Captain Kidd Treasure Charts!!

Hi Sue, Thanks for the link, the author is certainly a prolific, writer and entrepreneur!.

I have a small item of interest, one man who made more money, than most of the pirates, was a supplier of provisions, to them.

He became one of the richest men in New York, (New Amsterdam), he died in 1702 with a Baronial estate, stretching 21miles along the Hudson.

His name was, Frederick Philipse, he arrived in New York, from Holland, in 1647.
He Supplied the "Kingdom of the Pirates".................Known as "Libertalia", this is not a fictional place, it was.......... Madagascar.!

Kevin.
Ps, The other chart, is closer to home......... than you think??

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Hi Sue,

Closer to you than you think,................if you recall, one of my earlier posts, you will remember, you said, that you think, Corn Island, probably had Treasure on it!

I replied, that I was looking at, a couple of islands, off Honduras!!
yes that close,....remember the company, who had acquired rights to search, that area and had found evidence of a pirate ship.............well!

How, or why, did the pirates pick a base, so far from their natural homes!
Firstly their home was their ship, secondly Madagascar, was on the main route for all shipping to the near and far east.
Thirdly the island is massive, with many good anchorages, the main pirate base was on the North East of the island, a natural lagoon with a small island within it called St Marys'.

Kidd and many, many, others used this base, to careen and restock their ships, they also stripped and sank many of the ships they pirated!.

The area around the base is littered with sunken ships, although they will have nothing of material value, on them.
All the guns, provisions and iron aboard, would have been stripped off them.
The pirates helped the local indigenous, princes, who were constantly at war with one another, this story is so immense, that I will relate it to you in length.
What galls me a little, is that some guy wrote and filmed a documentary, about Kidd's ship, the Adventure Galley, which Kidd scuttled at St. marys', as she was worm ridden after nearly three years at sea, the worm in question, was called the Toledo worm, it eats into the ships wood, like a termite and is found in tropical waters.
Kidds ship was becoming unseaworthy, so he changed ship to the Adventure prize, one of the ones, he pirated, and sunk his original ship in the harbour...........Why! someone would want to find Kidds' ship, which would have been stripped of anything valuable, is beyond me??

It would make more sense to search for Kidds', the "Adventure Prize", which is rumoured to be scuttled up a river inlet, on Hispaniola.
But thats' yet another story!
Best wishes Kevin.

Ps.So much useless info running around my mind, glad that you are such a good listener!
 

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Hello everybody, I'm new to this site and was just browsing through some of the threads.

Your reading way into those maps, you keep talking about the lagoon and where they anchored the ships which you are "Correct". There is alot more staring right at you. Sue was very close, but I'll let you rejuvinate this topic for a little bit. As soon as I seen those maps it hit me like a ton of bricks.

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fortunately it's not what I "think" I seen, it's what I know I saw  .  I'm going to do some verifying to be sure but I'm about 98% positive of what I saw. Believe me I wouldn't be saying this if I wasn't sure, I'm not that type of person.

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Welcome from me as well BF750.  I too am interested in hearing your ideas about this.  I'm always up for hearing more ideas and input on something.  Can't wait to hear the ideas you have on this subject.

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