Alachua County FlArchives Deeds.....Ancient Records Book, Deed: 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 419-420

Georgia
Camden County            This Indenture made this Twenty first day of 
February , in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and 
twenty four, Between George J.F. Clarke of east Florida of the first 
part and Duncan L. Clinch, Colonel of the United States Army, on the 
other part, Witnesseth, That the said George J.F. Clarke for and in 
consideration of the sum of One thousand three hundred and twenty six 
Dollars to him in hand paid, at and before the Sealing and delivery of 
these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged, hath 
granted, bargained, sold and conveyed, and by these presents do grant, 
bargain, sell and convey unto the said Duncan L. Clinch, Two thousand 
Acres of Land being and lying in that part of East Florida called 
Alachua and situated at a place called Cedar Swamp Alias Sugar Town, on 
a path or road leading from Paynes Town to Ocklewaha Creek, Which said 
two thousand Acres of Land is part of a purchase the said Clarke made 
from John Brevard who obtained the same by grant from the late Spanish 
Government of said province as will appear by the Plot and Certificate 
of the Survey thereof , by the then Surveyor General and hereunto 
annexed
            To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land unto 
him the said Clinch his heirs and Assigns, together with all and 
Singular  the rights, members, and Appurtenances to the same in any 
manner belonging, to his and their proper use and behoof forever in fee 
simple ___ ___
            And the said Clarke for himself his heirs executors and 
Administrators, the said bargained premises unto the said Clinch his 
heirs and Assigns will Warrant and forever defend the rights and title 
thereof against himself and themselves and Against the claim of any 
other person or persons whatever ___ __
      In Witness Whereof the said Clarke hath hereunto set his hand and 
seal, the day and year above written ___ ___
Signed sealed and delivered
       in presence of            George J.F. Clarke (seal)
      John H. McIntosh
      Belton A. Copp  Not. Pub.
State of Connecticut
County of Newlondon      On this twenty fourth day of July AD 1841 
before me Samuel Church, Judge of the Superior Court of the said State 
of Connecticut personally appeared Belton A. Copp of Groton in the 
State and County Aforesaid, to me personally known and having by me 
been duly Sworn According to Law, On his Oath doth solemnly swear that 
he was one of the subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing Deed of 
conveyance that his name above as such subscribed is in his own proper 
hand Writing, and that on the day of the date of said Deed, he saw the 
aforesaid Grantor George J.F. Clarke sign Seal and execute the 
foregoing Deed freely and Voluntarily for the uses and purposes therein 
mentioned, and that the Signature of the said George J.F. Clarke  and 
seal thereto affixed on the proper hand writing thereof the said 
Grantor, and that the said Copp together with John H. McIntosh in the 
presence of a said Grantor did at the time Aforesaid subscribe their 
names as subscribing Witnesses as is above Written __
      Samuel Church Judge of the Superior Court   Belton A. Copp
State of Connecticut
County of New London      I James Stedman Clerk of the Superior Court and 
of the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut in and for 
the County of New London said State, Do Certify and make known to all 
to whom these presents shall come_  That Samuel Church whose name is 
subscribed to the Certificate of the Affidavit of Belton A. Copp on the 
foregoing Instrument, is and on the twenty fourth day of July AD 1841 
was a Judge of said Superior Court and said Supreme Court of errors of 
said State of Connecticut and that the said Signature of the name of 
Samuel Church is the Genuine Signature of the said Samuel Church in his 
own proper hand writing  In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand & affixed the Seal of said Superior Court this second day of 
August 1841      
                  James Stedman ___
Translation

Don George Clarke Captain of the Northern Division of East Florida, and 
Surveyor General of said Province by Commission of Government ___  I 
Certify that I have Surveyed and bounded to John Brevard, two thousand 
Acres of land at Cedar Swamp to the West of St. Johns River, and place 
called Sugar Town, in part of a larger quantity granted him by 
Government as the portion Appertaining to a Saw Mill, which conforms 
with the following Plot and Its duplicate I retain among the Surveys 
under my Charge ___  Northern Division  Fourth of October Eighteen 
hundred and nineteen

(Plot goes Here  http://www.rootsweb.com/~flgilchr/clarkeplt.htm)

Date of the Grant to John
Brevard, 24th of August 1819      Translated by me
                              George I.F. Clarke
Territory of Florida
County of St. John      On this 2nd day of June 1824 the written 
Instrument of Writing was presented to me in my Office by Joseph B. 
Lancaster at whose request, I have recorded the same with the plat 
thereto annexed in Book E page 16,  Witness my hand as Clerk of the 
County Court for the County and Territory Aforesaid the date Aforesaid
                  James S. Tingle
Recorded this 16th day of June AD 1842
            James McNeill Clk C.C.