To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come Greeting
Whereby, by virtue of proceedings held under and in pursuance
of an Act of Congress entitled An Act to establish a uniform system
of bankruptcy throughout the United States" approved March 2nd 1867 in
the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of
Florida in the Case of Lemuel Wilson of Alachua County Florida who was
adjudged a bankrupt upon his own petition and whereas Jonathan C.
Greely, assignee of the above named bankrupt, duly chosen appointed
and qualified did on the tenth day of December 1869, present his petition
to the aforesaid Court setting forth amongst other things that "he believed
it to be for the interest of the Creditors that the real estate should be sold"
and praying the said Court that the said real estate might be sold
in pursuance of the act of Congress in such Case made and pro-
-vided and the said petition being referred by the said Court to
Franklin Fraser Register in Bankruptcy for said District for examination
and to make such order therein as should be proper and according to
law, and the said Register upon examination thereof, did order and direct
that the said assignee after having given due notice of the same
and place of sale, should expose the said real estate for sale
by public auction and sell the same to the highest bidder therefor
and clear of all incumbrances, and the said Jonathan C. Greely assignee as
aforesaid of the said bankrupt after having given legal notice of the
time and place of sale did on the twenty fourth day of January
1870 at Jacksonville that certain land and estate belonging to the
estate of the said bankrupt and known and described as follows to wit
SW1/4 and S1/2 of SE1/4 Sec four (4) Township eight (8) Range Seventeen
(17) and SW1/4 of SW1/4 Sect (3) three and N1/2 of NE1/4 and W1/2 of
of NW1/4 Sec (5) five Township eight (8) Range Seventeen (17) S & E
containing four hundred forty acres more or less situated in Alachua
County Florida, and sold the same to Calvin B. Dibble he being
the highest bidder therefor, for the sum of One dollar lawful money
of the United States.
Now know all men by these presents, That I Jonathan C. Greely
assignee as aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of one
dollar to me in hand paid by the said Calvin B. Dibble at and
before the ensealing and delivery hereof, have granted, bargained, sold
aliened, released conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents
do grant, bargain, sell, alien, release, convey and confirm unto the
said Calvin B. Dibble his heirs and assigns forever, all the said tract
of land above described, and hereby conveyed together with all the
improvements thereon and the rights liberties, privileges hereditaments
thereunto belonging, or in any way appertaining and the reversions
rents profits and issues thereof.
To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land above
described, hereditaments and appurtinances unto the said Calvin
B. Dibble his heirs and assigns to and for his and their own use and
behoof, for all such estate and no other as the said Bankrupt
had and held therein at and immediately before the filing |