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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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          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
Transcribed by Jack Waters 5 February 2015
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