One Dollar & twenty five cents per acre to them in hand paid by Andrew
J. Palmer of the County of Alachua State of Florida have granted bargained
and sold and do by these presents grant bargain sell and Convey unto
the said Andrew J. Palmer and to his heirs and assigns forever the
following described lands to wit, The West half of the South West
quarter of Section Nine (9) in Township Nine (9) South of Range Sixteen
(16) East, Containing Eighty & 59/100 Acres and lying and being in
the County of Alachua in said State of Florida, To have and to hold
unto the said Andrew J. Palmer and his heirs and assigns forever
In Testimony whereof the said Trustees have hereunto subscribed their
names and affixed their seals and have Caused the seal of "The Depart
ment of Agriculture of the State of Florida" to be hereunto affixed at the
Capitol in the City of Tallahassee on this the Twenty second day of December
AD Eighteen Hundred and ninety
( ) Francis P. Fleming Governor (Seal)
( Seal ) W.D. Bloxham Comptroller (Ls)
( ) F.J. Pons Treasurer (Ls)
W.B. Lamar Attorney General (Ls)
L.B. Wombwell Commissioner of Agriculture (Ls)
Filed for Record February 20" 1891 Recorded February 25" 1891
J.A. Carlisle Clerk
pr E.C. Wimberly DC
United States }
to } Patent (4-404)
Jerry Childs }
Homestead Certificate No 6138 } The United States of America, To all to
Application 9143 } whom 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 20"
May 1862 "To secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain
and the Acts supplemental thereto the claim of Jerry Childs has
been established and duly Consumated in Conformity to law for the
South half of the North East quarter of Section Twenty eight in Town
ship Eight South of Range Seventeen East of Tallahassee Meridian
in Florida Containing Eighty 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 Jerry Childs, the tract of land above
described: To have and to hold the said tract of land with the
appurtenances thereof unto the said Jerry Childs and to his heirs
and assigns forever In testimony whereof I Grover Cleveland Pres
ident 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
fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one Thousand
Eight hundred and Eighty Eight and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and thirteenth
[Part SEC9 TWP9 R16 & Part SEC28 TWP8 R17]
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