LAND PERMIT - JOHN DAVIS, ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA

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These permits came from:

Department of Environmental Protection
Receipt Section
P.O. Box 3070
Tallahassee, Florida 32315-3070

Permit # 386
To the Register of the Land Office at Newnansville, E. Florida

Under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved on the 4th day of August, A.D. 1842, 
entitled "An act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part 
of the Peninsula of East Florida."

To all whom it may concern

NOTICE is hereby given that under the provisions of the act of Congress above cited, I, 
John Davis do hereby apply to the Register of the proper Land Office for a PERMIT to settle
upon One hundred and sixty acres of unappropriated public land, lying south of the 
line dividing townships numbered nine and ten, south of the base line, and situated as 
herein described.

I aver that I am The head of a Family and that I became a resident of Florida in the month 
of April in the year Eighteen hundred & forty-three.

I aver that the settlement herein intended is not "within two miles of any permanent 
military post of the United States, established and garrisoned," at the time of such 
settlement, and that the same is not known or believed to interfere with any private claim 
that has been duly filed with any of the Boards of Commissioners, surveyed or unsurveyed, 
confirmed or unconfirmed.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INTENDED SETTLEMENT

Northeast Quarter Section 29 Township 10  Range 23
Given under my hand this 1st day of May 1843
His X Mark:  John Davis 
Witness:  G. Roper
		       
Looking upon a plat map this is close to Melrose, east border of Alachua Co (1850 census) 
or east line for Putnam Co., Florida.