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The Journal of Captain John Trevitt, under whom Lieutenant Moulton was then serving, gives the following account of the services of Lieutenant Moul- ton in the capture of Fort Nassau, New Providence :
"Before breakfast I sent Lieut. Michael Moulton through the town to take the other Fort, four miles off, with only two men to accompany him. I gave him particular orders, as I knew there were but two sentries, for him to give them no time to parley, but to inform them that we had possession of Fort Nassau with two hundred men and thirty officers, and to keep possession until he heard from me. He succeeded without difficulty."
Lieutenant Michael Moulton continued to serve in the Continental service until February, 1779, the latter part of his service being as a lieutenant in the naval service. He was in the battles of Haarlem Heights, White Plains, Tren-
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ton, Princeton, and many local engagements on the coast of Rhode Island. When debilitated by a pulmonary disease in later years he applied for and was granted a pension of $240 per annum, under Act of Congress, which commenced on March 30, 1818, when he was sixty-one years of age, and terminated with his death, December 18, 1820.
Lieutenant Michael Moulton married, November 6, 1776, Dorothy, daughter of Ezekiel Jr. and Rachel (Cole) Brown, of Swanzey, Massachusetts. She was born in Swanzey, in 1759, died in Newport, Rhode Island, August 20, 1837. The Newport, (Rhode Island) Mercury, of December 23, 1820, contains the following notice of the death of Lieutenant Michael Moulton:
"Died-In this town on Monday last, Mr. Michael Moulton, in the 64th year of his age. He served as an Officer in the Revolutionary Army, and was a Pensioner under the late Act of Congress".
Lieutenant Michael and Dorothy (Brown) Moulton had six children, viz :
John, b. at Swanzey, Mass., June 7, 1778, m. Mary Cornell; William, b. June 14, 1780, at Swanzey, d. June 10, 1856, m. Mary Henshaw;
Elizabeth, b. at Providence, R. I., July 19, 1782, d. Nov. 3, 1807, m. Oliver Vars, but left no issue ;
Rachel, b. at Newport, R. I., Sept. 7, 1785, d. Sept. 9, 1809, m. William Friend; MICHAEL, b. April 3, 1788, of whom presently ;
Clothier Pierce, b. Nov. 6, 1790.
MICHAEL MOLTEN, as he spelled the name, son of Lieutenant Michael and Dor- othy (Brown) Moulton, was born at Newport, April 3, 1788, died Febru- ary 29, 1868. He married, at Newport, April 9, 1813, Sarah Cutter, born No- vember 23, 1787, died June 11, 1856, daughter of Thomas Cutter, born at New- port, Rhode Island, in 1763, died there December 28, 1838, by his wife, Free- love Lawton.
Michael and Sarah (Cutter) Molten, had issue :
Harriet, b. Dec., 1814, d. Feb. 29, 1876;
Eliza, m. Samuel Mason, of Newark, N. J .; she d. Jan. 19, 1892; Theodore;
ALBERT, b. Feb. 9, 1820, of whom presently;
Henry, twin to Albert, d. Aug. 5, 1880, m. Caroline Scott; James, b. Feb. 17, 1822, lived in Woonsocket, R. I., m., 1844, Susan E. Bacon; George, b. 1828, m., 1850, Almira Frances Bates, and lived in New York City; Frank, b. 1831.
ALBERT MOLTEN, second son and fourth child of Michael and Sarah (Cut- ter ) Molten, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, February 9, 1820. He came to Philadelphia when a young man, and engaged in business there. He mar- ried, December 16, 1843, Elizabeth Cuthbert Potter, born in Philadelphia, June 9, 1822, died December 8, 1892, daughter of Robert Bail Potter, of Philadel- phia, by his wife, Mary (Justus) Potter, and great-granddaughter of Matthew Potter, a native of Scotland.
Matthew Potter, born in Scotland about the beginning of the eighteenth century, migrated when a young man to Ballyeaston, County Antrim, Ireland, and married there, in 1733, Jane McCreight, born March, 1710, and with her and three sons, Matthew, James and John, emigrated to Philadelphia, (with a large body of Presbyterians) in 1740, where five other children were born to them: Martha, who married, January 10, 1765, James Murrell; David, of whom pres- ently ; Margaret, who married -; Mary, who married Robert Bail; and Samuel.
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Matthew Potter and his family were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, and he was interred in the old burying ground of that church at Bank and Market streets. His wife survived him many years, removing, shortly after his death, about the year 1764, with her son-in-law, Robert Bail, to Wilmington, Delaware, where she died August 11, 1800, at the age of ninety years and five months, and was buried in the churchyard of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, at Tenth and Market streets, in that city.
Colonel David Potter, fourth son and fifth child of Matthew and Jane (Mc- Creight) Potter, was born in Philadelphia, November 27, 1745, and was reared and educated in that city. He married there, at the First Presbyterian Church, July 13, 1768, Mary Mason, who was born in 1749, in one of the isl- ands of the West Indies, of Scotch parents, a lady of great beauty. Soon after his marriage, Colonel Potter removed to Bridgeton, Cumberland county, New Jersey, and established himself there as a merchant. He was eminently suc- cessful in business and soon became prominent in the affairs of the county. At the outbreak of the Revolution, like all his race, he was an ardent supporter of the Patriot cause, and in 1775 was chosen captain of a volunteer company, and entered the service of his adopted state. In the autumn of 1776 he was com- missioned by the Legislature, colonel of the Second Battalion of Cumberland County Troops, and on November 27, 1776, was transferred to the command of a battalion of state troops. On February 21, 1777, he was appointed by the Legislature, brigadier-general, of state troops, but in a letter dated March 15, 1777, declined the commission, and on April 12, was recommissioned colonel.
In a return of the army in New Jersey, under command of Brigadier Gen- eral Mercer, dated at Perth Arboy, October 7, 1776, (printed in Force's Amer- ican Archives, fifth series, vol. ii, p. 492), Colonel David Potter is reported as present in command of his regiment. In "Letters and Correspondence of the Executive of New Jersey", published by order of the Legislature in 1848, Colonel Potter's regiment of militia is shown to have formed part of the bri- gade of Brigadier General Slocum, stationed at Woodbury, Gloucester county, in September, 1777, when Howe was about embarking from New York. A letter from Governor William Newcomb to Brigadier General Slocum is as follows :
HADDONFIELD, September 20, 1777.
SIR-As from the real bravery of our Militia and the terror with which they have frequently struck the enemy, they will doubtless be of essential service in opposing the progress of the enemy towards Philadelphia. I think it best those now collected at Wood- bury should immediately march to join the Militia under the immediate command of General Armstrong, and reinforce the army under the command of his Excellency General Washington. * * *
You will therefore direct Colonel Potter to take command of the troops now at Wood- bury and to march them with all possible expedition, as above directed".
Colonel Potter was taken prisoner in this campaign against the British Army on its approach against Philadelphia, or at the subsequent battle of German- town, and after being held a prisoner of war in Philadelphia was sent to Long Island, and imprisoned in the prison hulks about New York. After several months imprisonment he was released on parole, under which he remained un- til the close of the war. A number of his letters are in existence, protesting against the injustice of his being held under parole and praying that he might
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be exchanged in order to reenter the service. One of these letters under date of March 1, 1781, states that he had received no pay since January 19, 1779.
Colonel Potter retained his commissioned as colonel of New Jersey Militia un- til March 16, 1787, when he forwarded his resignation to the Legislature in a letter which states that "I shall ever consider it an honor to serve my country in any appointment which shall be in my power to attend to". In 1782 he was appointed by the Legislature, marshall of the Admiralty Court of the State of New Jersey. In 1787 he was a delegate to the State Convention of New Jersey to ratify the Constitution of the United States. He was sheriff of Cum- berland county, 1791-92-93, and filled other offices of high trust and honor. He was active in the erection of the Presbyterian church at Bridgeton in 1792, and was one of the organizers of Brearley Lodge, No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons, and one of its charter members. His health failing he gave up his business to his sons, David and William, in 1800. He died December 10, 1805.
Colonel David Potter's first wife, Mary (Mason) Potter, died in 1783, and in August, 1784, he married Sarah, daughter of James and Sarah Boyd, whose eldest sister Martha was the wife of Hon. James Ewing, of Trenton, and the mother of Chief Justice Ewing, of the New Jersey Supreme Court. By his first wife he had eight children, one of whom died in infancy; five daughters and the two sons, David and William, who succeeded to the business at Bridge- ton, and were prominently identified with public affairs. One of these sons, Colonel William Potter, was appointed adjutant of the Eleventh Regiment United States Infantry in 1799, when war with France was imminent, and was commissioned captain of the "Union Company" of Bridgeton at the outbreak of the War of 1812. He was also commissioned first lieutenant in the Regu- lar Army, and was commissioned by Governor Ogden, of New Jersey, major of a battalion detailed to guard the coast at Cape May. In 1820 Colonel William Potter removed to Philadelphia and later to Ohio, as director of iron industries, and died in that state, March 16, 1847.
An obituary notice of Colonel David Potter, published in the State Gazette, Trenton, New Jersey, December 16, 1805, says :
"Died, on Tuesday the 10th instant at Bridgeton, Cumberland County, Colonel David Potter. In him another of the patriots of the Revolution has gone to the silent mansions of the tomb. Early in the War of Independence he devoted himself to the service of his country and discharged the duties of the various offices, both civil and military, to which he was called by the votes of his fellow citizens with distinguished zeal, fidelity and integrity. Of manner the most amiable and engaging, of a disposition in the highest degree humane and generous, of a deportment the most upright and dignified, and of a hospitality liberal and unvarying, he has left in the hearts of his very numerous friends a
record of his virtues which they will cherish with the most zealous affection".
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By his second wife, Sarah (Boyd) Potter, Colonel Potter had seven children, six of whom lived to mature years, viz:
John Potter, b. Aug. 4, 1786, d. Sept. 10, 1810, unm .;
Martha Ewing, b. Sept. 26, 1788, d. Dec. 27, 1840, m., March 9, 1808, Judge Daniel Elmer ;
Nancy Blakeley, b. Feb. 22, 1791, d. Sept. 29, 1816, m. William Elmer, M. D., an eminent physician of Cumberland Co., N. J .;
James Boyd, b. Feb. 7, 1796, d. Dec. 26, 1865, m., April 28, 1818, Jane Barron ; his son, General David Potter, was prominently identified with financial and industrial enter- prises in N. J., and another son was Col. William Potter, LL.D., etc., a prominent lawyer, in later years, who while a student at Princeton in 1862, entered the Union
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army as second lieut., served throughout the war, rising by successive promotions to the rank of lieut .- col., and was one of the officers detailed to deliver Gen. Lee's surrendered colors to Secretary Stanton, May 1, 1865;
ROBERT BAIL, b. June 21, 1799, of whom presently ;
Margaret Kean, b. Feb. 2, 1802, d. Sept., 1871, m. (first) William Elmer, M. D., whose first wife was her eldest sister, Nancy B .; and (second) Charles Read.
Robert Bail Potter, youngest son of Colonel David and Sarah (Boyd) Pot- ter, born at Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, June 21, 1799, died in Philadelphia, September 22, 1880. He married, June 21, 1821, Mary Jus- tus, born 1800, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Justus, and they had seven children, viz:
Elizabeth Cuthbert, b. June 9, 1822, m. Albert Molten, above mentioned;
Anne Elmer, b. Aug. 29, 1824, m. William McPherson Hill;
Mary Justus, b. April 2, 1827, m., Nov. 28, 1848, Thomas Fobes;
William Buck, b. Nov. 11, 1829, d. Jan. 3, 1830;
Philip Justus, b. April 2, 1831, d. May 16, 1885, m., Dec. 1, 1853, Margaret Elizabeth Wood;
Martha Elmer, b. Oct. 1, 1833, d. April 12, 1847;
Harriet Attwood, b. March 11, 1841, d. Jan. 19, 1865, m., Dec. 19, 1860, Edward A. Adams.
Albert and Elizabeth Cuthbert (Potter) Molten, of Philadelphia, had issue :
Mary Louisa, b. March 13, 1845, m., Sept. 30, 1868, Robert Stewart Davis, of Phila .; Elizabeth Potter, b. May 24, 1849, d. July 16, 1908, m., Oct. 11, 1871, Thomas Simpson, of Phila., b. Dec. 28, 1843, d. Sept. 1, 1884;
Laura, b. May 12, 1851, m., Sept. 4, 1872, Macomb Kean Elmer, of Phila., b. Aug. I, 1845, d. Dec. 28, 1879;
ROBERT POTTER, b. Oct. 6, 1853;
Anna Hill, b. Sept. 8, 1859, d. June 2, 1871.
ROBERT POTTER MOLTEN, youngest son of Albert and Elizabeth C. (Potter ) Molten, born in Philadelphia, October 6, 1853, was educated in that city. Hc early engaged in the mercantile business in Philadelphia, and is the senior mem- ber of the firm of R. P. Molten & Company, wholesale dealers in paper, No. 23 South Sixth Street. He is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania ; of the Art Club, of Philadelphia; the Automobile Club, of Germantown ; the New England Society of Pennsylvania; the Geographical Society of Wash- ington, D. C., etc. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, being admitted June 11, 1894, as a great-grandson of Lieuten- ant Michael Moulton, of Newport, Rhode Island.
Robert Potter Molten married, June 4, 1879, Alice Lalor, born May 25, 1859, daughter of Joseph Gillingham and Catharine (Lalor) Brearley, of Tren- ton, New Jersey, and they reside at 6803 Emlen Street, Germantown. They had issue :
Helen Cuthbert, b. March 6, 1882;
Florence Brearley, b. July 2, 1884, m., Feb. 2, 1906, Harold Atlee Haines, of Phila., and they have issue,
Alice Molten Haines, b. Nov. 27, 1907;
Robert Potter, Jr., b. Nov. 12, 1886; Alan De Klyn, b. Feb. 4. 1888, d. inf .; Joseph Gillingham Brearley, b. Feb. 8, 1894; Philip Sherman, b. Nov. 16, 1896.
GEORGE GROSSMAN LENNIG
GEORGE GROSSMAN LENNIG, of Philadelphia, a son of Frederick Lennig, who came to America in 1824, from Bodenheim, near Mayence, on the Rhine, where John Frederick Lennig, father of the latter, was Burgomaster and large landed proprietor, is, through his mother, Ellen Douglas (Thompson) Lennig, descended on several lines from eminent New England ancestors, some of whom were Pilgrim Fathers and came over in the "Mayflower", in 1620.
JOHN THOMPSON, the founder of the family in America, to which Ellen Douglas (Thompson) Lennig belonged, came from England in the ship "Eliz- abeth and Ann" in 1635, and settled in Massachusetts, from whence the family migrated to Stratford, Connecticut. He died in the summer of 1678, and his widow, Mirable, died April 13, 1690.
AMBROSE THOMPSON, son of John Thompson, born February 15, 1651, died at Stratford, Connecticut, September 7, 1742, aged ninety-one and a half years. He married Sarah Welles, born September 28, 1659, daughter of John Welles, and granddaughter of Thomas Welles, Colonial governor of Connecticut. The latter was born in Essex, England, in 1598, and came to America, in 1636, hav- ing lost all his property in England by confiscation, in the troubles incident to the Civil War.
JOHN THOMPSON, son of Ambrose and Sarah (Welles) Thompson, was born in 1685, died July 20, 1765, at the age of eighty years. He married, No- vember 15, 1705, Ruth Curtis, born June 11, 1683, died April 23, 1721. She was a great-granddaughter of William Curtis, who embarked from England in the ship "Zion", June 22, 1632, and landed at Scituate, Massachusetts, December 16, 1632. Both the Thompson and Curtis families had armorial bearings, those of the Curtis family were confirmed in the eighth year of the reign of Charles I., May 9, 1632, and the Arms of the Thompson family, an an- cient time-worn copy of which was recently in possession of a great-great-grand- daughter of John and Ruth (Curtis) Thompson, Violette (Thompson) Lamb, widow of General Lamb, president of the Society of the Cincinnati, are, Az. a lion passant, or, and the Crest, a lion rampant or.
JOHN THOMPSON, son of John and Ruth (Curtis) Thompson, born 1718, died 1753. He married his cousin, Mehitable, daughter of Joseph Booth, of Stratford, Connecticut.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM THOMPSON, son of John and Mehitable (Booth) Thompson, and grandfather of Ellen Douglas (Thompson) Lennig, first above referred to, was born in Stratford, Connecticut, March 16, 1742. He was lieu- tenant of a company of Connecticut Militia in the early part of the Revolution- ary struggle. As such he had command of his company (the captain being de- tained at home by a peculiar sickness which was apt in those days to seize upon some timid patriots when danger was to be met) at Ridgefield, Connecticut, April 27, 1777. A large force of British soldiers were on the march from Nor- walk to Danbury, pillaging and burning as they went, and Lieutenant Thomp-
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son's company, with a few others, threw up a breastwork in the principal street of Ridgefield, and for several hours resisted the vastly superior force of the enemy, cutting them down by scores. The British command finally made a charge and by force of numbers compelled the intrepid Patriots to retreat. Lieutenant Thompson being among the last to leave the post of danger was wounded, though not mortally, but being unable to retreat, was murdered by a British soldier who finding him in a disabled condition placed his musket to the lieutenant's forehead and blew his brains out.
In the burying ground of the Congregational Church at Stratford, is a slab erected to his memory, which bears the following inscription :
"Sacred fo the Memory of Lieut. William Thompson, Who fell in battle bravely fighting for the liberties of his country in the memorable action at Ridgefield, on the 27th of April, 1777, when a handful of intrepid Americans withstood some thousands of British Troops, till overpowered with numbers, he fell a victim to British tyranny and more than savage cruelty, in the 35th. year of his age.
He lived greatly beloved and died universally lamented and his body has been removed from the place of action has been here deposited with military honors."
Lieutenant William Thompson married, October 14, 1762, Mehitable Ufford, of Stratford, Connecticut.
ISAAC THOMPSON, of New London, Connecticut, father of Ellen Douglas (Thompson) Lennig, was a son of Lieutenant William and Mehitable ( Ufford) Thompson, and was born at Stratford, August 24, 1775, died at New London, March 2, 1852. He married, January 5, 1800, Catharine Mumford, born Au- gust 22, 1777, died August 20, 1816. She was a daughter of John Mumford, of Rhode Island, born December 3, 1740, died July 14, 1825, who married, May 13, 1770, Lucretia Christophers, born January 19, 1750, died March 19, 1825; granddaughter of John Mumford, of Rhode Island, and his wife, Elizabeth (Perkins) Mumford, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and of a family "of note and influence" long connected with the coast and West India trade, and prominently identified with public affairs in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Thomas Mum- ford of this family was a prominent merchant of New London, Connecticut, prior to and during the Revolutionary period, having his residence at Groton just across the river from New London. He was a member of the first Com- mittee of Safety, and one of the eleven men who in April, 1775, formed the project of taking Ticonderoga; was one of the committee to sign bills of credit ; the agent of the Secret Committee of Congress; and served on all the most im- portant committees, appointed to look after the defense of the coast, and other measures for the prosecution of the war for independence. His house in Gro- ton was one of the first to be singled out and burned by Arnold's marauding forces in 1781.
Lucretia Christophers, wife of John Mumford, and mother of Catharine (Mumford) Thompson, was a great-great-granddaughter of Christopher Chris- tophers, who was born in Devonshire, England, in 1631, and accompanied by a brother, Jeffrey Christophers, and their respective families, emigrated to New England prior to 1665, at which date both appear as residents and purchasers of land at New London, Connecticut. Christopher brought with him to New London his wife Mary and three children, Richard, John and Mary. His wife died July 13, 1676, and he later married Elizabeth, widow of Peter Brad-
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ley, and daughter of Jonathan Brewster, of whom a more particular account is given below. She died in 1708, aged about seventy years.
Christopher Christophers was a trader and importer, in partnership with Charles Hill, under the firm name of Hill & Christophers. He is mentioned in the earlier records as a "Mariner", and the firm of Hill & Christophers, had a ship of seventy tons burden, built for them, called the "New London", deliv- ered to them June 25, 1666. They subsequently had a number of other ves- sels built and were the principal traders of that part of the New England coast, carrying on a large trade with Barbadoes and the West Indies. Christophers purchased a lot on Town Street, whereon he erected a house taken down in 1851, which was one of the six fortified houses in 1676. Here he died July 23, 1687, aged fifty-six years.
Richard Christophers, son of Christopher and Mary Christophers, according to an ancient record in the family, was born July 13, 1662, at Cherston Ferrers, a village on the Torbay, near Dartmouth, Devonshire, England. He was much employed in public affairs, and one of the most prominent men of New Lon- don, Connecticut, in his day, residing in a house erected for him on the home- lot on Town Street, which was also taken down in 1851. He was an assistant in the Colony, judge of the County Court and of the Court of Probate, and filled a number of local offices. He was also denominated a mariner, and in early life was master of one of his father's trading vessels. He died June 9, 1726, leaving a large estate to his two surviving sons, and seven daughters. Six sons had died before him. He married (first) January 26, 1681, Lucretia Bradley, born 1660, died 1691, daughter of Peter Bradley, of New London, Connecticut, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Brewster, who after his death married Christopher Christophers, father of Richard. Peter and Elizabeth (Brewster) Bradley had three children, Elizabeth, married Thomas Dymond; Peter, Jr., married May 9, 1678, Mary Christophers, the sister of Richard; and Lucretia, above mentioned, who married Richard Christophers. He married (second) Grace Turner, daughter of John and Mary (Brewster) Turner, of Scituate, Massachusetts.
Jonathan Brewster, father of Elizabeth (Brewster) Bradley-Christophers, was born at Scrooby, England, in 1593, and was a son of Elder William Brewster, born about 1560, the ruling elder and spiritual guide of the Pilgrim Fathers, whom he accompanied to New England in the "Mayflower", which landed its living freight of intrepid pioneers at Plymouth, December 1I, 1620. Jonathan Brewster married, in England, and his wife "Mistress Lucretia Brewster", accompanied her father-in-law, Elder William Brewster, in the "Mayflower", with one child. Her husband, Jonathan Brewster, followed in the ship "For- tune", which arrived November 10, 1621. "Mistress Lucretia Brewster" as she is usually denominated in the ancient records, was a woman of note and respect- ability among her compeers: she is often referred to in some useful capacity, an attendant upon the sick and dying, or as witness to wills, deeds and other public documents. She survived her husband.
Jonathan Brewster settled first at Duxbury, in the Plymouth Colony, Massa- chusetts, and was several times representative to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, from that place. He engaged in the coasting trade and was master and owner of a vessel plying from Plymouth along the
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coast to Virginia. He removed to New London in 1649, and died there about 1661, was living in March, 1660-61, and was deceased before February 14, 1661-62, when his son-in-law, John Picket, makes provision for the widow, his "mother-in-law, Mrs. Brewster". Of the nine children of Jonathan and Lucretia Brewster, the four eldest seem to have remained at Duxbury, Massa- chusetts, viz: Two sons, William and Jonathan, who were on the military roll there in 1643; and two daughters, Lucretia, and Mary, who married John Turn- er, of Scituate, Massachusetts, and was the mother of Grace Turner, the sec- ond wife of Richard Christophers. Those who removed with him to New London were: Benjamin, who settled at Brewster's Neck; Elizabeth, born 1638, died 1708, who married, as before stated, first Peter Bradley and second Chris- topher Christophers; Ruth, who married John Picket; Grace, who married Dan- iel Wetherell; and Hannah, who married in 1664, Samuel Starr.
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