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Martha, born 1822 ; married Hiram H. House : she died in 1845.
Marshall, born May 1823 .; married Caroline Fairbanks : he died in 1877.
Maria, born Sept. 1826; married Hiram H. House : she died Aug., 1854.
Edward Cheever, born April, 1823, he died Aug., 1861.
Norman, born May, 1834; married Susan Davis; lives at Lake Christal, Minnesota.
Sally Ann, born Sept., 1836; she died August, 1861.
Elvira, born Jan. 17, 1840 ; married Jehiel D. Whitney : lives in East Ashford.
Dr. Moses Blakeley,
Son of Moses and Phœbe Blakeley, was born in Bennington, Vt., Jan. 1, 1796, and in 1814 he was united in marriage to Miss Irene Washburn, and fourteen children were the fruits of this union. Nine of them, with the venerable wife and mother, are
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still living. He moved to the town of Collins in 1838, and for sixteen years he very successfully practiced medicine in this and the surrounding country. In 1854 he moved to the village of Aurora, where he enjoyed a lucrative practice in his profession up to the time of his death He served on the lines during the war of 1812 and 1815, and his venerable widow now receives a pension for his services Dr. Blakeley acquired quite a local reputation in the practice of medicine. He died at his home in 1868. Family record :
Isaac C., born Oct. 31, 1817 ; married Anna Tanner, Oct. 30, 1842.
Angeline, born 1820; married Nelson Hills ; died in 1877.
Moses, Jr., born 1822 married Polly Beckwith ; lives in Mich.
Ansel W. born 1824; married Caroline Adams and Viola Thompson.
Nancy, married Elijah Bull; died in 1862.
Melissa, married Schuyler Jones ; lives in Nebraska.
Edgar, born 1827.
Julia, married John Wheeler ; died in 1872.
Mary, married Robert Willett ; died in ISSI.
Andrew J., married Almira Tyrer.
Wellington, married Emily Brandymore.
Maria, married Joseph Wiser.
Edgar and Edwin-twins.
Dr. Isaac C. Blakeley.
Dr. Isaac C. Blakeley was born Oct. 31. 1817, and came to Concord in the year 1838. His father's name was Moses Blakely, who died in 1868. He was a soldier in the War of 1812; was at the Battle of Plattsburgh ; he was a practicing physician. His widow, surviving him, gets a pension. His mother's maiden name was Irene Wasburn. His occupa- tion is a doctor, has practiced medicine forty-two years. Was married Oct, 30. 1842, to Anna Tanner, who is a descendant of the Wilbur family of Collins.
Emma A., born Aug. 19, 1843 ; married to James Wells.
Mortimer C., born Nov. 10, 1845.
Araminta A., born March 8, 1847 : died Oct. 18, 1862.
Ansel W., born Aug. 8, 1849.
John W., born Aug. 19. 1855 : married to Suella Doniker.
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Edgar Blakeley.
Edgar Blakeley was born Nov. 11, 1827, in the Town of Java, Wyoming county, N. Y. His father's name was Moses Blakeley ; his mother's maiden name was Irene Washburn- both born in Burlington, Vermont. His father was a practicing physician. Was married, Feb. 18, 1847, to Miss Anna Knight. His occupation is a farmer and dealer in live stock. The names of his children are :
Alburtus E., born June 21, 1849; married to Annita Jones. Galen E., born Sept. 1, 1852 ; married to Rosa Blakeley. Celia, born Oct. 22, 1855 ; married to Lindsey Thompson. Addie, born Aug. 18, 1862.
Chester H. Briggs.
Chester H. Briggs was born in the Town of Collins, April 25, 1849, and came to Concord in the year 1878. His father's name was Oliver Briggs, who died April 30, 1860; his mother's maiden name was Keziah Berry, who died Sept. 2, 1870. He is a farmer by occupation ; was married Oct. 22, 1873, to Mary A. Carroll, daughter of Patrick Carroll, of Angola.
His brother Charles Briggs, enlisted in the Tenth New York Cavalry and served three years, and then re-enlisted for the war.
They have one child, Frankie Briggs, who was born June 15. 1874.
Ansel Blakeley.
Ansel Blakeley was born Oct. 30, 1824. His father's name was Moses Blakeley; his mother's maiden name was Irene Washburn. He was married Dec. 31, 1850, to Caroline Adams, who died March 1, 1870, and he was married to Viola Thomp- son, June 4, 1871. His children are :
Ledra, born Dec. 25, 1855 : died June 28, 1858.
Sophronia, born Feb. 7, 1857.
Duane S., born April 24, 1859.
Elmer E., born July 2, 1863 ; died Oct. 9, 1871.
Dee A., born Feb. 24, 1870.
William Ballou.
William Ballou, Sr., was born in Richmond, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, Dec. 26, 1792. From there he removed to
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Rutland county, Vermont, and from there to Zoar in Collins, in 1817, thus becoming one of our carly pioneers. He resided in Zoar until 1844, when he moved to Springville, where he died in 1866. He was married in Vermont, in 1813, to Eunice Cook, daughter of William Cook, who settled in Zoar about 1815, where he kept tavern at one time. He died in 1853, Mrs. Ballou was born in the same town that her husband was, and, what is an uncommon coincidence, at the same date. They had eight children, the three oldest being born in Vermont, viz :
Betsey, born in 1814; died in 1818.
Laura E., born in 1817 ; married John T. Wells.
Lucy S., born 1820; married Clinton Hammond.
John, born 1822 ; married Mary Perigoo.
William, born 1826; married Louisa Evans.
Oliva, born 1828 ; married David S. Reynolds.
Philana married Jerome Barnet.
Josephine, born 1837, died in 1863.
William Ballou is an extensive jeweler at De Kalb, Ill .; he has a family of four children.
James Bloodgood.
James Bloodgood was born January 5, 1801, in the town of Columbia, Herkimer county, N. Y. ; occupation, a farmer. Came to this town in June, 1827, was married October 10, 1830. to Nancy Vaughan, who was born November 30, 1810. Her father's name was James Vaughan. Mr. Bloodgood has been a resident of the town of Concord for a period of fifty-five years. His history is part and parcel of the history of many of the early settlers of Concord. Perhaps an extract from a pub- lication entitled, " The first fifty years of the Madison Uni- versity." is appropriate :
" James Bloodgood, born in Columbia, Herkimer county, January 5, 1801, came to the Seminary in '24 and left in '27 : settled as a farmer in Springville, Erie county ; married Nancy Vaughan of Queensburg, N. Y. ; taught school much in con- nection with his farming. His only son graduated at Madison University in 1852."
Referring to the same publication :
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Delevan Bloodgood, born at Springville, August 20, 1831, entered in '48 and graduated '52. Married at Washington, D. C., to Jennie, daughter of the late John Ruger. After study of medicine in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Philadelphia, Pa., took M. D. from Jefferson, Md., College. Studied at medical schools in Pittsfield, Mass., New York city and Buffalo, N. Y. Visited Europe in '55. In '57 Assistant Surgeon in United States Navy."
His first cruise was of two and a half years in the flag ship of the Pacific squadron, the steamship Merrimac, afterward the Rebel iron clad. Visited principal ports on western coast of North and South America, and the islands of the Pacific ; in '60; at Boston Navy Hospital. Next in steamer Mohawk captured two slavers. In arduous service during the war in the Gulf. After battle at Port Royal, on transport Atlantic, con- veying sick and wounded north. In '62 Surgeon on the Daco- tah, watching the Rebel ram Merrimac ; cruised after Semmes and other privateers ; two years on the coast of the Carolinas, in chase of the Chesapeake. Detached from Dacotah, caught by Rebel raiders at Gunpowder river, Md., but soon escaped. Recruited in New York. In '65 made cruise on the lakes in the Michigan. In '66, on receiving ship Vermont, New York harbor. In '67 sent to the Jamestown at Panama, which was suffering from yellow fever ; the passage of sixty-six days from Panama to San Francisco a terrible one, every sixth per- son having died. Spent following winter in Alaska; next summer cruising on the coast of North America. Had a cruise on coast of Mexico in Lackawana, then ordered to Navy Yard New York, where he still remains.
The Blodgett Family.
Abial D. Blodgett and family lived many years and the chil- dren attended school on Townsend Hill. They were all apt schol- ars. They removed from this town about 1845 to McHenry county, Ill., and settled near Harvard. Albert, the eldest child, enlisted in the army and went to Mexico during the Mexican war, and came home sick. He did not recover and died in 1852. Ellen married Frank Diggins, Helen married I. E. Baldwin and
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Hattie married H. C. Jerome. They all live at or near Har- vard, McHenry county, Ill.
Abial D. Blodgett died in McHenry county, in 1861. Susan, his wife, died in MeHenry county, in 1866.
Delos A. Blodgett.
Delos A. Blodgett was born in Otsego county, N. Y., and was brought to the town of Concord by his parents, when a child. He received his education in this town in the common schools and Springville Academy. He removed with his par- ents to McHenry county, Ill. After he had started out for himself and obtained some means of his own, he invested the same in pine lands in Michigan, and continued to so invest for many years. 1848 he engaged in the lumbering business in which he has continued ever since Besides a large lumber manufacturing establishment in Muskegon and extensive pine lands in the north part of the State, he has several farms. Mr. Blodgett is a public spirited citizen, ready to assist in any need- ful public enterprise. Though not a professor of religion, he built a church and presented it, a free gift, to the people of Hersey, the village in which he lived. His wife's maiden name was Jennie S. Wood.
Their children are :
John W., aged twenty-three, and Susie R., aged eighteen.
Mr. Blodgett has taken great pains to educate his children. His son, besides receiving a good busidess education, has attended the Military Academy at Worcester, Mass., two years.
J. S. Barnett.
Mr. Barnett's father, Gilbert Barnett, was born in Bridge- water, near Utica, N. Y., Dec. 12, 1791. He removed with his family to Springville in 1833, and leased of Col. E. W. Cook, a site for a foundry which he built and had in operation in 1834. It was the first foundry in town, and the first work done was making the castings for the "Big" mill. He operated the foundry about four years then sold it to a Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Barnett died in Wisconsin, June 14, 1899. He was married November 16, 1812, to Betsey Dickinson, who was born near Utica, N. Y., February 23, 1794.
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They had eight children, namely :
Jedediah S., born Nov. 15, 1813.
Frederick M , born March 26, 1817, died, June 14, 1856.
William D., born Dec. 8, 1819, died about 1870.
Gilbert, jr., born Sept. 4, 1822.
Elizabeth, born Nov. 29, 1824.
Miles A., born March 18, 1828.
Jerome B., born May 31, 1831.
Lucy A., born April 13, 1835.
Jedediah S. Barnett was born in Sullivan, Madison county, N. Y., came to Springville in 1834, While engaged in the foundry business with his father, he cast the first cook stove and plow made in town. He was proprietor of the foundry at Springville for a while and was employed for twelve years in the foundry at Gowanda, N Y. He was married Dec. 25, 1839, to Lydia Demon.
Have had four children .
Morris D., born March 27, 1841 ; married Mary Hurd ; resides in Springville.
Francena, born July 27, 1845 ; married Rollin J. Albro.
Agnes M., born Nov. 27, 1848 ; died Sept 19, 1853.
Albert M., born Sept. 2, 1859; married Lillian Davis,
N. Bolender, Jr.
N. Bolender, Jr, was born in Varysburgh, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1853; came from the town of Sardinia to Concord in the year 1876. His father's name is N. Bolender ; his mother's maiden name was Catharine Bensinger; his occupation is milling ; was married to Miss Julia Rose June 1, 1810.
N. Bolender, Jr., & Bro., are the owners of a farm of eighty- seven acres, three-fourths of a mile south of Morton's Corners. upon which was a saw mill and flouring mill of four run of stones, with all appliances complete, and doing a good busi- ness. March 22, 1812, the flouring mill was burned with its contents, consisting of grain of all kinds and seeds, with a quantity of flour. The mill was valued at $5,000, and about $1,000 in stock; was insured for $2,500. They have since rebuilt their mill the same size as before. They are also own- ers of a custom mill at Collins Center having two run of stone ;
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are also running a cider mill and shingle mill in connection with the custom mill at Collins Center. There are three good dwelling houses on their farm.
Anson Blasdell.
Anson Blasdell was born March 30, 1841, in the town of Collins, Erie county, N. Y., and came to Concord in the year 1864; was married Nov. 15, 1873, to Miss Juliette Gaylord. His father's name was Alvin Blasdell; his mother's maiden name was Alzina Irish: his grandfather's name was William Blasdell ; his grandmother's maiden name was Tamar Allen. Mr. Anson Blasdell says: My grandfather, although seventy years of age, enlisted in the late war in the State of Iowa, and died in a hospital in Illinois. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. They have two sons :
Jay, born March 5, 1875.
Lee, born July 22, 1876.
Byron E. Bristol.
Byron E. Bristol was born in Springville in 1842 ; his father's name was Adoniram Bristol; his mother's maiden name was Lucinda Harvey. Mr. Bristol enlisted Sept. 24, 1861, in Com- pany A, One Hundredth Regiment, New York Volunteers. He was Orderly-Sergeant of his company ; he was first with McClellan's army in the Peninsula campaign, and took part in the battle of Fair Oaks ; he was afterwards transferred to Mor- ris Island, under the command of General Gilmore, which was intended for the besieging of Charleston. In this siege he was severely wounded, four balls striking and penetrating his breast simultaneously, two of which have never been removed. From Charleston he was removed to Virginia, where he participated in the siege of Petersburg, at which place he was mustered out of the service Sept. 24, 1864.
Mr. Bristol was married in 1860 to Julia E. Grover. They have one child -- Frank E.
Warner Bond.
The Bonds came from New Salem, Mass., nearly sixty years .ago, and settled in the north part of Ashford, Cattaraugus
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county, N. Y. Warner Bond's father, John P. Bond, bought land of the Holland Land company, on which he settled and lived until his death, Sept. 26, 1879. He was one of the first settlers of the town, a hardy pioneer whose dexterity in wield- ing the axe was rarely equaled.
He married Sally Shultus. Of their children three lived to mature years :
Abbie J., married Adelbert Tainter, and died in Ashford in 1877.
Perry, died in 1871.
Warner, who was born Aug. 7, 1846, in Ashford, where he has always resided as a farmer; was married in 1869 to Linda Goodemote. They have three children-Carl, Lula M. and Cliff.
Joseph Britton.
Mr. Britton's father, John Britton, came to Boston, Eric county, from New Jersey, in 1810. He served as a soldier on the Buffalo frontier, in the war of 1812. He died in Boston.
Joseph Britton was born in Boston, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1817 ; removed from that town to his present home in Concord, in 1855. He was married in 1845, to Emily C. Rhodes. They have one adopted daughter, Mrs. Carl Waite, of Springville,
Edward D. Bement.
Edward D. Bement was a son of Julius Bement, one of the earliest pioneers of Concord, a mention of whom is made in another part of this work. The subject of this sketch was born in Concord, Aug. 8th, 1842, where he has since resided, except two years residence in Buffalo-1870 and 1871-where he was engaged in the flour and grain trade.
Mr. Bement enlisted Aug. 3, 1861, in the 116th New York Vol- unteers, Co. F. He left Fort Porter for the scene of the war Sept. 5; went into camp at Fort Chapin, near Baltimore ; left there Nov. 6, for Ship Island, off the coast of Mississippi. On account of sickness he was left off at the hospital at Fort- ress Monroe ; not recovering his health he was discharged on account of reasonable disability, Dec. 11, 1861, and returned home.
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He was married Nov 21, 1866, to Miss Sophia H. Wilson ; they have one child, Burtic E., born May 21 1870. Mr. Be- ment was Collector of the town of Concord in 18SI. He is at present proprietor of a livery stable and a well equiped suite of barber rooms in Springville.
Blakeley Family.
John D. Blakeley was born in Greenville, Greene county, N. Y., in 1813, of New England parents, who, in 1815, when he was two years old, moved to the town of Willink, now Aurora. He worked upon the farm near the village of East Aurora, teaching school winters, until 1846. Four years he was con- nected with a woolen-factory at West Falls. Moved to Spring- ville, Sept. 10, 1851, where he has since resided, for the first few years in the harness business, then a spinner in a woolen- factory and a carpenter. During the last twenty-two years he has been in mercantile life, and by steady industry and careful management has acquired a fair competence. His son
Walter W. Blakeley, was born in Aurora, in 1846, is editor and publisher of the Journal and Herald, a local newspaper which he began publishing in 1867 as the Springville Journal. He is also proprietor of an extensive and well arranged book and sta- tionery store, and takes an active interest in movements that tend to build up the moral and intellectual culture of his town.
Jarvis Bloomfield.
Jarvis Bloomfield was an early settler here. He was a farmer and owned until his death the mill now owned by C. J. Shut- tleworth. He had four children : Hiram, the oldest, lives near Rochester : David C., lives in Sherman, Chatauqua county ; Maria, married Frank Fargo, and lives in Warsaw ; Homer, when last heard from, lived in California. Mr .. Bloomfield died May 12, 1856, aged sixty-eight years and eleven months.
Samuel Bradley.
Samuel Bradley was an early settler in this town. and built and managed the first woolen mills ever built in this town. He afterward bought, in company with his son-in-law, Silas Rush- more, the Gardner grist mill. A few years afterward, while tending the mill at night, he fell from the stairs and was
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injured so badly that he died in a short time. None of the family or descendants have lived in this town for forty or fifty years.
Charles E. Botsford, C. E.
C. E. Botsford was born in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1837. When he was five years of age, the family moved to Yorkshire, N. Y., and to Springville in 1847, where he has ever since held a residence. He attended school three years at the Springville Academy, where he developed a rare proficiency in mathemat- ics, which resulted in his becoming a professional civil engineer and surveyor.
About 1856, he became assistant engineer in the construc- tion of the Brooklyn city water works. He remained in this position seven years, at the expiration of which time he gave his attention to the locating and construction of railroads for a period of ten years, principally in the States of New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Besides being actively engaged in the building of railroads, he made a great many preliminary surveys. Among the roads which he assisted in building are the Rondout & Oswego, in New York ; the Sullivan & Erie in Pennsylvania, and the New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic, in Connecticut. Of the last-mentioned, he was chief engineer, and also of the Rochester & Pittsburgh.
Mr. Botsford has undoubtedly the largest private library in Erie county outside of Buffalo. His collection now numbers one thousand volumes of standard works.
Mr. Botsford was married in 1876, to Roselia M. Parmenter, a graduate of Griffith Institute. They have two sons, Charles and Heman.
The Blake Family.
Ebenezer Blake came to this State from Canada about 1816, and after stopping at several different places for a while, finally settled on Townsend Hill, in 1829. He reared a large family of children :
Adonirum J., the eldest, died in Cuba, N. Y., in 1843.
John G. lives in Mount Carroll, 111.
Rosina (Blake) Rowley lives in Springville.
Benjamin F. lives in Gaines, Orleans county.
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Clarinda died in 1848.
Louisa ( Blake) Willis died in 1860.
Charles E. died in 1873. Harry lives in Rome, N. Y. Cephas lives in Gaines, Orleans county, N. Y. Saphronia M. lives in Blaine, Portage county, Wis.
Sylvester H. Barnhart.
Mr. Barnhart was born at Dickinson's Landing, Stormont county, C. W., Sept. 19, 1842. His parents were of Canadian birth. He received instruction in the higher branches from a private instructor, and taught school four years in his native county, then relinquished the pursuit on account of his health; in 1864 he went to St. Catharines, C. W., and worked for three years at cabinet and undertaking business; from that time up to the present he has mainly followed the occupation of harnessmaker and saddler in various places in New York, Pennsylvania, and in the cities of Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, and Cincinnati. He is at present (1883) located in Springville. While at Corry, Pa., he was engaged for a while in the electro gold and silver plating business. He was also engaged for a hardware firm in Cleveland, O., for some time.
In the manufacture of harness, Mr. Barnhart is a very skillful workman, his work taking first premium when put on exhibi- tion.
George D. Bradford (Colored).
George D. Bradford was born in the city of New Orleans, La., June 8, 1850. At the commencement of the rebellion in 1861 he joined a division of Rebel-General Longstreet's army, stationed in New Orleans, in the capacity of an officer's waiter, He filled this position until the occupation of New Orleans by the Union army, under General Butler in 1862, when he joined the Union forces, and became an assistant in the One Hun- dred and Sixteenth regiment New York volunteers, with which he remained during all the hard-fought battles in which it took part and until the close of the war in 1865, when he came to Springville with Capt. Charles F. Crary ; after Captain Crary's death he became an inmate of Mr. J. N. Richmond's
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family, and expresses thanks for their kindness and the educa- tional privileges they gave him.
Statement of Mrs. Boyles.
I was born in Connecticut ; my father's name was Abel Ab- bey ; my name was Melinda Abbey ; came from Connecticut to Lyle, Broome county, this state, in 1803; my father came to Sardinia in 1813 and bought of Sumner Warren a saw mill and a quarter section of land where Sardinia village now is ; he moved his family on in March, 1814; was about three weeks coming through ; he came with two span of horses and a yoke of oxen ; stayed the last night of our journey at Jackson's, east of Arcade; on coming into the town of Sardinia we passed where a Mr. Eaton and another man had made a beginning where Rice's Corners are now, but both had gone east on account of the Indians, and one of them never moved back : we found General Knott on his place, and Mr. Mariam and Cartwright about where Thomas Hopkins and Mr. Hosmer now live, and Godfrey and Palmer lived just west of Colgrove's Cor- ners, on the Andrews place. The saw mill that father bought of Warren stood about where Mr. Simonds' mill is, and the little log house stood about where Andrews' grocery stands now : there was no other house where Sardinia village now is, nor nearer than Godfrey's west of Colgrove's Corners.
Mr. Warren had built a shanty on the place where Hiram Crosby now lives, but not long after he, Godfrey and others were called out on the lines to serve as soldiers, and his wife went up and stayed with Mrs. Godfrey while they were gone. Old Mr. John Wilcox lived on the Olen place, lot thirty-four, township five, range seven.
Ezekiel Smith lived at the foot of the hill as you come down towards Springville.
A man by the name of Wolsey lived on the old Carney place.
John Johnson lived on lot fifty-six about where his son Rich- ard now lives, and John and Jeremiah Wilcox had commenced on the next lot below.
Morton Crosby was on the Jonathan Madison place, and Com modore Rogers lived next this side ; then Capt. Charles Wells ; then Jedediah Cleveland ; then Richmond's folks were next.
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Horace Rider and the Sears family lived on the hill on lot fifty-seven, a half or three-fourths of a mile nearly north of the Hakes bridge.
Ezekiel Hardy lived on lot forty-two.
Jacob Wilson, Benjamin Wilson and Daniel Hall lived in the cart part of the town near where the railroad junction is now.
These are all the families that were in town at that time that I can remember.
In June, 1814, Adelia Sears, a young woman, hung herself with a skein of yarn, in the barn, where she was at work wear- ing ; her family and friends never knew what caused her to do the act. I remember that Mr. Warren and his wife and four more of us rode down on horseback five miles through the woods to where the Sears family lived at the time.
In the Summer of 1814 I taught school in Sardinia. It was in a log house cast of Colgrove's Corners, that stood near New- ell Hosmer's present residence.
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