The bells of freedom

The bells of freedom Hardcover Book 1963 by Dorothy Gilman Butters. A twelve-year-boy in the Boston of 1775 has been bought by a smithy and treated badly. He was kidnapped in England when he was nine and smuggled to the United States. A counterfeiter buys him from the smithy and treats him well but Jed finally tells some Army officers about his counterfeiting activities.