This Indenture made this Eleventh Day of August in the year one
Thousand Eight hundred and fifty three between Charles A. Mitchel,
Special Master in Chancery, residing in Ocala, Marion County, State
of Florida, of the first part and Benett M. Dell of Alachua 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, adjudged, and Decreed
by the said Court, in a Cause then pending in Chancery, between
Peter Benett, Administrator of Frances P. Sanchez, decd, for the
use of Aaron Freedlander, for himself and others, and Benjamin
A. Putman Executor of Peter Mitchel Decd & administrators of Robt
Mitchel and Saml J. Moore Decd that the said party of the first
part should be appointed Special Master in Chancery in Chancery
in the said; 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 Arredonda 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
eleswhere, if said Master shall not deem such notice elsewhere inexped-
ient and unnecessary, 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 said Court, it was further ordered
adjudged, and Decreed in the said cause, that the said decree ap-
pointing the said party of the first part Special Master as afore
said, should be modified and altered as to authorize and empower
the said Master to sell any 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 a
less price than that for which it was purchased in by said Master
defendant, Benjamin A. Putnam, as Executor as aforesaid at the sale
made of the Lands of the Arredonda Grant in the month of Febuary, 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 said Judge thereof, and been confirmed
and whereas afterwards at the June Term, one thousand Eight hundred
and fifty two of the said Court. The said Special Master made report
to the said Court in which among other things he reported the sale
at private sale of the premises hereinafter 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 the 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 par-
ty of the second part shall have complied with and fulfilled
his his contract of purchase with the said Special Master for the said tract
of land. And whereas the said party hath this day complied
with and fulfilled his contract of purchase and paid the whole
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