Delavan: The Marble House 31 



the lands of Philip Van Buskirk and the glebe of St. Andrew's 

 Church, on the south by Thompson Street as laid down on the 

 same map, and on the east by the Bay of New York, containing 

 seven acres, be the same more or less (the said grantee alleging 

 that the said property excepted as claimed by Gilbert Livingston 

 Thompson should have been described as claimed by Mrs. Gil- 

 bert Livingston Thompson)." 



The injunction so obtained by Gilbert Livingston Thompson 

 was subsequently dissolved, and the sheriff accordingly and on 

 the thirtieth day of September, 1833, sold the site of the Marble 

 House under the same execution to Minthorne Tompkins and 

 Daniel H. Tompkins and delivered to them his certificate of sale. 

 This certificate was, on the 21st day of October, 1834, assigned 

 to Thomas E. Davis. (Y Deeds, 212.) 



But as we have seen, Gilbert L. Thompson had recovered judg- 

 ment in 1828 for over $16,500 against the administrators of the 

 estate of Daniel D. Thompkins. In April, 1829, he and Stephen 

 Cleveland were appointed trustees of Mrs. Thompson's separate 

 estate, and the aforesaid judgment was assigned to Stephen 

 Cleveland. In July, 1829, Mr. Tompkins' assignees conveyed 

 to Cleveland all the real estate in Richmond County assigned to 

 them by Daniel D. Tompkins, Cleveland admitting his trus- 

 teeship for Mrs. Thompson and the assignees agreeing to credit 

 $2,500 on the said judgment. In September, 1835, Mrs. Thomp- 

 son and her trustees conveyed the site of the Marble House to 

 Thomas E. Davis. (Y Deeds, 212.) 



A confirmatory deed had been made under the direction of the 

 Court of Chancery by St. Andrew's Church to Mrs. Thompson's 

 trustee, in which the antecedent proceedings were set forth with 

 great particularity. (Y Deeds, 498.) 



It may be observed that the great brown gate posts and the 

 wall between them, stand upon the present curved line of St. 

 Marks Place, and not upon the old straight line of Tompkins 

 Street as laid down on the map of 1819. It may be inferred from 

 this that they were built at a considerably later period than the 

 house, probably after the map of the New Brighton Association 

 was made in 1835. 



