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Rhode Island Republican
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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John Rutledge, a South Carolina congressman who was in Newport in summer 1801, is accused of forging two letters to the President, signed as Nicholas Geffroy. The forgeries were detected by the President, who allowed their publication in the Rhode-Island Republican to expose federalist villainy.
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John Rutledge, member of Congress from South-Carolina, but who in the summer of 1801, was in Newport, is accused of forging two letters, in somewhat of a disguised hand from thence, directed to the President of the United States, and signed Nicholas Geffroy. The letters were detected as forgeries by the President, who wrote one letter back to a gentleman in Newport, to do with them as he pleased. The letters have been published in the Rhode-Island Republican: and we shall endeavor to give them to our readers, to show what villainy such federalists are capable of. Gaz.
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Newport
Event Date
Summer Of 1801
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letters detected as forgeries by the president and published in the rhode-island republican
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John Rutledge accused of forging two letters in disguised hand from Newport to the President of the United States, signed Nicholas Geffroy. President detected forgeries and instructed a gentleman in Newport to handle them, leading to publication.