at the City of St Augustine, the 10th day of June, 1855
                                P.B. Dumas
                          Clerk C.C. of St Johns County
                Recorded March 6th 1855
                           Robt Youngblood
                                    Clerk
This Indenture made this 3rd day of December in the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, Between Charles
A.M. Mitchel, Special Master in Chancery , residing in Ocala,
Marion County, State of Florida, of the first part, and James
T. Thomas of Alachua County Florida, State aforesaid of the
Second part, Whereas, at the November Term, in the year eighteen
hundred and forty nine, of the Circuit Court of the Eastern
Circuit, of the State aforesaid, sitting in the County of St Johns
it was among other things, ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the said
Court, in a cause then depending in Chancery, Between Bank
Administrator of Francis P. Sanchez decd for the use of Aaron
Friedlander, for himself and others, and Benjamin A. Putnam
& Saml J.D. Moore Decd, that the said party of the first part should
be appointed Special Master in Chancery, in the said cause; and
that among other things in the said decree specified, the said Special
Master should be authorised and empowered to sell the real estate
of the said Peter Mitchel, deceased, or so much thereof as may be
saleable, included in the tract known as the Arredondo grant & said
sale, and all other sales in the said decree, contemplated to be made
at some convenient point within said grant and after notice of 
Such Sale to be given by said Mastercourt, in some News paper published
in Florida, and else where, if said Master shall not deem such notice
elsewhere inexpedient and unnecessary, for a period of not less than
sixty days, And whereas, afterwards, at the June Term, of the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty, of the said Court, it was further
ordered, adjudged, and decreed in said cause, that the said decree, appoin
=ting 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 public sale, for cash, or on reasonable credit,
provided, that no part of said Real Estate shall be sold at a
less price that then that for which it was purchased in by the
said Defendant, Benjamin A. Putnam, as Executor as aforesaid, at
the sale made of the lands of the Arrdeondo 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 the said Court, or to the Judge
thereof, and have 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 private sale
                                           said
of the premises hereinafter described to the^party of the second part
and whereas, there being no exceptions to the said report the
same was confirmed by the said Court and the said Master