This Indenture made this 25th day of March in the year One 
Thousand eight hundred and fifty three between Charles A.M, Mitchel 
Special Master in Chancery residing in Ocala, Marion County State 
of Florida, of the first part and John A. Kennedy of the County 
of Alachua, State aforesaid of the the second part, Whereas at the
November Tenn in the year Eighteen hundred and forty nine of 
the Circuit Court of the Eastern Circuit, of the State aforesaid, sitting
in the County of St. Johns it was among the things ordered ad+
=judged and decreed by the said Court in a cause then depending 
in Chancery between Peter Benet Administrator of Frances P. San=
=chez decd for the use of Aaron Friedlander, for himself and others,
and Benjamin A. Putnam. Executor of Peter Mitchell decd & Ad=
=ministrator of Robt Mitchell &  Saml J.D. More decd that the
said party of the first part should be appointed Special Mas=
=ster 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 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 Master shall not
deem such notice elsewhere inexpedient and unecessary, for a 
period of not less than sixty days.  And whereas Afterward
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 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 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 madeof 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 to the Judge thereof, and benn con-
-firmed And whereas afterwards 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 he reported the sale at private sale of the
premises hereafter 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 said
party of the Second part, for the tract of land purchased by
him from the said Master as aforesaid whenever he the said 
party of the second part shall have complied with and ful=
-filled his contract of purchase with the said Special Master