Patent and the seal of the General Land office to be hereunto affixed
Given under my hand at the City of Washington the fifteenth day of
November in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighty
Eight and of the Independence of the United States the One hundred and thirteenth
    (  )            By the President Grover Cleveland
  ( Seal )          By M. McKean     Secretary
    (  )            Robt W. Ross Recorder of the General Land Office
Recorded Vol 11 page 123
Filed for Record December 23rd 1893  Recorded December 28th 1893
                                     H.C. Denton  Clerk
                                     pr E.C. Wimberly DC
United States }  
     to       }  Patent (4-404)
Wm Mason      }
Homestead Certificate No 10406 } The United States of America 
Application 18126              } 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 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 
William Mason has been established and duly Consumated in Con
formity to law, for the South West quarter of the North West quarter 
the North half of the South West quarter and the South East quarter
of the South West quarter of Section Thirty Six in Township Nine South
of Range twenty two East of Tallahassee Meridian in Florida Con-
taining One hundred and fifty nine acres and fifty two 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 William Mason the tract of Land above described
To have and to hold the said tract of Land with the appurtenances thereof 
unto the said William Mason and to his heirs and assigns forever
In testimony whereof I Grover Cleveland, 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 Sixth day of July in the year of our 
Lord One thousand Eight hundred and ninety three, and of the Independ
ence of the United States the One hundred and Eighteenth
    (  )            By the President Grover Cleveland
  ( Seal )          By E. Macfarland   Asst Secretary
    (  )            L.Q.C. Lamar  Recorder of the General Land Office
Recorded Vol 21 page 232
Filed for Record December 23rd 1893  Recorded December 28th 1893
                                     H.C. Denton  Clerk
                                     pr E.C. Wimberly DC