LAND PERMIT - PETER H. DAVIS, LEVYVILLE, LEVY COUNTY, FLORIDA

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This permit came from: 
 
Department of Environmental Protection
Receipt Section
P.O. Box 3070
Tallahassee, Florida 32315-3070

Permit # 376
To the Register of the Land Office at Newnansville, E. FL

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, 
Peter H.  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 a single man eighteen years of age and able to bear arms and that I became 
a resident of Florida in the month of April the year Eighteen hundred & forty.

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

The northwest quarter of section two, township twelve, range fifteen.

Given under my hand this 9th day of June 1843
His X Mark:  Peter Davis
Witness:  Thomas J. Prevatt, J.P.

On a Plat map this is in Levyville, Levy County

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This came from the Bureau of Land Management:

The United States of America
Register & Receivers
Certificate No. 131

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS 

Peter H. Davis has deposited in the GENERL LAND OFFICE of the United States, a Certificate 
of the REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE and Receiver of Public moneys at Newnansville, whereby 
it appears that the said Peter H. Davis has settled upon and entered according to the net 
of Congress approved the 4th of August, 1842, entitled "An act to provide for the armed 
occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida," and the 
acts amendatory of the same, the 

Northwest quarter of Section Two in Township Twelve, South of Range Fifteen, East, in the 
District of lands subject to sale at Newnansville, Florida, containing one hundred and 
sixty acres, and twenty four hundredths of an acre, being the tract included in Permit 
Number five hundred and forty-one, issued to the said Peter H. Davis, dated December the 
twelfth one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

According to the official plat of survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land 
Office by the SURVEYOR GENERAL.

NOW KNOW YE, That the United States of America, in consideration of premises, and in 
conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN 
AND GRANTED, and by these DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the said Peter H. Davis And to his heirs, 
the said tract above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights, 
privileges immunities and appurtenances, of whatsoever nature thereunto belonging, unto 
the said Peter H. Davis.

In Testimony Whereof, I, James K. Polk, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have 
caused these Letters to be made PATENT, and the SEAL of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be 
hereunto affixed.

GIVEN under my hand, at the CITY OF WASHINGTON, the first day of January in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine and of the INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED 
STATES the Seventy-third.

BY THE PRESIDENT:
James K. Polk
By J. K. Stephens asst sec'y
H. Laughlin, RECORDER of the General Land Office
Recorded Vol 1, page 130

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Contributor's Note:  This is the son of Zachariah Davis.  Peter's first marriage was to 
Mary Pendarvis, daughter of George and Sarah Pendarvis of Duval Co., FL.  This marriage 
occurred January 25, 1856 in Duval Co.