This Indenture made the twenty ninth day of October
in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one, Between
Moses E. Levy of St. Augustine in Florida but at present
in the State and City of New York of the first part, and
Seraphina Chanviteau B*** al** of Paris in France, Widow of
the second part, Witnesseth. Whereas the said party of the
first part, did heretofore, and on or about the thirtieth day
of January in the year of one thousand eight hundred and
twenty six, borrow of the said party of the second part the
sum of fifty thousand Francs, to secure the payment
of which he did execute and deliver to her a mortgage on
several tracts of land to him belonging in East Florida, and among
others a mortgage on his undivided one half part of a certain tract
of land situated in the Chachala and Cuscawilla Hammock
in Alachua County in East Florida, containing about twenty
thousand acres more or less, originally granted by the Spanish
government to George I.F. Clark on or about the seventeenth
day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventeen, and which mortgage is duly recorded
in the proper office, either at St. Augustine, or in Alachua
County aforesaid. And whereas the said party of the
first part subsequent to the execution and delivery of
mortgage became the possessor of the remaining undivided
half part of said twenty thousand acres included in said
mortgage thus becoming the owner of the whole tract aforesaid
in fee, And whereas the said party of the first part, subse=
=quent to such his purchase, and in or about the year
one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, did sell and
said
convey three several lots of^land, each lot consisting of sixteen
hundred and sixty six acres and two thirds of one acre, viz
one to Philip Stern of the City of New York, one to
Nathaniel Lord of the same place, and one to H. Dudly of
the same place, and did pay and remit to the said party of
the second part a portion of the proceeds of said sales, viz,
one fourth part of the proceeds of the sales of the said three
lots, one other fourth part thereof being paid and remitted to
Joseph Delevanti of London in England, who by virtue of an
agreement to that effect was entitled to receive one fourth
part equally with the said party of the second part, and did
in pursuance of a power for such purpose from the said
party of the second part release the said three lots from
the mortgage aforesaid, and from any claim of the said party of
the second part thereunto or thereon. And whereas the said
party of the first part did sell, grant and convey to Joseph
M. White late of Florida deseased one other lot of said land
consisting also of sixteen hundred and sixty six acres and two
thirds of an acre, not for money, but in consideration of
services rendered by said Joseph M. White in obtaining
the confirmation of the grant of said tract and for which
last mentioned sale or conveyance to said White of course
no remittance or payment in cash could have been made to
the said party of the second part, but the said party of the
first part being willing to give security to the said party |