that he Executed the foregoing instrument of writing for the
purposes therein Specifide
Robt.Youngblood Clk
Recorded this 11th day of August A.D.1848
Robt.Youngblood Clk
Whereas the Circuit Court of the Eastern Circuit of Florida
Sitting for the Counties of Alachua and Levy did on the fourth
day of May A.D. 1848 in a certain(?) in Chancery therin depend-
ing in which Light Townsend was complainant and Joseph G.Bell
and other Defendants pronounce the following decree to wit;
Light Townsend Complt
vs In Chancery
Joseph G. Bell Etals
This cause having been brought to a hearing and Submited to the
Court upon the Bill of Complaint taken as confessed by the
Several defendants, and upon the answer of John Townsend who was
appointed by the Court Guardian ad litum of the Said Elizabeth
Townsend, Sarah Townsend and Margaret Townsend infant heirs of
James L.Townsend Deceased, and upon the report of James Child
appointed a Special Master to take proff of the matter of facts
charges in such Bill, Therefore on reading the Bill of Complaint
and the report of the Master and the evidence accompanying the
same from which it Satisfactorily appears to the Court~ that
the material facts charges in the Bill are true, and that the
Said James L. Townsend held in trust in his life time the land
set forth in said Bill of Complaint as being on the North and
West Side of the Branch or Stream which intersects Said land
and other land which said James L.Townsend held in his own right
to and for the use of the said complainant,On motion of L.
Aldrich Esqr counsul for Complainant this court doth order ad-
judge and decree that the title to said land described in said
Bill as lying on the North and west side of said Branch or
Stream, is in the said Light Townsend Complainant in this cause,
and not in Said defendants in said Bill of Complaint or any of
them, and it is further ordered adjudged and decreed that the
said infant Defendants
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