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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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          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
Transcribed by Jack Waters 14 March 2014
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