Pirate Captain Kidd part III

Treasure Revealed

Captain kid part III Governor Belmont 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, 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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/treasure-revealed/support