Monday Oct 14th 1862
Daniel G. Anderson  }  Gardner
     vs             }
Rosa M. Heath       }  Maulden
                     And now on this day came the
parties by their respective Attornies and the defendant
saying nothing in bar or preclusion of the plantiffs right
to recover, it is ordered that the plantiff do have his
Judgement against the defendant by default, and that the
Clerk do  assess the damages whereupon the Clerk having assessed
the damages at Two hundred & fifty five Dollars & Ninety Six
Cents it is ordered Considered and adjudged by the Court 
that the plantiff do have and recover off and from the
defendant the said sum of                     Dollars
       Cents for his damages together with his cost in this
behalf expended taxed at Five
Dollars & Twenty five Cents and the defendant in mercy &c

                   In the Circuit Court for the Suwannee
Circuit Alachua County Fall Term 1862
                                    Then came a free
man of color aged about 22 years by Andrew Robb Judge
of probate for said County, who declares that be desires to
sell himself to Phillip Dell as a Slave, and desires the Court
to Examine him whether the act is done of his own free will &
accord or not
            Andrew Robb
Judge of probate for said County, Whereupon the Court ordered
the said Joseph Valentine to be brought before it & appointed
E.M. Graham Solicitor to represent said negro, & the said
Joseph Valentine negro as aforesaid having been brought into
Court & Examined, as to whether the act of selling himself to Phillip
Dell was voluntarily or not declared that he did so without
fear or compulsion & of his free will & accord, Whereupon it was
declared by the Court that Joseph Valentine aged about 22
years is the property & slave of Phillip Dell & subject to his order
& control & to the laws of the State of Florida governing Slaves
he having made a judicious choice of a master
                                           Thos T. Long
                                          Judge CCSC
E.M. Graham Solicitor Andrew Robb Judge of probate
for Alachua County Nearest friend of Joseph Valentine & S.P.
Bevill Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County Phillip Dell
& Joseph Valentine for himself waives the four week notice
requisite under the act to allow persons of african Descent to
select their own master
                       Oct 14th 1862