The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-01-04
COUNTERFEIT RU,r.S


culation, counterfeit two dollar bills of the Hart
ford Bauk. intended to be imitation of bills from
plate engraved BY Reed, the ornaments Of
which on the ends Of the bills. &C. are made 10
resemble die work. The true bin of this plate.
signed John Caldwell, President, bear date the
lst of Jan. A. ID. 1918. Those signed bv Ma
thaniel Terry, President, the Isl Nov. 1919.
The counterfeits are signed Nathaniel Terry,
President, and Horace Burr, Cashier, and bear
date the 10th of Oct. 1919. The engraving,
except the figure Of the ram on the top, is done
pretty well the date number and signature are
done very badly.
The public are cautioned against receiving
bills on the N. Y. North River Bank, without
accurate examination. A gentleman, in n.
York, received one, without suspicion, for FIVE
dollars, which proved TO be one dollar bill,
with the figure encircled by similar copper
plate design, to that Of the genuine five dollar
bills, ingeniously pasted over it.
A person BY the name of McAlpin is confined
IN the Jail at Ithaca, for passing counterfeit notes
from information obtained from this person, a
large amount of counterfeit bills on a number of
different banks was found ia barn in the town
oil Hector description of which, taken by our
informant at Ithaca, from the bills themselves j.
subioinsd.
50 Phcnix Bank, ofIIartford fifty bills, letter
ID Norman Knox, President, Geo. Beach Cash
Ter.
$40 Mechanics Bank of New-York, Isl bills
dated 22d Feb. 1919, letter c. Lorillard, Pres
Jno. Fleming Cash.
50 Sussex Bank, Newton, 16 bills, letter d.
S. ID. Morford, Cash. Daniel Stuart, Pres
81 Bank of New York, August lst, 1913 ;23
bills very poor paper, Mathew Clarkson, Pres
dent, Charles Wilkes Cash.
6 of Landholders Bank, II. Island, Thos r.
Wells, Cash. John u. Dorkvoy, Pres't letter
A. bills, Nov. 10, 1918.
% of the Bank of New York, letter ID. 96
bills, lst Jan. 1890
sl0 State Bank of New Brunswick, letter r.
Various dates, 9 bills, John Bray Cash. various
names for Pres't
81 Mechanics and Farmers Bank Of Albany,
Feb. 2, 1919. Ii. knower, Pres't, Il. w. Olcot,
Cash. bills
s. Central Bank of Cherry Valley, letter T..
Jan. 8, 1919. A. M. Schermerhorn, Cash. A.
White, Pres. % bills.
s3 Marine Bank of Baltimore, Sept. 1919,
g bills w. Walworth, Prest. ]. Burr
cashier, very badly executed.
50 Farmers Bank of MARYLAND, bills, Sept.
4, 1881. b. Brown, cashier, A. kellogg, Prest.
letter III.
So Suffolk Bank, Mass. Ebenezer Francis,
rrss. ". S. Parker, cashier, Boston, Nav 8. 1909.
$40 Farmers Bank, of Bucks county, letter A.
Sept. & 10, 1919, dated Humeyille, Geo Ham
sou, cashier, Geo. Hulen Prest.
s. Bank Of New York, letters A. & B. Dec.
lst. 1919, bills, Clarkson, Prest. Wilkes, cash
ier 49,
s. Hartford Bank, Sept. 5, Is -faucius Fox
cash. Jan. 1920 III. Burr, cash. Sept o, 1919,
w: NJ Cobb, cash. Read engraver--4 bills
John Caldwell, Prest.
s. Bank of Newburgh, 4. w. Walworth, cash.
A. Belknap, Pres't. Sept. 9, 1919. Some of the
bills on this Bank were signedJ. B. Brown cash
and A. kellogg, President .--l2 bills.
The bills on the Phenix Bank Of Hartford
and theD.2 bills on the Bank of r. York were
well executed The other bills were indifTer-
emily done.
The day on which our informant left Utica, a.
mother person was taken, supposed 10 be concern
ed with the person above named.