Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4
Berkshire Ss At the Supreme Judicial Court begun and holden at Great Barrington within and for the County of Berkshire on the first Tuesday of October in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & Eighty one
The Jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts upon their Oath present that Moses Graves junior of Pittsfeild in the County of Berkshire Gentleman, at Pittsfeild aforsaid on the eighteenth day of September last past with force and Arms one false and Counterfeit bill of the denomination of eight Dollars and of the tenor and fabricated in imitation of the good lawful & current bills of credit issued upon the funds of this State of the same denomination and established by the Resolve of Congress and the Law of this State, then and there knowing the same false & counterfeit bill to be false and counterfeit as aforsaid, unlawfully, unjustly & deceitfully did utter & pay to William Williams Esqr. for and as a good lawful 162 & current bill of credit issued & established as aforsaid, of the same denomination, to the damage of the said William Williams, in evil Example to others to offend in like Case against the peace of the Commonwealth aforsaid and their Law in such Case made and provided.