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1. KINGSC_190810_005.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_MA_Boston_KingsCh MA -- Boston -- King's Chapel & Burying Ground (43 photos from 2019)
2. KINGSC_190810_016.JPG: King's Chapel Founded 1686 Its first building was the first Church of England in Boston The corner stone of the present building was laid August 11, 1749 After the Revolution it became the first Unitarian Church in the United States
3. KINGSC_190810_021.JPG: In Memory of The Chevalier de Saint Sauveur
4. KINGSC_190810_029.JPG: King's Chapel Burial Ground 1630 Here were buried Governors of Massachusetts John Winthrop 1649, John Endicott 1665, John Leverett 1679, William Shirley 1771, Lieut. Governors of Massachusetts William Phillips 1827, Thomas Lindall Winthrop 1841; Governors of Connecticut John Winthrop 1676, Fitz-John Winthrop 1707; Judges of Massachusetts Wait Still Winthrop 1717, Adam Winthrop 1743, Oliver Wendell 1818, Thomas Dawes 1825; Ministers of Boston John Cotton 1652, John Davenport 1670, John Oxenbridge 1674, Thomas Bridge 1715. Captain Robert Keayne First commander of the Ancient and Honerable Artillery Company 1638 King's Chapel Burial Ground 1630 Here were buried Jacob Sheafe 1658, John Winslow 1674. Mary Chilton 1679, A passenger in the Mayflower and wife of John Winslow. Lady Andros 1688, Captain Roger Clap 1690, Thomas Brattle 1713, Professor John Winthrop 1776. James Lloyd 1831, Charles Bulfinch 1844. William Dawes Jr. Patriot and Son of Liberty April 6 1745 – February 25 1799. This tablet placed by the city 1901.
5. KINGSC_190810_034.JPG: (1) Welcome to King's Chapel Burying Ground Buried here are many notable people in Boston's early history, from its first governor, John Winthrop, to Frederic Tudor, the "Ice King." This is Boston's oldest burying ground, established in 1630 on what were then the outskirts of the new Puritan settlement. It was first called simply "the burying place" and, when Copp's Hill Burying Ground opened, "the old burying place." After 1760 it started to be called "the Chapel Burying Ground," using the name of its neighbor, King's Chapel, even though it has never been affiliated with that or any church. Those buried here in the first thirty years were predominantly English-born immigrants who came to the "New World" seeking religious freedom and new economic opportunity. Today there are approximately 600 gravestones and 29 tabletop tombs left to mark the more than 1,000 people buried in this small space. When Boston opened additional burying grounds after 1660, town selectmen passed ordinances barring burials at the Old Burying Ground. However, because of a rapidly expanding population, burials took place in the graveyard until around 1896. The burying ground was first fenced in 1642. As its boundaries changed, new fences were constructed over the next two centuries. The current fence along Tremont Street was built in 1854. The subway ventilation shaft in the southwest corner was built in 1896 when Boston's subway system became the first in the country. The human remains from disturbed graves were reburied in another part of the burying ground. One of the first and most famous gravestones, visible upon entering the burying ground, is that of Joseph Tapping (d. 1678). The marker is famed as a work of art conceived by the unnamed carver known as "the Charlestown Stonecutter." The stone is one of the most elaborate in the burying ground with beautifully carved symbolic images: the skull with wings represents the soul leaving the body, the hourglass represents time running out, the skeleton snuffing out the candle is Death ending life, and the bearded figure is Time attempting to stop Death. The stone's Latin inscriptions refer to the quick passage of time and awareness of death's inevitability. Little is known of Tapping, a Boston shopkeeper who died at the age of 23, leaving his young wife Marianna a widow. Next is the grave of his father John Rapping (ca. 1628-1678), a felt maker, and the double tombstone of his mother Mary (Woodmancy) Tapping Avery (ca. 1629-1707) and her second husband William Avery (ca. 1622-1686). His mother is believed to be have been the first female bookseller in Boston. Buried in tomb 11 adjacent to the Tremont Street fence is John Welch (1711-1789), a man with a quirky connection to Boston history. Welch is said to have been the carver who fashioned the "Sacred Cod," the wooden symbol of Boston's economic history that has been a fixture in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for over 200 years. The first "Sacred Cod" hung at the Old State House and was destroyed in a fire there in 1747. The second "Sacred Cod" was destroyed during the Revolutionary War. It is believed that the current five-foot-long wooden cod was carved by John Welch in 1784 at the behest of the prominent merchant John Rowe (1715-1786). In 1686, Edmund Andros, appointed governor of New England by King James II, decided that he wanted to build an Anglican church in Boston. The colonists were opposed to this since most of them had come to Boston to escape the influence of the Anglican Church. When Governor Andros couldn't find anyone to sell him land to build the church, he built it anyway on a piece of land in the back corner of "the burying place," disturbing graves that were already there and earning the hatred of the colonists. The church was consecrated in 1688 and named "King's Chapel." During the 18th century King's Chapel was rebuilt and expanded, disturbing more early graves.
6. KINGSC_190810_050.JPG: (2) Life and Death in Colonial Boston Along the second row parallel to the front path are the stones of the three "Rebeccas": Rebecca (Baker) Gerrish (d. 1743), Rebecca Smith Sanders (d. 1745/6), and Rebecca (Smith) Alexander Deal Sprague (ca. 1704-1746), who were related to each other by blood or marriage. Their stones are three examples of elaborate gravestone carving of the mid-18th century. Note that all three markers have the same border indicating they were created by one craftsman or shop. What differ are the carvings at the top, which reflect the age of the deceased. Rebecca Sprague's stone has a pair of cherubs, a new design in the 18th century. Rebecca Gerrish was only 22 when she died in 1743, shortly after marrying Benjamin Gerrish. She had recently inherited her mother's estate and bought a house before her wedding. Her gravestone header depicts a skeleton representing death snuffing out the candle of life, while a young, winged Time, holding an hourglass, tries to stop him. The elderly Sanders' stone shows an older, bearded Time on the header. Rebecca Smith Sanders passed away in 1745/6 at the age of 86 outliving her two husbands, who are buried to her left and right. Her first husband blacksmith Thomas Smith (d. 1693) died while Rebecca was pregnant with their third child. She married widower Josiah Sanders (d. 1726) in 1697 and together they had four more children. He was a mariner and constable and at his death the town treasury granted Rebecca three pence in recognition of her husband's contributions to Boston. Her granddaughter (and Rebecca Gerrish's cousin) Rebecca (Smith) Alexander Deal Sprague died the next year at age 32. This Rebecca suffered through the loss of her first husband Francis Alexander by 1739 and her second husband Aaron Deal by 1746. Left with a young child, Rebecca quickly married Stower Sprague, but died only months after the ceremony. In the same row is the gravestone of Elizabeth Shippen (1691-1691/2), aged 10 months, daughter of Edward and Rebecca Shippen. Her father was a Quaker and for twenty years had been fined, banished, and persecuted in Boston. Shortly after Elizabeth's death her parents moved to Philadelphia and Edward Shippen became mayor of the new Quaker city. All of these stories illustrate the uncertainty of colonial life as disease and the rigors of childbirth claimed men, women, and children before their time. By 1730 Boston had experienced seven small pox epidemics. The 1721 epidemic infected 6,000 Bostonians and 1,100 burials were recorded across the city that year. Almost a quarter of the surviving grave markers in Boston's 17th-century burying grounds are for children 9 years old of younger. Both women and men lost multiple spouses, so remarriage was not only encouraged, but important to the survival of their families. Located around the corner to the left of the path is the gravestone of Elizabeth Pain (1652-1704), which has been subject to much interpretation and speculation. Little is known about Elizabeth, wife of mariner Samuel Pain. Her gravestone is one of a small number that has heraldry or a coat-of-arms. This would suggest a family of some means. For reasons unknown, Mrs. Pain has been suggested as the model for adulteress Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Some interpretations of the coat-of-arms depicted in the upper left of the gravestone claims that a letter "A" is visible, representing the red "A" that Hester Prynne wore to show she committed adultery. There is no evidence to support this story. It is more likely that the coat-of-arms simply represents the Pain's family heritage. Whatever the meaning, this unique gravestone is one of the earliest examples of gravestone heraldry and is significant whether or not Elizabeth Pain inspired Hester Prynne. In addition to the graves and tombs in the burying ground itself, there are about two dozen tombs or crypts located underneath the King's Chapel church. According to church records, these tombs were built starting in 1717. Their entrances were sealed by brick walls after a law was passed in 1890 ordering their closure. Among these tombs is the tomb of the Apthorp family. Charles Apthorp and his son James were two of Boston's wealthiest merchants. Poet Sarah Wentworth (Apthorp) Morton (1759-1846), daughter of James and wife of lawyer and politician Perez Morton, was known as the "American Sappho." She published four books, contributed anonymously to newspapers and periodicals, and wrote hymns. In her later years she was a patron to young writers and supported abolitionist groups. The extended Apthorp family also includes one of the most significant people in Boston's history, architect Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844), whose mother and wife were both Apthorps. Bullfinch designed many buildings, including the Massachusetts State House and the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Bulfinch also served as mayor of Boston for twenty-two years. He and his wife Hannah were originally buried in one of the Chapel's crypts, but their remains were later moved to Mount Auburn Cemetery.
7. KINGSC_190810_067.JPG: (3) The Ice King, the Castle Captain, and the She-Merchant Located against the back fence of the burying ground is the Tudor family tomb, marked by a gravestone for John Tudor, Esquire (1709-1795),. The Tudor family legacy began with John Tudor, a baker and deacon of Second Church, who chronicled over sixty years of Boston's history in his diaries beginning in 1732. Also in the Tudor Family tomb are Colonel William Tudor (1750-1819), an active participant in Boston's government and an aide to George Washington, as well [as] his sons, William Tudor (1779-1830), a co-founder of Boston's prestigious Athenaeum library, and Frederic Tudor (1783-1864), whose career choice proved to be one of the most influential endeavors in Boston history. Frederic Tudor became known as the "Ice King" for his establishment of the Tudor Ice Company, the most successful ice harvesting company during the industry's heyday in the 19th century. Tudor's first venture in 1806 started off roughly, but his efforts gradually became more profitable. The company harvested ice from frozen ponds in Massachusetts. The ice was cut into blocks that were floated to ice houses and packed in sawdust to insulate them during shipping. The Tudor Ice Company shipped ice to southern states and, later internationally, to Cuba, Jamaica, India, and Singapore. Directly in front of this sign is the marker of Captain Roger Clap (ca. 1609-1690/91), who was born in Exeter, Devonshire, England. In his Memoir he wrote "So, God brought me out of Plymouth [England] the 20th of March, in the year 1629/30, and landed me in health at Nantasket on the 30th of May, 1630, I being about the age of twenty-one years." He came on the ship Mary and John as part of the Winthrop fleet. He settled in Dorchester with his wife Joanna (Ford) Clap (d. 1695) and was a farmer and soldier. In 1665 he was appointed Captain of the Castle, the fort protecting Boston on Castle Island. He resigned in 1686 rather than serve under Governor Andros. He and his wife then moved to Boston where he died at the age of 82. Scattered in these rows you will see the gravestone of Jonathan Loring (1674-1752) and his wife Elizabeth (Austin) (1673-1756), Nathaniel Loring (1670-1744) and his wife Susannah (Butler) (ca. 1680-1745/6), Rebecca Loring (d.1766), Polly Loring (d. 1792), and Henry Loring (d. 1793). They are not together because some of the gravestones have been moved. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, Boston lawyer and historian, wrote a newspaper column called The Gleaner in the mid-19th century and he described the changes to King's Chapel Burying Ground: "I myself witnessed on this spot a truly sacrilegious act . . . under the very windows of the [Massachusetts] historical society, he [the Superintendent of the City Burial Grounds] caused many gravestones to be removed from their original position, and rearranged them as edgestones by certain paths which he there laid out. The result is, that the tear of affection may hereafter be shed; or the sigh of sentiment breathed, in a wrong locality, and perhaps the bones of a stranger instead of an ancestor, may be piously gathered and entombed anew by a descendant, unsuspecting of so strange and inexcusable an outrage." To the right is the tomb of James Smith (1689-1769), a distiller and merchant who emigrated from Scotland around 1709. Smith became quite wealthy and had an estate in Milton called Brush Hill. Buried with him is his second wife Elizabeth (Murray) Campbell Smith Inman (1726-1785), colonial Boston's most influential "she-merchant." Also Scottish, Elizabeth Murray came to Boston at age 23 and opened her first shop, joining some 35 Boston widows and single women who supported themselves through shopkeeping. She specialized in women's goods such as cloth bonnets, lace, and stockings. Elizabeth would not sell goods on credit because she saw other women fail when their customers did not pay. She traveled to England to meet with her suppliers and select goods for her stores. She married Scottish trader Thomas Campbell in 1755, but continued her business. When Campbell died in 1759 Elizabeth married James Smith, but first negotiated a prenuptial agreement allowing her to keep all of her property, have a will, and receive a settlement of �10,000 at his death. She gave up her business for a few years, but assisted other Boston widows and single women to set up shops. Elizabeth Murray launched a second generation of shopkeepers by starting three of her nieces in business. In lobbying for niece Polly Murray to emigrate from London to Boston to set up shop at age 16 she wrote: "Polly has been at boarding school since she was 10 years old; she has now finished her education & is a very capable girl [who] understands writing & arethmitc very well." And "if she stays here [London] any longer she must enter the gay scenes of life & become a fine lady, in my opinion that will enervet her so much that business will ever be irksome to her." Polly became a successful Boston "she-merchant" as well. The same year that John Singleton Copley painted Elizabeth's portrait, James Smith died. She married Cambridge merchant Ralph Inman, again executing a prenuptial agreement. She died in 1785 possessed of a considerable estate and was buried next to her second husband.
8. KINGSC_190810_086.JPG: (4) Pilgrims and Patriots When the Puritans landed in Boston in 1630, the Separatist settlement at Plymouth Colony was ten years old. Puritans and Separatists were two Protestant sects that developed in the late 16th century in England. Puritans were critical of, but remained part of, the Church of England. Separatists "separated" from the Church of England and, because of persecution, many moved to Leyden, Holland. In 1620 they sailed for New England. As the Puritan settlement in Boston grew from a village to a thriving port town, members of the Plymouth Colony moved to Boston to pursue their commerce. Mary (Chilton) Winslow (1608-1679), buried in the Winslow tomb, is commonly believed to be the first European female to set foot on Plymouth soil. Only 12 years old at the time, Mary was one of 30 female pilgrims who survived the trip from Holland on the Mayflower in 1620. Her father, a tailor named James Chilton, died before the ship reached Plymouth. Mary later married Plymouth merchant John Winslow (1597-1674) and she gave birth to ten children. Mary and John moved to Boston in 1657 where John was one of Boston's wealthiest merchants. Next to the Winslow family tomb is the oldest remaining gravestone in King's Chapel Burying Ground, that of Deacon William Paddy (1600-1658). A merchant and skinner, William Paddy arrived in Plymouth from England in 1635 and later moved to Boston. Even though William died in 1658, an inscription on an accompanying footstone on the opposite side of the path indicates that the stone was carved in 1672. It is similar to the nearby gravestones of his wife Mary (Greenough) Payton Paddy (d. 1675) and Deacon John Dyer (d. 1676) and his wife Mary Dyer (d. 1677). Stones were often backdated if a family was unable to provide one at the time of burial. The inscription on the back of the marker reads: Hear sleaps that blessed one whose life God help us all to live that so when tiem shall be that we this world must leve we ever may be happy with blessed William Paddy The headstone is typical for its time, made of a thick but small slab of greenstone. William Dawes, Jr. (1745-1799) is said to be buried in one of two Dawes tombs on this path. He worked in Boston as a tanner, leather dresser, retailer, grocer, and trader, and owned a shop in Dock Square. His most significant contribution to the city, and to the country as a whole, was a horseback ride that he took on the night of April 18, 1775. When Dr. Joseph Warren, an active patriot and the chairman of the Committee of Safety for the Provincial Congress, learned that the British were planning an attack on Concord on April 19, he sent William Dawes and fellow patriot Paul Revere to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were in Lexington. Revere and Dawes took different routes. Revere went "by sea," rowing across the Charles River then riding through Cambridge. Dawes rode "by land" across Boston Neck, through Roxbury, and across the Charles River bridge near Watertown. As he rode, Dawes alerted towns of the impending attack giving them the chance to call out their militia. Dawes was nearly captured by the British, but escaped and was able to trick them into ending their pursuit. He later fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill and started an army supply company. Other members of the Dawes family are buried here, including his great grandfather Ambrose Dawes (1642-1705), a bricklayer and mason, whose gravestone sits left next to the Dawes tomb at the end of the path. The Brinley tomb stands behind the Dawes tomb and holds the remains of one of the richest men in 18th century Boston. Francis Brinley (1690-1765) was born in England and immigrated to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1710 at the request of his grandfather. He married Bostonian Deborah Lyde (b. 1698) and they had at least 7 children. Artist John Smibert painted portraits of Brinley and his wife in 1729, showing him seated at his Roxbury estate, Datchet House, with Boston in the background. Wealthy colonial Bostonians often had a "town" house in Boston and an estate in nearby Roxbury, the only town connected to Boston by land. Three successful Boston "she-merchants" are buried in this section of King's Chapel Burying Ground: Ann Dearden (ca. 1711-1771), Alice Quick (ca. 1687-1761), and Sarah Todd (d. 1777). Ann Dearden learned her trade as a maidservant to shopkeeper Sarah McNeal. She started her own shop and when McNeal died she left her entire estate to Dearden. Alice Quick inherited her business from her husband. She sold dry goods at the "Sign of the Three Kings" and was member of King's Chapel. When she died she was called a "Noted Shopkeeper" and possessed considerable wealth that she left to her family and "the poor of Boston." Sarah Todd was a shopkeeper in partnership with Mary Purcell, to whom she left her estate.
9. KINGSC_190810_098.JPG: William Dawes Jr. Patriot, Son of Liberty, and first messenger sent by Warren from Boston to Lexington on the night of April 18-19 1775 to warn Hancock and Adams of the coming of the British troops. Born April 6 1745 Died February 25 1799 Placed by the Massachusetts Society Sons of the Revolution April 19, 1899
10. KINGSC_190810_103.JPG: (5) The First Governor Buried in the Winthrop family tomb are 11 members of the Winthrop family. Puritan leader John Winthrop the Elder (1588-1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the founder of Boston. In 1629 he was elected governor by the Massachusetts Bay Company while still in England. In 1630 he led the "Winthrop Fleet" of eleven ships and 700 colonists to the "New World." The fleet landed first at Salem, then moved to Charlestown, where Winthrop built his house. However, it was on the peninsula of Boston that the merchants and craftsmen set up shop. In a famous sermon, Governor Winthrop stated that he and the other settlers of Boston "shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us . . . " He served as governor for a total of 13 years and was considered religious, prudent, conscientious, and pious. He punished religious dissent and most famously banished both Roger Williams, who opposed any allegiance to the Anglican Church and subsequently founded Rhode Island, and Anne Hutchinson, who opposed strict allegiance to religious laws. Margaret (Tyndal) Winthrop (d. 1647), the Governor's third wife, is known through her letters and diaries that give insight into life and relationships in early Boston. In addition their son John Winthrop the Younger (1606-1676), and three grandsons, Major General Fitz-William Winthrop (1638-1707), Judge Waitstill Winthrop (1642-1717), and Colonel Adam Winthrop (1647-1700), are buried in the Winthrop tomb along with great grandchildren and spouses. Near the Winthrop family tomb is the First Church tomb. First Church was established in 1630 and was located on King (now State) Street before moving several times until it reached its present location in the city's Back Bay area. The tomb holds the remains of the church's first minister, Reverend John Wilson (1588-1667), as well as Reverend John Davenport (1597-1669/70), Reverend John Oxenbridge (1607-1674), Reverend Thomas Bridge (1657-1715), and the most significant religious figure in Boston's history, Reverend John Cotton (1584-1652). Ordained as an Anglican minister in England, Cotton was the pastor of St. Butolph's Parish Church in Boston, England. There he slowly implemented the simpler Puritan services, so by 1632 he was in trouble with ecclesiastical authorities. In 1633 he immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, with his family and became the leading cleric in the colony. Originally supportive of Anne Hutchinson's antinomianism, or the idea that goodness came from within and not from following church doctrine, he later sided with Governor Winthrop and supported her banishment, as well as that of Roger Williams. Cotton's son-in-law, Increase Mather, and grandson, Cotton Mather, were also prominent Puritan divines. The Keayne tomb holds the remains of Captain Robert Keayne (1596-1656), a tailor and merchant who came to Boston from England in 1635. A devout Puritan, he collected three volumes of notes on Reverend Cotton's sermons from 1638 to 1646. He was a controversial figure in colonial Boston because he was very wealthy, which seemingly violated the Puritan ideals to which he was so devoted. His 53-page, 51,000-word will is one of the longest on record. Keayne left money to Harvard College, to the town of Boston for public projects, and established a fund to start a public school. Keayne was the founder and first Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, the oldest military company in the country. The "Ancient and Honorables" still visit Keayne's grave on their founding day, "June Day," which is celebrated on the first Monday in June. King's Chapel Burying Ground today has 505 headstones and 59 footstones remaining from the well-over one thousand burials that took place from 1630 into the 19th century. There are also 78 tombs of which 36 have tomb markers. This includes the large vault, built as a charnel house that was converted to a tomb for children's remains in 1833. The earliest tombs are scattered among the grave markers. Most are "table top" tombs that originally had inscriptions carved into the stone. The ravages of time have removed most of their memorial messages. In 1715 the Board of Selectmen allowed the construction of 22 tombs along the east side (back wall) of the burying ground. In 1738 a row of merchant's tombs were constructed on the west side along Tremont Street. Most of these tombs are marked by well-carved slate markers with heraldic emblems. The tombs extend under the Tremont Street sidewalk and are accessed by a staircase that descends 8 – 10 feet underground. The tomb itself is a rectangular room made of brick. The town Selectmen arranged for maintenance of the burial ground in 1657 by giving citizens such as Captain Savage the right to "use the ground" in exchange for "preserving the fence about the burying place and maintaining the fence, in good condition . . . " In the 17th century the burying place was a field on the edge of town with both wooden and stone markers scattered about. Captain Savage could harvest the long grass for feed or other use, or allow his sheep or cows to graze. In 1680 the selectmen decided that "noe Cattle be suffered to feed in them [the burying places]."
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  The Winthrop family grave including John Winthrop who was the first governor of Massachusetts.
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Wikipedia Description: King's Chapel
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King's Chapel is an independent Christian unitarian congregation affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association that is "unitarian Christian in theology, Anglican in worship, and congregational in governance." It is housed in what was for a time after the Revolution called the "Stone Chapel", an 18th-century structure at the corner of Tremont Street and School Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The chapel building, completed in 1754, is one of the finest designs of the noted colonial architect Peter Harrison, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 for its architectural significance.

Despite its name, the adjacent King's Chapel Burying Ground is not affiliated with the chapel or any other church; it pre-dates the present church by over a century.

History

The King's Chapel congregation was founded by Royal Governor Sir Edmund Andros in 1686 as the first Anglican Church in colonial New England during the reign of King James II. The original King's Chapel was a wooden church built in 1688 at the corner of Tremont and School Streets, where the church stands today. It was situated on the public burying ground, now King's Chapel Burying Ground, because no resident would sell land for a church that was not Congregationalist (at the time, the Congregational church was the official religion of Massachusetts).

In 1749, construction began on the current stone structure, which was designed by Peter Harrison and completed in 1754. The stone church was built around the wooden church. When the stone church was complete, the wooden church was disassembled and removed through the windows of the new church. The wood was then shipped to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, where it was used to construct St. John's Anglican Church. That church was destroyed by fire on Halloween night, 2001. It has since been rebuilt. Originally, there were plans to add a steeple, although funding shortfalls prevented this from ...More...
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