Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
From the archive of Baltimore attorney Nathaniel Williams. In 1819, McCulloch, in collusion with other officials of the Bank of the United States, stole or misappropriated 3,497,700 [dollars]. In the settlement with the directors of the Bank of the United States, part of the security offered by McCulloch were endorsements by sixteen merchants of Baltimore, who individually bound themselves for 12,500 [dollars] each. Among these merchants was Etting. Etting refused to pay his bond on the ground that he had endorsed without knowledge of McCulloch's thefts. Roger B. Taney served as Etting's lawyer. The case was decided against him.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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