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

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GLC#
GLC08206
Type
Documents
Date
September 1785
Author/Creator
Paine, Robert T., 1731-1814
Title
[Indictment of Joseph Harris as a counterfeiter]
Place Written
Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination
1 p. :
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

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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