Robert A. Barrow

Solomon married Decandia Jackson about 1873 in Texas. Decandia (daughter of Hugh Jackson and Elizabeth Sophia Bond) was born on 17 Jul 1851 in Liberty Co, Texas; died on 24 Jan 1931 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
TX Death Cert:
Mrs. Decandria Barrow, wid
Husband: Solomon Barrow
Father: Hugh Jackson
Mother: Sophia Bond
Informant: Ralph Barrow

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1855, Liberty Co, Texas
• Census: 17 Jul 1860, Chambers Co, Texas

Notes:

from the Handbook of Texas

Benjamin Barrow, "Ben the Bearhunter," an early settler, rancher, and official of Chambers County, the son of Reuben and Mary Jane (Johnson) Barrow, Sr., was born on April 24, 1808, near Opelousas, Louisiana. Although he may have traveled to Texas with family members as early as 1824, he did not permanently settle there until 1827.

In 1838 he received a headright near the site of present Devers in Liberty County, but he does not appear to have lived on the grant. He was married on June 4, 1835, to Permelia Jane White, daughter of cattleman James Taylor White. Family legend has it that Benjamin was caught in a rainstorm around 1830, stayed at White's home for the night, and resolved to wait until Permelia, then about ten, was old enough to marry. They had nine children.

After Permelia died in 1861, Barrow married Mrs. Mary Jane Middleton Bryan. They had no children. Barrow received a pension for service in the Texas army from May 10 to August 10, 1836. He is also listed as a second lieutenant in a Liberty militia company organized during the Republic of Texas period. He established a cattle ranch on Turtle Bayou five miles northeast of Anahuac and became one of the county's largest ranchers and wealthiest men. He was a substantial slaveholder and raised cattle, blooded horses, swine, and sheep on his ranch. His upside-down-wineglass brand was a familiar sight on the prairies of Southeast Texas.

A number of legends revolve around Barrow's bear-hunting exploits. On one occasion when his dogs surrounded a bear in a briar patch, he is said to have climbed into the briars and killed the bear with a knife in order to save his hounds. Family members recall that he also kept pet bears around his house.

Barrow was elected justice of the peace in 1843 and county commissioner in 1854. In April 1868, during Reconstruction, he was appointed district clerk, a position he held for a year.

He died during a smallpox epidemic on February 7, 1877. Mrs. Barrow died of the same disease three days later.


Census:
residence 385 (widow of John White, bro of James Robert & Parmelia)
White, Martha 43 head 1817 Louisiana 10,000 41,000
John O. 19 1841 Texas farmer
Robert D. 16 1844 Texas farmer
James C. 14 1856 Texas Farmer
Joseph C. 12 1858 Texas
Mary Ann 10 1850
Martha W. 8 1852 Texas

next door:
(Assuming David is her brother - not verified he is child of Elisha.)
residence 386:
Wallis, David 38 1822 LA
Susannah Wallis 37 1823 Ireland
David 18 1842 LA
Caroline Wallis 16 1844 LA
Francis 14 1846 female LA
Emily 11 1849 LA
Altha 8 1852 LA
William 7 1853 LA
Anna 8/12 1859 TX
Henry 3 1857 TX
Ann M. Barrow 61 1799 Ireland

residence: 387 vacant

next door:
Residence 388
White Jas T. 31 1829 farmer 3,000 20,000 Texas
Amanda 33 1827 Mississippi
Jas T. 6 1854 Texas
Robert M. 3 1857 Texas
Amanda 2 1858 Texas

Residence 389
Robert White 36 1824 Louisiana farmer 3,000 19,000

Residence: 390
Barrow John S. 24 1836 farmer 3,000 600 Texas

Residence: 391
Barrow, Benjamin (Ben Franklin,
"Ben the Bearhunter" 52 1808
farmer 11,290 26,000 Louisiana
Pamila (Permelia Jane White) 40 1820 Texas
Benjamin F. 21 1839 Texas
Sarah 17 1833 Texas
Mary Ann 15 1835 Texas
Josephine 12 1838 TX
Solomon 10 1850 TX
Robert C. 7 1853 TX
Pamila J. (Permelia Jane) 4 1856 TX
LaGrange, Z 21 1839 Laborer Louisiana

Benjamin married Permelia Jane White on 04 Jun 1835 in Louisiana. Permelia (daughter of James Taylor White and Sarah Cade) was born on 16 Oct 1820 in Louisiana; died on 11 Nov 1861 in Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in White's Cem, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 17 Jul 1860, Chambers Co, Texas

Notes:

Census:
residence 385 (widow of John White, bro of James Robert & Parmelia)
White, Martha 43 head 1817 Louisiana 10,000 41,000
John O. 19 1841 Texas farmer
Robert D. 16 1844 Texas farmer
James C. 14 1856 Texas Farmer
Joseph C. 12 1858 Texas
Mary Ann 10 1850
Martha W. 8 1852 Texas

next door:
(Assuming David is her brother - not verified he is child of Elisha.)
residence 386:
Wallis, David 38 1822 LA
Susannah Wallis 37 1823 Ireland
David 18 1842 LA
Caroline Wallis 16 1844 LA
Francis 14 1846 female LA
Emily 11 1849 LA
Altha 8 1852 LA
William 7 1853 LA
Anna 8/12 1859 TX
Henry 3 1857 TX
Ann M. Barrow 61 1799 Ireland

residence: 387 vacant

next door:
Residence 388
White Jas T. 31 1829 farmer 3,000 20,000 Texas
Amanda 33 1827 Mississippi
Jas T. 6 1854 Texas
Robert M. 3 1857 Texas
Amanda 2 1858 Texas

Residence 389
Robert White 36 1824 Louisiana farmer 3,000 19,000

Residence: 390
Barrow John S. 24 1836 farmer 3,000 600 Texas

Residence: 391
Barrow, Benjamin (Ben Franklin,
"Ben the Bearhunter" 52 1808
farmer 11,290 26,000 Louisiana
Pamila (Permelia Jane White) 40 1820 Texas
Benjamin F. 21 1839 Texas
Sarah 17 1833 Texas
Mary Ann 15 1835 Texas
Josephine 12 1838 TX
Solomon 10 1850 TX
Robert C. 7 1853 TX
Pamila J. (Permelia Jane) 4 1856 TX
LaGrange, Z 21 1839 Laborer Louisiana

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Liberty Co, Texas
• Census: 1860, Chambers Co, Texas

Notes:

Census:
Jackson, Hugh, 33, LA, surveyor
Elizabeth S, 27, MD
Alexander B, 6, TX
James S, 4, TX
John H, 2, TX

Census:
Long, A H, 56
Litticia, 44
Jackson, Jas S, 14
John H, 12
Decandia, 8

Hugh married Elizabeth Sophia Bond on 21 Mar 1843 in Texas. Elizabeth was born in 1813 in Maryland; died after 1852 in Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1787, Mobile, Alabama
• Residence: 1795, Louisiana

Notes:

Old Reuben

Any snap course in Chambers County genealogy almost always has to begin with a gentleman named Reuben Barrow, Sr., who probably never came to Texas. A brace of family genealogists have studied the Barrow family for decades, but no one has ever determined when Old Reuben was born nor when he died. The fact that he lived, however, has never been in question. A man by that name appears on the 1787 census of Mobile, Alabama, aged some 28 years, which would place his birth in the vicinity of 1759. The late Villamae Williams, a longtime researcher and a former chairman of the Chambers County Historical Commission, placed the elder Barrow in Louisiana by 1795.

Reuben was married first, possibly about 1783, to Fannie Kennedy, by whom he had two sons, Levi and Vincent.

His second marriage, to Mary Jane Johnson, took place around 1790. The 1810 census of Opelousas shows two Barrow households, one headed by Reuben and the other by his son Vincent. His other son, Levi, can be found on the census of Rapides Parish that same year. By that time, however, Reuben's household was fairly swarming with young children from his second marriage. These included their daughters Rachel, Elizabeth, Sarah, Julia and Amelia. Over the years each of these girls would marry and most of these families made their way into what would become Chambers County. Elizabeth married Samuel Barber. They would settle on Old River. Sarah married Elisha Henry Roberts Wallis (known in legal documents usually as "E. H. R. Wallis). They would settle at Wallisville. Julia married Alexander Stephens and lived briefly on Turtle Bayou. Amelia would marry Henry Griffith and settle also on Old River. Their eldest daughter, Rachel, married John Foreman, but no one has ever figured out where they settled or what became of them. Four of Reuben and Mary Jane's children (William, Marie, Victoria and Richard Barrow) died young. The legends that developed around the Barrow family most often surround the three sons of Reuben and Mary Jane. Solomon, who was born in 1801, was the oldest of the three. Reuben, Jr. followed in 1806, and Benjamin was born in 1808. Old Reuben settled just below Vermillionville, Louisiana on the lyrically named Bayou Que de Tortue, which meant the Tail of the Turtle. He had some extensive holdings along the bayou, where he farmed and raised cattle. Before we cover the lives of the three Barrow brothers, we should also address one of the major problems confronting any casual student of that family's history. Most of the Barrow families tended to name their children for other members of the family. Since most of them settled in Chambers and Liberty counties, this creates a confusing minefield for the uninitiated. Old Reuben's two sons by his first wife were also involved in the mix. His son Levi died in Louisiana in 1818 and never settled in Texas, but his son Aaron Leonard Barrow and his wife came and stayed for awhile. Levi's brother, Vincent Barrow came here after the death of his first (missing text)

such manner did the first part of the Barrow clan find their way here. wife, Gertrude Thibodeaux and received a land grant near Hankamer. His sons were Levi Oliver, who married Tabitha Isabel Weed; Reuben "Dutch Reuben," who first married Elizabeth Weaver and second to Susan Benton Albritton Courtney (who had been widowed twice); Benjamin Anatoile "French Ben," who married Eliza Weed; Louisa, who married Lucien Abshier; Adaline, who married John Dunman; and Zilphia, who married Robert Dunman.

The pivotal event in the Barrow exodus from Louisiana to Texas is a lengthy journey conducted in the late fall or winter of 1824, when Elisha Henry Robert Wallis and his wife Sarah Barrow loaded their four children and all of their possessions into wagons and set out for the Trinity River. It was not a particularly perilous journey, but it was arduous. There were lots of streams, bayous and rivers to cross. Mr. Wallis came with his three young brothers-in-law. This was a practical way for a family to travel. All of the men helped in fording the streams and driving their combined livestock. They arrived in Liberty on Christmas Day in 1824 and then headed south into present-day Chambers County. Old legends say that skirted the woods to the east, camped along Turtle Bayou, and kept huge fires burning at night to keep away the alligators. In such manner did the first part of the Barrow clan find their way here.

- THE BARROW BROTHERS OF CHAMBERS COUNTY
By Kevin Ladd, Director Wallisville Heritage Park
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from Opelousas Post
ROBERT BARROW - native of North America; son of Richard Barrow and Maria Godenne (?); MARIA JOHNSON - daughter of Daniel Johnson and Susana Daly
Julia - baptized January 7, 1802; five years old; Godparents, Estevan deville and his wife
Richard - baptized January 7, 1802; three years old; Godparents, Clark Barton and Carlota Reed
Solomon - baptized January 7, 1802; one year old; Godparents, Thomas Hofpower and Clarisa Mils

RUBEN BARRORD (BARROW) - son of Richard Barrord and Maria Godenne; MARIA JOHNSON - daughter of Daniel Johnson and Susana Daly.
Emilia - baptized August 17, 1803; one year old; Godparents,
Guillermo Perry and Anna Robert
(Ed. Note: Are the two above couples the same, or were two
brothers married to the same woman?)

Reuben married Mary Jane Johnson-Barrow, (dau?) in 1789 in Mobile, Spanish West Florida. Mary (daughter of Daniel Johnson, (son of who?) and Susanne Daley) was born about 1771 in North Carolina; died after Apr 1807 in of, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 23 Sep 1950, Liberty Co, Texas

Notes:

White, Jacques Telleur (Jean of N.Carolina & Sara Gambil of N. Carolina) b 28 Jul (SM Ch.: v.5, #371)
White, James Taylor (John of North Carolina & Sara Gambil of North Carolina) bt 5 May 1801 at age 12 yrs old on 28 Jul 1801. Pats: James Taylor White & Elizabeth Pou; Mats: John Gambil & Sara Dempot all of Virginia; Spons: Jessie White & Mary White. Fr. Michel Bernard Barriere (SM Ch v.5, #371)

White, James T - native of this parish (major son of dec. John Whyte, inhabitant of lower Vermillion & Sally Gambell) m 26 Jan 1813 Sally Cade, native of this parish (minor daughter of dec James, inhabitant of Vermillion and Polly Michols) Wits: Shadrach Porter, Henry Jackson, Emanuel D'Asperemont. Fr. Gabriel Isabey (SM Ch: v.5 #281)
There was a James Taylor (Jacques Taleur) who spons bt of Ruben, James Taylor White's nephew (child of William & Aimie Comstock).

James Taylor White was in Chambers Co. before the TX Revolution and it was at his ranch that the Turtle Bayou resolutions were drawn up, an early confrontation of Texans and Mexicans.

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James Taylor White, who settled at Turtle Bayou near Anahuac in 1818, was the first significant cattleman along the upper Texas coast.15 An early, anonymous writer credited White?s herd as numbering 3,000 head in 1831,16 whereas another writer quoted the herd?s size at 10,000 head in 1840. This writer claimed that when White died in 1851, he had $150,000 banked in New Orleans, the proceeds of his cattle sales there.17
W.T. Block - History of Jefferson County, Chapter XI
http://hans.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/History%20of%20Jefferson%20County/Chapter%2011.htm
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Handbook of Texas
WHITE, JAMES TAYLOR (1789-1852). James Taylor White (known as Taylor White), cattleman and rancher, son of John and Sarah (Gambel) White, was born on July 28, 1789, in Louisiana. During the 1780s his family probably moved to Louisiana from the Carolinas, where his grandfather had received a land grant in 1757. Taylor White married Sarah Cade, daughter of James and Polly (Nichols) Cade, on January 26, 1813, at St. Martin of Tours Church in St. Martinville, Louisiana.

In 1828 White drove his small herd of Spanish, or longhorn, cattle along the old Opelousas Road to Texas; he settled near Turtle Bayou. His cattle grazed on land bordered on the west by Galveston Bay and on the south by the Gulf of Mexico. The Turtle Bayou Resolutions were signed near his home. By 1840 White had acquired 4,605 acres of land in Liberty (now Chambers) County and paid taxes on 1,775 head of cattle and forty-five horses.

During the late 1830s or early 1840s, White began driving cattle to New Orleans. He deposited money from the sales of these cattle at banks in New Orleans and eventually put much of it back into the business of raising cattle. He attributed his success to his hard work and single-mindedness. He was also known to be innovative in his techniques. For example, he burned the land periodically to make way for new grass for his animals, a practice unheard of in his time.

White came to be known as the Cattle King of Southeast Texas. Two cattle brands, the JTW and the Crossed W, have been associated with White's Texas ranching operation. The Crossed W was reportedly willed to White by his father, also a cattleman, who died in 1806. Some sources claim that as of the late 1930s, both were among the oldest continuously used cattle brands in the state.

James Taylor White and his wife had seven children. He died, probably of cholera, in March 1852 at his home. In a nearby family plot he is buried with his wife, who died nine days later.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Frontier Times, March 1936. Jewel Horace Harry, A History of Chambers County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1940; rpt., Dallas: Taylor, 1981). Gifford E. White, James Taylor White of Virginia (Austin, 1982).

-Handbook of Texas online
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Census:
White, J. Taylor 65 1785 Louisiana
Sarah 55 1795 North Carolina
Robert 27 1823 Louisiana farmer
Joseph 24 1826 Louisiana farmer
James 21 1829 Texas farmer
Brashear, Norvelle, 21 1829 Louisiana Teacher

next door:
White John 33 1817 Louisiana farmer
Martha 30 1820 Louisiana
Sarah 10 140 Texas
John 9 1841 Texas
Elizabeth 8 1842 Texas
Robert 6 1844 Texas
James 4 1846 Texas
Joseph 2 1848 Texas
Mary Ann 0 1850 Texas

James married Sarah Cade on 26 Jan 1813 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana. Sarah (daughter of James Cade and Polly Nichols) was born in 1795 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana; died on 14 Mar 1852 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in White's Cem, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was the daughter of James Cade and Polly Nichols.

Daughter Sarah's d.c. states she was born in South Carolina.

Notes:

Married:
St Martin's Church,

The Records of this Church certify, under date of 26 jan 1816 to the marriage of James T Whyte, legitimate son of the late John Whyte and Sally Gambell to Sally Cade, legitmate daughter of the late James Cade and Polly Nichols. Said record is signed by Rev Gabriel?. Witnesses, Shadrack Porter, Henry Jackson*, Emmanuel D'Aspermont

Transcript made 22 Mar 1972, and reproduced in James Taylor White of Virginia

(note by Adam Edwards
* I believe this Henry Jackson might have been the brother of Humphrey Jackson, who married James Taylor White's sister, and who's son, by his second wife, married the youngest daughter of J T White and Sarah Cade

St Martin's Church,

The Records of this Church certify, under date of 26 jan 1816 to the marriage of James T Whyte, legitimate son of the late John Whyte and Sally Gambell to Sally Cade, legitmate daughter of the late James Cade and Polly Nichols. Said record is signed by Rev Gabriel?. Witnesses, Shadrack Porter, Henry Jackson*, Emmanuel D'Aspermont

Transcript made 22 Mar 1972, and reproduced in James Taylor White of Virginia

(note by Adam Edwards
* I believe this Henry Jackson might have been the brother of Humphrey Jackson, who married James Taylor White's sister, and who's son, by his second wife, married the youngest daughter of J T White and Sarah Cade

Notes:

JACKSON, HUMPHREY (1784-1833). Humphrey Jackson, Harris County pioneer, member of Stephen F. Austin'sqv Old Three Hundred colonists, and early San Jacinto District official, was born on November 24, 1784, in Belfast, Ireland, where his father owned flour and linen mills and was a member of the Irish Parliament that was dissolved in 1801. Jackson was educated in the law and immigrated to the United States in 1808. He settled at Berwick's Bayou, Louisiana, where he operated a sugar plantation near Vermillionville and served as a private with Baker's Louisiana Militia regiment at the battle of New Orleans in 1815. Jackson had married a Miss White, who died shortly without children. On October 13, 1814, he married Sarah Merriman, his first wife's cousin, with whom he had four children. Unable to run his plantation because he chose not to own slaves, Jackson traveled to Texas in September 1823 and built a log cabin outside Austin's colony on the San Jacinto River, a half mile west of the site of present Crosby. When it was discovered that he had settled outside the colony, Jackson petitioned the Baron de Bastrop,qv who on August 16, 1824, granted him title to a league and a labor of land, including the place where he had settled, in what is now Harris County. To become a legal colonist, Jackson next petitioned the Mexican government to form the San Jacinto District under control of the Austin colony; he was elected alcalde of the new district in 1824, 1825, and 1827, and served as ex officio militia captain of the San Jacinto area. In May 1825 he was appointed deputy constable in a case involving the schooner Mary. The census of March 1826 classified him as a farmer and stock raiser, a widower with a household including one servant, three sons, and a daughter. He offered Austin his services to help put down the Fredonian Rebellionqv in 1827 and in 1828 was regidorqv of Liberty Municipality. He was also a candidate for alcalde in 1830, when Francis W. Johnsonqv was elected. Jackson was killed by a falling tree on January 18, 1833, and buried at Crosby. Jackson's Bayou in eastern Harris County is probably named for him.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924-28). Eugene C. Barker, "The Government of Austin's Colony, 1821-1831," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 21 (January 1918). Eugene C. Barker, ed., "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin, 1828-1832," 12 parts, Southwestern Historical Quarterly 21-24 (January 1918-October 1920). Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897). Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas (Austin, 1963-). Andrew Forest Muir, "Humphrey Jackson, Alcalde of San Jacinto," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 68 (January 1965). Regina Shaw, "European Immigration to the American Frontier: The Case of Humphrey Jackson, 1784-1833," Touchstone 1 (1982). Texas Gazette, November 27, 1830. Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Diana J. Kleiner

Humphrey's father was an apothercary, not a member of Parliament. His nephew, however, was a member of Parliament. Also, Humphrey did not travel to America with his brothers. They joined him there at a later date.

Humphrey is listed as follows in BRITISH ALIENS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR OF 1812:

Jackson, Humphrey, age 28, 6 years in U.S., Attakapas (LA), planter; applied 8 oct. 1812 Superior Court LA. (16 nov. 1812 - 4 jan. 1813).

War of 1812 Service Records

Name: Humphry Jackson
Company: BAKER'S REGIMENT, LOUISIANA MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
Roll Box: 109
Roll Exct: 602


Letitia Tennent, his niece, created a Jackson family tree sometime in the 1870s I suspect. I have a copy of this tree and it, along with other research notes names Humphrey's parents and his siblings. (see Letitia Tennent Notes)

His cousins from Ballybay, Ireland, actively funded Andrew Jackson's presidential ambitions, and one of them made an attempt on President Jackson's life.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I39

from Adam Edwards:
Some old correspondence/research alludes to the possibility that the Ballybay Jackson's were somehow related to President Andrew Jackson. Certainly both Andrew Jackson and the Ballybay Jackson's came from Northern Ireland, and they certainly gravitated toward each other when they came to North America, but it's unclear how they might be related by blood, if at all. I suspect they were cousins of some kind, but to what degree it's impossible to tell.
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also from Adam Edwards:
His cousins from Ballybay, Ireland, actively funded Andrew Jackson's presidential ambitions, and one of them made an attempt on President Jackson's life.
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Humphrey married Sarah Merriman on 13 Oct 1814 in Louisiana. Sarah was born on 06 Jun 1796; died in 1823. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Family lore has it that she is the daughter of John Merriman and Mary Berwick. These two appear to have a daughter, Anne, born on Jun 9, 1796 in LA. I have not been able to determin for sure if Anne and Sarah are the same person but it seems likely. We do not know for sure Sarah was born on the 6th instead of the 9th. They were both living in the same area. We have a record of Anne's birth but none for Sarah. We have a record of Sarah's marriage and death but no such records for Anne. She named her first two children, Letitia and Hugh after her husband's parents. The third child, John, could be named after Sarah/Anne's father, John Merriman. The fourth child is a boy so the symetry is broken. That said, their eldest daughter does name her first born Mary.
On the flip side, the source of the family lore stated above was not very reliable where Humphrey's Irish ancestory was concerned.
(from Adam Edwards - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I487
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