that certain parcel of Land hereinafter particularly described, and 
whereas the said Peter Mitchel, departed this life without having car
ried the Contract into Effect, and having first duly made & published 
his last Will and Testament in Writing whereby he appointed the 
said party of the first part to be Executor thereof;  And whereas the said 
party of the first part hath been in due course of Law Qualified as 
such executor, and hath taken upon himself the burden of the 
Execution of the said Will, And whereas the said party of the second 
part did recently exhibit his Bill of Complaint, against the said party 
of the first part, before the Honorable Judge of the Superior Court for 
the Eastern District of Florida, in the Exercise of his Chancery Jurisdiction 
praying the said party of the first part might by the Decree of said Court 
be directed to Convey to the said party of the second his heirs & 
Assigns in fee Simple Absolute, According to the terms of said Agree
ment and Contract between the said party of the second part 
and the said Peter Mitchel deceased the land herein after particular
ly described, upon which such proceedings were had, that the 
Said Court at the March Term thereof in the present year One thousand 
eight hundred and forty two, in and by its decree, did order, Adjudge 
and decree that the said party of the first part, as executor of the 
last Will and Testament of the said Peter Mitchel should in pursuance 
of the Statute in that case made and provided execute a Conveyance 
in fee Simple Absolute to the said party of the second part his heirs and 
Assigns forever, to the use benefit and behoof of the said party of the 
Second part his heirs and Assigns forever of One thousand Acres of land 
part and parcel of that certain grant of Land Commonly called 
the Alachua Grant, made by the Spanish Government on the twenty 
Second day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight 
hundred & Seventeen to Fernand Delamaza Arredondo and Son 
then of the City of Havanna in the Island of Cuba, the said Grant 
being the same grant, which was confirmed by the Decree of the 
Supreme Court of the United States in January Term One thousand 
eight hundred and thirty two of the said Court, a Report of which 
Decree reference being thereto had being to be found in the Sixth