Alachua County Clerk of the Court Seal Alachua County Clerk of the Court
J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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Commercial Company to me well known as the person who executed
the foregoing deed and acknowledged that he executed the same for the
purpose therein expressed whereupon it is prayed that the same may be
recorded. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and
seal this Eighth day of December one thousand Eight hundred and Eighty five
   (  )                          W.L. Kinsman
 ( Seal )                        Commissioner for the State of Florida   
   (  )         Filed December 23d 1885
                   Recorded December 29th 1885
                      J.A. Carlisle  Clerk
                          pr S.H. Wienges DC

United States }
      to      }    Patent
John Fraser   }
             The United States of America
                To All to whom these presents shall come Greeting
Homestead Certificate No 1348 }  
Application 5813              } 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 John Fraser has been established
and duly consumated in conformity to law for the North East
quarter of the North East quarter of Section two in Township eight 
South of Range twenty East in the District of lands subject 
to sale at Gainesville Florida Containing forty acres and two
hundredths of an acre 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 John Fraser the tract 
of land above described To Have and to hold the said tract of Land 
with the appurtenances thereof unto the said John Fraser and 
to his heirs and assigns forever In Testimony whereof I Rutherford
B. Hayes 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 fourth day of June in 
the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventy Eight
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred
and second -
Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 17 May 2017
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