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Paine, Robert T., 1731-1814 [Indictment of Joseph Harris as a counterfeiter]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08206 Author/Creator: Paine, Robert T., 1731-1814 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Document signed Date: September 1785 Pagination: 1 p. : Order a Copy

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.

Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814
Harris, Joseph, fl. 1783

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