I hereby fully authorize and empower and direct my executors hereinafter named, or such of them as shall accept the trust, the survivors or survivor of them, or any administrator on my estate, to sell and convey at public auction, or by private sale, at such times and on such conditions as they shall judge best, any and all estate and property, real, personal, and mixed, of which I may die seized or possessed, saving and excepting only such as herein is specifically given to my beloved wife; and likewise the said land and house devised to my beloved wife, in case she shall elect not to take the same; and to make and deliver good and sufficient conveyances and transfers thereof; the purchasers to be in nowise bound to see to the appropriation of the purchase-money: it being my wish that my estate should be settled as soon as convenient after my decease, and, if practicable, within two years thereafter. [Sidenote: Residue to his nephews, nieces, &c. in sums corresponding to their specific bequests respectively.] If, after the conversion of the residue of my estate into money, and the payment of all my debts, and the distribution and payment of all the bequests in this my Will, contained in accordance with the foregoing dispositions, any residue should remain, it is my will that the amount of said residue be distributed among the children and grandchildren of my brother Isaac Appleton, and among the children of my late brother Doctor Moses Appleton, and among the children of my deceased brother Eben Appleton, and among the children of my brother Nathan Appleton, and among the children of my sister Mary Barrett, and of my deceased sister Emily Jewett, hereinbefore named, in proportions corresponding 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].