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78 Mrs. Reynolds told Clingman, that she had received money of Col. Hamilton, since her husband’s confinement, enclosed in a note, which note she had burned.

After Reynolds was discharged, which was eight or nine o’clock on Wednesday evening:—about twelve o’clock at night, Mr. Reynolds sent a letter to Col. Hamilton by a girl;—Reynolds followed the girl, and Clingman followed him;—he saw the girl go into Col. Hamilton’s house;—Clingman then joined Reynolds, and they walked back and forward in the street, until the girl returned, and informed Reynolds, that he need not go out of town that night, but call on him, early in the morning. In the morning, between seven and eight o’clock, he saw Reynolds go to Col. Hamilton’s house and go in: he has not seen him since, and supposes he has gone out of the state.

Mr. Clingman further adds, that some time ago, he was informed by Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, that he had books containing the amount of the cash due to the Virginia line, at his own house at New-York,