Counterfeiting trial

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Dear Sir The acknowledgement of your Letter of the 2d instant has been delayed as I had nothing material to communicate. I this day bound Mr Isaac Brownson the gentle man, in whose name, the original of the counter-fiet certificate was issued to ^ & on which William [undecipherable Willson?] is [undecipherable] in sufficient, who says that he sold the original issue after he received it and that it was out of his hands untill some time last January when Jesse Gillsom Gilles or a person answering precisely the description of the person, age, manner + deport [undecipherable] Willson now in Goal) brought him the originals which he bought from him. That he this Gillum was in Company with a man calling himself Crance and who answering also to the description of the Gibler who was confused for Burralls and in-definate. now it appears to me that this Mr Brownson will be an essential evidence for the conviction of these fellows, especially as he will testify to the alteration of these names, and in the instance of the one now in Goal, that he offered sold the original of which the one he offered in Philadelphia is as an exact duplicate in every turn & peculiatity of the hand writing. If it is thought worth the expence Mr.

Type

Draft Fragment

Description

Discusses the advisability of having Isaac Bronson testify in the counterfeiting trial of Wilson.

Date

03/16/1787

Author

Recipient

Sent from

New York

Document number

1787031621101

Page start

1

Notable persons

Thomas Smith
John Pierce
Isaac Bronson
Jesse Gibbs
Wilson
Crane
public

Notable locations

New York
Philadelphia

Notable items

counterfeit
certificate
[jail]
handwriting