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himself, his wife Nancy, and his children: Nancy, born Oct. 21, 1773, married a Wm. Rawlins; Hetty, born April 22, 1776, married; Jemima, born May 1, 1778, Mary born Feb. 9, 1780, married a Lindsey; William, born Feb. 7, 1782; Jesse, born June 4. 1784; Elizabeth, born Oct. 3, 1781; Samuel, born June 29, 1789; Sabina, born June 4, 1792, and Fannie, born Feb. 6,1796. The latter was said to have been the first white child born in Scioto County. She married George Shonkwiler. Polly Marshall, wife of the Revolutionary soldier was a Hazel- rigg, an aunt to Judge Hazelrigg of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. His cabin was built in February, 1796 two miles east of Portsmouth. When he came down the river he had $10,000 in continental money. His daughter Nancy, was married in Pennsylvania. Hetty married a Washburn in Manchester and Je- mima, married Thomas McDonald a brother of Col. John McDonald. Mary married John H. Lindsey. Samuel Marshall, Senior was born in 1750 or 1751, and married Nancy Hazelrigg, aunt of Judge Hazelrigg who lived at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. She was the great aunt of the present Judge Hazel- rigg of the Court of Appeals. Nancy Rawlins died at South Webster in 1870 or 1871, aged 96 or 97. George W. Sallady of Sciotoville, Ohio, is her grandson. She had all her faculties and her vision and hearing were unimpaired until she was 95. Samuel Marshall, Senior came to Scioto County in 1796 and died in 1816. He was well educated for his time. He was a devout Presbyterian. In politics he was a Federalist.
He is the ancestor of Miss Ella R. Price, of Wait's Station, Mrs. Filmore Musser, of Portsmouth, Ohio, Mr. Oscar Oakes, of Haverhill. Ohio, Mr. H. B. Shonkwiler, of Nairn, Ohio, Dr. George M. Marshall, of Ashland, Kentucky, and Doctor Walter Ranchous, of Columbus, Ohio.
David Mitchell, was a Revolutionary Soldier. He was born in 1733, and died Nov. 1, 1805. He was the father of Judge David Mitchell of Nile Township, Scioto County, O. He was a private in Captain Erwin's Company, 2nd Batta- lion, Cumberland County Militia, Pa. He enlisted December 6, 1776, and served until December 24, 1776. He also appears as a private in Capt. James Morrison's Company, Col. Thomas Porter's Battalion, mustered in Lancaster, Aug. 15, 1776. He is the great-grandfather of Albert R., and James H. Morrison, lately deceased in Scioto County, Ohio.
James Miller was born in County Tyrone in Ireland, in 1740. He emigrat- ed to this country just before the Revolutionary War, and served throughout the whole of it. He was six feet, two inches tall, without shoes. He served in the artillery. He was never taken a prisoner or wounded. He never applied for a pension, said he fought for liberty and obtained it, and that was all he wanted. He was a member of Captain Thomas Clark's artillery company, con- tinental troop, commanded by General Henry Knox, and Col. Thomas Lamb. He enlisted as a private December 25, 1776, for three years, was a driver, May, 1777, and was Matross in June, 1777. The last record of him on the rolls is January 3, 1780. He is the great-grandfather of Miss Mary Stevenson, of Beas- ley's Fork, Adams County, and is also the great-grandfather of Charles E. Oppy, of Otway, Ohio.
Andrew Macfarlane was First Lieutenant of Moorhead's Company, guard- ing stores at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1777, and served to-
Miss Anna Randall Ross is the great grand-daughter of Andrew Macfarlane. He was also the ancestor of Mrs. Ella Kinney Reed, wife of Samuel Reed.
Moses McFarland was Captain of Nixon's Massachusetts regiment from May to December, 1775. He was Captain of the 4th Continental Infantry trom January 1st to December 31, 1776; Captain of the Sixth Massachusetts on the 1st of January, 1777 and transferred to the Invalid Regiment March 16, 1779. and served until June, 1783. He died March, 1790.
James McMullan Served in the 2nd New Castle Regiment of Delaware Militia, Revolutionary War. His name appears on the rolls Jan. 14, 1778, also on Oct. 31, 1778. He was the grandfather of Mrs. Tryphena Hard, 120 Gallia street, Portsmouth, Ohio.
Alexander Parker's, Revolutionary Record. Ensign 2nd Va., Sept., 1775. 2nd Lieutenant, January 24, 1776. 1st Lieutenant, December 25, 1776. Captain. June 1, 1777. Taken prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780, served till the close of the War. Colonel 5th U. S. Infantry 3rd of May, 1808 ,resigned, Dec. 1, 1809.
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Thomas Parker's Revolutionary Record. 1st Lieutenant, 9th Va., July 4. 1776. Captain of same April 23, 1778, transferred to the 5th Va. Feb. 12, 1781, and served to the close of the War. Lieutenant-Colonel 8th U. S. Infantry, Jan. 9, 1799, discharged, June 15, 1800. Colonel 12th U. S. Infantry, March 12. 1812. Brigadier General 12th of March, 1813. Resigned Nov. 1, 1814. Died January 24, 1820.
William Peebles, father of John Peebles, and grandfather of John G. Peebles, late of Portsmouth, Ohio, was born in Scotland, in the shire near the Town of Peebles, two miles south of Edinboro. His father shortly afterwards moved to the north part of Ireland. While yet a young man, he in company with two young men, left Ireland and came to America, and settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, at the age of thirty-one years, he raised a Company of soldiers, at his own expense, for said War, at a cost of four hundred (400) pounds. He was wounded at the Battle of Flat Bush, on Long Island, by the Hessians, August 28, 1776, and died of his wounds, September 5, 1776, and was buried in some cemetery in Long Island. After his death, the United States re-imbursed his family in Continental money, for said expenditure, the family also received from the Government two thousand (2,000) acres of land, which was not considered of much value. He left a wife and three children, whose circumstances were such that it was necessary to dispose of same at a comparatively low price to meet the needs of the family.
John Potter was Captain of the First Regiment, Essex, New Jersey, Revolutionary War. His father, Samuel Potter, was Colonel of the same regi- ment. John Potter was the great-grandfather of Judge D. W. Jones, of Galli- polis, Ohio.
Israel Putman, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Lexington Alarm, April, 1775, Colonel 3rd Connecticut, May 1, 1775; Major-General Continental Army, June 19, 1775; retired June 3, 1783. Died May 19, 1790. He is the ancestor of Col. Douglas Putnam, of Ashland, Ky. His record is too well known to require any statement of it here, or any comment. His record in the Revolutionary War, won him death less fame.
Piram Ripley was born in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, November 22, 1762. At the age of thirteen years, he engaged on the frigate Oli- ver Cromwell, and was soon afterwards engaged in a naval encounter. He was married in 1785, to Miss Hannah Plum, and had a large family.
He was a man of extensive reading and had an excellent memory, and was a man of most interesting conversation.
He was a faithful member of the Baptist Church. He died in Cattarau- gus County, New York. March 23, 1843. His son, William Plum Ripley married Miss Cynthia Spencer. Mrs. Hannah Caroline Vigus, the wife of Jor- dan Vigus of Portsmouth, was their eldest child.
John Rhodes served from March 20, 1777, for nine months as a private in Capt. John Gray's Company. He served a second time in May, 1778, for six months in Capt. Job Wright's Company. He served for two months in the summer of 1779 in Captain Ephriam Woodworth's Company and two months in Captain Stim's Company. All these were militia companies and apparently in- dependent as no Colonels are stated. He was engaged in the battles of Still- water and Saratoga. At enlistment he was a resident of Easton, N. Y. He applied for pension September 7, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Edin- burg, N. Y. He was born August 4, 1763, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was pen- sioned under the law of 1832. He was the grandfather of George W. Rhodes of No. 558 East Eighth street, Portsmouth, Ohio, and of Mrs. . James A. Max- well.
Robert Rose was a Surgeon in the 1st Continental Dragoons December 10, 1776. He was transferred to Baylor's Consolidated Regiment of Dragoons November 9, 1782, and served to November, 1783. He is the ancestor of Doctor T. H. McCann, of Harrisonville, Scioto County, Ohio.
Ebenezer Seeley enlisted at Fairfield, Connecticut, 1778, and was discharged in 1780. He served under Captain Benajah Bennett, Hodges and Col. Sher- man. Shortly after the burning of Fairfield, he took part in a skirmish in which one man was killed. On July 23, 1832, when he applied for a pension he was a resident of Weston, Conn., and seventy-one years of age. He was born in Fairfield, Conn., January 10, 1761. He died at Weston, Conn., March
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21, 1842. His wife was Anna Coley. He was allowed a pension for nine months and six days actual service. He is the ancestor of Orin B. Gould of Wellston and Mrs. Winnie Gould McBride.
Joseph Spencer, Colonel in the Lexington Alarm, April, 1775; Colonel 2nd Connecticut, May 1, 1775; Brigadier-General Continental Army, June 22, 1775: Major-General, August 9, 1776; resigned January 13, 1778; died January 13, 1789. He is the ancestor of Miss Grace Cotton, Miss Mary Hannah Cotton, N. Y. and Mrs. Ethel Cotton Schwartz, wife of Wm. F. Schwartz.
John Jones Sikes served as a private in Captain Gideon Burt's Company of Guards, Massachusetts Militia, of the Counties of Hampshire and Worces- ter, Revolutionary War. The pay roll of the Company is dated September 1, 1777, to January 1, 1778. The time of service was four months. He was from the town of Wilbraham. He also served as a private in Capt. Abel Holden's Company of Light Infantry, 6th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Nixon, Revolutionary War. He enlisted July 3, 1780, for six months, and was discharged September 17, 1780, the time of service five months, sixteen days. He was the father of Levi Sikes, and grandfather of Col. Thomas Sikes, of Huntington, W. Va., and great-grandfather of Frank L. Sikes, of Ports- mouth, Ohio. He came to Ohio in 1804. His widow Sarah survived until 1858 and was a pensioner of the Revolution. She applied for a pension October 20, 1851, then a resident of Scioto County, O., at the age of eighty-one. She was married to the soldier January 18, 1787, at Westfield, Mass. He died in Mason County, Ky., in 1807. His services as stated by her were as follows: Enlisted September 18, 1779, and served one month, eleven days as a private in Capt. Caleb Keep's Company, Col. Chapin, Massachusetts. He enlisted July 3, 1780, and served six months and three days as a private in Captain Halden's Com- pany, Massachusetts, Colonel not stated. He enlisted April 4, 1782, for three years as a private, but it does not appear how long he served. He is the an- scestor of Col. Thomas Sikes of Huntington, W. Va., of Frank L. Sikes and Mil- ford Keyes of Portsmouth, Ohio.
Godfrey Smith was born near the village of Redstone, Pennsylvania, in the year 1752. This village was built about the year 1752, on the Monongahela river, at the mouth of Redstone Creek. It consisted of a few block-houses and a stockade, and was built to protect the settlers against the Indians. "Old Red- stone" was quite an important place in those days, when settlements were few and far between. It was then in Westmoreland County; the county was after- wards divided, and the village, now called Brownsville, is now in Fayette County. In the Autumn of 1779, Godfrey Smith enlisted in Shenandoah Coun- ty, Virginia, for a term of eighteen months in the Patriot army, in a regiment commanded by Colonel Buford. During the following Winter, the regiment lay at Petersburg, Virginia, and in the spring of 1780, before his term had expired, he re-enlisted for "during the war." He served in Colonel Buford's Regi- ment until its defeat at the battle of Hanging Rock, South Carolina, August 6, 1780. He was also in the battle of Camden, S. C., August 16, 1780. He then returned to Petersburg, and was placed in Captain Triplett's Company, of Col- onel Hawes' Regiment. From this regiment he was transferred to Major Lee's Corps of Light Infantry, commonly called Lee's Legion, and was in Captain Ru- dolph's Company. He was with the Legion at the battle of Eutaw Springs, S. C. in 1781, and continued in this branch of the service until the end of the war. He served, in all, about five years in the Continental army, and was not disabled. When the Legion was disbanded, at Georgetown, South Carolina, he was sick with measles. As soon as he was able to travel, however, (about four weeks later), he returned to his home in Pennsylvania. Soon aftter the war, he mar- eird Margaret Hoover. Six sons and three daughters were born to them, of whom Jacob, the oldest, was born in the year 1785. They lived in Pennsylvania until, probably, about the year 1810, when they moved to Greenup County, Ken- tucky, going down the Ohio river in flatboats. In October. 1819. Godfrey Smith, "being a resident of Greenup County, Kentucky," applied for a Revolu- tionary soldier's pension, and the following year he was granted a pension of eight dollars per month, beginning October 27. 1819, and continuing to his death. Mrs. Smith died in 1844, but the aged soldier lived until the year 1847. when he died in Greenup County, aged eighty-five years. He is an ancestor of Smith S. Littlejohn who has a sketch herein.
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Joseph Stillwell, Ensign, First Regiment, Monmouth; Captain, First Regiment, Monmouth; Captain Commanding Guard at Sandy Hook, June, 1776; Captain, Colonel Forman's Battalion, "Detached Militia," July 18, 1776, New Jer- sey Militia. He was the great great-grandfather of George Drake Scudder of Portsmouth, Ohio.
Reuben Shumway served in Captain McFarland's Company of Worcester from the 14th of February to the 25th of December, 1760, whole time 35 weeks, amount received 151b 15s. 5d. His name appears on the roll of Captain Moses Montague's Company, Colonel Israel Chapin's regiment to re-inforce Con- tinental Army three months, October, November and December, 1779. Reuben Shumway 120 miles, 21b 8d.
A roll of Captain Elijah Dwight's Company in Elisha Porter's regiment from Hampshire County, Masschusetts, for pay allowed in addition to Con- tinental pay for services at New London, Connecticut. Reuben Shumway 85 m.les. 1779.
A pay roll for six months men which were detached from Belcherstown to serve as soldiers in the Continental army in the year 1780, Reuben Shumway 4th Infantry, 1780. Dismissed December, 1781, miles away 150, pay, 101b 17s. 4d. List of nine months men from Worcester County from the arrival at Fish- kill, New York, Captain Bard's Company, Colonel Elisha Porter's regiment. Reuben Shumway, aged 18, 5 feet 6 inches in height. Light. He was also in the old 10th regiment.
Eliphalet Taylor, rank not stated, served in the 2nd Regiment of New Hampshire Troops, commanded by Colonel Thomas Tash, Revolutionary War. His name appears on a list dated September 16, 1776, of men who voluntarily enlisted as soldiers in a battalion to be raised in the State of New Hampshire out of the militia to re-enforce the army, in the United States of America at New York, and his name also appears on a muster and pay-roll dated Oct. 23, 1776, of the officers and soldiers raised, mustered and paid by Stephen Evans in the Second Regiment, in the State of New Hampshire, to join the Continental Army in New York, without special remark relative to his service. It is also shown by the records that in 1783, Eliphalet Taylor was one of the selectment for the town of Lee, New Hampshire. He is the ancestor of Addison Taylor, of Scioto- ville.
Othneil Taylor was Second Lieutenant in the 10th Massachusetts on the 1st of January, 1777; First Lieutenant and Adjutant March 2, 1779. He was Captain October 30, 1780, and retired January 1, 1783. He died on the 15th of August, 1819. He was the ancestor of Mrs. Ada Barnard Harsha, wife of Paul Howard Harsha.
Jacob Van Voorheis, was a private in Capt. D. Vrooms Company, 2nd Battalion, New Jersey Militia. Also he was a private in Capt. Conrad Ten Eyck's Company, same Battalion, during Revolutionary War. This soldier was the great-grandfather of Miss Isabelle O. Whitney, now of Circleville, but late- ly of Portsmouth, Ohio.
Peter Varner served in Captain Fishburn's Company, 4th Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel William Butler, in the Revolutionary War. He is the great great-grandfather of Mrs. Frank L. Brown of Youngstown, Ohio, J. Huston Varner and Mrs. Anna Varner Sanford of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Benjamin Wait, Captain of Hoisingbon's Battalion of Rangers, 6th of August, 1776, and later served as Major. He is the ancestor of Miss Bertha Wait, of Portsmouth, Ohio.
Robert Wells was a soldier in the Revolutionary War from Virginia. Af- ter the war he moved to Bracken County, Kentucky, and in 1806 to Clermont County, Ohio, where he died about 1827, at the age of eighty-four. He is the an- cestor of Dr. Wells Teachnor, formerly of Sciotoville, but now of Columbus, Ohio.
Isaac Wheeler enlisted November, 1778 and served until June 8, 1783. He was a drummer in Captain Van Rensellears' Company, Colonel Goose Van Schaick, of New York. He was at the siege and capture of Yorktown. His residence at enlistment was Johnson, New York. He applied for a pension, June 11, 1819, then residing at Bradford, Pennsylvania. He was then 55 years of age. He drew his pension while a resident of Scioto County.
Nathan Wheeler was born at Royalstown, New Hampshire, in 1751. He was reared a farmer. In April, 1775, he entered the first Massachusetts In- fantry as a private and served eight months. He was then made a sergeant.
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After eighteen month's service, he re-enlisted for three years. In May, 1799 he was made Ensign. He participated in the Battles of Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton and Woodbridge. He served five years continuously and was dis- charged at Tappan, New York, September, 1780. After that he located at Bethlehem, New York, and while there applied for a pension and obtained the same. His application for pension was made at Graffton, New York on the 16th of August, 1819, before Ezra Bartlett, Justice of the Peace. He says that he enlisted April, 1775, for eight months in Captain Abel Wilder's Co. Colonel Dolittle's regiment and served that time. Immediately after the expiration of his time, and before he returned home, he enlisted again in the Revolutionary army as a Sergeant in Captain Gleason's Company, in Col. John Dixon's Regi- ment, 6th Massachusetts, which time he faithfully served. Immediately on the expiration of his time, he enlisted as a Quartermaster Sergeant for three
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until the 5th day of October 1780, when he was discharged at Tap- pan, New York. He further says that during the last three years' service, he was appointed and received an Ensign's commission in November, 1779, but it bore date six months previous to that date; that he did the duty of Ensign for eighteen months or more previous to October 1780, when he was dis- charged. He says that in the first six months service he was in the battle of Bunker Hill and that in the other service he was in the battles of Trenton, Princeton and Woodbridge. He states that he was in indigent circumstances and needed the assistance of his country for support. It appears that he was transferred from New Hampshire to Ohio on the 20th of March, 1822. He only lived in Scioto County until the 15th day of July, 1823. The place of his burial is not known. His children were Nathan Wheeler, Jr., Levi, Luther and Elmira Chaffin.
Among his descendants in Scioto County are: Mrs. William H. McCurdy, Sr., of Wheelersburg; Mrs. Lillian C. Finney, wife of Prof. J. H. Finney, of Portsmouth, Ohio; Mrs. Nettie Davis of Sciotovllle and Mrs. Ida Friel, wife of G. Frank Friel of Ashland, Kentucky; and George Wheeler of American P. O., Wheeler's Mills, Ohio.
Amos Wheeler enlisted January, 1776, for one year as a musician under Captain Winship, Col. John Nixon, from Massachusetts. January, 1777, he en- listed for three years as a musician under Captain Adam Wheeler, Col. Thomas Nixon, from Massachusetts. In January 1780 he enlisted for nine months as a musician under Captain Chambers, Col. Thomas Nixon from Massachusetts. He was engaged in the battle of Saratoga, and applied for a pension July 17, 1818, from Scioto County, Ohio. He enlisted at Acton, Mass. He was 59 years of age, when he applied for a pension, His claim was allowed, He married Eliza- beth Snow, November 11, 1788 at Bath New Hampshire, and died March 4, 1827. She was pensioned as his widow.
Henry Williamson enlisted on September 2, 1775, for eighteen months. He was a private in Captain Polhemus' Company, Col. Winds' Regiment from New Jersey, He was engaged in the battles of Three Rivers, Germantown, Mor- ristown, Trenton and Princeton. He was a resident of Scioto County. On July 15, 1818, he made an application for pension under the law of 1818. His age at that date was 67 years. His pension was allowed He died in Jasper County, Illinois, May 4, 1832, and Anna his widow was pensioned.
James Williams was born on the twenty-second day of February, 1759, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war he resided in Washington County, Maryland. In the fall of 1777 he enlisted in Captain Jacob Louder's company of the state of Maryland, for a term of four months The colonel of this regiment is not stated. In the term of 1778 he removed to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and in October, 1780, he en- listed as a private for two months in Captain Eleazer Williamson's Company; Col. David Williamson, from Pennsylvania. He enlisted a third time May, 1781, for four months as a private in Captain Timothy Downing's company : Col. William Crawford, state of Pennsylvania. He was with Crawford against the Indians on the Sandusky River. This is the same Col. Crawford who was burned by the Indians at the stake, June, 1782. He lived in Washington Coun-
HORACE LEETE. [PAGE 1042.]
P. W. NOEL. [PAGE 797.]
CAPT. HENRY LANTZ. [PAGE 1039.]
GEORGE W. ANDERSON. [PAGE 887.]
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ty, Pennsylvania, for three years, when he removed to Ohio County, West Vir- ginia, and resided there until 1793, when he removed to Adams County, Ohio. He applied for pension on the twenty-fifth of October, 1832, and it was granted the following year.
William Williamson was born September 23, 1762, near Greenville, North Carolina. He enlisted in the army and served under General Gates in the hard campaign in the summer of 1780. He was forced to undergo long marches in the great heat and was often half starved. After the war was over, he studied for the ministry and moved to Ohio in 1805, and located in Adams County, where he died November 29, 1839, aged 77 years. He is buried in the old ceme- tery near the Presbyterian church in Manchester, Ohio. He is the grandfather of Mrs. Hugh Means of Ashland, Kentucky, and of Mrs. Ironton Kelley, of Ironton, Ohio, and of Mrs. Margaret Bedwell of No. 1234 Bryden Road, Colum- bus, Ohio.
Richard Woodworth served in Captain Wm. Gray's Company, 4th Penn- sylvania Regiment for the month of March, 1777, as shown by a roll dated at Morristown, April 20, 1777, which also shows that he received 2 pounds 10 shillings. His name appears on the same roll, dated at Pine Town, March 25, cash at Princetown, 1 pound, 17 shillings, 6 pence, cash by Lient. Gray, 2 pounds > 10 shillings, total 6 pounds, 17 shillings and 6 pence. His name appears in a book with the rank of Corporal, compiled from the rolls of the same regiment under the head of "State of Pennsylvania against the United States for depre- ciation in pay of the army" which book bears sum charged, 86 pounds, 15 shil- lings, 9 pence, February 13, 1777. This information as to Richard Woodworth was obtained from Gen. Ainsworth The following additional information ap- pears from the Commissioner of Pensions.
Richard Woodworth enlisted February, 1777, and served four years as a private in Captain William Gray's Company, Col. William Butler from the state of Pennsylvania. He was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. He applied for pension May 9, 1818, then residing in Adams Coun- ty, Ohio, and was then 63 years of age. His claim was allowed. He was born in Ireland in 1758. He married in Adams County in 1802, Sarah Ann Robin- son. His children were: Laban, Mary, wife ot J. N. Timmonds; Wheeler; Nellie, wife of William Gilges; William, James, Richard, Sarah, wife of Samuel Shaw; Rebecca, wife of John Sparks. He has a grandson, George Sparks, at Rome, two granddaughters at Little, Ky., Mrs. Harriet A. Little and Mrs. H. C. McCoy, and others in Kansas and Illinois. He died in 1841 or 1842 and is buried on Blue Creek.
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