Counterfeiting Case in Groton, Connecticut

[Counterfeiting]. TWO PAGE MANUSCRIPT DRAFT DOCUMENT RELATING TO A 1773 CASE INVOLVING FALSE SPANISH MILLED DOLLARS. Handwritten document [32 by 20 cm], on two pages of four. Authorizes the arrest of one Roger Fanning, and the seizure of goods to the value of £30, in a case involving the arrest of Job Fox, a suspected counterfeiter of Spanish milled dollars, whom Fanning had helped to escape custody. Unsigned, and with several deletions in ink, suggesting that this is a draft from which a clean copy was prepared. Very good. An interesting document involving people discussed by Kenneth Scott in his 1957 Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut. Job Fox had been identified as a member of a gang of suspected counterfeiters, alleged to have struck Spanish milled dollars and “half joes.” He was arrested, but escaped, and was later apprehended by one Ebenezer Gallup. As Gallop was transporting Fox, he was attacked by four associates of Fox, including the Roger Fanning named in this document, and one David Fanning (see Scott, Connecticut, pages 205–207).