Know all men by these presents that I Elender Stephens within 
named wife of James Stephens do hereby Relinquish & Renounce to Zilpha 
Standley within named, all my Dower and right of Dower of in and to 
the within described premises and I do Acknowledge that such relinqu
ishment and renunciation is made freely and Voluntarily and without 
any compulsion constraint, Apprehension or fear of or from my husband  
Witness my hand and seal this Twelfth day of March One thousand 
eight hundred and forty two __ __
Signed Sealed & delivered
      in  presence of  J.W. Pearson		 her
		  T.J. Prevatt		Elender   X   Stephens
						mark
County of Alachua
Territory of Florida	Be it remembered that on this twelfth 
day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty two personally 
came before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County of 
Alachua the above named James Stephens and Elender Stephens his 
wife, both personally known to me to be the same persons mentioned 
and described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and they 
Severally Acknowledge to me that they executed the same for the use 
and purposes therein mentioned, And the said Elender being by me 
examined privately, separately and apart from her said husband and 
on such examination Acknowledged that she made the foregoing relin
quishment and renunciation of Dower freely and Voluntarily & without 
any Compulsion, Constraint, Apprehension or fear of or from her said 
Husband
				Tho's J. Prevatt  JP
Recorded this 16th day of March AD 1842
			James McNeill Clk C.C.