deed of conveyance and acknowledged that he executed the same for the
purpose therein expressed whereupon it is prayed that the same may be recorded
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal this 2 nd day
of November AD 1898                --------------------     J.P. Jones  (seal)
   (  )     John R. Williams       | 10 cts Rev Stamp |
 ( Seal )      Notary Public       |    J.R.W.        |
   (  )                            |  11 - 2 - 98     |
                                   --------------------
             Filed 5th November 1898  Recorded Nov 15th 1898
                                                 H.C. Denton   Clerk
                                                 pr S.H. Wienges DC


United States   }
       To       }   Patent
John E. Mathews }   4-404
                        The United States of America
Homestead Certificate No 10093 } To all to whom these presents shall Come, Greeting
Application   17577            } 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 Supplemental thereto the Claim of John E. Mathews has been established and 
duly Consumated for conformity to law for the South half of the South West 
quarter of Section fifteen in Township Nine South of Range Sixteen East of 
Tallahassee Meridian in Florida Containing one hundred and Sixty one 
acres and Eighty Six 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 John E. Mathews the Tract of land above described To Have 
and To Hold the said tract of Land with the appurtenances thereof unto the said 
John E. Mathews 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
  ( Seal )         day of February in the year of our lord one Thousand eight 
    (  )           hundred and Ninety three and of the Independence of 
                   the United States the One hundred and Seventeenth
            By the President -  Benjamin Harrison
                        By E. Macfarland  Asst Secretary
                           D.P. Roberts
Recorded Vol 20 Page 478          Recorder of the General Land Office
                          
         Filed for Record Nov 16th 1898 &  Recorded 16th Nov 1898
                                       H.C. Denton  Clerk
                                  pr S.H. Wienges DC

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