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Executed for $1.00: The Unfortunate Fate of Hugh Dowdall

By: Lisa Timmerman, Executive Director

“Therefore it is considered by the court that he be hanged by the neck until he be dead…” The Commonwealth of Virginia condemned the “labourer” Hugh Dowdall to death in “for feloniously uttering and passing in payment in a counterfeit dollar, knowing the same to be counterfeit and base...” Unfortunately for Dowdall, the Dumfries District Court and General Court felt the sentence was appropriate and set his hanging for 06/29/1792 between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon. Hugh Dowdall, James Ewell, Bertrand Ewell, Jr., and a group of 21 citizens petitioned Governor Henry Lee III asking him to reconsider due to contradictions in testimony and suffering already endured. But surely the Governor would relent considering it was allegedly only a dollar?

(Lee Lansing identified this as the South Courthouse Lot in Dumfries, ca. 1863 drawing an image similar to this photograph with only the structures)

Counterfeit money was a constant and annoying problem for early Americans. Coins, paper money, and bills of credit all circulated throughout the colonies with different foreign origins. In 1645, officials in Virginia attempted to foil counterfeit money by requiring a new design “a new impression which shall be stamped yearly with some new figure” adding the death penalty on conviction. Virginia issued paper money (more like bills of credit at first) in 1755, which created even more confusion as the different forms of money were not equivalent in actual value. While the United States Continental Congress authorized the printing of national currency at the start of the Revolutionary War, England potentially ramped up production of counterfeit bills to cause inflation. Although the country struggled after the war to pay back the French loans, taxation in the 1790s under the U.S. Constitution helped stabilize the country. Enter Hugh Dowdall.

According to Dumfries District Court, Dowdall violated the 05/1776 ordinance, “An ordinance making it felony to counterfeit the continental paper currency, and for other purposes therein mentioned.” Dowdall argued against the ordinance noting, “said ordinance was passed subsequent to the formation, and passing of the bill of rights…”, and “Because the said convention were not delegated, authorized and empowered by the good citizens of this commonwealth to legislate generally for them; more especially, to make penal laws to affect the lives of the citizens of this commonwealth”. Judges of the General Court, Prentis, Tyler, Henry, and Roane disagreed and overruled the plea.

As the execution approached, Dowdall and others petitioned directly to the Governor for pardons. Dowdall wrote, “Your petitioner is now confined those nine months for only passing one bad dollar, and has suffered a great deal this last winter with forty weight of Iron, and without the benefit of fire, and am destitute in those parts of any friends or acquaintances, but some thousands of miles from home only a poor helpless wife that is now lying some place or other on the road..” James Ewell questioned the testimony of the “peddler” Fitzsimmons but also argued Dowdall had already endured a harsh sentence, “To indure for several months the ignomy & perturbation of mind consequent of his condemnation; to be robed of his all by the perfidy of his friend, & to be chained almost in one position to a cold floor during the severity of the last winter must exceed the torture of a thous’d deaths.” The petition from the citizens stated, “..and whereas the evidence produced upon the trial of the s’d Dowdell was not in the opinion of your petitioners of that high dignity & absolute certainty which it ought to be, in order to deprive a fellow-creature of his present existence, being only a presumption of guilt; and whereas your petitioners know & are well assured that his sufferings have been very great during the inclemency of the late winter which has intervened since his confinement – all which circumstances being taken into consideration by your petitioners, they therefore humbly pray pardon…”

Hugh Dowdell was executed on 07/06/1792 for the felony of coining.

Note: As October approaches, Ghost Guide Jeff prepares for one of our most popular programs: Ghost Walks! Whether you want to walk outside and visit the old courthouse site at night or investigate the historic house past midnight, Ghost Jeff will guide you with his experience, equipment, and knowledge! For those preferring a virtual option, our Halloween Tea will take place on 10/17 @ 1:00pm featuring the history & lore of monsters and cosmological beings along with tips and recipes for Halloween parties! You can find all of our seasonal programs on our website by scrolling down.

(Sources: Palmer, William Pitt. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts From 07/02/1790-08/10/1792 Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond. Vol 5. Richmond: Rush U. Derr, Superintendent of Public Printing, 1885; Tyler, Lyon. The Letters and Times of the Tylers. Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, Cor. Tenth & Main Streets, 1884, via Internet Archive; Brockenbrough and Holmes. A Collection of Cases Decided by the General Court of Virginia, Chiefly Relating to the Penal Laws of the Commonwealth. Commencing in the Year 1789, and Ending in 1814. Vol. 1. Richmond: J.W. Randolph, 1853; Davidson, Thomas E. Colonial Paper Money: “Death to Counterfeit”: Colonial Virginia Paper Money. Jamestown Settlement & American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, https://www.historyisfun.org/exhibitions/collections-and-exhibitions/yorktown-victory-center-galleries/colonial-paper-money/; Lynch, Jack. The Golden Age of Counterfeiting: Cashing in on Colonial Currency. Colonial Williamsburg Journal, Summer 2007, https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/Summer07/counterfeit.cfm; Klingerman, Brandi. Notre Dame Researchers are Studying Social and Economic Patterns in Pre-Federal America. University of Norte Dame: Norte Dame Research, 2017, https://research.nd.edu/news/uncovering-the-history-of-currency-and-counterfeiting-in-colonial-america/; Office of the Historian, Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations: U.S. Debt and Foreign Loans, 1775-1795, https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/loans; Hearn, Daniel Allen. Legal Executions in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1962. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015)

[mlabo]

Daily Drawing! # 1224

find three differences! - summer07

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B&W butterfly. by maya_dragonfly on Flickr.

[prettyoddfever]

Panic! At The Disco Try A Different Tack For New LP: Simplicity

After trying out 'weird' songs, the band decides to go to a happier place.

8/6/07

Notice to those hoping to catch a sneak peek of Panic! at the Disco's new album during one of their upcoming festival gigs: What you hear might not ultimately be what you get.

Case in point is a song tentatively called "It's True Love," which the band unveiled last month at Summerfest in Milwaukee. The way things are looking now, it's probably not even going to make the cut for album number two.

"We hadn't played a show in a while, and we wanted to play something new, but that song's probably not even going to make the record at this point," guitarist Ryan Ross told MTV News at last weekend's Virgin Festival in Baltimore. "We've changed a lot of what we want to do with the record. And I feel like we're happier with the new songs we have so far than we ever were with any of the old songs on the last record."

Change seems to be the theme these days for Panic, who made waves earlier this year when they announced they had retired to a cabin in Nevada to begin writing the follow-up to A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Then in April the band forced the WTF-meter into the red with an open plea to land Dr. Dre as a producer for the new, yet-untitled album.

Through all that, they were still working off the template Ross laid down last year: to create a "modern fairy tale.” And while that's still the case, it looks like things are -- you guessed it -- changing yet again.

"We wrote a bunch of songs that we were happy with, and we liked 'em a lot, but we just weren't having as much fun as we should've been, you know?" bassist Jon Walker said. "Things are pretty good for us right now, and we're pretty happy, and I think that is gonna come out more in these songs. We spent the past year and a half playing a bunch of songs that have weird melodies and weirder phrasings, [and] long words that Brendon [Urie] still can't pronounce all that well. We're just trying to write songs that we have fun playing."

And it turns out that means adhering to a heretofore un-adhered-to concept, K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple, Stupid.

"We wanted to approach these songs in the most basic form," Ross said. "We wrote them all on one acoustic guitar and with someone singing. I think that we kind of skipped that part of songwriting on the first record, and this time we're sort of paying attention to that. We moved into a cabin in the mountains, and then we went to L.A. and worked there for a while. And then we came home [to Las Vegas] a month ago and got into our old rehearsal studio, where we wrote the last record -- and we've written a bunch of songs since we've been home. I think it's the most fun and the happiest we've been since we started."

While there's still no firm date for just when we'll get to hear the fruits of those happy labors, Panic said that they're in no rush to get album number two out there, despite some of the pressure they're starting to feel from their most ardent fans.

"We haven't any problem with our label at all. I don't think we've talked to one person from our label since we started writing," drummer Spencer Smith said. "I know a lot of bands have issues with their label, but we don't.

"A couple of my mom's coworkers are pissed, though," he laughed. "They want new songs."

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[differentshadeofbrown]

This song always puts me in a mischievous mood 😏😏😏 #jt #lovestoned #summer07

[prettyoddfever]

from early summer 2007

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Life's a Birch 🌳 @10magazine #23 #summer07 @rogerdeckker @emmasanchezny @necromancehollywood 🌳 . . . . . . . . #sophianeophitou #10 #10magazine #fashion #fashiongram #fashionable #tree #hair #lanvin #highfashion #raw #collage #collageart #collageartist #instafashion #instacollage #life #birth #growth #model #art #artwork #collageart #artist #artistsoninstagram #cut #paper #glue #paperart #handmade #handcut #film #35mm #photo #ilford (at Los Angeles, California)

[prettyoddfever]

from late spring / early summer 2007 (these were shared around June). Ryan hung out with a lot of his Vegas friends throughout 2007... so that’s not Dave Grohl lol it’s his friend Lionel