signed the above relinquishment of Dower of her own free will separate
and apart from her Husband Benjamin T. Rives.
Witness my hand and seal on this 22d day of December 1854
John H. Cosby (LS)
Justice of the peace
State of Florida }
Alachua County } Personally appeared before me Benjamin
T. Rives and Elizabeth M. Rives his wife, who acknowl=
=edged that they executed the within Deed of conveyance of their
own accord, and for the purposes therein set forth.
Witness my hand and seal on this 22d day of December
A.D. 1854 John H. Cosby (LS)
Justice of the peace
Personally appeared before me
Jacob Bell one of the Subscribing witnesses who saith he saw
Benjamin T. Rives and his wife E.M. Rives sign the above
conveyance John H. Cosby
Justice of the peace
Recorded Jany 12th 1855
Robt Youngblood
Clerk
State of Florida }
Alachua County } This Indenture made this 25th day
of March in the year one thousand Eight
hundred and fifty three between Charles A.M. Mitchel Special
Master in Chancery residing in Ocala Marion County State
of Florida of the first part and David Mizell of Alachua
County State aforesaid, of the second part,
Whereas at the November term, in the year Eighteen hundred
and forty nine of the Circuit Court of the Eastern Circuit of the
State aforesaid, sitting in the County of St. Johns, it was among
other things ordered, and adjudged, and decreed by said Court in
a cause then pending in Chancery between Peter Benet administr
-ator of Francis P. Sanchez decd, for the use of Aaron Friedlander
for himself and others, and Benjamin A. Putnam Executor of
Peter Mitchel decd & administrator of Robt Mitchel & Saml J.
Moore decd that the said party of the first part should be
appointed Special Master in Chancery in the said cause and that
among other things in the said Decree specified, the said Master
should be authorized and empowered to sell the Real Estate of the said
Peter Mitchel deceased, or so much thereof as may be saleable,
included in the tract known as the Arredondo Grant, said sale, and
all other sales in the said decree, contemplated to be made at some conven
-ient point within said Grant, and after notice of such sale to be given
by said Master in some newspaper published in Florida and elsewhere,
if said Master shall not deem such notice elsewhere inexpedient and
unnecessary, for a period of not less than sixty days, and whereas
afterwards, at the June Term of the year one thousand Eight
hundred and fifty of the said Court it was further ordered
[ Written in left margin; ]
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