Pirate Captain Kidd part III

captain kid part three soberman then sent his men with picks and shovels down to gardner's island where they uncovered 11 bags of gold dust gold coins ingots bars silver bars coins buttons silver pieces plus 17 ounces of diamonds rubies emeralds of value at about 100 000 today it would be a staggering amount and so he posted away a message to rhode island governor cranston and cardinal stanford to make a strict search of all pirate captain thomas paine's house at canonical island before he could have noticed belmont later reported that it seems nothing was found at paint's house but payne has since produced 18 ounces of gold as appears by governor chrysler's letter and he pretends it was bestell bestowed on him by kid i am of opinion that he has a great deal more of kids goods still in his hands how right belmont was for the treasures set deep in the dirt on the paint's house for 192 years apparently payne just couldn't spend at all in his lifetime belmont also sent a message to the authorities in connecticut to seize and send thomas clark a prisoner to new york accused of transporting kids crew and treasure into connecticut colony barmon also had major select warehouse at stamford search but none of kid's treasure was found there thomas whisking clark was soon released from the new york jail and no one has seen or or heard from him since

kid never revealed to belmont and the english authorities nor apparently to his partner livingstone either that he buried the most precious jewels and gold items from his two mortise prizes somewhere on an island in new england sometime between may 20th and july 1st in 1699 it is made up in a bag sadarbi mullens before he was hanged with kid put in a little box locked and nailed corded about and sealed but darby wouldn't say where kids personal treasure in the little box was buried on may 23 1701 neither kid nor mullins were thinking about treasure on that day they were marched out of new gate gall and for three hours were pushed and shoved by a drunken mob who shouted at them to reveal where the treasure was hidden until they arrived under guard at execution dock on the muddy floods of the thames river at waping by the time they got to the gallows at 3 pm both kid and marlins were roaring drunk having been fed spirits along the route by celebrating crowd it was workman's holiday at whopping aptly called the hangman's fair

staggering with the rope around his neck kid blurted my lord this is a very hard sentence for my part i am innocent and i have been sworn against by perjured persons the trap door of the staging was released and kit fell through but the road broke and kid landed knee deep in the mud flats the crowd went wild cheering and laughing and they extracted him from the mud still alive and still drunk the crowd protested when the constables escorted him back to the gallows for a second try the broken rope indicated god's judgment that kid was innocent so most in the crowd believed that

he was innocent however nevertheless he was hanged again successfully the second time and mullins soon followed him into eternity and so the songs poems and legends began and the man who swore to his dying day that he wasn't a pirate became the most famous pirate in the world after death his body was painted with tar and gibbeted in chains on the riverbank at tilbury ford for all the mariners to see and reflect on as they came and went on the sea even without he supposedly ill-getting good ill-gotten goods captain kid died a wealthy man and his family was well cared for financially one strange quirk of faith that made him even richer was that his best friend and brother-in-law samuel bradley who sailed with him in the adventure galley and quite a merchant died before kid was high he had been put ashore by kid at angula because he was sick and feverish and there he soon died in his will he left his beloved friend william kidd all his property on new york city's wall street if kid had lived he would have owned more than half of america's famed financial district still in private circulation throughout the world but especially in new england and nova scotia are what is known as the kids the kid palmer charts they are treasure maps secreted secreted in various places supposedly by captain kidd before he was executed hubert and guy palmer brothers and noted at atarnis in sussex england during the early part of the century also were avid collectors of alternate pirate paraphernalia in 1931 they discovered one of these controversial charts in a secret drawer of a 17th century oak bureau that they had purchased at auction wrapped in a brass tube hidden in the secret compartment hubert reveals was a nautical chart of the china seas which denoted an islander where kid hit his treasure apparently sometime shortly after the mutiny of his man at madagascar this charge was the this chart was the incentive for richard knight and fred graham to go searching for kids treasure at pulcock vietnam in 1983. iris had attempted and failed before them in 1933 the palmer brothers bought an old sea chest from the palm lahari of jersey whose ancestor captain thomas hardy of the hms victory had taken from pirate ned ward kids bought swain made aboard the adventure galley the palmers discovered a false bottom in this chest which contained a piece of parchment with the sketch of an island on it mark in red ink in the middle of the island sketch was an axe and written kids treasure but there is no indication where this island is located another sea chest that palmers acquired that same year had the inscription willian and sarah kid their bugs carved into it this chest also contained a secret compartment and the drawing of an island map on old parchment although it was a different island it showed the locations of eight caches of buried treasure belonging to kid again there are no longitude or longitude latitude markings on this map so there is no way of knowing where this island is the palmer brothers are now dead but two cartographers have deemed the kid prime palmer charts as genuine many treasure hunters do they use these shots in an attempt to find those special treasure islands searching everywhere from canada new england and new york to west indies no one yet to my knowledge has found the islands that fit the shapes and topography of kids sketches

if you enjoy this program please subscribe like it and share it in the statement of edward davis of london mariner made during the proceedings against captain kidd in boston and he is one of the excerpts that is more relevant to us treasure hunters and that upon the arrival at the all kills um [ __ ] kills hurry spell h-o-o-r-k-i-l-l-s

her kills in delaware bay there was a chest belonging to one james gillam put ashore there and at gardner's island there was several chests and packages put out of captain kids sloop into a sloop belonging to new york in delaware so in delaware bay kid bought stores and five of the people of luz were thrown into jail by the pennsylvania authorities for having traded with him