Alachua County FlArchives Deeds.....Ancient Records Book, Deed: Clarke, Clinch

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"Transcribed by Jim Powell Jr from Records provided by Buddy Irby, Alachua 
County Clerk of the Court's Office"

Page 269-271

Georgia
Camden County            This Indenture made this thirteenth day of 
March, in the year of our Lord, Eighteen hundred & twenty four, between 
George I.F. Clarke, of East Florida on the one part, and Duncan L. 
Clinch, Colonel of the United States Army on the other part  
Witnesseth, That the said Clarke, for and in consideration of the sum 
of three 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 and conveyed and by these 
presents do grant, bargain sell & convey unto the said Clinch, Three 
thousand Acres of Land being and laying in that part of East Florida, 
called Alachua, situated in and about Moody's Hammock, on the road or 
path from Paynes Town to Ocklewaha Creek, which said tract the said 
Clarke bought of Domingo Fernandez, being part of a grant made to the 
said Fernandez, by the late Spanish Government on the Sixteenth of 
November eighteen hundred & seventeen, as will more fully appear by the 
plot and Certificate of the then Surveyor General of the said Province, 
hereunto annexed
      To have and to hold the said three thousand acres of land , unto 
him the said Duncan L. Clinch, his heirs and 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, forever and 
in fee simple ___
And the said George I.F. Clarke, for hinself his heirs executors and 
Administrators, the said bargained premises unto the said Duncan L. 
Clinch, his heirs and Assigns, will Warrant & forever defend, the right 
and title thereof against himself and themselves, and against the claim 
of all other person or persons whatsoever  __
      In Witness whereof the said Clarke hath hereunto set his hand & 
seal the day and year above written ___
Signed Sealed & delivered            George I.F. Clarke  (seal)
in presence of
      Joseph Crews      Charles S. Henry
                  Not. Pub.  C.C.
Georgia
District of Georgia      On the twenty fifth day of May in the year of 
our Lord One thousand eight hundred & thirty nine, personally appeared 
before me James M. Wayne Judge of the sixth Circuit Court of the United 
States of America in and for the District of Georgia Charles S. Henry 
to me well known, who being by be duly Sworn did depose and say, that 
he was present and did see the said George I.F. Clarke whose signature 
is to the foregoing annexed Deed, sign, seal, & deliver the same for 
the purposes therein mentioned, and that he together with one Joseph 
Crews whose Signature are affixed to the foregoing Deed, did sign their 
names as witnesses thereto. ___
                        Charles S. Henry
Sworn to & Subscribed before
me day & year first above written
      James M. Hayne
          Associate Justice Sup. C.  U.S.
United States
District of Georgia      I George Glen clerk of the sixth Circuit 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 & who hath signed the said 
deposition or affidavit is one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme 
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 my hand & affixed the Seal 
of the said Circuit Court this fourth day of June A.D. 1839
                        George Glen  Clk
Translation
            Don Jorge Clarke, Capatin of the Northern Division of East 
Florida, and Surveyor General of said province, by commissions from 
Government ____  I Certify, that I have surveyed & bounded to Don 
Domingo Fernandez, three thousand Acres of Land at the Hammoc, on the 
South east of Paynes Town, and on the road going from said Town to 
Ocklewaha Creek as the balance on sixteen thousand Acres that were 
granted him by government in property on the sixteenth of November, 
eighteen hundred & Seventeen, and which is according to the following 
Plot, and its duplicate that I retain as a record ___
      North Division, fifteen June, Eighteen hundred & eighteen

(Plot here  http://www.rootsweb.com/~flgilchr/p271.gif )

Recorded this 10th June 1839
            James McNeill D.C.