Uncut Sheet of (4) Hulmeville, Pennsylvania. Farmers Bank of Bucks County. ND (181x). $1-$1-$2-$3. About Uncirculated. Remainders. Uncut Sheet of (4)An appealing sheet with just a broad corner fold at lower left. Plate signed by W. Harrison, a fairly rare imprint.<p><p>The Farmers Bank of Bucks County was incorporated on October 31, 1814. It was first located at Hulmeville and was removed to Bristol in 1823. The first president was John Hulme, who died in 1817 and was succeeded by Joseph Hulme. It evolved into the Farmers National Bank in 1864. Each note has PHILADELPHIA at the top, with the very small line above: "15 Miles from." Taradiddles such as this are fun to notice on various bank notes.<p><p>As a lagniappe (or time out for a break) you might find it interesting to read this story from Niles Weekly Register, July 7, 1821, and its follow-up:<p><p>"Horrible Affair.<p><p>"The sloop Norfolk was freighted at Philadelphia for New Orleans, a short time since, and being ladened, proceeded on her voyage; on or about the 13th. Ultimately she was discovered to be on fire, but by the efforts of the captain and crew the fire was extinguished, after doing so much damage that it was thought necessary to put into Norfolk to refit. The cargo was here overhauled, etc. and what passed for boxes of dollars to the amount of 20,000, and for other valuable articles estimated at about 15,000 more, in the invoice, were found to contain only pieces of iron, lead, and hay, etc. <p><p>The vessel and cargo was insured at Philadelphia and Baltimore for 35,000, and the design of the horrible villains was to set her on fire, at the risk of destroying the crew, by means of oil of vitriol, smuggled on board under some other denomination. The names of the shippers at Philadelphia are said to be Scull. E.I. Hollingshead, Greene and Joseph Hulme The pursuit is hot. Four persons have been arrested and held to bail in $8,000 dollars each, to answer the offense. They are said to have "hitherto maintained a respectable standing, and the Philadelphia printers are too delicate to mention the names of those seized." <p><p>Niles Weekly Register, July 14, 1821, told more:<p><p>"The Sloop Norfolk.<p><p>"One of the persons implicated in the horrible attempt to destroy the sloop Norfolk and her crew, by fire at sea, as noticed in our last, was the president of the Farmers Bank of Bucks County!-an institution hitherto supporting a respectable character, but now so run upon in consequence of the arrest of its president, as to have been under the necessity of suspending payment. A new president has been appointed, and we are given to understand that the debts of the bank will be speedily liquidated. It is thus that a whole community suffers by the act of one man. <p><p>"Scull, another of the party implicated, made his escape, but has been ferreted out, and is now in Philadelphia prison. <p><p>"The punishment of the crime with which these men are charged, we believe, is death."
