Did a Sawpit start the Legend?

[Armchair detective]

Another
Page 3, "Borehole C", #4
"Machinery sent from New York, and from Halifax..." 1909

So the bottom line is no one has any sources that will "testify" to events between 1795 and say 1840 other than newspapers of about 1850? relating recollections from a suspect source.

Gloom. Had my hopes up there for a bit.

Got four stories about the ownership of the MP lot (John Smith bought it 1795, John Smith's father John Smith bought it 1795,
John Smith leased it for Onslow co, John Smith bought it 1809. Which story is true can be determined through the research.

The existence of the Onslow co can maybe be proven through government records.

Genealogy records show the existence of the players in this story.

Can you think of any other resources to try?

Think a teardown of the legend and a rebuilding of the history.

 

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Another
Page 3, "Borehole C", #4
"Machinery sent from New York, and from Halifax..." 1909

So the bottom line is no one has any sources that will "testify" to events between 1795 and say 1840 other than newspapers of about 1850? relating recollections from a suspect source.

Gloom. Had my hopes up there for a bit.

Got four stories about the ownership of the MP lot (John Smith bought it 1795, John Smith's father John Smith bought it 1795,
John Smith leased it for Onslow co, John Smith bought it 1809. Which story is true can be determined through the research.

The existence of the Onslow co can maybe be proven through government records.

Genealogy records show the existence of the players in this story.

Can you think of any other resources to try?

Think a teardown of the legend and a rebuilding of the history.

John Smith's father was named Duncan Smith. He died ca. 1784. John's mother married another man, Neil McMullen, and they lived on lot 11. They subsequently purchased lots 9,10 and 17. John Smith (the man in question) was born in 1775. He acquired lot 18 in 1795 (age 20) from Casper Wollenhaupt, a Lunenburg textile merchant who owned the business end of that island (Smith's cove area). This land was immediately adjacent to the family lots. There's no magical jaunt to an island with 2 other boys where they discovered some depression under a tree. That's a detail from another story.

There aren't any records of the alleged early company. None have ever surfaced or been produced.

 

[Armchair detective]

Nah, you see the answer lies not in what you are being told now or the version of the story as it is given now ; it is in what is NOT being said now to steer you away from learning of the existence of the 'mystery ending' secret, which was never actually a secret in the first place.

In the late 18th century there was copies of a Spanish origin 'treasure map' in circulation amongst the maritime types. Some thought it showed Oak Island some thought it showed some other island (many islands have similar geography and features).

Those who did went to search Oak Island. Those who didn't went and searched whatever other island they thought the map was showing. There were other islands searched in the region of Oak Island using copies of the same treasure map but you are steered away from learning about these also.

Smith, Mcginnis and Vaughn were given a copy of the 'treasure map' that others had been trying on Oak Island already and went to have a go themselves. They just went back to the previous excavation site that map seemed to mark: you didn't work out that the block and rope they saw in the cleared depression was them just at the site of the prior attempt? That's why this detail appears to be anomalous in the story now as it meant that what happened there was recent. This anomaly doesn't stop though the rather silly speculation the treasure was put there by the Vikings or the Romans or the Templars (or Bacon) sometime long ago,

All you need to do is ask Doug Crowell from the show, not that they are allowed to talk about it at the moment or raise the subject now when outside ears are around. Next time you visit the Museum/Interpretation Centre there ask why there is no mention of all the searchers using a treasure map: you will be told no such records exist.

If you haven't worked it out those appearing on the show with some theory are selected to appear not because of what they know, they are vetted and then allowed to appear due to what they don't know so they don't say things the team there doesn't want you to find out about.

There is an expedition that will be heading to Cocos Island March 2025 to search for the treasure there which I have been talking to. The bad news they had to find out about was the details and interpretative use of the copies of the 'treasure maps' there where found to have been used on Oak Island first. An early chart of Oak Island is drawn the same way older charts of Cocos Island are depicted: after finding no treasure on Oak someone had decided that their copy of the map might then be showing Cocos Island so off they went to search there: it's a right mess at the moment.

Your point that the oldest story is probably closest to the real story (i.e. map was the original reason for digging there) is well taken.
Some questions:
1. What are the dates and names of
newspapers you displayed?
Reason I ask is as time goes on, no one will be able to look at your sources without some identifying information.
2. Where did the idea of multiple maps.
come from?

Thank you for letting me see this information.

 

[Armchair detective]

John Smith's father was named Duncan Smith. He died ca. 1784. John's mother married another man, Neil McMullen, and they lived on lot 11. They subsequently purchased lots 9,10 and 17. John Smith (the man in question) was born in 1775. He acquired lot 18 in 1795 (age 20) from Casper Wollenhaupt, a Lunenburg textile merchant who owned the business end of that island (Smith's cove area). This land was immediately adjacent to the family lots. There's no magical jaunt to an island with 2 other boys where they discovered some depression under a tree. That's a detail from another story.

There aren't any records of the alleged early company. None have ever surfaced or been produced.

Thank you for your information.
Now to ponder what it all means.