This Indenture made this fourth day of November
          in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
          between Charles A.M. Mitchel a Special Master in
          Chancery residing in Ocala in Marion County State of 
          Florida of the first part; and Mathew B. Hawkins
          of Alachua County of the second part; Whereas at
          the November Term in the year Eighteen hundred
          and forty nine of the circuit Court of the Eastern Cir-
          cuit of the State aforesaid Sitting in the County of 
          St Johns, it was among others things ordered adjudged
          and decreed by the said Court in a cause then depending
          in Chancery between Peter Bcaet Administrator of Francis
          P. Sanchez deceased; and Benjamine A. Putnam Executor
          of Peter Mitchel deceased, that the said party of the
          first part, should he be appointed Special Master in
          Chancery in the said case; and that among other things
          in the said decsee specified, the said Special Master
          should be authorized and empowered to sell the
          real estate of the said Peter Mitchel deceased,
          or so much thereof as may be saleable included
          in the tract known as the Arredondo Grant, said
          sale and all other sales in the said decsee con-
          templated to be made at some convenient place
          within said Grant and after notice of such sale
          to be given by said Master in some New York paper,
          published in Florida and else where if the said
          Master shall not deem such notice elsewhere inex-
          pedient and unnecessory for a period not less than
          Sixty days: and whereas afterwards 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 same cause that the said decree
          appointing the said party of the first part Special Mas-
          ter as aforesaid Should he 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 sale for cash or on reasonable 
          credit, provided that no part of said Real Estate shall
          be sold at less price than that for which it was
          purchased in by the said defendant Benjamine A.
          Putnam as Executor as aforesaid at the sales made
          of the lands of the Arredondo Grant in the month of
          Feburary One thousand eight hundred and forty
          nine, and no sale by said Master shall be held bind-
          ing or valid until the same shall have been reported
          by the said Master to the said Court, or to the Judge
          thereof and been confirmed; and whereas afterwards
          at the June Term 1852 of the said Court the said
          Special Master made a report to the said Court in
          which among other things be reported the sale
          at private sale of the premises hereinafter descri-
          bed to the said party of the second part and where-
          as there being no execption to the said Report the












          of the lands of the Arredondo Grant in the month of
          Feburary one thousand eight hundred and forty
          nine, and no sale by said Master shall be held bind-
          ing on *aled until the same shall have been reported
          by the said Master to the said Court, or tothe Judge
          thereof and been confirmed: and whereas