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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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Wm H. Smith Et ux }
       To         }  Option Deed
Z.P. Freeman      }
State of Florida }  Received of Z.P. Freeman the sum of Twenty
County of Alachua}  Five Dollars as part payment for land described
as follows to wit, S1/2 Lots 5 & 6 Sec 29 & NW1/4 NW1/4 quarter
of Sec No 32 in Township No 7 S of R 16 E Containing 119 Acres
And 97 hundredth, which I have this day sold to the said Z.P.
Freeman for the sum of Seventeen Hundred & fifty Dollars, the
balance to be paid as follows Ninety days from this date
and I hereby obligate myself my heirs and assigns to execute and
deliver to the said Z.P. Freeman his heirs executors and assigns
a good and sufficient warrantee deed to said lands free from
all encumbrances and an abstract of Title to same on payment
of balance of purchase money as herein specified,
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals
this the 25 day of June   AD 1891
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of }  William H. Smith  (seal)
  J.F. Rozier                              } Mattie Bell Zore Smith (seal)
  E.J. Chancey                             }
State of Florida } Before me personally Came E.J. Chancey who being
Alachua County   } duly sworn says he saw William H. Smith and
Mattie Bell Zore Smith sign seal and deliver the foregoing instru
ment of writing for the uses and purposes therein Contained and expressed
Sworn to and subscribed before me 8/11-91  }
   (  )     C.K. Ray                       }  E.J. Chancey
 ( Seal )   Notary Public State at Large   }
   (  )
Filed for Record August 12th 1891 Recorded August 14th 1891
                                              J.A. Carlisle  Clerk
                                              pr E.C. Wimberly DC
United States }
 to           }  Patent (4-404)
Aaron Polk    }         
Homestead Certificate No 1779 } The United States of America  
Application  278              } To all to whom these presents shall Come 
Greeting: Whereas there has been deposited in the General Land office 
of the United States a Certificate of the Registered 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 Aaron Polk has been established and duly Con
sumated in Conformity to law for the North West quarter of the 
South East quarter, the South half of the South East quarter
of Section Seventeen, and the North East quarter of the North 
East quarter of Section Twenty, in Township Ten South of 

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Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 8 August 2018
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