COUNTERFEIT DUE BILLS.
Our readers will observe, by an advertisement in to-day's paper, that our Academy due-bills of the denomination of 25 cents have been counterfeited, and that two men named Killingsworth and Massey are suspected of circulating them. It is supposed the counterfeits are made in Johnston county. They may be easily known by the bad execution of the printing, and the paper being lighter than that of the good bills.
—Raleigh Register, October 2, 1812.
COUNTERFEIT DUE BILLS.
On Wednesday last, was committed to the jail of this county, for trial, Patrick McLeod, of Johnston county, charged with passing counterfeit Due-Bills of our Academy (Raleigh), knowing them to be such.
—Raleigh Register, Friday, November 6, 1812.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
