This Indenture made this 25th day of March in the year of
one thousand eight hundred and fifty three between Charles A. M. Mitchel
Special Master in Chancery, residing in Ocala, Marion County,
State aforesaid, of the second, Whereas, at the November Term, in the
Year eighteen hundred and forty nine, of the Circuit Court of the Eastern
Circuit of Florida, 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 Jr. Sanchez, decd, for the use of Aaron
Friedlander, for himself and others, and Benjamin A. Putnam, Exe-
cutor of Peter Mitchel decd, and administrator of Robt Mitchel, and
Squr 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 Spe-
cial Master should be authorized and empowered to sell the real
estate of the said Peter Mitchel, deceased, or so much there of
as may be saleable, included in the tract Known as the Arredondo
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 necessary unnecessary,
for a period of not less than sixty days. And Whereas, afterward
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 cause, 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 the first decree
at private sale for cash, or 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 Benja-
mine A. Putnam, as Executor as afore said, 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 valid until the same shall have
been reported by said Master, to the said Court, or to 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 Special Master made a report to the
said Court in which among other things, he reported the sale at public
sale of the premises hereafter described to the said party of the second
part, and whereas, there being no exceptions to the said report, the
Same was confirmed by the said Court, and the said Master was by
order of said Court, among other things, authorized and empowered to
make execute and deliver conveyances, among others, to the said party
part, Shall have complied with and fulfill fulfilled his contract
of purchase with the said Special Master, and have paid the
whole amount of purchase money for the said tract of land.
And Whereas, the said party hath this day complied with and
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