State of Florida ) I do hereby certify that on the 6th day of December A.D. 1853
Alachua County )SS Personally appeared before me Robert Youngblood Depty
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Alachua County, Geo R. Fairbanks to
me well known, and who is a Subscribing witness to the within Indenture
and being duly Sworn, Says that Charles A.M. Mitchel Special Master in Chancery
Signed and Sealed the said Deed in the his presence and in the presence of B.A. Putnam
the other subscribing witness, and delivered the same as his act and Deed for
the purposes therein mentioned
Sworn to and subscribed before ) Geo R. Fairbanks
me this 5th day of Decr A.D. 1853 )
Robt Youngblood )
Dpty Clk )
Recorded Decr 5th 1853
Robt Youngblood
Dpty Clk
This Indenture made the third day of Decr in the year one thousand
eight hundred and fifty three, between Charles A.M. Mitchel, Special Master
Ocala
in chancery, residing in^Marion County, State of Florida, of the first , and
John B. Denton 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, 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, Between Peter Bennett, Administrator of
Francis P. Sanchez, for the use of Aaron Friedlander, for himself and others,
and Benjamin A. Putnam Executor of Peter Mitchel, decd, & Administrator of
Robert Mitchel & Saml J.D. Moore decd that the said party of the first part,
should be appointed Special Master in Chancery, with said cause, 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 salable, included in the tract known
as the Aredondo Grant, said sale, and all other sales in the said decree, contem-
plated to be made at some covien 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 unecessary, for a period 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 decreed in the said Court, that the said decree, appointing
the said party of the first part, Special Master, as aforesaid, should be <so
So 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 sold at a less price than for which it was purchased in
by the said defendent Benjamin A. Putman, as Executor as aforesaid,
at the sale made of the lands of the Aredondo Grant in the month of
February, 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 Judge thereof and
been confirmed and whereas, afterwards, at the June Term, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty three, of the said Court, the said
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