parcel of land in the Arredondo Grant, in the County
of Alachua in the State of Florida, which is designated
on a map of said grant, made by Messrs Burr and
Washington, in the year 1846, as Section twenty five
(25) in Township ten (10) in Range Eighteen (18) containing
Six hundred and forty (640) acres of land, be the same more
or less. Together with all and singular the tenements, heredit=
=aments and appurtenances to the same belonging, or in
anywise appertaining; and the reversion and reversions,
remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof
and also all the right, title, interest, estate, claim and
demand whatsoever, both in law and Equity which the
said Testator had in his life time, and at the time of
his Decease, and which the said parties of the first part
or either of them, have or hath by virtue of the said 
last will and testament, or otherwise of, in and to the
same, and every part and parcel thereof, with the appur=
=tenances, To have and to hold the said premises
above mentioned and described, and hereby granted and
conveyed or intended so to be, with the appurtenances unto the
said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, to him
and their only proper use, benefit and behoof forever.
  In Witness whereof the said parties have hereunto
interchangeably set their hands and seals, the day and year
first above written.
Sealed and delivered }       Charles W. Brush (LS)
in the presence of   }
Edwd Israel          }        Julia A. Van Ness
Ja B. Latimer        }
                      Attorney for Eugene Van Ness (LS)
                                     Executors
State of Maryland }
City of Baltimore } SS   I,
a Commissioner, appointed by the Governor of the State of Florida
and duly qualified, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds &c in
the State of Maryland, which are to be used or recorded in
the State of Florida, do hereby certify that Charles W. Brush
and Julia A. Van Ness, personally well known to me
to be the granters and the parties described in, and who
executed the Deed hereunto annexed, personally appeared
before me in the State and City aforesaid, and acknowl=
=edged that they had executed the said Deed for the purposes
therein mentioned. And at the same time the said Julia
A. Van Ness being by me duly sworn, said that she had
executed the said Deed by virtue of a power of Attorney executed
to her by her Husband Eugene Van Ness, and that the said
power of Attorney was duly recorded in the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of St Johns
in the State of Florida. In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 9th day
of June in the year of our Lord 1855
((  ))                                 Ja B. Latimer
      Recorded July 6th 1855               Commissioner
            Robt Youngblood
                   old  Clerk