(the examinant;) that soon after the rolling-press before-mentioned was set up, he then pressed the seven bills before-mentioned, and found that he had corrected the faults mentioned in that newspaper; that Israel Youngs told him when he gave him the newspaper that the bills were suspected; that he made no other plates for Connecticut money than the two plates for the forty Shilling bills; that after the examinant had completed the plate above-mentioned, Israel Youngs applied to him to make two plates to print thirty Dollar bills, Continental money; that he (the examinant) also completed those two plates; that Israel Youngs told this examinant that Isaac Ketchum was to go to Philadelphia to procure paper for the purpose of printing thirty Dollar bills; that he (this examinant) does not know whether Isaac Ketcham succeeded or brought such paper with him from Philadelphia or not; that Israel Youngs next applied to him to cut plates to print bills of Massachusetts money of the denomination of forty-two Shillings, lawful money, each; that he (this examinant) did engrave for him (the said Israel Youngs) two plates for making those bills of forty-two Shillings, lawful; that he never saw but one impression of the last-mentioned bill struck or printed, after which he (this examinant) corrected the plate for the front of the bill. The examinant being shown four copies of such bills, says they have been made with the plates which he (the examinant) cut. That the said Israel Youngs, when the last-mentioned plates were finished, took all the six plates which were finished and put them away together; that some times the said Israel Youngs used to put the said plates in a large deep chest in his parlour and sometimes in his desk; that he (the examinant) has at some times seen him put the plates in his pocket and go up stairs towards the rolling-press. That the said Israel Youngs afterwards applied to the examinant to cut plates for a two Dollar bill, and gave him a sample or bill; that he (the examinant) had proceeded to cut a part of the plate for the front of the bill. The said last-mentioned plate being produced to him, he says that is the plate which he had begun to engrave. That when Israel Youngs left home to come to New-York, about six or seven days ago, he locked up the plate in his chest of drawers; that Israel Youngs, about a month ago, told the deponent that Thomas Henderson had intimated to him that he (the said Henderson) knew what they were about, and seemed to suspect that he (the examinant) must have dropped some words that had given Henderson cause of suspicion or some knowledge of the affair. That the said rolling-press was fixed and set up in a garret, with a small window in it, which garret had not a floor, but that boards were laid there to support the press; that it was a low garret in which a person could not stand upright; that the passage to that garret was a small door out of the room in which the examinant lodged into a passage up, or place where a small stairs was made; that the said small door was placed in a wall where a bed stood before it, and that he (the examinant) did not know of the said small door, stairs, or garret, until the said Israel Youngs asked him to go up there to put the rolling-press together, which was then up in the garret. That the bills which the said Israel Youngs signed he subscribed three names to them, to wit, the same names which were signed to the bills from which the plates were engraved; that he (the examinant) was importuned by both Israel and Isaac Youngs to sign or subscribe the names to the counterfeit Connecticut bills; that through their importunities he attempted to sign one bill, but that that bill was destroyed. That Isaac Ketcham went to Philadelphia to get paper, as Israel Youngs informed the examinant, and that they expected the paper.

HENRY DAWKINS.

Taken before me this 14th day of May, 1776.

L. C. BRASHER, Alderman.

City of NEW-YORK, ss:

Isaac Youngs, of Cold-Spring, in the Township of Huntington, on Nassau Island, being examined, says: That Henry Dawkins has resided in Israel Youngs’s house, which is under one roof with his (the examinant’s) house for several weeks past; that he did not know that Henry Dawkins was engraving plates to print money; that he did not know that a rolling-press was in Israel Youngs’s garret until after Captain Wool came there last Sunday morning; that he once saw Henry Dawkins rubbing a copper-plate, but did not know what it was for; that he did suspect that Dawkins was cutting plates to make money, but never informed himself nor ever attempted to inform himself; that his brother-in-law, Townshend. Hulet, did sometimes sleep in the room with Dawkins; that he does not know where Townshend Hulet is; that the said Hulet does not stay much at home of late; that Isaac Ketcham has not frequented his brother’s house more of late than formerly; that he did imagine that Henry Dawkins was making money, and spoke to his brother about it; that Israel Youngs said he never would pass any of it. Isaac Youngs further says that he did not deny to Captain Wool that there was any door or passage up to the garret where the press was found; that he did inform him that there was a door, and showed it to him; that Henry Dawkins informed the examinant that he could make a plate so exactly that it would not vary from the Congress bills, or words to that effect; that he (the examinant) informed Israel Youngs of it, and told him that he (this examinant) thought it was a sin to pass such money if it should not be found out, and that he would not have any hand in it; that the said Israel Youngs said he would not pass any of it.

ISAAC YOUNGS.

Taken this 14th day of May, 1776, before me:

L. C. BRASHER, Alderman.

Isaac Ketcham, having requested to be further heard before the gentlemen present, was again brought in and examined; and his short examination, now taken and by him subscribed in the presence of Mr. Alderman Brasher, was taken on the same paper with his examination in the former part of the day, and is herein before contained.

The following gentlemen met pursuant to adjournment:

FOR NEW-YORK.—Mr. Bancker, Mr. Stoutenburgh, Captain Denning, Mr. P. Van Zandt, Mr. Scott, Mr. Alsop.

FOR ALBANY.—Mr. Cuyler, Mr. Glenn.

FOR DUTCHESS.—Mr. Paul Schenck.

FOR QUEEN’S.—Colonel Blackwell, Mr. Lawrence.

FOR RICHMOND.—Mr. Journey, Mr. Conner.

FOR SUFFOLK.—General Woodhull, Captain Wickham.

FOR WESTCHESTER.—Mr. Paulding, Mr. G. Morris.

FOR KING’S. Mr.—Leffertse, Colonel Van Brunt, Mr. Polhemus, Mr. Covenhoven.

FOR CHARLOTTE.—Mr. Alexander Webster.

Mr. Alderman Brasher being much indisposed, Mr. Alderman Waddell, on request, attended; and Israel Youngs was examined before Mr. Alderman Waddell, and his examination, by him subscribed in the presence of Mr. Waddell, is as follows:

City of NEW-YORK, ss:

Israel Youngs, of Cold-Spring, in the Township of Huntington., in Suffolk County, being examined, says: That he never applied to any person to cut any plates for him to print or impress money; that Henry Dawkins lodged in his chamber when at his house; that he does not know that Dawkins cut any plates while he was there; that he took Dawkins to his house at Dawkins’s request; that he visited Dawkins a few limes while he was in New-York Jail; that he never lent any money to Dawkins; that he first knew Dawkins in New-York Jail; that he never applied to Dawkins for any work but to cut a seal; that he took up a rolling-press from a person named Woolhaupter, as he thinks, to his house, at Dawkins’s request; that the letter to procure the rolling-press Dawkins gave him; that when it was opened by Woolhaupter, it was written in the name of one Cox, to the best of his remembrance; that he (the examinant) then had some suspicion that Dawkins was about to print something which he ought not; that Townshend Hulet, when at his house, used to sleep in the same room with Dawkins; that his wife usually carries the keys of a large blue chest in his house; that he knows nothing of a two Dollar bill or any plate taken out of a chest of drawers in his house; that Dawkins mentioned to him that money might be struck if paper could be got; that he told Dawkins it was most probable that, if to be got, it must be in Pennsylvania, and that Isaac Ketcham was going there, and would be as likely as any person to get it, or words to that effect; that he (the examinant) spoke to Isaac Ketcham about paper, and told