State of Florida }
County of Alachua} SS  I do hereby certify that on this 5th day of December
A.D. 1853, personally appeared before me Robt Youngblood Deputy Clerk of
the Circuit Court, of the County of Alachua, Geo. R. Fairbanks, to me well
Known, one of the Subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Mortgage, and
being duly sworn, says that James P. Thomas Signed and Sealed said mort
=gage in his presence, and in the presence of J.B. Pearson the other Sub
=scribing witness, and delivered the same for the purposes therein mentioned
                   Recorded Decr 6th 1853
                                   Robt Youngblood
                                            Depty Clk

This Indenture made this Eleventh day of August in the
year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, between Charles A.M.
Mitchell, Special Master in Chancery, residing in Ocala Marion County,
State of Florida, aforesaid State aforesaid, of the first part and 
Cornelius Rain of Alachua County, State of Florida 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
of Florida, Sitting in the County of St Johns it was among other
things, ordered adjudged, and decreed, by the said court, in a case there
depending is in Chancery, Between Peter Bennett Administrator of
Francis P. Sanchez,  decd for the use the of Aaron Friedlander, for
himself and others, and Benjamin A. Putnam, Execuror of Peter Mitchell,
decd. & Administrator of Robt Mitchell, and 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 said Special Master should be authorised, and
empowered to sell the real estate of the said Peter Mitchell, deceased, or
So much thereof as may be saleable, included in the tract Known as the 
Arredondo Grant, said sale, and all other sales in the said decree, ****
=**** to made at some convinient 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 unnessary, 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 decreed in said cause, that the said decree,
appointing the said party of the first, Special Master, as aforesaid , Should
be so modified and altered as to authorise authorise 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 the said defendant, Benjamin A. Putnam, as
executor as aforesaid, at the sale made of the lands of the said Arredondo
Grant in the month of February, one thousand eight hundred
and forty nine, and no sale by said Master Shall be held binding or
valued until the same Shall have been reported by said Master
to the Court, or to the Judge thereof, and been confirmed; and
whereas afterwards, at the June Term, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty two two, of the said court, the said Special Master