Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 59

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


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He is a member of the Westmoreland Club, a charter member of the Wyoming Valley Coun- try Club, a director of the Luzerne County Sportsmen Association ; a member of Landmark Lodge No. 442, Free and Accepted Masons ; Shekinah Chapter, No. 182, Royal Arch Ma-


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sons ; Dieu Le Vieut Commandery, Knights Templar ; Irem Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; and has recently been proposed for mem- bership in the American Society of Civil Engi- neers. He is a Republican in politics, and has been delegate to the Republican state convention. Nathaniel B. Rutter married, April 25. 1899, Stella Gertrude Hann, born in Hackettstown, New Jersey, daughter of Stephen Hann (now deceased) and his wife. Harriet Pell, born in Hanover township, Luzerne county, Pennsyl- vania, a representative of the old Pell family. One son born, died in infancy. He resides in Dallas, and during the winter lives in Wilkes- Barre. H. E. H.


LEAVENWORTH FAMILY. The im- migration of the Leavenworth family to America from England took place between 1660 and 1680, and probably between 1664 and 1675. In the family in England there were personages of con- sequence, for a coat-of-arms was bestowed among them and was preserved by their descendants. The founder of the family in America was Thomas Leavenworth, of Woodbury, in the Con- necticut colony. He was born in England, and died in Woodbury, August 3, 1683, his wife Grace surviving him. She died, as supposed, in 1715. The Leavenworth home in Woodbury was in the place called Good Hill, and there the family lived many years, in the west part of the town, not far from the Roxbury line. His brother Jolin, also born in England, doubtless came with him to America. He settled first in Woodbury, and removed thence to Stratford, Connecticut, where he died in 1702. without issue, and prob- ably unmarried. Thomas Leavenworth and his wife Grace had children: Thomas, born 1763, died, Ripton, Connecticut, August 4, 1754 : John died after 1715 ; daughter, name unknown.


Thomas Leavenworth, son of the immigrant Thomas and Grace, was born probably in Wood- bury, but possibly in England. He was a phy- sician, a man evidently of means and social posi- tion, and one of the original members of the church in Ripton, in the records being mentioned as "Deacon." He was of Stratford in 1695, and was received into the church there, 1697-98. He left a large property, and gave his children the advantages of a good education, and all of them became useful and prominent men and women in their walks of life. Dr. Thomas married in Stratford, about 1698, Mary Jenkins, who died in Ripton, June, 1768, daughter of David Jenkins and his wife Grace. Dr. Thomas died in Ripton, August 4, 1754. He had children :


James, born September 1, 1699, died after Au- gust 1, 1759 ; David, born October 12, 1701, died April 10, 1755, a physician of Woodbury ; Eben- ezer, born April 7, 1706, died 1734; John, born November 3, 1708, died 1783. Zebulon, born about 1710, died May 2, 1778; Mark, born about 17II, died August 20, 1797, was a graduate of Yale, 1737 ; Thomas, died after 1795 ; Mary, born about 1717, died about 1813 : Hannah, born about 1719, was alive in 1763; Sarah, born November 6, 1721 ; Edmund, born 1725, died July 17, 1795.


Thomas Leavenworth, son of Dr. Thomas Leavenworth and wife Mary Jenkins, was born in Stratford, Connecticut. He received, July 6, 1748, from his father one whole right in com- monage in Woodbury, and one-third of the re- mainder of said rights in commonage, with £100 (old tenor). In 1727 he was collector of rates in Ripton. He was a tanner and settled in Wood- bury, but failed in business and went to Wyo- ming in Pennsylvania, where he again set up in tanning, but was driven out by the Indians in 1778, and while within sight of his home he saw it in flames. When driven out of the valley, Thomas Leavenworth with his family picked his way as best he could through the woods of Penn- sylvania, New Jersey and New York, living mainly on berries, and finally reached friends in Connecticut with only the few clothes which they wore. Dorman, the youngest child, he led by the hand. Asa and others of the older children probably never went to Pennsylvania. Thomas' failure in early life in Woodbury, and the second loss of all his property in the Wyoming valley, was a disheartening misfortune, but did not pre- vent him from so raising and educating his chil- dren as to enable them to attain independent posi- tions in society. He returned with his family to Oxford, Connecticut, and died there after 1795, at the home of his son Gideon, in Hampden. This Thomas married (first) "Betty" Davis, who died April 24, 1758. He married (second) October IO, 1758, Rhoda Olds, died Watertown, May I, 1794. Children of both marriages: Asa, born 1744, died November 19, 1828; Triphena, born July 3, 1746, died young ; Gideon, born February 21, 1748, died June 7, 1833 : Samuel, born 1751, died April 12, 1807; David, born February I, 1756, died young ; Betty, born October 28, 1760; Isaac, baptized March 7. 1762, died young ; Abel, baptized February 10. 1765, died January 25, 1813: Thomas, baptized December 28, 1766, died 1849 : Dorman, born October 28, 1770, died May 31, 1861.


Gideon Leavenworth, third child of Thomas and Betsey (Davis) Leavenworth, lived in Water-


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town, later in Hampden, and while young re- moved to the Susquehanna valley in Pennsylva- nia. He afterward returned to Hampden, remov- ing thence to New Marlborough, Massachusetts, and from there returned to Watertown, where he died in the old Trumbull house, June 7, 1833. Gideon Leavenworth was remarkably familiar with the genealogy of his entire family, and there was hardly one of its members from the time of Dr. Thomas, of Ripton, with whose name, resi- dence and business he was not familiar. The Leavenworth Genealogy, published in 1873, was a revision and extension of his own earlier work. He was a millwright, and built mills in various places in early life. He lived in Oxford, Con- necticut, in 1808, and in 1812 moved to Towanda, Pennsylvania, from Shepherd's Brook, in Hamp- den, Connecticut. He married Mary Cole, daugh- ter of Thomas Cole, of Watertown, and had chil- dren: John, born Watertown, September 10, 1775, died August 27, 1822; Jared, born Water- town, March 8, 1780, died May 30, 1829; Mary, born Watertown, May 30, 1783, died March 7, 1870.


Jared Leavenworth, second son of Gideon Leavenworth and wife Mary Cole, born March 8, 1780, died Albany, New York, May 30, 1829, was at the time of his death a resident of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania. He was a contractor on pub- lic works, and was prominently identified with the construction of the Erie canal in New York state, and also with the Delaware and Chesa- peake canal, the latter a Pennsylvania project. He married first, May 2, 1800, Mary Osborn, born New Haven, Connecticut, August 30, 1782, died Savannah, Georgia, September 19, 1812. Strope, born Wysox, Bradford county, Penn- sylvania, February 16, 1792, died, Towanda, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1841, daughter of Sebastian and Lydia Van Valkenburg Strope. Their children were: (1) Susanna, born Hamp- den, Connecticut, March 16, 1801, died New Haven, Connecticut, September 12, 1802. (2) Susanna, born New Haven, October 18, 1804, went with her father to Towanda, Pennsylvania, and after his second marriage returned to Con- necticut, where she married Aeneas Sperry. She had children but lost one or more in the United States service during the war of 1861-5. (3) Henrietta, born January 12. 1806, went with her father to Towanda, and after his second mar- riage returned to Connecticut, where she mar- ried (first) Mr. Hotchkiss, and ( second) Philo Bradley, and lived near New Haven. (4) Ma- tilda E., born Genoa, New York, March 31,


1816, died January 23, 1844, unmarried. (5). Elma Ann, born July 31, 1818, died April 15,. 1822, at Clyde, Wayne county, New York, while her father was living there employed as canal contractor. (6) Franklin Jared, born Delaware City, Delaware, January 24, 1827, now of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.


Franklin Jared Leavenworth, youngest child of Jared and Jane (Strope) Leavenworth, was born January 24, 1827. He was educated at the old Towanda Academy, and came to Wilkes- Barre in 1843." He read law with Luther Kidder, Esq., and was admitted to the bar January 10, 1848. He began practice in Wilkes-Barre, but. at the end of about three years opportunities offered in other business occupations which promised more substantial reward and led him away from the ranks of the law. He became. variously interested in coal, real estate, and mer- cantile business, and devoted his attention to those and allied pursuits so long as he engaged in active operations. In 1853 he removed to. Scranton, and for some years was paymaster of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail- road Company, and superintendent of the Lack- awanna and Bloomsburg Railroad. In 1859 he went to New York City and was in the office of the comptroller and city chamberlain until 1863, when he engaged in banking. He soon after- ward went to Philadelphia, and thence in 1865 to. Wilkes-Barre, where he is still engaged in busi- ness. For about thirty-five years he has been vestryman and treasurer of St. Stephen's Prot- estant Episcopal Church, and long a director and vice-president of the People's Bank of Wilkes- Barre.


Franklin J. Leavenworth married (first), June 1, 1848, Harriet C. Steele, born Hanover,. Pennsylvania, March 27, 1827, died without issue, July 25. 1849, only daughter of George P. Steele (former sheriff of Luzerne county, state senator, etc.) and wife Mary Christian. He- married (second) November 6, 1852. Annie- Woodward, born Washington county, Ken- tucky, August 5. 1829, daughter of the- Rev. Enos Woodward and wife Sarah Murphy. (See Woodward Family. ) He


had by his second marriage : I. Woodward, born Scranton, Pennsylvania. November 22, 1853. 2. Jane, born Scranton, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1855, married James W. McCulloch, an importer, residing in New York city; they had Paul L. McCulloch : Mrs. McCulloch died February,. I887. 3. Enos, born Scranton, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1859, died April 1903. 4. Franklin,


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born Brooklyn, New York, March 2, 1862, mar- ried Elizabeth Lape, and had : Ruth, deceased ; Anna, deceased; Franklin, and Harriet; the father of these children was formerly engaged with his brother Woodward in the Pennsylvania Supply Company. 5. Annie, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1865, married Henry M. Harding, of Wilkes-Barre, and died August, 1890.


Woodward Leavenworth, eldest son of Frank- lin J. and Annie (Woodward) Leavenworth, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1853. He was educated in the private schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania; Brooklyn, New York; Philadephia, and Wilkes-Barre. At four- teen years of age he entered the First National Bank of Scranton to learn the banking business, remaining two years and holding various posi- tions, then entered the Second National Bank of Wilkes-Barre as assistant cashier, and two years later engaged with his father in the coal and real estate business for one year, after which he was employed as confidential clerk with Conyngham & Co., shippers of coal, remaining as such for two years. When Charles Parrish formed the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company he took charge of the real estate department, and was private secretary to Mr. Parrish, and during his connection with this company was also treasurer and secretary of the Hazard Manufacturing Company, which latter positions he held sixteen years. This company was then located at Mauch Chunk, but later removed to Wilkes-Barre. In company with William H. and John N. Conyng- ham, sons of William L. Conyngham, he formed the Pennsylvania Supply Company, Mr. Leaven- worth being the senior partner, and this connec- tion continued until February 29, 1904. During this time he assisted in forming the Red Ash Coal Company, organized in July, 1881, in which he was a director ; he also served as secretary, later secretary and treasurer, and upon the death of George H. Parrish, December, 1898, was elected vice-president, and on the death of M. B. Williams, October, 1903, was elected presi- dent, which position he still occupies. He has been a director of the Wilkes-Barre Deposit and Savings Bank since 1887, and was formerly a director of the Anthracite Savings Bank. In December, 1903, he was elected vice-president of the Wilkes-Barre Deposit and Savings Bank. In addition to his other business he also looks after a number of estates of which he is trustee. Mr. Leavenworth is a member of the Westmoreland Club, the Wyoming Valley Country Club, and


a life member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.


Mr. Leavenworth married, March 13, 1878, Ida Cornelia Miller, born Lackawanna, Pennsyl- vania, May 3. 1854, daughter of Garrick Mallery Miller and wife Jane Wilcox Stark. They had : Alice, born June 14, 1880, married October 8, 1902, Frederick P. Boynton, and had Elizabeth W., born November 8, 1903. 2. Helen Louise, born February 15, 1884, a senior at Vassar Col- lege. 3. Woodward, born February 1, 1890, died February 7, 1905. H. E. H.


ABBOTT FAMILY. George Abbott (I), born in 1615, the venerable ancestor of a numer- ous progeny, emigrated from Yorkshire, Eng- land, in 1637, and was among the first settlers in Andover, Massachusetts; in 1643. He was a proprietor, and during the colonial wars and for many years after his death his house was used as a garrison. He was a Puritan, and was in- dustrious, sober, pious, and respected. December 12, 1646, he married Hannah Chandler, daughter of William and Annis Chandler, of Roxbury, who came over in the same ship with their future son- in-law, accompanied by their four children- Thomas, Hannah, John, and William; Sarah, their fifth child, was born in Roxbury. George and Hannah Abbott endured with Christian for- titude and submission their trials, privations and dangers, of which they had a large share, and trained their children in the way they should go, from which they did not depart. George Ab- bott died December 24, 1681 ; his wife died June II, III. They had thirteen children, of whom the sixth was


William Abbott (2), born November 18, 1657, died October 21, 1713. He also was a Puritan in faith and Christian conduct. He resided in Andover, Massachusetts, near the home of Pro- fessor Stewart. He married, June 2, 1682, Elizabeth Geary, born July 10, 1661, who was daughter of Nathaniel Geary, of Roxbury, who married Ann Douglass, 1658; granddaughter of Denis Geary, (who came from London in the "Abigail" in 1635, and settled in Lynn, Massa- chusetts), and William Douglass, son of Robert Douglass, first of Gloucester, but of Boston in 1640. They had twelve children, of whom the ninth was


Philip Abbott (3), born April 3, 1699, died about 1748. He was a farmer, moved to Hamp- ton, Connecticut, from Andover, about 1722, and later removed to Windham, where most of his children were born. His estate was partially set-


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tled in the probate court, Windham, April 17, 1749. He married Abigail Bickford, October 20, 1723. They had eight children of whom the eighth was


John Abbott (4), born December 27, 1741, died July 18. 1778. He was a farmer in Wind- ham county, Connecticut, and was among the first to settle in Wyoming, Pennsylvania. He was in the battle of Wyoming, July 3, 1778, and escaped, but was soon after killed and scalped by the Indians, while, in company with Isaac Will- jams, he attempted to save a portion of his har- vest1. His house, barn and furniture were burned and his cattle lost. His widow, in a state of utter destitution, with nine small children, the eldest a son nine years old, begged their way to relatives in Connecticut. John Abbott built the first dwelling house in the borough of Wilkes- Barre, in 1769, and it was standing as late as 1812. November 4, 1762, he married Alice Ful- ler, first born child of Stephen Fuller. Lieutenant Thomas Fuller came in 1638, was of Woburn, Massachusetts, 1640, was a sergeant 1656, lieu- tenant 1685. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Margaret Tidd, June 13. 1643. and had Thomas Fuller, born April 30, 1644, married Martha Durgy, daughter of William and Martha (Cross) Durgy, and had


Stephen Fuller, married Hannah Moulton, June I, 1723. He was a native of Windham county, Connecticut, and emigrated to Wyoming, Pennsylvania, about 1768: he was in the Wyom- ing massacre. July 3. 1778, being the oldest man in the battle. His daughter Alice (first born) married John Abbott, November 4, 1762. They had eleven children of whom the fifth was


Stephen Abbott (5). born April 29, 1771, died July 22. 1853. He was a farmer of Jacobs Plains, Luzerne county. Pennsylvania. After the war he returned to the estate on which his father was killed. He married. July 14. 1799, Abigail Searle, daughter of William and Philena ( Frink) Searle, and granddaughter of Constant Searle, who was killed in the battle of Wyoming,


I. On November 30, 1895, a granite monument was erected on the exact spot where John Abbott and Isaac Williams were massacred. It is on the line of the Duryea traction line, on the old plank road, where Carey street, Plains. intersect. The ground was donated by J. Robertson Williams, a descendant of Isaac Williams, and the building fund was procured by Sid- ney Miner, a descendant of John Abbott, from other descendants of Abbott. The monument bears the fol- lowing inscription : "Near this spot John Abbott. aged 36 years, a survivor of the battle and massacre of Wyoming, and Isaac Williams, aged 17, were killed and scalped by Indians, in July, 1778."


Juy 3, 1778. She died June 2, 1842. Philena Frink, born January 21, 1755, married William Scarle, October 17, 1773; she was daughter of Andrew and Abigail ( Billings) Frink, second in descent from Samuel and Margaret (Wheeler) Frink, Increase and Hannah ( Hewitt) Billings ; third in descent from Samuel and Hannah (Miner) Frink, Isaac and Mary (Shepard ) Wheeler, Ebenezer and Anna ( Comstock) Bill- ings, Benjamin and Marie (Fanning) Hewitt ; fourth in descent from John and Grace ( Stevens ) Frink, Lieut .. Ephraim and Hannah ( Avery) Miner, Isaac and Martha ( Park) Wheeler. Rev. Jeremiah and Mary (Wainwright) Shepard, William Billings, Thomas and Hannah ( Palmer ) Hewitt, Edmund Fanning ; fifth in descent from John Frink, Thomas and Grace ( Palmer) Miner, Capt. James and Joanna (Greenslade) Avery, Thomas Wheeler, Thomas and Dorothy (Thomp- son) Park, Rev. Thomas and Margaret ( Bora- dale) Shepard, Francis Wainwright, Walter and Rebecca (Short) Palmer.


Constant Searle, born June 17, 1728. came from Stonington, Connecticut, to Wyoming with the first settlers, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Kinnecutt) Searle : second in descent from Na- thaniel and Sarah (Rogers) Searle : third in de- scent from Robert and Deborah (Salter) Searle. John and Elizabeth (Pabodie) Rogers ; fourth in descent from John and Ann (Churchman) Rog- ers, William and Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie : fifth in descent from Thomas Rogers, of the. Mayflower, Hugh Churchman, John Pabodie, John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, of the May- flower ; sixth in descent from William Mullins, who came in the "Mayflower," married Hannah Miner, born December 9, 1731. She was the daughter of Simeon and Hannah (Wheeler) Miner : second in descent from Captain Ephraim and Mary (Stevens) Miner, William and Han- nah (Gallup) Wheeler: third in descent from Lieut. Ephraim and Hannah (Avery) Miner, Richard and Mary (Lincoln) Stevens, Isaac and Martha (Park) Wheeler, Benadam and Esther (Prentice) Gallup: fourth in descent from Thomas and Grace ( Palmer) Miner. Capt. James and Joanna (Greenslade) Avery, Thomas and Mary Wheeler, Thomas and Dorothy ( Thomp- son) Park, Captain John and Hannah (Lake) Gallup, John and Esther Prentice: fifth in de- scent from Walter Palmer, Christopher Avery, and Captain John and Christobel Gallup. Stephen and Abigail (Searle) Abbott had five children, of whom the first was


John Abbott (6), born April 8, 1800, died No-


John Abbott


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vember 23, 1861. He was a farmer in Jacobs Plains, Pennsylvania, was a good friend and neighbor, an excellent financier and a most indus- trious business man. He married Hannah Court- right, daughter of Cornelius Courtright, Esq., March 11, 1830. She died May 4, 1892. Their children were: 1. Robert, born August 25, 1831, died young. 2. Lucy W., born November 25, 1833. 3. Robert Miner, born June 17. 1836. 4. Catharine C., born December 16, 1838, died April, 1894.


The Courtright family : The old Flemish town of Kortryk, the earliest home of the Kortright (Courtright) family of which there is any knowl- edge, is situated in the southeast part of West Flanders, Belgium, twenty-seven miles south- west of Ghent. During the early part of the sev- enteenth century, when civil and religious perse- cutions and wars had devastated the land, this family (one of the most wealthy in landed pos- sessions in Harlem) escaped their troubles by moving to Leerdam, in the eastern part of Hol- land.


Sebastian Van Kortryk (1), born in Kortryk, Belgium, had two sons, Jan Bastian and Michael, who was born at Leerdam. The first, Jan Bas- tian, married and settled at Beest, a little village further up the Linge within sight of Wolfsweart Castle, as also of the ruined abbey of Marien- weart. Michael, the second son .. (afterwards called Chiel) also married and had been living near Schonrewoerd, a pretty village two miles north of Leerdam, and after tarrying at the lat- ter place till blessed with several children, he and his brother Jan, whose three sons were fast approaching manhood, yielded to the flattering offers held out by the colonists, and agreed to leave for the distant land of New Amsterdam, Proceeding to Amsterdam, they all embarked in the good ship "Brindle Cow," Jan Bergin, mas- ter, in which there also sailed French refugees from Mannheim. There were ninety odd passen- gers, including men, women and children, the French comprising a third; each adult was charged thirty-nine florins, and children, except infants, half price. It cost Jan Bastian Van Kortryk for himself and family two hundred and four florins.


Jan Bastian Kortryk (2), born in Beest, Hol- land, first went to Stuyvesant's Bowery, but April 16, 1663, came to Harlem, New York. His chil- dren, all of whom were born at Beest, Holland, were Cornelius, born 1645 : Hendrick Jansen (3), 1648; Laurens, 1651 ; Belitie, 1659.


Hendrick Jansen Kortright (3), was born at Beest, Holland, in 1648. He came with his father


to Harlem in 1663. He bought land near Stuyve- sant's Bowery, February 12, 1669, but did not long hold it. He went to Esopus, at which place he married, December 14, 1672, Catherine Han- son, born in New York, daughter of Hans Weber, "Master at Arms," who died 1649, and whose widow married Mattleys Capito, removed to Eso- pus, and was killed by the Indians in 1663. Hen- drick Kortright purchased land at Rochester, Ul- ster county, settled there, and reared a large fam- ily who bore the name of Kortright of Courtright, whose descendants have become numerous. He died in 1740; his wife died in 1741, aged ninety- three years. They had a son Cornelius, born 1680, married Christianie Rosecrans, 1701.


Cornelius Courtright (4), born at Rochester, 1680, imarried December 26, 1701, Christianie Rosecrans. With his brothers, he subscribed for the minister at Rochester in 1717, and was a leading man there. He removed to Marbletown about the year 1744, where he bought land upon which he settled. They were the parents of a son, Benjamin Courtright.


Captain Benjamin Courtright (5), born at Rochester in 1726, married Catherine Cudde- back, a descendant of Jacob Codebec, the Hugue- not ancestor, and removed to Minisink, Orange county, near Port Jervis. He was the leader of the "Kortright Expedition," mentioned in Smith's "Legends of Shawangank." He was one of the captains of the Third Regiment, Ulster County militia, during the Revolution, serving under Colonel Levi Pawling and Colonel John Cantine. They had


Cornelius Courtright (6), born March 7, 1764, at Minisink, came to Wyoming, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and was one of the prom- inent men of his day. He was a commissioner of Luzerne county 1813-14-15-31 and 1832; jus- tice of the peace 1806 to 1840, and member of the ·legislature 1820-21 and 1823. He was an exten- sive land owner. October 1, 1786, Cornelius Courtright married Catherine Kennedy, daugh- ter of John Kennedy, and their children were: Jolın, married Louisa Searle, and their children were: George, Cornelius, Louisa and Hannah. Benjamin, married Clara Williams, and their children were: Hamilton, Frank, John Milton, James, Thomas and Mary. Henry married Sarah Bidleman, and their children were: Eliza- beth, Catherine, Rosanna, Margaret, Winfield Scott, Mary, Willliam, Ellen, Charles and Henry Harrison. Milton married Hannah Passmore, and their children were : Elizabeth, Norman, John and Alice. Helen became the wife of William Abbott and mother of children: Lucinda, Cor-




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