Exhibit - Duty & Disaster
Court of General Sessions Indictment for Counterfeiting, 1774
Transcription:
Ulster County Ss:
At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King held at Kingston in and for the County of Ulster on the third Tuesday of September in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, according to the Form and Ordinances Before Cadwallader Colden Jun. Levi Pawling, Dirck Wynkoop Jun. Johannis Sleight Esquires and others their (?) Justices of our said Lord the King the (?) Our said Lord the King in the County of Ulster aforesaid to keep and Also divers Assaults Batteries and other Misdemeanors in the said County done and perpetreated to hear and determine assigned The Jurors for our said Lord the King and the Body of the County of Ulster aforesaid (to wit) Daniel Graham Foreman Mathew TenEyck, Jacobus Low, John L. DeWitt, Oni(?) Van Etten, Solomon Van Wagenen, James Oosterhoudt, Philip Dumond, Petrus Crispell, Isaac Hasbrouck Jun., Isaac Freer, Daniel Lefever, Henry Cropsey, David Crawford, James Crawford, William(?) Faulkner(?), Sam(?) Whiter(?), Abra(?) And John Duffield good and lawful Men of the County aforesaid who being duly sworn and charged upon their Oath Do present that Daniel Ingersoll late of the Precinct of Mammacotting in the County of Ulster aforesaid not having the Fear of God before his eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil on or about the Fourteenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Two with Force and Arms at the Precinct aforesaid in the County aforesaid thirty one Pieces of false Feigned and Counterfeit Money and Coin of Pewter Lead Tin and other mixt Metals to the likeness and simulation(?) Of Spanish Pieces of Eight then and there falsely(?) Deceitfully and feloniously did counterfeit against the Peace of our Lord the King his Crown and Dignity against the (?) Of the Act of the Governor the Council and the General Assembly in that case made and provided
