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The county commissioners were Hopestill Beecher, Justus Dartt and John Knox; Daniel Lindsay was clerk, Alvin Willard assessor, Nathan Niles jr. and Caleb Austin collectors. The tax levied was one cent on the dollar.
THE TAXABLE INHABITANTS IN 1832.
According to the returns made by David Heise, as- sessor, to John Cochran, Ephraim B. Gerould and Job Geer, county commissioners, certified by Israel Merrick jr., clerk, the taxable inhabitants in 1832 were:
Houghton, Pharez Houghton, David Heise, William Horsely sen., William Horsely jr., Luther Johnson, Mor- derica Jackson, Waite Johnson, Joseph Johnson, John Jones, Daniel Kelsey, Jesse Keeney, David Kilburn, Truman Kilburn, Isaac P. Keeney, Marcus Lovett, James Lawson, James Lock, Alexander McArthur, Fred Moyer, Samuel Moyer, Xavier Miller, Jacob Miller, Gardner Monroe, Levi Monroe, Margaret Mitchell, Lewis Miller, John McEwen, Morris Miller, John B. Murphy, Thomas B. McCarty, Elisha McCarty, Jacob G. Morris, Luke W. Morris, Isaac W. Morris, John Norris, Aaron Niles, Archibald Nichols & Co., Elijah Osburn, Daniel Osborn, Enos Price, William Palmer, Israel Plumley, Samuel Parrish, Joseph Palmer, Orasmus Parrish, Zira Parrish, John Rock, Henry Staeckly, Abel Strait, John Starkweather, Henry Steele, William Tichner, Videan, Jonathan Webster, Elijah Wedge, James War- riner, Gates Wilcox, Robert Will.
David Heise, the principal assessor, as mentioned above, was assisted by James Lock and John Dailey. They returned the names of Luther Johnson and Daniel Kelsey as suitable persons for collectors, under date of December 8th 1831.
The pioneer family of Bacons, now residents of Tioga county and principally of the township of Delmar and the borough of Wellsboro, are able to trace their gene- alogy back to Daniel Bacon who came to America from England prior to the Revolutionary war and located at Middletown, Connecticut. He had a son Daniel (2nd) and a grandson Daniel (3d). Daniel Harvey Bacon (a son of Daniel 3d) was born in Farmington, Litchfield county, Conn., about the year 1764. He married (at Owego, N. Y.,) Lydia Ellis, of Massachusetts, by whom he had nine children, four of whom are now living. They are Oliver Bacon and Mrs. McCarter of Delmar, Mrs. Hannah Newton of Wisconsin, and Mrs. Chloe Howe of Delmar. About the year 1796 D. H. Bacon came to Owego, and in 1815 to Tioga county, bringing his family with him. He located on Marsh Creek, then in the township of Delmar, where he remained five years; and in 1820 purchased one hundred acres of wild land, on which his son Oliver now resides. On this farm he died, in the year 1850.
Robert Campbell was born in Lodi, Seneca county, N. Y., May 3d 1809; was educated in the district school, and became a farmer. He also taught school. In Oc- tober 1836 he married Miss Jane S. Knight. Their chil- dren were Oscar, Edwin, William, Franklin (deceased) and Mary (wife of Burton Schrader, of Mansfield, Pa.). He came to Delmar in March 1837 and bought of James Alger 200 acres of land, a small portion of which was improved. He went to work industriously and systemati- cally to improve and clear up his rough farm, year by year adding some valuable and necessary appurtenance
Amasa Alford, Chauncey Alford, Royal Alford, Wil- liam Allen, John Allen, James Alger, Smith Aynesworth, Vine Baldwin, Rufus Butler, Catharine Busz widow of Henry, Seldon Butler, William Butler, Allen Butler, Calvin Brown, Lewis Bacon, Harford Butler, Daniel F. Bacon, Hector Brown, Oliver Bacon, Joseph Bernauer, Emer Bowen, John Beecher, William Bache, Lewis Cole, Rebecca Culver, William Cox, John Coleman, Amos Coolidge, Gideon Dewey, Caleb Dill, William Davis, Samuel Davis, Simeon Dimmick, John Dartt, Henry C. in the shape of a dwelling, barn, orchard, fence, or some- thing else which would add to the convenience or in- crease the product of his domain, until now it is con- ceded by all that he has the model farm of Tioga county. He has 251 acres, regularly laid out and mapped by a surveyor, with each field numbered and its area set down. He keeps an accurate account of the amount of labor Drew, John Dailey, Jesse Davis, William Eberenz, heirs of William Ellis, Zenas Field, Erastus Fellows, Orrin Fenton, Edwin Fellows, John Fellows, Asahel Fellows, E. Field, Isaac T. Field, Elijah Fuller, Robert Francis, Benjamin Furman, Moses Field, Elizabeth Fuller, Levi Furman, Levi Furman, David Greenleaf, Daniel Greiner, Peter Green, William Howe, Seth Hoyt, Fred Hilbolt, Henry Hilbolt, Francis Hill, William Hoadley, Simon | bestowed upon each field, the amount of fertilizers used
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and the products. At the end of the year a balance Darius L. Deant, of Wellsboro; Cell A., Of Denver, sheet is made up, and he knows to a cent what the ex- Col .; Luella 1., Caroline A. and Mary E. Mr. Deane penditures have been on each field, and the value of the never held public office. He had a fine farm in the town- productions. He takes a lively interest in the agricul- ship of Delmar. The pursuit of land surveying led him tural affairs of the county, and was one of the executive into all the counties in the northern and central parts of committee for the first fair held by the Tioga County Pennsylvania, and it can safely be said that in all that Agricultural Society, 28 years ago. Mr. Campbell has region no man of his profession has ever been called upon also been prominent in the school affairs of the township, so often as he to determine the facts in cases of disputed transacting the duties incumbent upon him with the same locations of original surveys; that the evidence of no man of his profession has been allowed greater weight in courts by judge and jury; that so extensive a knowledge as his of land locations is possessed by no other man, and that there is now no one engaged in his profession care and fidelity which have marked his career as a farmer. He is now in his 73d year, and no man in Del- mar township has done more by example than he to demonstrate the capabilities of the soil of the township.
Justus Dartt sen. was born in Connecticut, in 1757, and in the section of country alluded to whose abilities, nat- subsequently resided at Castleton, Vt. He came to Tioga ural and acquired, will enable him to take the place in county in the fall of 1811; located on the head waters of the profession that Mr. Deane filled. A prominent fea- Charleston Creek, then in the township of Delmar, and ture of his character was his very retentive memory, purchased 160 acres of wild land. This he proceeded which was of great use to him in his business; and his to clear up. He became very prominent in the affairs of ability to recall dates and data, and to identify localities the county: was one of the trustees for the Wellsboro in the woods, was remarkable. For many years he re- Academy in 1817, county commissioner in 1815, and sided in Delmar township, but in 1873 he removed to filled other prominent positions. He was a musician in Wellsboro, where he resided until his death, in September the Revolutionary army, and colonel ot a regiment of 1881, which was occasioned by an accident at Corning, militia in Vermont after the Revolutionary war. The N. Y. When Mr. Deane came into the county his health family came in with a team from Vermont via Owego, was poor; but exercise in the pure mountain air in sur- veying and work on the farm soon restored him, and he became one of the most strong and healthy men in the county, possessing wonderful endurance. He was a gentleman of but few words, and rather retiring in his disposition, but a man of knowledge and sterling integ- rity. Athens, Troy, Sullivan and Richmond. At Canoe Camp, in Richmond township, they tarried a few days with the Spencers, while the neighbors made a " bee " and cut a road from Canoe Camp westward eight miles through the woods to Mr. Dartt's premises. Another bee resulted in a road from his place to Wellsboro. His family consisted of a wife and five children. Cyrus Dartt married Lydia We extract from the Wellsboro Agitator of June 8th 188o the following brief notice of one of the old pioneers of Delmar: William Eberenz, one of the oldest citizens Kelley, Justus jr. married Betsey Kelsey, Joshua married Sally Briggs, James G. married Polly Gillis, Hannah mar- ried Gideon Briggs, Irene married Siah Wilson. The of the county, died at his home in Delmar, about three place where Justus Dartt settled has since been known as " Dartt Settlement."
miles from this borough, last week, Monday evening, at the ripe age of 79 years. Mr. Eberenz came to this Erastus Putnam Deane was born in Petersham, Wor- cester county, Mass., November 26th 1809, and was one of a family of nine children born to Daniel and Jerusha Deane, all of whom except the subject of this sketch and one brother 'now living in Nebraska, died many years ago. Jerusha Deane, mother of Erastus P. Deane, died at Petersham, February 21st 1846, and the father, Daniel Deane, came to Tioga county in 1851, thereafter to make his home with his son Erastus P. He died October 10th 1866, at the ripe age of 95 years. Erastus Putnam Deane came to Tioga county from the home of his parents in Massachusetts, arriving at Wellsboro on the 25th of April 1834. He had received an academic education and qualified himself for land surveying, and he entered place from Germany in 1817, when he was about 16 years of age. He very soon married the daughter of Doctor Samuel Hoover, who lived near this borough, and immediately settled on the farm where he passed the re- mainder of his days-upward of 60 years. The place was a wilderness when he purchased it, paying $1.50 an acre for the land, in county orders, which he earned by clearing up the public square in this borough. He and his wife, who was a noble woman, were very industrious, and practiced the most rigid economy in those early days. Six children were born to them, two sons and four daughters. Mrs. Eberenz once said to a friend that she did not see the face of a white woman for three years after moving upon their place. She used to make the upon that business soon after his arrival here. He also children's shoes from deer skins, and the family knew taught in the Wellsboro Academy and in the common only bear and deer meat, and slept upon the skins of wild animals. Tioga county had less than five hundred taxable inhabitants at that time, and Wellsboro had not more than five houses within its present limits. The seventeen-year old boy and his young wife, who was more than a helpmate to him in acquiring property, lived to see the barren wilderness blossom as the rose; and Mr. schools of the township; but his principal business was surveying and farming. June 29th 1837 he was married to Mary E. McEwen, eldest daughter of John McEwen of Delmar township. Their children were nine in num- ber, six of whom are living, viz .: C. Augusta, wife of Henry Bacon, of Northfield, Jackson county, Wis .;
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Eberenz was able to hand down to his son Charles one of the finest farms in the county. He was a substan- tial citizen and a man remarkable for his social quali- ties. The quaint sayings and humorous anecdotes of " Uncle Billy Eberenz," as he was familiarly called, will long be remembered by his acquaintances in this region.
Asahel Fellows, son of John and Edna Fellows, was born at Canaan, Litchfield county, Conn., in 1803, and in company with his brother Edwin came to Tioga county in 1824. The family came the next year, and located on a farm of 200 acres between Wellsboro and Stony Fork, in the township of Delmar, four miles from Wellsboro. The farm had been taken up by Erastus Fellows two or three years previous. Asahel married Miss Elvira Fuller, who came with her parents from New Hampshire to Tioga county in 1824. John Fellows, the father, died in 1853, aged 79 years. His wife died at the residence of her son-in-law, David Heise, in Delmar, in 1876, aged 93 years.
David Heise was born in Stralsund, Prussia, January end 1800, and was educated in Germany. He came to America in 1818, landing in Quebec. In 1818 he went to Wellsboro to work for Judge Samuel W. Morris, and resided with him about seventeen months; then purchased eighty acres of land of John Norris, agent, in Delmar township, and commenced clearing it and making im- provements. Mr. Norris, ascertaining that Mr. Heise was well skilled in theoretical mathematics, induced him to commence the study of the art of surveying, and through the joint influence of Judge Morris and Mr. Norris Mr. Heise was employed by Major Flowers, of Athens, Bradford county, where he had an opportunity of acquiring the desired knowledge, Major Flowers in- structing him, and having him assist in surveying lands in the western portions of Bradford county and eastern Tioga. Mr. Heise applied himself very industriously, and was soon able to survey with accuracy and dispatch. He has been extensively engaged in the past 53 years in land surveying in the counties of Tioga, Potter, Lycom- ing and Clinton, and has been county surveyor of Tioga county many years. In 1829 he was married to Miss Huldah Ann Fellows, by whom he had five children- John F., Edward D., Frederika E., Elvira (wife of Henry H. Smith, of Charleston), and Maria (wife of W. O. Rus- sell). When he came to Wellsboro there were only 16 buildings here. Mr. Heise possesses those sterling qual- ities which distinguish the German settlers of Pennsyl- vania, and is a type of the pioneer of Tioga county. He is now in his 83d year, as strong and vigorous seemingly as a man of 60.
He married Miss Margaret Gorrie, a native of Scotland, and had five children. He came into Tioga county in 1836, and bought 75 acres of land near Stony Forks, in the southern portion of Delmar. He died in 1875.
Henry Stickley was born near Basle, Switzerland, in 1789, came to this country in 1816, and worked at his trade (wagon making) at Middletown, Dauphin county, Pa. While there he married Mrs. Margaret Grosjean.
He came to Wellsboro in 1819 and bought fifty acres of land now owned and occupied by his son Henry. He made the journey from Williamsport on foot. His wife died in 1843, and in 1844 he married Mrs. Lydia Ritter, by whom he had three children. He died in 1864.
William H. Wells, who settled in Delmar township, brought a number of slaves to the wilderness of Tioga county. After a few years' residence near Wellsboro he concluded to return to the vicinity of Philadelphia, and gave his farm and implements in Delmar to his colored friends Eben and Hetty Murray, Elias and Maria Spen- cer and Marcus Lovett. He not only gave them the farm, with suitable farming implements and teams, but also the household furniture, which was very valuable for those days. Tradition says that their white neighbors never rested till the freedmen were dispossessed of everything, and they were finally indebted to the kindness of John Norris for the little homes where they ended their days. They were a very superior class of colored people; "Aunt Hetty," it was said, was a daughter of an African princess, and " Uncle Eben " was a born gentleman, most dignified and courteous in appearance and manners.
CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.
There are three church edifices in Delmar township -- a Baptist church near Stony Fork, a Free-Will Baptist church, and in the northwestern portion of the township a small union church. There are several church organ- izations holding services in the school-houses. Wells- boro affords such church advantages that many of the inhabitants of the township attend there.
The first school-house in Delmar was built in 1818, and the first teacher was Beadle Skull, from the southern portion of the State. Between 1819 and 1835 five houses were built. Among the old teachers were Robert Campbell, Lyman Walbridge, E. P. Deane and Israel Stone. Mr. Stone taught during the winter for ten years. He is still living, about 80 years of age. He has filled township and county offices, and has ever exercised a good influence upon the schools of the township.
There are now 24 good school-houses in the township, where 662 scholars are instructed by 9 male and 22 fe- male teachers. The annual expenditures for schools are about $2,500. Schools are kept open on an average six months in the year.
PATRIOTISM DURING THE REBELLION.
Robert Karr was born near Wilmington, Del., in 1800. maintained and evinced a worthy patriotic spirit. Many
From the first gun that was fired upon Fort Sumter till the close of the Rebellion the citizens of this region volunteers from this locality fell in battle, and sleep be- neath the southern soil. Although Wellsboro had only about one thousand inhabitants, it being the county seat recruits were enlisted in various companies .in the county from Wellsboro and Delmar, besides those who joined the home companies. The companies sent out from Charleston, Delmar and Wellsboro contained men from each of the townships named and from Wellsboro,
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and we have therefore deemed it best to give rolls of them here.
COMPANY H 35TH REGIMENT TIOGA INVINCIBLES,
recruited in Delmar and Charleston townships and in Wellsboro:
Julius Sherwood (captain), John W. Rose first lieu- tenant), Silas Rockwell, James B. Goodman, Marinus , Sweet, Joel Starkweather, Asbury F. Spicer, Aaron B. N. Allen, John Hinman second lieutenant , Reuben M. Torpy, John L. Vogan, Charles Vallance, Henry Varner, Pratt (second lieutenant'. A. S. Husselton sergeant', A. James M. West, E. S. Waterman, Andrew J. Walters, Hiram Weeks, William H. Walters, Philetus A. West, John H. Weidley. Abel S. Warner, James M. Warriner, Edwin Wilcox, Cyrus Whitmore. R. Vermilyea sergeant , Calvin Ely, Ransford B. Webb, Hiram J. Ramsdell, George W. Merrick, W. Frank Bai- ley, Aaron A. Scudder, Frank A. Foster, Oscar J. Phil- lips corporal , Hobert Ripley, James S. Staats, Charles Yahn, John S. Blanchard, P. K. Warren, S. P. Stacey, COMPANY A 187TH REGIMENT, Abram Lyon, C. C. Cone, W. P. Christian. William B. Vanhorn, Erwin R. Atherton, P. H. Blanchard, C'aleb recruited in Wellsboro, Delmar and vicinity : Babb, John Ballard, James N. Bickel, Patrick Brown, George W. Merrick captain , Cecil A. Dean first lieutenant , Robert Young (second lieutenant, Jerrold Dennison first sergeant , Ephraim Smith (sergeant), David Dewey sergeant, Alonzo Mack sergeant , Lewis Demaux (corporal , Lyman P. Potter corporal), Benja- min Claus corporal , Samuel Morgan (corporal), Tunis Bush, John Blouch, Josiah L. Butler, Thomas J. Butler, Eugene L. Bowen, Aaron A. Bacon, Washington Boltz, Charles G. Catlin, William H. Chase, James Carpenter, Edwin Campbell, Truman Chubbuck, John A. Cline, James W. Donaldson, Chauncey Dartt, John E. Dibble, Darius L. Deane, John English, Oscar F. Ellis, Charles M. Field, Allen Fornwalt, William Green, William Greiner, Martin Gleason, William H. Harrison, Nathaniel Hart, Orville Henry, Richard Henry, Morgan Hart, Amos C. Hartman, Albert Ives, William D. Jones, George Kimball, Valentine V. Keller, Albert L. Lachey, David B. Leslie, Casper K. Light, Joseph Morsman, William Moore, Samuel G. Miller, John Martin, Edwin Myers, William H. Miller, Adam Naftzer, Benjamin Naftzer, Thomas Oakum, William W. Patterson, Henry M. Poor- Lucien J. Bragg, Morgan I. Bacon, Josiah Coolidge, Thomas Conway, Edmund Carriel, Orlando V. C'rans, Ira P. Curran, Campbell Cole, James Cowden, Wallice Codney, Simon Durlacher, Arnold Dickinson, John Doyle, George W. Emmick, John L. Emmick, Thomas L. Emmick, John Gibbony, George H. Gotchins, George 1 .. Grinnell, John Gibberd, Harrison (. Gusten, James H. Hozlett, George Harbst, Darius B. Holliday, John Harrison, William Huck, S. S. Ives, Burke P. Ives, John D. Jones, Hannibal Jay, George Jennings, Jere- miah Jennings, Henry Kimble, Henry J. Keeney, Wil- liam Kriner, Luther P. Kinney, Sylvester J. Losinger, Jeremiah Love, Frank Longbotham, Charles H. Max- well, William Margraff, James Moore, Thomas R. Mc- Clure, Michael McComber, Chester R. Nichols, Jerry O'Connell, C. K. Palmer, Harry T. Peet, Joseph D. Ramsdell, Joseph E. Rumsey, Albert J. Russell, William Sando, Michael Smith, John Sullivan, Jacob A. Schieff- lein, S. R. Seaman, Benjamin Seeley, A. O. Swartwood, John Taggart, George R. Wilson, Asa Warrener, Hiram Warrener, W. H. Wisener, William Wingate, Job Wet- man, Joseph Palmer, David T. Robbins, Welcome Shell- more, Almond Wetmore, D. W. Wetherbee.
COMPANY E 42ND REGIMENT,
recruited in Wellsboro and vicinity:
Alanson E. Niles captain), Samuel A. Mack, Lucius Truman (first lieutenant , George A. Ludlow, William Taylor, J. V. Morgan (sergeant), Lemuel Fause, Robert G. Christnot, Peter D. Walbridge, Jacob Huck, George W. Sears, Alfred Bardwell, George O. Darby, Caleb Fen- ton, S. A. Campbell corporal, Edwin Roughton, Wal- lace M. Moore, James A. Christnot, John C. Potts, Rob- ert Kelsey, Walton Williamson, Edward K. Allen, Thom- as L. Anderson, Orasmus P. Borden, John J. Bassett, William S. Boatman, Bela Borden, Daniel Bacon, Morgan L. Bacon, Wesley Burrell, William Blackwell, Washington Campbell, Lorenzo Catlin, Simon S. Carney, Martin Crossett, Jacob Cole, Samuel W. Campbell, Martin V. Cleveland, Daniel Corbin, George Cook, George W. Chaplain, Isaac Decker, Daniel G. Davis, Brozella K. Dewey, John English, Julius A. Eichholtz, William Eng- lish, Horace H. Grow, Caleb Graves, Samuel Huck, George Huck, John C. Horn, Lewis Happy, Charles Hoadley, Richard Hogan, Melville R. Horton, Alonzo Johnson, Henry Jackson, Andrew J. Kriner, George A. Kinney, Charles Kimball, James C. Kriner, Chester F. Kimball, Henry Kriner, Ceorge W. Kriner, Dewitt C. Lampman, Parish Mosier, Thomas Martin, James Mc. Cabe, Philip Meiner, Amos C. Metzgar, W. Manderville, William Morrison, Lewis McGraff, William M. Morgan,
Henry. H. McCarty, John W. Mathews. Stephen Nott, James Olmstead, Joseph R. Ogden, Edward Osborn, Ben B. Potter, William Pitts, James M. Patterson, Henry C. Roland, Edwin Roice, Ethial H. Roice, Frederic Robert, John Readington, Joseph E. Ramsey, Henry I. Rote, Peter Rothweiler, Jacob Snyder, Albert D. Simmons, Robert Stull, Samuel D. Satterly, Gustavus A. Sweet, William Smidley, Peter Spanogle, Eugene Stone, Orrin B. Stone, Thomas R. Smith, Abijah Shuler, Charles H.
man, John P. Scott, George W. Sneer, Peter D. Snavely, Charles L. Shumway, Henry Sears, S. Starkweather, Samuel Spotts, Samuel W. TruHl, George Tabor, Benja- min F. Towner, Edwin Webster, Hiram Willard, Oren West, Michael Walburn, Oziah Webster, Benjamin Wil- liams.
Bates in his history of the 187th regiment says:
"A body of troops known as the First Battalion, which had been organized just previous to the invasion of the State in July 1863, for six months' service, and which had performed guard and provost duty at various points in the State, was upon the expiration of its term reorgan- ized and recruited as a part of this regiment. Four new companies were added to it, and the regimental organ- ization was completed in March 1864 at Camp Curtin, with Joseph F. Ramsey lieutenant-colonel and George W. Merrick major. While at Harrisburg it performed camp and provost duty. Leaving Harrisburg on the 19th of May it proceeded to Washington and went into camp at Arlington Heights, where its equipment, which had been defective, was made complete. On the 26th it started to the front, proceeding by transport to Port Royal, and then marched by Bowling Green, capturing two of the enemy's scouts on the way, pausing at the Matapony to build a bridge, and reaching the battle beaten ranks of the army during the progress of the fierce fighting at Cold Harbor. It was assigned to the first brigade first division of the 5th corps, commanded respectively by General J. L. Chamberlain, General Griffin and General G. K. Warren.
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" For a few days subsequent to the battle of Cold Har- bor the regiment was engaged in picketing and intrench- ing, and in various changes of position of the corps. At 2 A. M. on the morning of the 7th the corps moved to the extreme left of the army and threw up intrenchments on the north bank of the Chickahominy, the enemy keeping up a continuous fire upon it as it passed. For several days the corps remained in position, covering the army in its passage of the peninsula. On the morning of the 18th the corps moved by the left flank, the enemy shel- ling it as it went, and crossing the Petersburg and Nor- folk Railroad fell with impetuosity upon the enemy's right, while the second corps engaged him in front and drove him back with heavy loss to his inner works, com- pelling him to abandon the line of railway. The lines were then reformed, the enemy at the same time opening a galling fire, and at 3 P. M. the second and fifth corps moved to the assault of his last line. His pickets in front of the 5th were driven in and pressed to a ravine not more than fifty yards from his works, when he opened a muderous artillery fire on the front and left flank of the corps, compelling it to fall back with heavy loss. The 187th led by Major George W. Merrick, lost in the en- gagement more than one-tenth of its numbers in killed on the 3d the command was mustered out of service."
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