the said parties of the first part.
In Testimony whereof The said parties of the first part have hereunto
affixed their hands and seals the day and year above written.
In presence of    }                          Samuel A. Swann (Seal)
Chas W. Lewis     }                          M.R. Swann      (Seal)
Alfred Poindexter }
State of Florida }
County of Nassau } Be it Known That before me Alfred Poindexter
a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Samuel
A. Swann and Martha R. Swann his wife on this the 27th day of Feb-
ruary AD 1877, who personally acknowledged that they executed the fore-
going deed: And I further certify that the said Martha R. Swann being
at the time separate and apart from her said husband, did acknowledge
under her hand and seal, that she executed the foregoing deed of con-
veyance to Nathan C. Pettit and that she joined in the said deed for the
purpose of relinquishing and renouncing all dower, or right of dower,
in and to the premises described therein, and that said relinquishment and
renunciation of Dower was and is made fully and voluntarily, and
without any compulsion or constraint, apprehension, or fear of or from
her husband, the said Samuel A. Swann
Witness my hand and seal, this twenty Seventh day of February
1877. 
                                      Alfred Poindexter (Seal)
Recorded June 28th 1877                Justice of the Peace N.C.
          J.A. Carlisle
                  Clerk