Philip Alston (counterfeiter), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American outlaw
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Province of South Carolina
About Philip Alston (counterfeiter)
- Philip Alston (Feb.
- 18, 1740 or 1741 – after 1799) was an 18th-century counterfeiter, both before and after the American Revolution.
- He operated in Virginia and the Carolinas before the war, and in Kentucky and Illinois afterward.
- He was associated with Cave-in-Rock and his son, outlaw Peter Alston, and counterfeiter John Duff.
- He was an early American settler in Natchez, as well as in the Cumberland and Red River valleys in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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