Commissioner and verily believe that the signature of Paxson Hallet subscribed to the
said Certificate is the proper hand writing of the said commissioner. -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my and affixed the seal of
the said County, the 18th day of February 1828
Recorded this 23 May AD 1829 N. Dean
Wiley Brooks Clk
by D.C. H. Sims D.C. A.C.C.
Transcribed from the Original Book from pages 135, 136 & 137. - 20th June 1840 James McNeill Clk
This Indenture made this 3rd day of July in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and twenty One Between Nathaniel Wells of the City & State of New York Merchant
of the first part and Samuel Robbins of the same place Merchant of the second part Witness
eth, that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred
and fifty Dollars lawful money of the United States of America, to him in hand paid by the
said party of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and the said party of the second part his heirs
executors and administrators forever released and discharged from the same by these
presents, Hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, enfeoffed conveyed
and confirmed, and by these presents Doth grant bargain, sell, alien, remise, release
enfeoff, convey and confirm, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs & assigns
forever, All that five hundred acres of Land, being a parcel of thirty thousand acres
which said thirty thousand acres of Land is an undivided part of a certain great tract
of Land containing Two hundred and eighty nine thousand six hundred & forty five
acres and five sevenths of an acre or thereabouts, situate lying and being in the Alachua
Territory East Florida, West of St. Augustine, hereuntofore granted by the Spanish
Government to Don Fernando de la Mara Arredondo and Son by grant bearing date
at Havanna, on or about the twenty eighth day of December, in the year One thousand
eight hundred & seventeen, the said large tract of Two hundred and eighty nine
thousand Six hundred & forty five acres and five seventh of an acre, being hereafter
to be divided into twelve parts, and those parts to be balloted for, by the parties
interested therein or a division to be made, which said thirty thousand acres of land
out of which the said five hundred acres is to be taken, was heretofore conveyed
by the said Don Fernando de la Mara Arredondo and son by Burrr H. Betts their
attorney to the said Nathaniel Wells, by virtue of a Power of Attorney bearing date the
sixth day of June in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty One and
recorded in the Office of Register in and for the City & County of New York on Lib.1 of
Powers of Attorney and page 229 the thirtieth day of June 1821, reference being
had to the said Power of Attorney or the registry thereof as will more fully appear
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