This indenture made this twenty third day of November in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty two:
between Charles A.M. Mitchel a Special Master in Chancery re-
siding in Ocala in Marion County in the State of Florida of the
first part, and David Mezelle of Alachua County State of Florida
of the second part 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 aforesaid sitting in the County
of St. Johns it was among other things, ordered, adjudged and de-
creed by the said Court in a cause then depending in Chancery
between Peter Benet adminstrater of Francis P. Sanchez deceased
and Benjamin A. Putnam Excuter of Peter Mitchel deceased
that the said party of the 1st part should be appointed Spec-
ial Master in Chancery in the said cause, and that among
other things in the said decree specified the said Special Mas-
ter Should be authorized and empowered to sell the real Estate of
Said Peter Mitchel deceased or so much thereof as may be saleable
in the tract known as the Arredondo Grant, said sale and all
other sales in said decree contemplated to be made, at some con-
venient point within said Grant, and after notice of such sale to be
given by said Master in some Newspaper published in Flo-
ida and elsewhere, if said Master shall not deem such notice
elsewhere inexpedient and unnecessary for a period not less than
sixty days. And whereas afterword at the June Term One thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty one of the said Court, it was fur-
ther ordered, adjudged and decreed in the said cause that
the said decree appointing the said party of the first part
Special Master as aforesaid should be so modified and
altered, as to authorize and empower the said Master to sell any
part of the Real Estate mentioned in said first decree
at private sale for cash, or on reasonable credit, provided
that no part of the said Real Estate shall be sold at a less
price than that for which it was purchased in by the
said defendant Benjamin A. Putnam as executor as aforesaid
at the sale made of the lands of the Arredondo Grant in the month of
Febuary 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 said Master to the said Court, or to the
Judge thereof, and confirmed: and whereas afterward 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 exception 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 party of
the second part aforesaid for the tract of land purchased by
him from said Master as aforesaid, whenever the said
party of the second part, shall have complied with and
fulfilled his contract of purchase with the said Special
Master and have paid the whole amount of the purchase
money for the tract of land; and whereas the said party |