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adjoining said land, and those who have meadows southerly of said land, their usual right of way in going to and coming from said meadows with their hay, through the land above described.
Witness our hands and seals, the 28th day of April, 1792.
BEN. MORGAN, [L. s.] JAMES MORGAN, [L. s.]
NEHEMIAH MARSHALL. [L. s.]
Witnesses, William Crawford, Dorcas Crawford.""
Now, although the origin of the first church edifice in the town of Eastchester is clearly traceable to the action of the town, yet it is very evident that it was first commenced in 1692-3, by a tax levied on Churchimen and Dissenters, promiscuously, ac- cording to their real estate, and not finished until the act of 1699 was passed, which provided, that " The trustees of each town were to make a yearly rate for building a church where wanting." According to the principles of common law, at this period, meeting houses erected by public tax belonged to the church established by law. Hence, we find Mr. Bartow and his successors after their establishment and induction, by the then Governours, claiming the chapel or meeting house at East- chester as their own, and not only so, but keeping the Dissenters out of it. The parsonage or glebe with all its rights and appur- tenances was likewise voted for public purposes, and belonged to the rector ex-officio, for, say the rules of common law, con- cerning glebes, "Every church of common right is entitled to house and glebe " and " After induction the freehold of the glebe is in the parson." Whilst the wardens and vestrymen, who were the choice of the people, elected the rector and provided for his support, the rate-payers appear to have regulated the burial ground, voted repairs to the church when necessary, and ap- pointed the sexton, as was done in many other parishes. This was the state of things prior to the Revolution. After peace was established and New-York was finally organized as a State, an
* Town Records. " In 1803, the town granted one hundred dollars to be laid out in fencing the burial ground of the church of Eastchester, and supervisors and overseers were directed to see it expended." " At the same time a vote was taken to alter the right of way through the burial ground to the verge thereof, and that of the salt meadows belonging to the town."
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act was passed in 1734 for the incorporation of religions socie- ties, and under this act, we have seen, the church at Eastches- ter was incorporated. Now this act conferred on trustees the right, " Lawfully, to have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy all and singular the churches, meeting houses, parsonages, burying places and lands, thereunto belonging, with the hereditaments and appurtenances heretofore by the said church occupied or enjoyed, &c." Whatever rights, therefore, the church possessed prior to the Revolution, were still continued to her by the act of 1784.
Subsequently, however, to the joint action of the trustees " The Church appointed three persons to unclose the land set off to the church by the town," as appears from the following-res- olutions :-
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" At a meeting of the trustees held at the house of Wm. Crawford, on the 12th of March, 1793, it was resolved as follows : Resolved, that Messrs. Stephen Ward, Lan- caster Underhill, and Abraham Valentine, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to inclose the land belonging to the church in Eastchester, as laid out and ascertained by trustees chosen on the part of the town of Eastchester, and the trustees of the church, by a board fence on the whole front or north side thereof, composed of one board at the bottom and slitted above, and that the same be of the height of four feet and a half ; and the other parts of said land to be inclosed by a post and rail fence, or such board fence as aforesaid, and that the said persons com- plete the same as conveniently may be, &c."
" Resolved further, that the above mentioned persons take and receive the profits thereof by ploughing, for two seasons, any of the said land, except that within the compass of the burial place, and after that to take the grass growing out of the said land by pasturing and mowing the same, and render an account yearly to the said trustees of such profits, until a full compensation be made by the use thereof for their trouble and expense in fencing the said land."a
The presumption is, that the trustees of the church supposing their title to the ground in question, invalidated cither by the reorganization of the Church in 1737, or of the town in 1788, or perhaps of both, acted as the recipient of the same from the town, and wisely asserted no claim. It is certain that her action in 1792 did not weaken the title she possessed in any land
* Church Records, commencing A. D. 1787.
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rightfully belonging to her ; whilst the effect of the certificate, as declared in the resolution of the town before quoted, was to be forever a bar to any claim on the part of the town to the lands set off.a
This church was again incorporated on the 4th of October, 1795, by the style and title of " ST. PAUL'S CHURCH IN THE TOWN OF EASTCHESTER,"b in pursuance of an Act passed for the relief of the Protestant Episcopal Church, on the 17th of March, previous. Upon this occasion, William Popham and Lancaster Underhill were elected church wardens; Philip Pell, Lewis Guion, Isaac Ward, John Reed, Isaac Guion, Abraham Valentine, William Pinckney and William Crawford, vestry- men.
In 1793, the connection between this parish and Yonkers was dissolved,c and an association formed with Westchester in order to procure a minister. Upon the 9th of March, 1799, Mr. Isaac Wilkins, then in deacou's orders, was called to officiate as min- ister of the united parishes of West and Eastchester.
In 1801 the Vestry addressed the following letter to the Rec- tor, Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church, New-York :-
TO THE RT. REV. RECTOR AND THE WARDENS AND VESTRY- MEN OF THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY CHURCH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
" The wardens and vestrymen of St. Paul's church at Eastchester, in the County of Westchester, from a firm belief of the disposition of the corporation of the Triu- ity Church to aid and assist their sister Churches in every undertaking or design for encouraging and advancing the interest and increase of their respective congrega- tions ; and also from the consideration of their having heretofore extended their lib- erality to other Churches whose circumstances were not more needy, are induced to make the following Representation of the situation of the said Church, viz : that it
" See Report to the trustees of the town of Eastchester as to the title to the bu- rying ground attached to St. Paul's Church at Eastchester, by Renssalaer Ten Broeck, N. Y. 1853.
b County Rec. Religious Soc. Lib. A. 10, 11, 12.
e Mr. Cooper's farewell sermon was delivered in St. Paul's Church, June 16th, 1798, from 2 Cor. xiii, 11. In the course of it lie alludes to nine years of service at Eastches- ter.
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was built some few years before the Revolution, but left unfinished. That by the depre- dations commonly attendant thereon, it was greatly injured, the wooden part of it be- ing taken away, whereby the walls were exposed and so much impaired, that short- ly after the return of peace, the little remaining part of the former congregation exerted their best, the war having enfeebled their abilities, to put the church in some sort of order for public worship, and engaged a minister, and in conjunction with Westchester do still retain one who promises by his talents as a teacher, with an exemplary conduct, lo promote the cause of religion and enlarge the congregation, &c."
In April, 1817, the
REV. RAVAUD KEARNY, A. M.,
succeeded Mr. Wilkins as minister of this parish. He was the son of Philip Kearny, whose grandfather, Michael Kearny, emigrated from Ireland to this country in 1706. He was born at Newark, N. J. 22nd of August, 1791, entered Columbia Col- lege in IS08 and graduated Bachelor and Master of Arts in 1812. In 1816 he was ordained deacon, and the year following Priest, by the Right Rev. John H. Hobart, and soon afterwards com- menced his labors here. In 1821, he relinquished the rector- ship of this parish, and confined himself to the Church ai New Rochelle, to which benefice he was called in 1819. Sometime in 1822, he resigned the charge of the latter, and accepted a call to St. Mary's Parish, Maryland, from whence he removed to St. John's Church, Canandaigua, West New-York, and in 1828 look charge of St. Paul's Church, Red Hook, Duchess County, of which he remained rector until the day of his death. He died Sth of May, 1844. His remains were brought to New- York and interred in the family vault at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery.
Upon the resignation of Mr. Kearny, the
REV. LEWIS P. BAYARD,
from the Diocese of New Jersey, was elected rector of the parish. He continued faithfully to discharge the duties of his office both here and in New Rochelle, until the 14th of October, 1826, when he was succeeded by the
REV. LAWSON CARTER,
for whose successors, see list of rectors.
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The first delegates from this parish to the Diocesan Conven- tion, in 1787, were Philip Pell, Sen., and Thomas Bartow. THE CHURCH.
We have previously shown that the present church edifice was erected in 1765, by the inhabitants of this town. Situated. in a pleasant valley, bordering the Aqueanouncke, it presents from the neighboring hills a very picturesque appearance. The building is remarkable for the solid character of its masonry the angles of the edifice being ornamented with rustic quoins, the windows and doors also having rustics. A vestry and school room have just been built, opening into the east end of the church. On the west end, is a neat, square tower of three stages, with narrow lights, terminating in an octangular lantern, containing a bell which bears the following inscription :- " The Gift of the Rev. Thomas Standard, 1758. Lester &· Pack, fecit."a
Immediately above the tower door are inscribed the initials of the principal benefactors, viz. :- P. R. P .- P. P .- D. V .- also a tablet of red sand stone, bearing the date of erection, 1765. The whole edifice has recently undergone considerable repairs ; a new chancel arrangement made, the walls painted in frescoe, and the church newly seated. It deserves to be mentioned that the pulpit and reading desk, were originally placed between the two south windows. Beneath the chancel floor repose the re- mains of the Rev. Thomas Standard, former rector of the par- ish, and Mary, his wife. In the gallery is a fine toned organ, presented by George Rapalye, Esq., in 1833, at a cost of $300. The chandalier and sheds were also his gift.
The communion silver consists of a flaggon, four chalices and paten. The former bears the following inscription :-- " To St. Paul's Church, Eastchester, N. Y. In memory of Mrs. Mary Grigg,b obt. Jan. 2d, 1844, Æ 71 years.
The chalices are inscribed as follows :- 1st. " The gift of
¿ During the Revolutionary War the bell and prayer book, formely used by the Missionaries of the Ven. Prop. Soc., were buried for safe keeping, on the farm known as the old Ross place, and now owned by E. C. Halsey, Esq.
This lady was the daughter of Joshua Pell, Esq., grandson of Thomas Pell, second Lord of the Manor of Pelham.
St. Paul's Church Eastchester -- Erected A. D. 1765.
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St. John's Church, Yonkers-Erected A. D. 1753.
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ederick Van Cortlandt, St. Paul's Church, Eastchester, A. D. 1829." 2d and 3d, marked "A. S."'a 4th, " St. Paul's Church, Eastchester, N. Y., from Mrs. John Quincy Adams, 1829." This chalice is not only rendered valuable by the distinguished lady who gave it, but by the melancholy story associated therewith.b
In the old church book, occurs the following memorandum : -" To cash paid the Rev. Mr. Cooper, to buy a communion cup, £1 15 7, March 18th, 1793." Near the church is the rectory, built by subscription in the year 1849 ; it is of native stone with pointed gables, and forms quite a pretty object when viewed from the church Green. Upon the latter, between the ancient locust trees and burial ground, formerly stood the old church, built by the Independents about 1693. This edifice, construct- ed of wood, was destroyed by fire at an early period of the Revolutionary War.
The church yard which lies on the south and west side of the church, is one of the most extensive in the county.
TOMBSTONES.
M. V. D. I. P. D). NOVE IDID
FEB THE MBER THE FOVRT N. 20
ETH. DAY. 1724. 1714
14. 1704
M. O. D. YE 27.1726-A. A. AV. YE 1730-JOSEPH. DRAKE. DESESED. MARCH. THE. 16. DAY. 1731. IN. THE. 70+ YEAR. OF. HIS. AGE .- HERE. LS. THE. BODY. OF. THOMAS. PINCKNEY. DIED. YE. 1. 1732. EG. 71-HERE. LAYS. THE. BODY. OF. CAP. WILL. PINKNEY. DECES- ED. 11. DAY. OF. MARCH. 1755. AG'D. ABOUT. 75. YEARS -I. O. D. FEB. 1746-O. H. HORRED. DECES. 1D. YE YEAR. 1765-I. + O. DE. JULY. YE 25. 175 -HERE LY-
ª Ann, daughter of James Smith, Esq., whose brother, Col. William Smith, married a daughter of President Adams, and resided on the Ross place in this town.
b The son of this lady being washed overboard from a vessel in the Sound, was found by one of the church wardens, and brought to this church for interment.
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ETH THE BODY OF WILLIAM CRAWFORD : WHO DE- PARTED : THIS : LIFE THE 11. DAY : OF NOVEMBER : IN: THE: 51: YEAR: OF : HIS: AGE: 1747 -- E. W. O. NOVERBER-M. A + C. JAN 25. 1764-F. O. DEC. 12- MAJOR SAMUEL PELL, OB. 29. DECR. 1786, IN THE 32ND YEAR OF HIS AGE. THUS AFTER RETURNING VICTORIOUS, FROM THE FIELD OF MARS, HE CHEER- FULLY OBEYS THE SUMMONS OF ETERNITY FROM WHENCE THERE IS NO RETURN. IN MEMORY OF STEPHEN WARD, EsQ. WHO DIED STI DEC'R, 1797, AGED 67 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AND 17 DAYS. SONS OF AME- RICA !
Mourn for your country, she has lost a friend, Who did her rights and liberties defend ; May rising patriots keep those rights secure, And hand them down to latest ages pure. Mourn too, ye friends and relatives who knew His worth, his kindness, and his love to you ; But duty bids us all resign, and say, Thy will be done, who gave and took away.
On a small marble obelisk is the following :- Sacred to the memory of the REV. AUGUSTINE P. PREVOST, only son of the late Mrs. L. C. Palmer, who departed this life on the 15th of November, 1843, in the 37th year of his age, and the 8th of his ministry, 7 years of which he was Rector of St. John's Church, Canandaigua, N. Y.
Rest from thy labours, blessed spirit rest ; Tho' early called, God's ways are always best, Nor need this feeble, partial pen declare
What was thy need, or what thy labours were. The poor, the desolate, the bad reclaimed, Are mouths for thee, who never wert ashamed To own thy Master's cause before the great, Nor heeded frowns while laying bare their state ; A weeping flock, like children mourn the loss Of their lov'd Pastor. Stedfast on the Cross He kept their gaze-" Watch," was his latest cry,
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" Neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase."-1st. Cor. 3d Chap., 7th Verse.
RECTORES DE EASTCHESTER.
TEMP. INST. RECTORES. VACAT. PATRONS.
19 Nov. 1702, Rev. John Bartow, Cl. A. M. pr. mort. War. and Ves.
8 July 1727, " Thos. Standard, Cl. A. M. "
12 June 1761, " John Milner, Cl. A. M. pr. resig., 66
3 Dec. 1766, " Sam. Seabury, Cl. A. M.
9 Mar. 1799, " Isaac Wilkins, Presb. D. D. pr. mort, 66
Apr. 1817, " Ravaud Kearny, Presb. pr. resig.
14 Oct. 1826, " Lawson Carter, Presb. 66
1836,
" John Grigg, Presb. 6 !
66
25 July 1837,
" Robert Bolton, Presb.
1846, " Edwin Harwood, Presb.
22 Aug. 1847,
Henry E. Duncan, Presb.
66
1 Feb. 1852,
": William S. Coffey, Presb., present incumbent.
NOTITIA PAROCHIALIS.
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A. D. 172S,
Baptisms, -- >
Communicants, 30,
1817,
66 45,
48,
1847,
66 15,
35,
1853,
16. 46,
In 1710, the population of Eastchester, was 314,
1840, 66
1,502,
1850,
1,680.
PEW HOLDERS IN 1787-8.
Charles Guion, James Morgan, Sen., Lewis Guion, Samuel Webb, Stephen Ward, Philip Pell, Minister's seat, William Pinkney, Thomas Bartow, Anthony Bartow, Gilbert Valentine, John G. Wright, Lewis Guion, Charles Morgan, Augustus and Frederick Van Cortlandt, Israel Underhill, William Barton, Lancaster Underhill, Alexander Fowler, David Huestice, Mo- ses Fowler, William Stanton, Moses Hunt, Philip Rhinelander, Benjamin Morgan, Elisha Shute, Daniel Townsend, Isaac
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Ward, Daniel Williams, Israel Honeywell, William Fowler, Rem Rapelye, William Crawford, Caleb Morgan, Benjamin Drake, Theodosius Bartow.
WARDENS OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. 1795 to 1803.
William Popham, Lancaster Underhill.
1804.
Lancaster Underhill,
Rem Rapelye.
1805-7.
Lancaster Underhill,
Jeronemus Alstyne.
1808-9.
Lancaster Underhill,
Lewis Guion.
1810-16.
Lancaster Underhill, Isaac Ward, Sen.
1817-24.
Lancaster Underhill, William Popham.
1825-47.
John Townsend, Philemon Fowler.
1848-52.
Robert Bartow.
Philemon Fowler,
1853.
Nathaniel Valentine,
Samuel T. Carey.
St. Paul's Rectory, Eastchester.
HISTORY
OF THE
PARISH AND CHURCH
OF
NEW ROCHELLE.
THE parish of New Rochelle, which formerly constituted a portion of the Manor of Pelham, was originally included in the two grants made by the Indians in the years 1640 and 1649, to the Dutch West India Company, but no settlement was actual- ly commenced upon it until long after Thomas Pell's purchase from Wampage and other Indian sachems, which occurred in 1654.
Upon the 6th day of October, 1666, Richard Nicolls, Gov- ernor of the Province, did give, grant, ratify and confirm unto Thomas Pell, gentleman, all that tract of land lying to the eastward of Westchester bounds, (subsequently known as the Manor of Pelham,) &c., " which said tract of land had been purchased of the Indian proprietors, and ample satisfaction giv- en for the same."'
In 1669, the patentee devised the whole Manor of Pelham to his nephew, John Pell, who obtained a further confirmation for the same from Thomas Dongan, Governor of the Province, on the 29th of October, 1687.
Upon the 20th of September, 1689, we find John Pell, Lord
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of the Manor of Pelham, and Rachel his wife, conveying to Jacob Leisler, of the City of New-York, merchant,-" All that tract of land lying and being within the Manor of Pelham, containing 6000 acres of land, &c.," (the present township of New Rochelle.) " The grantee, and his heirs and assigns yield- ing and paying unto the said John Pell, his heirs and assigns, Lords of the Manor of Pelham, as an acknowledgment, one fat calf on every four and twentieth day of June, yearly, and every year forever, if demanded." a
Throughout the year, 1690, we find Jacob Leisler, the above grantee, releasing to the exiled Huguenots, the lands which he had purchased in their behalf.
The Huguenots, or French Protestants of France, who gave the town the name it now bears, came directly from England, and were a part of the 50,000 persecuted, who fled into that country four years before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This is confirmed by the charter of Trinity Church, in New Rochelle, wherein they specify that "they fled from France in 1681."b
The persecution which the Huguenots underwent has scarce its parallel in the history of religion ; though they obtained a peace from Henry III, in 1576, it was only of short continu- ance, and their sufferings, mitigated by the famous Edict of Nantes, granted to them in 1598 by Henry IV., were again re- newed after the revocation of this Edict, by Louis XIV., in 1605.
The retrospect of Saurin, a son of one of the Protestant refugees, and a celebrated preacher at the Hague, is at once elo- quent and historical. " A thousand dreadful blows," said the preacher, " were struck at our afflicted churches, before that which destroyed them ; for our enemies, if I may use such an expression, not content with seeing our ruin, endeavoured to
a " Whenever the fat calf was demanded by the Lords of the Manor (on the F'esti- val of St. John the Baptist,) each Huguenot paid his proportion towards its pur- chase."-See Hist. of Westchester, vol. i. p. 376.
b See Charter of Trinity Church.
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taste it. One while, edicts were published against those, who foreseeing the calamities that threatened our churches, and not · having power to prevent them, desired only the sad consola- tion of not being spectators of their ruin. Another while, Au- gust, 1669, against those, who, through their weakness, had de- nied their religion, and who, not being able to bear the remorse of their consciences, desired to return to their first profession. One while, May, 1679, our pastors were forbidden to exercise their discipline on those of their flocks, who had abjured the truth. Another while, June, 1680, children of seven years of age, were allowed to embrace doctrines, which the Church of Rome allows, are not level to the capacities of adults. June, 1681, a college was suppressed, and then a church shut up, January, 1683. Sometimes we were forbidden to convert infi- dels ; and sometimes to confirm those in the truth whom we had instructed from their infancy ; and our pastors were forbid- den to exercise their pastoral office any longer in one place than three years. Sometimes the printing of our books was prohibi- ted, July, 1685, and sometimes those which we had printed, were taken away. One while, we were not suffered to preach in a church, September, 1685, and another while, we were pun- ished for preaching on its ruins ; and at length, we were forbid- den to worship God in public at all. Now, October, 1685, we were banished ; then 1689, we were forbidden to quit the king- dom on pain of death. Here, we saw the glorious rewards of some who betrayed their religion ; and there, we beheld others, who had the courage to confess it, a haling to a dungeon, a scaf- fold, or a galley. Here, we saw our persecutors drawing on a sledge the dead bodies of those who had expired on the rack. There we beheld a false friar tormenting a dying man, who was terrified on the one hand, with the fear of hell, if he should apostatize, and on the other, with the fear of leaving his child- ren without bread, if he should continue in the faith ; yonder, they were tearing children from their parents, while the tender parents were shedding more tears for the loss of their souls than for that of their bodies or lives."
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The exclamation of the same preacher, in another sermon on some public occasion, bewailing the miseries of his exiled coun- trymen, reminds us of the ." Lamentations," of the prophet over Jerusalem and his captive brethren at Babylon. The apostro- phe to Louis XIV. is admirable. " Are our benedictions ex- hausted ? Alas ! on this joyful day can we forget our griefs ? Ye happy inhabitants of these provinces, so often troubled with a recital of our afflictions, we rejoice in your-prosperity ; will you refuse to compassionate our misfortunes ? And you fire- brands plucked out of the burning, sad and venerable ruins of our unhappy churches : my dear brethren, whom the misfor- tunes of the times have cast on this shore, can we forget the miserable remnants of ourselves? O, ye groaning captives, ye weeping priests, ye sighing virgins, ye festivals profaned, ye ways of Zion mourning, ye untrodden paths, ye sad complaints, move, O! move all this assembly. O! Jerusalem, if I forget thee, let my right hand forget her cunning. Not remember thee ! Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy ! O, Jerusalem, peace be with- in thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my breth- ren and companions' sake I will now say, peace be within thee ! May God be moved, if not with the ardor of our prayers, yet with the excess of our afflictions; if not with our misfortunes, yet with the desolation of his sanctuaries ; if not with the bo- dies we carry all about the world, yet with the souls that are torn from us !"
" And thou, dreadful prince, whom I once honoured as my king, and whom I yet respect as a scourge in the hand of Al- mighty God, thou also shalt have a part in my good wishes. These provinces, which thou threatenest, but which the arm of the Lord protects; this country, which thou fillest with refu- gees, but fugitives animated with love ; these walls, which con- tain a thousand martyrs of thy making, but whom religion ren- ders victorious, all these yet resound benedictions in thy favour. God grant, the fatal bandage that hides the truth from thine eyes may fall off! May God forget the rivers of blood, with
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which thou hast deluged the earth, and which thy reign hath caused to be shed ! May God blot out of his book the injuries which thou hast done us, and, while he rewards the sufferers, may he pardon those who exposed us to suffer ! O, may God who hath made thee to us, and to the whole Church, a minister of his judgments, make thee a dispenser of his favours, and ad- ministrator of his mercy."a
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