Office by the Surveyor General
 Now Know ye, That there is, therefore, granted by the Uni-
ted States unto the said William C. Wheeler the tract of land above 
described, To Have and To Hold the said tract of land, with the 
appurtenances thereof, unto the said William C. Wheeler 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 
twenty seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and ninety six and of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and twentieth,
        By the President Grover Cleveland 
           ( seal )             By M. McKean, Secretary,
                               L.Q.C. Lamar    
Recorded, Vol. 24, Page 487    }   Recorder of the General Land 
                               }           office,
Filed for Record June 17th 1896,}
Recorded June 20th 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. 12104,}
  Application 20133,            } Whereas, There has been depos-
     U.S.                       } ited in the General Land Office of 
        To                      } the United States a Certificate of 
    Thos H. Bethea              } 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 Thomas H. Bethea
has been established and duly consummated, in conformity 
to law, for the North east quarter of Section twenty seven
in Township Eight, South of Range fourteen East of Tal-
lahassee Meridian in Florida, containing one hundred 
and sixty acres and thirty 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 Thos H. Bethea the tract of 
land above described, To Have and To Hold the above
said tract of land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto 
the said Thos H. Bethea and to his heirs and assigns for-
ever. 
           In testimony whereof I Grover Cleveland

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