at Havana on the Twenty second day of December One Thousand 
Eight hundred & Seventeen and registered in the Books for that 
purpose under the charge of the said Carambot secretary of the In
tendancy and Subdelegate Superintendency which said title recite 
in substance that whereas Don Fernando de la Maza Arredondo & 
Son presented a petition in the aforesaid in the aforesaid Intendancy 
dated the twelfth day of November then last past praying for a 
gratuitous grant of Land in East Florida consisting of four Leagues 
of ground to each point of the Compass reckoned from the establish
ment of Alachua as a central point which position petition was 
by decree of the said Intendant of the same twelfth day of December 
in the said year referred to the Captain of Infantry Don Vicinte 
Sebastion Pentado who returned it on the fifteenth day of the said 
month with the requisite explanation that in consequence thereof by a decree 
of the same day the said petition & report were passed to the inspection of the 
Kings Attorney who consented that the said grant should be made, that in 
consequence thereof the said Intendant issued his decree granting to the said 
Fernando de la Maza Arredondo and Son in full property upon certain terms 
the land for which they had petitioned and referred the proceedings to 
the said Surveyor General to make the plan of the said grant in con
formity to his report and to the extent aforesaid that the plan aforesaid 
being presented by the said Surveyor General together with the ex
planations of the surveyor and ************ admensuration, it appeared 
that the said tract of Land is situated in east Florida upwards of 
fifty miles west of the place of St. Augustine and about thirty six miles west 
of the Eastern Shore of San Juan River bounded on all sides by unappropriated 
Land having for its Centre the place of Alachua and containing Two hundred 
and Eighty Nine Thousand, Six hundred and forty five English acres and five 
sevenths of an acre and which said title after the recitals before mentioned 
contains in substance that the said Intendant did in the name of the King 
and in the exercise of the powers conferred by him upon the said Intendant 
gratuitously grant unto the said Don Fernando de la Maza Arredondo 
& Son the parties hereto of the first part the said tract of land as 
particularly described in the said plan and survey as by reference to the