State of Florida )
          Alachua County   )
                             Personally appeared before me Samuel
          Russell Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County, Charles
          L. Wilson, Sheriff & Ex offico Tax Collecter of Alachua County
          Florida and acknowledged and declared that he had executed
          the foregoing deed for the purposed therein contained.
                             Witness my hand this Eight day of June
                             AD 1852
                                                   Saml Russell
                                                           Clerk

                   This Indenture made the twenty fifth day of May
         in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & fifty-two. Between
         Joseph Lawton of Charleston, So Ca party of the first part and George
         W. Sanchez of Alachua County Florida party of the second part. Witnesseth
         that the said party of the first, for and in consideration of the sum
         of Two Thousand dollars, lawful money of the United States of 
         America, to him in hand hand paid by said party of the second
         part at and before the Ensealing and delivery of these presents
         the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledge, hath granted, bargined,
         sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed and confirmed, and by
         these presents doth grant, bargin, sell, alien,remise, release,
         convey and confirm , unto the said party of the second part, and 
         to his heirs and assigns for ever. All that certain Four hundred
         acres of land lying being and situate in County of Alachua and
         State of Florida and being part and parcel of a Survey of six thousand
         acres of land made by the Authority of the Spainish Government to Domingo
         Fernandez and the South half of which is possessed by said party of
         the first part by sundry conveyances and hath been lately partitioned
         and set apart to said Joseph Lawton by George Watson B.M. Dell
                       Commissioner by virtue of a decree of partition
         rendered by the Circuit Court of St. Johns County, Florida in a
         certain cause wherein said Lawton was complainant and Joseph
         S. Sanchez and other defendants and which said four hundred
         acres are more particularly described as follows
              Begining at the South East corner of the F.R. Sanchez tract
         of land thence N 70° W along the boundry of said tract 23.74 chains
         to meet boundrary of Lawton tract being the Southern half of the Fernandez
         Grant thence South 25° West along said West boundry to boundry
         of the Arredondo Grant 109.94 chains thence along said Arredondo
         Grant boundry N 85° E. 46.20 chains to a red oak Post  bay N 77 W
         11 chs marked S Hickory(L) N 40 E 8 lks thence N 25 E 100.16 chs
         said Lawton Northren boundry to Dogwood post - water oak mark to
         South 197 1/2 Mkd (S) So 25 W 12 lks water oak (X) N 49 3/4 W 29 lks
         it being N 65 W 40 chs to aforesaid West boundry & thence