Pirate Collins in Warwick Rhode Island Part I

okay i'm on my way to hotel providence in providence rhode island guess what it's famous for oh many things but my book the most famous event and not really sure if this is the actual place but pirate collins came from a long journey to providence hotel hotel providence from massachusetts and he drove the carriage with his horses

so he came with his horse encouraged from the long journey from massachusetts right in front of the hotel hotel providence

and i will tell you in a second what happened next

i'm standing here in front of hotel providence where pirate collins arrived from massachusetts with heavy load of treasure chest and he pre-paid for 30 days look like pirate walk like pirate and what happened next is very very interesting are you enjoying the program so far then if you have not already click subscribe so you won't miss any new vital information as the stranger pulled in front of the hotel providence he stepped down and after making certain that horses were not badly shaft from the long journey from massachusetts he entered the hotel requesting a second floor room overlooking the street the newcomer paid for 30 days in advance and signed his name in the registrar as peter gifford the clerk couldn't help noticing the pistols and his pirate look the stranger was very confident had it very dark and almost evil glistening black eyes a very sinister type of look

he asked for help to carry his heavy chest up to his room and so the men sent for two men

the two laborers came a few minutes later and started carrying a heavy large wooden chest upstairs to his room names of these men were james blake and bernard starkey so with great difficulty they wrestled the chest from the wagon and dragged it upstairs.
it was certain that the treasure con contains coins
and after uh long discussion they decided to break into gifford's room and see for themselves was inside of the chest
owhile gifford was eating his dinner in the tavern a large man approached him with a angry red face pointed finger at him and said in loud voice that he was a peter collins the notorious pirate
who he has attacked the ship on on which the uh stranger was on the large man who was accusing him his name was mcginty and he said the collins attacked he was a sailor on the ship he said the colonies attacked the ship tortured and killed everyone and he
hanged mckinty of the yard arm but somehow after he was cut from the cut down and thrown to the sea he was able to survive and after the pair pirates sailed away he was able to reach the shore after three days where he eventually was rescued by the british trading vessel so while he was accused gifford was sitting quietly at the table
and all of a sudden mcginty uh stopped closer to gifford
gifford stood up took his two pistols and shot the man right in the chest the holes were about inch from inch apart in the center of his chest after that gifford returned calmly to his to finish his dinner blake and starkey decided to make a move and break into gifford's room they entered the hotel room and went to gifford's room broke into his room and opened the treasure chest and sure enough there were hundreds maybe thousands of gold coins
Gifford left the hotel went to warwick where he purchased a house
he would come back to providence and only for supplies and books and stayed a short while
that was going on for about a year
until
a local naval officer gifford in providence and recognized him as peter collins a pirate who was wanted for variety of crimes murder kidnapping robbery and piracy he was able to mount local posse and the next morning they left
for warwick to arrest gifford as they approached his house he came out of his house and shot two of them and then started running towards the back woods to the woods in the back of his property where he was shot upon questioning gifford's servant about his chest because they couldn't find it in the house anywhere
the servant said that gifford hired local man to excavate a hole somewhere on the property between the house and the shore nearby greenish bay in the in the little in the woods he actually watched the two men dragged this chest into the woods but the servant never saw the excavation had no idea where it might be located the two men they were helped to bury the treasure chest were found dead one week they were both shot in the head they searched the woods but they couldn't find the excavation the treasure has never been found and the contents is believed to be gold coins estimated to be worth many millions of dollars so we are here on the side in Oakland beach this is one of the possible location
that is describing between the property and his greenwich Bay
within the trees the big treasure chest is buried
so this is the oakland beach site the other possible site is warwick neck and we will go there next
this is still the side of Oakland beach
just showing you the possibilities
for this possible uh this chest location