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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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            This Indenture made this fourteenth day of December in the year
          One thousand eight hundred and fifty two: between Charles A.M. Mitchel
          a Special Master in Chancery, residing in Ocala, in Marion County, State of
          Florida of the first part, and Elias Bouknight of Alachua County
          State aforesaid 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 setting 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 Benja-
          min A. Putnam executer of Peter Mitchel 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 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 such sale to be given
          by said Master in some Newpaper published in Florida, and
          elsewhere, if said Master shall not deem such notice elsewhere
          inexpedient and unneccessary, for a period not less than sixty
          days, and whereas afterward at the June Term One thousand eight
          hundred and fifty of the said Court, it was further ordered adjud-
          ged and decreed in the said Court that the said decree appointing
          the party of the first part Special Master as aforesaid should
          be so modfied and altered as to authorize and empower the said
          Master to sell any part of the real Estate mentioned in the 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 executer as aforesaid, at the sale made of
          the lands of the Arredondo Grant in the year 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 been confirmed;
          whereas afterwards at the June Term 1852 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 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 authorizd and empowered to make execute and
          deliver conveyances among others to the said party of the second part
          for the tract of land purchased by him from the said Master
          as aforesaid, whenever the said party of the second part shall have
          complied with and fulfilled the said contract, and paid the
          whole amount of the purchase money therefore, Now This Indenture
          witnesseth that the said Charles A.M. Mitchel Special Master
          in Chancery as aforesaid, in order to carry into effect the said sale, 
       
Transcribed by Jack Waters 23 February 2014
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