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Church of Millton, in the Ile called Jesus Ile as we go to the Lower."
(XVI) Thomas, second son of Richard Ar- nold, of Bagbere, Dorsetshire, England, is mentioned in his father's will. He removed to Cheselbourne and seated himself on an es- tate, formerly the property of his father. He was twice married. His first wife Alice bore him six sons. By his second wife he had three children.
(XVII) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Arnold, was born in Cheselbourne, Dorset county, England, baptized April 18, 1599, died in Providence, Rhode Island, September, 1674. He was the founder of this branch of the Arnold family in America. He camne to the New World in the ship, "Plain Joan," in May, 1635, and soon settled at Watertown, Mas- sachusetts. May 13, 1640, he was made free- man. April 2, 1654, he was fined five pounds for neglecting public worship for twenty days. April 2, 1655, was fined ten pounds for neg- lecting public worship for forty days. He had lands allotted him on the several distribu- tions and seems to have been a man of means. He was deputy, 1666-67-70-71-72, and a mem- ber of the town council. He married twice : by first wife he had : Thomas, Nicholas and Susanna. His second wife Phoebe, daughter of George and Susanna Parkhurst, died in 1688. Children: Ichabod, Richard, see for- ward, Thomas, John, Eleazer and Elizabeth.
(XVIII) Richard, son of Thomas (2) and Phoebe (Parkhurst ) Arnold, was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, March 22, 1642- 43, died April 22, 1710. He was a man of superior ability ; held many official positions ; member of the general assembly and assistant governor of Sir Edmond Andros at Boston. He was repeatedly chosen to act with commit- tees in the adjustment of boundary disputes, with neighboring colonies and to settle differ- ences among fellow townsmen. He was dep- uty twelve sessions between 1671 and 1708, assistant in the intervening years when not deputy. In 1707-08 he was speaker of the house of deputies. He married (first ) Mary, died 1695, daughter of Thomas and Alice Angell. He married (second) Sarah
died 1712. Children ; all by first wife : Rich- ard: John, see forward : Thomas ; Mary, mar- ried Thomas Steere.
(XIX) John, son of Richard and Mary ( Angell) Arnold, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, November 1, 1670, died Oc- tober 27. 1756. He was the first settler of Woonsocket, Connecticut : one of the organ- izers of the Society of Friends in Northern Rhode Island, and built their first meeting house. When Smithfield became a town in
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1731, he was the first president of the council. He was one of the committee who ran the northern boundary line in 1718. In 1712 he built his corn and flouring mill on the Island near Woonsocket Falls. He was a miller by trade and became a very wealthy man for his day. He married (first) Mary, born 1675, daughter of Nathaniel and Joana (Inman) Mowry, (second ) October 31, 1742, Hannah Hayward. Children, all by first wife: Wil- liam. John, Daniel, Anthony, see forward; Seth, Israel, Anna, Susanna and Abigail.
(XX) Anthony, son of John and Mary (Mowry) Arnold, was born March 12, 1704. By will of his father he received sixty acres of land near the Falls, Woonsocket, Connecti- cut. This included "An Island, with two corn mills, and a fulling mill thereon." He sold this property and removed to Cromwell, Dutchess county, New York. He also re- ceived from his father "five pounds, current money." He married and left two children : David and Sarah.
(XXI) David, son of Anthony Arnold, was born May 27, 1733, died 1822. He had four sons and three daughters.
(XXII) Jonathan, son of David Arnold, was born March 1, 1771, died November 13, 1851. He left two sons and three daughters : Seth, Anthony, Mary, Hannah and Sarah.
(XXIII) Mary, daughter of Jonathan Ar- nold, was born February 9, 1811, died March 26, 1883. Married Josiah Yeckley, June 3, 1833. and had two children: Alice, see for- ward: and Jonathan Arnold Yeckley, born April 6, 1841, died September 16, 1903, with- out issue.
(XXIV) Alice, only daughter of Josiah and Mary ( Arnold) Yeckley, was born in Gor- ham, Ontario county, New York, March 15, 1836. died April 26, 1906; married, July, 1854. Professor William Wells. (See Wells.)
(XXV) Alice M., only child of Professor William and Alice ( Yeckley ) Wells, was born in Schenectady. New York, where she still re- sides (1909), the only surviving member of the family. She was educated at Syracuse University. She is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church. Member of the Young Women's Christian Association, of which she is president ( 1910), and a member of the Woman's Club, Mohawk Golf Club.
NOTE .- The mystery as to the origin of the "Old Stone Mill," at Newport, doubtless created the legend that it was constructed by the Norsemen in the tenth or twelfth century. Longfellow gave it immortality in "The Lofty Tower," in his "Skeleton in Armor." and much time has been wasted upon it by sav- ants. The mill stood on Governor Benedict
Arnold's farm, and in his will he clearly in- dicates the purpose for which it was intended and used: "My body I desire and appoint to be buried at ye Northeast corner of a parcel of ground, containing three rods square, being of and lying in my land, in or near the line or path from my dwelling house, leading to my Stone Wind Mill in ye town of Newport." The bones of the first governor of Rhode Island under Charles IV (1633) rest within the grounds belonging to Hon. Charles C. Van Zant, governor of Rhode Island in 1870. The stone that marks the spot is so mossgrown that it is impossible to decipher the inscription.
BLEECKER The name Bleecker is de- rived from the Dutch, signi- fying one who bleaches or a hleacher by trade, in those days conducting the washing as a wholesale business in Hol- land by the side of a stream. The Bleecker arms: Per blue azure and argent; on the first two chevronels embattled counter, embat- tled or; on the second an oak branch proper, fruited or ; motto: Fide et constantia.
(I) Jan Janse Bleecker, a native of Meppel, province of Overyssel, Holland, was born July 9. 1641, son of Jan Bleecker. He came to this country in 1658, and settled in New Am- sterdam, now New York City. Later on he removed to Albany. He was not only a trader who was widely known, but was a man of considerable prominence, as is certified by the number of public offices he held beginning with the year in which Albany received its charter as a city, 1686. In that year he was appointed the first city chamberlain ; cap- tain of militia, Indian War, 1689: was Indian commissioner, 1691-94; recorder, 1696-1700; justice of the peace, 1697, and member of the provincial assembly, 1698-1701. More important than any of these high positions, he was made the seventh mayor of Albany, by ap- pointment from the representative of the Crown, the Earl of Bellomont, and held that office 1700-01. He belonged to the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in America, and, dying in Albany. November 21, 1732, he was buried in that church edifice, as was the cus- tom of his day. He married Margariet (or Grietjen) Rutse, daughter of Rutger Jacob- sen Van Schoenderwoert, January 2, 1667. She was born in 1647, died in 1733. Chil- dren: Johannes, born 1668; Rutger. see forward; Nicolaas; Catharine; Jane; Marga- ret ; Hendrick, baptized April, 1686; Rachel, baptized November 14, 1688; Maria, baptized February 7, 1692.
(II) Rutger (Jansen), son of Jan Janse and Margariet Rutse (Van Schoenderwoert)
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Bleecker, was born in Albany, May 13, 1675, and resided at the northwest corner of North Pearl and Steuben streets. He was a merchant of considerable means, and a member of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church. He was city recorder, 1725, and his older brother, Jo- hannes, was the eighth mayor, serving 1701- 02, receiving his appointment from Lieu- tenant-Governor John Nanfan. He was ap- pointed the fifteenth mayor of Albany by Co- lonial Governor William Burnet, and held of- fice from November 8, 1726, to November 10, 1729. He died in Albany, August 4, 1756. He married Catalyna (or Catalina) Schuyler, daughter of David I. Schuyler, and widow of Johannes Abeel, the second mayor of Albany, May 26, 1712. She was baptized October 10, 1686, and was buried in the Dutch church, October 25, 1747. Children : Johannes, bap- tized February 8, 1713, see forward; Mar- garita, baptized October 8, 1714, married Ed- ward Collins; Jacobus, baptized December 9, 1716; Myndert, baptized July 3, 1720.
(III) Johannes ( Rutgerse), son of Rutger (Jansen) and Catalyna (Schuyler) Bleecker, was baptized in Albany, February 8, 1713. He was a surveyor and made one of the most use- ful of the city maps. He died in 1800. He married, August 5, 1743, Elizabeth Staats, born October 3, 1725, daughter of Barent Staats. Children: Rutger, baptized July 5, 1745, married Catharine Elmendorf ; Barent, baptized June 5, 1748; Barent, baptized No- vember 18, 1750; Barent, baptized Novem- ber 12, 1752, buried November 5, 1756; Ja- cobus, baptized October 23, 1755, see forward ; Catalina, baptized October 15, 1758; Barent, baptized June 9, 1760, married Sarah Lansing, ·daughter of Gerrit Lansing, no children; Jo- hannes, born October 4, 1763, died Decem- ber 29, 1833.
(IV) Jacobus (or James) Johannsen, son of Johannes and Elizabeth (Staats) Bleecker, was born in Albany, October 14, 1755, died there February 18, 1825. He married, No- vember 18, 1782, Rachel Van Sant, born 1759, died March 22, 1837. Children : Katalyna, married Barent Sanders; Sally, married Charles Platt, died 1832; Garrett Van Sant, see forward.
(V) Garrett Van Sant, son of Jacobus (or James) and Rachel (Van Sant) Bleecker, was born in the fine mansion of his grandfather, Garrett Van Sant, on South Pearl street, Al- bany, August 2, 1790, died January 12, 1856. He had no profession, but spent his entire time in looking after his interests. He was an active member of the South Second Re- formed Church. He was a good citizen, liberal to the poor, visiting the alms house every
week. He married (first), February 6, 1811, Margaret Van der Voort, died October 10, 1827; married (second), February 8, 1829, Jane Shepard, born June 12, 1801, daugh- ter of Thomas Shepard, of Albany, and was of English descent. For a lengthy period he was an alderman of the third ward. Chil- dren : Rachel, born September 25, 181 -; mar- ried, February 25, 1829, Dr. Visscher Winne ; Elizabeth Staats, born December 3, 1814 ; mar- ried James Bleecker Sanders, of Albany; James Van der Voort, born April 25, 1817; married Ann Kinnear; Margaret Louise, born June 22, 1819; married, June 10, 1840, Henry A. Allen; Garrett Van Sant, Jr., born Oc- tober 12, 1821; married Mary McCullock; Anna, born April 17, 1824; married Stephen Wakeman Clark; Charles Edward, born July 15, 1826; married Grace Strobel, he being the fifty-first mayor of Albany and serving from May 6, 1868, to May 5, 1870, and died in Albany, January 31, 1873. Children, by sec- ond wife: Sarah Jane, born February 7, 1831 ; married, March 15, 1855, Robert Reed; Thomas Shepard, born February 23, 1833; married, November 4, 1863, Kate McCullock ; William Rutger, born June 11, 1839, died unmarried ; Matilda Eliza, born July 12, 1835 ; married, April 11, 1867, Jacob Henrick Ten Eyck (see Ten Eyck family).
Jacob H. Ten Eyck, son of Herman and Eliza (Bogart) Ten Eyck), was born in Albany, August 17, 1833, died there March 24, 1898. He was educated at the Albany Acad- emy, and started as a clerk in a bank. In 1856 he went to Cuba and devoted three years to railroading. He returned to Al- bany, and in 1861 he raised Company G, Third New York Volunteers; was commissioned a captain of state militia, and shortly after was mustered into the United States service. He served nearly two years, was promoted major of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth New York Volunteers, and was stationed in Vir- ginia with the Eleventh Army Corps. He resigned in 1864 on account of ill health, and returned to Albany, where he resided until his death. He held many important posi- tions of trust ; was trustee of the Albany Sav- ings Bank; director of the Albany Insur- ance Company for about twenty years ; presi- dent of the Great Western Turnpike Com- pany, and was connected with a number of manufacturing enterprises both in his own city and in Troy. He was alderman of the old seventh ward for two years; one of the founders of the Fort Orange Club, the lead- ing social institution in his city, and was its president at the time of his death; for ten years he was a member of the Volunteer
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Fire Department; was for a long period an officer of the Albany Burgesses' Corps, and also commissary of the Tenth Regiment. He was a member of the New York Command- ery, Loyal Legion of America ; Jacob H. Ten Eyck Post, No. 154. Grand Army of the Re- public, of Albany, was named in his honor. He was president of the board of trustees of the North Dutch First Reformed Church, of Albany, for twenty years, and was the oldest member of the board of managers of the Homeopathic Hospital. Mrs. Ten Eyck furnished a room in the hospital as a memorial to her husband.
TEN EYCK
Coenraedt Ten Eyck, who came from Amsterdam,
Holland, about 1630 or 1635, and settled in New Amsterdam, married Maria Boele. Children: Jacob, see forward; Dirck; Margariet ; Tobias: Coenraedt ; Hen- drick; Matthys; Margariet; Andries; and Metje.
(II) Jacob, son of Coenraedt and Maria (Boele) Ten Eyck, was born in Holland, died in Albany. He married Gertruy, born in 1654. daughter of Barent Coeymans (who married a daughter of Andries De Vos). In her will, as a widow, made September 6, 1716, proved July 10, 1736, she mentions the names of all their children excepting Andries, who died in 1635, and Hendrick. Children : Coen- raedt, born April 9, 1678, see forward ; Barent, married, September 30, 1700; Nelletje Scher- merhorn; Hendrick (or Hennik), born De- cember 22, 1680; Mayken, born April 2, 1685; married, December 26, 1712, Andries Van Petten, of Schenectady; Andries, baptized March 25, 1688, died February 27, 1735; An- neken, baptized August 20, 1693; married Johannes Bleecker, died December 9, 1738.
(III) Coenraedt (2), son of Jacob and Gertruy (Coeymans) Ten Eyck, was born in Albany, April 9, 1678, buried in Albany, Janu- ary 23, 1753. He married. September 24, 1704, (church record) or October 10, 1703 (family Bible), Geertje, daughter of Anthony and Ma- ria (Van der Poel) Van Schaick, the latter a daughter of Teunis Cornelise Van der Poel. Children : Jacob Coenraedt, born April 21, 1705, see forward; Maria, born July 3, 1707; married Gerrit Bradt; Gerritje, born July, 1710, died young; Anthony, born September 17, 1712; Barent, born September 29, 1714; married Effie ----; Catrina, born January 29, 1717, died November II, 1741 ; Andries, born December 18, 1718; married Anna Mar- garita Coeymans; Anna Margarita, born Feb- ruary 12, 1721 ; Tobias, born May 18, 1723; married, February 6, 1758, Judittkje Van Beu-
ren; Gerritje, born July (or August), 18 (or 19), 1728; married Pieter Gansevoort.
(IV) Jacob Coenraedt, son of Coenraedt (2) and Geertje (Van Schaick) Ten Eyck, was born in Albany, April 21, 1705. He was a man of prominence, and was appointed mayor of Albany (the twenty-second execu- tive of that city) by Governor George Clin- ton, October 3, 1749, and held office from. October 1, 1748, until October 15, 1750. He was a man of considerable wealth, and had a character which made him noted as a man of strictest integrity. He was a commissioner of Indian affairs from November 16, 1752, until June 15, 1754; member of the committee of safety, 1775; judge of the court of com- mon pleas. He resided at one time in the old first ward, and also had a place on the Troy road, and was a member of the Dutch Re- formed church. He died in Albany, Septem- ber 9, 1783. He married, in Albany, August 1, 1736, Catharina Cuyler, born in Albany,. February 18, 1710, died in Albany, November 22, 1790, daughter of Abraham and Cantje (Bleecker) Cuyler. Children : Anthony, born September 17, 1739, see forward; Conrad, born November 27, 1741; Abraham Jacob,. born November 29, 1743; married, April 14,. 1769, Annatje Lansing; Catharine, born March 14, 1746.
(V) Anthony, son of Jacob Coenraedt and Catharina (Cuyler) Ten Eyck, was born in. Albany, September 17, 1739. He resided in Schodack, New York, and was a member of the convention of 1787 which ratified the constitution of the United States; was first judge of Rensselaer county, until sixty years of age, and a member of the state senate for eight years. He married, February 18, 1775, Maria Egberts. Children: Catharina, born December 14, 1776, died single ; Egbert, born April 18, 1779; married Rebecca Pearce; An- thony, born July 9, 1783, died young ; An- thony, born December 23, 1784; married C. Johnson : Coenraad Anthony, born October 19, 1789, see forward; Maria, married J. Van Allen.
(VI) Coenraad Anthony, son of Anthony and Maria (Egberts) Ten Eyck, was born in Schodack, Columbia county, New York, Oc- tober 19, 1789, died June 10, 1845. He was sheriff of Albany county nine years and coun- ty clerk six years. He married his cousin, Hester Gansevoort, daughter of Jacob and Magdalena (Gansevoort) Ten Eyck, who re- sided in Whitehall Place. She was born Jan- uary 4, 1796, died April 6, 1861. Children : Leonard, born March 12, 1821 ; married Ellen Bullock; Mary, born September 6, 1822, died young ; Anthony, born June 22, 1824; Jacob, .
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born July 4, 1826; married Eliza Folger Cof- fin: Abraham Cuyler, born October 1, 1830, see forward; Clinton, born May 31, 1833; married Kate Monteath Wilson; Catharine, born May 28, 1836, died single.
(VII) Abraham Cuyler, son of Coenraad Anthony and Hester Gansevoort (Ten Eyck) Ten Eyck, was born October 1, 1830, on Montgomery street, in Albany, which locality was then the "court part of the town" and later was converted into a site for the hand- some new union railway station for all the roads entering Alhany. He was educated at the Albany Boys' Academy. His elder brother, Jacob, being a "Forty-niner," of Cali- fornia gold field craze, persuaded him to make the trip to the West, which he did, and on arrival he became a successful contractor, but on account of the death of his brother Anthony, who had been deputy attorney-gen- eral of New York state, 1852, he was called East. When returning, the ship on which he sailed was shipwrecked in a severe storm in Golden Gate Harbor, and he was one of the nineteen saved out of a list of one hundred and twenty-five passengers aboard. An in- cident connected with his escape is still told in the family, that he carried with him, ac- cording to the custom of the place and those days, a bowie knife, which he used to good effect in cutting loose his belt, weighted with gold, and thus freed over five thousand dol- lars to sink to the bottom of the sea. It was a most fortunate display of alertness and had there been no sharp knife so conveniently at hand, doubtless his fate would have been similar to the scores of the gold-seekers whose fortune carried them to death. Following his marriage, which occurred within a few years of his return, he resided at No. 199 State street, which became the site of the new capi- tol, and after that he removed with his large and growing family to Whitehall Place, the old historical home of General John Bradstreet, of the British forces, used as his headquar- ters during the campaigns against the Indians and French. This house was built about 1750 by General Bradstreet; located about one hundred and fifty yards to the west of what became Delaware avenue, and the highway near it was long known as Whitehall road; its household furniture was the envy of all the neighbors; many interesting oil portraits hung upon its walls, and at the large recep- tions the family silver figured prominently ; one room had been used by General Bradstreet as his office, and another had been dedicated as the "death chamber." After the war the house was purchased from General Brad- street by Leonard Gansevoort, brother of Gen-
eral Peter Gansevoort; it was remodeled and enlarged in 1776 or 1780, becoming a man- sion, one hundred and ten feet in front and seventy-five feet deep. The property con- tained some two thousand acres and came into the Ten Eyck family by the marriage of Mag- dalena, daughter of Leonard Gansevoort, to Jacob Ten Eyck, eldest son of Abraham Ten Eyck. Jacob Ten Eyck was a man of promi- nence, being judge of Albany county, assem- blyman, and held other minor offices. The destruction of this house by fire in 1883 was the greatest misfortune in the life of Mr. Ten Eyck ; the place was known as Ten Eyck Park. In politics Mr. Ten Eyck was a Democrat. He was a member of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, a man of strong convictions, a staunch friend to all who were favored with his intimacy and possessed of hosts of friends. Everyone realized that he was unusually generous, even to the extent of a fault, and while not a lawyer, in later years his advice was sought on many questions by his acquaintances.
Abraham Cuyler Ten Eyck married, Al- bany, November 27, 1855, Margaret Matilda, born in Albany, April 14, 1837, daughter of Henry Burhans Haswell, born in Kingston, New York, June 1, 1803, son of John and Margaret (Burhans) Haswell, married at Sing Sing (Ossining, New York), June, 1836. Henry B. Haswell was an attorney of promi- nence, country clerk for six years, alderman, school commissioner and secretary to the board of education for over twenty-five years. He had been private secretary to Hon. William H. Seward when secretary of state, and he died in Albany, August 10, 1869. Her mother was Elizabeth Trowbridge, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Mabie) Trowbridge, born in Sing Sing (Ossining), New York, March 9, 1809, died in Albany, May, 1882. A. Cuyler Ten Eyck died in Albany, March 23, 1900, and was buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery. His widow, in 1910, was residing with her son, Hon. Jacob Lansing Ten Eyck, at his home, No. 226 Lark street. By inherit- ance, she possesses a great many pieces of highly artistic old furniture and a quantity of colonial silver of beautiful design and workmanship, which are the envy of all the connoisseurs who behold it. Children, born in Albany : Hester Gansevoort, born August 29, 1856, see forward; Conrad Anthony, May 30, 1858; ummarried in 1910; Henry Has- well, December 16. 1859, died Albany, De- cember 23, 1867; Jacob, October 11, 1861, died young ; Rachel, September 14, 1862, see forward; Jacob Lansing, July 8, 1864, see forward; Cuyler, February 26, 1866, see for-
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ward; Peter Gansevoort, Bethlehem, Novem- ber 7, 1873, see forward.
(VIII) Hester Gansevoort, first-born child of Abraham Cuyler and Margaret Matilda (Haswell) Ten Eyck, was born in Albany, August 29, 1856. She married, Albany, De- cember 12, 1883, James Edgar Brooks, of Normansville, Albany county, New York. He was born in New Scotland, Albany county, New York, February 16, 1853, died Novem- ber 19, 1884, in Normansville, New York. Child: James Edgar Brooks, born in Nor- mansville, New York, September 20, 1884, and was a civil engineer, residing in Albany, in 1910.
(VIII) Rachel, daughter of Abraham Cuy- ler and Margaret Matilda (Haswell) Ten Eyck, was born in Albany, September 14, 1862. She married, at Schodack Landing, Rensse- laer county, New York, May 19, 1887, Rev. John Gabriel Gebhard, D.D., of Mount Ver- non, New York. He was born in Hudson, New York, November 2, 1857, son of Charles William and Celia ( McCord), Gebhard. Chil- dren : Peter Ten Eyck, born in Mellenville, Co- lumbia county, New York, October 28, 1888; Charlotte Elizabeth, born in Mellenville, De- cember 28, 1890; Karl, born in Herkimer, No- vember 14, 1892; John Gabriel, Jr., born in Herkimer, February 23, 1894; Wessel Ganse- voort, born in Herkimer, March 4, 1897; Ra- chel Haswell, born in Herkimer, July 4, 1898; Paul, born in Yonkers, New York, October 24, 1900.
(VIII) Jacob Lansing, son of Abraham Cuyler and Margaret Matilda ( Haswell) Ten Eyck, was born in Albany, July 8, 1864. He attended the local primary schools and gradu- ated from the Albany high school, after which, in 188, he entered the employ of Hand & Babbitt, wholesale lumber dealers in the "Dis- trict." The following year he was with T. P. Crook & Company, provision merchants, as assistant bookkeeper. He took an early inter- est in political gatherings, and in 1883 or- ganized the Young Men's Democratic Club, with the object of purifying pri- maries and elections. He studied law in the office of Norton Chase and John A. Delehanty, and at the same time, as agent of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, induced the Albany, Troy and Schenectady corporations to employ asphalt pavement. He attended the Albany Law School of Union University, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1888. The next year he formed a law partnership with William S. Dyer, which continued until 1905. He was assemblyman from the Third Albany district in 1895, and was the only Democrat elected on the entire
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