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Margaret, b. 1774, d. Jan. 2, 1860, unm .;
Samuel, b. Feb. 27, 1776, d. unm., Jan. 31, 1842, merchant, spent some time in China and South America, member First City Troop;
Harriet, b. May 3, 1777, d. unm., June 22, 1847;
Gertrude, b. July 23, 1778, buried Nov. 23, 1778;
Jasper, b. Nov. 5, 1779, d. unm., about 1800;
Richard, b. Dec. 9, 1780, d. Sept. 7, 1831, merchant, Naval Agent of U. S. at Gibraltar, and acquired large fortune, served as Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Thomas Cadwalader in War 1812;
Catharine, b. July 29, 1782, d. unm., Nov. 23, 1859;
William, b. Sept. 19, 1783, d. at New Orleans, 1840, m, at Easton, Pa., Harriet, dau. of William Sitgeaves, of Easton, Pa .;
Robert, b. Sept. 26, 1785, d. unm., Sept. 20, 1854, resided with unm. sisters, Margaret, Harriet and Catharine, at old family mansion Eleventh and Chestnut streets, and at their country seat on the Delaware, above Trenton, N. J .;
Henry, b. Sept. 27, 1788, d. May 22, 1859, m. 1817, Lize Jones, dau. of Evan Jones, for- merly of Phila., later of Louisiana, and settled in New Orleans.
ARCHIBALD McCALL, son of Archibald and Judith ( Kemble) McCall, born in Philadelphia, October 11, 1767, engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia, and like all his race, occupied a prominent place in the business interests of the city. He was a founder of Chamber of Commerce and served on its first Monthly Committee, February, 1801. He became a member of the First Troop, Philadel- phia Light Horse, May 12, 1798, but resigned from the organization ten years later, June 29, 1808. He died in Philadelphia, April 13, 1843, and was buried at Christ Church. He married, May 3, 1792, Elizabeth Cadwalader, daughter of Brigadier General John Cadwalader, the distinguished officer of the Revolutionary Army, who commanded the Pennsylvania troops at the battle of Princeton, and served in many important battles of the war for independence. His wife, mother of Mrs. McCall, was Elizabeth Lloyd, daughter of Col. Edward Lloyd, of Wye House, Talbot county, Maryland. Mrs. McCall was born 1773, and died October, 1824. She was niece of Lambert Cadwalader, who married her husband's sister, Mary McCall, and her sister was the wife of General Gage, who commanded the British troops at Boston, at the outbreak of the Revolution.
Issue of Archibald and Elisabeth (Cadwalader) McCall:
John Cadwalader, b. Dec. 24, 1793, d. unm., Phila., Oct., 1846;
Archibald, b. Sept. 24, 1795, d. April 8, 1796;
Edward, b. 1797, sent to Lima, Peru, to look after his father's Commercial interests there, d. there Jan. 17, 1874, m. Manuela M. Dumas, and had issue :
John Cadwalader, b. 1822, graduated at Jefferson Med. College, Surgeon U. S. Army, during Mexican War, d. at Ft. McKavett, Texas. Oct. 26, 1865. Mary Dickinson, d. unm., March 12, 1881;
GEORGE ARCHIBALD, b. March 16, 1802, d. Feb. 26, 1868, of whom presently ;
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Harriet, d. unm .;
Elizabeth Lloyd, b. Nov. 2, 1805, d. Aug. 4, 1844, unm .;
Margaret, d. June 28, 1885, unm .;
Anne, d. May, 1892, unm.
GEORGE ARCHIBALD McCALL, son of Archibald and Elizabeth (Cadwalader ) McCall, born in Philadelphia, March 16, 1802, was educated at West Point Mili- tary Academy, graduated July 1, 1822, and was appointed Second Lieutenant in First United States Infantry, was transferred to Fourth United States Infantry, December 23, 1822, and joined that regiment at Pensacola, Florida. In February, 1823, he was ordered to Tampa Bay, Florida, to establish a military post, and was stationed there for five years. August 20, 1826, he witnessed the inauguration of Tucoseemathla, the principal chief of the Seminole Indians. In January, 1828, he was placed in charge of the opening of a military road from Hillsborough to Alachua, a distance of 150 miles. Promoted to First Lieutenant January 25, 1829, and April, 1831, was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier General Edmund P. Gaines, then stationed in Missouri, and was acting Assistant Adjutant General at the negotiation of the treaty with the Sac and Fox Indians. He was stationed in Tennessee, June, 1831, to January, 1836, and 1837 returning to Philadelphia, filled the position of recruiting officer there for the regular service until December, 1837, when he was ordered to Arkansas, having been commissioned Captain, December 21, 1836. At the outbreak of the trouble with the Seminoles in 1841, he was again ordered to Florida, and at the close of the "Seminole War" in 1843, was ordered to Fort Scott, Osage Indian Nation, where he was in command until 1845, when he was ordered to join Gen. Zachary Taylor at Corpus Christi. He participated in the battle of Palo Alto, May, 1846, and was made Major and Lieutenant Colo- nel, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services there and at the battle of Resaca de la Palma, respectively, and was appointed Assistant Adjutant General, July 7, 1846. He was regularly commissioned Major of the Third United States Infantry, December 26, 1847, for conspicuous bravery at the battle of Buena Vista. At the close of Mexican War he was stationed at Santa Fe, and was commissioned Inspector General of the Army, June 30, 1850. Failing health induced him to resign from the Army, August 22, 1853, when he retired to his estate near West Chester, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he resided until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he offered his services to Gov. Curtin and was commissioned by him May 15, 1861, Major General of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and reorganized the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps of 15,000 men. On July 23 he was commissioned by President Lincoln Brigadier General of Volunteers, and in command of the Reserves, took command of all the Union troops at the battle of Mechanicsville. He joined the Army of the Potomac under McClelland, near Richmond, was taken prisoner at the battle of New Market Cross Roads, and suffered seven weeks the horrors of Libby Prison. On his exchange he was a physical wreck, returned home on sick leave, and resigned March 31, 1863. The remainder of his life was spent at "Belair," near West Chester, where he died February 26, 1868. His ex- periences and observations while stationed at the various military posts on our western frontiers, as well as his political views, are told in his "Letters from the Frontier." He was the Democratic candidate for Congress from his district, 1862, but was defeated at the polls.
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General McCall married 1853, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Coxe) McMurtrie.
Issue of Brigadier General George A. and Elizabeth (McMurtrie) McCall:
Archibald, b. Sept. 23, 1852, Phila., died there April 12, 1904, unm .;
Emily, b. June 28, 1854, m. Oct. 27, 1880, at "Belair," Chester co. ("Belair" was their county seat in Chester co., Pa.), Charles Sydney Bradford, of West Chester, Pa., b. Phila. March 15, 1843; they had issue :
Frances Margaret, b. Feb. 15, 1882;
James Sydney, b. June 13, 1883.
Elizabeth, b. Phila. May 12, 1856, m. Oct. 19, 1887, Edward F. Hoffman, b. Phila. Feb. 9, 1849; issue :
Edward Fenno, b. July 27, 1888, West Chester, Pa .;
John Cadwalader, b. West Chester, Pa., Dec. 18, 1889, d. Phila. March 3, 1890; Phoebe White, b. Phila. Feb. 3, 1894.
George McCall, b. at "Belair," Chester co., Pa., Sept. 4, 1858, graduated from Mechanical Dept. of Univ. of Pa., class of 1879, is now a Phila. Stock Broker; politically he is Republican ; member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, and member of Delta Psi frater- nity, Pa. Historical Society, Franklin Institute, and the Rittenhouse Club; m. Oct. 8, 1885, Mildred, dau. of Dr. Charles and Ellen (Newman) Carter, of Phila .; issue :
George Archibald, b. Aug. 24, 1886, Jenkintown, Pa .;
Richard Coxe, b. Feb. 12, 1888, Phila .;
Shirley Carter, b. Nov. 26, 1897, Phila.
Richard McCall, b. May 24, 1865, at "Belair," unm., graduated from Univ. of Pa., Scien- tific Dept., class of 1886, member of Fraternity Delta Psi.
PLUMSTEAD FAMILY.
The name Plumstead is derived from Plomb, a commune in Normandy, near the ancient town and cathedral of Avranches, and the Saxon word Staede, signi- fying house or residence, farm house ; hence Plombstede signified a householder in the commune of Plomb. The family was of Norman origin and the name was de Plomstede and de Plumstede for many generations. The de Plumstedes came to England with William the Conqueror and settled in Norfolk and Kent, where three parishes yet bear their name. Plumstede parish in Norfolk, one hundred and fifty miles north of London, was part of the Lordship of William Earl of Warren, on whom it was conferred by William, Turold the Saxon proprietor being despoil- ed of it ; and William de Plumstede and Pleasure, his wife, were residents there in 1293. In 1308 William, son of Bartholomew de Calthorpe, conveyed to Clement de Plumstede and Catharine, his wife, four messuages in the parishes of Plumstede, Baconsthorpe, Matlaske and Hemstede. Another Clement de Plumstede was living there as late as 1377, and married Alice, daughter of Sir John de Repps, who by will devised to his grandson, John de Plumstede, his tenements in Shipden and Cremer, with the mill, villians, etc. A John de Plumstede, Esq., Lord of the Nether Court in King's Waldon, Hertfordshire, was buried at Plumstede Church in 1561 ; his will dated September 22, 1560, mentions wife Frideswide, two sons, John and Thomas, and several daughters. The parish registers of the Church of St. Michael, at Plumstead in county Norfolk, dating back to 1551, show the name of Plumstede and Plumstead, at intervals, two to three centuries ago. In the chancel of the church were the arms of the Plumstede family, sable, three chevrons ermine, on the upper, three annulets of the first ; and their crest, a Griffin's head erased on a coronet. Several authorities have given slightly different descriptions of the armorial bearings of the family. That given in Burke's "General Armory," page 809, as granted by Clarenceux, August 3, 1573, to Norfolk family of Plum- stede, is "Ermine three chevrons sable-each charged with as many annulets argent" and the Crest, "Out of Coronet or, a Griffin's head argent." The seal used by Clement Plumstead, of Philadelphia, and attached to his will in 1745, is ermine three chevrons, with a faint indication of three annulets in the uppermost part ; and the crest used by his son William and attached to his will, was the same as that described by Burke, and a letter written by William, December 25, 1740, contains a seal with the same crest and the above described arms in perfect condition. The seal on letters from Robert Plumstead, of London, son of Clement Plumstead, of London, the East Jersey Proprietor, contains practically the same seal. These facts seem to clearly indicate that the Plumstead family, of Philadelphia, descend- ed from the ancient family of Plumstede Hall, and the parishes of Great and Little Plumstead in Norfolk, where William de Plumstede was granted land in 1189, and acquired other lands in 1190, and where the family were seated for many gen- erations. Soon after the formation of the Society of Friends in England, some of the Norfolk family became converts to the faith as well as others residing in and near London. At least two distinct branches of the family became identified with the Colonies in America, at an early date. Francis Plumstead, ironmonger.
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of the "Minories," London, signer of Penn's charter of 1683, acquired 2500 acres of land in Pennsylvania in 1683, and it was eventually laid out to him in the town- ship, which still bears his name in Bucks county, though he never located in Amer- ica. He sold his 2500 acres in Plumstead township, 1707, to Richard Hill.
Clement Plumstead, of London, draper and merchant, was a large purchaser of land in East Jersey and was one of the Proprietors there. His lands descended to his eldest son and heir, Robert Plumstead, a merchant of London, who conveyed a portion of them to his relative, Clement Plumstead, of Philadelphia. There was also a Thomas Plumstead, of Bartholomew's Lane, London, who married Anne Whitlock in 1672. Clement Plumstead, of Philadelphia, by his will in 1745, makes his cousin, Thomas Plumstead, of London, a trustee of his minor sons's estate, but his parentage or the exact connection with the Plumstead family of London has never been ascertained.
CLEMENT PLUMSTEAD, Provincial Councillor, of Philadelphia, makes his first appearance in that city in 1697, when he witnessed a deed made by Samuel Car- penter. On August 20, 1700, Clement Plumstead, of London, makes Samuel Car- penter and Clement Plumstead, of Philadelphia, his attorneys to collect moneys of George Wilcocks. From the declaration as to age made in the opening clause in his will, 1745, it is shown that he was born in the year 1680.
He was probably a clerk in the employ of Samuel Carpenter, then a leading mer- chant in Philadelphia, until attaining his majority, and entering the mercantile and shipping business, which he followed nearly his whole life, and became one of Philadelphia's most prominent and wealthy merchants, as well as one of her most prominent citizens and officials. He was elected to the Common Council of the city in 1712, and advanced by that body to the Board of Aldermen, October, 1720, and three years later was elected Mayor of the City. At the close of his term he made a trip to England, taking his son William with him, and remained there the greater part of the year. As a member of the Board of Aldermen, his forensic ability easily made him one of its prominent members, and he was frequently ap- pointed to prepare petitions and other addresses to the Governor and Assembly. In 1730 the one thousand pounds appropriated by the Assembly to build Alms- houses in the city was placed in the hands of the Mayor, Aldermen Clement Plum- stead, and James Steele, one third to be expended by each of them. In 1736 he was again elected Mayor, and again in 1741. It was customary for the retiring chief magistrate of the city, when about to relinquish the honorable position, to give a supper to his fellow officials and friends, and the American Weekly Mercury of Philadelphia of September 30, 1742, has the following report of that given by Mayor Plumstead : "This day Clement Plumstead Esqr. Mayor of the City, made the customary Feast at the expiration of the Mayoralty, when the Governor, Coun- cil, Corporation, and a great number of the inhabitants were entertained at the Andrew Hamilton House, near the Drawbridge, in the most handsome manner." He was commissioned a Justice of the Peace, September 2, 1717, and was recom- missioned fourteen times, the last time in April, 1743, and was likewise commis- sioned a Judge of the County Courts in 1717, and sat as President Judge thereof from 1720 until 1745. On July 23, 1730, he was appointed Master of the Court of Chancery, and was commissioned by the English Court of Chancery, to examine witnesses in the contest between Penn and Lord Baltimore, in relation to the Maryland line. Both he and his son William were witnesses to the deed from
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the Five Nation Indians to Thomas, Richard and John Penn, October 11, 1736, by which was conveyed to the Penns "All the River Susquehannah, with the Lands lying on both sides thereof to extend eastward as far as the heads of the branches or springs which run into the said Susquehannah, and all the Lands lying on the west side of the said River to the setting sun, and to extend from the mouth of the said River northward up the same to the Hills or Mountains called the Endless Hills."
Clement Plumstead was elected to the Colonial Assembly from Philadelphia in 1712, and at once assumed a prominent position in that body, serving on a number of important committees. He was again returned at a special election held IImo. 17, 1714, and was chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts. In the quarrel between the Governor and Assembly in 1714-15, he was several times selected as one of the delegation to wait upon the Governor, and was also directed to prepare an address to the King and the Proprietaries on the enactment of measures for the suppression of vice. He was again returned to the Assembly in 1716-18-20; and in 1727 was called to the Governor's Council where, as in the Assembly, he was a staunch supporter of the Proprietary interests. He became a large land- owner in various parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey ; was one of the founders of the Durham Iron Works, Bucks county, 1726, and owned large mining interests in the vicinity of Tulpehocken, now Berks county, as well as lands at Perth Amboy and Crosswicks, New Jersey, and much valuable property in Philadelphia. On May 26. 1745, he died in Philadelphia, and was buried in the Swedes' Church graveyard. He married (first) Sarah, widow of William Righton, and daughter of William Biddle, of Mount Hope, New Jersey, March 1, 1703-4, taking a certificate to Crosswicks Monthly Meeting, from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends, of which he was a member, dated 12mo. 25, 1703. In 1704 he obtained a certificate to Friends in Virginia, "intended to Virginia and that way, trading." His wife died 6mo. (August) 17, 1705. He married (second) 8mo. 15, 1707, Elizabeth Palmer, who had brought a certificate from Bridgetown, Barbadoes, IImo., 1706. She was probably a sister of Anthony Palmer, who was a resident of Barbadoes in 1685, and in 1704 purchased land in Kensington, and became a prominent man in Philadelphia, filling the position of Judge, and was a member of Provincial Council from 1709 to his death in 1748, and its president in the latter year. The name of Clement Plumstead frequently appears on the records of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of which he seems to have been a consistent member. He was frequently appointed as an arbitrator of disputes and differences between mmbers. On 4mo. 25, 1709, he is granted a certificate to visit Barbadoes, and on the occasion of his visit to England with his son William, at the close of his first term as Mayor, he took a certificate dated 8mo. 30, 1724, but he had made an earlier trip taking certifi- cate 6mo. 25, 1715, and his return is noted on 9mo. 30, 1716. On 10mo. 30, 1720, his second wife Elizabeth was buried, and gmo. 30, 1722, he is dealt with by the Meeting for having married "Out of Unity." His third wife, Mary, is thought to have been Mary Curry. She survived him and died February 6, 1755. The Rev. Richard Peters, many years pastor of St. Peter's Church and a Provincial Coun- cilor lived for some years with Clement Plumstead. Richard Hockley, a protégé of Hon. John Penn, and later a large landholder in Pennsylvania, was a clerk in Plumstead's counting house.
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William, only child of Clement and Sarah (Biddle-Righton) Plumstead, died in infancy, May 14, 1705.
Issue of Clement and Elizabeth (Palmer) Plumstead:
WILLIAM, b. Nov. 7, 1708, d. Aug. 10, 1765, m. (first) Rebecca Kearney, (second) Mary McCall; of whom presently;
Thomas, d. inf., Sept. 19, 1710;
Thomas, d. inf., Sept. 5, 1712;
Clement, d. inf., Nov. 27, 1715;
A daughter, d. inf., Aug. 20, 1716;
Charles, d. inf., July 16, 1719.
There was no issue by the third wife.
WILLIAM PLUMSTEAD, eldest and only surviving child of Clement and Elizabeth (Palmer) Plumstead, born in Philadelphia, November 7, 1708, was given the best educational advantages that the city afforded, and at the age of sixteen years was taken to England by his father and given every facility to gain an insight into his father's large shipping trade and mercantile ventures. He became a partner with his father in 1741, and continued the business with success after his father's death. Like his father, he became prominent in municipal and provincial affairs early in life. He was elected to the Common Council of the city, October 2, 1739, and June 19, 1745, appointed Register General of the Province and held that office until his death, August 10, 1765. Three times he was elected Mayor of Philadelphia ; October 2, 1750, again December 4, 1754, to fill the unexpired term of Charles Willing, deceased, and October 2, 1755. He was elected a Justice of the Peace, May 25, 1752, and was regularly recommissioned successively until his death, and served as a Justice of the County Courts for many years, and was one of the first two Justices, specially commissioned for the trial of negroes, October 28, 1762. He was a member of the Association Battery of Philadelphia, 1756, and was active in most of the social institutions of the day, being one of the original members of the Colony in Schuylkill, in 1732, and a contributor to the Dancing Assembly in 1748, having renounced his membership in the Society of Friends, and become a member of Christ Church. Being one of the largest contributors towards the building of St. Peter's Church in 1754, he was made trustee of the land on which it was erected and a member of the building committee, and became a vestryman in 1761, and the first accounting warden. He was one of twenty-four original Trustees of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania. On October 30, 1756, he was returned as a mem- ber of the Provincial Assembly from Northampton county, but the contest over his right to the seat, consumed the term for which he was elected, however, he was re-elected in 1757, and took his seat without opposition. A prominent Free Mason of his time, and member of St. John's Lodge since 1731, he was elected Provincial Grand Master for the term of 1737-38, and was the first Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania in 1749. Interested in real estate in Philadelphia, Bucks, Northampton and Berks counties and in New Jersey, he left a large estate.
William Plumstead married (first) April 19, 1733, at Friends' Meeting, Rebecca, daughter of Philip and Rebecca ( Britton) Kearney, of Philadelphia. Her father, Philip Kearney, was a native of Ireland and a representative of one of the oldest families in the Emerald Isle. He came to Philadelphia about 1700, with his
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brother Michael, and both married daughters of Lionel and Rebecca Britton, who came from Alny, county of Bucks, and arrived in the river Delaware, in the "Own- ers' Advice," 4mo., 1680; their daughter Elizabeth died on board the ship as they were coming up the bay and was buried at Burlington. They settled near the Falls, Bucks county, where Rebecca, who became the wife of Philip Kearney, was born IImo. 19, 1683. Gen. Philip Kearney was a descendant of Michael and Elizabeth (Britton) Kearney, who settled in New Jersey. . Lionel Britton and his family removed to Philadelphia in 1708, and he is said to have been the first American convert to Catholicism. Rebecca (Kearney) Plumstead died January 20, 1740-1, and William married (second) September 27, 1753, at Christ Church, Mary, daughter of George and Ann ( Yeates) McCall, her father being one of the prom- inent merchants of Philadelphia, and member of the Council from October 3, 1722, to his death in 1740. Jasper Yeates, maternal grandfather of Mary (McCall) Plumstead, was a member of Provincial Council from New Castle, 1696, to his death in 1720. Mrs. Plumstead survived her husband many years, dying Septen- ber 13, 1799.
Issue of William and Rebecca (Kearney) Plumstead:
Elizabeth, b. Feb. 9, 1734-5, mn. Andrew Elliot (third son of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Lord Justice of Scotland), who had m. (first) Eleanor McCall;
Mary, b. Jan. I, 1735-6, d. y .;
Rebecca, b. May 22, 1737, d. July I, 1799, m. Lieut. Charles Gore, of H. M. 55th Reg. of Foot, 1760, and conveying the estate inherited from her grandfather, to Archibald McCall and Robert Morris, to be invested as her separate estate; accompanied her husband to England, where he and their two infant children died, and she returned to Phila., after the Revolution, and died there ;
Clement, b. May 23, 1738, d. Oct. 10, 1738;
Clement, d. inf., Nov. 13, 1739;
THOMAS, b. April 28, 1740, d. Oct. 29, 1776, m. Aug. 13, 1752, Mary Coates; of whom presently;
Issue of William and Mary (McCall) Plumstead :
William, b. Aug. 4, 1754, buried at Christ Church, March II, 1756;
George, b. Aug. 9, 1755, buried at Christ Church, July 15, 1756;
William, b. Aug. 29, 1756, d. s. p., buried at Christ Church, Aug. 27, 1794;
Clement, b. Oct. 4, 1758, d. s. p., buried at Christ Church, Sept. 23, 1800;
Anne, b. July 7, 1760, d. unm., buried at Christ Church, Dec. 7, 1772;
George, b. May 3, 1765, d. April 5, 1855, merchant, Phila., m. Dec. 3, 1795, Anna Helena Amelia, b. Nov. 26, 1776, d. Jan. 18, 1846, dau. of John Ross, of Phila., (second) a dau. of Hon. P. S. Markley, of N. C. . Catharine, b. July 7, 1760, d. unm .;
THOMAS PLUMSTEAD, youngest child and only son of William and Rebecca (Kearney) Plumstead, born in Philadelphia, April 28, 1740, was reared to the mercantile trade and was associated with his father in Philadelphia, until the lat- ter's death in 1765, when he took possession of the estate devised to him by his grandfather, Clement Plumstead, at Crosswicks, New Jersey, called "Mount Clement," where he erected a costly and extensive mansion, in which he resided with his family for several years, but returned to Philadelphia prior to the Revolu- tion and again engaged in mercantile business until his death, October 29, 1776, at the early age of thirty-six years. He married at the church of St. Michael's and Zion, Philadelphia, August 16, 1762, Mary, only child of Warwick and Mary
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