Grand Island, NY Treasure, any info appreciated.

[Mtollner]

Anybody want to get together and metal detect it. Im from GI

 

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[Honest Samuel]

Anybody want to get together and metal detect for coins and jewels in Connecticut. Sent PM.

 

[chriszyyyz]

 

[chriszyyyz]

That's what i found in the area in 2013

 

[Honest Samuel]

Welcome applecrack to our website where the best treasures that you may find in life is friendship here. Best of luck in finding any treasures.

 

[Proolio]

Has there been any update on this? What was in that hatch? I'm in the Williamsville/Amherst area.

 

[Honest Samuel]

9. Please pictures.

 

[Smaclane1812]

Has there been any update on this? What was in that hatch? I'm in the Williamsville/Amherst area.

Any updates on this? I'm from the attica/batavia area and would love to find more info on things in the wny region

 

[crashbandicoot]

Hello applecrack

I do not vouch for the authenticy of the story but maybe you might find some interesting information in it if is researched a little more?

In the early colonial days, Grand Island, in Niagara River, was the home of a Frenchman, Clairieux, an exile or refugee who was attended by a negro servant. During one summer a sloop visited the island frequently, laden on each trip with chests that never were taken away in the sight of men, and that are now supposed to be buried near the site of the Frenchman's cabin.

Report had it that these boxes were filled with money, but if well or ill procured none could say, unless it were the Frenchman, and he had no remarks to offer on the subject. In the fall, after these visits of the sloop, Clairieux disappeared, and when some hunters landed on the island they found that his cabin had been burned and that a large skeleton, evidently that of the negro, was chained to the earth in the centre of the place where the house had stood. The slave had been killed, it was surmised, that his spirit might watch the hoard and drive away intruders; but the Frenchman met his fate elsewhere, and his secret, like that of many another miser, perished with him.

In 1888, when a northeast gale had blown back the water of the river, a farmer living on the island discovered, just under the surface, a stone foundation built in circular form, as if it had once supported a tower. In the mud within this circle he found a number of French gold and silver coins, one of them minted in 1537. Close by, other coins of later date were found, and a systematic examination of the whole channel has been proposed, as it was also said that two French frigates, scuttled to keep them out of the hands of the English, lie bedded in sand below the island, one of them with a naval paymaster's chest on board.

Any truth to the yarn thats what ya need to find out?

Crow

Good story Crow,I love stories like this,true or not.

 

[crashbandicoot]

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Intriguing,amazing even!

 

[Myth legend]

Time to go Magnet fishing