in and to said property and particularly described as beginning at
the South East Corner of the South west quarter of Section Twenty
five (25) Township Nine (9) Range Twenty One (21) and Run West along
the Section line Eight (8) Chains, Thence North Twenty five (25) chains
Thence East Eight (8) Chains, Thence South Twenty five (25) Chains to
place of beginning Containing by estimation Twenty (20) acres more or
less together with the dwelling house and all out Houses, It is
therefore ordered and decreed that the said Report of the Commissioners
be and the same is hereby Confirmed and approved and the said prop
erty henceforth vests in the said Mrs Nancy Ormond in fee Simple forever
                                         J.C. Gardner
                                         County Judge
State of Florida } County Judges Office
Alachua County   } Alachua County Fla
                   I J.C. Gardner County Judge in and for said
County of Alachua do hereby certify that the above and foregoing
is a true Copy of the original of what the same purports to
be as of file in my office Given under my hand & Seal of
Office this June 10" 1893 (Seal)         J.C. Gardner
                                          County Judge
Filed for Record June 16th 1893  Recorded June 20th 1893
                                         H.C. Denton  Clerk
                                         pr E.C. Wimberly DC
United States }
      To      }  Patent (4-404)
Owen C. Smith }
Homestead Certificate No 8014 } The United States of America, To all to 
Application 14954             } 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 Gaines-
ville Florida whereby it appears that pursuant to the Act of Co-
gress approved 20th May 1862, "To Secure Homesteads to actual 
Settlers on the public Domain" and the acts Supplemental thereto 
the claim of Owen C. Smith has been established and duly 
consumated in Conformity to law for the South East quarter of 
Section Eight in Township Nine South of Range Seventeen East 
of Tallahassee Meridian in Florida Containing one hundred and 
fifty nine acres and twenty five hundredths of an acre according 
to the Official Plat of the Survey of the 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 Owen C. Smith the tract of land above described -
To have and to hold the said tract of Land, with the appurten
ances thereof, unto the said Owen C. Smith 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