UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
       TO      PATENT.
DRUCILLA SAPP

               THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,   
                  To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting;
Homestead Certificate No. 15868)
Application 24271)
                    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 appea
rs that, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May, 1861, "To secure Homesteads to Actual 
Settlers on the Public Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Durcilla Sapp fo
rmerly Durcilla Ricks has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the 
North half of the North West quarter of Section seven in Township nine South of Range fifteen 
East of Tallahassee Meridian in Florida containing eighty three acres and seventy three hundred
ths of an acre. according to the Official Plat of the said Land, returned to the General Land Of
fice by the Surveyor General;
Now know ye, That there is, therefore, granted by the United States unto the said Drucilla Sapp the 
tract of Land above described; To have and to hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances 
thereof, unto the said Drucilla Sapp and to her heirs and assigns forever. 
      In testimony whereof I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of Ameri-
      ca, 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 Seventeenth day of January, in the 
      year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the Independence of the 
      of the United States the one hundred and twenty eighth.
(SEAL)   By the President; T. Roosevelt
                           By F.M. McKean,  Secretary.
                                   C.H. Brush, Recorded of the General Land Office.
Recorded Florida, Vol 103, Page 379

FILED MAY 31st.1917.         S.H. Wienges   Clerk
RECORDED JUNE 1ST.1917.           By E. Weir  D.C.














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