A PIONEER SCHOOLEY FAMILY
By MAY SCHOOLEY IVEY
THE FRANKLIN PRESS, INC., MIAMI, FLORIDA

Surnames of the United Kingdom from Patronymica Brittanica:
"Scollay-Scolley, from Sc'olu, a school, and ley, a song. A school song."
"Schooley (Yorks), 16th Cent.-Scholey, 14th Cent. Scolay-the Hut-or shed-lea."
"M. E. Sc(h)ole, a form of 0. N. Skoli, a hut, shed. M. E. ley, lay. Scully (Celt),
Old Irish as Scolaighe."
(Cent. is Century), (lea, ley, lay, leah are terminals of word or name). Means
low land or beach.
"Scholey, Scully, Norman-Skulis, protector." Anglo-Saxon-Scule, Scula."
English Surnames, by Barber, 1903.
Of the name Schooley-Scholar, Scholer, Schollard.
Occup: A scholar- One belonging to a school, a learned man.
Scholey-Schooley-Local "of Scholey," small spot in W. Ridings, York.
1581 - Richard Scholey of Co. Yorks, registered at Oxford University.
1379 - P. T. Yorks, Johannes de Scoley.
1379 - Robertus and Ricardus de Scoley.
English and Welsh Surnames, by Bardsley.
"Scholey-Richard de Scoleio, Normandy, 1198. (MRS.) Schooley, for Scholey."
Manuscripts year 1198.
The Norman People, King, London, 1874.

CHAPTER ONE

THE SCHOLEY - SCHOOLEY LINEAGE IN ENGLAND AND IN AMERICA

THE SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY LINEAGE

RICHARD SCHOLEY I., b. Cadwell, Bedfordshire, Eng.; died 1590; married
Amy ------ , Cadwell, Bedfordshire, Eng. Children, Richard.

RICHARD SCHOLEY II., b. Easton-on-the-Hill, Stamford Baron, Eng.; married
--------- ----------; died 1638. Children, Richard, John (of Aughton) Anthony.

JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, b. 1609, Northhampshire, Eng.; died 1696,
in America at Chesterfield, near Burlington, West Jersey. Married first Elizabeth Fletcher, Rotherham, Eng., 1633. Children, Richard, Ellen, William, Mary, Robert and Thomas. Married second, Isabelle Hancock in 1660, Sheffield, Eng. Children, John.

THOMAS SCHOOLEY, b. 1650, Yorkshire, Eng.; died 1724 at Onychickon,
Burlington Co., West Jersey, America. Married Sarah Parker at Bur-lington,
in 1686. Children, Thomas Jr., William, Sarah, Elizabeth, Samuel, Joseph and John.

SAMUEL SCHOOLEY I., b. 1698, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co., New
Jersey. Died Old Hardwick, N. J., 176 1. Married Alvis Holloway, 1725. Children, Asenath, Ann, Joseph, James, Benjamin, Rachel, Je-hoaden and Samuel.

SAMUEL SCHOOLEY II., b. 1743, Quakertown, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey.
Died 1832 in Grayson Co. (Carroll), Va. Married first, Margaret Brown Gibbons in ---------, Bucks Co., Pa. Children, William, Mar-ried second, Elizabeth Willson of Warren Co., N. J., 1770. Children,Leah, Margaret, James, John, Samuel, Gabriel, Benjamin, Nathaniel and Elizabeth.

JOHN SCHOOLEY, b. 1782, Newton, Sussex Co., N. J. Died 18-- in Indiana.
Married Susanna Johnson of Grayson Co., Va., 1805. Children, Asenath, Isaac, Elizabeth, Rachel and Sarah.

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THE NAME OF SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY IN ENGLAND

Numerous instances have been found in authentic records, such as parish church registers and military rolls and court decrees and sentences relating to estates which establish the great antiquity of the name of Scholey-Schooley in England. More frequent mention of the name may be found in the various records or documents pertaining to religious or commercial life in Yorkshire, though the name often appears in other counties of England in ancient, as well as in modern times.

The one personality with which most of the Schooleys in America are interested was the immigrant from England, John Scholey, Senior, the father of Robert, Thomas and John Junior, who with their descendants made the bulk of the history of this booklet.

John Scholey was born, or baptised, in the year 1609 in Northhampshire in England. His father was Richard Scholey, whose residence was at Easton-on-the-Hill, in the Barony of Stamford, near the city of Stamford. This Richard had three sons-Richard, John and Anthony. Richard was the eldest and Anthony the youngest.

Richard and John, while quite young men at home with their father's family, had received the usuary from leases and tenements owned by their father at Colleweston and Stewkeley. About the year 1631 these two brothers went northward into Yorkshire, and apparently among relatives. Both remained for many years, it appears, and had their homes at times in the parish of Aston cum Aughton, in the Wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, in the West Ridings of Yorkshire, about six miles east from Sheffield and about four miles south from Rotherham.

John Scholey, Sr., was married with Elizabeth Fletcher, daughter of Richard and Alice (Ellice) Fletcher. All were then of the parish of Rotherham. They were married on the 23rd of April, in the year of 1633. (Rotherham Marriage Registers). To John and Elizabeth were born Richard in 1636, who in 1667 married Elizabeth Greene of the parish of Rotherham. (Rotherham Registers). He died in 1686 and was buried at All Saints of Aston Parish. (Parish burial register). Ellen, who died in 1654, was of Rotherham and in that year married Henrye Barton of Par-Aughton. William was born in 1640 and died in 1714. His residence was at Aughton, and he was a member of the Friends Meetings of Balby. (English Friends Records). Robert was born in the year 1648 and married Sarah Bingham. He died in America in the year 1689.

Thomas was born in 1650, married in 1686 in America to Sarah Parker, and died in 1724 in America. (Note-Robert and Thomas each had a daughter named Elizabeth, and each had a son named William, born in America).

John Scholey's (Scoley), Sr., second marriage was in 1660 with Isabelle Hancock, daughter of Robert and ? Hancock, of the parish of Sheffield. (Sheffield Marriage Registers). To this mating was born "John sonne of John' Scholey, Oct. 15, 1676." (Registers of All Saints of Aston Parish). He become known in America as John Scholey, Junior. (Note--John, Jr., had a daughter named Isabel).

The principal home of the Schooleys in England was about one-half mile west of the ancient village of Aughton, and was known as Scholey's

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Copse or as Smallage Farm. These properties were known as the Scholey homes for scores of years. This farm, of about eighty acres, lies on an elevation and has a good view of Aughton and Aston, and also westward over the Valley of the Rother to Woodhouse and Handsworth, about one and a half, and two miles away. Near Smallage House are the ages-old woodlands, Falconer Wood, Treeton Wood and Hail Mary Wood.

The principal roadway westward from Aughton was Smallage Lane, which leads past Smallage e House and down the hill to Woodhouse Hill station of the Great Central Railway and the North Midland Line which roads traverse the Rother Valley. The River Rother meanders through the meadows of the valley on its way northeasterly, and joins the River Don at Bow Bridge in Rotherham. The ancient rural beauty of this sec-tion of country is now marred by unsightly colleries.

The parish church of the parish of Aston is All Saints at Aston, a half-mile southeast from Aughton. The church overlooks large Aston Park. The antiquity of this church is proven by an unbroken register of Rectors from the year 1259, avers the Rotherham Daily Advertiser. The registers of members' baptisms, marriages and burials reach back hundreds of years.

They have names of many Scholeys, spelled in several variations Nicholas Scholey was one of the Wardens of this church in 1669. In the old and now closed burial ground of All Saints are the burial vaults of Scholeys in the years 1500 to 1600. Inscriptions on the vaults bear the names of Scholeys of Smallage House.

RICHARD SCHOLEY, of Stamford Baron, father of John of Aughton, died in the year 1638. His will bore the date of September 3rd of that year and was probated 23rd of October, 1638.

The son, ANTHONY, was then "under age 21," but in the following month he was allowed to act as executor of his father's will. This will provided that the testator be buried in the church yard of the Parish Church of St. Martins, in Stamford, Baron. Bequests were made therein "to the poore of Easton-on-the-Hill," "to my son, Anthonie, the house in St. Martins, also the house in Easton wherein I now live."
(Records of Prerogative Court).

Richard Scholey, of Stamford Baron, was the son of Richard Schooley and Amy -----, his wife, of Cadwell, in Bedfordshire. Cadwell was located about one mile west from the town of Bedford on the River Ouse, which was the location of the Priory of the Order of the Holy Cross, established in the reign of King John. Richard of Bedford died in the year 1590 and left an estate. The Prerogative Court, at Michaelmas term
23d of October, 1591, denied the allegations of Richard as not proven. "Allegations of the defendant, Amy, at Second of All Souls, 4th of Nov. in said year (1591) has been proved." "Now we pronounce that said Amy is relict of s'd Dec'd and is entitled to administer his goods." "Ad'm thefore to said Amy S., dated Tuesday, 13th June, 1592." -(Adm. Act. Book, 1592).

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THOMAS SCHOLEY

This ancient Norman-Anglo family name was first introduced into America by Thomas Scholey, who came from near Sheffield in the West Ridings of Yorkshire, in England, in the year 1677.

Records of very early land titles in New Jersey disclose the fact that previous to his emigration to America he had his home at, or near, Woodhouse, a village in the parish of Handsworth, located about four to five miles easterly from Sheffield. His destination in America was the colony of the Society of Friends, about to be established along the Delaware river in West Jersey. His brother Robert came over in the next year to the same place. About two or three years later their father and mother and younger brother John came also and settled in the same vicinity.

A history of "Nova Caesarea," or New Jersey, was published at Burlington, New Jersey, in the year of 1765 by Samuel Smith, who had served for several years as a member of the Provincial Assembly and as Treasurer of the Province. He married a daughter of Joseph Kirkbride and were members of the Friends Religious Society.

This author informs his readers that extensive and careful preparations had been made in England by the members of the colony of the Society of Friends, with whom Thomas Scholey had affiliated before they left their old homes in England, to engage in pioneering activities in the New World.

Thomas Scholey was among the one hundred and fifty-one men who signed a petition to the English King, Charles II., for "Concessions" of lands in West Jersey. Among the petitioners were:
E. Byllinge, William Penn, Mahlon Stacy, Thomas Budd, Gawen Lawrie,
Samuel Lovett, Thomas Scholey, John Newbold, Thomas Revel, William Emley, Samuel Jennings, Thomas French, Godfrey Hancock, John Wood, John Pancoast, Thomas Lambert, Thomas Watson, George Hutchinson, Thomas Gardner.

Many of these petitioners were of the same, or near communities in England as the Scholeys. In this history, on page 92, Smith says, "Among other purchasers of West Jersey lands, were two companies, one made up of some Friends in Yorkshire, and the other of some Friends in London. In the year 1677 Commissioners were sent by the Proprietors with power to buy the lands of the natives; and to order the lands laid out and in general to administer the government, purusuant to the Con-cessions."

The Yorkshire Commissioners, Joseph Helmsley, William Emley and Robert Stacy, on behalf of the first purchasers, chose from the Falls of the Delaware, down, which was hence called the First Tenth.

The London Commissioners and those of Yorkshire agreed to join in settling the first town; the Londoners taking along the river to the main street of the town, and the Yorkshire Commissioners to the east of the main street. This town was first called New Beverly, then Bridlington, but soon changed to Burlington. Laws for the government of this projected West Jersey settlement were agreed upon and adopted and signed on the third day of March, 1677. Thomas Scholey affixed his

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signature thereto with Thomas French, George Hutchinson, Thomas Gardner,
William Black, John Pancoast, Thomas Wright, Godfrey Hancock, John Newbold,
John Wood, Thomas Lambert, Thomas Hooten, Henry Stacy, Thomas Revell, et al.

Among the few early boats to arrive at Burlington was the Flie Boat Martha, of Burlington, Yorkshire, England, which arrived late in the summer of 1677, sailed from Hull (a port on the River Humber) with 114 passengers designed to settle the Yorkshire (First) Tenth.

Some masters of families in this ship were Thomas Wright, William Goforth,
John Lyman, Edward Season, William Black, Richard Longworth, George Miles, William Wood, Thomas Schooley, Richard Harrison, Thomas Hooton, Samuel Taylor, Marmaduke Horsman, William Oakley, William Ley and Nathaniel Luke. The families of Robert Stacy and Samuel Odas.

Nearly all of these men were from towns and parishes in southeastern Yorkshire and in adjacent Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, near the old English homes of the Schooleys. Thomas was then unmarried.

ROBERT SCHOLEY.

Smith's History also furnishes us with the information that the next year, 1678, the ship, THE SHIELD, after sixteen weeks' voyage, in the 10th MO. (December) old time, arrived at the Falls of the Delaware, a few miles north of Burlington. Robert Schooley, with his wife and children, came on the Shield this trip with many old friends and neighbors. He was the second Scholey in America.

Robert had lived a little while at Warsup, in Nottinghamshire, Eng., after his marriage with Sarah Bingham, a daughter of Richard and Frances, in the year 1675, at John Hooton's home at Skegby in Notts. Robert and Sarah were then members of the Friends Society there, as they were in later years in America. Smith's History mentions the names of the following friends and neighbors of the Scholeys in England who came over on this trip of THE SHIELD from the neighboring localities within twenty miles southeasterly from Sheffield. Among them were:
William Emley, wife and two children, and two men and two women servants. 'This was Emley's second trip. Mahlon Stacy, wife and children and servants; John Wood, wife and children; Thomas Lambert, wife, children and servants; Thomas Potts, wife and children; John Lambert and servant; Thomas Revell, wife and servants; Thomas Wood, wife and children; Robert Murfin, wife and two children; James Pharo, wife and children; Susannah Farnsworth, children and two servants; Richard Tattersall, wife and children; Godfrey Newbold, Richard Greene, Peter Frettwell, John Frettwell, John Newbold, Francis Barwick, George Parks, George Hill, John Ayers.

A memorandum in the records of the Chesterfield (Burlington Co., N. J.) of Friends Meeting (vol. 1, page 7) gives the names of Robert Scholey's children, and asserts they were all born in America. A daughter, Alice, was born 2d mo. April 16, 1676, at Mansfield Wood-house in Derbyshire, according to English Friends records.
The dates of the births of his other children are as follows:
William, born 8-2-1679;
Mary, born 11-6-1681;
Sarah, born at Nottingham Woodhouse in West Jersey, 1-26-1684;
Elizabeth, born in 1686, died after three days;
Robert, born 11-10-1687.

It is probable that Nottingham Woodhouse, in West Jersey, was in Nottingham township, which was near the Falls (Trenton). Probably all

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of his children were born there, as Robert had his home in that township, and he and Sarah were buried near the Falls. Robert, the father, died soon after the birth of his last child. His life in the New World was of but little more than ten years' duration, All of his children were very young at the time of his death. Robert was probably under forty-one years of age at the date of his death, and his widow but little over thirty.

Robert dated his will "ye 19 day of ye 1st mo. 1688." To Sarah, his wife, he bequeathed "Ye Plantations in Nottingham township and ye house and lotts in ye town of Burlington." As Executrix of his will, he appointed Sarah, and to assist her he said, "I do nominate and empower my trusty and beloved friends, Mahlon Stacy of Ballyfield, and Thomas Lambert of Nottingham, both of the province of West Jersey." He mentions "my youngest son, Robert, to have five pounds more than the rest."

In the next year after Robert's death, or in 1690, Sarah, by authority of his will, sold to young John Lambert, son of above Thomas Lambert, a "plantation of 200 acres, and the mansion house." (Vol. B, p. 473, Dept. of State of New Jersey)

Seven years after the death of Robert, as evidenced by the Book of Marriages of the Chesterfield Friends Meetings, Sarah was united in marriage with Caleb Wheatley, on the 10th of the 10th month, 1696, before the Chesterfield Friends. The recorded witnesses to this marriage included Sarah's children, William, Robert, Mary, and Sarah Scholey, Frances Davenport, Mathew Watson, John Bunting, Thomas Folkes, John
Murfin, Joseph Smith, et al.

The Friends Meeting appointed a committee "to see that the rights of Sarah's children were well safeguarded."

Robert Scholey was "buried at ye Falls, the 25th day of ye 1st month, year 1689."
The Chesterfield Friends records has, "Sarah Wheatley, widow of Robert Scholey, and late wife of Caleb Wheatley, died l-14-1 714, and was buryed at ye Falls."
Robert Scholey's daughter, Mary, who was born in 1681, was married to Joseph Wright in 1710.

CHAPTER TWO

JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, SR. AND JR.

JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, SR.
Only approximately can the date of John Scholey's arrival in America, at the Friend's Settlement on the Delaware River, with his family, be determined. Some events of which records exist in New Jersey, indicate that John and his family were there early in the sixteen-hundred eighties.

John and Isabel and their young son John, well known later as an Elder among Friends, and as John Scholey, Jr., were probably in West Jersey about 1681-2, in which year John became the owner of land on "Doctor's Creek where he lives," which he had bought of Godfrey Newbold, in that year.

Though John Scholey lived about fourteen years in and near Chesterfield where his sons, Thomas and Robert lived, there is no mention of his name or Isabel's, his wife, in the records of the Chesterfield Friends. There are ample proofs that his sons and their families were members of this Society.

His daughter Mary probably came over with her brother Robert and his family, in 1678. In the Burlington Friend's Records, are minutes of the declaration of intentions of marriage with Mary Scholey, made by John Rogers, on 7-2-1680. They were married at the home of Thomas Lambert on 8-l-1680. The witnesses were: Robert Scholey, Mahlon Stacy, John and Thomas Lambert, William Wood, Joshua Wright, John and Robert Murfin, Richard Ridgway, et al. These records further assert that "Mary, wife of John Rogers, of the Falls, died in childbirth and was buried in 6-20-l681."

In the year 1682, John Scholey, Sr., late of Aughton, in the Parish of Aston, purchased from "Godfrey Newbold of Woodhouse, in the Parish of Handsworth, in Yorkshire, England," a tract of land in West Jersey. The quoted words are from the Deed of conveyance of the title to said tract of land. Five years later John sold his small farm on Doctor's Creek, near Crosswicks Creek, to his old friend, William Watson, "late of Farnsfield, County of Nottingham, Eng." by "Indenture made this Tenth day of ye Moneth Called June in ye year of our Lord according to English acco't, 1687."
(Dept. of State of New Jersey, Vol. B. of Deeds-p. 188.)

In the same year, John purchased from Ralph Trenoweth a "Plantation conteyning 100 acres, and all that dwelling house, "scituate and being in the said county of Burlington."

Four years later, John sold half of this tract "whereon he liveth" to Katherine Beard, widow of William. 'The witnesses to John's Signing were, Joseph Hutchinson, formerly of Sheffield in England. Then a Distiller at Burlington, sold to John Scholey 125 acres of land. Robert Stacy of Philadelphia, and his son John, in the year 1697 sold to John Scholey 300 acres near Onea Nickon, adjoining lands of John Shinn and William Beard.
A survey of 181 acres for John Scholey, and another one of 50 acres adjoining land of Mathew Champion, which he sold to Gervis Pharo.

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When John Scholey became "olde in years and decrepit in health" he prepared for death by making a will. It is among Unrecorded Wills. vol. 3, p. 377 (D. of S. of N. J.). His will was dated "March ye 29th, 1695.

"I, John Scholey, being weak of body, but of good memory, do ordean this my laste will and testament." "First, I commit my Soule into the hand of Almighty God; next my body to be buried att my wife and sonn discretion.
"I give to my wife Isabel all my chattels and my plantation where I now live, until my sonn John Corn att age, and then my plantation, goods and chattels to be equally divided betwixt them." I give to my son Thomas, my land liing next to John Wareing (Warren) ao him and his Heirs an asignes forever;" Likewise I give to my sonn Thomas, a piece of meadow, to him and his heirs forever, containing quaintitie of 6 acres."
This Will "was sealed and delivered in the presence of" Mathew Champion, and William Bustill. "The seaventh day of Aprill, Anno. 1696," then proved ye Codocill, or Testatis Mentis of John Scholey within named.

Edward Hunloke, Nathan Westland, Thomas Revell, Sec'y. and Reg't. As the Executrix of John Scholey's will, Isabel was required to give bond. Her fellow signers on her bond, were Mathew Champion and Daniel Smith, both of Burlington county in ye Province of West Jersey." This bond was sealed on the "Seaventh day of April1 anno dom 1696." By this bond Isabel was required to give account from time to time concerning the estate.

A plantation called Scholey's, was mentioned in the will of Thomas Lambert, in the year 1693. This was about three years before the death of John Scholey, Senior.

JOHN SCHOLEY-SCHOOLEY, JUNIOR
Of this member of the original family of Scholeys who came to America, nothing is to be found in Smith's History, and but little in the records of the Friend's Religious Society. Some data has been obtained from the public records.

John was a mere boy of five or six years of age when he arrived at the Friend's Colony on the Delaware, in West Jersey, with his parents, to greet his older brothers. He was under age in 1695, the date of his father's will, but the records disclose that two years later, in 1697, he took in marriage, Rebecca Bennet, at the home of Thomas Williams.
The Witnesses present at their marriage were: Thomas Scholey, Ann and Sarah Bennet, Rebecca Williams, Mathew Champion, and seventeen others.

John, Jr., and Rebecca had only one child of whom any record was left, Ann, who was born in 1699, and was married to Thomas Scattergood Junior, of Mansfield in Burlington County. Rebecca probably lived only a few years. Ann was remembered in the will of her father, and also in the will of her stepmother.

For his second venture in matrimony, John, Jr., chose Frances Nicholson, widow of Joseph Nicholson. The Chesterfield Friend's Records, (Vol. A. p. 126) aver that on the
"1st. of the 1st. mo. 1711, John Scholey and Frances Nicholson declare their intentions of taking each other in. marriage; Her father and mother being present, gave their consent thereto." "2d. mo. 5th. day, 1711, John and Frances declare a second

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time He producing a certificate from Burlington, and they were given liberty to proceed according to the good order amongst Friends." Frances was a daughter of Samuel and Susannah Taylor. John Scholey and Frances raised a large family of three sons and six daughters. In Rev. Chambers History may be found a list of the names of their children and their marriages:
Susannah, born in 171 I-12, married in 1730 to Michael Newbold of Springfield township.
John, III., born in 1714, married in 1745 with Rachel Emly.
Thomas, born and died in 1718.
Mary, born in 1720, married Johnathan Barton, later, Thomas Black, and finally Samuel
Wright.
Isabel was named for her grandmother Scholey.
Samuel, who died in 1751 intestate, was born in 1723 of Springfield Twp.
His brother John administered his estate.
Rebecca, born in 1725, married in 1747 to Joseph Wright.
Sarah, born in 1727, married Joseph Horner .
Johnathan, born in 1729, married Mary Wright. He died in 1758.

John Scholey, Jr., became possessed of large estates in lands in Springfield and Hanover, and adjoining townships, in his busy life. The children of John, Jr., and Frances, became intermarried with the leading and thrifty families of Burlington County, who, with their descendants, have for several generations, continued to reside in the sections of country in which their ancestors had settled.

John, Jr., died as a resident of Springfield Township in 1735, his will being probated on Feb. 8th of that year. Frances named executrix. In his will he mentions his sons John, Samuel, Johnathan, and daughters Rebecca and Sarah, all under age, in 1731; His daughter, Ann Scattergood. Frances survived John, Jr., about fifteen years. Her will was probated in 1750. There seems to be no record of any male descendants from John Scholey, Jr.

The following is quoted from the proceedings of the Surveyors' Association of New Jersey, page 84, printed in 1870.
"Early settlements in Springfield Twp.: In 1687, Syman Charles, Deputy Surveyor, surveyed lands adjoining land of Mathew Champion, John Schooley, Thomas Shinn; these lands were conveyed in 1687 to 1697 to John Scholey, Jr. John Scholey, Jr., was a son of John Scholey of Woodhouse, Yorks, England, etc."

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