In 1855, Morgan McMorris, indebted to Edwin Rust for $350, mortgaged three slaves: Chaney age nineteen and her two children Lizzey age two and Mack about nine months. McMorris agreed to pay his debt by mid-July (about four months after the mortgage papers were signed), but paid only one hundred dollars. Following Rust's death, Cornelius Cuyler, administrator of his estate, seeks to foreclose on Rust's equity in the slave property. He wants to sell the slaves and apply the money to the debt owed to the estate.
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