me personally came the above named Hariet wife of the John K.
Townsend, known to me to be the individual described in and who
executed the above Instrument and who acknowledged that she executed
the same, and the said Hariet further acknowledged to me on a private
examination apart from her husband, that she executed said Instru=
=ment freely without any fear or compulsion of her husband
                                      John Pettit
                                   Justice of the peace
State of New York }
County of Queens  } SS I Martin I. Johnson Clerk of the
County of Queens, do hereby certify that John Pettit whose name
is subscribed to the certificates of the proof or acknowledgement
of the annexed Instruments and thereon written was, at the time of
taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace in
and for said county, dwelling in said County, Elected, sworn and duly
authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted
with the hand writing such question, and verily believe that the
signature to the certificates of proof as acknowledgement is genuine
and that said instruments are severally executed and acknowledged
according to the laws of the State of New York
       In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said County, the 4th day of February 1854
                                            Martin I. Johnson
                                                          Clerk

                                            Recorded Apl 5th 1854
                                                     Robt Youngblood
                                                               Clerk

  This Indenture, made the sixteenth day of January in
in the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty four,
Between James Vandenberg and Ann his wife, of the
City and County of New York, parties of the first part, and
Henry G. Marquand of the same City and County aforesaid
in the State of New York of the second part, Witnesseth,
that the said parties of the first part, for and in consideration
of the sum of nine hundred and sixty dollars, lawful money
of the United States, to them in paid by the said party of
the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of
these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged,
and the said party of the second part his heirs, Executors and
administrators, forever released and discharged from the same,
by these presents, have granted, bargained, sold, aliened,
remised, released, conveyed and conveyed and confirmed,
and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, alien, remise,
release, convey and confirm, unto the second party of the 
second part, and to his heirs and assigns forever, all those
two (2) certain sections of land in the Arredondo Grant of
land in the County of Alachua State of Florida, known
as Section number twenty eight (28) and twenty nine (29) in