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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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          Do hereby Certify and make known, that on this fifteenth day
          of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
          three, before me personally appeared Henry G. Marquand and Elizabeth
          Love Marquand his wife, the signers and sealers of the annexed conveyance,
          and severally acknowledged that they signed, sealed and delivered the annexed
          conveyance for the uses & purposes therein expressd, and the said Elizabeth
          Love Marquand further acknowledged to me on a private examination
          separate and apart from her said Husband, that she signed, sealed and
          delivered the said conveyance freely and without any fear threats or compul-
          sion of her Husband, And I further certify, that I know the persons
          who made the said acknowledgements, to be the same persons described in
          & who executed the same,
                         In Testmoney Whereof, I, have hereunto Subscribed my
                         name, and affixed my seal of office, this the 15th day of August
                         one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, at my office in
                         the City of New York.
                ((seal))                                      Moses B. Maclay
                           Commissioner for the State of Florida in New York

                                   Recorded Decr 5th 1853
                                                      Saml N. Caston Clk
                                                      pr Robt Youngblood Dept Clk



          This Indenture made this third day of December 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 B. Denton of Alachua County, 
          Florida, State aforesaid, of the second part, Whereas, at the November
          Term , in the year eighteen hundred and forty nine, of the Circuit of the
          Eastern Circuit, of the State aforesaid, Sitting in the County of St. Johns,
          it was- among other things, ordered, adjudged, and decreed, by the said Court,
          in a cause then depending in Chancery, bewtween Peter Bennett, and
          Administrator of Francis P. Sanchez Deed for the use of Arron-
          Friedlander, for himself and others, and Benjamine A. Putnam, Executor of
          Peter Mitchel, Decd, & Administrator of Robt Mitchel & Saml J.D.
          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 sai9d 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 Aredonda 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 News paper 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 the year one thousand eight hundred
          and fifty, of the said Court, it was further ordered, adjudged, and
                       Said
          decreed in the^cause, that the said decree, appointing the said party
          of the first part Special Master, as aforesaid, Should be so modified
Transcribed by Jack Waters 18 March 2015
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