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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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            This Indenture made this twenty Eight Day of June in the year of
          our Lord 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 Benjamin A. Putnam of St Johns County
          State aforesaid, of 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 a-
          mong other things ordered, adjudged, decreed, by the said Court, in a cause
          then depending in Chancery between Peter Benet Administrator of Francis
          P. Sanches Decd, for the use of Aaron Friedlander, for himself and others
          and Benjamine A. Putnam, Executor of Peter Mitchel Peter Mitchel Decd,
          and Administrator of Robt Mitchel and Samuel G.L. Moore Decd 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 the said
          decree Specified, the said Special Master should be authorized and em-
          powered to sell the estate of the said Peter Mitchel decd 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 Newspaper published
          in Florida, and elsewhere, if said Master shall not deem such notice
          elsewhere inexpedient and unnecessary for a period of not less than sixty
          days, and whereas, afterwards at the June Term of One thousand
          Eight 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 aforsaid Should be so
          modfied and altered as to authorize and empower the said Master to sell
          my part of the said 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 less price than that for which it was purchased
          in by the said defendent Bengamin A. Putnam, as Executor as aforesaid
          at the sale made of lands of the Arrodonda Grant in the month of
          February , One thousand Eight hundred and forty nine and no sale by
          the said Master shall be held binding and or valid until the same shall have
          been reported by the said Master to the said Court or to the Judge thereof
          and been confirmed. Whereas by a decree of the said Circut Court for
          the Eastern Circuit District of Florida made on Friday November 5th
          A.D. 1852 it was among other things ordered adjudged and decreed, that
          the Lands in the Arredonda grant, belonging to the estate of Peter Mitchel
          deceased, and remaining unsold, should be sold by the Special Master
          appointed in the above Entitled Cause at Public Auction at Micanopy, after
          giving three months notice of said sale , in the Conservator published at Ocala
          and the Florida News published at Jacksonville, and whereas in the said
          Decree it was further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the said sale
          should be made upon the following Terms. To bid, one third of the pur-
          chase money in cash down, and the remaining two thirds in two equal
          annual installments with interest at six percent and whereas at a sale
          of said Lands made in persuance of said decree at Micanopy on the 25th
          day of March A.D. 1853, the said Benjamin A. Putnam became a pur-
          chaser at the highest bider for Section Thirty one (31) Township Ten
          (10) Range Twenty (20) And whereas, to the said party hath this day com-
          plied with and fulfilled the said Contract, and paid the whole
          amount of his purchase money therefore, Now this indenture Witnesseth
 
Transcribed by Jack Waters 7 November 2014
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