[Indictment of Joseph Harris as a counterfeiter]
September 1785
Paine, Robert T., 1731-1814
Countersigned by Nathan Rowley. Charging Harris with defrauding and injuring the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in May 1785 by making 800 pieces of counterfeit money in mixed metals. Paine was Attorney General of Massachusetts 1777-1796.
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