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Title: The Will of Samuel Appleton
with remarks by one of the executors

Author: Samuel Appleton
Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch

Release Date: August 6, 2010 [EBook #33362]

Language: English

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THE

WILL

OF

SAMUEL APPLETON;

WITH

REMARKS

BY

ONE OF THE EXECUTORS.

BOSTON:
PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON & SON,
22, SCHOOL STREET.
1853.

REMARKS.

Samuel Appleton was born at New Ipswich, N.H., June 22, 1766, and
died, without issue, at his residence in Boston, on Tuesday, July 12,
1853; having just entered on the eighty-eighth year of his age.

In November, 1819, he married Mrs. Mary Gore, who was much younger
than himself. This union has been marked, on his side, by the most
unvarying confidence and sincere affection. He has ever found his own
delight in gratifying each wish of his wife with an almost boundless
indulgence. And she--the brilliant and happy mistress of his
hospitable mansion--has been alike admirable, when presiding over its
social circle, or its more public gayeties; and when, in its private
recesses, she has devoted herself to what she has ever felt to be her
highest duty and her chief privilege,--that of guarding the declining
years of her husband with the most kind and thoughtful care; cheering
his pathway to the tomb by those considerate attentions, which, both
in life and in death, he so gratefully appreciated and acknowledged.

On the last morning of his life, he enjoyed his usual health. During
the day, however, he suffered pain and uneasiness, apparently the
result of indigestion. Mrs. Appleton, therefore, remained constantly
with him, but without feeling any serious apprehensions. He at length
seemed to be entirely relieved by