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General Read revisited his native land in 1874, and was honored by all political parties, banquets being given in his honor at Wash- ington, Philadelphia and New York, while at Albany a complimentary dinner was given him. In England he received marked courtesy at the hands of the queen and members of the royal family. For his literary and scien- tific services he received the thanks of the state department of the United States, the National Academy of Design, the English East India Company, the Russia Company, the Society of Antiquaries, the Archaeological Society of Greece, and the French Academy. He was president of the American Social Science congress at Albany, 1868, and vice- president of the British congress of the same at Plymouth, 1870. He was an honorary member of a great number of learned socie- ties. In America he had embraced Masonry, attaining the thirty-second degree. He was author of many public addresses, official re-
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ports, learned papers, and an important his- torical inquiry concerning Henry Hudson, dis- coverer of the Hudson river. The official organ of the prime minister of Greece said : "The departure of General Read from Greece has called forth universal regrets." The sec- retary of state, in an official paper, said : "The manner in which you have conducted the duties as minister of this government in Greece has been such as to merit hearty ap- proval. ... Your performance of the deli- cate and important duties of consul-general in Paris during the Franco-German war was such as to call forth not only the approbation of your own government, but also of the French and German authorities."
General Read married, at Albany, New York, April 7, 1859, Delphine Marie, daugh- ter of Harmon Pumpelly, of Albany, whose father, John Pumpelly, born 1727, served with distinction in the early French and Indian wars, was present at the siege of Louisburg, and was at the side of Wolfe when he fell mortally wounded on the Heights of Abra- ham, in 1759. He served in the Revolution, and died in 1820, at the great age of ninety- three. Harmon Pumpelly, born in Salisbury, Connecticut, August 5, 1795, died in Albany, New York, September 29, 1882. His elder brothers, James, Charles, and William, like him reached an advanced age, were noted for their wealth, philanthropy and public spir- it. Harmon Pumpelly was largely interested in all the most important institutions and en- terprises of central and western New York, and his home was the seat of refined and un- remitting hospitality. Mrs. General Meredith Read, one of the most beautiful women of her day, was as popular at Athens as she had been in Paris, and her salon in both capitols was a center of American and European fashion and culture. She displayed her cour- age and humanity in the trying hours of the Franco-German war. When Paris was in the hands of the commune, she remained with her husband, and faced the terrible dangers of that time. They had four children: Major Har- mon Pumpelly ; John Meredith; Emily Mere- dith ; Marie Delphine Meredith.
(VI) Harmon Pumpelly, eldest son of Gen- eral John Meredith (2) and Delphine Marie (Pumpelly) Read, was born at Albany, New York, July 13, 1860. He was educated at Paris and Athens, St. John's Military School, at Sing Sing, New York, and Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. He became a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a New York Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London, and of the Geographical Society of Paris. He has devoted much time
to historical research, and is author of "Ros- siana," an exhaustive history of the Ross, Read, and related families : it is from this book that the material for the sketch was largely obtained ; and is the author of a very rare book on the Pumpelly Family and of a pedi- gree of the Read Family. Major Read is the highest authority on symbolism and heraldry in the United States, and has written many reliable papers published in the newspapers and other publications. He ran for member of assembly in one of the strongest Demo- cratic districts, and, though defeated, re- ceived a very large vote. He is an eminent Mason, and one of the most learned members of the craft in Masonic history and symbolism. He has attained the thirty-second degree, Scot- tish Rite, and captain general, Knights of the Golden Cord, Ancient French Rite. He comes from a family highly distinguished in Masonry. His grandfather, Chief Justice Read, was grand master of Pennsylvania, and his cousin, Hon. William Thompson Read, grand master of Delaware. His father re- ceived the highest degree in Scottish Rite Ma- sonry, the thirty-third degree, in Greece. His ancestor in the sixth degree, Dr. Thomas Cad- walader, was one of the founders of the first Masonic lodge in America. Major Read was for three years regent of Philip Livingston Chapter, Sons of the Revolution. He is an active and influential member of the Republi- can party, and interested in the National Guard of his state. He was inspector of rifle practice of New York with the rank of major. He was president of the Young Men's Asso- ciation of Albany, an honor to which some of the most eminent men in the state have aspired. It was under his administration that the Harmanus Bleecker fund was given to the association. He was acting chairman of the committee appointed by the mayor to receive and entertain the Duke of Veragua when he visited the city, and was secretary of the com- mittee to receive the postal congress. He is captain and governor-general of the Knights of Albion, member of the Order of the Cin- cinnati of Delaware, Descendants of the Sign- ers and of the Mayflower Descendants, and of the Society of Colonial Wars. He is the first national guard officer to receive official recognition as such in France. Major Read married Marguerite de Carron d'Allondans, of an ancient French family.
(VI) John Meredith, second son of General John Meredith Read, was born at Albany, New York, June 27, 1869. He is a member of the historical societies of Pennsylvania and New York. During the Spanish-American war, he recruited a regiment of 2,700 men, 800
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of whom were from Albany. He married Countess Alix de Foras, of ancient French family, and has a son, John Meredith Read.
(VI) Emily Meredith, eldest daughter of General John Meredith Read, was married at her father's residence, Newport, Rhode Island, August 21, 1884, to Hon. Francis Aquilla Stout, of New York. She married (second) Edwards 'Spencer, descendant of Jonathan Edwards.
(VI) Marie Delphine Meredith, youngest daughter of General John Meredith Read, was born in Paris, France, where her father was United States consul-general, and was chris- tened in the American Episcopal Church in the Rue Bayard. her godfather being Sir Ber- nard Burke. She married Count Max de Fo- ras, of the castles of Marclaz and Thuyset ; they have three children: Countess Hugette, Countess Delphine, and Count Joseph. The arms of the Foras family are: or a cross azure; of the de Carron d'Allondans; azure, three titles or; crest, out of a coronet an eagle displayed, bearing on its breast a tile ; of the Read family : gules, a saltire, between four garbs; or crest on the stumps of a tree, very a falcon, rising belled and jessed or. Motto: Cedant arma togae.
Nearly two hundred years have elapsed since Colonel John Read settled in Delaware. During that period his direct descendants have been of the highest prominence in the general court and in the three states, Delaware, Penn- sylvania and New York. While the collateral or related families inay be found in every state, the family is a justly honored one, a statement fully proven by the foregoing pages.
MARVIN The English home of the Marvins, for a century and a half prior to the emigration to America, was in the county of Essex. A hun- dred years before that there were several Marvin families living in and near Ipswich. Suffolk. The authentic family record traces to Roger Marvin, of St. Stephens parish, Ips- wich, who was born as early as 1430. The American ancestor of the Albany family was Reinold Marvin, spelled in the Connecticut records, Reginold, Reignold, Reynold, Reinold and Renald. Between Roger Marvin ( 1430) and Reinold (2) ( 1593) there were four gen- erations, or Reinold was of the sixth genera- tion in England, thus: i. Roger. ii. John (I). iii. John (2). iv. Reinold ( I). v. Edward. vi. Reinold (2). The ancestors were "Yeo- men," owning the lands they occupied, and many derived income from tenants who held under them. Edward, father of Reinold, was born in Ramsey, about the year 1550. He
was a man of considerable wealth, owning lands in other parishes, which he bequeathed to his sons. His wife was Margaret , who survived him. He died in Great Bent- ley, and was buried in St. Mary's churchyard, of that parish. His will names children : Ed- ward, Thomas, Richard, Robert, John, Rein- old, Elizabeth and Matthew. Of these the first to come to America was Matthew, who took passage for New England in the ship "Increase," Robert Lea, master, with his fam- ily, April 15, 1635. He was one of the twelve very earliest emigrants whose names are known among the settlers in Hartford, Con- necticut, who formed the company thereafter known as the "Adventurers." In 1650 he lo- cated in Norwalk, Connecticut. It was said of him two hundred years later, "The name of Matthew Marvin is inscribed on almost every page of Norwalk's early history. He was a Puritan by blood . . Devout, discreet, calm, sound in judgment, he gained and held the confidence of his fellow citizens and dis- charged for them many offices of civil life." His first wife was Elizabeth, whom he mar- ried in England; his second was Mrs. Alice Bouton, widow of John, of Hartford.
(I) Reinold Marvin, the emigrant ances- tor, son of Edward and Margaret Marvin, was baptized in St. Mary's Church, Great Bentley, Essex, England, June 7, 1593, died in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1662. He resided in his na- tive parish until just before his departure for New England, where his brother Matthew had preceded him. The date of his sailing or the name of the ship is not known. The last mention of him in Great Bentley was in 1637; he appears in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1638, which approximately establishes the date. His name appears on a list of Hartford land- owners in 1639-40. He removed to Farming- ton, Connecticut, where he built a house. He next removed to Saybrook, Connecticut, where he was made a freeman, May 20, 1658. He is frequently named in the colonial rec- ords of Connecticut. He held no public of- fice, but is styled "Mr. Reynold Marvin." Lyme, just across the Connecticut river from Saybrook, was made a distinct town in May, 1667. Its meadows and cornfields had been cultivated by armed men from Saybrook, among whom no doubt were Reinold and his son. He built a house in Lyme, retaining his home lot and considerable property in Saybrook. At his death his largest holdings were in Lyme. The value of his estate, £820, was a large sum for that period of colonial history. He married, probably in 1617 or 18, Marie She died in Lyme, not long before her husband, as is evident from his
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will. Her death was attributed to "Witch Craft." At a quarter court held at Hartford, September 5, 1661, Nicholas Jennings and his wife Margaret, of Saybrook, were indicted for "having entertained familiarity with Sa- than and by his help done works of above, ye course of nature, to ye loss of ye lives of several persons and in priculer ye wife of Reinold Marvin, with sorceries." The jury did not agree; "the majority of them found them guilty and the rest, strong ground for suspicion." Children, all born in England, with baptismal dates: I. William, Novem- ber 4, 1618. 2. Elizabeth, April 19, 1621. 3. Mary, October 27, 1622. 4. John, buried March 16, 1626. 5. Elizabeth, baptized April 29, 1627. 6. Sara Marie, July 22, 1629. 7. Reinold; see forward. 8. Abigail, May 4, 1634. 9. Mary, October 23, 1636, married, about 1663, Ensign Samuel Collins; died March 5, 1713-14.
(II) The St. Mary's registers thus have record of the baptism of Reinold Marvin- "Reinold, the sonne of Edward Mervin and Mary his Wyffe, was christened the 20th of Dec in Anno 1631." He died in Lyme, Con- necticut, August 4, 1676. He became a free- man of Saybrook, May 20, 1658, the same day with his father. He owned much land in Saybrook and Lyme. By his inheritance under his father's will he became about the richest man in the town. Savage says he was a deacon of the church. This probably refers to his son Reinold, as the Lyme church was not regularly formed until 1693, although the Rev. Moses Noyes preached there regularly in 1666. He represented Lyme in the gen- eral court in 1670, and from 1672 until his death. His military title lieutenant, was earned; he was appointed "Sergeant to ye band at Sea Brook" by the general court at Hartford, October 3, 1661, and on the death of Lieutenant Waller succeeded to that rank. Though ranking as lieutenant, he was com- manding officer to the train band, as Lyme had not families enough to form a full band of sixty-four soldiers with captain and offi- cers. The Lyme and Saybrook train bands had some military experience under Lieuten- ant Marvin. War had been declared against the Dutch in November, 1672, and a special session convened at Hartford ordered that all train bands "should be complete in their arms." In July, 1676, Andros attempted to seize the fort at Saybrook, and it was hur- riedly manned by the train bands. Lieuten- ant Reinold is often mentioned in the Con- necticut colonial records. He married, about 1662, Sarah, third daughter of George, Jr., and Sarah Clark. She was baptized Febru-
ary 18, 1643-44, in Milford, Connecticut. She survived her husband and married Cap- tain Joseph Sill, the noted Indian fighter. She died in Lyme February 1, 1715-16, and is buried in the Duck river burying-ground with her two husbands. It is in this burial place that it is supposed Reinold, the emigrant, and his wife are buried. The children of Lieu- tenant Reinold and Sarah (Clark) Marvin, all born in Lyme, Connecticut, were : I. John, 1664-65: 2. Reinold (3) ; see forward. 3.
Samuel, 1671. 4. Sarah, 1673.
(III) Captain Reinold (3), son of Lieu- tenant Reinold (2) and Sarah (Clark) Mar- vin, was born in 1669, in Lyme, Connecticut, died there October 18, 1737. He was chosen one of the first two deacons in the First Con- gregational Church, Lyme, when it was formed, March 27, 1693, but he is more fre- quently referred to in the later town records by his military title. He was sergeant of the Lyme train band as early as 1702 and prob- ably held that position until 1712, when he was appointed ensign. On May 8, 1718, the legislature established and confirmed Mr. Rei- nold Marvin to be captain of the first train band or company in Lyme. He was chosen townsman in 1697, 1702-03-05-06; first towns- man in 1707-22-25-28-31-32. He was con- stable in 1694; collector of rates, 1713-14; grand juryman, 1714-35; sealer of weights and measures, 1715; lister, 1729; moderator, 1721-23-24, and was on numerous important committees. April 28, 1718, when there was a vacancy in the office of minister, the town appointed "Reinold and Samuel Marvin on committee to agree with Samuel Ruswell to settle in this town in the work of the minis- try." He represented Lyme in the general court most of the time from 1711 to 1728, inclusive, a period of continual service that shows the estimation in which he was held by his townsmen. In the colonial records of the state, from 1706 onward, there are fre- quent references to him. The tombstones of Captain Reinold Marvin and his two wives are still standing in excellent preservation in the Duck river burying-ground. He married (first), about 1696, Phebe, daughter of Lieu- tenant Thomas and Mary (De\Volf) Lee, born August 14, 1677, in Lyme, died there Oc- tober 27, 1707; married (second), June 30, 1709, Martha, daughter of Sergeant Thomas and Miriam (Tracy) Waterman, born De- cember, 1680, in Norwich, Connecticut, died November 18, 1753, in Lyme. Children, born in Lyme, by first wife: I. Phebe, born De- cember 3, 1696, married (first), about 1714- 15, Samuel De Wolf; (second), August 22, 1716, Nathaniel Kirtland; died May 31,
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1747. 2. Reinold; see forward. 3. Daniel, January 24, 1701-02, married -, and had children ; died about 1770. 4. Lydia, January 12. 1703-4, married, June 16, 1726, Captain Philip Kirtland. 5. Hester, April 3, 1707, married (first), December 28, 1727, Thomas Lord; (second) Jonathan Emmons; she died February 3, 1792. Children by second wife : 6. Martha, born April 3, 1710, married, April 4, 1732, Reinold Beckwith; she died July 26, 1742. 7. Elisha, April 26, 1711, died in in- fancy. 8. James, May 26, 1713, married, May 25, 1737, Ruth Mather; he died April 3, 1769. 9. Sarah, March 8, 1715-16, mar- ried, March 16, 1742, George Dorr; she died about 1792. 10. Elisha, March 8, 1717-18, married, May 17, 1739, Catherine Mather ; died December 31, 1801. II. Miriam, born March, 1719-20, married February 1, 1738, Captain Samuel Beckwith.
(IV) Deacon Reinold (4) Marvin, son of Captain Reinold (3) and Phebe (Lee) Mar- vin, was born in Lyme, Connecticut, January, 1698-99, died there February 24, 1761. He owned land in Colchester. He was chosen deacon of the Lyme church, January, 1741, having been admitted a member in June, 1731. Like his father he held military as well as ecclesiastical office, having been con- firmed as lieutenant of the "South company or train band" of Lyme, in October, 1730. He is also spoken of as Captain Marvin. He was admitted freeman September 14, 1731; chosen sealer of weights and measures in 1729; town treasurer, December, 1734, and "to have £20 for making the town and coun- try rate"; grand juryman, 1736; surveyor of highways, 1738; lister, 1739, in which year the town granted him liberty to build a wharf on the east side of "Lieutenant River"; in 1750 he had liberty to build a pound on his land adjoining the highway, and was appoint- ed keeper. The church records show that he sometimes laid himself open to the strict dis- cipline of the time, but he held his office "in good and regular standing" to the close of his life. He married (first), December 23, 1725, his cousin, Sarah, daughter of John Marvin, and widow of John Lay; married (second), July 7, 1746, Mrs. Mary Kellogg, daughter of John Niles, and widow of Jona- than Kellogg, of Colchester, Connecticut, born June 20, 1716, died March 9, 1812. Children by first wife: I. Reinold, born Oc- tober 23. 1726, married, February 23. 1763, Ruth Welch ; died July 30, 1802. 2. Phebe, March 18, 1727-28, married. January II, 1747, Jonathan Gillett. 3. Daniel; see for- ward. 4. Lydia, September 14, 1733, mar- ried, April 19, 1753, Josiah Gates; died June
IO, 1775. Children by second wife : 5. Ann, September 30, 1748, died January 9, 1749- 6. Eve, twin to Ann, married, April 13, 1769. Lieutenant Christopher Ely ; died 1770-71. 7. Sarah, about December, 1751, married, No- vember 24, 1774, Captain Samuel Ely; died January 22, 1777. 8. Esther, February 14, 1755, died 1778. 9. Judith, April 16, 1757, married, August 5, 1779, - Peck; died March 13, 1788.
(V) Captain Daniel Marvin, son of Deacon Reinold (4) and Sarah ( Marvin-Lay) Mar- vin, was born January 2, 1730-31, in Lyme, Connecticut, died there December 30, 1776. In May, 1767, he was on the committee for managing certain funds directed to the use of the Lyme schools. He was appointed en- sign of the first train band of Lyme, October I, 1767; lieutenant, May, 1771, and captain, May, 1772. In May, 1773, he was appointed one of a special commission on the condi- tion of the fisheries of Lyme. He was select- man in 1773-74-75. He married, October 14, 1762, Mehitable, daughter of Captain Samuel and Deborah (Dudley) Selden, of Lyme; she was baptized December 4, 1743. Children : I. Reinold, born July 21, 1763, died Decem- ber 10, 1767. 2. Daniel, October 15, 1765, married (first). April 26, 1791, Huldah Mather; (second), April 22, 1819, Mrs. Hep- zibah (Mather) Leach, sister of his first wife; he died September 4, 1847. 3. Reinold, March 21, 1769, married, about 1794-95, Ma- bel Bushnell ; died 1812. 4. Sarah, September 21, 1771, married, January 9, 1791, Joel Pratt ; died January 27, 1813. 5. Selden ; see forward. 6. James, May 16, 1776, died No- vember 6, 1779.
(VI) Selden, son of Captain Daniel and Mehitable (Selden) Marvin, was born No- vember 24, 1773, in Lyme, Connecticut, died September, 1832, in Dryden, Tompkins coun- ty, New York. He removed to Fairfield, Herkimer county, New York, and about 1808-09 went to Dryden, "where he cleared a farm in the forest." He was a farmer by occupation. For many years he served as trustee of the schools in Dryden. In poli- tics he was an active member of the Feder- alists, and in religion took an active part in the Methodist church. He married (first), 1798, Charlotte, daughter of Benjamin and Sibyl (Stowe) Pratt, of Saybrook, Connecti- cut, born about 1779, died 1816; married (second), 1818, Mrs. Elizabeth (Patrick) Vandenberg, born in Saratoga, New York. Children of first wife: I. Erastus Selden, born September, 1799, married, 1831, Mary Hebbard, of Homer, New York; died Au- gust, 1832. 2. Sibyl, May 4, 1801, married,
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September 14, 1829, Dr. Theodore Augustine Linckney ; died February 18, 1887. 3. Rich- ard Pratt; see forward. 4. Charlotte, 1805, died 1813. 5. William, April 14, 1808, mar- ried (first), October 15, 1846, Harriet New- ell; (second), July II, 1866, Elizabeth, widow of William H. Jewett, and daughter of John Riddle ; he died July 9, 1902. 6. Sarah, 1810, married (first), 1829, Alonzo Guile; (sec- ond), 1833, Addison Lakor; she died 1833. 7. Mary Ann, April, 1814, married, 1833, William Hildreth ; died June 21, 1843. Chil- dren by second wife: 8. Mary, 1819, married Alexander Hodge. 9. Chauncey, 1821, mar- ried, 1844, Mary Lane ; died August 18, 1880. IO. Charles Henry, December 22, 1822, mar- ried, July 27, 1850, Charlotte M. French; died April 14, 1892. II. George Wesley, September 22, 1826. 12. Harrison, Novem- ber 6, 1827, married, May 29, 1854, Kate A. Murdock; served in Civil war. 13. Harriet, April 19, 1830, married, September II, 1849, William Farmer. 14. Elizabeth, 1832, un- married.
(VII) Hon. Richard Pratt Marvin, son of Selden and Charlotte (Pratt) Marvin, born December 23, 1803, in Fairfield, Herkimer county, New York, died January 11, 1892, in Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New York. His boyhood was passed on his father's farm in Dryden, New York. He was studious and made the most of his op- portunities ; he became a teacher, devoting his leisure hours to reading English classics and history. The only study in which he had instruction was Latin. . In 1826 he began the study of law in the office of Hon. Mark H. Sibley, of Canandaigua, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1829, and estab- lished himself in Jamestown, where he re- sided until his death. In 1835 he was elected to the state assembly, and in 1836 and 1838 to congress. In 1846 he was one of the con- vention to amend . the state constitution. Later, in 1847, he was elected one of the jus- tices of the superior court, and occupied a seat on the bench for more than twenty-four years, serving two years as one of the justices of the court of appeals. In 1874 he delivered an historical address at a reunion of the old settlers of Chautauqua county, portions of which are printed in the county history. He married, September 8, 1834, Isabella, daugh- ter of David and Jane (McHarg) Newland, of Albany, born there August 3, 1811, died February 12, 1872, in Jamestown. Children : I. Selden Erastus; see forward. 2. Sarah Jane, born August 18, 1835, married, October 20, 1859, Erie L. Hall, since died; was living in 1903. 3. David Newland, August 6, 1839,
married, September 21, 1870, Julia Ormes ; died October 10, 1889. 4. Mary Elizabeth, July 3, 1841, married, November 4, 1869, Dr. Benjamin F. Goodrich. 5. William R., No- vember 10, 1843, died February 17, 1863.
(VIII) General Selden Erastus Marvin, son of Hon. Richard Pratt and Isabella (Newland) Marvin, was born August 20, 1835, in Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New York, died January 19, 1899, in New York city. He received his education in the public schools and academy of Jamestown and at Professor Russell's private school in New Haven, Connecticut. While residing in Jamestown he became interested in military affairs and was quartermaster of the Sixty- eighth Regiment, National Guard. At the beginning of the Civil war he tendered his services to the government. On July 21, 1862, he was commissioned adjutant of the One Hundred and Twelfth New York volun- teers and mustered into the United States service, and served until detailed as assistant adjutant-general of Foster's Brigade with the army of Southern Virginia, through the Peninsula and Charlestown campaigns, until August 27, 1863, when he was appointed ad- ditional paymaster of United States volun- teers, and was assigned to duty in the army of the Potomac; he resigned December 27, 1864, to become paymaster general of the state of New York on the staff of Governor Fenton. On January 1, 1867, he was ad- pointed adjutant-general of the state of New York. As paymaster-general he disbursed upwards of twenty-seven million dollars. As adjutant-general he inaugurated and carried into practical effect reforms in the national guard which were greatly needed. After his term of adjutant-general expired he engaged in banking in New York city, as a member of the firm of Morgan, Keene & Marvin, un- til the spring of 1873, when they dissolved. On January 1, 1874, he went to Troy, New York, as the representative of Erastus Corn- ing's interests in the iron and steel business carried on by the firm of John A. Griswold & Company, and while there organized the Albany and Rensselaer Iron and Steel Com- pany, March 1, 1875. This corporation was a consolidation of the establishment of John A. Griswold & Company and the Albany Iron Works, and General Marvin was elected a director, secretary and treasurer. On Sep- tember 1, 1885, this concern was succeeded by the Troy Steel and Iron Company, which went into the hands of a receiver in 1893. General Marvin continued as director, secre- tary and treasurer of the company until its business was closed up, November 1, 1895.
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