adjudged and decreed in the said cause, that the said decree, appointing
the said party of the first part Special Master, as aforesaid, should be so
modified and altered as to authorise and empower the said Master to
sell any part of the said Real Estate mentioned in said first decree at
private sale for cash, or on reasonable credit, provided that no part
of said Real Estate shall be sold at a less price than that for which is was
purchased in by the said defendant Benjamin A. Putnam, as Executor as aforesaid
at the sale made of the lands of the Arredondo Grant, in the month of February
one thousand eight hundred and forty nine, and no sale by said Master shall
be held binding or valid until the same shall have been reported by said
Master, to this said Court, or to the Judge thereof, and been confirmed and
whereas afterwards, at the June Term one thousand eight hundred
and fifty three of the said Court the said Special Master made a report to
the said Court in which among other things he reported the sale at
publicprivate sale of the premises hereinafter described to the said party of the second
part, and whereas there being no exception to the said report, the same
was confirmed by the said Court, and the said Master was by order of said
Court, among other things, authorised and empowered to make execute
and deliver conveyances among others things to the said party of the second part
for the tract of land purchased by him from the said Master as aforesaid
whenever, he the said party of the second part, shall have complied with
and fulfilled his contract of purchase with the said Special Master
and has paid the whole amount of purchase money for the said tract of
land, and whereas the said party hath this day complied with and
fulfilled the said contract and paid the whole amount of his purchase
money therefore now this Indenture witnesseth, that the said
Charles A.M. Mitchel, Special Master in Chancery as aforesaid, in order
to carry into effect the said sale, made in persuance of the said decree
above cited and in consideration of the premises and of the sum of five
& twelve Dollars paid at the time of the execution hereof, by the said party of
the second part to the said Charles A.M. Mitchel, Special Master
aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted
bargained, sold, released, conveyed, and confirmed, and by these presents
doth grant, Bargain, sell, release and confirm unto the said party of the
second part his heirs and assigns forever, all that tract or parcel of
Land known and described on the map of the said Arredondo Grant in
the survey of David Burr and Henry Washington in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty five, as Section twenty five township eleven
Range Twenty one together with all and singular the rights, members
hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise
appertaining, to have and to hold all and singular the said premises
above mentioned and described and hereby granted and conveyed, or
intended to be so with the appurtenances unto the said party of the
second part his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit and be
-hoof of the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever
In witness whereof the said Charles A.M. Mitchel Special Master in Chancery aforesaid
hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written
Sealed and delivered in presence of }
before signing and sealing the words two and private } C.A.M. Mitchel (seal)
are erased, and the words three and public interlined } Special Master in Chancery
B.A. Putnam }
Geo R. Fairbanks
State of Florida }
Alachua County } Before me Robt Youngblood Clerk of the |