This Indenture made this twenty third day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and seventy two betweeen Charles
W. Brush, of the City of Baltimore and State of Maryland
Execution of the last Will and Testament of Nehemiah Brush,
deceased, of the first part, and Jane Gaines of 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 of
record in the office of the 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, & by
surviving Executor named in said Will, by viture of said Au-
thority has sold to the said party hereto of the second part a
portion of said real estate which is hereafter described, for Eighty
Dollars, which amount has been fully paid by the said party of the
second part, as is hereby admitted.
Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth: that in consider-
ation of the premises, and of one dollar, the said party hereto of
the first part, Executor as aforesaid, 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 par
cel 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 "Aredondo Grant" and described as
follows, that is to say: Beginning for the same at a point on
the eastermost outline of Lot Number twenty four of Brush's
addition to Gainesville two hundred and sixty four (264) feet
southerly from the North East corner of said lot, and running thence
southerly, bounding on said outline, one hundred and thirty two (132) feet
thence westerly, parallel to the northernmost outline of said lot, six
hundred and sixty (660) feet to the westernmost outline, one hundred
and thirty two (132) feet, and thence Easterly, in a straight line,
six hundred and sixty (660) feet, more or less, to the place of beginning
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. John's County and State of Florida, on the eleventh day
of August, in the year eighteen hundred and forty nine, which
decree has ben duly recorded in the Clerk's office of
Alachua County in said State, was adjudged and ap
portioned as the property belonging to the estate of the said Nehemiah |