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"Keith House, in Horsham, was commeneed in 1721; the coat-of-arms of the family, with the excep- tion of the motto, 'Remember thy End,' was placed on the contract by Sir William, which proves the exact date of the house (1722).
" The plate in the chimney was placed there by Dr. Græme in 1728. Sir William Keith received the appointment through William Penn, and was, through his elegant manner of living, unpopular with the Quakers. He returned in 1728 and published in England an account of the colonies, and urged their taxation for the defense against the French and In- dians. This is supposed to be the first suggestion ot taxation which brought on the war of the Revolution. "Keith never returned to Pennsylvania, and died in the Old Bailey Prison, London, November 18, 1749. When Governor Keith came to Pennsylvania he brought with him his wife, who had been the widow of Robert Jiggs, of England, and his step- daughter, Ann Jiggs, and also Dr. Thomas Græme, who lived in the eity, north side of Chestnut Street, above Sixth. Dr. Thomas Græme married Ann, step-daughter of Sir William Keith, November 12, 1719. After Sir William left for England, Dr. Græme moved to what is now Horsham, and then named the place Grame Park, which comprised a tract from Keith of twelve hundred acres. Keith had it as a hunting park, and grand fêtes of hunting-parties of lords and gentlemen assembled at the house, and from there started out for deer, pheasants and other game.
" As in the old country, Lady Keith lived in seclu- sion at Ilorsham and in Philadelphia, and died July 31, 1740, aged sixty-five years.
" Dr. Græme was in the course of his life a member of the Council, port physician and many years collector of the port of Philadelphia. Dr. and Ann Græme, his wife, had a daughter who married a Ferguson.
" Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson lived at Græme Park, and became noted through her alleged complicity in attempting to bribe Joseph Reed during the Revolu- tionary war.
" Jane Græme, sister of Dr. Græme, lived also at the park, and married James Young and had three children ; one of them married William Smith, M.D., a graduate of Pennsylvania University, in 1771, and father of Samuel F. Smith, for many years president of the Philadelphia Bank.
" During the Revolution Græme Park was the head- quarters of General Lacey, commanding the Penn- sylvania militia, in operations against the British. The drawing-room of the mansion was occupied as the guard-room and the lawn occupied by the head- quarters camp. Græme Park remained in the family of Dr. Græme for a short time after the Revolutionary war, when it passed into other hands, and in 1801 came into possession of the Penrose family, where it still remains."
The old stone mansion built by Keith is still stand- ing, and in as good a state of preservation as when
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first built. It stands but a few rods from the residence of Mr. Penrose, and occupied by some of his tenants.
Mrs. Penrose has in lier possession an oil painting of Mrs. Ferguson, painted when she was a little girl of probably three or four summers. The work was evidently done by one of the old masters of the art, and is still perfect in every detail, and, to one of artistic taste is a painting of rare excellence, and is highly prized by its owner.
WILLIAM LUKENS JARRETT.
William Lukens Jarrett is a lineal descendant of the pioneer family of that name who located in what
of Horsham township; John was a farmer, and owned a farm near Babylon,-the farm now owned by Charles M. Jarrett. John Jarrett became the father of the following children : Jonathan, born in 1805, married Agnes Roberts, of Horsham township, and died in 1884. Agnes is also deceased. Ann, born in 1807, married Chalkley Kenderdine, and died in 1871; he died Second Month 23, 1885. James died in infancy. Mary, born in 1811, married Charles L. Dager, and now lives in Gwynedd township; Han- nah, born in 1814, died in 1860; Tacy, born in 1816, married Richard S. Moore, of Horsham township.
William L., the subject of this notice, was born Sixth
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is now Montgomery County, then Bristol township, Philadelphia Co. William J. Buck, in his "History of Montgomery County " speaks of Thomas and Levi Jarrett as living in what is now Upper Dublin town- ship. John Jarrett, the great-grandfather of William L., was born in 1702, and Mr. Buck speaks of him as one of the first or original officers of the Hatboro' Library Company, in 1775.
This John was married and had a son, Jonathan, who became the father of children, as follows : John, born in 1779; Richard; Isaac and Jonathan. John, who was born in 1779, was married, Fifth Month 20, 1803, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Lukens,
Month 28, 1819. He remained at home assisting in the duties and labors pertaining to farm-life, and at the death of his father, in 1849, purchased the old homestead, and continued the occupation of a farmer, adding to his landed estate as it seemed to him de- sirable, and in 1870 sold the old homestead to Charles MI. Jarrett, retaining for himself the farm ocenpied by Charles Dager and the store property at Davis Grove, where he resides with his nephew, John H. Jarrett.
Mr. Jarrett has thus far passed through life in single blessedness, and without the annoyances in many in- stances pertaining to the marriage relation. Hisjourney
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thus far has been one of honest industry and uprightness of character, and he is highly esteemed by his fellow- citizens as one of the progressive men of the age, who could be trusted in whatever capacity he was placed. He has honored the position of school director of Horsham for six years, and the office of town auditor, for several terms. Mr. Jarrett adheres strictly to the religion of his ancestors, and is a member of Horsham Monthly Meeting.
WILLIAM J. HALLOWELL AND THE "JARRETT HOMESTEAD FARM."
William J. Hallowell was the son of John R. and Ann J. Hallowell, and was born October 12, 1813.
so numerous and widely seattered, and of which the following history and genealogical sketch has been gathered. Samuel Carpenter, in 1702, obtained from William Penn five thousand and eight acres of land, for one English silver shilling for every one hundred acres, which he disposed of to different parties of the early settlers, and in 1709 that now known as the " Jarrett homestead farm," with a part of the land owned by George W. Jarrett, was conveyed to John Lukens, supposed to be the father of Mary Lukens, who married John Jarrett, into whose possession the farm came in 1726, who was the first of the Jarrett family to settle in the then new county.
From an old English Bible in possession of the
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He assumed farming as an occupation on the com- pletion of his education, which was in his twenty- first year, and in 1844 removed to the farm belonging to his mother, situated in Horsham township, known as the "Jarrett homestead farm," which is one of the traets of land of Montgomery County that has remained in the same family since its settlement by William Penn, particularly interesting as being the homestead of the Jarrett family, which has become
family, printed in 1715, which John Jarrett, in 1751, presented to his son John " and the heirs of his body forever and ever," it is learned that the name was in those days spelled Jerrett, and that he and his wife, Mary, emigrated from Scotland and were members of the Society of Friends.
No account is given of their having but one ehild, known as John Jarrett, Jr., born 3d, Third Month, 1719, to whom all their land was deeded in 1741.
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John Jarrett, Jr., married Alice Conard, and from their twelve children are descended numerous Jar- retts, scattered in various parts of the country.
These twelve, with their births and deaths, are as follows: John Jarrett, born Eighth Month 12, 1741, died Seventh Month 19, 1819; Mary (unmarried), born Seventh Month 25, 1742; Elizabeth, born Fifth Month 19, 1744 (married Mordecai Thomas), died, aged ninety years; Hannah, born Eighth Month 2, 1745 (married John Heston); Rachel, born First Month 14, 1747 (married Anthony Williams), died First Month 12, 1818; William, born Ninth Month 23, 1748, died Ninth Month 13, 1827; Alice, born Eleventh Month 13, 1750 (married Jonathan Thomas), died Ninth Month 8, 1824; Jonathan, born First Month 31, 1753 (married Hannah Mather), died Third Month 8, 1835; David, born First Month 15, 1755 (married Rebecca Cadwallader), died Fifth Month 16, 1815; Jesse, born Third Month 26, 1757 (married Eliz. Palmer) ; Tacy (died young), born Seventh Month 24, 1758 ; Joseph, born Ninth Month 7, 1761 (married Rachel Edge), died Eleventh Month 24, 1861.
William Jarrett, the sixth child of John and Alice Jarrett, married Ann, daughter of John Inkens, of Philadelphia, and came into the possession of the " homestead farm " in 1774.
The children of William and Ann Jarrett were as follows : Jane Jarrett, born Twelfth Month 18, 1775 (married Thomas Thompson) ; Mary, born Second Month 2, 1777; William, born Fourth Month 19, 1779 (unmarried), died Eighth Month 10, 1860; Mary, born Sixth Month 15, 1781 (married Israel Hallowell, of Abington township), and died Sixth Month 26, 1867 ; Hannah Jarrett, born Tenth Month 1, 1783 (married William Penrose) ; Tacy, born Ninth Month 16, 1785 (married Charles Stokes, of Burling- ton County, N. J.), died Ninth Month 15, 1877 ; Ann, born Eleventh Month 26, 1787 (married John R. Hallowell, of Abington township), died Seventh Month 26, 1867; Alice, born Seventh Month 15, 1791 (mar- ried Caleb Lippincott, of Burlington County, N. J.), and died Ninth Month 15, 1831.
On the death of William Jarrett, in 1827, one hundred and forty-six acres were deeded to his daughter Ann, married to John R. Hallowell, and the remaining seventy-eight acres were bought by her husband from the heirs for seventy dollars per acre, so that they became possessors of all the original tract.
For a period of fifteen years the same tract was rented to John Scott for the sum of three hundred dollars a year, which was finally increased to six hundred dollars. In 1844, Ann Jarrett Hallowell's son, William J. Hallowell (the present owner), took possession, and in 1863, for the average sum of one hundred and five dollars per acre, a deed for the same was transferred to him.
to Tacy Ann Paul, daughter of Joshua Paul, of Bucks County, who was the possessor of a large tract of land joining the Jarrett homestead farm, a portion of the same five thonsand and eight acres which Samuel Carpenter obtained of William Penn, trans- ferred in 1727 to James Paul, a son of Joseph Paul, of Oxford township, who is supposed to have emi- grated from Wales about 1700.
This farm has also ever since remained in the same family, at present in that of the fifth generation.
Of the five children of William J. and Tacy Ann Hallowell, the third, William J. Hallowell, Jr., is the only son. He married Anna E. Thomas, daughter of the late Abner and Sarah Ann Thomas, of Montgom- ery County, and in 1873 took possession of the " Jarrett homestead farm," which he still occupics.
The Doylestown and Willow Grove turnpike, made in 1839, cut the farm, which was square in shape, diagonally in two, and supplanted the old Easton road, which was the route by which all the merchandise was conveyed from Philadelphia to Easton, that now passing by Davis Grove, then known as Jarrett's Corner, and forming the western boundary line of the farm, being a part of the same.
On the western side of the same pike, buildings were erected in 1872, which have ever since been occupied by the present owner ; thus the original tract, comprising two hundred and twenty acres, is divided into two farms of about one hundred and ten acres each, although as yet they are virtually one and the same, in that they continue, as heretofore, to be man- aged and cultivated.
The "Jarrett homestead farm," one of the most produetive and valuable in the connty, is possessed of considerable historic interest, in that there are centered the numerous traditions connected with the large family of Jarretts.
At present there reside on it three generations, and the ninth to-day is as loyal to the religions So- ciety of Friends as were its ancestors of over a century and a half ago. The homestead farm well attests to the energy and capacity of its present owner and the ability which characterizes him in all undertakings ot a public nature.
A man of education and culture, and so eminently successful as a farmer, he is prominent in Montgomery County as one who has done much in a practical way to lift hand-work from the contempt into which it has fallen, and to prove the entire compatibility of mannal labor and mental culture.
The following are the children of William J. and Tacy Ann Panl Hallowell : Annie J., born Eighth Month 10, 1846, married Elwood Lukens, and died Tenth Month 27, 1873 (they were the parents of one child,-Annie H., born Ninth Month 21, 1873, died Eleventh Month 29, 1873) ; Hannah P., born Eleventh Month 29, 1848 ; William J., Jr., born Tenth Month 9, 1851; Lizzie W., born Fifth Month 10, 1854; Mary
On the 28th of Third Month, 1845, he was married | P., born Fifth Month 17, 1858.
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The following record is taken from same source as above.
Children of Joseph Paul, son of James Paul and Mary, his wife, and Hannah Paul, daughter of James Paul and Sarah, his wife,-Sarah Paul, born Fifth Month 7, 1771; Sidney Paul, born Second Month 4, 1773; John Paul, born Sixth Month 23, 1774; Howard Paul, born Sixth Month 25, 1781; Yeamans Paul, born Twelfth Month 21, 1783.
Children of Joshua Paul, son of Joseph Paul and Hannah, his wife, and Hannah Stokes, daughter of John and Susanna Stokes,-Susanna Paul, born Ninth Month 13, 1797 ; Joseph Paul, born Eleventh Month
native of Ireland, both emigrating to this country during the latter part of the last century, and locating in Bucks County, Pa., where they became the par- ents of a family, one of whom was William.
Gilbert W. Ely, son of William and Rebecca Ely, was born Eleventh Month 17, 1804, in Newtown, Bucks Co., Pa., where he lived until 1828, when he married and moved to Montgomery County, Pa., where he, in 1854, purchased a farm, upon which he resided till 1877, when he purchased the property he now occupies in Horsham township and retired from the active duties of a farmer.
Mr. Ely has lived upon a farm all his life, or until
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11, 1799; Sidnea Paul, born Third Month 7, 1802; John Paul, born Seventh Month 29, 1804; Morris Paul, born Eleventh Month 30, 1807; Hannah and Commings Paul (twins), born Fifth Month 3, 1809; Rachel S. Paul, born Third Month 14, 1812; Yea- mans Paul, born Ninth Month 5, 1814; Tacy Ann Paul, born Third Month 28, 1817.
GILBERT W. ELY.
Gilbert W. Ely is of English-Irish descent, as his grandfather, George Ely, was a native of England, and his grandmother, Sarah (McGill) Ely, was a
1877, always attending strietly to the duties pertain. ing to that branch of business, honored and respected by his fellow-townsmen and acquaintances, seeking neither honor nor profit from any but the hard-earned source of an honest farmer's life. He has diligently shunned the path leading to political honors, never having occupied but two official positions,- a school director and a township collector, each for a term of three years. He was born and reared in the Society of Friends, and is a member of Horsham Monthly Meeting.
He was married, Tenth Month 4, 1828, to Sarah D.,
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daughter of Joshua and Hannah Corson, who was born Eighth Month 26, 1808, in Upper Makefield, Bucks Co., Pa. Her father and mother were both natives of Bucks County, where her father was born in 1780 and died in 1870, and where also his wife died in July, 1855, aged seventy-five years.
Benjamin Corson, grandfather of Mrs. Ely, was born in Bucks County, where he died at the age of sixty-six years. Sarah Dungan, wife of Benjamin Corson, was also a native of Bucks County, where she also died at the age of sixty-six years.
The following are the names of the children and grandchildren of George W. and Sarah D. Ely.
I. Hannah C., born Second Month 1, 1830, married George, son of Naylor Webster, of Horsham town- ship. Their children are Joshua C., born First Month 20, 1856; and Ella, born Eighth Month 27, 1857.
11. Joshua C., born Ninth Month 28, 1833, died Sixth Month 1, 1853.
III. Rebecca Smith, born First Month 29, 1837 - married George S., son of Charles Teas, of Horsham township. They have one child, Ellen, born Tenth Month 15, 1857.
IV. William Elwood, born Ninth Month 13, 1842, married Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Hannah Cunard, of Fitzwater township, Bucks Co., Pa. They have children,-Francis Edward C., born Third Month 26, 1867; Bertha Estelle, born Eighth Month 22, 1868.
In 1862, William Elwood Ely commenced the study of medicine, and graduated in 1864 from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and during that year was com- missioned as surgeon in the United States army and assigned to duty at Fraley Hospital, Washington, D. C., and subsequently placed in charge of the Sixth Veteran Reserves, at Sherburn Barracks. He was subsequently transferred to Philadelphia, Pa., and assigned to duty in Mcclellan United States Army General Hospital, and subsequently appointed exam- ining surgeon for General Hancock's corps, Army of the Potomac. At the close of the war he returned to Fox Chase, where he commenced the practice of medicine, practicing in that place and Frankford until 1877, when he relinquished the practice of med- icine and engaged in the real estate business at North Wales, Montgomery Co., Pa., where he now resides.
V. Anna Louisa, born Third Month 31, 1847, mar- ried Israel, son of Robert and Mary Mullins, of Hors- ham township. Anna Louisa died Third Month 16, 1883, leaving three sons,-Howard E., born Tenth Month 6, 1874; Clarence, born Eighth Month 3, 1877; Wesley, born Seventh Month 8, 1882.
VI. Adele C., born Second Month 25, 1853, married Samuel C., son of Amos and Ascenath Lukens, of Philadelphia. They have children,-Elsie, born Sec- ond Mouth 24, 1876, died Seventh Month 16, 1876; Gilbert E., born Eleventh Month 17, 1877, died Sixth Month 1, 1880; Jessie May, born Fifth Month 2,
1880; Marion, born Twelfth Month 27, 1882; Edward S., born Twelfth Month 27, 1883.
JACOB KIRK.
I. John Kirk, progenitor of this branch of the family of that name in Montgomery County, emigrated from Freedtown, Derbyshire, England, in 1687, and located in Darby (now Upper Darby), in Dela- ware County, Pa., where he purchased five hundred acres of land. He was a member of the Friends' Society, and was married in the Darby Meeting, the same year he located, to Joan, daughter of Peter Elliott, and died in 1705. John and Joan Kirk were the parents of ten children.
II. John, the second son of John and Joan Kirk, was born the 29th of First Month, 1692. In 1712, this John, Jr., purchased from John and Sarah Iron- monger two hundred acres of land in Abington town- ship, adjoining Upper Dublin township, on which he lived the remainder of his life. The price paid for this two hundred acre tract was two hundred and sixty pounds. He subsequently made another pur- chase of five hundred acres of land in Upper Dublin township. It appears that he was a stone-mason by occupation, and in 1722 built the stone mansion for Sir William Keith on the farm now owned by Abel Penrose, in Horsham township, and known as Græme Park Mansion. In that year he married, in Abington Meeting, Sarah, daughter of Rynear Tyson, the emi- grant. John and Sarah Kirk were the parents of eight children.
III. Jacob, the fourth son of John and Sarah Kirk, was born 20th of Seventh Month, 1735. IIe married, in Abington Meeting, in 1760, Elizabeth, daughter of John Cleaver, of Bristol township, Philadelphia Co., Pa. He inherited the homestead, lived to be ninety-three years of age, and died in the same house where he was born. They were the parents of eight children.
IV. Jacob, the third son of Jacob and Elizabeth Kirk, was born the 23d of Ninth Month, 1769, and in 1792 he married, in Horsham Meeting, Rebecca, daughter of Charles and Phebe Iredell, and they be- came the parents of eleven children. His father, Jacob Kirk, Sr., divided his farm of two hundred acres, and erected new buildings on that part adjoin- ing the Welsh road, where the father, mother and three of their children ended their days.
V. Aaron, second son of Jacob and Rebecca Kirk, was born in Abington township, Montgomery Co., Second Month 2, 1802, and lived on his father's farm until he was between fifteen and sixteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to Stevenson Croes- dale, of Mechanicsville, then in Byberry township, now in the Twenty-third Ward of Philadelphia, to learn the trade of a wheelwright. After serving his time he worked as a journeyman wheelwright for about two years, when by an accident he lost a portion of his right arm. He was then engaged for a few years
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in the manufacture of lime at Sandy Run, Pa., and in 1836 he purchased the farm now occupied by his son Jacob, where he lived until the date of his death, which occurred March 29, 1877. He married, in , Byberry Monthly Meeting, Third Month 14, 1833, Ann, daughter of Samuel and Rachel Paul, of By- berry township, now Twenty-third Ward, Philadel- phia ; she was born Fifth Month 10, 1807, and died Fourth Month 9, 1881.
Their children were as follows: Rachel, born Eleventh Month 2, 1835, died Third Month 2, 1837 ;
Amanda, daughter of Martin and Mary K. Bowen, of Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill Co., Pa. The result of this union has been,-
Ida Genevieve, born First Month, 31, 1866, married Oliver Hazard S. Mourer, of Watsontown, Northum- berland Co., Pa. They have one child, Cleveland Kirk, born July 13, 1884.
Mary Ann, born August 6, 1867.
Aaron, born November 6, 1869.
('arrie Burnham and Emma Elizabeth (twins), born First Month 24, 1875. The first-named died Third
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Jacob, born Fourth Month 1, 1838; Edwin, born September, 1840; Stephen Treadwell, born in Feb- ruary, 1842, died Twelfth Month 16, 1877, aged thirty-five years.
Of the Pand family, Samuel died Fourth Month S, 1845, aged seventy-five years ; Phebe K. Stackhouse died Fifth Month 6, 1845, aged forty-five years and three months ; Rachel Paul died Eleventh Month 27, 1859, aged eighty-four years and four months; Hannah A. Martindale died Fourth Month 18, 1874, aged forty years.
VI. Jacob Kirk, eldest son of Aaron and Rachel, was married, Eleventh Month 26, 1864, to Mary Ann 58
[ Month 12, 1876, and the last-named died Fifth Month 10, 1883.
Mr. Kirk inherited the homestead, containing eighty-four acres of land, where he still conducts the affairs of the farm with that skill and shrewdness that places him in the front rank of the progressive farmers of Horsham township, if not in the county.
Unlike many others similarly situated, he yields not to the tempting bait of political honors, and re- fuses to place himself in a position where his honor might be called in question. Religiously he is by birthright a Friend, and adheres strictly to the re- ligions doctrines expounded by George Fox.
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THOMAS B. GEATRELL.
satisfaction of a well-earned reputation for honesty, sobriety and fair dealing with his fellow-men.
The parents of Mr. Geatrell, George and Ann Geat- rell, were both born on the Isle of Wight, England, Mr. Geatrell has never sought political preferment, and came to America in July, 1821, in the employ of and is free from the suspicions usually attaching to a farmer named Hearn, who then owned the farm those whose lives are guided by such influences. He is a member of the Boehm Reformed Church, at Blue Bell, Whitpain township, and 'for many years one of its trustees, and sinee 1878 one of its elders. He was one of the original stockholders of the First National Bank of Ambler, and has been one of its directors from its organization to the present time. now owned by the Clayton estate, on the Welsh road, Gwynedd township, and abouttwo years after their ar- rival in this country were married, and soon com- meneed farming on their own account in Gwynedd township, where Thomas B. Geatrell, the subject of this sketch, was born March 19, 1824. His early life was spent upon the farm with his parents, and at the Mr. Geatrell was married, December 25, 1848, to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Ann Jackson Ash- common or "paid schools " of that period. His father,
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in the mean time, had purchased a small farm near | ton. Mrs. Geatrell was born May 17, 1828, and was what is known as the " Broad Axe," in Whitpain the youngest of four children. Her mother died in 1842, and her father in 1849. The children of Thomas township, and now owned by the estate of Clement Comly. In 1850, Thomas commenced business for | B. and Elizabeth Geatrell are George, born Decem- himself on his father's farm, where he remained but ber 8, 1849. Ile married Carrie Kulp, and now re- sides at Penllyn, Gwynedd township. one year, when he purchased and moved on to the old and well known Iredell farm, in Horsham town- Mary, born September 3, 1852, and died when nine- teen years of age. She was the wife of R. Comly Wil- son, who now lives near Newtown, Pa. ship, where he remained at farming, butchering and marketing for the Philadelphia markets until 1870, when he retired from the active duties of a large farmer Horace A., born August 23, 1860, married Mary Smith, and now lives on the old homestead. and moved to the small place where he now lives, in the enjoyment of the fruits of his labors, and the Anna B., born December 13, 1867, married February
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