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After the conclusion of the services, Col. Loring and his friends 

 and other invited guests, together with the several committees of 

 ladies and gentlemen who had been concerned in the preparatory 

 arrangements for the occasion, repaired to the lower hall, where 

 they partook of an elegant and bountiful repast, and passed an 

 hour or more very agreeably in the interchange of congratulations 

 and other pleasant social intercourse. 



Solomon Lincoln presided at the entertainment. He called 

 upon George S. Hillard and Joseph Andrews of Boston (the 

 former once a resident and the latter a native of Hingham), both 

 of whom responded in very interesting and agreeable speeches. 

 Thomas Loring also favored the assembly with a sketch of the 

 fortunes of the brothers Loring, and of their eminent success 

 in life. 



The festivities of the occasion were closed by a ball in the 

 evening, which was attended by several hundred ladies and gen- 

 tlemen. Col. Loring visited the hall in the evening, and was re- 

 ceived by the managers in presence of the large company in a 

 manner expressive of their deep sense of his munificence to the 

 inhabitants of Hingham. 



DEED OE TRUST. 



To all Men to whom these Presents shall come, Benjamin Loring, 

 of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, stationer, 

 sends greeting : 



Whereas a certain lot of land, hereinafter described, in the town of 

 Hingham, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, was 

 heretofore purchased for the sum of five hundred dollars by certain ladies 

 of the said town of Hingham, and the foundation for a hall was built there- 

 upon by them ; and whereas the said lot of land, with the said foundation, 

 was conveyed to me by Thomas Loring, of said Hingham, by deed dated 

 August 14th, A. D. 1851, and recorded with the records of deeds in 

 Plymouth county, Lib. 245, fol. 264, with the understanding and agree- 

 ment that I should cause to be erected thereupon, at my own charge, a 

 building or hall, to be used for the purposes hereinafter set forth ; and 

 whereas the said hall has been built and I am now desirous of making such 

 conveyance of the said premises as shall carry into effect my purposes and 

 wishes in the erection of said hall ; 



Now know ye that I, the said Benjamin Loring, in consideration of 

 the premises, hereby give, grant, release and assign unto Marshal Lincoln, 

 mason, Robert Treat Paine Fiske, physician, Joseph Sprague, merchant, Jos- 

 eph B. Thaxter, jun., optician, Solomon Lincoln, Esquire, Caleb B. Marsh, 

 sail-maker, and George Studley, cabinet-maker, all of Hingham aforesaid, 

 a lot of land, with the building thereon, lying on Main street in said Hing- 

 ham, bounded and described as follows : Beginning at the easterly corner 

 thereof, against land of John Baker, and running south forty-one degrees 

 west, one hundred and seven feet and nine inches ; then turning and run- 

 ning north forty-nine degrees west, seventy-one feet ; then turning and 

 running north forty-one degrees east, one hundred and four feet and nine 



