This Indenture made this Eighteenth day of February
in the year eighteen hundred and seventy one between
Charles W. Brush of the City of Baltimore and State of
Maryland Executor of the last will and Testament
of Nehemiah Brush deceased of the first part and
Ned Edwards of the town of Gainesville Alachua
County and State of Florida of the second part:
Whereas Nehemiah Brush by his last Will and
Testament dated the tenth day of March in the year
Eighteen hundred and forty three duly admitted to
probate and now recorded in the office of Clerk of
Alachua County and State of Florida authorized
and empowered his Executors therein named to sell
and Convey certain real estate Also in said will
named, And, Whereas, the party hereto of the first part
the surviving Executor named in said will by vir=
tue of such Authority has sold to the said party
hereto of the second part a portion of said real estate
which is hereinafter described for Forty five Dollars
which amount has been fully paid by the said party
of the second part as is hereby admitted
Now therefor this indenture Witnesseth: that in
Consideration of the premises and of one dollar, the
said party hereto of the first part Executor as afore=
said doth grant bargain sell alien release Convey
and confirm unto the said party hereto of the second
part his heirs and assigns forever in Fee all that lot
or parcel of ground situate and lying in the Town of
Gainesville Alachua County, State of Florida being
a portion of a Tract of land Known as "The Arredondo
Grant" and described as follows that is to say Begin=
ning for the same at the north east corner of lot number
twenty seven as laid down on a map of Brush's ad=
dition to Gainesville filed in the office of the Clerk
of said County and running thence South along the
east boundary line of said lot sixty six feet thence
west six hundred and sixty feet to the west boun-
dary line of said lot thence north along said west boun
dary line sixty six feet to the north west corner of said
lot and thence East along the North boundary
line to the place of beginning Containing one acre
be the same more or less. It being a part of the same
ground which by a decree passed in the case of Brush et al
Against Pratt et al in the Circuit Court of St Johns County
and State of Florida on the eleventh day of August in the
year eighteen hundred and forty nine which decree has
been duly recorded in the Clerks office of Alachua County
in said State, was adjudged and apportioned, as the
property belonging to the estate of Nehemiah Brush, deceased
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