Read A Counterfeiter's Paradise Online
Authors: Ben Tarnoff
Read, George, 86
Reformer,
27
Reid, John, 123
Remington and Sons, 235
Revolutionary War, 82–85, 240, 251
Rhode Island, 51–52
counterfeit currency of, 39–42, 44–45, 49, 51–52, 54, 64, 69
paper money printed by, 41, 69, 80, 102
Providence, 38–46, 69
Richardson, John, 219–20, 221
Richmond, Va., 204–6, 209, 218–21, 223–24
wartime conditions in, 224
Richmond Daily Dispatch,
205, 207, 210, 219
Riddle, Samuel, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126
Ridgefield, Conn., 67–68, 73
Rio de Janeiro, 199
Rodney, Caesar, 150–51
Rogers, Robert, 56–64
Rogers’ Rangers, 63
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 254
Sacramento, Calif., 190–91
Sacramento Transcript,
190–91
St. Lawrence River, 109
St. Louis, Mo., 247
Salem, N.Y., 66, 67
Sanford, David, 66–69, 75
San Francisco, Calif., 188, 189, 234
Committee of Vigilance in, 241, 242
-Sea-Flower,
29–30
Second Bank of the United States, 130–32, 133, 141, 161–63, 165–68, 170, 176, 182, 238, 253
Second Confiscation Act, 222
Secret Service, 1–2, 6, 245–49, 250, 252, 255
creation of, 2, 245, 246
criminal records of members of, 247
servants, indentured, on transatlantic journeys, 28, 30–31
Seward, William H., 180, 211, 212, 241, 242
Shays, Daniel, 85
Shelley, Mary, 127
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 127
Shepard, William, 101, 154–55
Sherman, John, 237–39
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 209, 234, 237
shinplasters, 206, 207, 216–17
Shipman, William Davis, 248
Shirley, William, 19, 32–33, 49, 62
Shoaff, James, 117–18
silver, 3, 4, 17, 19, 20–24, 36, 52, 80, 83, 86, 87, 103, 106, 110, 112, 130, 131, 168, 200, 202, 213–15
see also
coins, coinage
Simmons (German immigrant), 142–43
Sinnemahoning Creek, 153–54, 155, 156
slavery, 197, 199, 200, 210, 222
abolitionists and, 197, 198, 199, 200
Emancipation Proclamation and, 222, 226
Second Confiscation Act and, 222
Smith, James, 113
Snyder, Simon, 111
“Song of the Argonauts; or, the Days of’-Forty-nine” (Upham), 234
South, 198–99
economy of, 210
secession of, 198, 199, 202, 214
tensions between North and, 196–97
see also
Confederate States of America
South Carolina, 4, 198, 202
Spanish settlers, 3
Spaulding, Elbridge, 237
specie,
see
coins, coinage
Specie Circular, 168–69
speculators, 105–6, 130, 132, 145, 165, 168, 185, 210, 216, 252
spurious money, 115
spying, 241–42, 246
Stamp Act, 81, 82
Stanton, Edwin M., 211, 212, 230, 231
state banks, 106–7, 133, 161–65, 167–69, 236–39, 253
states’ rights, 197, 214, 216, 238
steam engine, 234
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 223
Stephens, Nicholas, 38, 39, 41–45, 59, 246
Stevens, Thaddeus, 215, 237
Stockton, Calif., 189
stone lithography, 217, 227, 229
Sullivan, Owen, 6, 12–16, 25–37, 38–48, 53–60, 63–65, 69–79, 87, 102, 114, 115, 134, 171, 179, 195, 196, 207, 235, 245, 249, 252
alcoholism of, 35–36, 58–59
aliases of, 64–65
amounts of money forged by, 12, 15
arrest and imprisonment of (1749), 12, 16, 17, 37, 39, 59
arrest and imprisonment of (1752), 39–44
Beecher’s capture of, 69–74
in Boston, 12–14, 37, 45–46
branding punishment of, 43
Cady and, 54
cave hideout of, 48, 71–72
childhood in Ireland, 26–27, 73
counterfeiting empire of, 16, 37, 41–42, 45–50
crew of, 48
criminal career of, 16, 44, 79
in Duchess County, 44, 45–50
early life of, 25–28
emigration to America, 28–31, 73
engraving technique of, 35, 37, 40, 45–46, 195–96
escapes by, 43–44
Franklin compared with, 63–64
Ide and, 55–56
indentured servitude of, 28, 30–32, 34, 73
leaflets about, 25–26, 78–79
marriage of, 35–36, 59
in Merrimack River area, 56–57, 58, 60, 69
metalworking learned by, 35, 37
in military, 34–36, 37
Munroe and, 54–55
New Hampshire currency plate made by, 12–13
Oblong headquarters of, 46–50
leaflets about, 25–26, 78–79
personality of, 28–29, 59, 68, 76–77
posthumous paper trail of, 78
in Providence, 38–46, 69
reputation of, 44–45, 46
reward for capture of, 69
Rogers and, 56–60, 63, 64
Sanford and, 66, 69, 75
Sanford compared with, 68
Stephens’s betrayal of, 39, 41–44, 59, 246
strategy of, 53–54, 64–65
temper of, 59
theatrics of, 44, 45, 46, 68
trial and execution of (1756), 73–79
trial and punishment of (1750), 14, 37
trial and punishment of (1752), 42–44, 45, 46
trust in, 6, 16, 79
voices heard by, 26
Sunday Mercury,
197–98, 203, 205
Supreme Court, 236
surveying, 95–97
Susquehanna River, 152, 155
Swift, Jonathan, 27
Talcahuano, 187–88
taxes, 4, 20, 36, 79, 81, 82–85, 112, 161, 177, 199, 251
Texas, 208
Thompson’s Bank Note Reporter,
195
tobacco, 3, 197
Townshend Acts, 81
toy money, 250
Treasury Department, 112, 131, 169, 199, 200–201, 216, 237, 242–43, 245, 248, 254
bonds and notes issued by, 112, 200–201, 213, 215, 216
Secret Service created by, 2, 245, 246
Treaty of -Aix-la-Chapelle, 61
Union Bank of Maryland, 116
United States Notes, 213, 253–54
Upham, Ann Eliza Bancroft, 182, 185
Upham, Charles Wentworth, 181
Upham, John, 181, 191
Upham, Marion, 182, 185
Upham, Sally, 180
Upham, Samuel, Sr., 180
Upham, Samuel Curtis, 6–7, 175–91, 233–35, 241, 250, 252
amount of counterfeit currency produced by, 232
book published by, 185–86, 234
in California, 180, 185–91, 193, 194, 234, 235
careers and businesses of, 177–79, 180, 182–83, 189–90, 233–34, 235
as chemist, 233
childhood of, 180, 181
counterfeit Confederate currency sold by, 7, 177, 178–79, 203, 204–11, 212, 220–21, 223, 225–28, 230, 232–33, 235, 242
death of, 235
family background of, 180–81
as gold prospector, 180, 182–89
illustrated envelopes printed by, 178
journal of, 183, 185–87, 190
marketing by, 206–7, 209, 210–11, 221, 223, 227, 233
newspaper work of, 190–91, 197–98, 205
personality of, 175, 179–80, 187
physical appearance of, 175
return to Philadelphia, 191, 193, 197
in Sacramento, 190–91
in San Francisco, 189, 190, 234
shops of, 176, 177–79, 233
slavery as viewed by, 199
song written by, 234
Upham, William, 180
Upper Canada, 98, 99
U.S. Army Rangers, 63
U.S. Mint, 103
Van Buren, Martin, 165
Vermont, 100, 182
Montpelier, 180, 181–82
Virginia, 61, 95, 182, 208, 242
Richmond,
see
Richmond, Va.
Wakeman, Abram, 230
Walker, Jonathan Hoge, 124
Wall Street, 130, 182, 192, 193, 194, 200, 256–57
Walnut Street Jail, 127–29, 131, 136, 148
wampum, 3
War of 1812, 91, 97–100, 107, 109–12, 130, 131, 144, 163, 238
War of the Austrian Succession, 32
King George’s War, 19, 32–37
Washington, D.C.:
British invasion of, 111, 130
Old Capitol Prison in, 243–45
Washington, George, 60–61, 84, 86, 95, 96, 104
commemoration of birthday of, 175–76
Farewell Address of, 175
Weare, Meshech, 58
Weekly Aurora,
141
Wentworth, Benning, 62
West, 163, 164, 167, 169, 238
expansion into, 91, 95, 96, 106, 112, 130, 161, 164, 171, 194
western paper, 116, 117
Westfield, Mass., 101
White House, 111
widows, 139, 141, 142
Wilson, Hill, 91–92, 93, 118–19, 121, 137
Wilton, Conn., 66
Winn, Benjamin, 58
Wisconsin, 170
Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company, 170
wolves, 47
Wood, William Patrick, 244–49