Captain Kidd Treasure In Rhode Island?

[ISmellGold]

Interesting article

Interesting Article

Coins In A Kettle. Interesting

 

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[Old Bookaroo]

Interesting article
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Interesting Article
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Coins In A Kettle. Interesting

When a TN Member posts a newspaper cutting, it's always helpful to include the name of the paper and the date it was published.

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[ISmellGold]

Interesting I had not heard this story of Gardiner Iland New York

Privateer William Kidd stopped at the island in June 1699 while sailing to Boston to answer charges of piracy. With the permission of the island's proprietor, he buried a chest, a box of gold, and two boxes of silver in a ravine between Bostwick's Point and the Manor House. Indicating to Mrs. Gardiner that the box of gold was intended for the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Lord Bellomont, Kidd gave Mrs. Gardiner a length of gold cloth,[11] captured from a Moorish ship off the coast of India,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiners_Island#cite_note-14 and a sack of sugar in thanks for her hospitality.

A legend developed that Kidd warned that if the treasure was not there when he returned he would kill the Gardiners, though trial testimony given by John Gardiner on July 17, 1699, makes no mention of any threats, and Kidd's conduct appears to have been quite civil.[13] Kidd was tried in Boston, and Gardiner was ordered by Governor Bellomont to deliver the treasure as evidence. The booty included gold dust, bars of silver, Spanish dollars, rubies, diamonds, candlesticks, and porringers. Gardiner kept one of the diamonds which he later gave to his daughter. A plaque on the island marks the spot where the treasure was buried.[14][15][16]

I Doubt it Happened though.
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[ISmellGold]

When a TN Member posts a newspaper cutting, it's always helpful to include the name of the paper and the date it was published.

Thank you!

Somebody else posted it first in a different Kidd Thread.
I just found it really interesting
Looks Like a Providence Rhode Island newspaper? from the article sounds like 1888.

As far as he Gardiner Island story, to me sounds laughable.