George Weed

Loose Ends, Obsessions

  Thought I might chat about loose ends, things I’ve finished, and what I was up to while submerged plus new skills I acquired. But first, brother Weed. Turns out he was offering variolation, popular among rich families and the educated classes. It was a chance for doctors to make money from preventative medicine for […]

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Problems

George Weed had a problem. In Woodbury, Connecticut in 1746 he handed off some bogus examples of the colony’s script to a known counterfeiter. George informed this fellow that his brother Samuel signed the notes and could imitate any man’s handwriting. The counterfeiter got arrested in Fairfield County in October. Weed passed some fake 20’s […]

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