Nashville Feby. 18th 1805

Sir,

Judge McNairy shewed me a letter of Which the following is a copy. it relates to Joseph Moore now in Jail in Nashville for passing counterfit Bank notes, of whom I have heretofore written you a particular account.

Rutherford County North Carolina

18th Jany. 1804.

May it Please your honor we are informed you have a certain Joseph Moore in Nashville Jail. we have had correspondence from Governor Page in Virginia which States said Moore to be one of the principal hands in passing the counterfint bank notes, we know the man very well, and can aprise you if you can give him a sufficient scare you can rout the whole nest of counterfieters in our country, we have a set of them in our county Thomas Davis is plat cutter he lives at Alexander Twittys from whence all the western part of the continent gets supplied with those notes, we are likewise sensible that the said Moore knows about the hard Money counterfieters. One Abram Collins and Martin Collins counterfeits the gold coin and one Lyn the silver. we have not been able to get that proff we think necessary to be a compleat conviction. That party in our county is very uneasy about Moores counfinement, and we do understand there are some of them going westward shortly and if great care is not taken we expect the Jail will be broak therefore we suppose it might be convenient to keep a strict watch about the Jail and to examine strangers that appear there, this if they do go from here they may work by proxy as the Combination is very larg.

Jas. Doyle

D. Dicky

Sir, the Signers of this letter both act in the commission of the peace and have had communications from different parts of the continent on the subject. it may be in you power if you think proper to give notice to Governor Page of the confinement of Moore, for we think the time is fast at hand. That something may be done for the good of the continent we remain yours sir.

D. Dickey

To the Honorable Judge McNein near Nashville in Tennessee. This day Spencer Beavers was brought before Judge McNairy for passing a counterfit bank bill of the United States bank of $50 who on his examination said he had it of one Anthony Sloan, but he discharged it not appearing sufficiently that he knew it was counterfit.

I am Sir yours

Thos Stuart att. of U. S. for West Tennessee