I had me a good blaze-faced horse for dat. My mother Betsy Vann, worked in the big house for the missus. Pappy wanted to go back to his mother when the War was over the slaves was freed. At night dem trundles was jest all over the floor, and in de morning we shoved em back under de big beds to git dem outn' de way. Us slaves lived in log cabins dat only had one room and no windows so we kept de doors open most of de time. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. In 1840 the town of Harrison was developed on an adjoining property, and the county seat of Hamilton County was moved south to the Tennessee River to this location. Seneca Chism was my father. Tall and slim and handsome. When the War come they have a big battle away west of us, but I never see any battles. He jest kept him and he was a good negro after that. The land was timbered and the oldest children clear the land, or start to do the work while Pappa go back to Tahlequah to get my sick mamma and the rest of the family. I been a good Christian ever since I was baptised, but I keep a little charm here on my neck anyways, to keep me from having the nose bleed. They get something they need too. We all come back to de old place and find de negro cabins and barns burned down and de fences all gone and de field in crab grass and cockleburs. Rende is a comune (municipality) in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, home to the headquarters of the University of Calabria.It has a population of about 35,000, or more than 60,000 if the university students living there are taken into account. We never had no school in slavery and it was agin' the law for anybody to even show a negro de letters and figures, so no Cherokee slave could read. a trading post, more than 1,000 peach trees, 147 apple trees, and a still. Missus Jenni lived in a big house in Webbers Falls. He say he wanted to git de family all together agin. Women came in satin dresses, all dressed up, big combs in their hair, lots of rings and bracelets. When they gave a party in the big house, everything was fine. Yes, Lord Yes. We git three or four crops of different things out of dat farm every ear, and something growing on dat place winter and summer. Different friends would come and they'd show that arm. Joseph H. Vann was born at Spring Place, Georgia on February 11, 1798. The women dressed in whtie, if they had a white dress to wear. I don't know how old I is; some folks say I'se ninety-two and some say I must be a hundred. Mammy had the wagon and two oxen, and we worked a good size patch there until she died, and then I git married to Cal Robertson to have somebody to take care of me. I got a pass and went to see dem sometimes, and dey was both treated mighty fine. Don't know what they ever did with that arm. They'd cut brush saplings, walk out into the stream ahead of the pen and chase the fish down to the riffle where they'd pick em up. But about the home--it was a double-room log house with a cooling-off space between the rooms, all covered with a roof, but no porch, and the beds was made of planks, the table of pine boards, and there was never enough boxes for the chairs so the littlest children eat out of a tin pan off the floor. The following year, Joseph Vann and several of his black rebels died in the explosion of his steamboat Lucy Walker during a race on the Ohio River. In winter white folks danced in the parlor of the big house; in summer they danced on a platform under a great big brush arbor. I never would hear much about the war that my father was in, but I know he fought for the North. His death date is unknown - did NOT die in a steamboat explosion (that happened in 1844 to a different Joe Vann), did NOT die in 1809 (that was his son); was dead by 1800 when Clement Vann is reported by Moravians as husband of Wah li by by The master had a bell to ring every morning at four o'clock for the folks to turn out. My missus name was Doublehead before she married Jim Vann. on the Ohio River. In the summer I wear them on Sunday, too. Master's name was Joe Sheppard, and he was a Cherokee Indian. Sometime Young Master Joe and the other boys give me a piece of money and say I worked for it, and I reckon I did for I have to cook five or six times a day. We was too tired when we come in to play any games. Everybody had a good time. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouoldn't let his house slaves to with no common dress out. Lots of the slave children didn't ever learn to read or write. We settled down a little ways above Fort Gibson. My mammy was a Crossland Negro before she come to belong to Master Joe and marry my pappy, and I think she come wid old Mistress and belong to her. We settled down a little ways above Fort Gibson. It was in the Grand River close to the ford, and winter time. All the slaves lived in a log house. The home was subsequently owned by . I got all the clothes I need from old Mistress, and in winter I had high top shoes with brass caps on the toe. Our marshal made us all sign up like this; who are you, where you come from, where you go to. When Marster Jim and Missus Jennie went away, the slaves would have a big dance in the arbor. One day Missus Jennie say to Marster Jim, she says, "Mr. Vann, you come here. Brown sugar, molasses, flour, corn-meal, dried beans, peas, fruits butter lard, was all kept in big wooden hogsheads; look something like a tub. Oh Lord, no. Meanwhile, the Cherokees had presented their news of the slave revolt to the Cherokee National Council at the capital, Tahlequah, and gained approval for a Cherokee Militia unit to pursue, arrest, and deliver the fugitive slaves to Fort Gibson. Nothing is known of Bryan (t) Ward's ancestry and except for the one son his white family is uncertain. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Vann, Chief James Clement Ii Vann, Elizabeth (Go-sa-du-i-sga) Vann (born Thornton), Sarah "sallie" Vann Nicholson Or Buzzard Trapper (born Vann), Feb 11 1798 - Spring Place, Georgia, Old Cherokee Nation East, United States, Oct 23 1844 - Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, Chief James Vann, Ii, Nannie Vann (born Brown), Feb 11 1798 - Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States. You know just what day you have to be back too. I'm glad the War's over and I am free to meet God like anybody else, and my grandchildren can learn to read and write. They'd clap their hands and holler. After several days of pursuit, the Indians caught up with the escaped slaves and a heated battle inflicted casualties on both sides. Joseph H. Vann was born on February 11, 1798, at Spring Place in Georgia. Joseph Lewis "Rooster Crowing". Lord yes su-er. She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. Every dollar she make on the track, I give it to Lucy." They taken some of their slaves with them. My mother was seamstress. She inherit about half a dozen slaves, and say dey was her own and old master can't sell one unless she give him leave to do it. Chief Joseph David VANNfamily tree Parents John Joseph 'Indian Trader' Cherokee Vann 1735- 1815 Waw Li Otterlifter 1750- 1835 Wrong Chief Joseph David VANN? A few years of her life were also quite possibly spent among Seminoles during part of that time, although her memory of the death of Joseph "Rich Joe" Vann is clearly a part of Cherokee history. Everybody had fine clothes everybody had plenty to eat. I dont know about Robert Lee, but I know about Lees Creek. My aunt done de carding and spinning and my mammy done de weaving and cutting and sewing , and my pappy could make cowhide shoes wid wooden pegs. When the Vanns were forced from their Spring Place home in 1834, they took many slaves with them when they fled to safety in Tennessee. Pappa got the soldier fever from being in the War; no, I don't mean like the chills and fever, but just a fever to be in the army, I guess for he joined the regular U.S. Army after a while, serving five years in the 10th Cavalry at Fort Sill during the same time John Adair of Tahelquah and John Gallagher of Muskogee was in the army. Someone maybe would be playing a fiddle or a banjo. I got all my money and fine clothes from the marster and the missus. Dey only had two families of slaves wid about twenty in all, and dey only worked about fifty acres, so we sure did work every foot of it good. I'm goin' give Lucy this black mare. Marster Jim and Missus Jennie wouldn't let his house slaves go with no common dress out. I wore loom cloth clothes, dyed in copperas what the old Negro women and the old Cherokee women made. I've seen em. He passed away on 4 Apr 1770 in Bertie, North Carolina, United States. I eat from a big pan set on the floor---there was no chairs--and I slept in a trundle bed that was pushed under the big bed in the daytime. There'd be a whole wagon-load of things come and be put on the tree. Old Master bought de cotton in Ft. Smith, because he didn't raise no cotton, but he had a few sheep and we had wool mix for winter. There is no mention of Joseph Vann in the article. When we git to Fort Gibson they was a lot of negroes there, and they had a camp meeting and I was baptized. When I left Mrs. McGee's I worked about three years for Mr. Sterling Scott and Mr. Roddy Reese. It wasn't my Master done dat. Dey was for bad winter only. Master Jim and Missus Jennie was good to their slaves. My mother was born way back in the hills of the old Flint district of the Cherokee Nation; just about where Scraper Oklahoma is now. I go to this house, you come to my house. Them Pins was after Master all de time for a while at de first of de War, and he was afraid to ride into Ft. Smith much. He didn't want em to imagine he give one more than he give the other. There was music, fine music. Had to sign up all over again and tell who we was. Lord no, he didn't. Soon as you come out of the water you go over there and change clothes. He was called by his contemporaries "Rich Joe" and many legends of his wealth ware still told among the Cherokees. . When they gave a party in the big house, everything was fine. Publicado el sbado, 1 de abril de 2023 . He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky, and back. Everybody cry, everybody'd pretty nearly die. Web. During their pursuit of the escaped Negroes, the Cherokee Militia discovered the bodies of the two slave bounty hunters. This valuable property became a prize for the white man when the laws of Georgia were extended over the Cherokee Nation. Vann had the opportunity to enjoy his mansion for only a few years; he was fatally shot in 1809 by an unknown assailant. Mother Martha Price McNair (Vann) Father David Lewis "Jesse" "Cherokee Chief""Iron Head" Vann (Killed by Pin Indians in Civil War) Quick access. After it was wove they dyed it all colors, blue, brown, purple, red, yellow. The colored folks did most of the fiddlin'. She come up and put her nose on your just like this---nibble nibble, nibble. He died on September 21, 1904, and was buried in the Colville Indian Cemetery on the Colville Reservation. Lots of soldiers around all the time though. De furniture is all gone, and some said de soldiers burned it up for firewood. She won me lots of money, Black Hock did, and I kept it in the Savings Bank in Tahlequah. Joseph Vann, the son of Chief James Vann and his wife Margaret Scott Vann, was a lad of 12 when his father was killed, in 1809. My pappy run away one time, four or five years before I was born, mammy tell me, and at that time a whole lot of Cherokee slaves run off at once. Son of Di-Ga-Lo-Hi 'James' "Crazy Chief Vann and Go-sa-du-i-sga Nancy Timberlake He passed awayon 21 Feb 1809in Northern Georgia, Buffington's Tavern, Spring Place. Owned by the Cherokee Chief James Vann, the Vann House is a Georgia Historic Site on the National Register of Historic Places and one of the oldest remaining structures in the northern third of the state of Georgia. The only song I remember from the soldiers was" "Hang Jeff Davis to a Sour Apple Tree," and I remember that because they said he used to be at Fort Gibson one time. Although Lucinda Vann was owned by Jim Vann, she told about the death of "Rich Joe" Vann and the recovery of one of his arms, following the deadly explosion on his steamboat, the Lucy Walker. Interestingly, Mrs. Vann also speaks of some time that her family spent before and during the war in Mexico. He tell us for we start, what we must say and what to do. Those included in this collection all mention the Vanns. Excepting master and mistress, couldn't nobody put things in there but her. He courted a girl named Sally. Everything was fine, Lord have mercy on me, yes. I always think of my old Master as de one dat freed me, and anyways Abraham Lincoln and none of his North people didn't look after me and buy my crop right after I was free like old Master did. The Vanns were a prolific family who reused many names, so later in life he was referred to as "Rich Joe." He was one of eight children born to his father's nine wives. Chief Crazy James Vann James Clement Vann) Vann, Ii, <<Private>> Vann, Ii. Any information would be valuable. Born in Cherokee, Chowan, North Carolina, United States on 1690 to Holesqua Chief Cornstalk Vann and Sarah Ann Champion. She turned the key to the commissary too. Old mistress was small and mighty pretty too, and she was only half Cherokee. Another time his officer give him a message; he was on his way to deliver it when the enemy spy him and cry out to stop, but father said he kept on going until he was shot in the leg. But later on I got a freedman's allotment up in dat part close to Coffeyville, and I lived in Coffeyville a while but I didn't like it in Kansas. Young, Mary., "The Cherokee Nation: Mirror of the Republic", (American Quarterly), Vol. One time old Master and another man come and took some calves off and Pappy say old Master taking dem off to sell I didn't know what sell meant and I ast Pappy is he going to bring em back when he git through selling them. Then one day one of my uncles name Wash Sheppard come and tried to git me to go live wid him. They put white cloths on the shelves and laid the good on it. That mean't she want a biscuit with a little butter on it. Its massive walls and hand-carved woodwork show excellent workmanship, and its unique hanging staircase is a marvel that piques the interest of many visitors. I had a brother named Harry who belonged to the Vann family at Tahlequah. When we wanted to go anywhere we always got a horse, we never walked. When the Indians decided to return home for reinforcements, the slaves started moving again toward Mexico. My pappy run away one time, four or five years before I was born, mammy tell me, and at that time a whole lot of Cherokee slaves run off at once. We had out time to go to bed and our time to get up in the morning. Then the preacher put you under water three times. Christmas lasted a whole month. Im glad the wars over and I am free to meet God like anybody else, and my grandchildren can learn to read and write. However, the following narrative by the ex-slave, Cornelius Neely Nave, contains correct family relationships. Everybody, white folks and colored folks, having a good time. One time we sold one hundred hogs on the foot. The big house was made of log and stone and had big mud fireplaces. Dey didn't have much and couldn't make anymore and dem so old. In the master's yard was the slave cabin, one room long, dirt floor, no windows. The participants in this near slave revolt received physical punishments, but none were killed. I never did have much of a job, jest tending de calves mostly. I had two brothers, Silas and George, dat belong to Mr. George Holt in Webber's falls town. The commissary was full of everyting good to eat. They brought it home and my granmother knew it was Joe's. Up at five o'clock and back in sometimes about de middle of de evening long before sundown, unless they was a crop to git in before it rain or something like dat. Again the Indian command system lost the Chickamauga their last chance to carry their colors to the Clinch River. Sometimes we got to ride on one, cause we belonged to Old Jim Vann. The white folks go first and after they come out, the colored folks go in. Someone rattled the bones. Actually, the Assistant Principal Chief was Joseph "Tenulte" Vann, son of Avery Vann and probably a cousin of "Rich Joe" Vann. McLoughlin, William, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic, Princeton University Press, (1986), ISBN 0691047413. There was five hundred slaves on that plantation and nobdy ever lacked for nothing. Used to go up and down the river in his steamboat. This was before the war. It look lots of clothes for all them slaves. Chief Joseph did not live to see again the land he'd known as a child and young warrior. Some of the Masters family was always going down to the river and back, and every time they come in I have to fix something to eat. Well, I'll tell you, you pull it out from the wall something like a shelf. They never sent us anywhere with a cotton dress. He was a slave on the Chism plantation, but came to Vann's all the time on account of the horses. He had charge of all Master Chism's and Master Vann's race horses. She had some land close to Catoosa and some down on Greenleaf Creek. The engineer's name was Jim Vann. Hams cakes, pies, dresses, beads, everything. There was Mr. Jim Collins, and Mr. Bell, and Mr. Dave Franklin . Some of the old chief's names was Gopher John, John Hawk and Wild Cat. Young Master never whip his slaves, but if they don't mind good he sell them off sometimes. His master Daniel Nave, was Cherokee. I slept on a sliding bed. http://www.timcdfw.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I7805&tree= Joseph Vann removed to the West in 1836. Master Joe was sure a good provider, and we always had plenty of corn pone, sow belly and greens, sweet potatoes, cowpeas and cane molasses. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder, I don't know, but that was before my time. Poor old master and mistress only lived a few years after de War. He wanted people to know he was able to dress his slaves in fine clothes. 5, Special Issue: American Culture and the American Frontier (Winter, 1981), pp. He went clean to Louisville, Kentucky and back. They had run out of food and were starving, too weak and disillusioned to offer effective resistance. There was seats all around for folks to watch them dance. A brother was owned by another Vann Family in Tahlequah. That was sort of vault, where the family valuables was kept. The master's house was a big log building setting east and west, with a porch on the north side of the house. In 1837 ptior to the main Cherokee Removal, he transported a few hundred Cherokee men, women, children, slaves and horses aboard a flotilla of flat boats to Webber's Falls on the Arkansas River in Indian Territory. We had a good song I remember. When the white folks danced the slaves would all sit or stand around and watch. I spent happy days on the Harnage plantation going squirrel hunting with the master---he was always riding, while I run along and throw rocks in the trees to scare the squirrels so's Marse John could get the aim on them; pick a little cotton and put it in somebody's hamper (basket) and run races with other colored boys to see who would get to saddle the masters horse, while the master would stand laughing by the gate to see which boy won the race. Old Master Joe had a big steam boat he called the Lucy Walker, and he run it up and down the Arkansas and the Mississippi and the Ohio river, old Mistress say. At least twenty-five of Vann's slaves participated in the Cherokee slave revolt of 1842. When we wanted to go anywhere we always got a horse, we never walked. After everything quiet down and everything was just right, we come back to territory second time. The commissary was full of everything good to eat. When anybody die, someone sit up with them day and night till they put them in the ground. The first time I married was to Clara Nevens, and I wore checked wool pants, and a blue striped cotton shirt. Maybe old Master Joe Vann was harder. Every morning the slaves would run to the commissary and get what they wanted for that day. Rich Joe Vann died in Oct. 1844 when the boiler exploded on his steamboat, the "Lucy Walker" during a race with another vessel near New Albany, Ind. In 1834 Cherokee chief James Vann's son Joseph lost the family home to the state. There was big parties and dances. I wouldn't go, so he sent Isaac and Joe Vann dat had been two of Old Captain Joe's negroes to talk to me. He never come until the next day, so dey had to sleep in dat pen in a pile like hogs. James (Chief of Vann's Old Town) Vannhad 1child. 502-524. There was music, fine music. He is indeed of warm temper, but who can gain his love, which is no hard task, has gained all, and we have no doubt that with reasonable management, he may be made a very useful man.". My mother, grandmother, aunt Maria and cousin Clara, all worked in the big house. After the old time rich folks die, them that had their money buried, they com back and haunt the places where it is. A four mule team was hitched to the wagon and for five weeks we was on the road from Texas finally getting to grandma Brewer's at Fort Gibson. View Site Pretty soon all de young Cherokee menfolks all gone off to de War, and de Pins was riding round all de time, and it ain't safe to be in dat part around Webber's Falls so old Master take us all to Fort Smith where they was a lot of Confederate soldiers. My mammy was a Cherokee slave, and talked it good. Someone call our names and everybody get a present. Dey was all wid the south, but dey was a lot of dem Pin Indians all up on de Illinois River and dey was wid de North and dey taken it out on de slave owners a lot before de War and during it too. They got over in the Creek country and stood off the Cherokee officers that went to git them, but pretty soon they give up and come home. We had a smoke house full of hams and bacon. One day young Master come to the cabins and say we all free and cant' stay there lessn we want to go on working for him just like we'd been for our feed, an clothes. I had on my old clothes for the wedding, and I ain't had any good clothes since I was a little slave girl. Chief Born (05 Mar 1746/47) - Chowan, North Carolina Deceased 21 February 1809 - Buffington S Tavern, Georgia, United States Parents Edward Sr Vann ca 1693-1752 Mary Barnes ca 1696-1748 Spouses and children With Margaret Scott 1783-1845 Married about 1765, Spring Place, IT., GA., to Mary Wah-Li Christiana, Princess 1750-ca 1835 with I had to work in the kitchen when I was a gal, and they was ten or twelve children smaller than me for me to look after, too. In Georgia, during the early 1800s, slaves owned by the Vann Family made the bricks and milled the lumber used to build the Vann House in Spring Place. There was a big dinner bell in the yard. Coming out of the army for the last time, Pappa took all the family and moved to Fort Scott, Kansas, but I guess he feel more at home wid the Indians for pretty soon we all move back, this time to a farm near Fort Gibson. She was weavin when the case came up so quick, missus Jennie put her in her own bed and took care of her. Then I had clean warm clothes and I had to keep them clean too! I had the money Black Hock had won on the track. Joseph H. Vann, (11 February 1798 23 October 1844). Lord yes, su-er. Nearly a century later (in 1932), Joseph Vann's grandson, R. P. Vann, told author Grant Foreman that Joseph Vann had built a house about a mile south of Webbers Falls (Oklahoma) "a handsome homebuilt just like the old Joe Vann home in Georgia." We had to have a pass to go any place to have signing or praying, and den they was always a bunch of patrollers around to watch everything we done. They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. He died when the boat's boilers exploded. My uncle used to baptize 'em. Some of the Indian families was Joe Dirt Eater, Six Killer (some of the Six Killers live a few miles SE of Afton at this time, 1938), Chewey Noi, and Gus Buffington. My husband was a Cherokee born Negro, too, and when he got mad he forgit all the English he knowed. Of course, all slaves were officially freed during the Civil War. Yes I was! Sometimes there was high waters that spoiled the current and the steamboats couldn't run. They rendezvoused with other slaves who had agreed to participate in the revolt, stole horses to ride to their freedom, then broke into a store to steal guns, ammunition, food, and supplies they needed for their planned escape to Mexicowhere slavery was illegal. If somebody bad sick he git de doctor right quick, and he don't let no negroes mess around wid no poultices and teas and sech things, like cupping-horns neither! So many years had passed since slavery ended that most of the former slaves then available for interviews had been born very near the end of the slavery era. When meal time come, someone ring that bell and all the slaves know its time to eat and stop their work. I went to the missionary Baptist church where Marster and Missus went. Pappa named Charley Nave; mamma's name was Mary Vann before she marry and her papa was Talaka Vann, one of Joe Vann's slave down around Webber's Falls. Johnson Thompson's father had been owned by "Rich Joe" Vann. We made money and kept it in a sack. Christmas lasted a whole month. It was Dont Call the Roll, Jesus, Because Im Coming Home. The only song I remember from the soldiers was: Hang Jeff Davis to a Sour Apple Tree, and I remember that because they said he used to be at Fort Gibson one time. They spun the cottons and wool, weaved it and made cloth. It was "Don't Call the Roll, Jesus Because I'm Coming Home." Old Mistress had a good cookin stove, but most Cherokees had only a big fireplace and pot hooks. And we had corn bread and cakes baked every day. We had about twenty calves and I would take dem out and graze-em while some grown-up negro was grazing de cows so as to keep de cows milk. Cal Robertson was eighty-nine years old when I married him forty years age, right on this porch. 467-91. Marster and missus never allowed chillun to meddle in the big folks business. She bossed all the other colored women and see that they sew it right. Christmas morning marster and missus come out on the porch and all the colored folks gather around. Everything was kept covered and every hogshead had a lock. The Vanns later relocated to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. They wanted everybody to know we was Marster Vann's slaves. A whole half of ribs sold for twenty-five cents. It was tied up at de dock at Webbers Falls about a week and we went down and talked to my aunt an brothers and sister. It made my Master mad, but dey didn't belong to him no more and he couldn't say nothing. Chiefs: Dragging Canoe (1777-1792) John Watts (1792-1802) Doublehead, brother of Old Tassel, served from 1802-1807 The Glass, or Ta'gwadihi (1807-1809) Cherokee Nation East (1794-1839) John Ross, c. 1866 Little Turkey was elected First Beloved Man of the . Born in Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States on 11 Feb 1765 to John Joseph 'Indian Trader' Cherokee Vann and WahLi Wa-Wli aka Polly Otterlifter Mary Christiana Otterlifter Wolf Clan. Lord have mercy on us, yes. I don't remember old Mistress name. Once they catch a catfish most as big as a man; that fish had eggs big as hen eggs, and he made a feast for twenty-five Indians on the fishing party. The grandparents were Joseph Vann, a Scottish trader who came from the Province of South Carolina, and Cherokee Mary Christiana (Wah-Li or Wa-wli Vann). They'd sell 'em to folks at picnics and barbecues. Don't know much about him. He had apparently been attending the horse races at Louisville, KY. Vann, Joseph H., Cherokee Rose: On Rivers of Golden Tears, 1st Books Library (2001), ISBN 0-75965-139-6. Master Thompson brought us from Texas when I was too little to remember about it, and I din't know how long it was before we was all sold to John Harnage, "Marse John" was his pet name and he liked to be called that-a-way. The preacher took his candidate into the water. He was the father of Nancy Vann Mackey; and Delilah Amelia, wife of Oliver H. Perry Brewer (Brewer cemetery). The comfort accorded house slaves is in stark contrast to the lives of the field slaves described in other interviews. Joseph also inherited his father's gold and deposited over $200,000 in gold in a bank in Tennessee. Joseph Vann is listed in the Cherokee census of 1835 as a resident of the Cherokee nation within the chartered limits of Hamilton County, Tennessee, his family consisting of fifteen persons. He was a multi-millionaire and handsome. 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