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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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United States      }
 to                }  Patent (4,404)
James S. Benefield }         
Homestead Certificate No 7876 } The United States of America, To all to whom these
Application 13005             } presents shall Come Greeting: Whereas There 
has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a Certifi
cate of the Register of the Land Office at Gainesville Florida, whereby it ap
pears 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 James S. Benefield has been established 
and duly Consumated in Conformity to law, for the West half of the North
West quarter and the West half of the South West quarter of Section 
Twenty in Township Ten South of Range Seventeen East of Tallahas
see Meridian in Florida Containing one hundred and Sixty acres and 
fourteen 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 James S. Benefield the tract of land above described; To have and to 
hold the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereof unto the Said 
James S. 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 first day of December in the year 
of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and ninety and of the Inde
pendence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth
     (  )                 By the President Benjamin Harrison
   ( Seal )               By Ellen Macfarland Asst Secretary
     (  )                 
Recorded Vol 15 Page 384 J.M. Townsend Recorder of the General Land Office
Filed for Record June 26th 1891  Recorded June 27th 1891
                                                  J.A. Carlisle  Clerk
                                                  pr E.C. Wimberly DC
J.R. Little Et ux }
    to            }  Warranty Deed
J.H. Vinson       }
The State of Florida } Know all men by these Presents that I J.R.
Alachua County       } Little & Sarah H. Little of the aforesaid County
and State for and in Consideration of the Sum of Five Thousand
Dollars to me in hand paid by J.H. Vinson of the County of
Alachua in the State of Florida the receipt whereof I do hereby ac
Knowledge have granted bargained sold and Conveyed and by
these presents do grant, bargain sell and Convey unto him the
said J.H. Vinson an undivided half interest in all that Certain
lot piece tract or parcel of land situated lying and being in
the County of Alachua State of Florida particularly Known and

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