[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.