More with your map fetish. You've piped up multiple times with this silliness in all these threads, so by now we all are aware of your allegation. And yet ... we still find the Oak Island history and mystery intriguing enough to discuss. Your premise is proven false, even on such a small sampling. There's no reason to think that the results would be any different on a larger scale.
Just going by what said the water changed from freshwater they could pump to massive amounts of salt water they couldn't.
Oak Island hydrology generally consists of a fresh water lens sitting atop denser salt water. So it makes perfect sense that once they breached the aquifer, it would start as freshwater but once that was pumped out it was replaced with an infinite amount of salt water.
Richard Smith and John Gifford, merchants from NY, were granted a fishing license and operated out of what was called Smith's cove. There's not much known about it. What is known is that it did not last beyond 1758 or 59. It had became impossible to do commerce in the vicinity of Lunenburg, because native raids were leading to the slaughter of the colonials. The problem was not "solved" until the Treaty of Peace was imposed on the natives in 1760. Oak Island was subsequently included in a planned township that was surveyed in 1762 by Charles Morris. When Morris had charted the Bay in 1751 there was nothing a OI. The French Acadian village of Mirligueche was located on the opposing mainland.
I guess it's great that you want to offer us this level of detail, but you are still not citing your sources, making verifying your data rather tricky. For example, in trying to corroborate this alleged bit about a fishing operation, I found a link that claimed the island was "sold" to fish merchants in 1753, but it had no data about any actual private industry being conducted there. I would like to add such data to the body of verifiable facts if indeed it is such, but I'm not willing to just take the word of any old forum member who says so. I'm sure you can understand that. I find it strange that you wouldn't want to share all your sources up front for the betterment of the group, to help raise the level of dialogue and whatnot.
You'd agree that this doesn't match the popular timeline, right? Most works peg it at 1803-1805. The common wisdom is that we don't have documentation for Onslow's existence, so again I must ask for your sources in claiming that they operated nearly five decades later than most believe.
I appreciate this level of detail and based on my genealogy research, i recognize records from the 1700s through 1850 are sparse. The only records are land records and wills. Thats how I found Thomas Beale in Iron Gate, VA. That's why any stories from this timeframe are impossible to prove. I do agree with GravelTeeth, ths Onslow company was around 1803-1805 and made up of the three boys. However I have no souce for those claims other reading online.
The sources are primary documents I don't have coordinates for. I believe you can access that information about these licences from documents on the NS archives page. A licence was granted covering a specified area. If you go looking down the genealogy websites you will encounter a mention that they operated in NS waters near Mahone Bay only for a short period. It is admittedly not much to go on.
That is a correct dating for the Onslow suggestion. I mistakenly referred to Onslow when I should have said Truro. In reality, the two place names are for neighboring communities separated by 7 miles. I had always assumed the registered Truro group were just a group that had been previously described as hailing from Onslow. But, the intent of giving two names referring to one small region is likely to present Twin realities (two faces concealing one reality). The fact the stories mesh with the Twin T "mystery" of the Triple Tau are thus well served with this detail that seems out of place in a historical context. In the T T mystery you start off with the discovery of a stone with strange symbols on it. It's an omen for events to take place 40 years later.
Yes, But humor Albert (Franklin). He perceives himself with vivid mind and believes he tells just the facts, but often includes a bit of fiction, especially concerning the treasure around Danville, VA.
