History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 4

Author: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1040


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Richard Hfough married 8 mo. 17, 1683- 4. Margery Clows, daughter of John and Margery Clows, theirs being the first mar- riage solemnized under the control of Falls Meeting. John Clows and Margery his wife and their children, Margery, Rebec- ca and William, came to Pennsylvania in the same ship with Richard Hough, from Gawsworth, Cheshire. Three other chil- dren, John, Joseph and Saralı, had pre- ceded their parents, arriving in the "Friends' Adventure" 7 mo. 28, 1682. John Clows be- came a large landowner in Bucks county and represented the county in the Provin- cial Assembly in 1683 and 1684. He died 7 mo. 4. 1687. and his widow Margery ~ mo. 2, 1698. The eldest son John He lec- 1683; Joseph married Elizabeth Juin- 866-67; was


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William, Sarah Hanfield; Sarah, John Bainbridge, of New Jersey ; Margery, Rich- ard Hough; and Rebecca, John Lambert, of Nottingham, New Jersey.


The children of Richard and Margery (Clows) Hough were :


2. Mary Hough, born 6 mo. I, 1685, died November II, 1720; married April 6, 1690, William Atkinson, of Bristol, Bucks colin- ty, Pennsylvania.


3. Sarah Hough, born 4 mo. 7, 1690, married first, 4 mo. 23, 1708, Isaac Atkin- son, brother of William; and (second) Leonard Shallcross, in 1724.


4. Richard Hough, married first, 1711- 12, Hester Browne, and (second) 7 mo. 27. 1717, Deborah Gumley.


5. John Hough, born 7 mo. 18, 1693, married, 1718, Elizabeth Taylor.


6. Joseplı Hough, born 8 mo. 17, 1695: died May 10. 1773: married 1725, Elizabeth West, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza- beth (Dungan) West.


Thomas Atkinson, father of William and Isaac Atkinson, was a minister of the So- ciety of Friends, and was born at Newby. Parish of Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He married Jane Bond at Knar- esborough Meeting, 4 mo. 4, 1678, and in 1681, with his wife and son Isaac, born March 2, 1679, came to America and set- tled for a time in Burlington county, New Jersey, but soon after removed to Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he bought a plantation. Thomas died 9 mo. 1, 1687, and the following year his widow Jane became the second wife of William Biles, before mentioned in this narrative. Another son, Samuel Atkin- son, married Ruth Beakes, widow of Will- iam Beakes and daughter of Mahlon Stacy, of West Jersey. This family of Atkin- son held high rank in colonial times. An account of Thomas Atkinson was published in a "Collection of Memorials of Deceased Ministers and others" (Phila. 1787) and also in "The Friend," vol. 27. In vol. 28 of "The Friend" is also a memorial of his wife, under the name of Jane Biles.


William Atkinson was a resident of Bris- tol borough and a member of town council there; was collector of excise eleven years, 1738-1749, coroner of Bucks county 1721, 1731-5, and 1737-1740; county commissioner 1722. He was for nearly thirty-three years an elder of Falls Monthly Meeting and a trustee for its real estate. He died in Bris- tol, October 29, 1749. The children of William and Mary (Hough) Atkinson were as follows :


(I). Sarah, born I mo. 10, 1704-5, died 10 mo. 1706.


(2). Hannah, born January 25, 1706-7. died December 9. 1760; married May, 1734. John Hall, of Bristol, his third wife. John Hall was a son of Robert Hall from the city of Westminster, England, who was the first coroner of Bucks county, and by his sec- sl. svifc, Elizabeth, daughter of George possessivom Bucklebury, Berkshire, Eng- while that possession acestor of the White family of


Bucks county. John Hall was a councilman of Bristol ; member of Assembly 1717 and 1740 to 1750; several times sheriff of Bucks county; a justice of the county courts, and succeeded his father-in-law, William Atkinson, as collector of excise. He was born 6 mo. 12, 1686, and died II mo. 10, 1768; married first Rebecca Rad- cliffe, daughter of James Radcliffe, an emi- nent minister among Friends and an early settler in Bucks county, for whom Radcliffe street in Bristol is named. He married (second) January, 1715, Sarah Baldwin, daughter of John and Sarah ( Allen) Bald- win, and granddaughter of Samuel Allen, who came from Chew Magna. Somer- set, England, and founded a family of highr standing in Bucks county and Philadel- phia.


(3). William Atkinson, born 9 mo. 19, 1707, married 7 mo. 24, 1734. Sarah Pawley, daughter of George and Mary (Janney ) Pawley, of Philadelphia (see Janney fam- ily). William Atkinson, Jr., was one of the early shipbuilders of Philadelphia, an industry for which that city is famous.


(4). Mary Atkinson, born 7 mo. 19, 1713, married July 9, 1745. at the First Presby- terian Church, Philadelphia, Daniel Bank- son, of Bensalem, son of Daniel and grand- son of Captain Andreas Bankson, one of the leading men among the early Swedish settlers at Philadelphia, whose descendants still hold a high place among the old families of that city.


(5). Joseph Atkinson, born 10 mo. 5, 1716. married first, 10 mo. 8, 1743, Janet Cowgill and (second) in 1762 Sarah Silver. He was a prominent man in Bristol borough, where his descendants are still people of high social standing. He succeeded his father as trustee of the real estate of Falls Meeting.


(6). Sarah Atkinson, born 9 mo. 4, 1719, died 2 mo. 7, 1726.


William Atkinson married ( second) June 5, 1722, Margaret Baker, daughter of Henry Baker, well known in the early annals of Bucks county and had five children: Ra- chel, Rebecca, Samuel, Isaac, and Thom- as. Rachel, the eldest, born 2 mo. 23, 1723, died 5 m0. 8. 1803, married 10 mo. 18. 1750, Thomas Stapler, son of John and Esther. (See Stapler Family).


3. Sarah Hough married Isaac Atkinson, another son of Thomas and Jane, born in Yorkshire. March 2, 1679, died in Bris- tol township, Bucks county, January 3. 1720-I, where he was a landowner. They had issue : Jane, born 6 mo. 6, 1709, married 1728. John Wilson, of Middletown, son of Stephen and Sarah ( Baker) Wilson, and grandson of Henry Baker above men- tioned, and left numerous descendants in Bucks: (2) John; (3) Thomas. Sarah ( Hough) Atkinson married second in 1724. Leonard Shalleross, by whom she had no children.


4. Richard Hough, eldest son of Richard and Margery, (Clows) Hough, inherited his father's home plantation of 416 acres


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and lived thereon during his life. He sold 100 acres and his heirs about 100 acres more, the remainder going to his son Hen- ry, and from him it descended to his grand- son Phineas Hough, who sold it about 1850. Richard Hough, Esq. was one of the lead- ing men of his time in Bucks county and took an active part in public affairs at a time when they were almost entirely in the hands of his class of gentlemen of landed estate. He was a justice of the peace and of the county courts for many years, and a member of Falls Meeting. He married February, 1711-12, Hester Brown, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Hardman) Baker, before mentioned, who had been the widow of Thomas Yardley, and of William Brown of Chichester, Chester county, Pennsylvania. Richard and Hester had one child, Richard, who died young. He married ( second) 7 mo. 27, 1717, Deborah Gumley, (widow of John Gumley, of Philadelphia, formerly New Castle county ) and had issue as follows :


8. William Hough, died without issue prior to 1755. 9. Deborah, married Thomas Davis, of Lower Makefield. 10. Margery, married Jonathan Saults, of Philadelphia. II. Henry Hough, born 8 mo. 11, 1724 (O. S.) died 8 mo. 27, 1796, married Io mo. 22, 1748, Rebecca Croasdale; see forward. 12. Mary, born 1726, died 1802; married 2 mo. 12, 1752 (O. S.) Anthony Burton, Jr., of Bristol. (See Burton Family ).


II. Henry Hough, son of Richard and Deborah, inherited 215 acres of the Make- field homestead and lived thereon the life of a country gentleman, taking little part in public affairs. He was a member of Falls Meeting. He married 10 ino. 22, 1748, Re- becca Croasdale, born 1727-8, died 1800, daughter of William and Grace (Harding) Croasdale of Newton township and had


eight children as follows: 13. Sarah, born 1751, married 1775, John Watson. 14. John, born 1753, married Hannah Watson and Mary Yardley. I5.


Deborah, born 1755, died 1773, unmarried. 16. Mary, born 1759. 17. Jesse, born 1761, died 1794, married Mercy Merrick. 18. Rachel, born 1764, died 1793, married David Heston. 19. Rebecca, born 1766, married Isaiah Ross, grandson of Thomas Ross, an eminent, minister among Friends and the ancestor of the eminent jurists, an account of whose family is given elsewhere in this work. 20. Henry, born 1768.


14. John Hough, born 9 mo. 16, 1753; eldest son of Henry and Rebecca (Croas- dale) Hough, lived on his father's planta- tion in Lower Makefield. He was a mem- ber of Falls Meeting, but was married by the Rev. William Frazer, a Church of Eng- land minister, in 1782. to Hannah Watson, and they had one child, Beulah. He mar- ried (second) about 1790, Mary Yardley, daughter of Richard and Lucilla ( Stack- house) Yardley, and a great-granddaughter of Thomas Janney, Provincial Councillor. (See Yardley, Stackhouse and Janney fam- ily sketches in this volume.) The children of John and Mary (Yardley) Hough, were :


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22. Phineas, born 12 mo. 20, 1700, died 5 mo. 6, 1876; 23. Lucilla, born 12 1110. 24, 1788, died 2 mo. 9, 1883, married Abraham Bond of Newtown, son of Levi and Hannah (Merrick) Bond, and a descendant of Phineas Pemberton, whom James Logan styles "The Father of Bucks County." (See Pemberton Family ).


Phineas Hough (22) inherited a part his grandfather's plantation in Lower Make- field and lived thereon until sixty years old; selling it in 1850 he removed to Ewing township, Mercer county, and resided with his son William A. Hough until his death in 1875. He married Elizabeth Carlile, by whom he had no issue. On February 25, 1819, he married Deborah Aspy, daugh- ter of William and Elizabeth Aspy, of Makefield, and had the following children: 24. William Aspy Hough, born December 4. 1819, died December II, 1888, married Eleanor Stockton; see forward. 25. John Hough, born November 26, 1879, became a Methodist minister and removed to Dela- ware, where he married Rebecca E. Dukes. 26. Mary S., born July 7, 1824, married Ja- cob Hendrickson, of Mercer county, New Jersey. 27. Samuel Yardley Hough, born February 14, 1827, died August, 1862, mar- ried Wealtha Allen, from Massachusetts, and removed to Kansas, where he died. 28. Phineas, born January 24, 1830, died May 28, 1869, in Philadelphia; married Lizzie E. Lynn. 29. Benjamin Franklin, born March 16, 1833, lived in Philadelphia. unmarried 30. Edwin W., born April 27, 1837. died in Philadelphia, April 30, 1863, of disease contracted in the army, having served in the celebrated Anderson Cavalry, 160th Regiment, P. V.


William -Aspy Hough (25) was born on the old homestead near Yardley, but in early life removed to property purchased in Ewing, New Jersey, and died there. He married Eleanor Stockton, of the disting- uished family of that name in New Jersey and they were the parents of five children : 31. John Stockton, see forward. 32. Will- iam Henry, died while a student at Rut- gers College. 33. Horace G., who inher- ited and is living on his father's plantation in Ewing. 34. Thomas J., and 35. Mary Emma, both died young.


John Stockton Hough, M. D. (31) eldest son of William A. and Eleanor (Stockton) Hough, was born on the old Hough planta- tion in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, December 5, 1845, and while a child removed with his parents to New Jersey. His edu- cation was obtained in the Ewing school, 1850-58; Trenton Academy, 1858-60; Mod- el School, Trenton, 1860-61; Fort Edward Institute, New York, 1861-62; Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1862-63; Polytechnic College, Philadelphia, civil engineering course, 1864-67; Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, 1865-68; received degree of M. D. at the University in 1868, and of Master of Chem- istry at the Polytechnic in 1870. He lec- tured on botany, Philadelphia, 1866-67; was


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appointed adjunct professor of Chemistry. Central High School, Pheladelphia. 1868; resident physician, Philadelphia Hospital, 1868-9; lecturer on Physiology, Wagner In- stitute, Philadelphia, 1868-69 Philadelphia Dispensary, 1869; Lying-in Charity Hospit- al, 1869; medical adviser U. S. Life Insur- ance Company, 1869-73; Berkshire Life In- surance Company, 1875 ; and practiced medi- cine in Philadelphia 1869-74. While physi- cian at Philadelphia Hopsital he made orig- inal discoveries in reference to trichinae. He invented a plan for fireproof building construction in 1870, and was the inventor of various surgical instruments in 1868- 70. He was the author of about thirty pa- pers and pamphlets on hygiene, biology. speculative physiology, social science, vital statistics, population and political economy, published in medical and scientific journals in this and foreign countries, from 1868 to 1886. These papers attracted much at- tention, and some were translated, and published in foreign languages, and through them membership in various learned socie- ties was conferred on him, and a sketch of his life was published in Johnson's and Appleton's Encyclopædias. and in the En- cyclopaedia Britanica. His magnus opus was a bibliography of medical literature of the fifteenth century, intended to be en- titled "Incunabula Medica." He had lists printed of all the known medical books of that time, of which there were about 1.500, and sent copies of it to public libraries and private collectors all over the world. with the request to mark on the list such books as they had copies of, and to make certain remarks about them and return the lists. He also visited many important li- braries and most of the famous Universi- ties in France, Germany, and Italy, and mas- tered the languages of these countries, mak- ing eleven voyages to Europe in connection with this mammoth work, and traveled extensively in this country. Before his death nearly all the lists sent out had been returned. but he had not finished the com- pilation (which, besides the matter con- tained in the lists, was to include biogra- phies of all the authors) when death over- took him. It is to be sincerely hoped that some day the work so well begun will be taken up and finished. During this period of his life he also gathered together a li- brary on medical and related subjects es- timated to contain 10,000 titles. It was his desire that this library should be kept intact. but leaving no will. it was sold by his administrators to the College of Physi- cians, who transferred about 1.900 volumes to the library of the University of Pennsyl- vania. He was much interested in local history and the history of old Bucks county families, and furnished considerable mater- ial for Davis's "History of Bucks County." first edition, 1876. In 1890 he purchased a property in Ewing township, where he had always retained his voting residence, and named it Millbank, and spent the remainder of his 'life there. He also owned, with his


brother Horace, a farm in Hopewell town- ship, and a half interest in the Ewing flour mill near his home. He took a deep interest in that section where his boyhood was spent, and devoted great efforts for work of road improvements in that section, capably serv- ing in the capacity of county supervisor of roads.


John Stockton Hough, M. D., as eldest son, back to Richard Hough, Provincial Councillor, was the head of the Hough fam- ily of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was one of the revivers of the Aryan Order of St. George, of the Holy Roman Empire in the Colonies of America, which was found- ed by Sir Thomas Forsythe, Viscount de Fronsac, a British-American officer, with the allies fighting the Revolution in France, who in 1798 was given authority by Em- peror Joseph II to organize the American families who were descended from noble European blood, or from officers holding royal commissions in the colonies. A num- ber of persons were admitted during the early years of its existence, but it was not thoroughly organized until 1879, when some of the members met in Boston for that pur- pose, and it was more formally organized in the rooms of the Maryland Historical Society. October 28, 1880.


Dr. Stockton-Hough, as he styled himself. was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, being confirmed by Bishop Stev- ens in Philadelphia in 1873. He married first. January 29, 1874. Sarah Macomb Wetherill, daughter of Dr. William Weth- erill, of Fatland. Montgomery county. Penn- sylvania, a descendant of Christopher Wethrul. of West Jersey, ancestor of the well known Philadelphia family of that name. She died in Florence, Italy, in 1875, leaving an only daughter, Frances Eleanor Agrippina Etrusca Hough, who was born in Florence, December 30, 1874. and died un- married at Millbank, April 4. 1893. Dr. Hough married (second) June 30. 1887, in New York City, Edith Reilly, daughter of Edward and Anna Russun (Rogers) Reilly, of New York. Her father was a graduate of Yale, and a large mine owner in the west, and her mother's ancestors were prominent in Delaware and the eastern shore of Mary- land. Dr. Stockton-Hough was a member of the Grolier Club and University Club of New York. He died at Millbank, May 6, 1900.


DESCENDANTS OF JOHN HOUGH, SECOND SON OF RICHARD AND MARGERY HOUGH. 5. John Hough, second son of Richard and Margery (Clows) Hough, born 7 mo. 18, 1693, in- herited his father's upper tract adjoining the Manor of Highlands and included in Upper Makefield in 1737. It comprised 359 acres. It is not known how he disposed of it, and he left no will, and none of his children are known to have resided upon it in later years. It is probable that he conveyed a portion of it to the Taylors, his wife's brothers, as a descendant of Mah- lon K. Taylor, who married Elizabeth


JOHN STOCKTON HOUGH


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Hough, a great-granddaughter of John Hough, inherited it and founded Taylors- ville. John Hough was a justice of the Bucks county courts for several years, and his death is said to have occurred while filling this position some time after 1733: He married II mo. 1718, at Falls Meeting, Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Philip and Julianna Taylor, of Oxford township, Phila- delphia county. Her brothers removed to Bucks county and founded a wealthy and in- fluential family there. The children of John and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough were :


40. John, born II mo. 3, 1720, died 1797, married Sarah Janney ; see forward.


41. Joseph, born 5 mo. 20, 1722, died 1777 ; married 1746, Lydia Hurst, and their descendants removed to Loudoun Coun- ty, Virginia, where one of his children married a Washington.


42. Benjamin Hough, born 4 mo. 14, 1724, died 2 mo. 10, 1803, removed to Phila- delphia when a young man, accumulated a fortune, and spent the latter part of his life in traveling in the interests of religion. He lived for a time in Wilmington, Dela- ware, later at Nottingham, Cecil county, Maryland, and about 1771 located in Little Britain township, Lancaster county, where he died. He married first, 1748, Elizabeth West, daughter of Thomas, of Wilmington, by whom he had three children, of whom only Benjamin survived his father. He mar- ried (second) 1781, Sarah Janney, widow of Isaac Janney, of Cecil county, Maryland. Their only child, John, died at the age of seven years.


43. Isaac Hough, born 9 ino. 15, 1726, died 4 mo. 13, 1786, married Edith Hart ; see forward.


44. William Hough, born II no. I, 1727-8, married 1749, Sarah Blaker, daugh- ter of Samuel and Catharine of Warwick, Bucks county.


45. Thomas Hough, born 11 10. 2, 1729-30, died 5 mo. 18, 1810; married 1857, Jane Adams; 1784. Mary (Bacon) Wistar. He removed to Philadelphia in early life and became one of the wealthy men of that time. He lived at No. 20 Pine street. By first wife had six children, all except two of whom died young; Elizabeth married James Olden, of the New Jersey family, and "Betsy Hough's wedding" is referred to in the "Journal of Elizabeth Drinker," one of Mrs. Drinker's daughters being a brides- maid. Jane, the other daughter, married Halladay Jackson, of the Chester county family, well known in Friends' annals. One of her sons was John Jackson, the min- ister. One of her descendants is Mrs. Isaac H. Clothier. Mary (Bacon-Gilbert) Wis- tar, the second wife of Thomas Hough, was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Test) Bacon, of Bacon's Neck, Cumberland county, New Jersey. She married first, Thomas Gilbert, of Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, and (second) Richard Wistar, whose family is prominent in the social life of Philadelphia to this day. There was no issue by the second marriage.


46. Septimus Hough, born 4 mo. 21, 1731, died in Philadelphia 9 mo. 3, 1749.


47. Elizabeth, born 12 mo. 15, 1732-3, married Nathan Tomlinson.


48. Bernard, born II mo. 15, 1734-5; said by an old record to have died "in France."


49. Martha, born 4 mo. 22, 1737, married David Bunting, son of Samuel and Priscilla (Burgess) Bunting, of the Bucks county branch of the descendants of Anthony Bunting, who came from Matlock, Derby- shire, and settled in Burlington county, New Jersey.


50. Samttel, born 2 mo. 15, 1739.


John Hough (40) eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough, removed to Loudoun county, Virginia, where he became a very large landed proprietor, and built a fine mansion known as "Corby Hall." He was an elder of Farfax Monthly Meeting, and represented his Quarterly Meeting in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; was well known in northern Virginia, and held in high esteem not only by the members of the Society of Friends butt by the "cava- lier" gentry of that section, with whom some of his children and grandchildren intermar- ried. When a number of prominent Phila- delphia Quakers were exiled to Winchester. Virginia, during the Revolution, by or- der of the supreme executive council, John Hough visited them and was active in se- curing their release. A number of his let- ters on this subject are preserved in the Pemberton mss. collection in the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He is mentioned in the diary of George Wash- ington, on the occasion of the latter spend- ing a night at Corby Hall, and in other places. John Hough married, in 1742, in Bucks county, Sarah Janney, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Biles) Janney, a granddaughter of Thomas Janney and of William Biles, both provincial councillors from Bucks county, and among the greatest of the founders of the county. Their nine children all married and reared families, most of them intermarrying with Virginia families, though some of the married into Bucks county families who had migrated to Virginia. They have left many disting- uished descendants, among whom may be mentioned, Emerson Hough, of Chicago, novelist, historian and journalist, author of "Mississippi Bubble," and "The Way to the West," etc.


Isaac Hough (43) fourth son of John and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough, removed early in life to Warminster township, Bucks county, where he purchased about 236 acres of land. He married, September 24, 1748, Edith Hart, born May 14, 1727, died March 27, 1805, daughter of John and Eleanor (Crispin) Hart, of Warminster, and sister of Colonel Joseph Hart, of the continental army, county lieutenant ; member Bucks County Committee of Safety, etc., one of the most prominent figures in the Revolu- ionary struggle in Bucks county. (See Hart family). Her father, John Hart, was sheriff


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of Bucks county, justice of the county courts, coroner, etc. She was a granddaugh- ter of Thomas Holme, surveyor-general of Pennsylvania and sometime president of Provincial Council.of Pennsylvania, former- ly of the Parliamentary army in the civil war in England. Also great-granddaughter of Captain William Crispin, acting rear admiral in the British navy, and one of Penn's commissioners for settling the Col- ony in Pennsylvania; and of Captain John Rush, also of the Parliamentary army, an- cestor of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, etc. She was granddaughter of John Hart, from Witney, Oxfordshire, an early minister among Friends who joined the Keithians, and finally became a Baptist preacher, one of the most learned men of the colony, and of Silas Crispin who, through his mother, Anne Jasper, was a first cousin to William Penn. Isaac Hough left the Society of Friends and joined the Baptists, to which sect his wife belonged. In 1775 he joined the Warminster Company of Associators, in the Second Battalion of Bucks County Mi- litia, Colonel John Beatty. In July, 1776, he was appointed by the County Committee of Safety one of the committee to distribute allowances to families in need whose hus- bands were in the military service. On Au- gust 29, 1777, he was appointed one of the members of the committee from Warminster to attend to the driving off of cattle to pre- vent them from falling into the hands of the British. The children of Isaac and Edith (Hart) Hough were as follows :




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