. History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts . proper entertainment be made for the Trustees at their several meetings. It is my will that said Trustees do forever relinrpiish the privilegewhich by virtue of the Deed of Lease and Release, they possess asTrustees, of sending each of them two scholars, one of each sex to DerbySchool; and my will is that this Codicil be considered as part of my lastwill and testament, and that all things therein contained be faithfully per-formed, and as fully in every respect as if the same were so declared inmy said last will and testament. In testimony wher


. History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts . proper entertainment be made for the Trustees at their several meetings. It is my will that said Trustees do forever relinrpiish the privilegewhich by virtue of the Deed of Lease and Release, they possess asTrustees, of sending each of them two scholars, one of each sex to DerbySchool; and my will is that this Codicil be considered as part of my lastwill and testament, and that all things therein contained be faithfully per-formed, and as fully in every respect as if the same were so declared inmy said last will and testament. In testimony whereof, I have hereuntoset my hand and seal this fourth day of June, in the year of our Lordseventeen hundred and ninety. Signed, sealed and declared by the Sarah Derby. said Sarah to be a Codicil to her last and Seal. Will and Testament in presence of us,who signed our names in presence ofthe Testatrix and of each other; theinterlineation of the word School being first made, and the word to-gether. Joseph Thaxter. Benjamin Cushing. Joshua <A*-aL Sfe/^y Education. 127 The legacies were promptly paid, as the following receipts forthe same attest:— Hingham, Septemb 17, 1790. Received of Mess? Joseph Andrews & Caleb Thaxter, Executors ofthe Last Will & Testament of Mrs. Sarah Derby deceased, the follow-ing securities for the purposes specified in said Will: — Massachusetts State notes—twenty-six hundred and twenty-sevenpounds, fourteen shillings and three pence—twenty-five hundred, theinterest therefrom, to be for the support of the Preceptor of Derby School,the interest of said notes paid up to August l8t 1788. Continental Loan Office Certificates—seven hundred dollars, the interestpaid up to December 318t 1784. Eight hundred and twenty-five dollarsin Hardys Indents. Two thousand three pounds, five shillings & tenpence in private notes of hand, seven hundred pounds, the interest arisingtherefrom to be for the support of the Preceptress of Derby School, fifty-e


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