CAPTAIN KIDD'S TREASURE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 233, 19 October 1877, Page 9

CAPTAIN KIDD'S TREASURE.

A Southampton, L. 1., letter says :—": — " Kidd, the pirate, on his way from the West Indies to Boston, anchored in Gardiner's Bay in I(>'JB. He landed on the island, and buried a box of gold, silver, and precious stones. Gardiner was entrusted with the secret, and his life was to answer for its safety. In July, 1G!)1), when Kidd was captured, aa account of the deposit was found in a memorandum book, and a commission was sent to secure the treasure. Kidd was executed in May f 1701, and when Gardiner learned that his life was safe, and his plantation not likely to be pressed by the foot of the notorious freebooter, he revealed the j>laGC where the treasure was buried. The commission . conveyed it to Boston. Among the papers of John L. Gardiner was found a memorandum and receipt of the treasure, as follows : Three bags of gold dust, containing ]30 ounces : two bags of gold bars, containing HOI ounces ; one bag of coined gold, 11 ounces ; one bag of coined silver, 12 ounces ; one bag of broken silver, 173 ounces ; two bags of silver bars, 521 ounces ; one dozen silver buttons, and one lamp, 29 ounces ; one bag, containing three silver rings, and sundry precious stones, i ounces ; one bag contained one piece of Bristol and Begvar stones, two carnclian rings, two small agates, and two amethysts, this is but a part of the property recovered. The whole memoranda covered thirteen sheets of paper, most of which have been lo.st.