Donations from Elizer G. Terrill and Others, circa December 1841
Donations from Elizer G. Terrill and Others, circa December 1841
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| Aug 2 [1841] | Money Receiv’d by Contribution | $5.00 |
| [August] 15th. | Sunday | 6.50 |
| [August] 16th. | Monday | 1.87 |
| [August] 29th. | Sunday Contribution | 12.56 |
| Sept 5th. | Sunday Contribution | 4.37 |
| <Reciepted to Miller> 20th. | Cash by | 100.00 |
| <[Reciepted to Miller]> [20th.] | By | 20.00 |
| Cash Received at Conference | 150.00 | |
| Clark by J. Tailor 150 flour | 3.00 |
| Donation | $20.00 | |
| [Donation] by letter from Ceppan | 20.00 | |
| [Donation] by Mrs Sessions | 5.00 | |
| Sept 3d | Donation by Ira Eldridge of horse Receipted at $55.00 sold at | 50.00 |
| 12th. | Donation by Willard of 8 books Mormon | 20.00 |
| Oct 8th. | By | 5.00 |
| 28th | [Donation] by W◊ | 2.50 |
| [28th] | Joseph Shelby | 5.00 |
| Nov 5th. | 10.00 | |
| 7th. | Cash <one counterfeit> | 5.00 |
| R. May 1 vest | 3.00 | |
| 13th. | Louis Judd | 1.00 |
| 20th | 1.00 | |
| Dec 1st | 0.50 | |
| 2d | order on J Smith | 10.00 |
| Clark by J Tailor 150 of stone | 3.00 |
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Counterfeit currency was commonplace and widespread in the first half of the nineteenth-century in America, so much so that specialized pamphlets and newspapers, called counterfeit detectors, were created to help identify counterfeit notes from authentic notes. Information from these detectors was sometimes excerpted and included in local newspapers. In Nauvoo, the city government took steps to limit the circulation of counterfeit currency, passing an ordinance that fined anyone using or circulating counterfeit currency. (Mihm, Nation of Counterfeiters, 1–19; “Counterfeits,” Warsaw (IL) Signal, 25 [24] Apr. 1844, [2]; Ordinance, 4 Mar. 1843, as Published in the Wasp.
Mihm, Stephen. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Warsaw Signal. Warsaw, IL. 1841–1853.