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In witness whereof, I the said Benjamin Loring have hereunto set my 

 hand and seal this seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and fifty-two. 



BENJAMIN LORING. [Seal.] 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ) 

 Suffolk, ss. Boston, June 7, 1852. \ 



Personally appeared the above-named Benjamin Loring. and acknowedged the foregoing 

 instrument by him subscribed to be his free act and deed. 



Before me, GEORGE S- HILLARD, 



Justice of the Peace. 



In addition to the amount expended, as stated above, by Col. 

 Loring, he gave by his will "to the Trustees of 'the Loring Hall,' 

 in Hingham, the sum of one thousand dollars, to be kept invested 

 on interest, and the income applied to the upholding, repairing, 

 and embellishing the building." 



Having made a provision in the deed of trust that in case the 

 conditions of the trust should not be complied with, the said grant 

 and gift should be void, he made further provision in his will in 

 case of such a violation of the conditions, as follows : — 



I do devise and bequeath to the Corporation known as " Derby Acad- 

 emy," in said Hingham, and to their successors forever all my right, title, 

 and interest in the lands, Hall, and premises described and referred to in 

 said Deed of Trust. 



The following persons have been trustees : — 



Marshall Lincoln,* Robert T. P. Fiske,* 



Joseph Sprague,* Joseph B. Thaxter, 



Solomon Lincoln,* Caleb B. Marsh,* 



George Studley,t Levi Hersey, J 



Caleb S. Hersey, Isaac Hersey,* 



Benjamin Andrews, Francis H. Lincoln, 



Charles W. S. Seymour, Morris F. Whiton. 



In 1887 Mr. Charles Loring Young, of Boston, gave to the 

 Trustees a portrait of Colonel Loring, his great-uncle, in trust, to 

 be placed and kept in the hall. It is an excellent copy, by Otto 

 Grundman, of the original, in Mr. Young's possession, painted by 

 Chester Harding. 



* Deceased. t Removed from Hingham. J Resigned. 



