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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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United States  }
   to          }  Patent
Richard Gaines }         
Homestead Certificate No 91 } The United States of America, To all to whom these
Application           471   } presents shall Come Greeting, 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 
Richard Gaines has been established and duly Consumated in conformity to 
law for the East half of the North East Quarter of Section Six in Town
ship Seven South of Range Eighteen East in the District of lands subject 
to sale at Gainesville Florida Containing Seventy nine acres and Eighty 
two 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 Richard Gaines the tract of land above described. To have and to 
hold the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereof unto the said 
Richard Gaines 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. Williams Secretary
       (  )             L.K. Lippincott  Recorder of the General Land Office
Recorded Vol 1 Page 116
Filed for Record November 25th 1890     Recorded November 28th 1890
                                             J.A. Carlisle  Clerk 
                                             pr E.C. Wimberly DC
Rev D.S. Guy       }
     to            }  Power of Attorney
Herbert W. Guy Esq }
                        "A"
To all to whom these presents shall come, I The Reverend Douglas
Sherwood Guy of Bensham Vicarage Gateshead on Tyne in the
County of Durham Clerk in Holy Orders sends Greeting.
Whereas by Deed dated the ninth day of July one thousand Eight
hundred and ninety Jeannie B. Stewart and her husband George H.
Stewart Conveyed to the said Douglas Sherwood Guy and Herbert Wins
loe Guy, All that certain lot piece tract or parcel of land situated ly
ing and being in the County of Alachua State of Florida in the United
States of America particularly Known and described as follows to wit
Lot number (12) Twelve in East half of Section (22) Twenty two Town
ship (10) Ten South Range (20) Twenty East as per survey of N.R.
Gruelle C.E. Containing by estimation (10) Ten acres of land more
or less with the appurtenances, To hold unto the said

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