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USA > New York > Erie County > Collins > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 56
USA > New York > Erie County > Concord > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 56
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Altana, Elisha and Orrin : the last two died young. Altana married Dr. Marvin, now of Grand Rapids, Mich., and since died.
Four more were born in Evans :
Aurelia, who became the second wife of Dr. Marvin. Ann Eliza, married Orrin Cathin. Judson N. Mary, married Spen- cer Bullock.
Judson N. Tolman was born Aug. 27. 1827, in Evans, where he resided until the Fall of 1868, when he moved to Zoar, in Otto, N. Y., where he is extensively engaged in farming. He attended school at the Springville Academy under Principal Earle. He was married in 1853 to Lucy Hard, who died the subsequent year ; married a second time, in 1858, to Eugenia Bunday. They have five children :
Cora E., Howard N., Mary F., Ray and Altana F.
Enoch Taylor.
Mr. Taylor was a son of Joseph Taylor and Margaret Root. He was born in Frederick county, Md .. Jan. 18, 1809, where he lived until three years old; then his father having died, and his mother having re-married, he was taken to Fincas- tle, Va. When thirteen years old he learned the saddlers' trade at Salem, Va., and then went back to Maryland and engaged in that business for two years. He then sold out and attended school at Alleghany college, Meadville, Pa., two years, 1834 and 1835. He then spent about two years at the West, after which he came to Gowanda, where he re- sided five years. His next move was the purchase of the
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homestead of Uncle Jacob Taylor, the old Quaker missionary, who was an uncle of Mr. Taylor ; he occupied it several years, when he again became a resident of Gowanda for eight years, at the expiration of which time he removed to his present fine farm, in 1860, where he has since resided. He was married in 1845 to Louise M. Ward. They have a family of five sons and three daughters.
The Tanner Family.
Warren Tanner was born May 4, 1786, in Vermont. His father Joseph Tanner, a Revolutionary soldier, died when War- ren was four years old. His mother moved to Fort Ann, Washington county N. Y .. and re-married. Mr. Tanner lived in Washington county until the Fall of 1810, when he came on foot to Collins. He went back, but returned again the follow- ing Spring, stopping at the land office at Batavia on his way and locating land on lot forty-seven, township six, range eight, where he lived until 1853. He died in Ashford, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1864. He was married in 1817 to Hannah Wilber, sister of Stephen Wilber; she died March 20, 1857. They had five children, as follows :
Isaac W., born Feb. 24, 1818. Anson and Anna (twins), born April 6, 1819 ; Anson married Lucy A. Hawkins in 1845 ; died Nov. 7, 1861 ; Anna married Dr. I. C. Blakely. Joseph D., born Sept. 1, 1823 ; married Betsy Knight in 1855. Sophia, born Dec. 23, 1832 ; died in October, 1853.
Isaac W. Tanner, oldest son of Warren Tanner, was born in Collins, where he has always resided. He is an extensive land owner and a successful farmer. He was married Nov. 13, 1839, to Betsey A. Beverly. They have had four children :
Susan, born May 16, 1844 ; died Sept. 16. 1870. Eveline, born June 27, 1850. Warren and Hannah (twins), born Aug. 13, 1855; Warren married Blanche Bosworth in September, 1876.
G. W. Taylor.
Mr. Taylor is the youngest of a family of thirteen-seven sisters and six brothers, whose names are as follows :
Darius, Marie, Hannah, Samuel, Simeon, Abigail, Rhoda
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Ann, Benjamin, Mary M., Joseph W., Ann Eliza, Rosimer and George W.
Mr. Taylor was born in Essex, Essex county, N. Y., March 27, 1832. His father's name was Samuel Taylor ; his mother's maiden name was Lydia Castle. Mr. Taylor came to Evans, N. Y., with his parents when four years of age; lived there until 1852, when he went to North: Collins and engaged in farm- ing, tanning and currying in company with two of his brothers Remained there until 1864, when he removed to Collins, lot fifty-seven, old Barlett homestead. He was married in 1864 to Ann O. Bartlett, youngest daughter of Smith Bartlett. They have three children, viz .:
Joseph B., born Aug. 16, 1865. Marion B., born March 27, 1867. Benjamin Grant, born Dec. 27, 1872.
Mr. Taylor is a prominent friend of progression, and speaks to the people on funeral and other occasions. He is a man of fine intellect.
Rhoda Tarbox.
Rhoda Tarbox, daughter of Augustus and Elizabeth Smith, was born in Danby, Vt., Oct. 9, 1813. In 1816, she came to Collins with her people, where she has ever since resided. In 1833, she married Caleb Tarbox, son of Benjamin and Huldah Tarbox. She had a family of eleven children, two of whom died when young, the names of the others are as follows :
Chester, born Sept. 29, 1834, and resides in Collins. Stephen, born Dec. 20, 1835 ; married Julia Ann Clark, and lives in Col- lins. Francis, born July 12, 1839 ; married Mary Baldwin, and lives in East Otto, Cattaraugus county. Leonard, born April 10, 1845 ; married Addie Stone, and lives in Evans, Erie county. Emily, born Jan. 27. 1847: married Hiram Cook and lives in Collins. Alvin, born Nov. 17, 1848; married Martha West, and resides in Morris county, Kan. Reuben. born March 18, 1851 ; married Eva Stewart and lives in Collins. Hannah, born Jan. 29, 1853: married Charles Babcock and lives in Collins. Olive, born Oct. 29, 1854 : married James Parkcson, and died in Collins, Aug. 30, 1878.
Caleb Tarbox died Oct. 21, 1874.
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William H. Vail.
William H. Vail, son of Ira H. and Mary Vail, was born in Danby, Vt., March 26, 1845. In the Spring of 1869, he came to Collins and purchased a farm located two miles east of Col- lins Center, where he has ever since resided.
Sept. 22, 1869, he married Alice Reynolds, daughter of Nehe- miah and Julia Reynolds. They have two children : Ira H., born July 20, 1870. Josephine, born April 1, 1879.
His father, Ira H. Vail, married Mary Chase, daughter of Ephraim Chase. He is a man of integrity and industry, and has accumulated a good property. He possesses the confidence of his fellow-townsmen, and has been called to fill various offices of trust and honor in the Eastern States, having been a Selectman two years, a Justice of the Peace five years, and was a Member of the Legislature in 1859.
He raised a family of seven children : Edward 1. married Julia Fish, Amelia. William H. married Alice Reynolds. Semantha. Lydia died in 1864, aged eleven. Jennie and Ada.
John Vosburg.
John Vosburg was born in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1799. His parents moved to Palmyra when he was four years old. He lived at Palmyra until twenty-two years of age, when he was married to Miss Betsy Fillmore, and moved to Ellicottville. where he bought four hundred acres of timbered land ; he cleared up about two hundred acres of it. From Ellicottville, Mr. Vosburg moved to Gowanda about 1825, and engaged in blacksmithing, and also built a foundry and plow manufactory in company with James Locke. He sold out his interests in Gowanda about 1837, and bought three hundred acres of land on Clear Creek in the west part of Collins, which has since been frequently designated as Tub Town, because of Mr. Vosburg's building, on his purchase, a tub factory and saw mill which he operated until they were destroyed by fire in 1849.
Mr. Vosburg was for fourteen years Highway Commissioner in Collins, and many of the roads in that town were laid out under his supervision. He moved to Perrysburg in 1854, and resided there until his death in 1872.
Mr. Vosburg had eight children as follows : Charles resides
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in Waupaca, Wis. William resides in Gowanda. Laura resides in Gowanda. Frank resides in Waupaca, Wis .; hotel-
keeper. Annette married Robert ----- , and died in 1860, in Perrysburg. Caroline married Frank Campbell; resides at Perrysburg. Norton, half-brother of the others, resides at Gowanda. George L.
George L. Vosburg.
George L. Vosburg is a son of the above-named. He was born in Collins - Tub Town - in 1838. Mr. Vosburg first commenced business at Gowanda as stage and livery pro- prietor, and subsequently engaged in the hotel business, which he has since followed. He is at present, 1882, the genial land- lord of the Commercial Hotel at Gowanda. While a resident of Persia, Cattaraugus county ; he was for two years Deputy Sheriff under Cooper.
Mr. Vosburg was married in 1859, to Eliza A. Campbell. They have two children : John C. and Nettie.
Statement of David Wilber.
My father, Stephen Wilber, came from Danby, Rutland county, Vt., to Scipio. Cayuga county, N. Y., in May, 1810. where the family remained until November. In June, 1810, my father and Joshua Palmerton followed an Indian trail through the woods from Ezekiel Cook's, in East Hamburg, to Turner Aldrich's, where Gowanda now is ; they had to lay in the woods one night. Turner Aldrich, Jacob Taylor, Aaron Lindsey, Arad Howard, (brother of Ethan Howard of Boston) and Stephen Lapham, on lot forty-five, at Bagdad, were here before he came.
Stephen Peters came immediately after my father and Pal- merton came ; he took land on the east part of lot forty-eight, township six, range eight. My father took land on the west part of lot forty nine and Palmerton on the east part of lot fifty, in same township and range. My father, Palmerton and Peters lived together and kept bachelor's hall that Summer. They chopped three acres of timber and put up a log-house or shanty for each one. In the Fall father went to Cayuga county and brought his family on as far as Hamburg and lived in one
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part of Ezekiel Cook's log-house through the Winter until the first of March, ISHI, when we moved to Collins.
It took us three days to move from Hamburg to Collins : we staid the first night at Jesse Putnam's, who lived on part of the farm that Lewis Trevitt has since so long owned and occupied. We came by the way of Woodward Hollow and the Genesee road. Besides father's family there were in the company Mrs. Luke Crandall, Allan King and wife, Arnold King, John King, Henry Palmerton, Jahiel Albee and John Williams.
When Mrs. Crandall started from Vermont, her father, in accordance with olden custom, presented her with a bottle of rum, directing her not to uncork it until they reached "The Hill of Difficulty," referring to Pilgrim's Progress. At Woodward's Hollow they had to chain the sleds to trees to get down safely. At the foot of the ascent on the other side Mrs. Crandall said : " Here is The Hill of Difficulty ; let us drink," and opened her bottle and presented it first to Mrs. Wilber. Any one who has been up that hill will appreciate her remark.
We staid the second night at James Tyrer's, whose house or shanty stood on the Genesec road, on lot three, township seven, range eight, and was the first one we had seen since leaving Putnam's. The shanty was so small that the whole company could not sleep inside, so Jchiel Aibee proposed that he and the other young men should sleep up-stairs. Accordingly Jehiel Albee, John King, Arnold King, Henry Palmerton and John Williams slept on top of the shanty. There was no road and our progress through the woods was necessarily slow, but on the afternoon of the third day we arrived at the house that father had built, which was located on the west part of lot forty- nine, some distance north of where the road runs now.
Our house was built of logs and poles and the ends of some of them stuck out two feet beyond the others. There was no lumber and no nails used in its construction. The roof was made of bark and the first Summer we had no chimney, no doors, no windows, and the house was not muded. We built the fire against the side of the house until it burnt through. Father said that was the rule. In the Fall father built a stick- chimney, with a stone back, and cut window holes and made sash after his fashion and put in greased paper instead of glass
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for window lights ; he split and hewed out basswood plank or " Puncheons," for a floor below-had no floor above. My mother did most of her cooking out beside a stump during the warm weather that Summer.
In my father's family there were then six children : David, John, Paulina, Alma, George and Betsey. I was the oldest and was born Dec. 16, 1800. My father and mother and the six children, and all the household goods we had were brought from Vermont in one wagon load.
Our table was a box that we brought some of our things in. I cannot remember whether father and mother had any chairs or not, but I know that we children had no chairs and after a little I made some stools for myself and the others. My father cleared off the first Spring about three acres for corn, half an acre for oats and one-fourth of an acre for potatoes.
That Summer we chopped and cleared three acres and sowed it to Winter wheat. That Fall father went to Hamburg and bought one hundred apple trees and brought home two cherry trees in his pocket.
We had a yoke of oxen and two cows and a calf. We had no hay and we cut the heads of the oats off and gave them to
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the calf, and the straw and corn-fodder we gave to the oxen and cows but the most of their living was browse.
The first Summer after we came to Collins my father and mother and their six children, and Allen King and his wife, and Arnold King, and John King, two young, unmarried men, all lived in our small log-house, and how they all managed to live there I cannot tell.
When we first came to Collins it was sixteen miles to the nearest grist-mill. We frequently got out of meal and then sometimes we would eat potatoes and milk several days and sometimes we would grind or pound corn into coarse meal in our "plumping mill." This consisted of a large log of the proper length, squared off at both ends and set upright and a cavity made in the top in the shape of a round bottomed basket, and a spring-pole fastened to the corner of the house with a pestle attached and suspended over the cavity in the end of the log.
The first grinding we had done at a grist-mill was at Boston. When father went to Boston to mill, he carried grists for the neighbors, and when Aaron Lindsay went he also carried grists for the neighbors, and when Benjamin Albee went he also did the same. Once when father went to Boston to mill he had to stay over night; and he had no money, and he drew up wood for Mr. Butterworth with his team to pay for his keeping.
Benjamin Albee located on the east part of lot sixty-four, township six, range eight, in the Spring of 1811, and Luke Crandall located on the middle part of the same lot the same year. Warren Tanner came and located on lot forty-seven same township and range, in 1811. Allen King located on lot fifty-six. and Nathan King, father of Allen, Arnold and John King, came in the Fall of 1811 and settled on lot forty-nine. Abram Lapham came out in 1809 or 1810, and bought lot forty-five at Bagdad and other lands in the vicinity, which lots were covered with nice pine and other valuable timber. Stephen Lapham, his son, settled there in 1810 and built a saw-mill about 1814. The first saw-mill built where E. L. Harris' mill now is, was built in 1824, by my brother John and myself. David Pound came in at an early day and located on lot fifty-three, near Collins station.
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In the war of 1812 and 1815, Luke Crandall, Jehiel Albee, Benjamin Albee, Darius Crandall, Rex Brown, David Nivers and Henry Palmerton and probably others, went from Collins to the Niagara frontier and served as soldiers. In the time of the war people were afraid of the Indians, and some of them left. Mr. Lindsay took his family out to Warsaw. Albee's family went away, he and his son Benjamin remained. I and my brother John dug holes in the ground to bury our iron ware. We had our other things loaded up to start, and had victuals cooked to take along, but father finally changed his mind and we remained. When I was eleven years old, I had to go out with my father and work, chopping and clearing land. My brother John and I worked clearing land bare-footed among the stubs and fire.
Jacob Taylor built the first grist-mill at Taylor Hollow in 1812. John Hanford kept the first store in town at Taylor Hollow.
One time, Kendall Johnson was at Hanford's store and wished to purchase a saw, but had not the money to pay for it, and Hanford refused to trust him. He went out into the field and stated the case to Taylor, and he picked up a flat stone and wrote on it an order for the saw, and Johnson went back and got it.
Smith Bartlett was the first tanner and currier and shoe- maker. He came in about 1815 and located on lot fifty-eight. Dr. McDaniels was the first physician in town. The first card- ing machine was at Gowanda, owned by Bugbee & Chaffee. James Parkinson built a saw-mill in the village of Collins Center about 1830. Samuel Lake built the first store at Collins Center about 1830. Harry Matthewson managed it.
ISAAC WILBER'S FAMILY.
Isaac Wilber, born Dec. 24, 1748 ; married Elizabeth Badgley and died July 27, 1835. Elizabeth Badgely, born Dec. 5, 1758 ; died Aug. 13, 1846. Stephen Wilber, born July 27, 1777, (son of Isaac) ; died Aug. 21, 1862. Mary King, his wife, born March 6, 1782 ; died Oct., 1866. Their children were :
David, born Dec. 16, 1800. John, born Sept. 27, 1802. Paulina, born June 20, 1804; married Robert Arnold ; died about 1875. Alma, born April 25, 1806; married Tompkins
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White. George R., born Aug. 7, 1808 ; married Jane Lapham ; died in 1867 in Wayne county, Michigan. Elizabeth, born Sept. 25, 1810; married Stukely Hudson. James, born Jan. 25, 1813 ; died Feb., 1815. Job, born Jan. 18, 1815, is dead. Daniel, born April 12, 1817; died Oct., 1826. Joshua, born June 19. 1819, lives in Dayton Cattaraugus county. Stephen, born July 14, 1821, lives in northwest part of Michigan. Mary, born July 10, 1820 ; died Oct. 22, 1868.
DAVID WILBER'S FAMILY.
David Wilber married Polly H. Russell, born 1808. Their children were :
Daniel born May 31, 1830 : married Hazard and lives in Collins. Lucy R., born May 22, 1835 ; married Thomas Russell, and lives in Farmington, Oakland county, Mich. Robert A., born July 12, 1844; married Eunice Allen and lives in Collins.
John Wilber.
John Wilber, son of Stephen Wilber, was born Sept. 27, 1802, on North Hero Island, in Lake Champlain. He came to Collins with his parents in 1811, where he has ever since resided a wealthy farmer and an energetic and capable man of busi- ness. He has resided on his present farm fifty-four years. Mr. Wilber is one of the few that remain, who have taken active part and witnessed the transformation from the unbroken wilderness to the beautiful farms and rural abodes that consti- tute the present town of Collins.
Mr. Wilber was married in 1826 to Christiana Strang, whose paternal ancestors were long-lived and sturdy French Hugue- nots, who fled from France to England on account of religious persecution. From England some of them came to New York. Mrs. Wilber's father, John Strang, was born at Fort Ann, N. Y., where, when a young man, he was engaged in lum- bering. He came to Collins 1812, where he resided until his death in Feb. 1879, at the remarkable age of 101 years and three months. Mr. and Mrs. Wilber have reared a family of six children, viz :
Emily, born Nov. 24, 1827 ; married William T. Popple and resides at Collins. Mary E., born April 18, 1839; married
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William C. Potter and resides in Waupaca county, Wisconsin. Albert, born Feb. 28, 1832 ; married Ruth Bartlett and resides at Collins. James, born Feb. 20, 1835 ; married Lydia Chase, and resides at Collins. Paulina, born Aug. 16, 1840 ; married, first. Albert Bruce ; second, Frank P. Johnson ; died in 1879 in Collins. Eugene, born Jan. 24, 1844 ; married Mary Barry and resides at Collins.
.J. H. White.
John H. White was born in 1833, in the Town of Collins. His father's name was Hosea White; his mother's maiden name was Anna Keese. He was married in October, 1859: his wife's maiden name was Martha Jane McMillan ; she was born Sept. 22, 1840, in the Town of Otto, Cattaraugus county.
Their children are: Georgiana, born July 20, 1860. Frankie E., born Nov. 28, 1861. Jesse Maud, born April 18, 1867. James H., born Feb. 10, 1873. Ethel M., born May 16, 1877.
Mr. White has always lived in Collins, except one year, when he lived on the Hadwin Arnold place in East Hamburg. He has always followed the business of farming, and now owns a large dairy, and in addition he has also been engaged in the milling business for several years. He owned and run the Gowanda mill in 1865, then sold it ; bought the mill in Bag- dad, in 1878, and sold it in 1880 ; again purchased the Gowanda mill and sold one-half to C. C. Torrance, and they are now (1882) running the same together. He formerly dealt quite largely in stock. He brought, for his father, the first mowing machine into Town of Collins, in 1853 or 1854. He brought the first Holstein cattle into Collins in 1879. He was one of the Assessors of the Town of Collins for twelve years. He was elected Supervisor in 1874 and also in 1875.
Smith B. Washburn.
Mr. Washburn, son of Elisha Washburn and Frances Ballard, was born Sept. 21, 1834, in Collins, where he has resided most of the time. He traveled six years as salesman for a Cleveland firm; he was also connected with William A. Johnson in first starting and operating the Marshfield factories.
He has been Assessor in Collins two terms.
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Mr. Washburn was married Sept. 4. 1853. to Marinda Wick- ham, who was born in Collins, Nov. 25. 1834. They have two children : Louisa F., born Dec. 18, 1857. George E., born June 10. 1864.
Isaac A. Wells.
Mr. Wells' grandfather, Rev. Asel Wells, was a Baptist minis- ter, and occasionally preached to the early settlers of Collins. to which place he came about 1826, with his son Benjamin Wells, father of Isaac A. Benjamin Wells, was born in Halifax. Nova Scotia, in ISOS or ISc9 ; came to Rochester, N. Y., when four years of age, and to Collins about 1826, where he set- tled on lot 21, on land bought from the Holland Land com- pany, where he lived until 1876, when he sold his farm and moved to near Meadville, Pa. He married Mary, daughter of Isaac Allen.
Isaac A. Wells was born in Collins, June 6. 1838, where he lived until 1867, when he moved to Persia, Cattaraugus county. N. Y., where he now resides in the capacity of a farmer. He was married in 1857. to Mary L. King, daughter of Jared King. They have two children : Jared U. and Cora.
Elisha Washburn.
Mr. Washburn was born Oct. 7. ISo7. in Wendell. Mass., came to Collins from there in 1821. driving a team through for Everett Fisher-twenty-eight days on the road. He chopped and cleared land-an acre in six days was about the progress he made in chopping.
He was married in 1826, to Frances Ballard ; they located on the farm of James Goodell, on lot nine, township seven, range eight. Collins. Mr. Goodell died in 1851, and they succeeded to the homestead where Mr. Washburn now lives, his wife hav- ing died in February, ISSI.
Mr. Washburn has held the office of Commissioner of High- ways several terms. He was Commissioner when the second Gowanda bridge was burned, and when the Zoar bridge across the Cattaraugus was built. About 1842, he built a saw-mill on the north branch of Clear Creek.
Mr. Washburn has four children : Mary married George
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Valentine, who died. Smith B. married Marinda Wickham. Rufus (2d) married Ruth Lenox. Israel, twice married, first to Eliza E. Goodell, by whom he had one daughter. Dora ; second time to Eliza Chafee, by whom he has three children : Jessie, Dean and Ira Verne.
Stephen Thorn White.
Mr. White's grandfather, Reuben White, was a leading mem- ber of the Quaker Society; he died in Collins at the age of seventy-two. His father, Isaac White, was born in Danby, Vt., in 1794. He married Hannah, daughter of Judge Thorn, of Granville, N. Y. He removed to Collins about 1833, his son Stephen Thorn, being then a young lad, having been born in Danby, Vt., Sept. 28, 1826. He remained on his father's farm until 1858, when he engaged in mercantile business at Collins Center, which he pursued until his death, March 26, 1872 was a man of honor and ability. He was Postmaster most of the time while engaged in trade, and was Supervisor of Collins three years in succession-1869, '70 and 71. Mr. White was married in 1853 to Lucy B. Randell, by whom he had three children :
J. Herbert, who was for a time in company with C. I. Bates at the old stand where his father had conducted business. Myra and Charles Cary.
Robert A. Wilber.
Robert A. Wilber, son of David and Polly Wilber, was born in Collins July 12, 1844, where he has ever since resided, now owning and occupying a farm formerly owned by Stephen Wil- ber. Sept. 4. 1866, he married Eunice Allen, daughter of Ahaz and Sylva Allen, of Collins. In 1865 he enlisted in the Second New York volunteers, Company G, Mounted Rifle- men, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war.
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