foregoing acknowledgement her name being with her own hand subscribed and
her seal affixed in my presence, Witness my hand and seal at       the
day and year above written
              (  )
            ( Seal )          Fred W. Harvard  (Seal)
              (  )            Notary Public for State of Florida
State of Florida } On this day personally appeared before me George R. Fairbanks
County of Nassau } and Susan B. Fairbanks to me well known as the persons
described in and who executed the foregoing Deed of Conveyance and acknowl
edged that they executed the same for the purpose therein expressed where
upon it is prayed that the same may be recorded Witness my hand and Seal
this Tenth day of April 1888
                          (  )     Fred W. Harvard  (Seal)
                        ( Seal )   Notary Public for State of Florida
Filed for Record April 24th 1888 Recorded April 25th 1888
                                      J.A. Carlisle  Clerk
                                      pr E.C. Wimberly DC


United States    }
  To             }   Patent
Benjamin Tubbs & }
Jas T. Soutter   }
The United States of America: To all to whom these presents shall come 
Greeting whereas. In pursuance of the act of Congress approved March 3 1855 
Entitled "An Act in addition to certain acts granting Bounty Land to 
Certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the Military Ser
vice of the United States" there has been deposited in the General Land office 
Warrant No 88,736 for 160 acres issued in favor of Benjamin Tubbs Private
Captain Baldwin and Carpenters Companies New York Militia War 1812 
with evidence that the same has been duly located upon The South half
of the North East quarter and the South half of the North West quarter 
of Section Two in Township Ten South of Range Seventeen East in 
the District of Lands subject to sale at Newnansville Florida Contain
ing One hundred and Sixty acres according to the Official Plat
of the Survey of the said Land returned to the General Land Office 
by the Surveyor General. The said Warrant having been assigned by 
the said Benjamin Tubbs to James T. Soutter in whose favor the 
said Tract has been located. Now Know ye That there is therefore 
granted by the United States to the said James T. Soutter assign
ee as aforesaid and to his heirs the tract of Land above described
To have and to hold the said tract of Land with the appurtenances 
thereof unto the said James T. Soutter as Assignee as aforesaid 
and to his heirs and assigns forever. In Testimony whereof 
I James Buchanan 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 Fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight 
hundred and Sixty and of the Independence of the United States 
the Eighty fifth
                        By the President James Buchanan

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