Barrels of english coins buried in Cross City area

Ambrister came from Jacksonville area along with Arbuthnots clerk (peter Cook), I don't think he was involved with moving the goods, that was a letter sent from Arbuthnot to his son, I believe Ambrister handed out the hard goods to the negros and Indians to go to St Marks and free the fort. In tom terrys treasure atlas he says the 2 traders leaded for their lives and offered 8 kegs of gold and silver coins worth $100,000, said they are buried in high ground in california swamp, did they mean suwanee area or st marks area?
 

Here are some pictures from my Suwannee trip recently. If there was a trading post it has long been gone.
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A PIRATE ASLEEP!
 

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HEY MAN! I didn't know you took that! Heres a couple more: The first one is Hog Island Bluff. The second one is Sabre15 and our guide. If you want to visit these islands, contact Capt. Keith Brown at www.suwanneeguides.com. He is an excellent guide and very reasonable.
 

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Hey Pete, go and look at the cache hunting forum one, your pic with a better caption!
 

I have a MAP! dated 1818. Shows where Bowleg's Town was as well as some Negro Towns. All on the Suwanee. Below is some excerpts from that map. I'm not showing the Suwanee River but the whole map shows it.
 

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I found this map at one time, I will have to find it, if I remember right it does not add up to the layout of the area including the river.
 

I just quickly read through the posts, and I haven't done the research, but there has always been a rumor that Baird found pirate money on fowlers bluff...but it could have been this money....Im sure he wouldnt be perticular...

this is one of the accounts that I found...

GAINESVILLE, FL – There is a tall tale, deep in the swamplands of Florida, along the banks of the Suwannee River near a place called Fowler's Bluff in Chiefland. There, it is said, pirate Jean Lafitte sailed up the river and deposited millions of dollars of his "earnings," burying three chests in the quicksands of the bank. It was this treasure that was reputed to have been found years later in 1897, when sawmill owner Emmet J. Baird – whose business was going through some rough times – tried his luck at finding one of the boxes.
Following a treasure map and instructions given to him by a fever-ridden old man on his deathbed, Baird gathered a small group of men and spent the next three months trying to raise the dead pirate's booty from the sunken ground. Whether or not he ever found what he was looking for has remained a mystery, a secret locked within Baird and his descendants, yet the rumors all point to his success:
• Baird's sudden disappearance, slipping away in the night
• A broken lock, found at the dig site by a former workman
• Baird's reappearance in Gainesville, where he opened the Standard Crate Company and
purchased what is now know as the Baird Mansion, a 5,400 square-foot, three-story Second French Empire-styled home built in 1886
• The sporadic appearance of old coins in the hands of the Baird family members
throughout the years.

Fact or fiction, the intriguing story found its way into a "Saturday Evening Post" article in 1945
 

Fowlers Bluff??? They must have leveled it. It's just a boat ramp now. :icon_scratch:
 

I thought June Carter Cashs' family owned quite a bit of property in that area in the 50's thru the 80's. maybe the still do. lou.s momma and her husband ran a fishing charter out of old port richey and he fished with johnny cash every now and then in the 70's. lou said johnny told him maybelle owned alot of property on the suwannee river there. ck property records maybe you can get permission there .
 

I have a map with California Swamp on it, I've been up there hiking and such many times... I have heard of this also...
 

Same old story without any proof or signs of getting closer. How hard is it to dig a hole or to parrallel dig next to that hole? Who knows? I just hope the other legends havn't found Arbutnots(if it exist) cache!

All these stories of treasure buried 13' - 20' deep in Florida. The water table were I live is 2' and most of Fl is 3' - 6'. No one buried treasure deeper than that believe me... It would be impossible without modern pumps.
 

FORT DUVAL AND THE SUWANNEE RIVER
Location:23465 SE 349 Hwy
County: Dixie
City: Old Town
Description: Captain Francis Langhorne Dade, U.S. Army and his 120-man Companies A,B,D,H and N, built Fort Duval in November 1826 at the mouth of the Suwannee River. The structure was 140 by 130 feet and six feet high with portholes for firing. The fort was named for territorial governor William Pope Duval. Fort Duval was built to guard the mouth of the Suwannee River. Indians used the river for many years, traveling to Cuba, the Bahama Islands and other places to trade and purchase goods. William Bartram witnessed this in his travels in 1774 while visiting the Indians up river from its mouth. In April 1818, General Andrew Jackson used the river to transport his wounded back to St. Marks after his Battle for Billy Bowleg’s Old Town, located on the Suwannee River. Fort Duval was destroyed by May 15, 1841. At that time, Capt. Cambell Graham wrote of Lt. Palmer’s survey of the mouth of the Suwannee River in search of the remains of Fort Duval. Time and tide have destroyed all traces of Fort Duval. The Suwannee River now carries fishing enthusiasts and sportsmen.
Sponsors: DIXIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE SUWANNEE RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE

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I used to live on the Suwanee, spent much time on the river. There were guys I would see out there by where it meets the Santa Fe river diving all the way down the Suwanee on any giving day.They worked that river for years no fear of gators or gars. I can only imagine what they pulled out of that river.
 

I looked at the GPS co-ordinates of the store and it's in the middle of a swamp, miles from the nearest road. Why in the world would someone build a store here? 27.66698N, 82.53315W
 

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