State of Florida )
Alachua County ) Before the subscriber Clerk of the Circuit
Court in and for said County and State personally came Thos J.
Prevatt who executed the foregoing instrument of writing and to me
well known and acknowledgeed and declared that he had executed
the same for the purposes therein mentioned
Robt Youngblood Clerk
Recorded Jany 5th 1855
Robt Youngblood
Clerk
This indenture made the thirtyeth day December
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
four, Between Thomas J. Prevatt and Charles L. Wilson
of the town of Newnansville, in the County of Alachua, and
the State of Florida, of the first part and Henry Bradford
and Samuel B. McLin of the same place of the Second part
whereas the said Thomas J. Prevatt Successor of the said late firm
copartnership as aforesaid, having assumed all the debts and liabil-
ities of the said late copartnership, is justly indebted in
Sundry Considerable sums of money, and has become unable
to pay and discharge the same with punctuality or in full
and the said Thomas J. Prevatt is now desirous of making
a fair, and equitable distribution of his property, and effects
among the creditors of the said late Copartnership: Now therefore
this indenture witnesseth that the said party of the first
part in consideration of the premises, and of the sum of five
dollars to him in hand paid by the parties of the second part
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted, bargained
and sold, released, assigned, transfered, and setover: and by these
presents do grant bargain, and sell, release, assign, transfer
and set over, unto to the said parties of the second part, and
to their heirs and assigns forever, all and singular the lands,
tenements and hereditaments, Situate lying and being in
the State of Florida, and all the goods, chattles, merchendize
Bills, bonds, notes, book accounts claims, demands, choses,
in action, judgments, evidences of debt and property, of
every name and nature whatsoever, of the said party of
the first part, more particularly enumerated and described
in the schedule hereunto annexed marked Schedule A
to have and to hold the same, and every part and parcel
thereof, with the appurtenances, to the said parties of
the second part, their heirs Executors, administraters.
and assigns, In Trust nevertheless, and to and for the
following uses, intents and purposes, that is to say; that the
said parties of the second part, shall take possession of all
and singular, the lands, tenements and hereditaments, property
and effects, hereby assigned, and sell and dispose of the same upon
Such terms, and conditions as in their judgement may appear best
and most for the interest of the parties concerned and convert the same
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