History of the County of Lunenburg

Mather Byles DesBrisay, 1895. William Briggs, Toronto (2nd ed.).

The county history whose second edition carries the standard early printed account of the 1795 discovery and the first digs, written a century after the event from local tradition. It is the account most later books copy.

Oak Island money pitBookChecked against the original0

What it's used for here

The baseline printed narrative; dated and used as a 1895 record of what was then believed, not as a record of 1795.

Cited by on this site 7 records

Pirates or privateers (Kidd is the usual name) buried loot in the late 1600s or early 1700s.

Answer

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Early printed sources on Oak Island (Canadiana scans)

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Nova Scotia was a war zone through the period, and Halifax a naval base from 1749.

Evidence

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The island was settled, farmed and logged from the 1760s and has had continuous activity since.

Evidence

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The pirate reading is the one DesBrisay records as local belief.

Evidence

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Mather Byles DesBrisay

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The Oak Island money pit

The mystery article

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Cite it

DesBrisay, M. B. (1895). History of the County of Lunenburg. William Briggs, Toronto (2nd ed.). https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.27055

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DesBrisay, Mather Byles. “History of the County of Lunenburg.” William Briggs, Toronto (2nd ed.) (1895).