Alachua County FlArchives Deeds.....Ancient Records Book, Deed: Deed: Reed & Priest

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"Transcribed by Jim Powell Jr from Records provided by Buddy Irby, Alachua
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Territory of Florida
Alachua County
                  Personally Appeared before me Wm. M. Reed an acting 
Justice of the Peace for said County Francis R. Sanchez who after being 
duly sworn deposeth  and saith that he has been intimately Acquainted 
with Capt. Gabriel Priest for twenty years past and that during said 
Acquaintance said Priest a fair and untarnished reputation and that he 
the deponent is further Acquainted with all the material facts stated 
in the foregoing Affidavits of Britton Knight and Bennett M. Dell and 
further that the accounts exhibited to him by said Priest of Eleven 
Thousand & Eighty three Dollars for Losses sustained in the present 
contact with the Semanole Indians is according to his belief a just a 
just and fair account_
Sworn to and subscribed
Before me this 15th day of            Frances R. Sanchez
January 1836
      Wm. M. Reed  J.P.
True Copy
            Recorded this 16th day of January 1836
By                  I. Garrason
                        C.C. A.C.