B. Ellis to me well known as the grantor herein who
acknowledged that he signed sealed & delivered the above
and foregoing Deed of Conveyance in the manner and for
the uses and purposes therein contained and Expressed
Taken by and acknowledged before }
me the 28 day of June AD 1884    }  Thomas B. Ellis
  (  )           W.W. Hampton    }
( Seal )          Notary Public  }
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                   Filed for Record October 3rd 1884
                   Recorded November 7th 1884
                                J.A. Carlisle  Clerk
                                pr S.H. Wienges DC

      United States to John Doby
                 "Patent"
  The United States of America
  To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting
Homestead Certificate No 230 }  
Application 3621             } Whereas There has been deposited in
the General Land Office of the United States a Certificate of the
Register of the Land office at Gainesville Florida whereby it 
appears that pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th 
May 1862, "To Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public 
Domain" and the Acts Supplemental thereto the claim of 
John Doby has been established and duly consumated 
in Conformity to law for the West half of the North West 
quarter of Section eight in Township nine South of 
Range Eighteen East in the District to sale at Gainesville
Florida containing Eighty Acres and forty hundredths of 
an acre according to the Official Plat of the Survey 
of the said Land returned to the General Land Office 
by the Surveyor General:   Now Know Ye, That there is 
therefore granted by the United States unto the said 
John Doby the tract of Land above described. To have 
and to hold the said tract of Land with the appurtenances 
thereof unto the said John Doby and to his heirs and 
assigns forever. In Testimony whereof I Ulysses S. Grant
President of the United States of America have caused these 
letters to be made Patent and the Seal of the General 
Land Office to be hereunto affixed.  Given under my 
hand at the City of Washington the twentieth day of 
May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred 
and Seventy five and of the Independence of the 
United States the ninety ninth
  (  )            By The President U.S. Grant
( Seal )          By S.D. Williamson   Secretary
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