hands and affixed their seals on the day and the year first
above written
Signed Sealed and delivered          Horace Merry    (Seal)
in the presence of }                 Grace H. Merry  (Seal)
John B. Slaughter  }
John G. Faulkner   }
                   }
                    Personally appeared before me John B. Faulkner
a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Alachua and
State of Florida Horace Merry & Grace H. Merry his wife who ack-
-nowledged that they executed the foregoing Indenture of Deed of their
own accord & for the purposes therein set fourth
    Witness my hand & seal on this thirteenth day of January
AD 1868
                                 John G. Faulkner  (Seal)
                                       Justice of the peace
State of Fla   }
Alachua County }
                  Know all men by these presents that I Grace
H. Merry wife of Horace Merry of my own free will and accord
and without any Compulsion Constraint apprehension or fear of or
from my said Husband, became a party to the foregoing Deed
to Fones McCarthy and hereby renounce and relinquish all my
right of Dower in and to the parcel of land thereby Conveyed to
said McCarthy
     Witness my hand & seal this thirteenth day of January AD
1868
Witness           }                 Grace H. Merry (Seal)
John B. Slaughter }
John G. Faulkner  }
                  }
                 I hereby Certify that the foregoing relinquishment
of Dower by Grace H. Merry was made & taken by me on a private
examination separate and apart from her husband Horace Merry
       Witness my hand & seal this thirteenth day of January AD
1868
                                     John G. Faulkner  (Seal)
                                       Justice of the peace

Recorded Mch 23rd 1868
                     S.P. Bevill  Clk