Pirate Captain Kidd part IV

captain kid part four dance he sailed for long island sound enter it from the eastward end and made for new york cautiously anchoring in oyster bay nowadays uh seditiously avoided by male factors of great wealth it was his purpose to open negotiations with belmont at long range if you don't know captain's kids story you can definitely find out more i'm just gonna focus on what's relevant to us

belmont was a governor of massachusetts who was his former uh who was his partner however he was going after kid and kid wasn't sure whether to trust him or not so he opened a negotiation with the lord belmont at long range holding his treasure as an inducement for a pardon to be pardoned

from being a pirate being at least labeled a pirate from oyster bay he sent a letter to a lawyer in new york james emmat emmod who had before then defended pirates and also a message to his wife emma was asked to serve as a go-between and he hastened to join kate on the sloop explaining that belmont was in boston there upon the antonio this is the sloop the kid was using it's actually called saint antonio or saint anthony it's the same slew so antonio waded anchor and sailed westford westward as far as narragansett bay now this is why i was quoting this because this definitely talks about him being in narragansett bay some of the events i'm presenting here are the same events but are presented from different accounts with different point of view and with additional information so i'm not repeating myself i'm just adding information which is very useful for us treasure hunters kid suspected belmont's intentions and decided to leave his treasure in safe hands instead of carrying it to boston with him now follows the documentary narrative of the authenticated buried treasure of captain kid at the eastern end of long island sound is a beautiful wooden island of tree of three thousand acres which has been owned by the gardiner family as a manor manor since the first of them lionel gardner obtained a royal grant almost three centuries ago in june of 1699 john gardner third of the line of proprietors cited a strange sloop anchored in his island harbor and rolled out to make the acquaintance of captain william kidd who had crossed from narragansett bay in the san antonio what happened between them and how the treasure was buried and dug up is told in the official testimony of john gardner dated july 17 16 99 i quote before we fall to digging up the treasure of gardner's island carried a short in the chest of box of gold it is well to follow those other goods which were carried away in the sloops about which so much has been said by the said john gardner now all of the plan that transfer from kit sloop to those other craft work was cosigned to him and some of it was put ashore at stamford connecticut in charge of a major seller who had a warehouse hired by the sound clark was arrested by order of belmont and gave a bond of 12 000 pounds that he was delivered up all up to the government this he did without doubt but the legend has been busy with this enterprising whisking club so in the connecticut river of the upper end of pine meadow near northfield massachusetts is clark's island which was granted by the town to william clark in 1686 and confirmed to his ears in 1723 it then contained 10 and 3 4 acres and was a secluded spot well covered with trees later what with cutting of the woods and the work of the freshers a large part of the island was washed away it was here traditional hazard that some of the kids treasure was hidden by whisking clark the local story is that kid and his men ascended the river though how they got over the series of falls is not explained and made a landing at clark's island here having placed the chest in a hole they sacrificed by lot one of the number and laid his body on top of the treasure in order that his ghost might forever defend it from the fortune secrets

on october 20th 1699 belmont wrote in a letter to england

i have prevailed with governor went trump of connecticut to seize and send thomas clark of new york prisoner header he has been on board kit sloop at the east end of long island and carried off to the value of about five thousand pounds in goods and treasure that we know of and perhaps a great deal more and he carried that into connecticut colony and taking himself safe from under our power written by luton governor of new york a very saucy letter and paid us defiance i have ordered him to be safely kept prisoner in the fort because the goal of new york is weak and insufficient and when orders came to me to send kid and his men to england which i long for impatiently i will also send clark as an associate of kid three days later lieutenant governor of new york wrote belmont belmont as follows clark proffers 12 000 pounds good security and will and oath deliver up all the goods he hath have been entrusted with from kid provided he might go and fetch them himself but says he will rather die