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Hayes, and secondly, --- Hen- derson, of Shippensburg; David, b.
1773, d. October 8, 1796 ; Samuel, b. 1775, d. unm .; James, b. 1777, d. 1798; William, b. 1779, removed to Virginia ; Solomon, b. 1781, d. s. p .; Joseph, b. 1783, m. and went to Equality, Ill. Robert Hayes d. June 6, 1809; his wife Margaret, January 6, 1820; aged 77 years. iii. Elcanor, b. 1735; m., February 6, 1755, Patrick Campbell, son of John Campbell, of Derry ; their daughter married the Rev. Joshua Williams. iv. William, b. 1737; m., October 6, 1767, Jean Taylor, and removed to Vir- ginia.
v. Jean, b. 1739; m., October 31, 1765, William Seott.
vi. Samuel, b. 1741; m. and removed to Virginia.
vii. Patrick, b. 1743; m. - McAl- lister, sister of Capt. Archibald Mc- Allister; was Capt. Patrick Hayes of the Revolution ; removed to Ly- coming county and died there about 1812; he inherited the farm in Derry, now owned by Mr. Hershey.
THE HERSHEY FAMILY.
I. ANDREW HERSHEY, b. 1702, in Switzer- land ; removed early in life with his parents to the Palatinate. In the year 1719 he and his brother Benjamin sailed for America and settled in Lancaster county, Pa. His brother Christian followed in 1739; and all three were chosen ministers in the Mennonite Church. Andrew Hershey died in 1792, aged ninety years. There was issue :
i. Christian, b. 1734; d. January, 1783; m. Elizabeth Hiestand, daughter of Abraham Hiestand, of Hempfield, Laneaster county, Pa.
2. ii. Andrew, b. 1736; m., first, Magdalena Baughman; secondly, Maria Aeker. iii. John.
iv. Benjamin, d. prior to 1780, and liad Elizabeth, m. Henry Landis, Benja- min, and Mary.
v. Jacob, resided in Hempfield township; d. prior to 1767, at which time his children, Maria and Ann, were above fourteen years but not of age. vi. Abraham.
vii. Isaac.
viii. Henry.
ix. Catharine.
x. Maria.
xi. Odti.
II. ANDREW HERSHEY (Andrew), b. 1736, in Lancaster county, Pa .; d. July 16, 1806 ; was twice married ; m. Magdalena Baugh- man ; d. prior to 1763; daughter of Michael Baughman, and had issue :
i. Catharine, b. 1760.
He m., secondly, Maria Aeker, b. Septem- ber 26, 1743; d. September 13, 1831. They had issue :
ii. Anna, b. February 28, 1762.
iii. Jacob, b. October 2, 1765.
iv. Maria, b. May 23, 1768.
3. . v. Andrew, b. September 14, 1770; m. Esther Kauffman.
vi. Henry, b. December 19, 1772.
vii. Elizabeth, b. December 5, 1775.
viii. John, b. Marclı 31, 1783.
III. ANDREW HERSHEY (Andrew, An- drew), b. September 14, 1770; d. August 1, 1835; in. Esther Kauffman, b. May 31, 1770; d. March 3, 1829. They had issue :
i. Christian, b. December 22, 1796; d. September 5, 1834.
ii. Anna, b. July 15, 1799.
iii. Andrew, b. January 15, 1802.
iv. Maria, b. December 9, 1804.
v. Catharine, b. January 15, 1809.
vi. Esther, b. September 11, 1811.
vii. Barbara, b. December 9, 1814.
viii. Elizabeth (twin), b. December 9, 1814.
ix. John, b. March 14, 1815.
x. Magdalena, b. March 20, 1S21.
In addition to the foregoing, which evi- dently refers to one branch of the family, we have the following :
BENEDICT HERSHEY died prior to 1763, leaving a wife Judith, and children :
i. Jacob.
ii. Barbara.
iii. Andrew.
iv. Peter.
v. John.
vi. Esther.
ANDREW HERSHEY, of Londonderry town- ship, Dauphin county, died in 1792, leaving a wife, and children :
i. Benjamin.
ii. Henry.
iii. Christian, of Manor township.
iv. Andrew, of Donegal township.
v. John, m. Magdalena
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HOFFMAN FAMILY OF LYKENS VALLEY.
I. Among the earliest settlers of the Wico- nisco Valley was John Peter Hoffman, a na- tive of Germany, born in 1709. With others of his family and friends he came to Amer- iea in 1739, in the ship Robert and Alice, Capt. Walter Goodman, arriving at Phila- delphia in September of that year. He first located in Berks county, where he worked at his trade, that of a carpenter. During the early Indian troubles on the frontiers he served some time as a soldier in the Provin- eial forces. About the year 1750 he came to the end of Short mountain in Lyken's Val- ley, where he built a small log house, just across the road from the present residence of Daniel Romberger. Sixty years ago this was used as a blacksmith shop. John Peter Hoffman was the contemporary of Andrew and John Lycans or Lykens, Ludwig Sliott, John Rewalt, and others, and with them driven off by the Indians in their marauds of 1756. It was subsequent to this period that, he brought his family to the valley. Here he followed farming, and died in 1798 at the age of eighty-nine years. His remains with those of his wife who had deceased pre- viously were interred in the field near the present house on the old farm now owned by Mr. Romberger, before named. He left issue, among others :
i. Catherine, m. Andrew Reigle, the head of a large family of that name in the " Upper End." They both reached the age of four seore years. ii. Barbara, m. George Buffington, a sol- dier of the Revolution, and tlie head of the family of that name.
iii. Elizabeth, m. Ludwig Sheetz, the head of the large family of that name.
2. iv. John, b. 1746; in. Miss Kauffman.
3. v. John-Nicholas, b. 1749 ; m. Margaret Harman.
4. vi. Christian, b. 1752 ; m. Miss Deibler.
II. JOHN HOFFMAN (John-Peter), eldest son of John Peter Hoffman, was a native of Berks county, born in 1746. He served in the war of the Revolution, and commanded the Upper Paxtang company in its expe- dition up the West Branch in 1778, and participated in the battle at Muney Hill. He resided near Hoffman's church, on the farm now owned by George Williard. He was a farmer, and served as a justice of the peace from 1771 until 1831, the year of his death. He and his wife, a Miss Kauffman,
are buried in Hoffman's church graveyard. They had issue :
i. Elizabeth, m. John Hoffman, a farmer. They resided near Hoffman's church, on the farm now owned by George Row.
ii. Maria, m. Joseph Neagley, a farmer, who resided in the lower part of the valley. They had a large family, and lived to advaneed ages.
iii. Magdalena, m. Thomas Koppenheffer. He was a captain in Col. Timothy Green's battalion, and was at the battle of Long Island. Mrs. Kop- penheffer lived to be over four score years of age.
iv. Catharine, m. John Buffington, a farmer, who resided on the farm adjoining Robert Elder's, now owned by Jacob Hartman. Mr. Buffington was county commis- sioner from 1822 to 1824.
v. Barbara, b. 1800 ; m. John N. Specht. She d. in 1879.
5. vi. John, m. Miss Deibler.
vii. Jacob, married and removed to Schuylkill county, where some of his descendants yet reside.
6. viii. Daniel, m. Miss Snyder.
III. JOHN NICHOLAS HOFFMAN (John- Peter), was born in Tulpehocken township, Berks county, in the year 1749. He settled on the farm now owned by Benjamin Rick- ert, near Short mountain. He was the owner of a large tract of land, at present divided into a number of farms. He deeded land to the congregation of Hoffman's ehureh, for church, school and burial pur- poses. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and participated in the battles of Brandy- wine and Germantown. His life was an active, busy and useful one. He was mar- ried, April 22, 1772, by Pastor Kurtz, of the Lutheran church, to Margaret Harman, also a native of Berks county. They had issue : i. Catharine, b. 1775; m. Peter Shoff- stall. They resided near Gratz- town, and died at advaneed ages, leaving a large family.
ii. Susanna, m. Levi Buffington, a car- penter. He built the Hoffman ehurch.
iii. Sarah, m. Jonathan Snyder. They moved to Wayne county, Ohio, near Wooster, where they both lived to upwards of ninety years of age; their son Daniel resides there.
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iv. Margaret, m. Alexander Klinger, and removed to Crawford county, Pa. She died a few years ago at the age of 98.
7. v. Peter, b. September 22, 1778 ; m. Miss Lubold.
vi. Elizabeth, b. 1780; d. in Sugar Valley, over 91 years of age; m. Jacob Hawk.
8. vii. Jacob, b. 1782; m. Catharine Ferree. 9. viii. Daniel, b. 1784; m. Hannah Ferree.
10. i.c. Nicholas, b. 1790; m. - 11. x. John, b. 1794; m.
xi. George, b. 1798; resided in Gratztown; was appointed justice of the peace in 1834.
IV. CHRISTIAN HOFFMAN (Jolin-Peter), b. 1752; resided on the old homestead at the end of Short mountain. He died in Powell's Valley. He was a soldier of the Revolution and an active eitizen in the "Upper End." He married Susannah Deibler, daughter of Albright Deibler, and died in Armstrong Valley at the age of 87. They had issue:
i. Anna-Mary, m. John Pies, and left a large family. They resided at Sand Spring, in the upper end of Powell's Valley.
ii. Susannah, m. Philip Shott, and had a large family.
iii. Catharine, m. Jonathan Novinger; re- moved to Indiana. Cyrus Novinger, of Millersburg, is their son.
12. iv. John-B., b. 1790; m. Margaret Bow- man.
v. Jonas, was a farmer, and resided at the foot of Peter's mountain, where he died.
vi. Peter, was a farmer; m. and resided near Fisherville, where he died, leaving a large family.
vii. Christian, was a farmer; resided near Snyder's mill, Lykens Valley. viii. Daniel-G., b. 1795, was a farmer and resided near Fisherville; sixty years ago m. Susannah Harman, now 85 years of age; was a justice of the peace a long time, and held other offices.
ix. Philip, b. about 1800; was justice of the peace for Jefferson township.
V. JOHN HOFFMAN (John, John-Peter), re- sided near his father; was a farmer, and held the office of justice of the peace until he received the appointment of steward of the county almshouse in 1824, a position he held'
until 1838 when he was elected register, serving until 1841; was the first local preacher in the valley, built the first fulling and earding mill in the Upper End, where Samuel Wolf now resides in Lykens town- ship. He was married four times, his first wife being a Miss Deibler, sister to Daniel Deibler, Sr., and left a large family.
VI. DANIEL HOFFMAN (John, John-Peter), m. Miss Snyder, and had one son, Daniel, Jr., a distinguished civil engineer, residing in Philadelphia. John R., a son of the latter, also a civil engineer in the employ of the Summit Branch Railroad and Coai Com- pany, resides at Pottsville. Daniel Hoff- man, Sr., died young, in Lykens Valley, and his widow subsequently married John Hoke.
VII. PETER HOFFMAN (John-Nicholas, John-Peter), was born on the 22d of Septem- ber, 177S. He was a farmer and owned the farm now in the occupaney of William Hawk. He was a soldier of the war of 1812 and died in 1864, aged 86 years. He mar- ried Mollie Lubold, sister of Frederick Lu- bold. They are both buried in the Hoffman church graveyard. They had issue :
i. Daniel, m. Miss Rissinger and re- moved to Crawford county, Pa., where his son Joshua now resides. Another son, Jonas, a carpenter, re- sides at Lykens. Daniel died a few years ago aged 73 years.
ii. Jacob-Peter, was quite a politician and died a few years ago in Lykens, where his widow and children now reside.
iii. John-Peter, b. in 1806; m. Elizabetlı Umholtz, daughter of J. Philip Umholtz; was a farmer residing near Short mountain. Their son, Henry-B., resided at Millersburg, and John-P., in Powell's Valley.
iv. Catharine, m. Daniel Reigle. Mr. Reigel was county commissioner, 1852-4.
v. Elizabeth, m. Philip Keiser. Their son Danicl was a member of the Legislature; 1863-4.
vi. Hannah, m. Samuel Thomas.
VIII. JACOB HOFFMAN (John-Nicholas, John-Peter), b. in 1782, purchased his father's farm. He was a well-informed farmer, and was exceedingly popular. He filled several local offices, and in 1833 and 1834 served in the Legislature. He was quite prominent in
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the church, and a zealous Christian. He married Catharine Ferree. They had issue :
i. Amos, b. 1809; m. Amanda, daughter of the late Gen. Thomas Harper ; was for a number of years steward of the almshouse, and resided at
- Berrysburg. At one time he had five sons in the Union army, Col. Thomas- W., Capt. Jacob-F., John- II., Edwin-A., and Henry.
ii. Jacob-B., resided near Williamstown. iii. Hannah, m. John Romberger. ,
iv. Sarah, m. Michael Forney.
v. Cutharine, m. Abram Hess.
IX. DANIEL HOFFMAN (John-Nicholas, John-Peter), was born in 1784 ; was a farmer, and served in the war of 1812. He died in 1830 at the age of 46 years. He married Hannah Ferree, and had issue :
i. David, was a merchant and justice of the peace. He died and is buried at Berrysburg. His son, Danel-C., became superintendent of a Ken- tucky and Tennessee railroad, and died of yellow fever in 1878 at Louisville, Ky.
ii. Jacob-D., was a county commissioner and twice sheriff; resided at Har- risburg ; of his family Isaac-W. is agent of the Northern Central rail- way at Millersburg ; Adam, United States postal route agent; George- E., d. 1888; Ada, m. M. Wilson McAlarney, an attorney-at-law, postmaster at Harrisburg 1874- 1886, now editor Daily Telegraph ; Eimira, m. Joseph C. McAlarney, a lawyer, of Harrisburg; Rebecca, and Sarah.
iii. Daniel, is a miner and resides at Ly- kens.
iv. Joseph, resided at Hummelstown.
v. Hannah, m. Isaac Uhler, a miller.
vi. Elmira, m. John S. Musser, who was county commissioner 1860-62; re- sided at Millersburg.
X. NICHOLAS HOFFMAN (John-Nicholas, Jolin-Peter), was born in 1790-a farmer, and served in the war of 1812. He died in 1874 at the age of eighty-four. He had issue:
. i. John-Nicholas, was director of the poor; resided in Washington town- slip.
ii. Isaac, was county commissioner 1867-70.
iii. Sarah, m. - Sheaffer ; their daughter Mary married William B. Meetch, former register of the county.
iv. James, resided on the old homestead.
XI. JOHN HOFFMAN (John-Nicholas, John- Peter), b. in 1794, was a soldier in the war of 1812; a tailor by trade, and resided near Berrysburg, where he died. He left a large family. George, Daniel and Henry Katter- man, severally, married daughters of John Hoffman.
XII. JOHN B. HOFFMAN (Christian, John- Peter), b. in 1790; was a blacksmith by trade ; served in the war of 1812, in which he was promoted a lieutenant colonel. He filled a number of responsible official posi- tions, and died in 1875, aged eighty-five years. He married Margaret Bowman and left a large family, most of whom reside in Powell's Valley.
MARCUS HULINGS AND HIS FAMILY.
From data in our possession we are able to give the year of the location of an early settler at the mouth of the Juniata, that of Marcus Hulings in 1753. Day and Rupp, relying upon tradition, give the time " possi- bly as early as 1735." It is a matter of his- tory that all the settlers on Shearman's creek and the Juniata had been removed by the sheriff, Andrew Work's posse in 1750, and the houses of the settlers burned ; so that it was not for two or three years at least afterwards that the hardy frontiersman ven- tured to build his rude cabin on the forbid- den land. It is stated by Watson that Marcus Hulings came from Marcus Hook on the Delaware. Nevertheless, the Hulings were among the earliest settlers on that river, locating there long before the founder came over and constituted the grand old Commonwealth called for him. The name is spelled Uhling, Hewlings and Hulings, and is Swedish.
A few years after locating on the Juniata came Braddock's defeat, and all the horrors of an Indian war followed. In the spring after (1756) the savages had reached the Sus- quehanna; but the few scattered frontiers- men were unequal for the conflict, and were obliged to flee. Some lingered too long, for the wily red man came down suddenly and the tomahawk and scalping-knife were reck-
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ing with the life-blood of the hardy, but unfortunate pioneers. Mr. Hulings, on be- ing apprised of the near approach of the savages, hurriedly paeked up a few valuables and, placing his wife and youngest child upon a large black horse (the other children having previously been removed to a place of safety) fled to the point of the island, ready to cross over at the first alarm. Forgetting something in the haste, and thinking the Indians might not have arrived, Mr. Hulings ventured to return alone to the house. After carefully reconnoitering, he entered, and found, to his surprise, an Indian upstairs " cooly picking his flint." Stopping some time to parley with the savage, so that he miglit retreat without being shot at; the de- lay, to his wife, seemed unaccountable and, fearing he had been murdered, she whipped up her horse and swam the Susquehanna. The water was quite high, but, nowise daunted, she succeeded in reaching the op- posite shore in safety. Mr. Hulings soon appeared, and finding the animal with his wife and child had disappeared, in turn he became alarmed, but a signal from the east- ern shore of the stream relieved his anxiety, and he himself, by means of a light canoe, was safe from pursuit. The fugitives suc- ceeded in reaching Fort Hunter, where the Baskins and others of their neighbors had congregated and the inhabitants of Paxtang had rallied for a defense.
It was not until the fall of Fort Duquesne, and the ereetion of Fort Pitt, that Mareus Hulings returned to his farm with his family. A year after, however, we find him at the Forks of the Ohio, where he took up a quan- tity of land. In the meantime, eneroach- ments were being made upon his lands on the Juniata, and in 1762 we have the follow- lowing letter, protesting against the same :
" FORT PITT, May the 7th, 1762. " To William Peters, Esq., Secretorey to the Propriatorries in land office in Philadelphia, &c .:
" The Petitioner hereof humbly showeth his grievanee in a piece of uncultivated land, laying in Cumberland County, on the Northwest side of Juneadey, laying in the verry Forks and point, between the two rivers, Susquehanna and Juneadey, a place that I Emproved and lived on one Year and a half on the said place till the enemeyes in the beginning of the last Warrs drove me away from it, and I have had no opertunity
yet to take out a Warrant for it; my next neighbour wass one Joseph Greenwood, who sold his emprovement to Mr. Neaves, a merehant in Philadelphia, who took out a warrant for the s'd place, and gave it into the hands of Collonel John Armstrong, who is Surveyor for Cumberland County; and while I was absent from them parts last Summer, Mr. Armstrong runed out that place Joyning me, for Mr. Neaves; and as my place layes in the verry point, have en- eroached too much on me and Take away part of Improvements ; the line Desided be- tween me and Joseph Greenwood was up to the first small short brook that empyed into Susquehannah above the point, and if I should have a strait line run'd from the one river to the other with equal front on cach River from that brook, I shall not have 300 acres in that survey ; the land above my house upon Juneadey is much broken and stoney. I have made a rough draft of the place and lines, and if Your Honour will be pleased to see me righted, the Petitioner hereof is in Duty bound ever for you to pray ; from verry humble serv't,
" MARCUS HULINGS."
With the foregoing he sent the following note to Mr. Peters :
" May ye 17th, 1762.
" SIR : I have left orders for Mr. Mathias Holston living in Upper Merrion of Phila- delphia county, to take out two warrants for me, one for the Point between the two Riv- ers, and one for the Improvements I have in the place called the Onion bottom on the south side of Juneadey right aposite to the other, where I lived six months before I moved to the other place; from your hum- ble servant, MARCUS HULINGS."
Directed to " William Peters, Esq., Secretorey to the Propriatories land office In Philadel- phia."
With these letters is the "rough draught" of the land at the mouth of the Juniata, which would be worth reprodueing, as no description we can give will convey an accu- rate idea of it. Three islands are noted. One now . known as Duncan's Island is marked " Island " and house as " Widdow Baskins." The large island in the Susque- hanna known as Haldeman's Island con- taining three houses-the one to the south- ern point "Francis Baskins" one-third further up, on the Susquehanna side, " George Clark," while about the center that
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of " Francis Ellis." On the north point is the word " Island." Almost opposite, on the east bank of the Susquehanna, is "James Reed's" house ; while between the center of the island and the western shore is a small triangular " Island," so marked. On " the point " between the "Susquehannah River " and the " Juneadey River," near the bank of the latter stream, is "Hulings' house." Some distance from "the point " is a straight line running from river to river on which is written " this is the way I want my line;" while beyond on the West Branch of the Susqnehannah nearly opposite "James Reed's " house is "Mr. Neave's house." Farther up the river, opposite a small island is " Francis Ellis' " house. A eircuit- ous line denominated " Mr. Neave's line," crosses the straight line referred to which in- cluded "Part of Hulings' Improvement." On the south side of the Juniata below the mouth thereof is " William Kerl's" house; opposite the point of Duncan's Island, "James Baskins' " house, while "Hulings' house " (another improvement) is farther up -in what is named the " Onion bottom." Beyond this on the same side of the Juniata is a house marked "Cornelius Acheson, who has encroached upon Hulings' Improvement in the Onion bottom-settled there last Spring." Opposite the islands on the east bank of the Snsquehanna are "Peter's moun- tain " and "narroughs." We suppose Mr. Hulings was " righted," as he desired.
Beeoming discontented with the situation at Pittsburgh, Hulings sold his claim for £200 and returned to his home at the mouth of the Juniata, where he made considerable improvements. He established a ferry, and built, says Watson, a causeway at the upper end of Duncan's Island for pack horses to pass.
Marcus Hulings' home was lately in the possession of Dr. George N. Reutter. He originally owned all the land between the Susquehanna and Juniata below New Buf- falo, and had also a tract of land at the mouth of Shearman's ereek, then in Rye township, Cumberland county, but now Penn township, Perry eounty.
Mr. Hulings died in September, 1788, and is buried in a graveyard near Losh's Run. Mrs. Hulings, whose maiden name has not eome down to us, was a remarkable woman, and on more than one occasion forded the Susquehanna and wended her way to the mill at Fort Hunter with a small bag of
grain-when waiting till it was ground, she hastened homeward. This, however, was only in the first years of their pioneer life, for shortly after a grist mill was erected on Shearman's creek. She was a brave and in- trepid pioneer woman, and a noble wife for the hardy frontiersman. She died prior to the Revolution and is buried in the same graveyard with her husband, but their graves are unmarked. They had five chil- dren who survived their parents :
I. MARCUS, the eldest, born in 1747, pos- sibly never returned with his father from Fort Pitt. He erected a large stone tavern and established a ferry on the south side of the Monongahela river, opposite the foot of Liberty street, Pittsburgh. It was afterwards, says Mr. Isaac Craig, for half a century known as Jones' ferry house, and as fre- quently noted in the journals of travelers about the commencement of the present cen- tury. He seems to have been quite promi- nent on the western frontiers and is fre- quently made mention of. Gen. Richard Butler, one of the commissioners appointed to hold treaties with the Northern and Western Indians, in his journal of October 1, 1785, says: "I fortunately recommended the employment of one Mr. Huling, who I find to be a very useful, active and ingenious man, he goes ahead with a small canoe to search out the channel, which.we find to be very crooked." This was no doubt Marcus Hulings. In the journal of Gen. Joseph Buell, the arrival at Fort Harmar of "Uhling, a trader on the river," is mentioned three times, November 5 and December 3, 1786, and on the 4th of January, 1787. For more than ten years subsequent to 1790, Marcus Hulings was employed by Major Isaac Craig, quartermaster at Pittsburgh, in transporting military stores up the Alle- gheny to Fort Franklin and to Presqu' Isle, and down the Ohio and Mississippi to the military posts on those streams. Major Craig's letter-books and papers eontain ample evidence that Mareus Hulings was a faithful and reliable man in all his under- takings. We have no knowledge as to his subsequent carcer, although we are informed that he died in Tennessee. He left deseend- ants.
II. MARY, b. in 1749; m., 1st, Thomas Simpson ; 2d, on January 18, 1780, William Stewart. They had four children. She d. February 22, 1790. Mr. Stewart afterwards m. Mrs. Martha Espy, widow of James Espy.
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III. SAMUEL, b. in 1751, also located on the Ohio. He owned an island in the Alle- glieny ealled Hulings', and we presume is yet known by that name. Samuel Hulings marricd and left issuc.
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