of the lessees, to James Parker for the Society of Friends, embracing 1,104 acres bordering the pre-emption line on the west side.
To the eastward of the old pre- emption line lay a vast area of fertile lands, claimed alike by the lessees and the State. Also there was the tract known as Lansing's Location. The Friends, the pioneer settlers of the region, made two purchases of these lands embracing 14,000 acres, the deed therefor being executed by the governer to James Parker, William Potter, and Thomas Hathaway, as representatives of the Friends Society. The land between the old and new pre-emption lines was deeded to the Friends' agents by Charles Williamson, he represent- ing the English owners as successors to Robert Morris. The latter be- came owner through a conveyance to him by Phelps and Gorham. There were other owners of lands now a part of Milo, which were found to be within the proper and intended Phelps and Gorham pur- chase on what was called the gore, but to these owners the State of New York was obliged to make restitution and satisfaction.
According to the survey of the town of Milo, or rather of township No. 7, range one, the western line brought a small portion of its terri- tory to the west of Lake Keuka. This never became a part of the town proper upon its organization, but was annexed to and made a part of Jeruselem, upon the organization thereof in 1803. The town of Milo, as a distinct and separate jurisdiction of Ontario County, was brought into existence by an act of the legislature passed at the session of 1818. The first proposed name for the town was Milan, but as another town of that name was formed about the same time, Samuel Lawrence, one of the representatives in the Assembly from Ontario County, sug- gested for this town the name of Milo; but why so named neither rec- ord or tradition furnishes an explanation. As originally constituted Milo embraced all of township No. 7, first range, except the portion west of Lake Keuka, and all the territory east of it and west of Seneca Lake. The town was called upon to surrender a portion of its lands to the formation of Torrey, all of which is fully explained and narrated in the chapter relating to that town.
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Pioneer Settlement .- The first settlers in Milo were members of the Society of Universal Friends, who came to the region in 1788 and lo- cated upon lands the ownership of which they knew not of. As a mat- ter of fact, at that particular time there was a question of some doubt as to whom the lands did rightfully belong ; whether to Phelps and Gor. ham, the Lessee company, or to the Senecas of the Six Nations. But the Friends made their settlement and improved the lands, not in defiance of any right of others, but because the country was congenial to them, and they must have had some firm belief that they could acquire title without difficulty or disturbance. This they afterward did acquire. But the settlement by the Friends is not a proper subject of narration in this connection, as the site occupied by them was set off from Milo and made a part of Torrey, and as such will be found treated in the history of that town.
The settlement of the Friends occupied in particular that portion of the town of Milo that was formed into Torrey, but in general their set- tlements reached out into the western localities from the lake, and ex- tended even into what became Benton. The names of the members of the Friends Society are mentioned in one of the earlier chapters of this work, and therefore no repetition need be made in this connection. Neither is it necessary to this chapter that they be mentioned other- wise than as pioneers of the locality.
In 1869 Samuel V. Miller and Job L. Babcock, acting in the interest of the Yates County Historical Society, by patient and persistent ef- fort succeeded in making a reliable list of the early settlers of Milo; those who dwelt on what were then the leading north and south thor- oughfares of travel through the town, and which were commonly known as the Lake road, the Bath road, the Telegraph road, and the East road. The results of their labors were reported to the society and eventually were given publicity through the press of Penn Yan. From their re- port it is learned that the first settlers on the Lake road, commencing at the Barrington line and following northward, were these persons: Jere- miah Decker, Henry Jacobus, Jonathan Gillis, James Goble, Mr. Wilson, T. Dixon, W. Helms, John Haight, Simeon Jacobus, Warren Smith, Dr. E. Shattuck, and George Lamb, each of whom is credited with hav- ing lived on their respective lands in 1806, and are presumed to have
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made their settlements about that time. John McDowell is said by the report to have settled at the foot of the lake in 1802, although his descendants contend that his settlement was made there in 1792.
On the Bath road, so- called, commencing where George W. Plymp- ton now lives and going southward, the pioneer settlers were John Reywalt, Joseph Quick, J. W. Hedges, William Yager, Levi Macomber, Charles Lockwood, Charles Bundy, Simeon Thayer, sen., William Bailey, Joshua Beard, Hiram Post, Samuel Boots, William Hedges, Isaac Hedges, Ezra Cummings, Benjamin Thompson, Moses Thompson, Jonathan Bailey, John Seeley, and George Marring. These also are credited with having been settlers in 1802 and 1803.
The road south of Penn Yan has had less inhabitants, there appear- ing only the names of Peter Coldren, J. Hollenbeck, Susannah Clau- ford, Peter Althiser, and Philip Yokum. They were settlers of 1802 and 1803. On the east road there appears these names: Thomas and Israel Ferris, Jedediah Royce, Lewis Randall, Samuel Lockwood, Abraham Downing, Deacon Maples, Ezra Smith, John Culp, John Capell, Rev. Ferris, Reuben Ferris, Peter Eastman, Noah Russage, Jonathan Rector, Abraham Ferris, James Randall, Absalom Travis, John Miners, John R. Powell, Roger Sutherland, Abraham Prosser, Benjamin Down- ing, Peter Heltibidel, George Gardner, Abner Gardner, R. Champlin, Simon Sutherland, credited with having settled about the years 1802 and 1803. On the road east from the lake dwelt about the same time Ephraim Althiser, Philemon Baldwin, and David Hall.
Let the present generation of dwellers in Milo glance over the fore- going roll, and then see how very few of them can trace their ancestry back to the residents along these roads during the first years of the present century. It was indeed an arduous task to enumerate them, how much more difficult would it be to take each named head of the family and relate who they were, where they came from, who were their children, and finally, what eventually became of each of them. No person now living could accurately do this work.
Records of Early Families .- John and Peleg Briggs were pioneer settlers on the location where is now the hamlet called Milo Center. They were followers of the Friend. The children of John and Elizabeth (Bailey) Briggs were John, jr., David, Ruth, Ann, and Esther. The Briggs family came to this locality from North Kingston, Rhode Island.
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Adam Hunt and Mary his wife were natives of Rhode Island, and came to the Friend's settlement as pioneers, locating near Milo Center on the Garter. Their children were Sarah, Silas, Mary, Abel, Hannah, Lucy, and Lydia.
Lewis Birdsell settled on lot 18, in 1792. He contracted with Enoch Malin to build the first dam, flume and saw-mill at the foot of Main street in Penn Yan, for a consideration equivalent to fifty-five pounds. Shortly afterward Mr. Birdsell sold the property to David Wagener and moved to Seneca County.
Thomas Lee and Waty (Sherman) Lee, his wife, with a large family, settled on lot two, in 1790. Their children were Abigail, Mary, Eliz- abeth, Waty, Joshua, Nancy, Patience, Thomas, jr., James, and Sherman.
John Lawrence, follower for a time of the Friend, came to Milo from New Bedford, Mass. He was one of the leading men of the settlement and in comfortable circumstances. His wife was Anna Hathaway, rel- ative of the prominent Thomas Hathaway. The children of John and Anna Lawrence were Melatiah, Mary, Samuel, Reliance, Anna, Olive, John, Sabra, and Silas. John Lawrence, the pioneer, built the first mill structure on the privilege now utilized by John T. Andrews.
William W. Aspell and family settled near Milo Center in 1816. He was born in Ireland. His children, by a second marriage, however, were David B., Mary A., and Elizabeth S.
Richard Henderson was born in Ireland March 17, 1767, and died January 23, 1850. His wife, Anna Wagener, was born September 10, 1777, and died November 13, 1864. Their children : Samuel, born March 5, 1797, married Harriet Arnot, and died April 12, 1834; David, born December 25, 1798, married December 9, 1819, died February 15, 1883; Maria, born August 11, 1800, married Samuel Gillette May 9, 1820, died April 6, 1886; Mary, born March 16, 1803, married John- son A. Nichols, died April 16, 1889; Rebecca, born November 8, 1805, married George Nichols, first, and afterward Nehemiah Raplee, lives at Bath; Elizabeth, born January 14, 1809, married Caleb J. Legg, lives in Torrey ; Richard, born January 15, 1810, died May 15, 1864; Anna B., born July 11, 1812, married Barnum Mallory, lives in Illinois ; Jane, born June 1, 1814, married Smith L. Mallory, lives west ; Harriet, born November 17, 1816, married Louis Millard, lives in Dundee ; James W.,
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born March 19, 1819, married Martha A. Drake, and lives at Milo Center ; Rachel, born July 9, 1821, married James C. Longwell, lives at Penn Yan. Children of Richard and Rosalinda Henderson : Samuel S., born October 9, 1836; Charles, born February 27, 1838, died May 28, 1872; Marvin and Marsden, born April 2, 1842 ; James A., born Oc- tober 6, 1845. Richard Henderson, the pioneer, settled between Milo Center and Himrods about the year 1795.
Josiah Jones and family settled near Himrods in 1806. His wife was Sarah Ellis, who, as well as himself, was a native of Rhode Island. Their children were Timothy, Seth, Nancy, Abigail, Eunice and Lydia (twins).
George and Hannah Davids Fitzwater, husband and wife, came to Milo from Pennsylvania in 1799. Their children were John, Sarah, George, Hannah and Thomas (twins), and Rachel.
Samuel Castner was a pioneer of Milo. His wife was Mary Magda- lene, daughter of David Wagener. Their children were Rebecca, Mary Ann, Rachel W., Ann M., Elizabeth, and Susan S.
Eliphalet Norris was born in New Hampshire in 1763, and in 1792 came to this town, locating at what became known as Norris' Landing, where he established a trading store. In 1793 he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Hathaway, who bore him five children, viz .: Thomas H., Benjamin G., George W., James H., and Joshua F.
Silas Spink settled on the Gore in 1790. He was a native of Rhode Island, and journeyed to the home of the Friends in company with sev- eral other persons who sought a home in the New Jerusalem. Silas Spink married Martha Briggs, and had two children, Mary and Silas W. Spink.
John Supplee was a pioneer on the Friends tract, coming thither from Philadelphia prior to 1790. In that year he married Achsa, the daughter of Jonathan Botsford. Mr. Supplee first located in Torrey, but after one or two years moved to the locality of Himrods. He was one of the early distillers of the region, but in 1815 turned his attention to the more agreeable occupation of running a saw-mill on Plum Point. He, in 1825, built two small river boats, named respectively Trader and Farmer, in which lumber, grain, and produce were carried to Albany. Peter, John, and Jonathan were the children of John and Achsa Supplee.
Mary Gardner, the wife of George Gardner, formerly of Rhode Island,
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became one of the early settlers in the Friends colony. Her husband remained in the East, and she and her children, Dorcas, Abner, and George, came to the Genesee country, locating first near the Friend's home, but later moved to Milo. Dorcas Gardner married Eleazer In- graham, jr., and had seven children : John, Abigail, Mary, George, Rhoda, Rachel, and Nancy. Abner Gardner married Mary Champlin, and had these children : Mary, George W., Rowland J., and Abner. Abner, sen., died in 1860, and his wife two years earlier.
Another of the pioneers of Milo was Stephen Card, whose settlement dates back to 1788. Both he and his wife, Hannah Card, were natives of Rhode Island. Stephen Card and John Reynolds cleared the land and sowed the first wheat west of Seneca Lake. Mr. Card first settled near City Hill, but afterward moved to a farm near Himrods. The children of Stephen and Hannah Card were John and Sarah Card. Isaac and Anna (Boon) Nichols were numbered among the Rhode Island contin- gent of pioneer settlers in Milo. They were followers of the Friend, steadfast and true. Isaac Nichols located on the Garter, and after him the place was named Nichols's Corners, afterward and now known as Milo Center. Isaac Nichols died in 1829, and his wife nine years later. Their children were George, Alexander, Benjamin, and Jacob. George married Hannah Green, and had one child, George B. Nichols. Alex- ander married Polly or Mary Chambers, and by her had these children : Josiah G., Johnson A., Alexander, and Loring G. Nichols.
John Plympton and Rhoda, his wife, both natives of Massachusetts, came to Milo in 1795, and settled on lot 17. John died at Deerfield, Oneida County, and his wife in 1833, at West Bloomfield. Their children were Esther, Rachel, Moses A., Aaron, Rhoda, John, Polly or Mary, and ·Henry. Aaron Plympton married Elizabeth Heltibidal, by whom he had four children, Daniel L., George W., Ezra W., and Mary E.
Aaron Bayard and his family were pioneers of Benton, having set- tled in that town in 1798. Their children were Joshua and Benedict. The former married Martha Blake, and moved in 1811 to Milo, locating on lot 72. Their children were Allen, Samantha, Martha Ann, Eme- line, Marietta, Franklin, Calista, Serepta, and John B.
Sarah Sutherland, widow of Stephen Sutherland, of Dutchess County, N. Y., with three of eleven children were early settlers of Milo. The
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children referred to were Mead, Lewis, and William. From these three sons have descended the several members of the Sutherland families who now live in Milo.
Isaiah Youngs settled in 1802 on the Potter location, near Seneca Lake. He was a native of New Jersey and there married Mary Hag- gerty. Their children were Experience and Temperance (twins), Ste - phen, Peter, George, Mary, and Benjamin. George Youngs was prom- inently connected with the early history of his town, and of the village of Penn Yan. He married Rebecca Pitney, by whom he had these children : George R., Isaiah, Caroline, Harriet, Rebecca, and Phebe Ann.
Thomas Bennett and Charity (Hedges) Bennett, his wife, became set- tlers on lot 29 in 1812. After clearing and improving a farm Mr. Ben- nett moved his family to Starkey. Their children were David J., Polly, Elizabeth, Jerusha, Abraham H., Esther, Thomas, Sally, Samuel, Nancy, Stephen, Mehitable, Sophia, and Charity.
Benajah and Joshua Andrews were pioneers in the Friend's settlement. The former was an early school teacher, and the latter was a merchant. Benajah died during young manhood. Joshua married, in 1792, Mary, daughter of Thomas Lee, sen. Their children, Jeremiah B., Elizabeth, Sarah, and Maria.
John Buxton was born in Yorkshire, England, August 5, 1764, and came to this country, and to Milo, in 1800, his family at that time con- sisting only of himself and wife. Their children were Catharine, John, Thomas, Bridget, and Mary Ann. John Buxton, jr., married Lois Lord, of Sharon, Conn., by whom he had three children, John J., Lois Lavina, and William W.
George Goundry and his wife, Elizabeth (Heslop) Goundry, were both of English birth. In 1798 they came to America and to Geneva. George was employed to look after the Hopeton mill, which brought him to this county. In 1802 he bought a farm on the Garter. The children of George and Elizabeth Goundry were Thomas, Elizabeth, Catharine, George, Ann, Julia A., Matthew, and Cornelius.
Jephtha F. Randolph and his family came from New Jersey and set- tled on lot 15 of the Potter tract in 1809. His children were William, John, Daniel, David F., Finch F., Eliza, Morris, Jephtha F., and Aza- riah.
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John and Solomon Finch, brothers, with their families settled on Sen- eca Lake in 1808. John moved from this town to Michigan. Solo- mon married Sally Randolph, by whom he had eleven children, viz .: Azariah, Nathaniel, David, Solomon, John R, Betsey, Keziah, Catha- rine A., Caroline, Jeffrey, and Lewis. The second wife of Solomon Finch was Phylura Markham.
Amzi Bruen, the ancestor of the Bruen families now living in Milo, was born in New Jersey in 1799. His wife was Catharine Hall, daughter of John A. Hall. The children of Amzi and Catharine Bruen were John H., George, Sarah A., Horace R., Eveline H., Austin H., and Augustus.
The pioneer of the Struble family in Milo was Adam Struble, who was of Holland Dutch descent, but himself a native of New Jersey. His wife was Mary Dean. In 1814 the family came to Milo and settled near Himrods. Adam Struble died in 1867 and his wife, Mary, in 1868. Their children were Moses, Henry, Levi, Louisa, Dean, Sidney, Phebe, Ira, Hannah, Elizabeth, Morgan, Fowler, and Ellen. Hanford Struble, the present county judge of Yates County, and Dr. Henry A. Struble are sons of Levi Struble by his marriage with Mary Misner. Among the forty or more pioneers from Pennsylvania, who with their families settled near Himrods, was Malachi Davis and his family. His wife was Catharine Gil- kerson, and the children who came to this town were Jonathan, Samuel, Rachel, Jesse, John, Malachi, and Nathaniel.
Jacob Fredenberg is said to have been a settler in Milo of earlier date than the Friends. He was a refugee from Massachusetts, having fled the State during the famous Shay's rebellion, and took up his abode with his wife and children on Jacob's Brook, in the north part of Milo as afterward organized. He is said to have come here in 1787. The Senecas permitted the settlement but restricted his liberties.
The family of James Knapp settled in Milo in 1815. He had been a soldier of the Revolution, and was with General Sullivan on his famous campaign against the Senecas. His wife was Lucy G. Ball. Their children were Anna B., Samuel C., Augustus, and Pamelia. Augustus Knapp married Margaret Heltibidal, by whom these children were born : George H., Marsena V. R., Aaron P., Samuel A., Mary L., Charles F., Oliver C., William C., and Franklin.
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In 1803 Jonas Yocum, Philip Yocum, his son, George Heltibidal, son- in-law, John Reynalt, and Peter Coldren with their families came from Northumberland, Pa., and settled near Penn Yan. George Heltibidal was a man of influence and large means, and had much to do with the early affairs of the locality. He died in 1808. His children were Elizabeth, Peter, Catharine, George, Polly, Jacob, Margaret, Phebe, and John.
David Lee came from Putnam County and located at the foot of the lake in 1812, but afterward moved to Pulteney. His wife was Patty Mead, by whom he had eight children : Polly, Jacob, Robert, Rachel, Joseph R., Jehiel, Erastus, and David B.
In 1801 John Capell, then a resident of Middlesex, Mass., married Sally Blood and immediately afterward came to Yates County and to Milo, where he worked at his trade, that of millwright. He eventually moved to a farm just out of Penn Yan, The children of John and Sally Capell were Harriet, Columbus, John, Eliza Ann and Mary Ann (twins), Daniel, Racelia, Henry, William P., Emily, and Thomas A.
Simeon Thayer was the pioneer in Milo of a family that has been as prolific as perhaps any in the town. He was born in this State, as also was his wife, Elizabeth Lucas, whom he married in 1805. They first settled on Lot 35, but afterward moved to the lake shore about five miles from Penn Yan. Their children were Jacob, Joseph, James, Sam- uel, Sally Ann, Simeon, David, William, Laura, Emeline, Reuben, An- drew, and John.
Samuel V. C. Miller was a native of New Jersey, born in 1781. In 1806 he married Esther Cutter, also of New Jersey, and came to Milo in 1822, settling on the Lake road. Samuel, the pioneer died in 1852, and his wife in 1858. Their children were Maria, Isabel, John C., Sarah F., Samuel V., Abram and Esther (twins), Susan C., Ephraim C., David, Phebe A. W., Stephen W., and Robert F.
Libbeus and Comfort (Booth) Cleveland were natives of Vermont, but became residents of Milo in 1811. They were the parents of four children: Hannah, Naomi, Stephen H., and Harriet. Comfort Cleveland died in 1831, and in 1839 Libbeus married Lavina Onderdonk.
Augustus Chidsey, native of Connecticut, became a resident of Milo in 1817, settling on lot 17. His wife was Anna Rathbun, by whom he
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had five children : Freelove, Augustus C., Sarah, Samuel B. and Joseph. His second wife was Sarah Bidlack, who bore him three children, Frank, Anna, and Ambrose.
Charles and Catharine (Smith) Babcock were natives of Connecticut and New York respectively, and became residents of Milo in 1816, set- tling on lot 45. Both died in 1829. Their children were Job, Eunice, Abiram, and Stephen.
Thomas Baxter was born at Kinderhook, N. Y., in 1776, and his wife Lavina Benjamin Baxter, was born ten years later. They lived for many years in Seneca County, but in 1839 moved to Milo, locating on lot 29. He died in 1864. Their children were Mahala, William, Eliza- beth, Isaac, Phebe, Caroline, and Gilbert.
Terry Owen and his wife, who before marriage was Polly Finch, both of Orange County, N. Y., came to Milo in 1810, settling near Seneca Lake, south of Dresden. Terry died in 1821 and his wife in 1844. Their children were Nathaniel, Hannah, Jonathan, William, Julia, Daniel, Ira, Isaac, and Maria.
Three brothers and one sister, Frederick, William, Luther, and Sophia Spooner, children of Benjamin and Freelove Spooner, settled in Milo during the pioneer period, about or after 1800. Frederick and his wife Martha were parents of four children : Calvin, Benjamin, Polly and Ber- lin. William's children were William, Elizabeth, Bennett, Polly, Alan- son, and Cynthia. The children of Luther and Hannah (Allen) Spooner were Luther, Allen, Freelove, Benjamin, Leonard T., and James C.
Peter Eastman and Sarah his wife located on the "Pine Tract" in Milo in 1818. They afterward moved to Seneca County, Ohio. Their children were John W., Daniel W., Polly, James T., Peter O., Moses W., William W., Henry M., and Charles L.
George F. Swarthout was the fifth son of Anthony Swarthout, jr., and was born in the town of Ovid, October 28, 1790. He married Rowena Russell, of Barrington, December 3, 1818, and settled in Barrington in 1819. In 1843 he settled in Milo, three miles south of Penn Yan, where he died July 13, 1853. His children were Seymour, William R., Irene, Willis, Norton R., Anthony, John, George, Nancy N., and Heman S.
John Armstrong settled on lot 12, on land purchased by his father in
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I793. His wife was Sarah Embree whom he married in 1822, and by whom he had two children, Mary Ann and Henry. The former was born in 1823 and died in 1858. Henry was born in 1824, married first Adaline Hunt, by whom he had three children, Charles H., Marion, and John. His second wife was.Mercy J. Briggs. The youngest son, John, now lives on the old farm. He married Lucy, daughter of John Sheppard, and has one child.
Charles Roberts came from Philadelphia to Milo in 1799. He mar- ried Hannah Stone and settled on lot 14, near Milo Center. He was the first town clerk of Milo, holding that office from 1818 to 1837. He died in 1839, and his wife in 1861. Their children were Charlotte, Charles H., Robert, and Clarissa.
Andrew Stone was a pioneer of Milo. His wife was Mary Davis, by whom he had these children : Jesse, Hannah, Sarah, John, Mary, Samuel, Andrew, Ruth, and Eliza. The family came to the county in 1799. Thomas Hollowell was the head of a pioneer family in Milo, which family consisted of his wife and three children, William, Joseph and Thomas. William was born in 1774, and married Hannah Hunt. Joseph, born in 1776, married Eleanor Smith, of Milo, who bore him ten children : Mary, Thomas, Joseph, Hannah, Ann, Martha, William, John B., James, and George.
In addition to the above families of parents and one generation of their descendants, all of whom were pioneers in Milo, there can also be mentioned others who are also to be placed in the same class, and a faithful record requires at least the mention of their names. Peter H. Brown settled in the town in 1816. John Corner and his family came here in 1812. Allen Vorce and his family settled on lot 51 in 1818. Jonathan J. Hazard and Patience his wife and their family became resi- dents of Milo during the early years of this century. Their children · were Jonathan J., Griffin B., Joseph H., Thomas, Susanna, and Abigail. The Perry family were early settlers in the town, and were in good numbers. The children of the pioneer parents, James and Eliza- beth Perry, were Thomas, Lewis, Phebe, David, Enos, Abigail, Amaril- lis, Delila, and William. Gilbert Baker became a settler on lot 8 in Milo, in 1811. His wife was Margaret Connor, by whom he had children, viz. : John C., Samantha, Jane, Darius, Lucinda, Eliza, Jonathan G., Cynthia, and Gilbert D.
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