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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jeankay, post: 338751, member: 12159&quot;]Does anyone else have someone in their family who was convicted of counterfieting?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My sixth great grandfather Robert Martin of Wallingford CT and his brother-in-law of the same place were convicted in October 1744 in New Haven CT, of counterfieting bills of public credit of the Colony of Rhode Island and were to be released from goal (jail) on 2nd Monday in December. The penalties of their convictions were to each pay sum of 200 pounds, to be bound out for ten years servitude, return to Wallingford from whence they came, and not to leave during their life, without permission on penalty of twenty lashes on the bare body.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It seems to be they received harsher sentences than any modern counterfietor. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>jeankay[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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