This Indenture made this 25th day of March in the year One
thousand eight hundred and fifty three between Charles A. Mitch-
el Special Master in Chancery residing in Ocala, Marion County
State of Florida of the first part, and Wiley L. Benet of
Alachua County of the second part Witnesseth Whereas at
the November Term in the year Eighteen hundrd and forty
nine of 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 to herein depending in Chancery between
Peter Benet Administrater of Francis P. Sanchez decd for
the use of Arron Friedlander for himself and others
Benjamin A. Putnam Executor of Peter Mitchel decd &
Administrator of Robt Mitchel & Saml J.D. Moore decd that
the said party of the first part should be appointed Special
Master in Chancery in the said cause, and that sundry 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 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
Newspaper published in Florida and elsewhere, if said Mas-
ter shall not deem such notice elsewhere inexpedient and un-
necessary for a period of 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 the said decree
appointing the said party of the first part 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 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
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 said Master to the said
Court, or the Judge thereof and been confirmed, And Whereas
after ward at the June Term One thousand eight hundred and
fifty two of the said Court the said Special Master made a report
to the said Court, in which among other things reported, the sale
at private sale of the premises herein after 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 them
to the said party of the second part, for the tract of land purchased
by him from the said Master whenever he the said party of the
second part shall have complied with and fulfilled his contract
of purchase with the said Special Master and has paid the |