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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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Claim of Milly Garrett has been established and duly Consumated 
in Conformity to law for the South half of the North East quarter of Section 
Eight in Township Ten South of Range Seventeen East in the District of 
lands subject to sale at Gainesville Florida Containing Eighty acres, ac
Cording 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 Milly Garrett, the tract of 
land above described: To have and to hold the said tract of land with the 
appurtenances thereof unto the said Milly Garrett and to her 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 November in the year of our Lord one 
thousand Eight hundred and Seventy four, and of the Independence of the United 
States the ninety ninth
       (  )             By the President    U.S. Grant
     ( Seal )           By S.D. Williamson       Secretary
       (  )             L.K. Lippincott  Recorder of the General Land Office
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Filed for Record December 15th 1890     Recorded December 26th 1890
                                             J.A. Carlisle  Clerk 
                                             pr E.C. Wimberly DC
United States }
 to           }  Patent (4-404)
Eli Benefield }         
Homestead Certificate No 7669 } The United States of America, To all to whom
Application 12764             } these 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 sup
plemental thereto the Claim of Eli Benefield has been established and 
duly Consumated in Conformity to law for the South half of the South
East quarter and the South East quarter of the South West quarter of
Section Eight in Township Ten South of Range Seventeen East of 
Tallahassee Meridian in Florida, Containing one hundred and twenty
acres. 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 Eli Benefield the tract of land above described, To have and 
to hold the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereof unto the 
said Eli Benefield and to his heirs and assigns forever
In testimony whereof I Benjamin Harrison 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 Fifth day 
of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and 
Ninety, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth

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