Old Sword Found in N Carolina..

[coffeecup]

This is a great story.. I posted the link but pls delete if not allowed..


Mother-daughter duo believes they found centuries-old pirate sword in small North Carolina town


https://www.wfla.com/news/national/...ld-pirate-sword-in-small-north-carolina-town/

 

[cw0909]

interesting story,not sure if the Lorenzo Ferrer
of lincolnton nc, is the Mississippi Lorenzo Ferrer
that bought land there in 1840
i searched "lorenzo ferrer lincolnton nc"
and thought these finds interesting
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land bought by lorenzo ferrer in hinds county mississippi,
@ the mount salus land office feb.10.1840
Caswell County Genealogy
https://caswellcountync.org/genealogy/photos/Lorenzo Ferrer.jpg
https://caswellcountync.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I73878&tree=tree1

searched the BLM he owned land in Copiah county,MS.3 parcels sec.24
https://glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx?searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0



CLIPPED FROM
The Gastonia Gazette
Gastonia, North Carolina
22 Nov 1970, Sun • Page 29
https://img.newspapers.com/img/thumbnail/4301586/400/400/876_1742_291_369.jpg
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8541990/lorenzo-ferrer/

HISTORICAL TABLE OF LODGES WHICH FOUNDED THE GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
EXTINCT LODGES, AND LODGES CREATED BY THE GRAND LODGE OF NORTH CAROLINA
SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1787.
https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/faids/mss/inv_images/masons.pdf

 

[Bridge End Farm]

This is a great story.. I posted the link but pls delete if not allowed..


Mother-daughter duo believes they found centuries-old pirate sword in small North Carolina town


https://www.wfla.com/news/national/...ld-pirate-sword-in-small-north-carolina-town/

Neat story, thanks for sharing Now I wonder if his loot also made it there and not buried somewhere along the gulf coast

 

[gunsil]

Funny no good photos of sword. Looks like a German cavalry sword to me. I gotta call BS on this story.

 

[ARC]

Funny no good photos of sword. Looks like a German cavalry sword to me. I gotta call BS on this story.

Not only that... i think that this would be the first sword I ever saw that had a name spelled out ON the scabbard... anyone who was a "pirate"... especially a known pirate who was on the "most wanted" list to carry around so anyone who saw it could identify him.

I also smell something... and it ain't rust.

 

[Doubloony]

Lafitte, still confusing those that chase him, 200 years later. I highly doubt that British 1796 saber has any link to him at all. I'm not even sure it is a 1796, as they do not give me, or any of us, a close enough look at it. It could be German, even early 20th century. I have heard he was fond of the rapier, so I'm not sure why he would have carried around a heavy cavalry saber, it must have been quite the burden, especially with his name on it for all to see. Just another story to muddy the water, and I expect a new one next year, as they pop up every year or so.

 

[cw0909]

a little better look at sword

 

[Doubloony]

Funny no good photos of sword. Looks like a German cavalry sword to me. I gotta call BS on this story.

The more I look at it, given the short amount of time given in the video, it does look German to me, the hilt is slightly canted downwards, which gives the knuckle bow a different angle as well. I don't think that is a 1796, it looks more like Prussian/German second half of 19th to WW1. A lot of these, along with 96's from England, were sold to the South at the outbreak of the war. I would be willing to bet this one was on board one of those shipments.

 

[ARC]

The main rumor claimed that Lafitte rescued Napoleon from exile... and both of them remained for the rest of their days in Louisiana... and have very little word on NC.

This was BB's story.

No evidence supports this NC thing...even in "stories / "legends"... and it has been the Louisiana story that has and was the most told.

 

[Sod Buster]

Seems to me like the whole story is an attempt to sell copies of their book. May not be, but sure seems like it.