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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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          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
         
Transcribed by Jack Waters 13 May 2015
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