public auction of certain lands of the Arredondo tract or
grant advertised and held by the Commissioners appoint-
-ed in said cause (in pursuance of an order or decree of
said Court made and entered in said St Augustine
on the thirteenth day of November AD 1848) at Micanopy
on the said Arredondo grant on the 21st day of February
AD 1849 the following described lots or parcels of land
lying and being in the County of Alachua in said State
of Florida were struck off to and bid in by James
T. Thomas he being the highest bidder therefor, To wit, Sec-
tion No 25 in Township No 9 of Range No 21 containing
Six hundred & forty acres as laid down upon the
map of the said Arredondo Grant made on the 9th
February in the year of our Lord 1846 by Messrs Burr
Washington and Merry Commissioners appointed by the
said Court at the June term of 1845 as by reference
thereto will more fully appear And whereas the said Com-
missioners reported the said sale and the said Court
by decree made and entered on the 11th of August AD
1849 approved of the same and confirmed said report.
And whereas the said James T. Thomas has faithfully and
truly performed all the orders terms stipulations and
conditions which were by order or decree of said Court
on his part to be performed and whereas the said
Court has directed the said parties of the first part
Commissioners as aforesaid to execute to the said
James T. Thomas this deed thereof and the said James T.
Thomas having assigned and conveyed the same to the said
party of the second part and requested that said parties
of the first part as Commissioners as aforesaid should
make this deed to the said party of the second part
Now therefore know ye that we the said parties of the
first part by virtue of the authority invested in me
as aforesaid and in consideration as aforesaid have
granted bargained and sold and by these presents do
grant bargain and sell unto the said John N. Ormand
and to his heirs and assigns forever the said above
described tracts of land and each and every of them
with the appurtenances of each and every of them
and all the estate right title and interest which the
said parties to the said cause in partition and each
and every of them had on the said twenty first day
of February aforesaid or at any time since or now
hath To have and to hold the said land and prem-
ises and every part thereof with the appurtenances
unto the said John N. Ormand his heirs and assigns
forever as fully and absolutely as we the said parties
of the first part as Commissioners aforesaid and
under the authority aforesaid might could or ought
to sell and convey the same. In witness whereof we the parties
of the first part have hereto set our hands and seals this 1 day
of December in the year 1852.          Geo Morton Payne (seal)
Signed sealed and delivered        }   William A. Forward (  )
in presence of Andrew J. Fairbanks }    Geo R. Fairbanks (  )
         P.B. Dumas                }