Depeyster v. Gould

The Chancellor.-

Lewis Compton and wife, on the fifteenth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, gave to Frederick Depeyster a mortgage on several lots in Perth Amboy, to secure the payment of fifteen hundred and fifty dollars, due from Compton to Depeyster. The mortgage having beeli duly recorded, was afterwards placed in the hands of one of the solicitors of this court for collection. While there, Depeyster, being indebted in the sum of three thousand dollars to the Protestant Episcopal Society for promoting Religion and Learning 'in the State of New-York, of which, he had been many…