Treasure Hunting with Boston-Marblehead Pirates-Cape Ann-Damariscove Island-Lynn dungeon-pirate Thomas Veale-Saugus Iron Works

Sitting on a secure Bitcoin network is podcast version of 'Treasure Revealed' https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/treasurerevealed Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TreasureRevealed1 A pirate ship catch sparrow from barbados ducked in boston in 1687. richard naramore a bostonian was the master and according to his testimony he had been hired by 18 pirates at the cost of 40 pieces of eight a piece to deliver them at different places along the east coast from new york to newfoundland these passengers according to naramor were former pirates returning home with the chest of treasure to retire the first pirate to be dropped off dropped off landed at gardner island on long island with two chests a second one went to newport rhode island and two with small chests went to damaras cove in lynn massachusetts once the shoemaking capital of america the citizens were risen recently up in arms the state wanted to build a super highway through the lynnwoods to hook up with interstate highway system the residents won the battle on the road and the road was stopped why you asked lyn doesn't have many wooded sections today and what little remains that people are determined to save also the first shoemaker of lynn a reformed pirate once lived in the woods at a place called dungeon rock two men from nearby marblehead massachusetts spent their entire life searching for treasure there in the 19th century hiron marble tunneled through dungeon rock from the late 1840s to november 1868 and his son edwin continued digging the man-made cave in linwoods until 1880 when he died neither as far as we know found a trace of treasure hiram claimed that a fortune teller had told him that treasure was buried at dungeon rock and that he would find it an old led old lens legend adds some credence to the prophecy a pirate ship sailed into the sagas river bordering the woods in 1657 and dropped anchor four seamen rolled away from the ship and continued up the river as the ship set sail again and returned to the sea never to be seen again besides a few houses there was an iron foundry located on the riverbank it is now known as the sagus ironworks built in 1642 birthplace of america's iron and steel industry a few days after the pirate ship had departed a note was left at the iron foundry door from the four pirates who had rolled up the river into the woods the note read that these men wanted hatchets and shackles made and that if the forge foreman agreed to make the articles and leave them at the edge of the woods they would provide him poundage of silver the formant however was to keep the recent request secret as part of the bargain he posted to his friends about the handsome reward he received for his work word of pirate band living in the linwood spread and soon a british man of war sailed up the river and armed the redcoats entered woods to capture the pirates three of the four were caught napping in the valley some two miles in the woods where they had built a hut and had planted the garden the place today is known as pirates glenn they were brought aboard men of war shipped back to england and the fourth pirate thomas veal escaped the british by retreating deep into the woods and hiding in a cave which is now known as dungeon rock pirate veal made the cave his home and there he crafted shoes from animal ladder which he traded for food and utensils with neighboring lynn villagers rumors spread that veal was harboring a treasure in the cave but no one discovered the truth of this speculation for in the summer of 1658 new england experienced a violent earthquake which blocked the entrance to the cave with the large boulders shutting pirate wheel inside where he supposedly perished records of thomasville as a pirate are scarce but he did sail his catch with 14 pirate crewmen aboard into new london connecticut to buy cannons but this was in the summer of 1685 graham and veal have silver plate and the crew wear plush clothing the governor of connecticut revealed to th