Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume IV, Part 53

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 660


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of first wife: I. Oliver, mentioned below. 2. Jeremiah, baptized at Topsfield, March 21, 1703. 3. David, baptized at Topsfield. De- cember 23. 1705. 4. Mary, baptized at Tops- field, May 9, 1709. 5. Samuel, baptized March 6, 1711, at Boxford. 6. John, born at Box- ford, June 26, 1713. Born at Oxford: 7. Jacob, March 10, 1717. 8. Hepzibah, April I, 1720. 9. Amos, January 31, 1722.


( III) Oliver, son of Peter (2) Shumway, was born at Boxford, May 10. 1702. He lived quietly and followed farming at Ox- ford. He married. September 3. 1724. Sarah Pratt. Children, born at Oxford: I. Oliver, mentioned below. 2. Levi, April 8. 1727. 3- Keziah, May 25, 1729. 4. Nathan, April 21, 1731. 5. Susanna, August 21, 1733. 6. Stephen, March 25. 1736: soldier in the revo- lution. 7. Sarah, June 28. 1738. 8. Reuben, February 2, 1740 ; soldier in the revolution. 9. Ebenezer, June 25, 1743. 10. Jonathan, No- vember 8, 1745. II. Lucy, July 18, 1749.


(IV) Oliver (2), son of Oliver (1) Shum- way, was born at Oxford, October 12. 1725. He was a carpenter by trade, and is said to have served in the revolution. He married, April 15, 1747, Elizabeth Holman. Children : Abner, mentioned below ; Betsey.


(\') Abner, son of Oliver (2) Shumway, was born at Oxford, June 9. 1748. died Sep- tember 13, 1813. He was a soldier in the revolution and was in camp at Roxbury in October. 1775. a drummer in the Oxford com- pany : also served in various companies after- ward. In 1786 he removed to Lebanon Springs, New York, where he spent his last years. Ile worked at his trade as carpenter and some houses that he built in Oxford are still standing. Ile married. April 19. 1770, Lucy Howe, born in 1752, died January 3, 1837. Children: David, born March 30, 1771 : Rufus, April 1. 1774, died at Decatur, Otsego county, New York, about 1836; Allen, March 19. 1778: Paul, mentioned below ; Silas ; Alpheus : Jeremiah D., January 12, 1793 : Leonard : Clarissa : Lucy.


(VI) Paul, son of Abner Shumway, was born May 19, 1781, at Oxford, died February 3, 1849. lle was a carpenter by trade. He married, March 4. 1804. Mercy Gates, born August 10, 1786, in Norwich, Massachusetts, (lied February 25, 1872: resided at Lebanon Springs, New York. Children, born at Le- banon Springs: Charlotte. April 29. 1805 ; Henry Edward, November 1. 1807; Elizabeth Maria, June 30, 1813; William Dennison, July 13. 1817; Joseph Hill, mentioned below : John Brainerd. November 5, 1822: Antoin- ette, April 19, 1824, died young : Ellen Jane, January 19. 1826; Charles Frederick, March


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6, 1828; Lucy Ann, October 19, 1830; Samuel Gates, June 9, 1833.


(VII) Joseph Ilill, son of Paul Shumway, was born at Lebanon Springs, New York, August 27, 1820. Ile was educated in the public schools, became postmaster, was super- visor several terms, and a prominent Repub- lican. He was a member of the Universalist church. He married. September 6, 1854, Cornelia Van Horn, born December 12, 1832 (see Van Horn VII). They resided at Van Hornsville, Herkimer county, New York. where he was a merchant until he retired. Children: 1. Walter F., born April 22, 1858: married. September 7, 1880, Alfa Ackler, born October 15, 1858. 2. Agnes E., August 19. 1860: married, May 24, 1882, Daniel I. De- voe ( see Devoe 1X). 3. Ellen MI., October I, 1867; married, October 22, 1889. John M. Farley: children : Worthington S. Farley, born June 6, 1892; Walter Van Horn Farley, February 13, 1894: Dorothy Farley : John M. Farley, Jr.


(The Van Horn Line).


Jan Corneliessen Van Horn, or Van Horne, came from Holland to New Amsterdam as early as 1645, and he drew his money from his guardian in Holland in 1647. His wife's name is unknown. He became a member of the First Dutch Reformed Church of New York, October 6, 1685. He sold a house and lot south of Marketfield street, part of the premises patented to Jan Corneliessen Van llorne, June 23, 1645. lle sold another lot on the east side of Fort Amsterdam, near Marketheld street. He was entered in New Amsterdam as a small burgher and was taxed twenty-five guilders. Children: 1. Cornelius Jansen, mentioned below. 2. Jan Joris, mar- ried Maria Rutgers. 3. Garret, married, July 2, 1603, Altje Proohost.


( 11) Cornelius Jansen, son of Jan Cor- nelie sen Van Horne, married, according to the register of the Dutch Reformed Church of New York, October 4. 1659. Anna Maria, daughter of and Annaka ( Webber ) Jans, granddaughter of Wolford Webber, of Holland, who married Annaka Cock, daughter of Hendrick and Neisgen Seleyns Cock. Wol- ford Amant Webber, son of Wolford Webber, came over in 1649, received a grant of sixty- two acres fronting on the East river and run- ning through Chatham square from Governor Peter Stuyvesant, and afterward Webber con- veved it to his aunt, Annaka ( Webber ) Jans. Wolford Amant Webber was a grandson of King William of Orange. Children of Cor- nelins Jansen and AAnna Maria ( Jans) Van Horn, born in New Amsterdam and baptized on the following dates in the Dutch Reformed


church: Johannes, January 17, 1003; Vrouchie, January 25, 1000; Cornelius J. January 31, 1007 ; Garret, December 17, 1071; Altge, October 31, 1073; Abram, mentione ] below.


(111 ) Abram, son of Cornelius Jansen Van Horn, was baptized in the Dutch Reforme1 church, January 20, 1075, died in 1741. llc married, September 0, 1700. Maria Provo t. Children, baptized in New York : Anna Maria, January 28, 1702: Catharine, July 30, 1704: Cornelius, mentionedl below : Janette, November 7, 1708; Helena, September 24, 1710; Abram, March 8. 1713: David. August 8, 1714: David, July 20, 1715: Margaretta, March 6, 1717; Samuel, April 6. 1720.


(IV) Captain Cornelius Van Horn, son of Abram Van ilorn, was baptized in New York. October 16, 1706. He married ( first ) Catha- rine Cox; (second ) Elizabeth Lawrence : (third) Hannah Sebrook. He settled in Mon- mouth, New Jersey. After his third mar- riage he removed to Hunterdon county, where his brother Abram and sister Helena als> lived. Ile and his brother bought the time of a German emigrant for a term of ver- to pay his passage to this country. This man bargained to build three houses in three sur- cessive years for his freedom, he having all the spare time. One of these was a stone house with the initials C. V. H., dated 1753, and stood half a mile west of the White House station, and north of the railroad. Captain Van Horn's will, dated December 24. 1743. with a codicil February 3. 1744. provel March 16, 1744. bequeathed to wife Hannah and his children. He was buried in 1744 m the old Van Thorn graveyard at White House ml the gravestone is standing. It gives the date of death as l'ebruary 12. 1744. Ilis widow married Benjamin Drake, of Hopewell, Mocar Trenton. Child of first wife: Thomas, born December 4, 1722. Children of see ind wric Mathias, 1724: Catharine : Ilizal eth. Chil- dren of third wife: Mary, April 12, 1733: Cornelius, May 4. 737: Abram, mentioned below : James, April 23. 1740; John May 3. 1742 : Daniel, May 2, 1743.


A ) Sheriff Abram Van Horn, Son of Cap tain Cornelius Van Horn, was born August 28. 1738. Ile emigrated about 177E b wirtt was then Warrensbih and Settled on a tarl in the present town of Florida, Mont Amery county, New York He moved his fan ils thither the following unimer, and they were four days in making the voyage front New York to Albany on a Floop lle was elected a member of the Tryon county committee of safety in June, 1775 from the Mohawk de trict and continued a member several yean


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He was a staunch Whig, and it was rumored that an attempt was about to be made by the Tories and Indians to massacre him and his family. A neighboring Tory was appointed to go at night and shoot him in bed through the window, but fortunately, on the appointed night, his wife was awake, on account of a sick child, and after building a big fire in the fireplace had just laid down on the front side of the bed with the child, when the mur- derer came to the window. He weakened in his purpose when he saw that to kill the hus- band he would have to shoot the wife and child. She was a kindly, charitable woman, who had nursed the sick even in that man's own family. Afterward a blockhouse was built for the defense of the family. Van Horn was a member of the state assembly from 1777 to 1781 and was high sheriff of Tryon county in 1781. In 1783 he moved to Cansede- banak Church, near Fort Plain, and thence up to Otsquaga creek, where he built a mill, which bears the name of Van Hornsville. He died there March 5, 1810, aged nearly seven- ty-two years.


He was married (first) to Jane Ten Eyck ; ( second ) December 9, 1763, Hannah Hoff, of Montgomery county, New York, daughter of Richard Hoff, of New Jersey. Children of Sheriff Abram and Hannah (Hoff ) Van Horn, his second wife: Cornelius, born No- vember 22, 1764. married Elizabeth Youngs ; James, September 16. 1766: Daniel, Septem- ber 23. 1768: Richard, born October 15, 1770, mentioned below ; Thomas, Decem- ber 20, 1772, married Lucy Terry : Catharine. September 8, 1775; Hannah, January 18, 1778: Abram D., June 26, 1783.


(VI) Richard, son of Sheriff Abram Van Horn, was born October 15. 1770. He mar- ried Cornelia Ten Eyck. Children : Cornelius, born December 21, 1801, died July 19, 1873. married Mary Kinter: Alexander, December IO, 1804; Walter. mentioned below: Anna Maria, February 25, 1808: Catharine, January 20, 1810: Richard R., February 14. 1812; Abram R., August 30, 1816.


(VII) Walter, son of Richard Van Horn, was born June 10, 1806. He married Eliza Sleighter. Children: Agnes, born November 8. 1829, died October 8, 1854, married Henry Hawm: Cornelia, December 12, 1832, mar- ried Joseph Shumway (see Shumway VII) ; George, December 21, 1836, married Maria Hawks: Cornelius S., March 2, 1838, died December 21, 1868, married Marie Wagner ; James E., February 2, 1842, married Mary Dunn ; Maria, September 29, 1846, married John W. Brandow, Jr .: Nicholas, April 14, 1852, married Ida Countryman.


The Congers are first men- CONGER tioned as settlers in Berne, Al- bany county, New York, about 1790. They are descendants of the Vermont family who lived in the town of Danby, where Gershom Conger was an early settler. He married Frances Ballard, of Tinmouth, and was an influential and worthy man of that town. Children: Isaac, Enoch, Ashen, Ger- shom, William, Ruth and Dorcas.


(II) William, son of Gershom and Frances (Ballard) Conger, was born in 1790, near Reidsville, town of Berne, Albany county, New York. Here the Conger homestead was located, lying in the eastern part of the town. The improvements were yet crude, but Wil- liam considerably improved his farm and pros- pered. He was a Whig in politics, and a Methodist, being one of the pioneer members of the Berne congregation. He married Han- nah Babcock, born in Berne, died in Albany, aged eighty-one years, long surviving her hus- band. Children: I. Catherine A., married Elias Reynolds, a farmer of the Helderbergs; child, Eugene, married Leonora Irving, who survives him, with daughters, Catherine A. and Blanche. 2. William MI .. of further men- tion. 3. Almira, married Morgan Hungerford, at attorney-at-law of Albany, where he died ; children : i. Emma, married William Winne, whom she survives, a resident of Troy, New York, with daughter Andna; ii. Jessie, mar- ried William Bender, then of Albany, now resident of Greater New York, has son Clar- ence : iii. Hannah, married George Atherton, now of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has daugh- ter Olive. 4. Hannah, married (first) Chester Flagler; child, Victoria, married George Tubbs, and had daughter Grace, married and lives in East Durham ; married (second) Wil- liam Wilson ; children: Rev. William Conger and Josephine. Rev. William Conger Wilson, Methodist minister of Broadalbin, New York, married Minnie Cook and has Leora; Jose- phine Wilson married DeWitt Benjamin, a merchant of Stamford, New York, and has a son Guy. 5. James Enos, died, aged forty-five, January 9, 1875, unmarried. 6. Josephine Amelia, born in Berne, Albany county, New York, 1842, died in Albany, 1904 ; educated in Female Academy, Albany, and a member for many years of First Presbyterian Church. She married Dr. William Morgan, born in Al- bany, 1842, died there 1898; graduate from Albany Medical College, class of 1868; some years later succeeded his brother in the insur- ance business, in which he became very suc- cessful; was active in local politics as a Re- publican. Children: i. William Jr., born 1874, postgraduate of Yale, class of 1896,


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Ph.D., now professor of chemistry of Uni- versity of California, Berkeley, California; married Charlotte Lansing and has sons, Alan and Conger ; ii. James Pettit, born March 19. 1876, graduate of high school, class of 1894, succeeded to his father's business; married Mary A. Chandler, no issue.


(III) William HI., son of William and Han- nah ( Babcock) Conger, was born on the farm in Berne. January 27, 1824, died at his home in New Scotland, September 7, 1910. He was a farmer of his native town until 1850, when he purchased and removed to a farm of two hundred acres in New Scotland, near the vil- lage of Unionville. He became a man of abundant substance and a leader in his town. His natural powers of conversation and argu- ment were unusual and were enhanced by a mind well-stored by serious study and wide reading. His manly character and open- handed generosity were proverbial. None were ever turned away empty-handed, and in his will he remembered those whose only claim was having been in his employ. His lifelong abstinence from the common habits of tobacco and liquor using was well known and widely commented upon. He was an earnest. zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a liberal supporter of all Chris- tian and charitable societies. Politically he was a Republican, but never sought public office.


He married (first) in 1847, in Berne, New York. Louisa Hotaling, born in the Helder- bergs. August 25, 1829. died May 9, 1872. She was in full sympathy with her husband in his church and benevolent work and his valued co-worker in all things. She was a daughter of Aaron and Mary ( Rogers) ITotal- ing. of Albany county. Mary (Rogers) Hotaling died in middle life, and Aaron mar- ried a second wife, later removing to Albany. where he was engaged in the ice business. Ile had five children, the only survivor (1910) being Hiram Hotaling, born March 28, 1828. who resides with his widowed daughter, Anna (Hotaling) Saxton, in Albany. William H. Conger married (second) in New Scotland. March 5. 1874. Mrs. Hannah Eliza (lfotaling ) Oliver, born in New Scotland, January 9, 1832. There she was reared and educated. She married (first) John A. Oliver, who died in the prime of life, leaving a daughter, Cath- erine M .. born April 2, 1852; she married John M. Van DerZee, born in New Scotland, June 6, 1849, a carpenter contractor of Schen- ectady. They have living children: Sarah Elizabeth, unmarried, general secretary of Young Women's Christian Association of Worcester, Massachusetts ; Nettie M., married


William Glen, of Elmsmere, New York, and has William O., John E., Agnes A., Paul L., deceased, and Elizabeth. Mrs. Conger sur- vives her husband and resides with her daugh- ter in Schenectady, retaining to a remarkable degree her youthful vigor and giving littk evi- dence of her seventy-nine years. She con- tinnes her membership in the Reformed church, of which she is a lifelong member. She is a daughter of Tunis W. and Magda- lena (Winne) Hlotaling. of New Scotland, who were married by Dominic Van Il usen, who also christened the wife Magdalena. After marriage some years Tunis W. and Magdalena Hotaling removed to Rotterdam, Schenectady county, where he died at the age of seventy-four years, she at sixty-five years. They were both communicants of the Re- formed church. Tunis W. was a son of Wil- liam ITotaling, who came to Albany county from Holland with two brothers and settled on adjoining farms south of Feurabush. This was prior to the revolution. They were a thrifty family and succeeded well in their new home. William Hotaling was twice mar- ried and had issue by both wives. Magdalena Winne, wife of Tunis W. HTotaling, was the daughter of Adam and Christianna (La Grange ) Winne, early settlers of New Scot- land. She was of French ancestry, and he of Dutch. Tunis W. and Magdalena ( Winne ) Hotaling were the parents of thirteen chil- dren: 1. . -, died in infancy. 2. Adam, a farmer of Rotterdam, Schenectady county ; married Sarah Allen, who survives him. 3. 1Iannah Eliza, married (first) John A. Oliver : ( second) William II. Conger. 4. William, of Fullers Station, now retired : married Eliza- beth Fuller, deceased. 5. I rancis, died in South Dakota, a farmer: married and left issue. 6. Simeon W., deceased : married \n- nie M. Fitch, now a resident of Albany, and second time a widow. 7. Garret. now of Syracuse, New York : married Jane Bogart, deceased, five children. 8. Christianna, mar- ried James W. Wilmet, both deceased, also their only daughter. 9. John, of Victor, New York : married Jeanette Bennett : three chil- dren. 10. Mary, deceased ; married Walter Bond: two children. 11. Eleanor Van Der- veer, married Alexander Veeder, of Rotter- dam, Schenectady county, New York; two living children. 12. Isaac, of Schenectady ; married Julia Chapman : child, Ira. 13. Peter J., deceased : married Ella Vedder, a re-i- dent of Schenectady ; child, George. William HI. Conger had by his first marriage the fol- lowing children: 1. Emerette, of further men- tion. 2. Hannah A., born in New Scotland, July 24. 1851 : married Garrett Van Derpoel,


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a retired farmer, now of Delmar, New York; children: Conger and Chester, the former died at the age of eleven years. 3. William A., of further mention. Two granite shafts mark the resting places of William H. Conger and family in the burial plot on his own farm.


(IV) Emerette, eldest child of William H. and Louisa (Hotaling) Conger, was born September 23, 1849, in Berne, Albany county, New York. She was one year old when her parents settled in New Scotland, where she was reared, educated and married, February 26, 1873, Taylor McMillen, born in New Scot- land, March 7, 1849, son of Henry and Mary Jane (Taylor) McMillen. Henry McMillen was the son of Alexander McMillen, who died in New Scotland, and is buried in the Presby- terian churchyard. For the past ten years Taylor McMillen and wife have resided at the Conger homestead, he having charge of the estate. They are both members of the Presby- terian church, and Mr. McMillen is a strong Republican. They have no children.


(IV) William A., son of William H. and Louisa (Hotaling) Conger, was born in the town of New Scotland, Albany county, New York, November 2, 1853. He was well edu- cated in youth, and has spent his active years in the town of his birth. A man of means, he has not actively pursued any special line of activity, but has lived more the life of a country gentleman. He has always been an active worker in the Republican party and aided in county management as district presi- dent of the county committee. He is now a resident of Albany, where he retired in 1910. Ile married, December 13, 1883, Sarah E., daughter of Rev. Alexander and Sarah A. ( Barriclo ) Millspaugh. Children : 1. William II., born January 3. 1885: graduated at Al- bany Medical College, M.D., class of 1908, now practicing his profession at Tivoli, New York. He married Iva Brown, of Fort Plain, New York. 2. Alexander M., born February 18. 1887; graduated at Rutgers' College, classical department, class of 1910, now studying for the ministry at Princeton Uni- versity Theological Seminary. 3. Mabel, born March 6, 1889. died July 12. 1909. 4. Bertha, born June 14. 1894. attends Girls Academy, Albany. 5. Irving B., born October 7, 1896, died August 31, 1899.


(The Millspaugh Line).


This name is found on the early records of Orange county as Miltzpatch, Miltzpach and Milsbagh. The emigrant was from Germany and came to the United States accompanied by a grown-up family. The valley of the Wal- kill was settled by German, Dutch and Ilugue-


not emigrants, who, frugal and industrious, very soon became possessed of competence and wealth. The Millspaugh family settled in the town of Montgomery, Orange county, New York, about 1730. They were from Holland and Protestant in religion, from which they suffered persecution which led them to emi- grate to America. Jacob, the father, was evi- dently an old man, as the records do not men- tion any land purchased by him. The printed records of the family begins with his son, Matys ( Matthias ).


(II) Matthias, son of Jacob Millspaugh (Miltzpach), was born in Germany, as the journal of the New York assembly for 1735 shows a bill for the naturalization of several persons, among them Matys Milsbagh. Philip Milsbagh and two members of the Crist fam- ily. This would indicate that he had reached manhood before coming to America in 1730. Philip was evidently his brother. In 1738 Henry Crist, Stevanus Crist and Matthias Miltzpach purchased of William Sharpus, of New York City (a patentee of the two-thou- sand-acre tract), four hundred and forty-two acres in the town of Montgomery on the north side of Walkill, opposite the later day village of Montgomery, a little back of the stream. They had previously purchased two hundred acres, known as the "Crist Mill Lot." The land was of the finest quality, deep and fertile. They divided their purchase and at once began to clear and cultivate. The first home was dug out of the side of a hill and there the family was comfortably housed until the dugout was replaced by a house of logs. They were an energetic family and soon were in fairly comfortable circumstances. They were members of the Dutch Reformed church, and with their neighbors of that faith erected' a log church in which they worshipped for many years. Matthias married Elsie Kim- bark, daughter of one of the numerous French Huguenots, who like their Holland co-religion- ists found the Walkill Valley a safe and pleas- ant refuge. The Kimbarks first settled in Ulster county near Kingston, but later joined their brethren in the Walkill Valley, where they afterward lived and died.


(III) Charles, son of Matthias and Elsie (Kimbark) Millspangh, was born in the town of Crawford, then Montgomery, Orange county, New York, January 18. 1781: the town of Crawford was erected from Mont- gomery in 1823. He received a share of his father's estate to which he added by purchase, becoming a prosperous farmer and highly re- spected citizen. He married Mehitable Van Tassel, born in Orange county, New York, August 9, 1781, a descendant of Jan Cornelius


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Van Tassel, who founded a conspicuous fam- ily particularly prominent in the revolutionary war. There is on file in the state archives at Albany the original petition for relief pre- sented to Governor Clinton, February 9, 1781. which among other things recites :


Notwithstanding the enemy have not left us one single head of our cattle, furniture, etc, but has plundered us of all, we beseech that you will look with an eye of pity on us and have some consideration for our past services, and that a years imprisonment and five years exile, the ruin of our fortunes, and the submission with which we have born these punishments and the zeal which we are still ready to show for our country's cause, if your Excellency and the Sen- ate and the Assembly do not make some provis- ion for us, we and our families must inevitably perish.


Signed-


ISAAC VAN TASSEL.


six in family, released from imprisonment DANIEL VAN TASSEL. five in family, released from imprisonment. ABRAHAM VAN TASSEL.


seven in family, released from imprisonment. JACOB VAN TASSEL,


seven in family, and still a prisoner. Twenty-four of the family were regularly enlisted privates an l officers of the rev Intion- ary army. Children of Charles and Mehitable Millspaugh: Maria, Howard, Isaac, Alex- ander, of further mention, Leander, Albert, William, Charles.


( IV) Rev. Alexander Millspaugh, son of Charles and Mehitable (\an Tassel ) Mills- paugh, was born in Orange county, New York, town of Montgomery, January 12, 1810. died at Feurabush ( Jerusalem ), town of New Scotland, Albany county, New York, Decem- ber 5. 1885. He was educated in the schools of Orange county and prepared for the minis- try at Rutgers Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from whence he was graduated with honors, class of 1842. He was ordained a minister of the Dutch Reformed church, and spent his subsequent life engaged in that holy profession. He was for twenty- five years pastor over the Middletown church. Monmouth county, New Jersey, and during his quarter of a century in that field built up a strung congregation and did good and faith- ful work for his Master. Ile was not only an acceptable pulpit orator, but the "beloved pastor." known far and near in the county. His second j astorate was assumed in response to a call from the congregation in New Scot land, which he accepted and where he passed a life of great usefulness, continuing in the active ministry until his death. Ile married Saral 1. Parriclo, born in Marlboro, New Jer- sey, August 14. 1818, die l in the village of Unionville. She was a devoted Christian wife and mother, nobly seconding her husband's




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