SUPREME COURT OF THE U. STATES. JANUARY TERM, 1831. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VERSUS DON FERNANDO DE LA MAZA ARREDONDO AND SON. APPEAL FROM SUPERIOR COURT OF EAST FLORIDA. BEFORE the Honorable Joseph L. Smith, Judge of the Superior Court for the Eastern District of Florida, and specially authorized by law to receive and adjudicate claims and titles to land in the district of East Florida. BE IT REMEMBERED, That, on the eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, Fernando de la Maza Arredondo and Son, Peter Mitchel, Moses E. Levy, Jasper Ward, William Thorn, Alexander Muir, and Noah Jarvis, the three last named persons for themselves, and in trust for the "Florida Association of New York," Nathaniel Wells, Elisha Huntington, Ichabod Prall, Nehemiah Brush, Isaac Marquand, and Jeromus Johnson, by their attorneys, brought and filed in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court for the Eastern District of Florida, their petition or claim to certain land therein mentioned; which said petition or claim is in the words and figures following, to wit: |