[536] Flint's Letters, E. W. T.: Thwaites, ix, 219.

[537] Niles, xv, 60.

[538] Niles, xiv, 193-96; also xv, 434.

[539] Ib. xvii, 164.

[540] Ib. xiv, 108.

[541] A wealthy Richmond merchant who had married a sister of Marshall's wife. (See vol. ii, 172, of this work.)

[542] A writ directing the sheriff to seize the goods and chattels of a person to compel him to satisfy an obligation. Bouvier (Rawle's ed.) i, 590.

[543] Richmond Enquirer, Jan. 16, 1816.

What was the outcome of this incident does not appear. Professor Sumner says that the bank was closed for a few days, but soon opened and went on with its business. (Sumner: Hist. Am. Currency, 74-75.) Sumner fixes the date in 1817, two years after the event.

[544] Niles, xiv, 281.