Craven County, NC - Willis Bloodworth, 1786

Newbern, June 1

This day a young man, calls himself Willis Bloodworth, was taken up
and committed to goal in this town for having in his possession 
counterfeited French crowns. The circumstances which led to his
detection are as follows; some time ago he gave a negro in town five
crowns of the same kind with orders to purchase some trifling things
for him and that he might keep the remainder. They happened to be
discovered by Mr. John Council Bryan in the negro's possession, who
gave an unembarrassed account of the transaction, and minutely
describing Bloodworth's person - he was soon after apprehended

On being searched there were found five or six fictitious crowns
about him, together with a lump of clay, which it is supposed he
had used as a mould to run the money in; they were miserably
executed and prove Bloodworth by no means as adept in the the art
of coining.

Source: Newbern Herald - June 1, 1786

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