has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first
above written.
Sealed and delivered in presence of }
   Geo R. Fairbanks                 }        Mathew B. Hawkins (seal)
    Robt Youngblood                 }

    I do hereby certify that on the day and date hereof, personally appeared
                                                 Court
before me Robt Youngblood Depty Clk of the Circuit^of Alachua County
Florida, Mathew B. Hawkins to me well known, and acknowledged that
he signed sealed and delivered the foregoing Mortgage for the purposes therein
mentioned
                                          Robt Youngblood
                                              Depty Clk

                     Recorded Decr 7th 1853
                                 Robt Youngblood
                                        Depty Clk
[ Written in left margin: ]
For and in consideration of Five dollars in hand
paid I hereby assign the within Indenture
of Mortgage to Mathew B. Hawkins, his
heirs and assigns
                       Witness my hand
and seal this 16th day of December
A.D. 1853
             C.A.M. Mitchel (Seal)
          Special Master in Chancery

I Lemuel Wilson Clerk &C do hereby
certify that the above is endorsed
on the deed of which this instru
ment or record is a copy
                    L. Wilson
                         Clk
[ End ]


This Indenture made the Sixth 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 Mathew B. Hawkins 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 W. Sanchez, decd for the use of Aaron Friedlander
for himself and others, and Benjamin A. Putnam Executor of Peter Mitchell Decd
and 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 Court; 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 Mitchell, decd, or so much thereof as may be saleable, included the tract
known as the Arredondo Grant; Said Sale, and all other Sales in the Said
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decree, contemplated to be made at some convenient^within the said Grant,
and after notice of such sale to be given by said Master, in 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 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
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
private sale, for cash, or an 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 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