This Indenture made this Seventh day of December
          in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
          between Charles A.M. Mitchel a Special Master in Chance-
          =ry residing in Ocala Marion County State of Florida of
          the first part, and Josiah Seckenger of Alachua County
          of the second part. Whereas at the November Term in
          the year Eighteen hundred and forty nine of the Circuit
          Court of the Eastern Circuit of the State aforesaid sitting
          in the County of St. Johns, It was among other things or-
          dered adjudged and decreed by the said Court in a case
          then depending in Chancery between Peter Benet Adminis-
          strator of Francis P. Sanchez deceased and Benjamin
          A. Putnam Executor of Peter Mitchel deceased that the
          said party of the first part should be appointed Offi-
          cial Master in Chancery in the said cause; and that
          among other things in the said decree specified the said
          Special Master should be authorized and empowered
          to sell the real estate of the said Peter Mitchel deceased
          or so much thereof as may be saleable, included in
          the tract known as the Arredondo Grant, said sale and
          all other sales in the said decree contemplated to be made
          at some convenient point within said Grant, and after
          notice of said sale to be given by said Master in some 
          newspaper published in Florida and elsewhere, if
          said Master shall not deem such notice elsewhere
          inexpedient and unnecessary, for a period not less than
          sixty days, and whereas afterwards at the June Term
          of the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty of
          the said Court, It was further ordered adjudged and
          decreed in the said cause that said decree appoint-
          ing the said party of the first part, Special Master as
          aforesaid, should be so modified and altered as to au-
          thorize and empower the said Master to sell any part
          of the said real Estate, mentioned in said first decree, for cash
          or on reasonable credit, provided that no part of said
          real Estate shall be sold at a less price than that
          for which it was purchased or by the said defendant
          Benjamin A. Putnam Executor as aforesaid, at the sale
          made of the lands of the Arredondo Grant in the month
          of February One thousand eight hundred and forty nine
          and no sale by said Master shall be held binding or
          valid until the same shall have been reported by the 
          said Master to the said Court, or to the Judge thereof, and
          been confirmed, and whereas afterwards at the Term of 
          the said Court, the said Special Master made a
          report to the said Court in which among other things
          he reported the sale at private sale, of the premises
          hereinafter described to the said party of the second part,
          and whereas there being no exceptions to the said Report
          the same was confirmed by the said Court and the
          said Master was by order, of said Court among other things
          authorized and empowered to make execute and deliver
          conveyances, among others to the said party of the second part