ponding to the amounts or sums which said heirs are respectively
entitled to receive by virtue of the original dispositions in this my
Will.

[Sidenote: No legacy to lapse by death of legatee.]

If any of the legatees named in this Will should die in my lifetime,
then and in that case, whatever is herein given to such legatee I give
to and among those who at my decease may be heirs-at-law of such
legatee by the Statute of Distributions of this Commonwealth, as to
any real estate of which said legatee should then have died seized.

[Sidenote: Liability of Executors.]

I direct that my executors shall each be liable only for his own
actual receipts and his own wilful defaults, and not the one for the
other or others.

[Sidenote: Executors named.]

I appoint Nathan Appleton, William Appleton, Nathaniel Ingersoll
Bowditch, and Isaac Appleton Jewett, to be the executors of this my
last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all Wills by me heretofore
made.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal on this
twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-one.

(Signed)
SAML. APPLETON [AND A SEAL].

Signed, sealed, published, and declared by
said Testator to be his last Will and
Testament, in presence of us, who, at
his request, and in his presence, and in
presence of each other, have hereunto
set our names as witnesses.

JOSEPH TILDEN.
MOSES L. HALE.
FRANKLIN H. STORY.

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FOOTNOTES:

[3] One of these children died before the Testator. The father, as his
heir, is entitled to his share, by a subsequent provision of the
Will.

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CODICIL.

I, SAMUEL APPLETON, of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and State of
Massachusetts, merchant, having further considered my last Will and
Testament, bearing date the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, do think proper
to make and publish the following as a Codicil thereunto.

[Sidenote: Revokes a clause of the Will;]

I do hereby revoke and cancel that clause in said last Will and
Testament, giving unto my beloved wife "any of the plate and furniture
belonging to me at the time of my decease, at the a