at a sale of Public Auction of certain Lands of the Arredondo Tract or Grant
advertised and held by the commissioners appointed in said cause (in pursuance
of an order or decree of said court made and entered in said St Augustine on the thirteenth
day of November AD 1848) at Micanopy on the said Arredondo Grant on the 21st
day of February AD 1849 the following described lots or parcels of Land Situate
lying and being in the county of Alachua in said State of Florida were
struck off to and bid in by Peter Sparkman he being the highest bidder
therefor to wit: Section No Seventeen #17 in Township No Nine of Range No
Twenty one containing Six Hundred and forty 20/100 acres as laid down upon the
map of the said Arredondo Grant made on the 9th February in the year of our Lord
1846 by Messrs Barr, Washington and Merry Commissioners appointed by the said
Court at the June Term of 1845 as by reference thereto will more fully appear
And Whereas, The said Commissioners reported the said Sale to the said County by
decree made and entered on the 11th of August AD 1849 approved of the same and
confirmed said report. And whereas the said Peter Sparkman has faithfully
and truly perform all the orders terms stipulations and conditions which were
by order or decree of said court on his part to perform and whereas the said
court has directed the said parties of the first part commissioners as
aforesaid to execute to the said Peter Sparkman this deed thereof,
Now therefore, know ye that we the said parties of the first part by virtue of
the authority invested in us as aforesaid and in consideration as aforesaid
have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and
sell unto the said Peter Sparkman and to his Heirs and assigns forever
the said above described tracts of land and each and every of them with
the appurtenances of each and every of them and all the Estate Right Title
and interest which the said Parties to the said cause in Partition and
each and every of them had on the said Twenty first day of February
aforesaid or at any time since or now hath. To have and to hold the said
land and premises and every part thereof with the appurtenances unto
the said Peter Sparkman his Heirs and Assigns forever as fully and
absolutely as we the said Parties of the first part as commissioners aforesaid
and under the authority aforesaid might could or ought to sell and convey 
the same. In Witness Whereof we the Parties of the first part have hereto
set our hands and seals this 31st day of December in the year 1852
Signed Sealed and Delivered in Presence of } 
         Andrew J. Fairbanks               } Geo M. Payne (seal)
          P.B. Dumas                       } William A. Forward (seal)
                                             George R. Fairbanks (seal)
State of Florida   }ss
County of St Johns } Circuit Court Clerk's office I Peter B. Dumas Clerk of
the Circuit Court of St Johns County in the Eastern Judicial Circuit
of the State of Florida Do Hereby Certify that George Morton Payne George
R. Fairbanks and William A. Forward Severally signed & Sealed in my presence
the within Instrument of writing and acknowledged the same to be their
Joint act and Deed for the purposes therein mentioned. And I further Certify
that the said George Morton Payne George R. Fairbanks and William A.
Forward are the Commissioners duly appointed and fully authorized by
the Court to Execute titles to the respective Purchasers of the lands sold

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