Territory of Florida
Alachua County		On this first day of January 
One thousand eight hundred & forty one, personally came before me 
the within named John J. Sanchez commissioner & to me personally 
known and known to me to be the same person mentioned & described 
in and who executed the within instrument & he Acknowledges that 
he executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned___
		S. Fagan    a Justice of the Peace
     Recorded This 23rd Feb'y 1841   in and for Alachua County
	James McNeill Clk C.C.
This Indenture made the Twenty third day of December one 
thousand eight hundred and forty  Between John J. Sanchez 
commissioner of the County of Alachua of the first part and C.M. 
Hitchcock of the second part  Witnesseth, That whereas by an 
order of the County Court of Alachua County of the Territory of Florida, 
duly passed and entered of record it is directed that the commissioner of 
the said County ( which commissioner was appointed by virtue of an 
Act of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida Authorizing 
the County Court of Alachua to make such Appointment) shall 
make execute and deliver to the purchasers of Lots in the Town of 
Newnansville  Deeds of Conveyance for the Lots by them respectively   
And whereas C.M. Hitchcock stands noted and entered upon 
the plot of said Town in my custody as the purchaser of Lots herein after 
specified   Now know ye that I the said John J. Sanchez commissioner of said 
County of Alachua by virtue of the Authority so in me aforesaid vested 
in consideration of the sum of sixty two Dollars paid by the said C.M. 
Hitchcock  the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged and the said 
C.M. Hitchcock and his heirs, executors, Administrators & Assigns for
ever released from the same  Have granted bargained sold 
Assigned transferred and conveyed and by these presents  Do grant, 
bargain, sell, assign transfer and convey unto the said C.M. Hitchcock 
his heirs and Assigns forever  All that certain equal undivided half of all 
and Singular , those certain Lots pieces or parcels of Land situate lying a
nd being in the Town of Newnansville County of Alachua Aforesaid