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"Transcribed by Jim Powell Jr from Records provided by Buddy Irby, Alachua 
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Page 325-327

State of New York
City and County of New York ss
By the Public Instrument be it known to all whom it may concern, that 
I, William H. Maxwell, Commissioner, in and for the State of New York, 
and resident in the City of New York, duly commissioned by the Governor 
of the Territory of Florida & Authorized by Law, to take the 
Acknowledgement of Deeds, Letters of Attorney Mortgages, Contracts, or 
other writings under seal, with full power and authority to administer 
Oaths and affirmations, and to take depositions etc.: do hereby 
Certify, that on the 9th day of December in the year One thousand eight 
hundred and thirty nine, before me, the said Commissioner personally 
Appeared Nathaniel Lord well known to me, and I having made known to 
him the contents of the annexed Deed, he in due form of Law 
Acknowledged he signed, Sealed and delivered the same as his free Act 
and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and desired that 
the same be recorded as such according to Law ___
            In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal 
the day and year above written.
                  William H. Maxwell   Florida
                              Commissioner

This Indenture made the nineteenth day of October One thousand eight 
hundred and thirty nine, Between Nathaniel Lord of the City of New 
York, State of New York Merchant of the first part and Samuel D. 
Corbitt of the City of Savannah State of Georgia Merchant of the second 
part  Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in 
consideration of the sum of three thousand four hundred Dollars, lawful 
Money of the United States to him in hand paid, by the said party of 
the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these 
presents, the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged, the said party of 
the second part, his heirs Executors and Administrators forever 
released and discharged from the same, by these presents  hath granted, 
bargained, sold, aliened released, conveyed and confirmed, and by these 
presents, doth grant Bargain, sell, Alien, remise, release, convey and 
confirm, unto the said party of the second part, and to his heirs and 
assigns forever **  That tract or parcel of Land, lying and being in 
the County of Alachua in the Territory of Florida, designated in a plan 
annexed to the Deed of Moses Elias Levy to Joseph M. White and herewith 
recorded by the number Two "2 and the name "N. Lord, containing sixteen 
hundred and sixty six Acres, being the same parcel, that was conveyed 
by the said Moses Elias Levy of the Territory of Florida, to the 
Nathaniel Lord by Deed bearing date the thirteenth of June, Eighteen 
hundred and thirty five, and recorded and recorded by the Clerk of 
Alachua County Florida, in the County Book of Record, pages One hundred 
and Sixty one, and one hundred and sixty two, on the seventh day of 
July Eighteen hundred and thirty five, It also being part of a tract of 
Twenty two thousand Acres, grant to George I.F. Clarke, on the 
Seventeenth day of December Eighteen hundred and Seventeen, in the 
hammocks of Cuscorille and Chaacla, West of the River St. Johns, Twenty 
thousand Acres whereof were Confirmed to the said Moses Elias Levy, by 
the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, according to the 
Survey of the Second of August eighteen hundred and Nineteen,  Together 
with all and Singular the tenements, hereditaments and Appurtenances 
thereunto belonging or in any wise Appertaining, and the reversion and 
reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits 
thereof,  And also all the estate, right, title interest, property, 
possession, claim and demand whatsoever, as well in Law as in equity, 
of the said party of the first part, of, in , or to the and every part 
and parcel thereof, with the Appurtenances,   To have and to hold the 
above granted, bargained, and discribed premises with the 
appurtenances, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and 
assigns to their own proper use, benefit and behoof forever ___
And the said Nathaniel Lord for his heirs, executors and Administrators 
doth Covenant, grant and agree to and with the said party of the second 
part, his heirs and assigns, that the said Nathaniel Lord, at the time 
of the sealing and delivery of these presents, was lawfully seized in 
possession of a good, absolute, and indefeasible estate of Inheritance 
in fee simple of, and in all and Singular the above granted and 
discribed premises with the Appurtenances and hath good right, full 
power, and lawfull Authority to grant, bargain, Sell, and convey the 
same, in manner aforesaid,  And that the said party of the second part, 
his heirs and assigns, shall and may, at all times hereafter, peaceably 
and quietly, have hold use occupy, possess and enjoy, the above granted 
premises, and every part and parcel thereof, with the Appurtenances, 
without any suit trouble, molestation, eviction, or disturbance, of the 
said party of the first part, his heirs or assigns, or of any other 
person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim the same,  And that the 
same now are free, clear, discharged and unencumbered, of and from all 
former and grants, titles, charges, estates, judgements, Taxes, 
assessments, and encumbrances, of what nature or kind so ever ___  And 
also that the party of the first part, and his heirs, and all and every 
person or persons whatsoever, lawfully or equitably deriving any 
estate, right title or interest of in, or the herein before granted 
premises, by, from, under, or in trust of them, shall and will at any 
time or times hereafter, upon the reasonable request, and at the proper 
costs and charges in the Law of the said party of the second part, his 
heirs and assigns, make, do and execute, or cause to be made, done, and 
executed, all and every such further and other lawful and reasonable 
Acts, conveyances, and assurances, in the Law, for the better and more 
effectually vesting and confirming the premises hereby granted, or so 
intended to be in and to the said party of the second part, his heirs 
or assigns or their Counsel learned in the Law, shall be reasonably 
advised or required  And the said Nathaniel Lord his heirs, the above 
discribed & hereby granted and released premises, and every part and 
parcel thereof with the Appurtenances, unto the said party of the 
second part his heirs and assigns, Against the said party of the first 
part and his heirs, and against all and every person and persons, 
whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same, shall and will 
warrant and by these presents forever defend __  In Witness whereof the 
parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands 
& Seals the day & year first above written
                        Nathaniel Lord  (Seal)
Signed Sealed & delivered
   In presence of      William H. Guion  & William H. Maxwell
                        12th June 1840
                        James McNeill  Clk