Did a Sawpit start the Legend?

[n2mini]

With that thinking then maybe the story is true about finding more platforms as they dug down. I can't remember how deep the boys got before they gave up just from a manpower state of digging any deeper and how many layer of wood platforms they claimed to have seen..
Story goes as seeing existing dig marks in the walls as they dug down...

 

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[Armchair detective]

Read it was marks.
Read it was pick marks.
Read it was platforms.
Read it was loose dirt from being a sinkhole.
All uncorroborated.

An amazing coincidence to make a sawpit directly on top of the MP, doncha know?

This Onslow information Crow unearthed - shares and stuff - hints at what we would call Articles of Incorporation. In the US that's necessary at state level to register to do business. Perhaps Canada has a similar system.

 

[n2mini]

Of course it is uncorroborated. No way to corroborate any of that at this point either way of course.. I don't know anything about saw pits but do they typically have a "floor" put in or just the dirt at bottom of it.. My thinking has always been that their had to be some truth to the kids story in order for Onslow to be willing to come in and do their dig. If they didn't find any wood platforms at all how did the story go to convince them to join.. Surely someone would have wanted to see the hole and wood they dug up before calling around to people to join Onslow crew..

 

[treasure1822]

Who would leave their block/tackle hanging above a cache?

And I've not heard any where else of an oak tree nail.
Oh , I've seen nails in oak trees.
Not going to inquire for one at the hardware store.( They regard me with enough suspicion already.)

Who indeed! Probably the same person who wanted them to dig there...Man can be lead down bad or False paths. It is the simple man who believe every word, it is the intelligent who give thoughts to his steps...

 

[Armchair detective]

...mutter.......mutter...

Simeon Lynds
Simeon Linds?
Simeon Lund?
Simon Lynds?
Simon Linds?

Where buried?
Newspaper obits.
Who paid for gravestone?

..... mutter.........mutter .....

 

[Armchair detective]

...mutter ..
". .Simeon Lynds of Truro, related to
Vaughn's father..."
Page 2, season 9, #39
...mutter...

 

[Armchair detective]

...mutter ..
". .Simeon Lynds of Truro, related to
Vaughn's father..."
Page 2, season 9, #39
...mutter...

Also.mention of David Barnes Lynds 1840

 

[Armchair detective]

... mutter...
"that was used to defraud individuals associated with the Truro group who were relatives of Anthony Vaughn's young wife."
Page 2, possible OI Solution, #143.

 

[Armchair detective]

... mutter...
"that was used to defraud individuals associated with the Truro group who were relatives of Anthony Vaughn's young wife."
Page 2, possible OI Solution, #143.

"1790-1820 ... Vaughn ... a philanderer and a man of ill repute..."
May have perpetrated a hoax on wife's relatives.
No proof of course.

"INTERESTING IF TRUE, AND INTERESTING ANYWAY". - Mark Twain

 

[Armchair detective]

More notes...
Page 2, "Suggesting another location...", #95 does a thorough bashing of A Vaughn's reputation, and makes a case as a possible executor of a hoax.
Sources "gossipy newspapers", something regarding an unpaid bill for an industrial pump " in the archives", must be for Truro.
Indirectly proves there was a hole with water in it dug by someone previously which suggests an Onslow footprint.
Good enough, Crow?

 

[Armchair detective]

More interesting stuff...
Page 2, "Oak Island Mystery Solved",#42
The "not the first searchers theory"
Other sources.

 

[n2mini]

Most of those old posts refer back to someone cherry picking some info and then putting their own theory to it.