have hereunto affixed my hand and seal this 5th day of November
AD one thousand Eight hundred and Eighty three
                                   B.A. Thrasher   (LS)
   ((Seal))                        Notary Public
                                    State at Large
     Filed for Record October 25th 1884
            Recorded November 24th 1884
                 J.A. Carlisle  Clerk
                     pr S.H. Wienges DC

      United States To Flora Ferguson
                   "Patent"
  The United States of America
      To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting
Homestead Certificate No 1428 }  
Application 26                } 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 Flora Ferguson has been established and duly consumated in 
Conformity to law for the North East quarter of the North West quarter
and the North west quarter of the North East quarter of Section eight 
in Township nine South of Range eighteen east in the district 
of lands subject to sale at Gainesville Florida containing Eighty 
acres and forty hundredths of an acre according to the Official 
Platt 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 Flora Furguson
the tract of Land above described. To Have and to Hold the said 
tract of Land with the appurtenances thereof unto the said Flora
Furguson and to her heirs and assigns forever. In Testimony Whereof 
I Rutherford B. Hayes 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 thirtieth
              day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight 
  (  )        hundred and seventy Eight and of the Independence of 
( Seal )       the United States the one Hundred and third
  (  )             By The President     R.B. Hayes
                                        By W.H. Crook   Secretary
                      S.W. Clark, Recorder of the General Land office
Recorded Vol 3 Page 282
                      Filed for Record October 25 1884
                        Recorded November 24 1884
                            J.A. Carlisle  Clerk
                             pr S.H. Wienges DC