Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 47

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988


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During his residence in Virginia he served as postmaster, and was three times commissioned by


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Military Governor General Canby, as a magis- trate of Caroline county, but declined to serve. He was charter member of Wadsworth Post, No. IO, Department of Virginia, Grand Army of the Republic, at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Later he was a member and commander of Post No. 257, Grand Army of the Republic, at Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, and of Encampment No. 32, Union Veteran League at Bloomsburg, and has held the office of colonel of Encampment No. 135 at Wilkes-Barre, and was on the staff of General-in- Chief G. H. C. Miller. £ He is a member of Conyngham Post, No. 97, Grand Army of the Republic, and is now its commander. He holds membership in the Christian Church at Plymouth, and his son and daughters are members of the Methodist church.


From the school of the anti-slavery Democrat, in which Mr. Baldwin had been reared, it was but one step into the Republican party in 1856, and it is a matter of pride that his maiden vote was cast for John Sherman for congress, and Salmon P. Chase for governor of Ohio, and his first presidential vote for the great Lincoln, in 1860. For forty-nine years he has been a stead- fast Republican. ever ready with pen or vote to vindicate true Republican principles by contend- ing and voting against all shades of corruption in civic affairs. He holds that a candidate who secures a nomination by corrupt means is not a candidate of his party, but of hoodlers, and there- fore, has no claim upon his support.


Mr.| Baldwin married, June 25, 1867, Anna D. Harrison, daughter of Jackson and Rebecca ( Millard ) Harrison, of Huntington town-


ship, Pennsylvania. The issue of this union was three children, the first of which died unnamed. 2. Glenn Abed, born Au- gust 30, 1872, educated in the private school of Professor Walker, at Shickshinny; Wyom- ing Seminary, and Drew Theological Semi- nary, New Jersey. He read law with Hon. C. D. Foster, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law two years. He then entered the above named seminary, studied theology, and was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, Oneida Conference, New York, and later mission- ary to Rhodesia, Africa, and is now stationed at Sodus Point, New York. 3. Philena Harrison, born January 18, 1878. She is a graduate of Wyoming Seminary and of Syracuse University. Anna D. (Harrison) Baldwin, mother of these children, died April 15, 1885. Mr. Baldwin mar- ried (second) December 6, 1893, Sallie De Jar- nette, daughter of Hon. D. C. De Jarnette (mem- ber before the war of the United States Congress


and former member of the Confederate Con- gress) and Louisa (DeJarnette) of Caroline county, Virginia. Mr. Baldwin now resides in Wilkes-Barre. H. E. H.


LARNED FAMILY. William Learned, of the parish of Bermondsey, in the county of Sur- rey, England, the ancestor of the earliest New England families of Learned, Lerned, Larned, and Larnett, and various other perversions of the original surname, was among the early immi- grants in Boston, and one of the colony of plant- ers who founded Charlestown, Massachusetts. He does not appear to have been one of the founders of the church there, but was admitted about two months afterward, in the tenth month, 1632. The year of his immigration, also, is not certain, but probably was 1625 or 1626. In 1634 he was admitted freeman in Charlestown; in 1635-36 was appointed selectman; in 1637 was chosen one of four, "instead of Goodman Brak- enbury," to divide for stinting the common land ; in 1637 was chosen with Goodman Ewer to lay out Widow Wilkin's two acres ; and at the time of the controversy with Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, when the general court condemned and banished Rev. John Wheelwright, William Learned was one of the signers of the remonstrance against that proceeding. In the minutes of the court, book I, 205, it is recorded: "Willi Larnet, ac- knowledged his fault in subscribing the seditious writing and desiring his name to be crossed out, it was yielded to him and crossed."


In 1638 William Learned with five others . were "desired to consider some things tending to- ward a body of laws" for the Charlestown planta- tion : from which it may be assumed that he was a man of good sense, and of consequence among the planters, but as his name has no title prefixed, he probably was not a man of any high position. He was one of thirty-two persons who signed the town orders in 1640, when a movement was on foot to settle Woburn, and he was one of the seven who on August 14, 1642, formed the first church in Woburn. In 1643 and again in 1644- 45 he was chosen constable and one of the select- men, and he held these offices at the time of his death, March 1, 1646. He had a wife, Goodith, who survived him, as also did nearly all of their six children. Isaac, their only son and youngest child, sold his lands in Woburn, April 2, 1652, and removed to Chelmsford, where lands were laid out for him, and where he evidently was a man of some consequence, selectman, sergeant of the "train band." and otherwise useful in town affairs. He died November 27, 1657. He mar-


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ried, July 9, 1646. Mary Stearns, daughter of Isaac and Mary Stearns1, of Watertown. Mass- achusetts. They had a son. Isaac, born Septem- ber 16. 1655, who married Sarah Bigelow and settled in Framingham, near a beautiful pond, thirty-six acres in extent, which to this day is called after him "Learned's pond." This Isaac was a soldier in Captain Davenport's company, and was at the "Narragansett fight," where he was wounded. He was of that part of Framing- ham afterwards called Sherborn, where he was received as an inhabitant, 1679, and was one of the committee to proctire the act of incorporation of the town, 1699, was four times selectman. and fence-viewer once. He died September 15. 1737.


William Larned was the fifth child. second son, of Isaac Learned and wife Sarah Bigelow. He married Hannah Bryant, eld- est of seven daughters of Simon and Hannah Bryant. of Killingly. Connecticut. William and Hannah settled and lived in


Killingly until they removed to Sutton, where he was one of the founders of the church in 1720, but he afterward removed to Killingly, settling in the north parish, where he was deacon of the church, surveyor of highways, selectman, and town treasurer. He was a cordwainer. He died. 1747. He left a son Ebenezer, who was for many years deacon of the church in North Kill- ingly. He was selectman of the town, and is re- ferred to in one conveyance of land in 1745. as a "husbandman," and in another in 1750 as an "inn- keeper." He was one of the organizers and ori- ginal proprietors of the Connecticut Susque- hanna Company, and his name is found on the d'eed given by the Six Nations Indians to the com- penv, 1754. conveying to the latter the Wyoming valley region of country. Ebenezer Larned mar- ried Kesiah Leavens. one of eight daughters of Justice Joseph Leavens, of Killingly, who was one of the first settlers of that town. Ebenezer and Kesiah had seven sons2 and four daughters.


1. Isaac Stearns came to America in 1630. prob- ably from the parish of Nayland in Suffolk, and settled in Watertown. Massachusetts, where he was admitted freeman. 1631; was selectman, 1659-70-71, and had charge in 1647 of the first bridge of which any mention is made across the Charles river. at Watertown.


2. Amasa Larned, eldest son of Ebenezer and Kesiah, was a Yale graduate, 1772, and was member of congress. 1791-95: member of the convention to ratify the federal constitution, 1788. His son Ebenezer graduated at Yale, 1798. and his grandson. William Law Larned, graduated there, 1851; LL. D .. 1878. He became justice of the New York state supreme court. and at one time served on the general term bench. and was also of the faculty of Albany law school. He still lives in Albany, New York.


among the former being Theophil .... fifth son and fifth child. He married, 1780, Patience Whip- ple. of Killingly, and in 1795 set out for the Ohio country, but stayed within the territory of Penn- sylvania until 1806, when he removed to Ontario county in the Genesec country in New York state. where he died, 1815. A deed executed in 1795 described him as of Colchester. Ulster county. New York, and conveys to Ephraim Lockwood a right in the Connecticut Susque- hanna I.and Company which Theophilus inherited from his father.


Theophilus and Patience (Whipple ) Larned had five sons and five daughters, and among them Theophilus was the sixth child and fourth son, born 1791. He married Elizabeth ( Betsey ) Smith, daughter of David Smith and wife Lucy Mur- phy. widow. daughter of Obadiah Gore. John Murphy. first husband of Lucy Gore, was killed in the massacre and battle of Wyoming, but she escaped and found temporary refuge on the Del- aware, near Stroudsburg. where she gave birth to a son in Esquire Depew's barn. She afterward returned to Wyoming and married David Smith. This Theophilus Larned came to the Wyoming region when he was a boy. and subsequently owned a farm near the village of Wyoming. Theophilus and Betsey ( Smith ) Larned had chil- dren : Fanny, born December 12. 1815, died Feb- ruary 23. 1825. Mary, born December 22. 1816, married J. H. Jenkins : lived in Pittston, Penn- sylvania. Lucy Ann. born October 13. 1813, married Burton Courtright. Minerva. born Jan- tiary 26. 1820, married Benjamin Smith. Daniel, born January 30. 1822. Henry. born April 20, 1824. Sarah, born February 18. 1826: married James Hovt. Frances Elizabeth, born August 30. 1827. Hiram D., born February 28. 1829. Ann Maria, born March 13, 1832. George Mar- vin, born March 8, 1834. Rosanna, born August 30. 1836.


George Marvin Larned was born at Wyom- ing, Pennsylvania. March 8. 1834. He is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a member of the Central Pennsylvania confer- ence, and lives now in Hazelton, Pennsylvania. He married. July 5, 1856. Samantha Benscoter, died May 26. 1902, daughter of Warren Ben- scoter.3 They had children : Frank Warren, born May 30, 1859. Clara Emma, born March I, 1861. Minnie Jane. born May 16. 1869. Eddie


3. The ancestors of the Benscoters were of the early Dutch colonists who settled in the valleys of the Hud- son and Delaware rivers. James Benscoter, grandfather of Warren. came from the Delaware valley, and brought to Huntington five sons-Anthony, John. Abra-


amo Warned


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Robert Ashley had six children: David, born Gore, born August 4, 1875, died December 3, 1875.


Frank Warren Larned was born in Hunting- ton, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1859, and was edu- cated in Dickinson seminary, Williamsport, Dick- inson College, Carlisle, where he graduated, B. S. 1880. He read law with Hubbard B. Payne and George K. Powell, of Wilkes-Barre, and was ad- mitted to practice in Luzerne county May 21, 1888. Since that time he has engaged in the gen- eral practice of the law, giving special attention to the branches of his profession which relate to real estate, insurance, and banking. In 1902 he organized the Luzerne County Trust Company, and is its secretary, solicitor, and one of its di- rectors. In 1902 he organized the First National Bank of Weatherby, Carbon county, Pennsyl- vania, and is a director and one of its stockhold- ers. In 1902 he organized the Columbia County National Bank, of Benton, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and is one of its directors. In 1902 he organized the Citizens' National Bank of Lehighton, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, and is one of its directors. In 1902 he organized the Fargo and Moorhead Street Railway Company, of Fargo, North Dakota, and is its president. In 1902 he organized the Hazelton, Weatherly and Mauch Chunk Traction Company, and is its presi- dent. He was one of the promoters of the Amer- ican Lumber Company, of Chicago, with $6,000,- 000 capital, one of the largest corporations of its kind in the world, operating in New Mexico, and cutting 400.000 feet of lumber per day. He is attorney for the Reading Trust Company, of Reading, Pennsylvania, and solicitor in Wilkes- Barre for the Colonial Trust Company, of Read- ing. He is a member of the several Masonic bodies of Wilkes-Barre-Lodge No. 61, Sheki- nah Chapter, and Dieu le Veut Commandery, of Keystone Consistory, Scranton, Pennsylvania. and of Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Reading, Pennsylvania.


Frank W. Larned married (first) February 19, 1881, Helen F. Kautner, died February 21, 1882, daughter of Lewis M. and Emma Kautner, of Ashland, Pennsylvania : married ( second ) De- cember 15, 1888, Estella L. Neuer, born March 23. 1863, daughter of William W. Neuer and wife Elizabeth Drake, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.


They have three children: Lewis Marvin, born January 7, 1882. Ruth Elizabeth, born March 12, 1890. H. E. H. William Neuer, born November 18, 1892.


ASHLEY FAMILLY. Robert Ashley, the head of this family, was an early settler in Spring- field, Massachusetts. The town of Springfield was founded in the spring of 1636, by William Pynchon, and was known by the Indian name of Agawam. The planters there led by Pynchon came from the older settlement of Roxbury, and they welcomed to their homes all new comers who should be "approbated" by the committee chosen to examine and pass upon the characters of such strangers as appeared within their gates. The carly Springfield records do not mention the date of the arrival at that plantation of Robert Ashley, but show that he was there in 1639, and that he died there November 29, 1682. This, so far as known, was the first recorded appearance of Rob- ort Ashley in early New England history, and that he was approved and accepted as a towns- man is evident from the prominent part he after- ward took in public affairs, and the influence he exercised among the planters there and at Wor- onoco (Westfield) and Nonotuck ( Northampton ).


Burt's "First Century of the History of Springfield," (1899) says: "The first mention of Robert Ashley in the town records relates to a rate agreed upon to build the minister's house, and for Mr. Moxon's maintenance, which was voted January, 1639. It is probable that he came here the previous year ; from whence he came it is not known. He had land granted him soon after his arrival, and his home lot as first men- tioned was between that granted to John Searle and that to John Dibble, but the lot on which he later resided was that next north of the present State street. He was elected to several minor offices, and in 1653 was chosen one of the select- men." He was selectman from 1653 to 1656, 1661, 1663 and 1666.


Robert Ashley married, about 1641. Mary Horton, widow of Thomas Horton, of Spring- field, who came to the town in 1636, and died 1641, but was not one of the original settlers of that year. He witnessed the deed by which the Indians conveyed their land to Pynchon's com- pany. In early Springfield history Robert Ash- lev was engaged in various employments, was frequently juryman, selectman seven years from 1653 to to 1666, and otherwise served his town in various capacities. He was industrious and upright, and a man of strong religious principles.


ham, Isaac and Jacob. Abraham was the father of Warren, who was the father of Samantha, who married Rev. George Marvin Larned. This surname is known in some localities as Van Scoten. also as Vanbenscoten, and occasionally as Benschoten and Benschoter.


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June 8, 1642, of whom later. Mary, born April 6, 1644, married John Root. Jonathan, born February 25, 1644, married Sarah Wadsworth. Sarah, born August 23, 1648, married John Root (2). Joseph, born July 6, 1652, married Mary Parsons, daughter of Cornet Joseph and Mary ( Bliss ) Parsons. (See Parsons Family ).


David Ashley, of Westfield (originally Woro- noco), eldest son of Robert and Mary (Horton) Ashley, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, June 3. 1642; died in Westfield, Massachusetts, De- cember 8, 1717 ; married, New Haven, Connecti- cut, November 24, 1663, Hannah Glover, born New Haven, Connecticut, May, 1646, died West- field, Massachusetts, June 7, 1722. In 1661 grants of land were made in the west field ( West- field) to Captain Pynchon, George Colton and Robert Ashley, and in 1663-4 David Ashley was granted a thirty-acre lot at Woronoco on condi- tion that he and other grantees pay the Indians for their title to the lands and "go there to dwell," which he did in 1666. He was to Westfield more than his father had been to Springfield ; was one of the founders of the town, and one of its prom- inent men ; was selectman twenty terms ; clerk of the writs three years ; treasurer 1694 ; and a mem- ber of the church in Westfield from January I, 1679-80 to the time of his death in 1718. He had eleven children, of whom Samuel was eldest.


Samuel Ashley, son of David and Hannah Ashley, was born Springfield, Massachusetts, Oc- tober 26, 1664, died Westfield, 1722; married, Hadley, Massachusetts, April 27, 1686, Sarah Kellogg, born Hadley, August 27, 1666, died Westfield, January 30, 1729. Samuel Ashley was a carpenter, farmer, innkeeper, mill owner, land proprietor in Westfield and prominent in town affairs ; his name appears in the records as tythingman and selectman, one of the committee to build the schoolhouse, and one of the com- mittee to settle the bounds between Westfield and Springfield. He united with the Westfield church, April 15, 1714. and was one of the committee to build a new meeting house in 1719. He had eleven children, all born in Westfield.


Daniel Ashley, third child of Samuel and Sarah (Kellogg) Ashley, born Westfield, Sep- tember 7, 1691, died about October, 1726; mar- ried (published intention of marriage November 15. 1718) Mrs. Thankful Taylor, widow of Thomas Taylor, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and daughter of Deacon Eleazer Hawks, (of John), and his wife, Judith Smead (of William). Daniel Ashley was a farmer in Westfield, and one of the original proprietors of the "Lower Township" (Sheffield), on the Housatonic river. He was a


commissioner from Deerfield to attend the dele- gates from the Five Nations, and conduct them to Boston in 1723 to hold a conference with the English commissioners. He had at least two chil- dren, Samuel, born March 20, 1720; and Martin, born September 17, 1724.


Colonel Samuel Ashley, oldest child of Daniel and Thankful Ashley, born Westfield, Massa- chusetts. March 20, 1720, died Claremont, New Hampshire, February 18, 1792 ; married, North- field, Massachusetts, 1742, Eunice Doolittle, born Northfield, Massachusetts, July 24, 1724, died Claremont, New Hampshire, 1807, daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Lydia (Todd) Doolittle.


Colonel Ashley was one of the prominent men of New Hampshire during Colonial and Revolu- tionary times. He enlisted in the colonial service at Fort Drummer, under Captain Josiah Kellog, Massachusetts militia, August 7, 1740, and was discharged November 20, 1740: re-enlisted the next day in Captain Josiah Willard's company, serving until discharged, March 4, 1741-2. Two months later he enlisted again under Captain Willard, served from May 25, 1742, to Novem- ber 21, 1742, and later from July 12, 1748, to June 7, 1749. He became one of . the original grantees of Winchester, New Hampshire, under- the Massachusetts charter, but when the bound- ary line was settled throwing Winchester into New Hampshire, 1753, he was an original grantee. under the new incorporation. He was one of the first selectmen of the town. He was also an ori- ginal grantee of the towns of Hinsdale, New Hampshire, 1760; Windsor, Vermont, 1761 ; Shreswbury, Vermont, 1763, and Claremont, New Hampshire, 1784. He was appointed a justice- of the peace and an officer of the militia in 1760. and was prominent as a land owner and a man of means. He was a stanch patriot, and threw him- self with zeal on the side of the colonies in the Revolutionary period. He was a delegate to the provincial council from Winchester, Max IO, 1774, and to the convention at Exeter, July 21. 1774, which appointed representatives to the continental congress at Philadelphia, 1775. He was also elected a member of the committee of safety from June 14, to October 31, 1775. He was appointed also colonel of the First Regi- ment, New Hampshire militia. August 24, 1775, but continued to serve as a member of the com- mittee of safety until January 3, 1776, when he was made a member of the council from Cheshire county, serving until 1780. He was a justice of the common pleas for Cheshire county, January IO, 1776, and was authorized. June 26, 1776, to- enlist and command a company of fifty men to,


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guard the western frontier of the state. In 1777, when Ticonderoga was in great danger, he enlisted 109 men and marched to its de- fense, serving from May 7 to July II. He was also at the battle of Bennington, serving upon the staff of General Stark, and was with Gates at Saratoga. He held his rank as colonel in the Thirteenth (afterward Sixth) New Hampshire Regiment, until he re- signed, June 18, 1779, having been chosen, March 24, 1779. a member of the continental congress, which office, however, he declined before congress assembled. Colonel Samuel and Eunice (Doo- little) Ashley had nine children.


Colonel Samuel Ashley, third child of Colonel Samuel and Eunice (Doolittle) Ashley, was born, Northfield, Massachusetts, September 29, 1747; died Springfield, Pennsylvania, October, 1820; married, Northfield, Massachusetts, August 9. 1770, his cousin Lydia, daughter of Lu- cius Doolittle, born December 25, 1735. Samuel Ashley settled in Claremont, New Hampshire, and from there entered the Revolutionary service as first lieutenant of the fourth company in Colonel Bellow's Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment. Later he was made captain in the New Hampshire line, and after the close of the war was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, December 25, 1784, and sub- sequently colonel, September 25, 1786, of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire militia. In the spring of 1818 he removed with his son Charles to Springville, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, and although then more than seventy years old and somewhat infirm as the re- sult of his earlier strenuous life, he must be re- garded as the pioneer of the Ashley family in Pennsylvania. He died two years after his set- tiement in Springville, and the work of pioneer life in the then wilderness region of Susquehanna county really fell upon his son Charles.


Charles Ashley, sixth son of Colonel Samuel and Eunice Ashley, was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1782; died in Waterloo, Wiscon- sin. March 30, 1848: married, about 1802, in Claremont. Roccena Goss, born February II, 1748, died Waterloo, Wisconsin, November 9, 1861, daughter of Nathaniel and Rachel (Gould) Goss. Charles Ashley took the oath of allegiance at Lemington, Vermont, probably at the first town meeting, in 1796. After his marriage he settled in Danville, Vermont, where he lived until 18II, when he returned to Claremont, his native town. In the spring of 1818 he removed to Springville, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, where he lived until he removed to Waterloo, Grant


county, Wisconsin, a few years before his death .. His occupation was farming. He held a number of town offices at different times in his life. Children of Charles and Roccena (Goss) Ashley :


I. Nathaniel, born 1803. 2. Lydia, born June; 25, 1805 ; married September, 1831, Daniel Ray- mond Burt, of Waterloo, Wisconsin, his first wife. He was eight generations from Henry Burt. of Springfield, born February 29, 1804, and died January 7, 1884. 3. Charles, born June 2, 1807. 4. Roccenna, born 1809, married, 1834. Jeremiah E. Dodge, of Waterloo, Wisconsin. 5. Oliver, born January 2, 1811. 6. Samuel, born June 18, 1813. 7. Lucius, born May 7, 1815, of whom later. 8. Caroline Jones, born April 10, 1817; married, April 10, 1838, James L. Blakes- lee, and lives (1896) in Mauch Chunk, Pennsyl- vania. 9. William Drinker, born Springville, ' Pennsylvania, May 5, 1819. 10. Rachel Matilda, born Springville, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1822 ; married, 1843. Jeremiah E. Dodge, of Waterloo, Wisconsin, and lives (1896) in St. Paul, Min- nesota.


Lucius Ashley, son of Charles and Roccena (Goss) Ashley, was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, May 7, 1815; died in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1873; married in" Mount Laffee, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania,. Caroline Beadle, born Middletown, county Dur- ham, England, March 9, 1821, daughter of John. and Jennie (Lowthaine) Beadle. Lucius Ashley, when an infant went with his parents to Spring- ville, Pennsylvania, and from there to Grant county, Wisconsin. For several years he was in the employ of the American Fur Company in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and then returned to Pennsylvania. After marriage he lived several years in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, and then removed to Mauch Chunk, where the remainder- of his life was spent. There he engaged in the business of building boats for use on the Lehigh canal, and later was in the lime business. Chil- dren of Lucius and Caroline (Beadle) Ashley : I. Herbert Henry, born December 1, 1843, of whom later. 2. Ellen Bathsheba, born March 9, 1848, married, June 25, 1868, Asa Robert Beers, Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. 3. Rollin Robert, born March 15, 1851, married, October 21, 1874, Emily Frances Kline, born Mauch Chunk, June 27, 1854, died December 23, 1884, daughter of Frederick C. and Marietta (Staples) Kline. 4. Caroline Blakeslee, born March 13, 1857. died June 1, 1857. 5. Mary Alice, born May II. 1859, died December 29, 1864.




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