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he ever maintained a character worthy to be remembered and imitated by those who survive." Hannah Gould, his second wife, was born in Gilman, N. H., December 19, 1809. She died at the homestead in Shrewsbury, May 21, 1877. She was the daughter of Simon and Abigail Gilman, who moved from New Hampshire to Shrewsbury and died there; Simon, March 19, 1853, and Abigail, June 5, 1864 Phebe was twice mar- ried. Her first husband was Alonzo N. Russell; her second, J. P. Greene. She died in Cavendish, November 7, 1887. Stephen married Elizabeth B. Fleming, of California. He went to California in 1849, and here their only child, William B. Gould, was born, May 1, 1862. His wife died in 1862, and he died in San Francisco, in 1865. Their or- phan child was brought from California to Vermont by his uncle, William Fleming, and has always been treated, cared for, and educated by his uncle, Simon Gould, as his own child. William B. Gould, the nephew, married November 5, 1880, Louise D., daughter of Edgar and Mary M. (Horton) Glynn. Jared married Martha Brown. He is a tinsmith, living in Enfield, Mass. Harriet is the widow of Martin B. Hartshorn, and resides in Reading, Mass. Dwight C. was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion, and died at White Oak Church, near Richmond. John B. is a farmer living in Shrewsbury, and married Delia Calkins. Otis A. married Orsie Clark, and lives in Clinton, Oneida county, N. Y. Anna was twice married; her first husband was William B. Fleming. She is now the wife of Lewis Tasheira, and lives in San Francisco. Upon the death of his father, Simon Gould became the owner of the homestead farm in Shrewsbury, and carried it on for many years. He still owns it, but since 1885 he has made his home at his nephew's, William B. Gould, who owns and carries on what was known as the William Merrill farm, on the east shore of Echo and Mirror Lakes, Plymouth.
Hall, Christopher C .- Nathan Hall came from Massachusetts and settled in Plymouth, Vt., about the year 1795. He married Ruth Johnson, by whom he had children as fol- lows: Delia, Jonathan, Moses, Nathan, jr., Daniel, George and Sybil. Nathan, jr., was born in Plymouth, August 30, 1809; married February 1832, Prudence B., daughter of Elijah and Hannah (Clark) Hubbard. Their children were Stillman (deceased) ; Christo- pher C., Eleazer A. and William J. (deceased). Eleazer A. married Maranda B., daugh- ter of Elisha and Phebe Sanderson. Their children were Alice (deceased) and Mar- anda. He is a manufacturer of lime, a lumberman and farmer. William J. was twice married. By his first wife, Carrie Sawyer, he has one child, Maud, living. By his sec- ond wife, Anna Benham, he also has one child, Parma. He died in Mendon in 1880. Christopher C. was born in Plymouth, July 25, 1836. He married November 1, 1866, Lora R., daughter of Stephen and Laura H. (Hutchinson) Ayers. Mrs. Hall was born in Plymouth, October 13, 1851. Their children are Ida M., born September 24, 1867, married October 23, 1889, Walter E. Slack ; Matt Clark, born November 10, 1869; Lula M., born June 28, 1873, died February 7, 1890; Willie J., born November 20, 1878; Pansie B., born October 11, 1880; James A., born September 1, 1886; and Walter C., born October 15, 1888. Mr. Hall enlisted October 23, 1862, as private in Company C, Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers. He received his discharge August 10, 1863. He re- enlisted October 1, 1864, in the navy, on board the U. S. S. Monadnock. He was in both engagements at Fort Fisher, in Charleston, S. C., upon the retaking of Fort Sumter, and in the James River upon the capitulation of Richmond. He was discharged July 1, 1865. Mr. Hall has carried on farming and lime burning in Plymouth since the war. He has served as selectman of the town four years.
Pinney, L. Norton, was born in Plymouth, October 5, 1820. His grandfather, Jona- than Pinney, supposed to have emigrated from England about 1760, settled in Guilford, Windham county, Vt., where he married Priscilla Grover of that town. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner in England, serving the required seven years with a master. He came from Guilford to Plymouth about the year 1800 and settled on the place now owned by Wallace Bedell, which lies in a valley in the northern part of the town, to which he gave the name of Pinney Hollow. He had eleven children, all of whom were born in Guilford and came with their parents to Plymouth, viz .: Lizzie, John, Jonathan,
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Eleazor, Priscilla, Solomon, Horatio, Gracia, Amial, Joel and Delino. Five of the sons and two of the daughters after marriage settled in Pinney Hollow, the other daughter settled at Plymouth near by, the youngest son died young, the oldest son settled in Broome county, N. Y., and Joel, the seventh son, settled in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Jonathan Pinney had a sister, Catharine, who married Jacob Grover and came to Plym- outh from Guilford, Vt., and settled near Grover Pond, in the northwest part of the town. He was a hero of the Revolution, married three wives, and raised twenty-four children. He drew a pension of ninety-six dollars a year for his military services. Solomon, the fourth son, was married by Ephraim Moore, esq., to Anna Burt, daughter of David Burt, formerly of Windsor and then of Plymouth, on the 30th of December, 1877. Solomon Pinney was born in Guilford, November 9, 1787, and came to Plymouth with his parents when about fourteen years old, and learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed until married. He was a volunteer in the War of 1812, and was out in the Army of the North for three months. After marriage he settled on a farm near where his father first located. He built a saw-mill on the site of the one his son, L. Norton, now runs, and subsequently a grist-mill in company with his brother Jonathan. He died November 25, 1845, and his wife Anna died May 28, 1880, and both lived through life after their first settlement on the same farm where their son Horace E. now lives. Their children were Naham B., L. Norton, Allen B. (deceased), Jeanette H., and Horace E. Naham B., born December 20, 1818, is living in Mechanicsville, Vt., has retired from mercantile business, and is attending to farming and blooded stock rais- ing. He has only one child, Mrs. May H. Seward, who lives on a farm near Mechanics- ville, Vt. His wife, Celista Mann, of Ira, Vt., has been dead for a number of years. Jeannette F. is the wife of Zera Clark, esq., of Hartford, Windsor county, Vt. Horace E., born April 18, 1836, married at Woodstock by the Rev. Moses Kidder, March 22, 1859, to Sarah J. Cilley, lives on the homestead farm of his father, and cared for his mother after the decease of his father during her life. Their children are Athelia J., who married Wilber A. Spaulding, a farmer in Pinney Hollow ; Allen H., who married Jennie Hudson of Bridgewater, Vt .; and Nettie S., who lives with her parents. L. Nor- ton Pinney, the second son, has been a life-long resident of Plymouth. He married, in February, 1852, Angeline, daughter of Benjamin and Caroline (Nason) Carpenter. She died November 19, 1879. Their children are Alice J., wife of James E. Blanchard, a farmer living in Pinney Hollow, who has two children, Clarence E. and Eddie J., both living at home; and Byron W., who married Jesse Hughes of Plainfield, N. H., and whose children are Loren N. and Harry L. Norton Pinney has for years carried on the manufacture of toy stock on a branch stream of the Otta Quechee in Pinney Hollow. June 2, 1840, he lost his left hand by the bursting of a musket, and on January 16, 1887, he lost all the fingers of the right hand, saving the thumb only, in a planing machine. This illustrates what a man may accomplish with only a thumb left, as by the use of it he is enabled to dress and feed himself and do much of the shop work. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Universalist. Since the death of his wife he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Blanchard.
Sanderson, Elisha F., was born in Bridgewater, April 14, 1823. He married, March 5, 1852, Phebe W., daughter of Thomas V. and Susan (Sanderson) Vose. She was born in Bridgewater, September 23, 1822. She has two brothers living, and one sister deceased, viz .: Pliny F., living in Rutland; Thomas V., at Wood Lake, Minn; Sally M., wife of John F. Bugbee. She died October 15, 1852. Mr. Sanderson owned and occupied a portion of the home farm after marriage. He enlisted as private in Company G, Six- teenth Vermont nine months' men, and was in the battle of Gettysburg. He was mus- tered out August 10, 1863. He sold his place in Bridgewater, and in 1865 settled at Plymouth Union, where he has carried on the manufacture of chair stock ever since. He has one child, Miranda V., born January 30, 1853, wife of Eleazer A. Hall, of Ply- mouth. Her children are Eugene S., Coro B., Julian A., Nellie A., Ada E., and Lind- sey S. Arthur Spoffard, a grandson of Mrs. Sanderson by a former husband, has been brought up by and is living with Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson.
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Slack, Joel, grandfather of Eben K., a native of Massachusetts, married, in Winches- ter, Va., Lydia March. Their first child, Esther, was born in Virginia in 1803, and in the same year he came to Plymouth and built a log-house on the place now owned by Maynard Brown. The next year, 1804, he moved his family from Virginia and settled on the above place. Here his children, Reuben K. and Joel M., were born, the former in 1807, the latter in 1811. He died there in 1845 aged seventy-seven, and his wife May 18, 1857, aged seventy-four.
Slack, Reuben K., married Prudence Bartlett, of Bridgewater, in 1834. The children were Joel B., born 1835; Martin Van Buren, born 1837, died April 14, 1860; Eben K., born 1838; Mary Esther, born 1840, died February 27, 1860; Addie Oliva, born 1847. Reuben K. died at the homestead, April 7, 1860, aged fifty-three years eleven months. His wife is living with her daughter, Mrs. Leighton Fullam, at Ludlow.
Slack, Eben Kimball, was born in Plymouth, Vt., February 5, 1838. He married, first, Jennette Louisa, daughter of David and Louisa (Pollard) Burt. She was born in Plym- outh, March 22, 1840, and died November 3, 1864. October 10, 1865, he married Anna E. Burt, sister of his first wife. She was born in Plymouth, February 21, 1846. David Burt, her grandfather, married Abigail Wooster, in Windsor, Vt., October 18, 1792. They had seven children, of whom her father, David, was the fifth born in Plymouth, September 22, 1799; he died in Rockingham, Vt., July 29, 1881. Louisa Pollard, his wife, was the daughter of James Pollard, one of the early settlers of Plymouth; she died April 15, 1889, aged eighty-three. James Pollard, born 1770, died April 9, 1856; Rhoda, his wife, born 1775, died July 6, 1862. The homestead now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Slack passed from James Pollard to David Burt, thence to his daughter Mrs. Slack. By his first wife E. K. Slack had one child, Ellen Mary, born January 31, 1861, died October 7, 1864. The children by the second marriage are Orrie A., born January 29, 1867, married, October 10, 1888, Walter M. Cook, of Plymouth; Walter E., born Octo- ber 1, 1869, married October 23, 1889, Ida M. Hall, of Plymouth; Lena Barbara, born August 31, 1883, and Winifred L., born April 10, 1886. Mr. Slack carries on the farm named above. He is a good farmer and a good Democrat. Both he and Mrs. Slack are members of the Christian Church of Woodstock.
Taylor, Newell N., was born in Plymouth, December 2, 1827, the second in a family of nine children of Nathan and Sally (Moore) Taylor. John Taylor, a native of Carlisle, Mass., came to Plymouth in 1784. He married Abigail Wheeler. Nathaniel was the fifth son of John and Abigail Taylor. He was born in Plymouth and married Sally, daughter of Ephraim and Betsey Moore. Her father was among Plymouth's early set- tlers, and located at the "Notch," where his grandson, Ephraim Moore, now resides. He was a prominent man of the town, holding many of its trusts. After marriage Na- thaniel Taylor settled on the farm in North Plymouth now owned and occupied by Hor- ace Ward. He died in Keene, N. H., May 25, 1873, where he resided at the time of his death. His wife died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Sprague, in Plymouth, Oc- tober 20, 1875. Their children were Julia, died when a year old ; Newell N., Norman, Ry- land N., Julia (second). Seneca W., died when a year old; Seneca W. (second), Jerome, and Adaline. Of the seven living children, all are married except Norman. Julia, Mrs. Sprague, and Newell N. are the only children residing in Plymouth. With the excep- tion of three years in Minnesota, Newell N. Taylor has passed his whole life in Plymouth, following farming as his occupation. He married January 29, 1863, Mary R., daughter of William and Rebecca Merrill. Mrs. Taylor was born in Plymouth, September 30, 1844. Their children are Dora M., wife of Willis P. Bowman, clerk in Proctorsville, one child, Arthur ; Sherman N., Carlos A., Myrtie A., Ruby A., Sadie A, and Willie S. Mr. Tay- lor now owns and carries on the farm at the " Kingdom," in Plymouth, known as the " Weaver farm."
Townsend, M. J., was born March 15, 1853, in Pittsfield, Rutland county, Vt., the youngest in a family of six child: en of Moses and Azubra Townsend. He married, March 26, 1883, Mary Jane, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Boyle) Hayes. Mrs. Town-
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send was born in Ludlow, Windsor county, April 17, 1860. Daniel Hayes, her father, emigrated from Ireland in 1848, and settled in Ludlow. In 1865 he purchased and moved on to a farm in the southwest part of Plymouth township, which he now carries on. In 1885, Mr. Townsend purchased and moved onto the Isaac Pollard farm, in the extreme southwest corner of Plymouth. He carries on this farm, but is also a successful specula- tor in stock and other farm products. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend are Mo- ses Joy (deceased), Bessie Ann, and John Hayes.
POMFRET.
Chedel, John A ., was born in Pomfret, May 30,1848. George, his great-great-grandfather, with a brother, emigrated from England and settled in Connecticut. John, his son, came in company with Bartholomew Durkee from Pomfret, Conn., and settled in Pomfret, Vt., March 9, 1770, Mr. Durkee reaching the town three days before, during which time Mr. Chedel was detained in Hartford. Thus Mr. Durkee became, by three days, the first settler of the town. John was twice married, his second wife being a Miss Allen. Of the children by the last marriage, Asa, grandfather of John A., was the second child. He was born in Pomfret, April 1, 1772, on the place now owned and occupied by his nephew, O. M Chedel. He married Polly Aldrich, whose father lost his life as a soldier in the War of the Revolution. She was a granddaughter of the Rev. Aaron Hutchinson, the first min- ister in Pomfret. They had ten children, of whom seven reached adult age, viz .: George, married and settled in Woodstock, and died there February, 1889, aged eighty-nine ; John, father of John A .; Mary E., widow of Stephen Raymond, living in California ; Joseph A., settled in Providence, R. I., and died there; Laura, was the wife of George Dewey, and died in Hanover, N. H .; Clarissa L., was the wife of Levi Reed, and died in Bridgewater, Vt .; and Harriet M., is the widow of Solomon Harding, and lives in Pomfret. Asa died in Pomfret, May 9, 1855, and his wife died there July 14, 1868. John, son of Asa, was born in Pomfret, May 11, 1803. He married October 27, 1846, Hannah A., daughter of Asa and Alice (Dunham) Perry. She was born in Middleboro, Mass., October 24, 1828. They had two children, John A. and Hannah A. John died in Pomfret, September 29, 1872, his wife died there January 20, 1881. John A. married Jennie, daughter of Albert A. and Janet (Whitcomb) Brooks. She was born in Bethel, September 1, 1849. Their children are Maud E., born May 3, 1875; Annie L., born April 15, 1879; and Alice K., born October 28, 1883. Mr. Chedel owns the Chedel home- stead in Pomfret. In 1881 he moved from Pomfret, and has carried on, at Gaysville, general merchandising there since. He has held the positions of town clerk and treas- urer since 1887.
The Doton family in Pomfret descended from Edward Doton, who emigrated from England, one of the Mayflower pilgrims, when about twenty years of age. He had a son, a grandson and a great-grandson whose names were John. The latter of these three was born in 1700, died in January, 1750. The eldest of his four children was Edward Doton, born May, 1725, died April 17, 1765. He married Joannah Whitney. His son, John Doton, born in Plymouth, Mass., September 14, 1750, died March 30, 1812. He mar- ried Basheba Bowker, born March 20, 1755, died February 8, 1838. In the spring of 1786, he moved with his family from Ware, Mass., to Pomfret. He built a log-house on the farm which has ever since been known as the Doton homestead. The present home- stead residence was built by his son, John Edward, in 1811. His son, John Edward Doton, was born in Pembroke, Mass., July 3, 1780, died April 8, 1863. He married Betsey Vose, born March 14, 1783, died August 7, 1865. He was for many years county surveyor, justice of the peace, and held many town offices. Their children were Calvin, Sarah Matilda, Hosea, Samuel Spencer, Electa, Abigail Evarts, Louisa, Joanna and John Quincy. Samuel Spencer Doton married Charlotte, daughter of Otis and Rebecca Winn, and had children as follows: Edward Otis, Elizabeth R., William Ellery and Fred W. Samuel Spencer married second, Cynthia I. Wood, danghter of Amos and Eunice Wood.
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They had no children. Mr. Doton has always lived in Pomfret. He built a saw-mill in the south part of the town, which he ran about one year, with which exception he has followed farming. He purchased the farm where he now lives of his brother, Hosea, and carried it on until he sold it to his son, Fred W., in the spring of 1886. He is now (1890) living with his son, but for the past two years he has been in feeble health. Fred W. Doton, his son, married Mary Emily, daughter of John W. and Mary Emeline (Wood) Dana, who was born in Pomfret, December 24, 1852. She is a descendant, in the fourth generation, from John Winchester Dana, who married Hannah P., daughter of General Israel Putnam, and reared a family of thirteen children. She has in her pos- session a pair of silver tablespoons, from a half dozen given by General Putnam to his grand-daughter, Polly Dana. Dr. Israel Putnam Dana, physician and surgeon, of South Royalton, and Edward Youngs Dana, owning and occupying the homestead farm in Pomfret, are brothers of Mrs. Doton. Fred W. now owns and carries on the home farm, giving special attention to the raising of thoroughbred Atwood Merino sheep. The children of Fred W. and Mary Emily Doton are a daughter, unnamed, born Au- gust 5, 1882, died an infant, and John Dana, born August 15, 1884. If any one were to inquire who of Pomfret's sons had left the impress of his character more wide-reach- ing than any other, the answer would undoubtedly be Hosea Doton. Robert A. Per- kins, who was intimately associated with him in literary work, now connected with the press in New York city, wrote of him : "It is entirely within bounds, to say that, out- side family influence and the atmosphere of the place, Mr. Doton stands by far the greatest single influence towards the right in the town's life, and it is a thing such as no other town ever had." This influence was exerted mainly as teacher in the schools of Woodstock, Hartford and Norwich, but for the most part in the schools of his native town of Pomfret. It is said no less than one hundred and fifty of his pupils in Pomfret became practical and successful teachers. His pupils are literally scattered from Maine to California, but wherever found, their remembrance of their teacher is with a kind of supreme respect and affection, which seems a peculiar feeling reserved only for this man. He was three times married, to Lois Paddock, to Harriet F. Ware and to Elvira Wood, who survives him, living in Woodstock, Vt. Mrs. J. K. P. Chamberlain, a widow, now a teacher in Lincoln, Neb., is his only child. Mr. Doton never desired or sought public office, but he was elected to the State Senate in 1865, also in 1866.
Hutchinson, Charles, was born in Pomfret July 6, 1806, the third in a family of ten children of William and Deborah (Bishop) Hutchinson. His great-grandfather, Aaron, was a native of Hebron, Conn. He married Margery Carter in Connecticut, from which State he moved in 1776 and settled in Pomfret, on the farm now owned and occupied by Charles Hutchinson. He died October 1800, his wife August 1818. They are buried in the Christian burying-ground in Woodstock. William Hutchinson, father of Charles, was born at the homestead in Pomfret, April 24, 1781. He married May, 1802, Deborah Bishop, born in Middleboro, Mass., February, 1784. William Hutchinson died February 25, 1866 ; his wife April 14, 1862. They had ten children as follows: Sophronia, Louisa, Charles, William, William, 2d, Deborah, Henry, Margery, Susan and Adaline. Sophronia was the wife of Robert French. Norman, Robert and Martha Ann are their children now living. She and her husband are dead. Louisa was the wife of Lorenzo D. Hawkins. Both are dead Rush C., their only son, was colonel of the Ninth Regiment N. Y. Volunteers, known as the "Hawkin's Zouaves." William was thrice married. His first wife was Lucy Ann Burns. James B. Hutchinson of Bridgewater is their only child. His second wife was Rosina Braley. No children by this union. His third wife was Aramantha Clary, who survives him, living in Pomfret with her son, William B. She has also two other sons, Wallace and Charles. Deborah is wife of Lauriston Redwood, living in Ran- dolph, Orange county ; children, Frances, Lemuel and Clara. Susan was the wife of Han- ibal Totman. She died in Pomfret in 1869 or 1870; children, Henry, Frank and Stark. Charles Hutchinson has spent his whole life on the homestead farm. It came into his possession in 1866. He built his present fine residence in 1874. He is one of Pomfret's
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most successful farmers. He is Republican in politics, and has been town lister fifteen years, selectman three years.
Leach, Henry W., was born in Bridgewater, Vt., March 12, 1812, the youngest of six children of John and Lavina (Snow) Leach. His father was a native of Middlebury, Mass., married there, and four children were also born there, viz .: Betsey V., Otis, Ada- line S., and Sophronia, all deceased except Betsey V., now ninety-two years of age, widow of Solomon Alden, living in Bridgewater. John Leach moved from Middlebury, and settled in Bridgewater, where his two youngest children were born, viz .: Marcus and Henry W. Marcus, who married Susan Lewis, of Barnard, settled in Hartford, Vt., and died there November 1886. He had no children. John Leach died in Bridgewater at the age of ninety. His wife died three years before him. Henry W. has been three times mar- ried. He married, December 1, 1838, Roxelona Thompson. She was a daughter of Da- vid and Betsey (Leach) Thompson. She was a cousin of Professor Zadock Thompson, and was born in Bridgewater, August 10, 1808, deceased March 26, 1865. Mr. Leach married second, September 6, 1865, Louisa Doton, who died February 28, 1871. He married, third, January 23, 1873, Electa Doton, sister of his second wife. (See Doton record on page 967 of this volume.) After his first marriage Mr. Leach settled in North Bridgewater, where he lived till 1871, then moved to Pomfret, where he has since resided. From the time he was twenty-six years of age, he has been a member of the Congregational Church of Bridgewater. By his first marriage he had four children : Samuel O., born September, 1841, and died June, 1844; Orrin Thompson, born May 1, 1842, married Sa- rah Alden, of Bridgewater, Mass., is a carpenter by trade, lives in Norwood, Mass., and has one child living, Emily ; Austin Kingsley. born June 17, 1844, married Mary Doug- lass, and is a farmer living in Woodstock; Henry Corydon, born June 17, 1848, married Julia Pratt, of Middlebury, Mass., and has one child, Henry Warren.
Maxham, Charles H., was born in Pomfret, November 29, 1834, the fifth in a family of seven children of Judson A. and Elmira (Hawkins) Maxham. He received his educa- tion in the common schools of Pomfret. His first venture away from home was the de- livery and sale of a wall map of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., in company with his brother Addison. For the next four years he was employed in lumbering and farming in com- pany with his brother-in-law, Reuben Davis, in Norwich. He married March 26, 1863, Lucretia M., daughter of John and Lydia (Gordon) Roberts. She was born in Sharon, Vt., October 9, 1840. There were eight children in her father's family, only three living, Mrs. Maxham and her two brothers, William G. Roberts, road-master of the Passumsic Railroad, living at White River Junction, and Cyrus A. Roberts, section boss on the same road, living at Norwich. Mr. and Mrs. Maxham have no children of their own, but have brought up Linnie, daughter of George and Lydia Rogers, a niece of Mrs. Maxham, and Ned W. Maxham, son of Addison Maxham, a nephew of Mr. Maxham. After marriage Mr. Maxham lived in Norwich one year, then in Sharon seven years. In 1874 he pur- chased the farm known as the "Hodges farm," in South Pomfret, which he has since carried on. Mr. Maxham has filled the town offices of selectman, lister, overseer of the poor and town representative in the Legislature in 1882. He has served as administra- tor and executor in the settlement of many estates.
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