ence like her own in this respect, might herself have conceived of this charity.
   Dr. Hersey, by his last will, dated Nov. 29, 1770, gave his wife all his estate on the condition of her paying one thousand pounds to Harvard College, the income of which was to be appropriated towards the support of a Professor of Anatomy and Physics, and thirty-six pounds to the three daughters of Dr. Gay.   He made his wife sole executrix, but as no inventory was filed, there is no means of ascertaining the amount of his property.   He made no provision for any school by this or any other will.   In a prior will, made in 1756, which was revoked by his last will, he devised the lot of land on which the Academy now stands to the town of Hing-

ham, and directed that his executrix should pay to the town two hundred and twenty pounds lawful money for the erection of a workhouse or a house for the use of the poor of the town.   This perhaps gave the hint to Madam Derby to appropriate the same lot for public use in another way; but there is nothing else to show cause for her doing it, so far as Dr. Hersey is concerned.   From a careful examination of Madam Derby's will it would seem that she intended to leave so much of her property, at her death, as was acquired from her second husband, to his family connections.   It can therefore be repeated, with truth, that the Academy was established with property acquired from Dr. Hersey.
   The first formal act of Madam Derby for the establishment of a school was the execution by her of a Deed of Bargain and Sale, dated Oct. 20, 1784, and a Deed of Lease and Release, dated Oct. 21, 1784.