Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of June AD 1882
   L. Montgomery  }                J.W. Smith
                                     Justice of the Peace
     Recorded July 24th 1882
            J.A. Carlisle Clerk
               pr S.H. Wienges DC

The United States to John S. Lewis
                "Patent"
  The United States of America
 To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting
Homestead Certificate No 923 } 
Application 4519             } Whereas There has been deposited in 
the General Land office of the United States a certificate of the 
Register of the Land Office at Gainesville Florida whereby it appears 
that pursuant to the act of Congress approved 20th May 1862
"To Secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain"
and the acts supplemental thereto the claim of John S. Lewis
has been established and duly consumated in conformity to law
for the North half of the North West quarter of section twenty four
in Township nine South of Range twenty two East in the
District of lands subject to Sale at Gainesville Florida containing 
Seventy nine acres and Sixty four hundredths of an acre
according to the Official Plat of the survey of the said Land 
returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General
Now Know ye That there is therefore granted by the United 
States unto the said John S. Lewis the tract of Land with 
the appurtenances thereof, unto the said John S. Lewis and 
to his heirs and assigns forever
In Testimony Whereof I Ulysses S. Grant President of the United 
States of America have caused these letters to be made Patent 
and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto 
affixed Given under my hand at the City of Washington
the tenth day of May in the Year of our Lord one Thousand 
Eight hundred and Seventy Six and of the Independence of 
the United States the One Hundredth
 (  )                           By the President U.S. Grant
(Seal)                              By D.D. Cone     Secretary
 (  )                        J.H. Armstrong Recorder of the General Land office ad interim
          Recorded Vol 2 Page 319

                       Recorded July 24th 1882
                            J.A. Carlisle Clerk
                                pr S.H. Wienges DC