Recorded the 27 th day of December 1830
John C. Richard C. A.C.C.
Transcribed from the Original Record Book, from pages 236 and 237
this 3rd day of July AD 1840 James McNeill Clk
` Alachua County Court
This Indenture made the twenty second day of December, in the
year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty, Between Fernando
de la Maza Arredondo, of the Island of Cuba, and now in the City of
St. Augustine, of the first part, and Joseph Elzaurdi of Tallahassee in the
Territory of Florida of the second part, Witnesseth, that the said party of the
first part, for and in consideration of the sum of two thousand Dollars to him in
hand paid by the party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby ack
nowledged, hath remised released and quit claimed, and by these presents
doth remise, release and Quit claim, unto the said party of the second part
and to his heirs and assigns together, All that tract or parcel of land (which
is included is a larger tract of Forty thousand acres, which was granted in the year
1811, by Governor White, to Joseph M. Arredondo now deceased) the said
tract or parcel or parcel of Land hereby conveyed is situated on the Ocklawaha
River in Alachua County, and adjoins West on a tract of land of Four thousand
acres, conveyed by the representatives of the said Joseph M. Arredondo to Joseph
S. Sanchez, as will more fully appear, by a Conveyance of the same as recorded
in the Office of the Clerk of St. Johns County in Book H page 134, and is
intended to contain two thousand acres, and is defined by metes and bounds as
follows, beginning at a stake marked with a cross, at the North West Corner of
said tract of four thousand acres, and east running south on the Western
boundry thereof, One hundred and fifty one Chains to another stake marked in like
manner with the first - thence South running West, One hundred thirty two
and a half Chains thence West running North, One hundred and fifty one Chains
thence North running east One hundred thirty two and one half Chains to the place
of beginning containing and intending to contain two thousand acres as afore
said, To have and to hold all and singular the above mentioned and described prem
ises together with the Hereditaments, rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto
belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder
and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, and also all the Estate, right,
title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand, whatsoever as well in
Law, as in Equity, of the said party of the first part, unto the party of the
second, and to his heirs and assigns forever
In Witness whereof, I the said Fernand de la Maza |