Clerk of the Circuit Court for the Counties of Alachua
and Levy, L. Aldrich above named and made oath in due form
of law, that he saw Thomas C. Ellis Execute the foregoing deed for
the purposes therein mentioned and that Thomas J. Prevatt
was also a Subscribing witness thereto
Sworn to and subscribed                           L. Aldrich
before me this 31st day of
October A.D. 1848
Robt. Youngblood
         Clerk
                   Recorded this 31st October 1846
                                      Robt. Youngblood
                                                   Clerk

                   A Deed of Conveyance
Whereas I Thomas C. Ellis lat Sheriff and Exofficio Tax Collector
of Alachua County and State of Florida, did on the twelfth
day of July A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and forty Seven
offer at public Sale or out cry, in the manner, and in the pro-
portion and quantities prescribed by law, a certain tract or parcel
of land Situate in Said County containing nine hundred and fifty
eight acres more or less, Known and described as follows to wit;
The undivided interest or portion of Shivers Parker in 
and to a certain tract of land known as the Arredondo
grant in Said County, For the purpose of raising an amount
of money from the Sale thereof, Sufficient to pay the Tax due
therein as from the owner or owners, thereof to said State
for the tax due for the year 1845, and for the State and
County Tax due for the year 1846, and all cost and expenditures
which necessarily accrued in and about the advertisement and
Sale thereof, there having been failure to pay the Said tax
and whereas it became necessary to offer the whole of
said tract, in the manner and in, the proportions and quantities
prescribed by law, before an amount was his therefore sufficient
to pay Said Tax, costs, and expenditures. And whereas Henry
C. Wilson agent for O.M. Dorman, was the highest bidder
and the only person at said Sale who bid for Said tract, or any
quantity of proportion thereof, and amount Sufficiently large to pay
Said Tax costs and expenditures, he having bid for the whole of
said tract the sum of thirteen dollars and twenty five cents
    Therefore be it Known that I Thomas C. Ellis Sheriff
and Tax Collector as aforesaid in consideration of said sum which
I hereby acknowledge to have received from the Said