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in his calling, that he was chosen, in connection with Joshua Fry, Professor of Mathematics in William and Mary College, to continue the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina, and afterwards assisted Mr Fry in preparing a map of the Colony of Virginia. Peter Jefferson was one of the first settlers, [about the year 1737,] of that portion of the county of Goochland which now forms that of Albemarle- the latter being formed in 1744. Goochland itself was carved from Henrico, in 1727. Peter Jefferson was a man of extraordinary physical strength ; he could "head up," that is raise from their sides to an upright position, at once, two hogsheads of tobacco weighing near a thousand pounds each. He died in 1757, leaving a widow, [who survived until 1776,] with six daughters and two sons, of whom Thomas, then fourteen years of age, was the elder.
Randall's Jefferson, vol. 1, pp. 5, 6. Campbell's Va. p. 604, and the text. 1 4.
NOTE 4 , Parish Levies. - By enactment, the sheriffs of the county, or an appointment of one of their number by re- spective parish vostries, was required to collect the public and parish levies, giving bond and security for the faithful performance of his duties. The assessments were made for loose tobacco, and for every hundred pounds paid in hogs- head, an allowance of eight per- cent. was made for the hogs- head or "cask." The collector was empowered to distrain for failure or delay in payment. Each parish was required to support its own paupers, and the inhabitants of one parish were forbidden, under a penalty, to entertain, hire or employ any tithable person from another parish, unless he or she could pro luce a receipt from the collector of the parish from
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whence removing, for the taxes for the preceding year. AH vagrants were adjudged " rogues and vagabonds," and were bound out for one year, if a hirer could be found. But if of such evil repute that no one would receive them, the County Court was empowered to order them "thirty-nine lashes on the bare back, well laid on, at the whipping-post, and then discharged." They were liable, however, to re-arrest and repeated punishment. Vagrants and paupers were author- ized to be returned to the parishes of which they had last been resident. The Church Wardens were empowered to bind out, to the age of maturity, the children of such per- sons as were deemed incapable of supporting or bringing them up in " honest courses."
Hening's Statutes, vol. III, p. 264; vol. VI, pp. 29, 32. 25
NOTE 5. , Joseph Mayo emigrated from the Island of Bar- badoes, to Virginia, about the year 1727 .* He was a mer- chant, and from the text, appears to have also followed sur- veying. His residence was Powhatan, the location of which is well authenticated as a residence of the aboriginal poten- tate of this name. It is about a half a mile below Rich- mond, and lies " to the south of the road which runs paral- lel with the river, and on a verge of the second bank, or upper level of alluvium, some forty feet above the lower. The ground falls abruptly on the front or river side, and more gradually on the other quarters. On the east, the deep channel of a brook separates it from the most command- ing point of the upland." Immediately on the selection of
* Bishop Meade's Old Churches and Families, vol. II, p. 39.
+ Mss. Deed Book of Wm. Byrd of Westover, p. 93.
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Jamestown for the seat of the Colony, "Newport, Smith and twentie others were seut to discover the head of the river. By divers small habitations they passed, in six days they ar- rived at a town called Powhatan, consisting of some twelve houses, pleasantly seated on a hill ; before it three fertile isles; about it many of their corne-fields ; the place is very pleasant, and strong by nature-of this place the prince is called Powhatan, and the people Powhatans-to this place the river is navigable ; but higher, within a myle, by reason of the Rockes and Isles, there is not passage for a small Boat ; this they call the Falles."# "A granite boulder, about a ton in weight, is pointed out as 'Powhatan's Tomb- stone,'"' but there is no evidence justifying the designation. It bears many traces of rude carving. A row of symmetri- cal holes, an inch or more deep, runs along the top. On the sloping side, are graven marks of the shape of a child's and an adult's foot, a horse-shoe, and others less distinguishable. These are obviously of far greater age than other cuttings on the same surface, which are dated 1741, and which give, in two or three places, the initial M., of the family in possession : Mayo."$ In a narrative of " Capt. Newport's discoveries, Virginia," May 21st, 1607, Powhatan is thus described : " We came to the second ilet described in the ryver ; over against on Popham syde, is the habitatyon of the greate Kyng Pawatah, [one of the early modes of spelling Powha- tan,] which I call Pawatah's Tower. It is scituat upon a highe hill by the water syde ; a playne between it and the
Į Smith Hist, of Va., Richmond, Reprint, 1819, vol. I, pp. 151-2.
{ Loungings in the Footprints of the Pioners, W. C. Bruce, Harper's Mag., May, 1859.
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water, twelve score over, whereon he sowes his wheate, beane, peaze, tobacco, pompions, gowrds, hempe, flaxe, &c .; and were any art used to the naturall state of this place, it would be a goodly habitatyon."" The brother of Joseph Mayo, Major William Mayo, is supposed to have settled in the Colony about the same time. He accompanied, as one of the surveyors, in the years 1728-9, the commission which ran the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina, so racily chronicled in the Westover Mss. He also, in 1737, laid off for Col. William Byrd, [the second of the name, ] the town of Richmond. The brothers were the ancestors of the present very respectable family of Mayo in Virginia. Col. Wm. Mayo, Jr., of Powhatan, served in the State line during the revolution, and was a member of the House of Delegates in 1780.
The late Hon. Joseph Mayo, for a long series of years Mayor of Richmond, a worthy representative of this family, compiled, we have been informed, a geneology which con- nected with the Mayos of England. It is to be hoped that it will be made public ; the editor craves the privilege of copying.
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NOTE. 6. Processioning .- By Statute, every fourth year, between the last day of September and the last day of March following, the bounds of every person's land were required to be processioned, or " gone round," and the land marks re. newed. Such marks being made by chopping the trees. The parishes were divided into precincts, and free holders, [at least two to every precinct, ] appointed to perform such duty.
Arshologia American, Trans. and Coll. Am, Art. Soc., vol. IV, p. 44.
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They were required to make a return, in writing, to the parish vestry of the result of their action. It was "Pro- vided always, That the processioning and settling the bounds of any lands belonging to any person being within the age of one and twenty years, feme covert, non compos mentis, im- prisoned or out of the Colony, shall not be conclusive to such person untill after the expiration of six years fron and after the said severall capacitys shall be removed and determined."
Hening's Statutes, vol. III, pp. 327-8. 2.6
NOTE 7. , Field Jefferson, the brother of Thomas and Peter Jefferson, who died young and unmarried.
NOTE 8. / William Randolph was the second of the name, of Turkey Island, where he is buried. He married Eliza Beverley, of Gloucester county. Had issue : Beverly, of Turkey Island ; Peter, of Chatsworth, and William, of Wil- ton. The following is the inscription upon his monument :
Here lieth the Honourable William Randolph, Esquire, Eldest Son of Colo. William Randolph, of this place, and of Mary, his wife, who was of the antient and eminent family of the Ishams, of Northamptonshire. .
Having been introduced early into Business,
and passed thro' many of the inferior offices of Government, with great reputation & eminent capacity, He was at last, By his Majesty's happy choice, and the universal approbation of his country, advanced to the Council. His experience in Men & Business, . The native gravity & dignity of his Person & Behaviour, , his attachments to the Interests of his Country,
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· knowledge of the laws in general, and of the laws and Constitution of this Colony in particular, his Integrity above all calumny or suspicion, the acuteness of his parts, and the extensiveness of his genius,
Together with that solidity of Sense and judgment
which were predominant in all he said or did, Rendered him not only . qual, but an ornament to the high office he bore, and made him universally lament'd as a most able & impartial Judge, and an upright magistrate in all other respects Neither was he less conspicuous for a certain majestic plainness of Sense and Honour, which carried him through all parts of private life with equal dignity and reputation,
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Natus. J Nov., 1681. Mortuus, Oct. 19, 1742.
The following in relation to the origin of the disignation, Turkey Island, we hope may not be thought uninteresting. It is extracted from a quaint tract : " A RELATYON OF THE DISCOVERY OF OUR RIVER (JAMES) FROM JAMES FORKE INTO THE MAINE ; MADE BY CAPT. CHISTOPHER NEWPORT, AND SINCERELY WRITTEN AND OBSERVED BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE COLONY." (State paper office America and the West In- dies.) The author of which has recently been determined, upon proofs adduced by Prof. William Green, L.L. D., Richmond, Va., to have been Capt. Gabriel Archer. On
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· Thursday, May 21st, 1607, (Campbell, Hist. of Va., gives the date as June 4th,) Capt. Christopher Newport " having fitted our shallop with provision" -- " tooke five gentlemen, four maryners, and fourtees saylors; (the names are all given, Smith mentions only himself, Newport and twentie · others.) with whom he proceeded, with a perfect resolutyon not to returne ; but either to find the head of this ryver, the laake mentyoned by others heretofore, the sea againe, the mountaynes A palatsi, (Appalachian, modern,) or some issue." Having narrated a voyage of thirteen miles, the account pro- ceeds as follows : " May 22. Friday Omitting no tyme, we passed up some sixteen myle further." [By recent measure- ment, the distance from City Point, near which is Turkey Island. to Newport News, (properly and originally Newport Nuce,) has been ascertained to be thirty miles, and to James- town, forty miles.] where wee found an ilet, on which were many turkeys, and greate store of young byrdes like black birdes ; whereof we took dyvers, which we brake our fast with- all,". " the ryver skants of his breadth two mile before we come to the ilet mentyoned, (which I call Turkey Ile.")
Archeologia Americana -- Trans. Am. Ant. Soc. Vol. IV. pp. 41-2.
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NOTE. 9., John Bolling, of Cobbs, the son of Robert Bolling, (son of John and Mary Bolling, of Bolling Hall. who lived in the parish of All-halloway, or Allhallows, Barkin Parish, Town street, London, the first of the name who settled in Va.," born Dec. 26th, 1646, arrived in Va. Oct. 2d, 1660,) and Jane Rolfe, the grand-daughter of Pocahontas, was born Jan. 27th, 1676, and died April 10th, 1729. He devoted
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himself to commerce and amassed a large fortune .* His daughter Jane, married the first Richard Randolph of Curles.
Mr John, Bolling. Surveyor, is mentioned in 1704.1
NOTE 10. . The Rev James Keith .-- The Rev. Mr. Keith removed to Maryland in 17351-doubtless him of the text. The name is a prominent one 1. ow, not only in that State, but also in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
NOTE 11. The Rev. David Mossom was born in London, Mch 25th, 1690, and died Jan. 4th, 1767. He was the Rector of St. Peter's Church, New Kent Co., Va .. for a period of forty years preceding his death. A beautiful marble tablet in the wall, on the right hand side of the pulpit. did record his virtues. " He officiated at the nuptials of General Wash- ington. at the White House, a few miles from St. Peter's Church." ! This venerable place of worship was the victim of the vandalism of the Federal troops during the late war, its associations with the memory of the Father of his Country, finding no responsive chord in the breasts of those zealous patriots, to stay their vengeful hands. "The Church itself was broken and battered, and rendered wholly unfit for use. The old massive stone font, in which the children of two centuries had been baptized, was broken and scattered in fragments over the floor. The chancel was torn down, the pulpit and desk broken and defaced, and not a sash was left in the windows."§ The monument to Mr .- Mosson was also
* Memois of the Bolling Family, p. 4.
t. Papers of the Virginia Church, Steevens, p. 96.
į Steeven's Va. Papers, p. 358.
|| Bishop Meade's Old Churches, &c., Vol. I, p. 386; Vol. II, p. 490,
¿ The Communication in the " Richmond Dispatch " of Feb. 6th, 1871, over the signature " Senex."
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destroyed-nought but fragments remaining. The parishoners lately appealed to the public for contributions to aid them to so far repair the old church, that divine service might be re- sumed within its hallowed halls.
NOTE 1L. Darby Enroughty .-- The locality, Darbytown, sit- uate a few miles below Richmond, owes its designation to its having been at one time almost exclusively peopled by those bearing the name Darby or Enroughty. It being a remarkable fact that the two names, in common parlance among them, are regarded as synonymous and interchangeable. The first, Darby, obtaining prevalence because of its brevity and easier pro- nunciation. (It is claimed, and with apparent reason, that the name was originally Derby, which among the lower Eng- lish classes is even now pronounced, as by those simple peo- ple.) Those of them, however, who are able to write their names, (in doing so,) generally use that of Enroughty- which name indeed a majority of them affix to legal instru- ments
We venture the highly probable conjecture that the indi- vidual above was the progenitor of this humble, honest and simple family. His neighbors and succeeding generations, with a wayward ruthlessness which is constantly repeating itself in matters of popular designation, adopting the cog- nismen which least taxed their linguistic skill. 7.30
NOTE 13 , Isaac Winston .- The Winstons of Virginia are said to be descended from the ancient and honorable family of that name in England. Four of the name emigrated from York- shire, England, sometime previous to the year 1710. Three brothers-Isaac, of the text, William/ Essex, and James ; and a cousin, Pleasant Winston. They were of the Society of
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1. Isaac,1 resided first in Henrico and afterwards in Han- over County, Va. He married Sarah -
They had issue :
2. I. Anthony ?
3. II. William .?
4. III. Mary2 m. John Coles.
5. IV. Sarah2 m. first, Col. John Syme, second, Col. John Henry.
was the grand-mother of Mrs. Dolly Lowil. (Payne,) wife of President Madison.
2. Anthony,2 (Isaac.1) b. Sept. 29th, 1723 ; m. Feb. 27th, 1747, Alice, (b. May 21st, 1730,) daughter of James and Alice Taylor, of Caroline Co., Va.
They had issuse : -
I. Sarah, b. Feb. 9th, 1748, died unmarried.
6. II. Anthony, b. Nov. 25th, 1750, m. Mch. 11th, 1776, Kezia Jones.
7. III. Alice, b. Mch. 20th, 1753, m. her cousin, Judge Ed- mund Winston, d. Feb., 1784.
IV. Martha, b. June 3d, 1759, m Charles Woodson, of Buckingham Co.
6 A Anthony3 (Anthony,2 Is tac,1) removed to Buckingham County, near the "New Store," in 1771; m. Mch. 11th, 1776, Kezia, (b. Feb. 1760.) daughter of John and Elizabeth (Walker) Jones, from Wales. Anthony Winston was a Member both of the House of Burgesses and the patriot Virginia Convention of 1775, from the County of Bucking- ham. He was also a Captain in the Army of the Revolu- tion, and a gallant officer. He was the owner of Peter Francisco, famous for his feats of valor and strength, whom he released from slavery to allow to enlist in the patriotic army. He was sheriff of Buckingham County for a long series of years. He removed to Davidson, Co., Tenn., in the autumn of 1801.
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Anthony and Kezia had issue :
I. Anthony, b. Dec. 5th, 1782.
II. John Jones, b. May 31st, 1785.
III. Edmund, b. May, 2d, 1787, died in childhood.
8. IV. William, b. Mch. 24th, 1789, d. 1859.
9. V. Alice Taylor, b. Dec. 21st, 1790, m. John, son of John Pettus, of Fluvanna Co., Va. His sister, Mrs. Shel- ton Burgess, was living May, 1871, in her 80th year, with her son John, near Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna Co.
VI. Joel Walker, b. Dec. 6th 1792.
VII. Isaac, b. Jan. 22d, 1795.
VIII. Mary Walker, b Nov. 6th, 1796, m. Jesse Jones
IX. Betsy. b. Sept. 15th, 1798, d. an infant.
X. Edmund, (second of the name,) b. June 15th, 1801, d. since the late war.
XI. Thomas, b. May 3d, 1804, settled in Davidson Co., Tenn.
In 1811 or '12, all of the children of Anthony and Kezia Winston, excepting the two youngest (who remained with their parents in Tennessee,) removed to that locality of Mississippi Territory, which now constitutes Madison County, Alabama.
" In 1813, when the war with the Creek nation com- menced, a family council was held in Madison County, to determine which one of the seven brothers, and brothers-in- law should be selected to remain and protect all the families," whilst the other six "went to the war." "Wm. Winston was selected on account of his firmness and prudence to pro- tect the young families." The wives as well as their hus- bands were in the Council. "John Jones Winston was &
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Captain, and his eldest brother, Anthony, a Lieutenant in his company-the other five served in the ranks." General Jackson " was the personal friend of all these young men," and bore cheerful testimony to the gallantry of each.
10. John Anthony Winston,5 son of ( William,4 Anthony,3 Anthony," Isaac,1) d. Dec. 22d, 1871. He represented Sumpter Co., Ala., for many years in the General Assembly as Representative or Senator. He was Colonel of the
. Ala. Regt., Volunteer Infantry, during the Mexican war ; for two terms Governor of Alabama ; President of the State Senate ; Colonel Eighth Alabama Infantry, during the late
. war, participating in the battles fought on Virginia soil. He was elected United States Senator in 1866, but was not al- lowed to take his seat. "He is described as having possessed an " unbending will " and a vigorous intellect. His style of speech was "bold and incisive." He was never called an orator, but as a debater, he had few, if any, equals in the State. His personal courage was undoubted. He was as he represented his family as being: "very tblerant in matters of religious faith."
11. John Jones Pettus, 5 son of (John and Alice Taylor,4 Pettus, Anthony Winston," Anthony," Isaac,' was educated for the bar, but preferred planting. He was for many years before the late war a Member of the Mississippi Legislature in both of its branches. He was twice Governor of that State.
Edmund Winston Pettus, brother of the preceding. was Solicitor for the State of Alabama for eight years ; Judge of the Circuit Court of the State; Major and Lieutenant Colo- nel 20th Regiment Alabama Infantry, and Brigadier-General Confederate States Army during the late war. He was a gallant and efficient officer, and received the encomiums of his superior officers. He is now, a distinguished practitioner of law in Selma, Ala.
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2. William Winston,? son of (Isaac,1) was called Langaloo William. " He was a great hunter; had a quarter in Bed- ford or Albemarle County ; spent half the year there hunt- ing deer. He was fond of the Indians, and dressed like them, and was a favorite with them. An amour with the daughter of an Indian Chief, who was engaged to another Chief, involved him in difficulties with the savages. They besieged him in a log fort for a week. He defended himself with the aid of three negroes with rifles. Tom, one of the negroes, stood guard every night ; at length the favorite squaw went out and made poace between the belligerents. Langaloo William was a great Indian fighter."* He was endowed with those impassioned powers of natural and all- prevailing oratory, which rendered his nephew, Patrick Henry, the patriot, immortal. Wirt, in his life of the latter, quotes the following anecdote from a correspondent-Wm. Pope . " I have often heard my father, who was intimately acquainted with this William Winston, say, that he was the greatest orator he ever heard-Patrick Henry excepted. That during the last French and Indian war, and son after Braddock's defeat, when the militia were marched to the frontiers of Virginia against the Indians, this William Winston was a Lieutenant of a company. That the men who were indifferently clothed, without tents, and exposed to the rigor and inclemency of the weather, discovered great aversion to the service, and were anxious and were clamorous to return to their families ; when William Winston mounting a stump (the common ros- trum of the field orator of Virginia,) and addressed them with keenness of invective, and declaimed with such force of eloquence on liberty and patriotism, that when he con- cluded, the general cry was-' Let us march on ; lead us against the enemy !' and they were now willing, nay anx- ious, to encounter all those difficulties and dangers which but a few minutes before had almost produced a mutiny "
William Winston2 had issue :
I. Elizabeth, a beauty, m. Peter Fontaine.
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II. Francis m. Dr. Walker.
III. Edmund, State Judge, m. first, his cousin, (Alice,' daughter of Anthony,' Isaac,') died in 1813, in the fifth score year of his age ; second, Dolly, (Dandridge) the widow of Patrick Henry.
Issue by the first marriage :
I. George m. Dolly, daughter of Patrick Henry.
Issue, five sons who removed to the State of Missouri, and two daughters, one of whom Elvira, m. Dr. Charles Dan- dridge. "She was a poetical genius, and corresponded with Maria Edgeworth."
II. Edmund m.
III. m. Dr. George Cabell, of Campbell Co.
IV. Alice m. Frederick A. Cabell.
13. Winston,' daughter of (Judge Edmund' and Alice, William, Anthony, Isaac,1) m. Dr. George Ca- bell, of Campbell Co.
Had issue :
I. Marian F. m. Landon R. Cabell.
II. Edmund Winston.
III George K. m. Eliza V.
IV John B. m. Martha B.
V. William L. m Eliza
VI. Paulina J. Cabell m. Alexander S. Henry.
VII. Alice Winston m. Walter C. Carrington.
Alice,' daughter of Judge Edmund3 and Alice3 Winston, m. Frederick A. Cabell: Issue :
I. m. Dr. John Horsley.
II. m. John W. Mosby, uncle of Col. John S. Mosby,
Partisan during the late war.
III. Frederick M. m. Coleman.
IV. Edmund Winston in. Lucy Galt.
V. Clifford, M. D., m. Anthony.
VI. Lewis Warrington m. Perkins.
5. Sarah Winston? ( Isaac1) m. first, Colonel John Syme, Member H. of Burgesses, and of the Virginia Convention of
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1775. Col. in the Rev. Issue : Sarah3 m. Samuel Jordan Cabell, Lieutenant-Colonel Revolution M. O.C.1795. 1803. Sarah Syme2 m. second, Col. John Henry, H. of Burgesses, prepared a map of Virginia. Issue :
I. Colonel William, Member of Virginia Assembly, from Fluranna Co.
II. Patrick (the orator) m. Dolly Dandridge.
III. Lucy m. Valentine Wood.
IV. Jane m. Colonel Samuel Meredith, of Hanover Co.
14. Geddes," son of ( William Essex Winston,1) died June 9th, 1784, and is buried in St. John's Church yard, Rich- mond. His wife also lies there.
They had issue : www.
I. Rebecca m. Dr. Radford.
II. Mary m. Rev. John D. Blair.
III. Samuel Jordan d. unmarried.
IV. Margaret m. Dr. John Adams.
V. Julia m. Dr. John Shore.
VI. Sarah m. Thomas Rutherfoord, of Richmond ; enter- prising and wealthy merchant and miller, who owned lots its every quarter of the city, which he had purchased during: the 'period of real estate fever which prevailed directly after- the war of 1812.
I. Colonel John, Lieutenant-Governor and Acting Gover -. nor of Virginia, 1841, d. 1870 ; m. Emily Ann Coles, who died August 26th, 1871. Issue : John Coles-House of Delegates, from Goochland County, for several years ; Emily Ann m. January 24th, 1853, Patrick Henry, son of Philip Aylett-of King William County, a grand-son of Patrick Henry-who lost his life by the calamity of the falling of the. floor in the Richmond Capitol, April 27th, 1870.
II. William.
III. Samuel Jordan.
IV. Alexander.
V. Thomas m. first, Josephine Sims ; second, Sarahp daughter of Spotswood Wingfield.
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VII. Jane m. Hodijah Meade.
VIII. Sarah m. Wm. B. Randolph, of Chatsworth.
IX. Martha m. Garland Tinsley, of Hanover Co. .
15. Dr. John and Margaret (Winston) Adams,3 ( Geddes,' William Essex1) had issue :
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