Nahhh...I showed your tag line to point out your hypocrisy...Like removing your Master Engineer claim from your latest post who you cited in your previous post did all of this when I called you on it....Now it is other engineers. Not named this time...
Several sources cite people living and working on the island as early as 1750's, with settler occupation beginning in 1761... here is an easy one from a source you had cited as a source earlier....
"The first known persons to definitely take up land on Oak Island were the New York fish agents John Gifford and Richard Smith who were granted three islands in Mahone Bay in 1753, including the whole of Oak Island (7). There is evidence they used Oak Island as a base for their fishing operation off the coast of Nova Scotia in the 1750s"
Then we have the other families that were granted land in 1759, do you suppose they may have lived there?
Then surveyed into lots in 1762, why would they survey into lot's if there was no market for them? Records show lots purchased at that time. Your map only shows what lots Samuel Ball owned, by most accounts and poll records from Chester where had lived, he moved to the island in 1808/9, after the finding of the Money Pit and during the time of one treasure company looking for it.
But let's back up a bit and ask why? Why would anyone build such an elaborate system on land that had been surveyed to be sold to hide treasure they expected to come back to at a later date, when by that time there could be Walmarts and Dollar Generals all over the island, or at least settlers, farms, cattle and crops...right where their treasure was buried? Where secrecy would be impossible? Not probable...
"George Washington was initiated into that Lodge as an Entered Apprentice on Nov. 4th, 1752; that later he was duly passed and the Degree of Fellow-Craft was conferred upon him on March 3rd, 1753; and that on the 4th of August 1753 he was Raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason."
From apprentice to Master Mason in 18 months? At age 21? Ummm ok...You know any Masons? "that's not how it works, it's just not how it works!" Someone said.....
Yes he was asked later on about being a Grand Master and declined because he had never become a Master level first and did not feel it was right to take this higher position...Later he took the Charter Master position because the Virginian chapters wanted to get out from under the Pennsylvania charter and had to elect a Charter Master to do so, mainly a position with limited duties. If I remember right the Alexandria, VA Lodge still has those letters asking and him replying...as well as the bible he took his inauguration oath on, which they still use for ceremonies.. So either way,,,, He was still not the Grand Master of Masons of DC while President as you claimed.
Several sources cite people living and working on the island as early as 1750's, with settler occupation beginning in 1761... here is an easy one from a source you had cited as a source earlier....
"The first known persons to definitely take up land on Oak Island were the New York fish agents John Gifford and Richard Smith who were granted three islands in Mahone Bay in 1753, including the whole of Oak Island (7). There is evidence they used Oak Island as a base for their fishing operation off the coast of Nova Scotia in the 1750s"
Then we have the other families that were granted land in 1759, do you suppose they may have lived there?
Then surveyed into lots in 1762, why would they survey into lot's if there was no market for them? Records show lots purchased at that time. Your map only shows what lots Samuel Ball owned, by most accounts and poll records from Chester where had lived, he moved to the island in 1808/9, after the finding of the Money Pit and during the time of one treasure company looking for it.
But let's back up a bit and ask why? Why would anyone build such an elaborate system on land that had been surveyed to be sold to hide treasure they expected to come back to at a later date, when by that time there could be Walmarts and Dollar Generals all over the island, or at least settlers, farms, cattle and crops...right where their treasure was buried? Where secrecy would be impossible? Not probable...
"George Washington was initiated into that Lodge as an Entered Apprentice on Nov. 4th, 1752; that later he was duly passed and the Degree of Fellow-Craft was conferred upon him on March 3rd, 1753; and that on the 4th of August 1753 he was Raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason."
From apprentice to Master Mason in 18 months? At age 21? Ummm ok...You know any Masons? "that's not how it works, it's just not how it works!" Someone said.....
Yes he was asked later on about being a Grand Master and declined because he had never become a Master level first and did not feel it was right to take this higher position...Later he took the Charter Master position because the Virginian chapters wanted to get out from under the Pennsylvania charter and had to elect a Charter Master to do so, mainly a position with limited duties. If I remember right the Alexandria, VA Lodge still has those letters asking and him replying...as well as the bible he took his inauguration oath on, which they still use for ceremonies.. So either way,,,, He was still not the Grand Master of Masons of DC while President as you claimed.
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