- Jun 1, 2012
- 5,036
- 7,168
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett ADS-7X, Fisher Two Box M-Scope, Mother Lode Locator, Dowsing Model 20 Electroscope, White's TM808, White's TM900, Inground Scanners
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
While everyone is making claims of deciphering and figuring out different roads to search for the Beale Treasure, I am only researching trying to prove the story is a hoax or did it really happen. I have found no evidence out West. I have checked all of the Spanish Archives which you can obtain on line. Years ago I had to get them on Inter-Library Loan.
No I always loved a saying that grandma said on "Pure Country" "go to the roots that is where you will find him" And that is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years. I have been to Sandusky in Lynchburg to seek out diaries and letters-------nothing new there although I have not gotten a copy of the last Hutter that lived there and I am in the process of getting it.
I have searched the roots of Robert Morris. I found his father and mother and his three sisters and their children and some of the children's children. I have found Sarah Mitchell's father and mother and some of her brothers and sisters and scores of nieces and nephews of both of them. I have found no wedding certificate from Loudoun County, Virginia but I do believe they were married between 1812 and 1814 that is when they showed up in Lynchburg, Virginia and started buying up everything in site. Robert Morris was quite a wealthy man being left money from a Will of Robert Morris that signed the DOI. Robert Morris of Lynchburg being his half nephew. I have copies and verification documents of all this information.
I also have the deeds from Campbell County, Virginia that gives me the location of the James Beverly Risqué Plantation. It was a plantation of 306 acres. After inheriting the property for his father and mother, James Beverly Ward sold off one half of the plantation northern land for $1,000.
I have found that the house where Robert Morris died was owned by a surgeon of the Revolutionary War and he married Robert Morris's niece. The surgeon died in 1864 and Robert Morris died in January, 1863. Also Sarah Morris, Robert Morris's wife died in 1861.
The one half tract of land of the JBR Plantation was sold off by James Beverly Ward's son, Charles Bell Ward sometime after World War II to finance a college education for siblings of the family.
I have found three cemeteries on this plantation property but no headstones to identify James Beverly Ward, his father and mother, his wife and his children. Two of James Beverly Ward's children died before the American Civil War.
James Beverly Ward died in Lynchburg at the home of his daughter that married a McVeigh. McVeigh was the lady that let Peter Viemiester make a photocopy for his book on the Beale Treasure the Red Copy and then the Blue Copy.
That all I can say for now about the roots until I do some more digging. I hope to find a Thomas J. Beale somewhere among the roots in Campbell, Bedford or Botetourt County.
No I always loved a saying that grandma said on "Pure Country" "go to the roots that is where you will find him" And that is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years. I have been to Sandusky in Lynchburg to seek out diaries and letters-------nothing new there although I have not gotten a copy of the last Hutter that lived there and I am in the process of getting it.
I have searched the roots of Robert Morris. I found his father and mother and his three sisters and their children and some of the children's children. I have found Sarah Mitchell's father and mother and some of her brothers and sisters and scores of nieces and nephews of both of them. I have found no wedding certificate from Loudoun County, Virginia but I do believe they were married between 1812 and 1814 that is when they showed up in Lynchburg, Virginia and started buying up everything in site. Robert Morris was quite a wealthy man being left money from a Will of Robert Morris that signed the DOI. Robert Morris of Lynchburg being his half nephew. I have copies and verification documents of all this information.
I also have the deeds from Campbell County, Virginia that gives me the location of the James Beverly Risqué Plantation. It was a plantation of 306 acres. After inheriting the property for his father and mother, James Beverly Ward sold off one half of the plantation northern land for $1,000.
I have found that the house where Robert Morris died was owned by a surgeon of the Revolutionary War and he married Robert Morris's niece. The surgeon died in 1864 and Robert Morris died in January, 1863. Also Sarah Morris, Robert Morris's wife died in 1861.
The one half tract of land of the JBR Plantation was sold off by James Beverly Ward's son, Charles Bell Ward sometime after World War II to finance a college education for siblings of the family.
I have found three cemeteries on this plantation property but no headstones to identify James Beverly Ward, his father and mother, his wife and his children. Two of James Beverly Ward's children died before the American Civil War.
James Beverly Ward died in Lynchburg at the home of his daughter that married a McVeigh. McVeigh was the lady that let Peter Viemiester make a photocopy for his book on the Beale Treasure the Red Copy and then the Blue Copy.
That all I can say for now about the roots until I do some more digging. I hope to find a Thomas J. Beale somewhere among the roots in Campbell, Bedford or Botetourt County.
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