John H. Mayher		Joseph DeLavante (L.S.)
			    By his Attorney
Wm H. Maxwell		    ME Levy
			Seraphina Chauveteau (L.S.)
(L.S.)			    By her Attorney
State of New York	    EE Levy
	      City and County of New York   SS
    By this public Instrument Be it known to 
all who it may concern that I William H. Maxwell 
Commissioner in and for the State of New York duly 
commissioned by the Governor of the Teritory of Florida 
by virtue of an Act of the Legislature of said 
Teritory entitled An Act to Authorize the Appoint
ment of Commissioners &c passed January 24th 1831 
and thereby authorized and empowered to take 
acknowledgments of any Deeds Contract Letters of 
Attorney Mortgages or Conveyance of any land *** 
or hereditaments lying or being in the said Teritory of 
Florida or any other writing under seal to be used 
in said Teritory with full power and authority to 
administer Oath and affirmations take dispossession 
&c Do hereby Certify that on the 28th day of August one 
thousand eight hund and thirty five Before me said 
Commissioner personly came Moses Elias Levy known 
to me to be the individual named in and who 
executed the annexed Deed and I having first 
made known to him the contents thereof he did 
in due form of law acknowledge that as the 
Attorney in fact of Joseph Delavante and 
Seraphina Chauveteau as in said deed specified 
he had signed sealed and delivered the said 
Deed for the purposes therein contained