administrators and assigns the title to the above bargained sold and
conveyed premises will forever warrant and defend against all legal
claims and demands. In Testimony Whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals the date first written
  In presence of }            James M. Hawthorn (seal)
   T.R. Waits    }            Sarah P. Hawthorn (seal)
    J.D. Bell    }
State of Florida  }
County of Alachua } Personally appeared before the undersigned James M.
Hawthorn and Sarah P. Hawthorn and acknowledged that they executed
the foregoing deed for the purpose of conveying the land therein described to
Daniel W. Merritt aforesaid and the said Sarah P. Hawthorn upon an
examination made by me separate and apart from her husband
acknowledges that she made herself a party to said conveyance for the
purpose of relinquishing all dower and right of Dower in the lands
therein mentioned and that she did so freely and voluntarily and
without any fear constraint or compulsion from her said husband
acknowledged and subscribed before me this } James M. Hawthorn (seal)
22nd day of April AD 1882                  } Sarah P. Hawthorn (seal)
           J.D. Bell                       }
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          Recorded June 19th 1882
                J.A. Carlisle Clerk
                  pr S.H. Wienges DC

    Daniel W. Merritt To Bullard & Stewart & R.B. Weeks & Son
                       "Deed"
State of Florida } This Indenture made this Ninth day of May
Alachua County   } AD 1882 between Daniel W. Merritt of said State
and County and of the Town of Hawthorn and his wife Ella
F. Merritt who Joins her husband in this conveyance for the
purpose of relinquishing her dower in the lands hereinafter
described parties of the first part and Bullard & Stewart and
R.B. Weeks & Sons of the County of Alachua State of Florida of the
second part Witnesseth That for and in consideration of the sum
of Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars to the parties of the first part
paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted
bargained sold and by these presents do grant bargain sell and
convey unto the said parties of the second part their heirs and assigns
in fee simple all of that certain tract or parcel of land lying and 
being in the said state and county and described as follows to wit:
Lot Five (5) in Block Four (4) with all the buildings and machinery
thereon being the property generally known as Merritts Gin and
containing one fourth of an acre more or less To have and to Hold
the above described land to the said parties of the second part their
heirs and assigns together with rights members and appurtenances
thereunto being belonging or in any manner appertaining. And the said