she had executed the within deed, as her voluntary act 
for the uses & purposes therein mentioned, free from 
any fear or compulsion of her said husband, all 
which being satisfactory to me as to the due execution 
of the said deed, and finding therein no material erasures 
or interlineations except those noted I allow it to be recorded
                                          W.P. Van Ness
The words except those interlined
by me
                 W.P. Van Ness
    State of New York
                  City and County of New York
  By this public instrument, be it known, to all whom it 
may Concern, that I William H. Maxwell, commissioner, in 
and for the State of New York, duly commissioned by the Governor 
of the Territory of Florida by act to authorize the appointment
by virtue of an act of the Legislature of the said Territory, entitled 
An Act to Authorize the appointment of commissioners, &c
passed January 24th, 1831, and therein and thereby authorized 
and empowered to take the acknowledgement of any deed, contract, 
letter of Attorney, Mortgage, or conveyance of any Lands, tenements 
or Hereditaments, lying or being in the Territory of Florida, 
or any other Writing under seal, to be used in said Territory 
with full power and authority to administer, oaths and affir
mations, take Depositions, & Do Hereby Certify, That on the 
twenty second day of December one thousand eight hundred and 
thirty two  Before me, said Commissioner personally 
came James B. Murray and Maria his wife well known 
to me, proven to my satisfaction to be the grantor named 
and described in the annexed Deed, and having made 
known to him the contents thereof, he acknowledged he 
had freely signed, sealed, delivered, and executed the same, 
for the uses and purposes therein mentioned