Craven County, NC - Counterfeiters, 1819

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Newbern, July 24

Two men, answering to the description of the persons who escaped from
Tarborough goal, left this port on the 20th inst. in the schooner John
Burney, for Philadelphia. On the 21st, Mr. A. Henderson, of the Bank
of Newbern, and Capt. D. Wade, left town in a pilot boat, with five
hands in pursuit and succeeded in overtaking and apprehending them
on board said vessel, in Wallace's channel.

Considerable conterfeit money was found upon them as also implements
for conterfeiting, and a bottle of aquafortis. One of them, who says 
his name is William Jackson, (but Dr. Lewis Coor Pender of Raleigh,
being in Newbern recognized him to be a man by the name of Wm. B.
Crawford, D.M.) is about sixty years of age, and nearly six feet in
height. The other calls himself John D. Windham, and it was ascertained,
upon the authority of a gentleman from Tarborough, that he is the 
kidnapper recently confined in the goal at that place.

We are credibly informed that a number of conterfeit bank bills have
been put in circulation in Wayne County by a man calling himself
Richard Holt; among which are 20 dollar bills on the Planter's Bank
of Georgia; 10 dollars do on the Bank of Augusta; and 5 do on the
Bank of Georgetown, District of Columbia.

Source: The Alexandria Herald
        August 9, 1819

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