Woodward and Kingsbery Genealogy

Husband: Major William BRADFORD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Born: 17 Jun 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Married: about Apr 1650 80 81 82 83
William's father deeded land to William when he agreed to marry Thomas Richard's daughter Alice on 23 April 1650.
Died: 17 Feb 1703 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts 27 28 29
Father: Gov. William BRADFORD
Mother: Alice CARPENTER
Spouses: Sarah ?; Mary ATWOOD

Notes:

"Mr. Bradford was, next to Miles Standish, a chief military man of the colony. In Philip's war, he was commander-in-chief of the Plymouth forces, and often exposed himself to its perils. At the Narrangansett Fort fight, he received a musket ball in his flesh, which he carried the remainder of his life. In that desperate mid-winter encounter, when both parties fought for their very existence, nearly a thousand Indians fell a sacrifice, and about one hundred and fifty of the English were killed or wounded." (Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1, p. 532)

Wife: Alice RICHARDS 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66
Born: 1627 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts 67 68 69
Died: 22 Dec 1671 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts 70 71 72 73 74
Father: Thomas R. RICHARDS
Mother: Welthian LORING
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Children
01 (F): Alice BRADFORD 86 87 88 89 90 91 92
Born: 1659 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts 93 94
Died: 15 Mar 1746 in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut 95 96 97
Spouses: Rev. William ADAMS; Major James FITCH
02 (M): John BRADFORD 98
Born: 20 Feb 1653 99
Died: Unknown
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03 (M): William BRADFORD 100
Born: 11 Mar 1655 101
Died: Unknown
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04 (M): Thomas BRADFORD 102
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05 (M): Samuel BRADFORD 103
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06 (F): Hannah BRADFORD 104
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07 (F): Mercy BRADFORD 105
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08 (F): Meletiah BRADFORD 106
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09 (F): Mary BRADFORD 107
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10 (F): Sarah BRADFORD 108
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11 (F): Joseph BRADFORD 109
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12 (M): Israel BRADFORD 110
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13 (M): David BRADFORD 111
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14 (M): Ephraim BRADFORD 112
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15 (M): Hezekiah BRADFORD 113
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Additional Information

Major William BRADFORD:

Buried: about Feb 1703, Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 30 31

Alt. Birth: 16 Jun 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 32 33

Residence: Kingston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 34

Occupation: 1658, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts; assistant 35

Property: 27 Oct 1662, requested land on the south side of Turkey Swamp 36

Residence: 1668, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts 37

Occupation: Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts; "deputy governor and chief military officer" 38 39 40 41

Occupation: between 1682 and 1686, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; Assistant Treasurer and Deputy Governor 42

Occupation: between 1689 and 1691, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; Assistant Treasurer and Deputy Governor 43 44

Occupation: Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts; Lieutenant Governor 45

Alt. Death: 20 Feb 1693 46

Will: 29 Jan 1703 47 48 49

In his will he "bequeath to my daughter Alce Fitch a wrought Cushion that was her Mothers." And "Give to Every one of Daughters a good booke which they may chose out of my Liberary." (http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/wills/william_bradford2_will.htm)

Alt. Death: 20 Feb 1704, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts 50 51 52 53 54

Probate: 10 Mar 1704, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts 55 56

Probate: 17 Mar 1705, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts; when his sons divided the land given to them 57

Alice RICHARDS:

Buried: 24 Dec 1671, Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 75

Baptised: 07 Apr 1629, Pitminster, Somersetshire, England 76

Alt. Death: 12 Dec 1671, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 77 78 79

Marriage Notes

Alt. Marriage: before 1650 84 85

Footnotes
  1. Pope, Charles Henry, Pioneers of Massachusetts (1977 (orig. 1900). Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore), p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  2. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. II (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 49.
    Quality: 3.
  3. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692 (1860-1862. Boston. (Ancestry.com and Google Books)), Vol.2, page 170, Fitch.
    Quality: 3.
  4. Anderson, R. C., The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston).
  5. Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691 (1986. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated).
  6. Anonymous, Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1912. J. H. Beers and Co., Chicago), p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  7. Farmer, John, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (1829, Lancaster, Massachusetts, reprinted 1979, S. G. Drake, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore (www.books.google.com)), p. 39.
    Quality: 3.
  8. Ibid., p. 39.
    Quality: 3.
  9. Find-a-Grave (http://www.findagrave.com).
  10. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 2.
    Quality: 3.
  11. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 219.
    Quality: 3.
  12. Ibid., p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  13. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 5.
    Quality: 3.
  14. Goodwin, John A., The Pilgrim Republic An Historical Review of the Colony of New Plymouth with sketches of the rise of other New England settlements, the history of congregationalsm, and the creeds of the period (1888. Ticknor and Company, Boston), p. 464-7.
    Quality: 3.
  15. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 6 (Captain).
    Quality: 3.
  16. Ibid., p. 6 (Captain 1662-1675, then Major).
    Quality: 3.
  17. Pope, Charles Henry, Pioneers of Massachusetts (1977 (orig. 1900). Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore), p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  18. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 4, p. 45, and Vol. 48, p. 197.
    Quality: 3.
  19. Anderson, R. C., The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston).
  20. Anonymous, Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1912. J. H. Beers and Co., Chicago), p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  21. Farmer, John, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (1829, Lancaster, Massachusetts, reprinted 1979, S. G. Drake, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore (www.books.google.com)), p. 39.
    Quality: 3.
  22. Ibid., p. 39.
    Quality: 3.
  23. Alice Carpenter Southworth Bradford in 17th Centure Records (http://www.pilgrimhall.org/bradfordalicerecords.htm).
  24. Find-a-Grave (http://www.findagrave.com).
  25. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  26. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 5.
    Quality: 3.
  27. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 219.
    Quality: 3.
  28. Find-a-Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Major William Bradford's tombstone, died 1703.
    Quality: 3.
  29. Ibid., Major William Bradford's tombstone.
    Quality: 3.
  30. Ibid., Major William Bradford's tombstone, died 1703.
    Quality: 3.
  31. Ibid., Major William Bradford's tombstone.
    Quality: 3.
  32. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 48, p. 197.
    Quality: 3.
  33. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 219.
    Quality: 3.
  34. Ibid., p. 219.
    Quality: 3.
  35. Farmer, John, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (1829, Lancaster, Massachusetts, reprinted 1979, S. G. Drake, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore (www.books.google.com)), p. 39.
    Quality: 3.
  36. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 6 (Captain).
    Quality: 3.
  37. Ibid., p. 6 (Captain).
    Quality: 3.
  38. Spoffard, Ernest, Ed., Armorial Families of America (1929. Bailey, Banks and Biddle Co., Philadelphia), p. 330.
    Quality: 3.
  39. Farmer, John, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (1829, Lancaster, Massachusetts, reprinted 1979, S. G. Drake, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore (www.books.google.com)), p. 39.
    Quality: 3.
  40. Alice Carpenter Southworth Bradford in 17th Centure Records (http://www.pilgrimhall.org/bradfordalicerecords.htm).
  41. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 6.
    Quality: 3.
  42. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 4, p. 45.
    Quality: 3.
  43. Ibid., Vol. 4, p. 45.
    Quality: 3.
  44. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 219.
    Quality: 3.
  45. Plymouth, Massachusetts Church Records, 1620-1859 (1923. Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (Ancestry.com, 2000)).
  46. Anonymous, Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1912. J. H. Beers and Co., Chicago), p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  47. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 219.
    Quality: 3.
  48. Mayflowerfamilies.com, Will of Major William Bradford, 9 June 1703 (http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/wills/william_bradford2_will.htm).
  49. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 7.
    Quality: 3.
  50. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 4, p. 46.
    Quality: 3.
  51. Plymouth, Massachusetts Church Records, 1620-1859 (1923. Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (Ancestry.com, 2000)).
  52. Farmer, John, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (1829, Lancaster, Massachusetts, reprinted 1979, S. G. Drake, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore (www.books.google.com)), p. 39.
    Quality: 3.
  53. Find-a-Grave (http://www.findagrave.com).
  54. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 5.
    Quality: 3.
  55. Mayflowerfamilies.com, Will of Major William Bradford, 9 June 1703 (http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/wills/william_bradford2_will.htm).
  56. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 7.
    Quality: 3.
  57. Ibid., p. 7.
    Quality: 3.
  58. Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, 1400-1930, Vol. II (1930. Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Massachusetts), p. 49.
    Quality: 3.
  59. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 4, p. 45, and Vol. 48, p. 197.
    Quality: 3.
  60. Davis, W. T., Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, Part II: Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families (1899. Damrell and Upham, Boston (1997, Ancestry.com)), p. 212.
    Quality: 3.

    Alice, daughter of Thomas, married William Bradford

  61. Anderson, R. C., The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston).
  62. Anonymous, Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1912. J. H. Beers and Co., Chicago), p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  63. Spoffard, Ernest, Ed., Armorial Families of America (1929. Bailey, Banks and Biddle Co., Philadelphia), p. 330.
    Quality: 3.
  64. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  65. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 5.
    Quality: 3.
  66. Goodwin, John A., The Pilgrim Republic An Historical Review of the Colony of New Plymouth with sketches of the rise of other New England settlements, the history of congregationalsm, and the creeds of the period (1888. Ticknor and Company, Boston), p. 461.
    Quality: 3.
  67. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 4, p. 45.
    Quality: 3.

    date of birth

  68. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 5.
    Quality: 3.
  69. Letter from Jean Stewart-Williams, Feb. 22, 2004.
    Quality: 3.

    born in Weymouth, Mass.

  70. Goodwin, John A., The Pilgrim Republic An Historical Review of the Colony of New Plymouth with sketches of the rise of other New England settlements, the history of congregationalsm, and the creeds of the period (1888. Ticknor and Company, Boston), p. 461.
    Quality: 3.
  71. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 4, p. 45, and Vol. 48, p. 197.
    Quality: 3.
  72. Anderson, R. C., The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston).
  73. Anonymous, Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1912. J. H. Beers and Co., Chicago), p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  74. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 5.
    Quality: 3.
  75. Goodwin, John A., The Pilgrim Republic An Historical Review of the Colony of New Plymouth with sketches of the rise of other New England settlements, the history of congregationalsm, and the creeds of the period (1888. Ticknor and Company, Boston), p. 461.
    Quality: 3.
  76. Anderson, R. C., The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston).
  77. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 4, p. 45, and Vol. 48, p. 197.
    Quality: 3.
  78. Anderson, R. C., The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston).
  79. Anonymous, Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1912. J. H. Beers and Co., Chicago), p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  80. Pope, Charles Henry, Pioneers of Massachusetts (1977 (orig. 1900). Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore), p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  81. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 5.
    Quality: 3.
  82. Anderson, R. C., The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston).
  83. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  84. Pope, Charles Henry, Pioneers of Massachusetts (1977 (orig. 1900). Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore), p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  85. Anderson, R. C., The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston).
  86. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 4, p. 46.
    Quality: 3.
  87. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692 (1860-1862. Boston. (Ancestry.com and Google Books)), Vol.2, page 170.
    Quality: 3.
  88. Mackenzie, G. N., ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America (1907. New York. (1999, Ancestry.com)), Rev. James Fitch biography.
    Quality: 3.
  89. Torrey, Clarence A., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (1987. Genealogy Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland), p. 269.
    Quality: 3.
  90. Spoffard, Ernest, Ed., Armorial Families of America (1929. Bailey, Banks and Biddle Co., Philadelphia), p. 330.
    Quality: 3.
  91. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  92. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 8.
    Quality: 3.
  93. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  94. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 8 and 17.
    Quality: 3.
  95. Torrey, Clarence A., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (1987. Genealogy Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland), p. 269.
    Quality: 3.
  96. Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Vol. 22 Family of William Bradford (2004. General Society of Mayflower Descendants), p. 17.
    Quality: 3.
  97. Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1908. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York), p. 532.
    Quality: 3.
  98. Anonymous, Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1912. J. H. Beers and Co., Chicago), p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  99. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  100. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  101. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  102. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  103. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  104. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  105. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  106. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  107. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  108. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  109. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  110. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  111. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  112. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
  113. Ibid., p. 915.
    Quality: 3.
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