at Lake Butler in the County of Bradford and State
         of Florida the day and year last aforesaid.
                            Chas H. Register  (Seal)
                            Com Expires Dec 15- 1915
         Filed and Recorded Feby 13th 1912   S.H. Wienges  Clerk
                                             by E. Weir DC

          United States    
               To               Patent 
          Joseph W. Gordon           
         The United States of America, 
         To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
         Homestead Certificate No 7962 } Whereas there has been deposited in the General
         Application  14945 -          }  
         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 supplemen-
         tal thereto, the claim of Joseph W. Gordon has been established and 
         duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the South East 
         quarter of the North West quarter the North East quarter of the
         South West quarter and the North half of the South East
         quarter of Section twenty six in Township seven South 
         of Range seventeen East of Tallahassee Meridian in 
         Florida containing on hundred and sixty acres according 
         to the Official Plat of the survey of the said Land, re-
         turned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor 
         General: Now know ye, That there is, therefore, granted 
         by the United States unto said Joseph W. Gordon & his
         wife Polly W. Gordon the tract of Land above described:
         To have and to hold the said tract of Land, with the 
         appurtenances thereof, unto the said Joseph W. Gordon
         and to his heirs and assigns forever. 
(Seal)   In testimony whereof, I, Benjamin Harrison, 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
         eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one 
         thousand eight hundred and ninety, and of the Inde-
         pendence of the United States the one hundred and

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