Stack-Island not long since was famed for a band of counterfeiters; horse thieves, robbers, murderers, &c. Who made this part of the Mississippi a place of manufacture and deposit. From hence they would sally forth, stop boats, buy horses, flour, whiskey, &c and pay for all in fine new notes of the "first water." Their villanies, after many severe losses sustained by innocent, good men, unsuspecting the cheat, became notorious, and after several years search and pursuit of the civil, and in some cases the club-law, against this band of monsters, they have at length disappeared.

The Navigator. Zadok Cramer. Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, Pittsburgh, Pennsyvania (1814) p. 301