Alachua County FlArchives Deeds.....Ancient Records Book, Deed: Breward, Clarke ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jim Powell, http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007445 April 1999 "Transcribed by Jim Powell Jr from Records provided by Buddy Irby, Alachua County Clerk of the Court's Office" Page 266-268 Georgia Camden County This Indenture made this twenty Seventh day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & twenty four, Between John Breward of the Territory of Florida on the one part, and George I.F. Clarke of said Territory on the other part Witnesseth that the said John Breward for and in consideration of the sum of One thousand Dollars to him in hand paid, at and before the sealing & delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged, hath granted bargained, sold & conveyed, and by these presents do grant bargain & convey, unto the said George I.F. Clarke, four thousand Acres of land being and lying in that part of said Territory, lately known as the Province of East Florida; To thousand Acres thereof, being the Northern half of four thousand Acres tract, surveyed at a place called Cabbage Hammock, lying on the south side of Dumas Creek, which communicates Duorns Lake with St. Johns River. And the other two thousand Acres, being a two thousand Acre tract surveyed at a place called Cobin Swamp Alias Sugar Town, on a path or road from what was called Paynes Town to Ocklawaha Creek, both the aforesaid Tracts form part of Sixteen thousand Acres, granted to the said Breward by the late Spanish Government, on the twenty fourth day of August eighteen hundred & Sixteen, as will be more particularly shown by the plats and Certificate of the Surveyor General of that province Annexed to this Deed ___ To have and to hold the Said two parcels of land of two thousand Acres each, unto him the said Clarke his heirs & Assigns together with all and Singular the rights, members & Appurtenances to the same in any manner belonging to his and their proper use and behoof in Fee Simple. ___ And the said Breward, for himself, his heirs, Executors and Administrators, the said bargained premises, unto the said Clarke his heirs & Assigns, will warrant & forever defend the rights and titles thereof, against him and themselves, but not against the rights and claims of any other person, this being altogether a quit claim sale In Witness whereof the said Breward hath hereunto set his hand & Seal day and year above written ____ Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of John Breward (seal) Lewis Grinley Charles S. Henry Not. Pub. C.C. G. Georgia District of Georgia On the twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared before me James M. Wayne Judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States of America, and for the District of Georgia, Charles S. Henry to me well known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say, that he was present, and did see the said John Breward, whose signature is to the foregoing and annexed deed, sign, Seal, and deliver the same for the purposes therein mentioned, and that he together with Lewis Grinley whose Signature is also affixed to the foregoing and annexed deed, did sign the same as Witness thereto Sworn to & subscribed Charles S. Henry before me the day and year first above written James M. Wayne Associate Justice Superior Court United States United States District of Georgia I George Glen clerk of the Court of the United States for the District of Georgia do hereby Certify that the Honourable James M. Wayne, before whom the annexed & foregoing Deposition of Charles S. Henry was made and hath Signed the said Deposition or Affidavit is one of the Associate Justices of the Superior Court of the United States presiding in the Sixth Circuit and District of Georgia, and residing in the City of Savannah in the State of Georgia ______ In Witness whereof I have hereunto set may hand & affixed the Seal of the said Circuit Court this fourth day June A.D. 1839 George Glen Clk Recorded this 11th May 1839 By James McNeill D.C.