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" The North Village of Tompkinsville " was laid out upon a 

 map made by John T. Ludlam in 1819, on which map the 

 Quarantine Ground is shown as bounded on the north by Fountain 

 Street, probably as that street was laid out and opened under 

 an act of the legislature of the preceding year. This street was 

 named in honor of Garret Fountain, who had bought a piece of 

 land bounded thereon. Its eastern end is now known as South 

 Street. The tract so laid out on the map of 1819 was bounded on 

 the west by Tompkins Street, and therefore lay entirely in the 

 north glebe. 



In the north section of this map we find a plot of some six or 

 seven acres bounded north by Livingston Street, south by Thomp- 

 son Street, west by Tompkins street, and easterly by the Bay of 

 New York. This was the site of the Marble House. 



In 1820 Daniel D. Tompkins was reelected vice president of 

 the United States. 



A new map was made by John T. Ludlam in February, 1821, 

 upon which a building is indicated as standing on the site men- 

 tioned, from which it may be inferred that the Marble House was 

 certainly contemplated, probably commenced and possibly com- 

 pleted prior to that time. 



Mr. Tompkins had signed and acknowledged a deed conveying 

 the site in question to his daughter Mrs. Thompson, but, probably 

 owing to financial embarrassments, this deed was never delivered. 

 (Thompson v. Hammond, 1 Edwards Ch. 497.) During the 

 year 1821 many judgments were entered against him, in- 

 cluding one in favor of his father-in-law, Mangle Minthorne, 

 for over $25,000. In 1822 Mr. Tompkins made an assignment 

 for the benefit of the creditors. (159 Deeds 8, N. Y.) In 1823 

 St. Andrew's Church foreclosed the mortgage given by Mr. 

 Tompkins covering the north glebe, and on the foreclosure sale 

 the property was bought in by the Church. (K Deeds, 124.) 



In February 1824 the Supreme Court of the United States 

 declared the laws of the State of New York creating a steam- 

 boat monopoly to be unconstitutional. (Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 

 Wheaton 1.) 



