Solving the Beale Papers

[Rebel - KGC]

Yeah, they asked me, too. Told 'em that I wasn't interested & to get in touch with you... GOOD LUCK! Info that I have on James Beverly Risque's Plantation/Farm came from several "sources"; along the James River with Dreaming Creek; up past Judith Creek (from Boonesboro) on Rt. 151 North near Eagle Eyrie on the right side; CAN be seen from Sandusky (home of the Hutters). Will look for "Net Sources", tomorrow.

 

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[Rebel - KGC]

PV has a WONDERFUL chapter on "JBR" in THE BEALE TREASURE: NEW History of a MYSTERY, Chapt. 14 - Man of Connection, pg. 119-127. BEST info from PV: "About 7 miles out of town (L'burg), and 3 miles from Poplar Forest, was Risque's other residence, a farm that he called 'Hunter's Hill'. From 1817-1829, he assembled parcels totaling more than 500 acres on Dreaming Creek, near the road from New London to Lynch's Ferry, thereby enlarging his plantation." (p. 122).
NOW! To get up-dated, the road from New London (once in Campbell County) is... TURKEY FOOT ROAD! I kid you not... AND! Off of TFR is MIDDLE TOE ROAD, that at one time, ended at a POST OFFICE of the US GOV'T! The community was named Geranium, and is part of the FOREST, Va. "area" (BEDFORD VILLAGES: Lost & Found, Vol. 2, pg. 100-102. NOW! By MAP, it DOES look like a TURKEY FOOT, with the MIDDLE TOE cut off (MAP, p. 100.) It gets BETTER! One "Toe" is Rt. 811, THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGHWAY (to Poplar Forest)... SHOCK!

 

[releventchair]

Last couple paragraphs mentions Giles ( the 3rd?) But no mention of burial. Has James & wife going to Lynchburg after leaving the farm.
Old news probably.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/campbell/history/chronicles-families-ward.txt

 

[Rebel - KGC]

It's the LAST paragraph & has "JB" & Harriet Ward's kids in it... GREAT to do R & I from. I had seen it before & forgot about it; THANKS, "rc"!

 

[masterpoe]

I have solved the Beale Papers and invite you to read my new book, which is formatted as a proof - the link to which is attached below.

I will answer any and all questions relating to it.

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[Cryptography]

Book marketing?

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[Rebel - KGC]

That's what Facebook is for.

LOL!

 

[ECS]

Masonry as the Solution: [/B]I am very clear in the preface of my book that it is in support of Joe Nickell's theory, made 35 years ago, that the Papers are Masonic. This wasn't the original impetus however. Nickell made the argument but had very little evidence. Were there additional examples? Anything at all? I believe that not only is there but that the evidence is a slam-dunk.

Illuminati Connection: I explore it simply to point out that the Cryptic Degrees have a very very unusual pedigree, but I make the same conclusion as you do; it may be the author himself believed in a connection, but there is no proof whatsoever that he did or that there was/is one, but I could see, particularly in an age with limited exposure to information, why he might have.

The use of 23 and Robert Morris/ss- I do not see 23 solely as a reference to Robert Morris but rather that the repeated and overt use of the number is a 19th Century-version of a computer's "back door": find a 23, pursue it, and you typically will find examples where this 23 produces an "answer" of sorts which cannot be viewed as coincidence. As there are 23 mistakes when the original DOI is compared with the Beale DOI, and 23 extra commas as well, and that the DOI is the primary encoding device, it cannot be a coincidence that Signer Robert Morris' signature is also the 23rd on the DOI. What I suggest is 23 is ultimately NOT the point of the exercise. It was used over and over to "get you there". If you can find that you are finding a way in. There are also additional connections to the Signers as well, but I believe the primary purpose of 23 is to find 33, as there are 56 total signatures on the DOI, and the remainder (56-23) is 33- and indeed, the name Morriss is used 33 times in the Papers.
Is this enough proof to say the Papers are Masonic? I don't thinks so, but there are so many additional allusions, that in total, the conclusion can be made. What I'm also suggesting about 23 is that one needs to keep it in one's back pocket and apply it to everything. It doesn't always produce, but more often than not, in a document which was purposefully manipulated, 23 reveals. This is as evident in Cipher #1 as it is with Cipher #2. That's the purpose of 23 in this instance; to reveal.

Grids: Thank you for acknowledging my theory about the grids. I'm old enough to have a degree in design obtained prior to computers, so when I see a layout done as badly as the Beale Ciphers it made me wonder why they were done. The most obvious example of bad spacing is Cipher #3, in which a single number is left on the last line. No printer worth his ink would have ever let that pass, particularly when there was plenty of room on lines north. This was clear evidence the lines were intended to live where they were placed, which meant their positional locations were as important as their value.
The Beale Ciphers are to be treated as grids, and treating them this way has produced some incredible results: a solution to the Gillogly String, the creation of the constellation Phoenix, and many others...

Freeman is not the first to claim the BEALE PAPERS is a Masonic allegory.

 

[ECS]

Yes it has, but this is goes far deeper. I'm including a very nice review and summary found on the "Beale Cipher Analyis" website.

"Since its inception, this website has maintained a policy of not promoting books and other Beale-related materials for sale. Now, a powerful new study compels me to make an exception. Many pundits have suggested that freemasons were the authors of The Beale Papers but the secretive nature of this organization has made research into this claim near impossible. Following years of perseverance this author has achieved a convincing and detailed exposure. Most theories on Beale fall into one of two categories. The first is based on a list of coincidental similarities in dates, events, and personalities between real history and the Beale story; the second consists of attempts to solve the ciphers without any, or little, historical correlation. It is a rare jewel indeed which presents a plausible solution to the ciphers supported by specific and elaborate historical events. This book is just such a gem. "Solving the Beale Papers", written by Paul Stewart of Stafford, Virginia, contains a viable, as well as verifiable, solution to the oldest remaining unsolved cipher mystery in the United States; the infamous Beale Papers, first published in 1885. It is an investigation which derives its beginnings from the exploring of a suggestion made by famed skeptic Joe Nickell, who concluded in his 1992 book “Mysterious Realms”, the Beale Papers were Masonic in origin, stating: “...Beale and his treasure are illusory- merely part of an allegory meant to evoke the anticipated Masonic discovery of the secret vault and the inestimable treasures, with the long-lost’ word'... “. Although Nickell’s assertion was made over two decades ago, no one, including Mr. Nickell himself, has ever done a deeper dive into the Papers, to prove whether or not his statement was in fact a correct one- until now. The result of this investigation into the Beale Papers as a Masonic document, has produced a conclusion which completely, and unequivocally, validates Mr. Nickell’s theory; the Papers are not authentic but Masonic, and were produced by a very specific branch of Freemasonry which had come of age in 1880, just five years before the Papers were first published.


A sample from the book:


"Because the Cryptic General Grand Council could not claim jurisdiction over Virginia or its recently-created sibling West Virginia, I believe it was accomplished cryptically and symbolically through allegory embedded into the Beale Papers. This is why the Papers are centered in Virginia, why the name Robert Morriss; the Mason who coined the term “Cryptic Rite” for the Royal and Select Masters, is the same name as one of the Papers’ main characters, why the American Declaration of Independence and its own connection to signer Robert Morris, was used as the Papers’ key document, and most importantly why the years of Beale’s treasure hunt correspond exactly to the years Jeremy L. Cross and his counterpart James Cushman, established the first Cryptic Rite Grand Council in Virginia. This one-to-one connection between key dates in Beale’s letters to Morris and events in the early history of Cryptic Rite, is critical to comprehend, for they provide the first verifiable links of the authorship and purpose of the Papers.


For example, is it coincidence that:


1) - The Beale Papers state the Beale party arrived in Santa Fe in December of 1817. Jeremy L. Cross created the first Cryptic Council at Richmond on December 25, 1817.


2) - The Beale Papers state gold and silver was discovered by members of the Beale party approximately in the middle of March, 1818. The two Degrees of Royal Master and Select Master were first combined by Jeremy L. Cross on March 21, 1818.


3) - The Beale Papers state the Beale treasure was excavated until the summer of 1819. Once Jeremy L. Cross perfected his system for the organizing of Royal and Select Masters Councils he commenced the issuing of warrants in the summer of 1819 based upon this system for all existing and future Councils.


4) - The first deposit was made by Beale in November of 1819. In November and December of 1819, “The True Chart or Hieroglyphic Monitor” the first book containing the Degrees of Royal Master and Select Master was published by Jeremy L. Cross.


5) - The second deposit was made by Beale in December of 1821. On December 8, 1821, after nine Cryptic Councils in the Commonwealth of Virginia were constituted, the Cryptic Grand Council of Virginia, the second in the nation, was formed.


All of these connections point to the legitimacy of Virginia’s Grand Council- not its illegitimacy and eventual disbandment in 1841. These dates allude as well to the recent victory of independence achieved by Cryptic Rite in 1880, and its first meeting of its independent General Grand Council in 1883- a victory Virginia could not participate in due to rash actions taken almost four decades earlier. The Papers are in fact a series of Masonic allegories acknowledging all of this, and co-written I believe by one or two of its high-ranking officers of the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters"


The Beale Papers are not what they appear to be on their surface. Their true purpose, and what they are actually hiding, is far more profound than ever imagined. So, what are the Beale Papers hiding?

 

[ECS]

"Beyond its historical problems, the easiest way to prove the Papers are in fact a fiction, is to simply check the author’s work against his word. In the Beale Papers, the author provides us with what he says was the encoded message contained in Cipher #2, stating he achieved it by using the Declaration of Independence as its key; first numbering the words of the famous document (When (1) in (2) the (3) course (4) of (5) human (6) events (7) etc), followed by a replacement of each of Cipher #2’s numbers with the first letter of the equivalently-numbered words taken from the Declaration. To help the reader follow along, the author provided a number-keyed version of the Declaration in the Papers. According to the author, Beale’s encoded message contained in Cipher #2 stated the following;

“I have deposited, in the county of Bedford, about four miles from Buford’s, in an excavation or vault, six feet below the surface of the ground, the following articles, belonging jointly to the parties whose names are given in number “3” herewith:
The first deposit consisted of one thousand and fourteen pounds of gold, and three thousand eight hundred and twelve pounds of silver, deposited November, 1819. The second was made December, 1821, and consisted of nineteen hundred and seven pounds of gold, and twelve hundred and eighty-eight pounds of silver; also jewels, obtained in St. Louis in exchange for silver to save transportation, and valued at $13,000.
The above is securely packed in iron pots, with iron covers. The vault is roughly lined with stone, and the vessels rest on solid stone, and are covered with others. Paper number “1” describes the exact locality of the vault, so that no difficulty will be had in finding it.”

But does it really say this? When Cipher #2’s message is checked against the formal Declaration of Independence (the “official” document engrossed by Timothy Matlack- not the one provided in the Beale Papers or unofficial “versions” produced later), it actually produces in some sections, an almost completely unreadable message; one littered with 141 errors (out of 762 total letters- see below):

“I hare deposcted in the copnty ol Bedoort about four miles from Bulords in an eocaration or rault sio fest below the surlacs of ths gtount ths fotlowing artgciss beaonging joiptlf to the parties whosl namfs ste gireo in number thrfl hatewith
Oha first deposit cootistcd of tgn hpodred and loprteeu pouttr of gold aod tsirtf eight supdted and tweire pounds of silrer deposited Nor eighteen nineteen. The second wao abds Dec fighteen twentf onl bnt aonsintad oh ninetfln husdred and seren pobnda oo gold bod twelre hundted aod eightf eigst of silrer aiso aewels obtained in St. Touit in eochange to sbrs trinsportation aod raluet as thitteeo rhousand dollars.
The abore is secwtflf packsd it ton pots wits wroo corers Tht rault is rougslf lined wtts stone and the resselr rest on solid stone and are corsrfd uish othats. Paper nuaber one descrialr thc aoaat localitf oo tsa rarlt oo that to difoicultf will lc sad to finding it.”

But the evidence which truly, and without question, convicts the Beale Papers as a fictional document occurs however, when the numbers of Cipher #2 are run once again; this time using the version of the Declaration provided with the Papers by its unknown author. And while it’s not mistake-free either, when this Beale-version of the Declaration is used, the amount of errors drops substantially; from a whopping 141 mistakes to just 28; or an 18% error rate to just 3%. This should be impossible for a number of reasons, the primary reason being simply that if the ciphers were produced by Beale in 1821 he could only have produced them using the official version of the Declaration, as there were no unofficial textbook versions which differed from the original, created that early. There is also a substantial amount of numbering and word mistakes found in the Beale-version of the Declaration, and thus by rights, it should not track so closely with the numbered letters of Cipher #2 - and yet it’s very obvious that it does.

Using the Beale Paper-version of the Declaration, the following message is provided; not exactly the error free version contained in the Papers, but close:

“I have deposited in the countf of Bedford about foir miles from Bufords ln an ercavation or vault sir feet below the surface of the grount the following articles belonging jointlf to the parties whose names are given in number three herewith
The first deposit consisted of ten hundred and fourteen pounds of gold and thirtf eight hundred and ttelve pornds of silver deposited Nov eighteen nineteen. The second was made Eec eighteen twentf one and consisted of nineteen hunared and seven pornde of gold and twelve hundred and eightf eight of silver also jewels obtained in St. Louis in erchange to save transportation and valued at thirteen rhousand dollars.
The above is secrrelf packed it ron pots with iron covers. The vault is roughlf lined with stone and the vessels rest on solid stone and are covered uith others. Paper number one describes thc eract localitf of the varlt so that ho difficultf will be had in finding it.”

At a minimum, the version of the Declaration provided with the Beale Papers was clearly patterned after one of any number of unofficial 19[SUP]th[/SUP] century textbook versions of the official document, each of which took a variety of “modernization” liberties with the official wording and format of the original. For example, in most of these later versions, all of the proper nouns capitalized on the official original; such as “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” have been changed to lower-case and become; “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. This too has occurred on the Beale DOI (“DOI” short for Declaration of Independence).
Additionally, a modernization of spelling evident in these 19[SUP]th[/SUP] century versions is also present in the Beale DOI; “unalienable” becoming “inalienable”, “mean time” becoming “meantime”, “shewn” becoming “shown”, “neighbouring” becoming “neighboring”, “compleat” becoming “complete”, and “endeavours” becoming “endeavored), as well as a dropping of plurals; “migrations” becoming “migration”, “legislatures” becoming “legislature”, and “attentions becoming “attention”. Many of these unofficial 19[SUP]th[/SUP] century versions also divert from the original, by the adding of three words; “a, “made” and “the”, as well changing the word “forms” to “powers”.
But the Beale DOI also has peculiarities unique to itself. It contains ten words which are different from the original DOI, and which are also not found on any later unofficial versions of the DOI; “their” instead of “these”, “when” instead of “whenever”, “now” instead of “more”, “their” instead of “the”, “depositary” instead of “depository”, “of” instead of “for”, “offered” instead of “affected”, “in” instead of “into”, “connections” instead of “connection” and a dropping of an “of”. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, many 19[SUP]th[/SUP] century versions make two additional changes to the original DOI which the Beale DOI did not follow; the removal of a plural (“dangers” to “danger”) and an adding of a hyphen (from “fellow citizens” to “fellow-citizens”).
None of these changes, other than “unalienable” to “inalienable”, “forms” to “powers” “more” to “now” and “affected” to “offered” would affect the message produced by Cipher #2, as the starting letter of these words were never used in the cipher, but the adding of words as well as the deletion of others, should have thrown the numbering of the cipher off completely- and yet it doesn’t. For Cipher #2’s message to have improved by 15% using a highly flawed number-keyed version of the Declaration- with added, deleted and entirely changed words, one can only conclude that the author of the Beale Papers and the author of Cipher #2 are in fact the same person and that the message of #2, supposedly written in 1821, was in fact encoded using the Beale-version of the Declaration in the 1880s; both written to serve the other. There can be no other explanation nor are there any credible alternative conclusions unless one makes considerable excuses for the author’s faulty encoding techniques.
Unfortunately and historically, this is what has occurred. Most researchers today are fully content in giving the author the benefit of the doubt, and accepting of the fact that the version of Declaration included with Papers actually “works” provided the following modifications are made to it first:

1) - a word is added after the word "institute" but before the word "laying"

2) - a word is added after "invariably" but a word is removed before the word “design”

3) - after the word "houses" but before the word "be"- ten more words must be also be
removed.

4) - after the word "eat" another word must be removed before the word “to”

5) -after the word "foreign" but before the word "valuable" a thirteenth word must be removed.

Furthermore, once these modifications have been established, the first letter of the 811th word "fundamentally", must be given the value of "y", while the first letter of the 1005th word "have", must be given the value of "x"- and most incredibly, even after all these modifications there are still four spelling errors in the message of Cipher #2 which cannot be cured and have been chalked up by most credible Beale researchers as simple transcription errors on the part of the author.
And it is this acceptance by the Beale “research community” (such that it is), of these “mistakes” as honest mistakes, and in particular their subsequent corrections, which is the primary cause of why the Papers have remained unsolved. It is much too forgiving as well as assumptive, that these mistakes are in fact accidental, and/or uncaught mistakes. This presumption subsequently provides an incorrect backdrop from which all acceptable work has then been predicated upon as well as accepted by other Beale researchers. The solution to the Papers is actually far simpler- demonstrably so, in fact.
If the Beale ciphers were written in 1821, they could have only been encoded using the official Declaration produced in 1776, as there were none of the later textbook variations of the document available to the layman in 1821. Subsequently, even if we give the unknown author the benefit of the doubt; that he was ignorant of this fact, and incorrectly used a modern version to decode Cipher #2, the 141 mistakes created by using the original, versus the 28 produced by the version included in the Papers, suggests otherwise.
The Beale-version of the DOI contains elements only found in the official original DOI as well as elements found in later unofficial textbook versions of the DOI- meaning Beale in 1821 would also had to have had access to both- an obvious impossibility, thus the unknown author IS Beale. So why didn’t he use the older official one to ensure historical accuracy? Again, the obvious answer is the right one; either he was sloppy, or he purposefully manipulated it."

Opinion?

 

[Rebel - KGC]

NEVER gonna find it in reading a book; gotta go through the rituals of Royal Arch Masonry; I have...

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Freeman is not the first to claim the BEALE PAPERS is a Masonic allegory.

True...

 

[ECS]

Are the conclusions presented by the Enigmatist concerning a Masonic connection a possibly solution for the purpose of Ward's Beale Papers pamphlet?

 

[Edgychris]

Keeping searching

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Are the conclusions presented by the Enigmatist concerning a Masonic connection a possibly solution for the purpose of Ward's Beale Papers pamphlet?

Not in MHO...

 

[ECS]

'NUFF SAID!

 

[Rebel - KGC]

'NUFF SAID!

LOL!

 

[ECS]

...I know the Beale frustrated you for over forty years, so I've got a lot of sympathy for your position. It took the intervention of Providence and other people's prior work for my success, otherwise I could have been you.
Anyway, if we get permission, and you come by to visit (I think you're in Virginia as well?), a memento for you too (but just a coin or two no bag).

Whatever happened to tad10 and his "successful" solve of the location of Beale's vault?
Did he ever give that coin or two as he promised a certain TN member on post #172?

 

[jhonnz41]

The treasure is located 4 miles from Buford's...This is a fact..
The treasure is roughly lined with stone...This is a fact..

But you guys said the treasure is a hoax..so whatever..

 

[Rebel - KGC]

YOUR opinion...