& Seven of Section thirty, Township Ten, South of Range twenty three
East, containing one hundred and Six eight acres & twenty eight hundredths
of an acre, being the tract included in permit No five hundred and
Seventy (577) issued too Mary Hall, dated the thirteenth of March one
thousand eight hundred and forty three,(1843) and the Said John Ralerson
doth bind him Self, his heirs and assigns, Executors & Administrators, will
warrant and defend for ever, the Said premises unto the Said Daniel
Morrison, his heirs and assigns, to have and to hold the Said bargained premises
piece of land for their use and purpose, use and benefit, and behoof for ever
in fee Simple, In Witness Whereof, the Said John Ralerson has hereunto
Set his hand and Seal, the day and year above written,
Signed in the presence of his
Attest } John X Ralerson (LS)
J.F. Secrest } mark
Washington Morrison } her
Esther X Ralerson (LS)
mark
State of Florida }
Hillsboro County } I do hereby certify that I have questioned & examined the
above named Esther Ralerson Separate and apart from her Husband John Ralerson
and She Says that She Signed the above Deed of Conveyance, without any compulsion
on the part of her husband, that She done the Same voluntarily of her own accord
and thereby relinquishes all her claim to the land named in the above Deed.
December the 7th day 1853,
Francis M. Durance (Seal)
Justice of the peace
Recorded March 5th 1855
Robt Youngblood
Clerk
This Indenture, made the thirty first day of December in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, Between George
M. Payne, George R. Fairbanks and William A. Forward, Commissioners
appointed by the Circuit Court of the Eastern Circuit of Florida,
Sitting as a Court of Chancery, by orders or decrees made and entered at the
City of St. Augustine in and for the County of St. Johns, in a certain
cause in partition depending in Said Court, wherein John H. Brush and
and others are complainants; and Moses E. Levy and others are Defendants
of the first part, and John A. Kennedy of Alachua County Florida of
the Second part, Witness: That whereas, at a Sale of public auction,
of certain lands of the Arredondo tract or grant, advertised and held
by the Commissioners appointed 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 A.D. 1848) at Micanopy, on the Said Arredondo grant,
on the 21st day of February A.D. 1849, the following described lots or
parcels of land, Situate, lying and being in the County of Alachua in
Said State of Florida, were Struck off to and bid in by Joel B. Smith
he being the highest bidder, therefor, to wit: Section No. Seventeen in
Township No Ten, of Range No twenty one, containing Six hundred
and forty acres, as laid down upon the map of the Said Arredondo grant
made on the 9th February in the year if our Lord 1846 by Messrs Burr and
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