State of Florida )
County Alachua ) Personally appeared before me the undersigned John
S. Livingston Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid S.G.
Hawkins who being duly sworn sais that he saw Moses E. Levy
signed the instrument of writing for himself and as the
attorney for Sarafina Chauviteau & Joseph De Levante for the
purposes their specified S.G. Hawkins
Sworn to & Subscribed before me
the 7th day of Feb 1853 Recorded April 8th 1853
John S. Livingston SS Saml Russell Clk
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This Indenture made this Fifth day of November in the year
One thousand eight hundred and fifty two; between Charles A.M. Mitchel
Special Master in Chancery residing in Ocala in Marion County, State
of Florida of the first part, and David Gillett of Alachua County
State aforesaid of the second part; Whereas at the November Term
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in the year Eighteen hundred and forty two of the Circuit Court of
the Eastern Circuit of the State aforesaid, Sitting in the County of
St Johns, it was among other things ordered adjudged and decreed
by the said Court, in a cause then depending in Chancery between
Peter Benet administrater of Francis P. Sanchez deceased, and
Benjamin A. Putnam executer of Peter Michel deceased that the
said party of the first part, should be appointed Special 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 Mitchell de-
ceased; or so much thereof as mey be saleable included in the
tract known as the Arredonda Grant; said sale, and all other sales
in the said decree contemplated to be made at some convient
point within said Grant; and after notice of such sale to be paid by
said Master in some Newspaper published in Florida, and else_
where, if said Master shall not deem such notice elsewhere, inex-
pedient and unnecessary for a period not less than sixty days:
and whereas afterward at the June Term of the year one thous-
sand eight hundred and fifty of said Court, it was further ordered ad-
judged and decreed in the said cause that the said decree appointing
the said party of the first psrt Special Master as afore said, should
be so modified and altered as to authorize and empower the said Master
to sell any part of the said Real Estate mentioned in said first decree
at private sale, 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 in by the said defendant Benjamin
A. Putnam as excutor as aforesaid at sale made of the lands
of the Arredonda 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 the
said Master to the said Court, or to the Judge thereof and been con=
firmed, and whereas afterwards at the June 1852 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
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