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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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and 16th mile being the south westernmost third of the undivided tract of 
three thousand acres conveyed by Domingo Fernandez to George I.F. Clarke 
on the ninth of March 1824 which said third undivided part containing 
One thousand acres was conveyed by the said George I.F. Clarke by deed dated 
the 11th day of June 1829 and recorded in the County Clerks office of Alachua 
in Book A. Page291.  Also all that other tract or parcel of Land consisting 
of one undivided third part of a certain tract of Land situated in the District 
and County aforesaid on a creek called Vaccasassa and about two leagues south west 
from a place called Alachua containing three thousand acres having been 
conveyed to one James F. Symington by Waters Smith as United States 
Marshall on the 5th day of September 1826, and the said undivided third 
part above mentioned having been reconveyed by the said Symington to the said 
Smith by deed dated the 11th day of December 1828 - Also all that certain tract of 
Land containing One Thousand acres bounded upon the west by a tract of one 
thousand acres belonging to the said Waters Smith and purchased of George I.F. 
Clark, and herein before recited, on the east by a tract of One thousand acres 
belonging to George I.F. Clark On the North by a tract of three thousand acres the 
property of Domingo Fernandez On the South by Lands of the Unites States it being 
another and the center third part of the above described tract of three thousand 
herein before described as purchased of George I.F. Clarke from Domingo Fernandez and 
all that certain other tract of Land situated in the County of St Johns about 
Twenty miles North of the City of St Augustine in the Big bend of Durbins Swamp 
bounded on the North by Vacant Lands, or the owner is unknown on the East by the same 
On the South partly by Vacant Lands and partly by a tract of Land of One hundred acres 
the property of George I.F. Clarke and Squire Streeter and on the west by Lands of James 
Symington and bounded as follows the first line commences at a pine tree on the 
South east corner of the tract and runs South seventy degrees West one hundred 
chains to another pine tree thence North twenty degrees West Sixty chains to a 
Laurel tree thence North seventy degrees East Forty Six Chains to a gum Tree 
thence South Sixty degrees East Sixty three chains to a pine tree  thence South 
Twenty degrees East Seventeen chains to the beginning containing five hundred acres of 
Land conveyed by George I.F. Clark to Waters Smith on the 16th day of July 1828 
as part of a grant of four thousand acres made on the third day of May 1816 
Also all that certain tract or parcel of Land with the improvements thereon situated in 
the County of Nassau and lying on the River Little St Marys and the head of Nassau 
River on the Bluff or a place named Fitz Hailly and bounded as follows On 
Transcribed by Jim Powell Jr 20 February 2003
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