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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Fairfield, Connecticut, four men were punished for counterfeiting colonial money by cropping and branding. Others were tried but discharged, two forfeited bonds, linked to a New York gang captured with counterfeiting tools bound for North Carolina.
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Last Friday, pursuant to the sentence of the Superior Court, then sitting at Fairfield, Archibald Fippeny, Lewis Bennet, John Mallet, and Nathaniel Bunell, were cropt, and branded with the letter C on their Foreheads, for counterfeiting the lawful money bills of this colony, New-York bills, dollars, &c. -- Several others, were try'd, at the same court, on suspicion of being accomplices with them in the same crimes, but the evidence not being sufficient to convict them, they were discharged. -- Seth Porter, and -- Sturgess, not chusing to be try'd forfeited their bonds for appearance, the former one thousand pounds, and the other five hundred. = They were in partnership with a gang lately taken up at New-York, viz. Tibbet Hopkins, Gideon Casey, and his two sons, and Daniel Wilcox alias Chase. -- There were found upon these last, two Plates for No. Carolina money, with some moulds and stamps for Spanish dollars and pistareens, with sundry implements fit for counterfeiting, and recipes for smelting and varnish metals ; which they said they had from one How, belonging to Boston ; they came from Rhode-Island Government, in a Schooner, and were bound to North-Carolina, but stopt at New-York to put off some counterfeit bills of that province.
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Fairfield
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Last Friday
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archibald fippeny, lewis bennet, john mallet, and nathaniel bunell were cropt and branded with the letter c on their foreheads. several others discharged due to insufficient evidence. seth porter forfeited one thousand pounds bond, -- sturgess forfeited five hundred pounds bond. gang taken up at new-york with counterfeiting implements.
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Pursuant to the sentence of the Superior Court at Fairfield, four men were punished for counterfeiting lawful money bills of the colony, New-York bills, dollars, etc. Several others tried as accomplices but discharged. Seth Porter and -- Sturgess forfeited bonds rather than being tried. They partnered with a gang taken up at New-York: Tibbet Hopkins, Gideon Casey and his two sons, Daniel Wilcox alias Chase, who had plates for North Carolina money, moulds and stamps for Spanish dollars and pistareens, implements, and recipes from one How of Boston. The gang came from Rhode-Island in a schooner bound to North-Carolina but stopped at New-York to pass counterfeit bills.