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

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

Page 363-364

                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, 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 purchaser of lots in the 
Town of Newnansville, Deeds of Conveyance for the Lots by them respectively entered,   And Whereas 
Benjamin A. Putnam stands noted and entered upon the plots of said Town in my custody as the purchaser 
of the Lot herein after Specified _____
        Now know ye That I the said Jesse Carter Treasurer of the County of Alachua by virtue of the 
Authority so as aforesaid in me vested in Consideration of the sum of twenty Dollars and fifty cents paid by 
the said Benjamin A. Putnam the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged  have granted bargained and 
Sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said Benjamin A. Putnam and to his heirs and 
Assigns forever  All that certain Lot designated as Lot number three Block number two Range number four 
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 Benjamin A. Putnam  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 10th day of October 
AD 1839
                                Town of Newnansville
Signed Sealed & delivered
       In presence of                Jesse Carter    ( L. S.)
         James M. Bates        Treasurer of Alachua County and
         James Pendarvis            Commissioner of Town Lots

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 in the said Deed 
mentioned ____
Sworn to before me day                James Pendarvis
& year above written
        James McNeill Clk C.C.