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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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    Recorded April 3rd 1882
          J.A. Carlisle   Clerk
               pr S.H. Wienges DC


       James M. Sparkman and Wife to Ival H. Sweet
                               Deed
State of Florida } Know all men by these Presents that we James M. Sparkman and 
Alachua County   } his wife Sinai Sparkman of the aforesaid County and State for and 
in consideration of the sum of one hundred & fifty dollars to us in hand paid by Ival H.
Sweet of the County of Bristol in the State of Massachusetts the receipt whereof we do
hereby acknowledge have granted bargained sold and conveyed and by these presents 
do grant bargain sell and convey unto him the said Ival H. Sweet all of that certain lot 
piece tract or parcel of land Situated lying and being in the County of Alachua in 
the State of Florida particularly known and described as follows to wit Commencing at 
a Stake on the Northern boundary line of Section Seventeen (17) in Township Nine (9) 
South of Range Twenty one (21) East which Stake Stands Five hundred and fifty (550)
Yards West from the North East Corner of said Section thence from said Stake
run West one hundred and ten (110) Yards, thence South Four hundred and forty (440) 
Yards, thence East One hundred and ten (110) Yards thence North Four hundred 
and forty (440) Yards to the place of beginning Containing Ten (10) acres of land more 
or less the same being a portion of the North half of the North East quarter of 
said Section Seventeen (17) in Township Nine (9) South of Range Twenty one (21) 
East containing by Estimation Ten (10) acres of land more or less. Together with 
all and singular the tenements hereditaments and appurtenances to the 
Same belonging or in anywise appertaining. To Have and Hold the same 
unto him the said Ival H. Sweet and to his heirs executors administrators 
and assigns in fee simple and absolute. And we the said James M. Sparkman 
and Sinai Sparkman his wife do hereby covenant and agree to and with 
the said Ival H. Sweet that we are lawfully Seized in fee of the property 
herein and hereby conveyed and that we have good and lawful right to 
Sell and convey the same; that the same is free from all encumbrances of any 
kind whatsoever, and that we will and our heirs executors and administrators 
shall and will forever warrant and defend the same unto him the said Ival
H. Sweet and to his heirs executors administrators and assigns against the 
lawful claims and demands of any and all persons whomsoever now claiming or 
hereafter to claim the same. In Witness Whereof We have hereunto set our hands 
and affixed our seals on this 3rd day of April AD 1882
Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of us as witnesses }  J.M. Sparkman    (seal)
         Geo W. Sparkman                                   }       her
       J.B. Vanlandingham                                  }  Sinai X Sparkman (seal)
State of Florida }                                         }       mark        
Alachua County   } I hereby certify that on this 3rd day of April AD 1882 
Before me personally appeared Mrs Sinai Sparkman wife of James M. 
Sparkman the grantor in the foregoing conveyance who being first duly 
questioned and examined by me separate and apart from her said husband 
says and acknowledges before me that she did sign the said deed of 
conveyance for the purpose of releasing relinquishing and announcing all

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