# DesBrisay 1895: History of the County of Lunenburg

> Mather Byles DesBrisay, 1895. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The baseline printed narrative; dated and used as a 1895 record of what was then…

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# 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 pit** BookChecked 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.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/answers/ANS0D52XH9851J3/pirates-or-privateers-kidd-is-the-usual-name-buried-loot-in)

Answer

ANS

[Early printed sources on Oak Island (Canadiana scans)](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0D52XJZY0K7C/early-printed-sources-on-oak-island-canadiana-scans)

Dataset

DAT

[Nova Scotia was a war zone through the period, and Halifax a naval base from 1749.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52XJ0P3XJ8/nova-scotia-was-a-war-zone-through-the-period-and-halifax-a)

Evidence

EVD

[The island was settled, farmed and logged from the 1760s and has had continuous activity since.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52XGHT7271/the-island-was-settled-farmed-and-logged-from-the-1760s-and)

Evidence

EVD

[The pirate reading is the one DesBrisay records as local belief.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52XHH24ZDY/the-pirate-reading-is-the-one-desbrisay-records-as-local)

Evidence

EVD

[Mather Byles DesBrisay](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/people/FIG0D52WW9C6P7K/mather-byles-desbrisay)

FIG

[The Oak Island money pit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island)

The mystery article

MYS

## 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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[Read it free at canadiana.ca](https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.27055)

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**SRC** 0D52WMZ008BP

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Book

Rights

public-domain

Kept

27 Oct 2026

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Against the published original

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