The State of Florida } Before me personally appeared J.W.
   Alachua County    } McMullen to me well known who ack-
                       nowledges that he executed, signed,
sealed and delivered the foregoing deed of conveyance for the
uses and purpose therein contained and expressed.
Acknowledged and           }
subscribed before me       }
this 25th day of July      }
  AD 1896,                 }
            Evans Haile    }
  (seal)     Notary Public }
            State at Large }
Filed for Record and Recorded
July 27th 1896,
                H.C. Denton, Clerk
                by J.M. Richardson DC


                  The United States of America
         To All to Whom These presents shall come, greeting:
Homestead Certificate No 11801 }
  Application 20099            } 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 of May 
1862, "To Secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the public 
Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of John J.M.
Hodge has been established and duly consummated in conformi-
ty to law for the east half of the Southwest quarter of Section eleven in 
Township nine South of Range sixteen East of Tallahassee Meridian 
in Florida containing eighty one acres and thirty four hundredths of an 
acre according to the official plat of the survey of the said land, re-
turned 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 J.M. Hodge the tract of land above described, 
To Have and To Hold the said tract of land, with the appur-
tenances thereof unto the said John J.M. Hodge 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 fifth day 
of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and ninety five and of the Independence of the United States the 
one hundred and twentieth
By the President Grover Cleveland,
                       (over)

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