Lincoln County NcArchives News.....Counterfeiters Jailed May 7, 1805 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Shank Carolynshank@msn.com November 21, 2008, 10:07 am Tues., May 7, 1805, Wilmington Gazette May 7, 1805 ABRAHAM COLLINS of Lincoln County, N. C., who has long been suspected of counterfeiting Bank Notes and other paper money, was lodged in Hillsborough gaol, on the 9th of April. BENJAMIN DORSEY, LEWIS HUNTER, LARKIN SAWYER, and GEORGE RANDAL were also apprehended as accomplices, but admitted to bail. Those persons were taken by a MR. ABERCROMBIE, employed for that purpose by the Directors of the Branch Bank at Savannah; their trials will come on at our June Federal Court. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/lincoln/newspapers/counterf513gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb