Dorsey, Walter (1771-1823) [Transcript of record in the case of James McCulloch, an insolvent debtor]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03545.14 Author/Creator: Dorsey, Walter (1771-1823) Place Written: Baltimore, Maryland Type: Document signed Date: 17 September 1819 Pagination: 7 p. : docket ; 41 x 25.5 cm. Order a Copy
Record of the case of McCulloch, a man being held in the Baltimore County jail for not being able to pay his debts. McCulloch agrees to give up any personal possessions to cover the debt. Lists his possessions and his creditors. Details the proceedings of the case. Signed by Dorsey as the Chief Judge of the sixth Judicial District of Maryland and Chief Justice of the Baltimore County Court.
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. 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 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.
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