and
               Given under my hand^seal this the 26th day of May A.D. 1853
                                                                Saml W. Burnett (Seal)
                                                                Justice of the Peace
          State of Florida  )
          County of Alauchua)  On the 26th day of May A.D. 1853 before me Saml N.
          Caston Clk of the Circuit Court personally appeared W.W. Scott who under
          oath declared that he saw James Pendarvis sign and seal the foregoing
          deed for the purpose therein mentioned
          Sworned to and subscribed before me)                  Saml N. Caston (LS)
          this day as you above written      )

               Recorded May the 27th 1853
                                         Saml N. Caston
                                              clk


          State of Florida   )
          County of Alauchua )  This Indenture made this Twelfth day of March
                                in the year One thousand Eight hundred and fifty
          three between Charles A.W. Mitchel Special Master in Chancery, residing
          in Ocala in Marion County, State of Florida of the first part and William
          Adams of Alauchua 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 adjudg-
          ed and decreed by the said Court in a cause then pending in Chan-
          cery between Peter Benet adminitrtor of Frances P. Sanches deceased
          and Benjamin A. Putnam Executor of Peter Mitchel deceased that
          the said party of the first part should be appointed the said 
          Special Master in Chancery in the said Court and that among
          other things in the said decree Specified the Special Master should
          be authorized and empowered to sell the real estate of the said Peter
          M. Mitchel deceased or so much of it thereof as may be saleable in-
          cluded 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 unnecessary for
          a period not less than sixty days: and whereas afterward at the
          same Term of the year one thousand Eight hundred and fifty
          of said Court, it was further ordered, adjudged and decreed
          in said Court that the said Decree appointing the said
          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 said first
          Decree at private sale for cash or on resonable 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 Ben-
          jamin A. Putman as executor as aforesaid at the sale made of
          the Land of the Aradondo Grant in the month of Febuary One
          Thousand Eight hundred and forty Nine and no sale by said