Washington and Merry, Commissioners by the said Court at the
June Term of 1845; as by reference thereto will more fully appear
and whereas, The said Commissioners reported the said sale to the said Court
and the said Court by decree made and entered on the 11th of August
A.D. 1849, approved of the same and confirmed said report, and
Whereas, the said Joel B. Smith has faithfully and truly per
=formed all the orders, term, 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, Commiss
=ioners as aforesaid, to execute to the said Joel B. Smith this Deed
thereof, and the said Joel B. Smith having assigned and conveyed the
same to the said party of the second part, and requested that the
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 us 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 A. 
Kennedy, and to his heirs and assigns for ever, 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 premises and
every part thereof, with the appurtenances, unto the said John A.
Kennedy, his heirs and assigns for ever, as fully and absolutely as 
the said parties of the first part, as Commissioners aforesaid, and under
the authority aforesaid, might, could, or ought to sell and convey the
the same. In Witness whereof, we the parties of the first part
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this 31st day of December in
the year 1852.
Signed, Sealed and delivered }         George Payne (seal)
in presence of               }         William A. Forward (seal)
Andrew J. Fairbanks          }         George R. Fairbanks (seal)
 P.B. Dumas                  }

State of Florida    }  Circuit Court, Clerks office:
County of St. Johns }ss  I Peter B. Dumas, Clerk of the Circuit
Court of St. Johns county, in the Eastern Judicial Circuit of the
State of Florida, do hereby certify  that, George Morton Payne, George
               and
R. Fairbanks,^William A. Foward, severally signed and sealed in my
presence the within Instrument of writing, and acknowledged the
same to be their joint act and deed for the purposes therein men=
=tioned; And I further certify, that the said George Morton Payne,
George R. Fairbanks, and William Forward, are the Commissioners
duly appointed and fully authorised, by the Court, to execute
titles to the respective purchasers of the land sold under the decree
relating to the Arredondo grant.
    In testimony whereof I hereto set my
       affix the
hand and^seal of the Circuit Court of St.
Johns county