Alachua County FlArchives Deeds.....Ancient Records Book, Deed: Deed: Carter & Peck

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

Page 367-368

To all to whom these presents shall come
        I Jesse Carter, Treasurer of Alachua County Send Greeting         
         Whereas by an order of the County Court of Alachua County in the Territory of Florida duly 
passed and entered of Record,  it is directed that the Treasurer of said County, shall make execute and 
deliver to the purchasers of lots in the Town of Newnansville, Deeds of Conveyance for the Lots by them 
respectively entered,   And Whereas Finn Peck stands noted and entered upon the plot of said Town in my 
custody as the purchaser of the Lots herein after Specified,   Now know ye That I the said Jesse Carter 
Treasurer of the said County of Alachua by virtue of the Authority so as aforesaid in me vested in 
Consideration of the sum of Fifteen Dollars and fifty cents paid by the said Finn Peck the receipt whereof is 
hereby Acknowledged  have granted, bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and Sell 
unto the said Finn Peck and to his heirs and Assigns forever  All that certain Lot designated as Lot number  
five in Block number three Range number one, upon the plan of the Town as filed & existing in the Clerk's 
Office of the County Court of Alachua County Aforesaid   Together with all and Singular the hereditaments 
& Appurtenances to the same in any wise belonging,   To have and to hold the said Lot and premises and 
every part thereof with the Appurtenances unto the said Finn Peck his heirs and Assigns forever as fully & 
Absolutely as I the said Jesse Carter  Treasurer Aforesaid and under the Authority Aforesaid, might, could 
or ought to sell & convey the same
        In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Seal this 12th day of October 
AD 1840
Town of Newnansville                        
Jesse Carter  ( L. S.)   Treasurer
Signed Sealed & delivered                of Alachua County and
      In presence of                        Commissioner of Town Lots
         James M. Bates                
         James Pendarvis                    
Territory of Florida
Alachua County                 Be it remembered that on the fourth day of January in the year of our Lord One 
thousand eight hundred and forty one  before me James McNeill Clerk of the County Court of Alachua 
County, duly Commissioned and Qualified, personally came James Pendarvis  one of the Subscribing 
Witnesses to the foregoing Deed of Conveyance, Who being duly sworn , declares and Says that he saw 
Jesse Carter the Grantor in the said Deed Sign Seal and deliver the same, for the purposes therein 
mentioned ____  _________
Sworn to before me day                James Pendarvis
& year above written
        James McNeill Clk 
                A.C.C.___        
                        Recorded this 5th day of January 
AD 1841  James McNeill Clk A.C.C.