State of Connecticut } Naugatuck May 6th 1893
New Haven County ss  } Personally appeared F.S. Nichols & H.C. Bald=
win signers and sealers of the foregoing instrument and acknowled-
ged the same to be their free act and deed, before me
 (seal)                          Seth D. Bingham
                                 Notary Public for New Haven County
Filed for Record June 5th 1893.  Recorded June 6th 1893
                                 H.C. Denton   Clerk
                                 pr E.C. Wimberly DC
United States }
      To      }  Patent (4-404)
M.I. Jones    }
Homestead Certificate No 10071} The United States of America 
Application 17451             } To All to whom these presents, Shall 
come Greeting. 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 pur
suant 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 Mitchell I. Jones has 
been established and duly consumated in conformity to law for 
the East half of the North East quarter of Section Eleven and
the West half of the North West quarter of Section Twelve in 
Township Ten South of Range Fourteen East of Tallahassee 
Meridian in Florida, Containing one hundred and fifty
nine acres and forty 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 
Mitchell I. Jones the tract of Land above described, To have and 
to hold the said tract of Land with the appurtenances thereof unto 
the said Mitchell I. Jones and to his heirs and assigns forever 
In Testimony whereof, I Benjamin Harrison 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 third day of December in the year of our Lord one Thousand 
Eight hundred and ninety two and of the Independence of the 
United States the One Hundred and Seventeenth
   (  )            By the President Benjamin Harrison
 ( Seal )          By E. Macfarland  Asst Secretary
   (  )            D.P. Roberts  Recorder of the General Land Office
Recorded Vol 20 Page 322
Filed for Record June 6th 1893    Recorded June 6th 1893
                                  H.C. Denton  Clerk
                                  pr E.C. Wimberly DC