of said M. Yoder and that the above signature purporting to ne his I believe to
be genuine Witness my hand and official seal this 13th day of June AD 1885
( ) H.H. Tullis
( Seal ) Clerk District Court
( )
Filed for Record July 22d 1885
Recorded July 28th 1885
J.A. Carlisle Clerk
pr S.H. Wienges DC
United States }
to } Patent
J.D. Kennedy } (4 - 404)
The United States of America
To all to whom these presents shall come greeting
Homestead Certificate No 2874 }
Application 1293 } Whereas there has been deposited in the
General Land office of the United States a Certificate of the Register
of the Land office at Gainesville Florida whereby it appears that
pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May 1862 "To secure
Homesteads to actual settlers on the Public Domain" and the acts
supplemental thereto the claim of J.D. Kennedy has been established
and duly consumated in Conformity to law for the South East
quarter of the South West quarter of Section five in township
Seven South of Range Nineteen east of Tallahassee Meridian in
Florida containing forty acres according to the Official Plat of the
Survey of the said Land returned to the General Land office by the
Surveyor General: Now Know Ye that there is therefore granted by the
United States unto the said J.D. Kennedy the tract of Land above
described To Have and to hold the said tract of Land with the appurtenances
thereof unto the said J.D. Kennedy and to his heirs and assigns
forever. In Testimony whereof I Grover Cleveland President of the
United States of America have caused these letters to be made
Patent and the seal of the General Land office to be hereunto affixed
Given under my hand at the City of Washington the twenty fifth
day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty five and of the Independance of the United States the one hundred
and ninth
( ) By the President Grover Cleveland
( Seal ) By M. McKean Secretary
( ) S.W. Clark Recorded of the General Land office
Recorded Vol 10 Page 37 Filed for Record July 22d 1885
Recorded July 28th 1885 J.A. Carlisle Clerk
pr S.H. Wienges DC
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