Alachua County FlArchives Deeds.....Ancient Records Book, Deed: Deed: Sanchez & Hunter

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"Transcribed by Jim Powell Jr from Records provided by Buddy Irby, Alachua
County Clerk of the Court's Office"
Page 382-383

This Indenture made the Twenty third day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty  Between 
John J. Sanchez commissioner of the County of Alachua of the one part and N.W. Hunter of the second 
part  Witnesseth, That Whereas by an order of the County Court of Alachua County of the Territory of 
Florida, duly passed and entered it is directed that the commissioner of the said County ( which 
commissioner was appointed by virtue of an Act of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida 
Authorizing the County Court of Alachua to make such Appointment) 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 N.W. Hunter stands noted and entered upon the plot of said Town in my custody as 
the purchaser of Lots herein after specified   Now know ye that I the said John J. Sanchez commissioner of 
said County of Alachua by virtue of the Authority so in me aforesaid vested in consideration of the sum of 
sixty two Dollars paid by the said N.W. Hunter  the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged and the said 
N.W. Hunter and his heirs, executors, Administrators and Assigns  forever released from the same  Have 
granted bargained sell Assigned transferred and conveyed and by these presents  Do grant, bargain, sell, 
assign transfer and convey unto the said N.W. Hunter his heirs and Assigns forever   All that certain equal 
undivided  half of all and Singular , those certain Lots pieces or parcels of Land situate lying and being in 
the Town of Newnansville County of Alachua Aforesaid and known and distinguished on a certain map or 
plot of the said Town of Newnansville in the hands of the said commissioner and to be deposited in the 
Clerks Office of Alachua County as Lots or Block number one Range number four containing eight Lots of 
half an Acre each north West of the public Square in the said Town of Newnansville  Together with all and 
Singular the hereditaments and Appurtenances thereunto belonging  To have and to hold the said Lots and 
premises and every part and parcel thereof with the Appurtenances unto the said N.W. Hunter his heirs and 
Assigns forever as fully and Absolutely as I the said commissioner Aforesaid under the Authority 
Aforesaid might could or ought to convey the same   In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & 
seal the day and year first above written
Signed Sealed & delivered in presence                John J. Sanchez  (seal)
of  Tho's Jefferson Smith                                Commissioner
     Francis R. Sanchez
Territory of Florida
Alachua County                On this first day of January One thousand eight hundred & forty one, personally 
came before me the within named John J. Sanchez commissioner & to me personally known and known to 
me to be the same person mentioned & described in and who executed the within instrument & he 
Acknowledges that he executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned___
                                S. Fagan    a Justice of the Peace
Recorded This 23rd Feb'y 1841           in and for Alachua County
        James McNeill Clk C.C.