With the exception of Captain James Kidd who buried treasure on Gardner Island {where it was Later recovered!!} the staple Urban legend is that of the buried Pirate Treasure tale..?
In 1961 "Readers Digest treasury for Young Readers" is a story "Tea Leaves and Buried treasure" by Alton H. Blackington in which two boys George Benner and George Levanselar find a buried treasure near Boothbay Maine after finding a clue in a old pirate trunk left nearly 40 years before with Benner aunt; the two deposit treasure in Boston North Atlantic Bank. No dates are given except Benner aunt {no last name} of Montpelier Vt-who orginally was given the trunk dies in March 1935 age 103.
AS far as I've been able to find Blackington {1893-1963} was a photojournalist/author who worked for the Boston Herald. Interestingly in Google Book references the story is listed under 1951 Riders Digest collections as "History" yet in another reference published 1956 in "More Yankee Yarns" by BLACKBURN himself it is listed under "FICTION"!!!! Prehaps a tongue in cheek clue is that the story is bogus is that in the old trunk is a book by Sir Walter Scott "The Pirate" which was published in 1821-a hundred years after Prirates such as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd off the colonial coasts-hardly something a 18th Century pirate would be reading!!!!
In 1961 "Readers Digest treasury for Young Readers" is a story "Tea Leaves and Buried treasure" by Alton H. Blackington in which two boys George Benner and George Levanselar find a buried treasure near Boothbay Maine after finding a clue in a old pirate trunk left nearly 40 years before with Benner aunt; the two deposit treasure in Boston North Atlantic Bank. No dates are given except Benner aunt {no last name} of Montpelier Vt-who orginally was given the trunk dies in March 1935 age 103.
AS far as I've been able to find Blackington {1893-1963} was a photojournalist/author who worked for the Boston Herald. Interestingly in Google Book references the story is listed under 1951 Riders Digest collections as "History" yet in another reference published 1956 in "More Yankee Yarns" by BLACKBURN himself it is listed under "FICTION"!!!! Prehaps a tongue in cheek clue is that the story is bogus is that in the old trunk is a book by Sir Walter Scott "The Pirate" which was published in 1821-a hundred years after Prirates such as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd off the colonial coasts-hardly something a 18th Century pirate would be reading!!!!
