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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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          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          
          
Transcribed by Jack Waters 11 July 2014
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