State of Florida } Personally came before me Samuel H. Wienges to me
Alachua County   } well Known as the Sheriff of Alachua County Florida
and the grantor herein who acknowledged that he did as such Sheriff of Alach
ua County Florida execute sign seal and deliver the above and foregoing Con
veyance in the manner and for the uses and purposes therein contained and expressed
Taken and acknowledged before me this }
3rd day of September AD 1888          }  Samuel H. Wienges
               A.J. DaCosta           }
               Notary Public          }
Filed for Record January 14th 1891  Recorded January 16th 1891
                                          J.A. Carlisle  Clerk
                                          pr E.C. Wimberly DC
United States }
 to           }  Patent (4-404)
Nathan Smith  }         
Homestead Certificate No 6394 } The United States of America, To all to whom
Application 10932             } these presents shall come Greeting, whereas 
There has been deposited in the General Land office of the United States 
a Certificate of the 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 Nathan Smith has been established 
and duly Consumated in Conformity to law for the North East quarter 
of Section Eighteen in Township Nine South of Range Seventeen East 
of Tallahassee Meridian in Florida Containing one hundred and 
fifty nine acres and ninety four 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 there
fore granted by the United States unto the said Nathan Smith
the tract of Land above described: To have and to hold the said tract 
of Land with the appurtenances thereof unto the said Nathan Smith
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 twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord 
one thousand Eight hundred and Eighty nine, and of the Independence 
of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth
     (  )                 By the President Benjamin Harrison
   ( Seal )               By M. McKean Secretary
     (  )                 J.M. Townsend Recorder of the General Land Office
Recorded Vol 12 Page 304
  
Filed for Record January 14th 1891  Recorded January 16th 1891
                                                  J.A. Carlisle  Clerk
                                                  pr E.C. Wimberly DC


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