I hereby certify that the above acknowledgement was made by Elizabeth
Stoughton separate and apart from here husband
Henry Bankight
J.P.
State of Florida )
Alachua County )
Personally appeared before me this 22nd day
of March 1855 R.S. Stoughton to me well known who
acknowledges that he executed the above instrument for the
purposes therein set forth, and Jerremiah Gamage acknowledges
the execution of the same by him
Henry Banknight
Justice of the Peace
Recorded Nove 5th 1855
Robt Youngblood
Clerk
State of Florida )
Alachua County ) Know all men by these presents that
Jerremiah Gamage of the town of Micanopy State and County
aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars
to me in hand paid by John T. McIntosh and Benjamin
W. Powell Merchants under the style and firm of
McIntosh & Powell of said Town, the receipt whereof
I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give grant, sell,
and convey to the said McIntosh & Powell their heirs and
assigns a certain tract of or parcel of land situated in the
said Town of Micanopy on the East side of the Public Square
oposite to the Carolina House, owned and occupied by R.S.
Stoughton beginning at the North west corner of a certain
tract of land conveyed by R.S. Stoughton to J. Gamage on
the 18th of May 1855, and running south thirty five
feet on the public square line and then East one hundred feet
then north thirty five feet to the line dividing said Stoughton
and Gamage and then west one hundred feet to the begining
point including the Store House thereon now occupied
by McIntosh and Powell, Said grantor conveys and
said McIntosh and Powell receives said lot on the
following conditions to wit; said grantees their heirs
and assigns, in perpertuity shall not vend upon said prem-
ises any ardent spirits in less quantities than an quart
and they agree that on forfeiture of said conditions said
premises shall revert to said grantor and his heirs
to have and to hold the same unto the said McIntosh
& Powell their heirs and assigns to their use and behoof
forever and I do covenant with the said McIntosh
& Powell , their heirs and assigns that I am lawfully
Seized in fee of the premises that they are free of all
incumberances, and that I will warrant and defend
the same to the said McIntosh & Powell, their heirs
and assigns for ever against the lawful claims and demands |