State of Florida>
Alachua County  > This Indenture made this the twenty
seventh day of December one thousand eight hundred
and fifty between Charles A.M. Mitchell Special mas
 ter in chancery residing in Ocala Marion County
State of Florida of the first part and John A. Mal
phers of Alachua County State aforesaid of the second
part; Whereas at the November term in the year one
thousand eight-hundred and forty nine of the circuit
court of the eastern circuit of the State aforesaid sitting
for the county of St Johns it was among other things
ordered adjudgezied and decreed by the said court in a 
cause therin pending in Chancery between Peter
Benet administrator of Frances P. Sanchez Deceased
Complainant and Benjamin A. Putnam Executor of
Peter Mitchell Deceased defendant that the said Charles 
A.M. Mitchell should be appointed master in 
Chancery in said cause and that among other things
in the said decree specified the sand special master
should be authorized abd empowered to sell the real
Estate of the said Peter Mitchell Deceased or so much
thereof as may be saleable included within the tract
Known as the aredondo Grant; said sale and all
other sales contemplated in said decree to be made
at some convient point within the said Grant
and after publication in some News paper published
in Florida, and elsewhere should said master deem
such publication elswhere Expedient and Necessary for
a period not less theat sixty days and whereas afterward
at the June term in the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty of the said court it was further ordered
adjudged and decreed that the said decree appointing 
the said special master as aforesaid should be so
modified and altered as to authorize and impower
the said master to sell any part of the said real
Estate mentioned in the said first decree at pri
vate sale of cash or on reasonable credit;
Provided that no part of said real Estate should be
sold for a price less than that for which it was
pruchased by the said defendant Benjamin A.
Putnam at the sale of the aredondo Grant made by
George M. Payne James Child and William A. Forward