my seal of Office, this twenty first day of October in the year of Our Lord One 
thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
					Lewis Webb Jun’r (Seal)
						Notary Public
Recorded 23rd May 1829.  Wiley Brooks
			by D.C. H. Sims D.C. A.C.C.
Transcribed from the Original Book of Record from pages 137,138, 139 
and 140, this twentieth day of June AD. 1840
					James McNeill Clk
					Alachua County Court
This Indenture made this sixteenth day of SeptemberFebruary in the year 
of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight nine 
Between Francis I. Fatio Administrator of Joseph M. Arredondo 
deceased of the City of St. Augustine of the one part and Benjamin 
Chaires of the County of Leon, both of the Territory of Florida, of the other 
part, Witnesseth, that in pursuance of a final order and decree of the 
Judge of the County Court of Alachua, made on the eight day of September 
One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, and in accordance with 
the Statute in such case made and provided, the said party of the first 
part proceeded to sell and doth by these presents Bargain & 
sell, alien remise, and convey forever, quit claim for and in consider
ation of the sum of Eight thousand seven hundred & fifty Dollars Lawful 
money of the United States of America, now in hand paid to him the said 
party of the first part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged unto him 
the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever, All that tract 
of Land known as Big Swamp or Hammock, lying and being in the County 
of Alachua Aforesaid and containing Twenty thousand acres, which said 
tract was granted by Royal Titles to Joseph M Arredondo in his life 
time on the seventh day of March, One thousand eight hundred and 
seventeen, and on file in the Office of the Public Archives in the City of Augus
tine aforesaid, which will more fully appear, reference being had thereto. - 
With the following reservations and exceptions to wit, Two thousand 
acres an undivided portion of the tract aforesaid, which belong to and 
are the property of a certain Pedro Miranda of the city of Havanna 
and Five hundred acres, also an undivided portion of the same formerly 
conveyed, by the order of George Murray deceased, by the said Francis 
I. Fatio Administrator as aforesaid to Col’l Gad Humphreys and also 
Two thousand Acres conveyed by the Attorneys in fact of Pedro Mirando