Posted: Feb. 12, 2021, 12:30 p.m. | Updated: Feb. 12, 2021, 3:40 p.m. | 4 Min Read, © 2020 SaltWire Network. Major Ward’s unit, commonly known as Ward’s Green-Coats, unsurprisingly became particularly notorious and unpopular in the area, with Ward described as a vicious plunderer. Samuel Ball Platner has 11 books on Goodreads with 23 ratings. Dozens of black homes were destroyed and looted. He is the author of three books and numerous academic articles that have earned awards and accolades in Colombia, England, Spain and the United States. The first member of the Ball family to come to America was George Washington's great-grandfather, William Ball (1615- c.1680), who arrived in Virginia in the 1650s and later brought over his wife, Hannah Atherold (died 1694), two of their four children, and several servants. John Barkhouse Sr., James Brewer, George Keddy and John Zwicker, Gold River. With 70 soldiers, Ward saw off the attack by the 1st and 2nd Pennsylvania Brigade and the 4th Continental Light Dragoons, a sum total of some 2000 men. Encompassing some of the names that we’ve already become familiar with, did they use Revolutionary War or masonic cyphers to avoid detection from the authorities? Even if we account for his better than average means thanks to his time with Thomas Ward, there would still seem some question over his financial means and motives. And why did Vaughn, in 1845, assist in the formation of the Truro Company to continue the Oak Island search? Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The first 1856 published account of the tale reports searches in the 1700s and the most common tellings of the story place the event as the summer of 1795. Soldiers were paid around two to three pence a week for their service in the British forces. SAMUEL BALL 1846. The trunks were allegedly found in the 1980s in a mere two and a half feet of water. Other more recent examples even state that all four were present. The Green-Coats were said to have brought nothing but terror to the local population and the Loyal Refugee Volunteers were seen as little more than bandits. The unit was untrained in military procedure, and the company was employed in pioneer duties, including the central purpose of cutting firewood alongside other assorted engineering duties. Did his death in 1796 spark some kind of hunt for his stores? Just how much wealth that Ball could claim at this point is debatable. Ward settled with his family in the area and was granted the land grants that he was entitled as a Major alongside an annual grant of sixty pounds from the British government. With such characters on the island, Oak Island was perhaps not merely the simple farming community that is often assumed. The purchase of Hook Island is also something that at face value is unusual. However, if the tale was accurate, why did McInnis return to the Money Pit in 1803 with the Onslow Company? Perhaps interestingly the late Fred Nolan, a 50 year veteran of treasure hunting on Oak Island, is alleged to have found the remains of at least three empty oak chests while digging in the Oak Island swamp. I looked at her and I saw a light go on. Eventually, Ball settled on Oak Island in 1787, where according to accounts the famous Money Pit was discovered in 1795. Although he sold his land to Samuel Ball in 1788, there’s no reason that James Anderson couldn’t have continued and resumed his illicit high-seas activities, enlisting others from the nefarious collection of ex-soldiers, privateers and merchants on and around the island. John Barkhouse Sr., James Brewer, George Keddy and John Zwicker, Gold River. The tale of Samual Ball is one of courage, intrigue and mystery, encapsulating the very essence of the entire Oak Island mystery. Or maybe the truth could be much less dramatic in that, like all searchers so far on the island, he hadn’t found what he believed to buried at the Money Pit and simply returned in further hope of finding something of substance. Further information on the coin of Oak island can be read in The Coins of Oak Island. SAMUEL BALL 1846. I Give my wife, Catherine, the furniture, wearing apparel and all Joseph Dimock, Anthony Vaughan and wife Catherine. The damage caused to the blockhouse, however, necessitated that the building be abandoned, cutting off lumber supplies to New York. Chester at this time was known as a particular hive of smuggling and privateering, yet likely offered better opportunities and jobs, particularly in farming, than places like Shelburne. Even the existence of the ships tackle hanging from the tree may be apocryphal, as may be the reports of wooden planks or platforms at ten feet. Or was there some other unknown reason for staying? In my childhood, our family lived in various small towns and cities in the South. Will of Samuel Ball, Oak Island, Book 1, pg.37, Dated 1 Oct. 1841, Probated 5 Jan. 1846, wit. By the winter of 1779–1780, the city of New York was almost entirely out of wood, with by all accounts not a single tree being left on Manhattan Island. There is undoubtedly heavy Masonic links to pigpen cyphers and variations were also used by loyalist prisoners during the Revolutionary War. Will of Samuel Ball, Oak Island, Book 1, pg.37, Dated 1 Oct. 1841, Probated 5 Jan. 1846, wit. Will of Samuel Ball, Oak Island, Book 1, pg.37, Dated 1 Oct. 1841, Probated 5 Jan. 1846, wit. Chief among the suspected treasure-finders has been Samuel Ball. After funeral expenses etc. Joseph Dimock, Anthony Vaughan and wife Catherine. 90. Successful, hardworking and unscrupulous, Jack (Affleck) is a Hollywood agent at the top of his game and completely out of kilter with his personal life. But questions still persist as to his reasoning for staying, having endured such hardships in life, would he have allowed sentiment and security to keep him tethered to the island? While the story of Samual Ball lends itself to immense romanticisation, the tale of an escaped slave who won his freedom and died a rich man after finding long lost treasure, there is a real and more sombre story underneath. Joseph Dimock, Anthony Vaughan and wife Catherine. The damage, coupled with a rift in the unit after a falling out between Ward and Abraham Cuyler, led to half the team under Cuyler relocating to Long Island. Matthews, James. Yet we must also remember that pennies of this nature, even as far back as George II, were still in circulation in Canada for a long time following their issue and arrival in the territory, with all manner of coinage being used for trade, even including 4th-century Roman coins! All rights reserved, ROSEMARY GODIN: Cape Breton’s Oak Island connection, ROSEMARY GODIN: Never a year without blessings, ROSEMARY GODIN: Theology of Peanuts never fails to teach. Ward’s company was eventually assigned to Fort Delancey at Bergen Neck, becoming part of the Associated Loyalists where they continued just as effectively and notoriously as before. In 1795, Samuel Ball found love in Halifax and married a young woman, Mary, who worked as a domestic for Treasurer Wallace. The skirmish is in many ways reminiscent of the more infamous Battle of Rorkes Drift where around 150 British troops saw off an attack by 3000–4000 Zulus during the Anglo-Zulu War. Could he have been forced to flee the Shelbourne area before or following the insurrection? communicated to the house of representatives, February 4, 1812. Another tells of how Ward led a group in an attack on the American camp at Kakiat, kidnapping Colonels Joseph Ward and William Bradford. Here we see an entire island exchanging hands for five pounds, which by no means modest at the time, was not inaccessible wealth either and nowhere near the sale price of a private island in the 21st century. Following his death, the island passed to Issac Butler and was eventually sold to Archibald Rafuse in 1884, currently being in private hands and, to all knowledge, having ever undergone an archaeological search. The Truro Company’s J.B. McCully, writing the first account of the tale in the Liverpool Transcript in 1862, makes no mention of Ball’s involvement. Samual Ball died on December 14, 1845, at the age of 81, being survived at least by his then-wife Catherine (with no record of what happened to Mary) and a grandson Simeon, both named in the will. The island, a three-acre piece of land not far from Oak Island, was bought from Daniel Vaughn for the sum of five pounds. Joseph Dimock, Anthony Vaughan and wife Catherine. After funeral expenses etc. The black loyalists founded Birchtown next to Shelbourne, and the community would be the largest settlement of free black citizens outside of Africa across the entire globe. Did he camp here with other soldiers sometime after his evacuation to Nova Scotia? A regular soldier would not have had many possessions or much finance at this stage of his life. Book/Printed Material The topography and monuments of ancient Rome, Contributor: Platner, Samuel Ball Ward and his loyal men meanwhile headed to New York after burning the blockhouse. pg 201 Samuel Ball's will made 16th Aug. 1751, probated 22d Nov 1751, Culpeper Co. Va. Will Book 1, p. 60. Black citizens were forced almost entirely from Shelbourne and into Birchtown, segregating the communities and depriving black loyalists of jobs and employment in the more prosperous Shelbourne. Executors Rev. | https://linktr.ee/MichaelEast, Further information on the coin of Oak island can be read in The Coins of Oak Island, Memphis In The Rearview Mirror of Civil Rights, The Strange but True Story of the Plague that Caused Europeans to Dance to Death, Women Who Changed the World of Tech Part 4/5, Esoteric Daoism and the Rise of the Three Kingdoms in China, Dubois, Double Consciousness and Mulattoisation of America. There are no direct contemporary accounts for treasure being sought on Oak Island. The Will of Samuel Ball I stumbled across this today. Learning, language, and cognition. He was finally ordered to Bergen Point in the Jerseys under Major Thomas Ward. Freelance writer. Perhaps further excavations at the site in the future might reveal new data that can better pinpoint both a time and purpose for the camp. Further questions will be asked about potential smuggling operations on the island and just how he might have acquired riches many say were beyond his means. All this is speculation however and, as before, would not explain various personalities returning to the Money Pit over many years. However, Ball is a common enough surname and George II pennies that were found alongside the tag, dated to the early 1700s, would also seem to preclude any involvement of Samual Ball. In 1795, Ball married a Halifax woman named Mary. It seems likely that Samuel was well acquainted with at least two of the finders of the money pit, appearing to have struck up a friendship with the Vaughn family in particular. The enigmatic Ball was a former American slave born in South Carolina in 1765. 255 12th Congress.] Many have determined that Samuel Ball, the former slave that fought for the British to earn his freedom and later settle on Oak Island found the treasure. However, alongside their official duties, the unit soon realised that they could increase their income by staging raids throughout the local area, confiscating rebel-held livestock, horses and personal possessions and selling them on for profit. In the Ball family, the tale of Wambaw Elias and his slaves passed as a children's story. Jeremiah Rogers at lot 27 may have been a privateer as was James Anderson (who had also been a spy and once charged with high treason) at lot 26, from whom Samuel Ball would eventually acquire the land in 1788. Produced by Johns Hopkins University Press in collaboration with The Sheridan Libraries. Wayne retreated as he learned of British reinforcements being summoned. Perhaps feeling that he was amongst friends and family, Oak Island, despite its many trials and tribulations, was a home. Was this a simple mistake or the result of false information in one of the cases? You can join my mailing list for the latest articles and also like my Facebook page. Perhaps this inspired him to return to the pit in 1803 to carry out a much more in-depth and more detailed search than in 1795. Green --pt. Samual Ball’s friendship with the Vaughn family has already been noted. Isaac Fisher. Sometime in the 1800’s, Mary passed away. The artefact was suggested to be from the butt of a pistol by Drayton, and online researchers have speculated that the tag is in fact broken in half, with the full label having originally read “Samuel Ball, Grenadiers”, having instead perhaps have come from a rifle. Laird needed to file for “new” permit to excavate on Ball’s property, to see if Samuel Ball found something relating to treasure and the Money Pit. What Hook Island was utilised for, we can’t be sure, yet the mystery is one that is full of suggestion. In July of 1794 mobs of landless white settlers attacked black loyalists and government officials during the Shelbourne Riots, also encompassing Birchtown. Executors Rev. They had three children, Andrew (1798), Samuel (1801) and Mary (1805) all born in Chester. I’m also active on Twitter. Between 1776 and 1783 the British forces occupied New York where thousands of families loyal to the Crown fled seeking sanctuary after having their property seized by the rebels. While 1795 is taken as the date of the Money Pit being located, this is by no means particular and close enough to Anderson’s death to be questioned. I can be contacted for projects through my website MichaelEastWriter.com where you’ll also find lots more content. Daniel Vaughn, brother to Anthony Vaughan Sr (One of the original Oak Island inhabitants as the owner of lots 15 and 17) and uncle of Anthony Vaughn was a privateer in the employ of the British. Yet, the 1870 book The History of the County of Lunenburg, lists Ball as one of the men enlisted by McInnis to aid in the initial excavation efforts at the Money Pit. Helen said there was a settler on Oak Island by the name of Samuel Ball, a black man, and she gave me a citation to a book … Ball, like his three contemporaries, had a job of work to be done, had a worldly experience that would unlikely have led him to flights of fancy — so what was it exactly that led these men to persist and persist in digging at the Money Pit? “Your Memoralist has no lands but, what he has purchased, never having got any from government, and there is a four acre lott vacant, №32, on Oak Island, joining a lott purchased by your Memoralist. Rich enough to afford to purchase the highest-priced lots in all Lunenburg County, his first in 1787 for the sum of eight pounds, which would have bought him twenty times as much land on the mainland. A deserter from the Continental Army and former spy for the British, Ward founded the Volunteers with Abraham Cuyler, mainly as a financial endeavour rather than through any real desire to help the war effort. Executors Rev. II. However, Ball’s service with Major Ward and the division of “loot” amongst the entire unit may have allowed him more coin in his pocket than most other veterans of comparative rank. But in Sydney on Monday, Sam Ball was a far cry from his picture-perfect online persona. Having reportedly suffered a bad experience during his time in Shelburne, here on Oak Island, however, by all accounts, Ball was respected and well-liked within the small community. July 18, 1781. Perhaps none of these characters, however, have a tale as remarkable as that of Samuel Ball. Learning and teaching / Samuel Ball ; Intellectual development in infancy and the preschool years / Janellen Huttenlocher ; Language comprehension in education / Walter H. MacGinitie ; Educational technology : the state of the art / Edward J. Executors Rev. Over the many years that searchers have hunted for the fabled Oak island treasure, the quest has thrown up innumerable tales of sacrifice, endeavour and fortitude. Later, in Season 4, the cross is examined and judged to be from the Spanish West Indies, dated sometime between 1550 and 1700. One particularly uncharitable piece of correspondence on Major Ward declared that “those associates with him were negroes, and vile creatures of his own race.”. 2017 Reprint of 1865 Edition. Still survived by descendants in the Maritimes, including the eighth-generation journalist F. Stanley Boyd of Halifax who died in 2010, little is known about Ball, who was among 3,000 Black Loyalists who arrived by 1785 as settlers in Shelburne at the end of the American Revolution. Joseph Dimock, Anthony Vaughan and wife Catherine. These skills and histories lend well to rumours of smuggling, hidden treasure and secret codes. McGinnis alone found the depression in the soil that we now know as the Money Pit, returning with Vaughn, Smith and perhaps Ball. Born into slavery in South Carolina in 1764 or 1765, Samuel Ball escaped life on the plantation by joining the British forces during the American Revolution. The History of Lunenburg County also recalls that Ball was one of the first people summoned by Daniel McInnis upon the discovery of the Money Pit. His daughter Margaret was not then married, and William was not twenty-one years of age. In later editions, Ball’s name is replaced by that of Vaughn. My mother’s people came from treasure Oak Island in Chester and my mother’s maiden name was Ball. In 1793 Daniel sold his own lot on the island and set up a shipbuilding business in St. Martin, the same St. Martin where there were numerous rumours of smuggling, just like in Chester. Unless, of course, in the interim McInnis came to believe that the group had not recovered the entirety of the treasure at the first attempt. The men of these families, alongside many escaped slaves, were enlisted into loyalist regiments and companies. Ward and Cuyler identified New York’s lack of wood as the ideal source of revenue and Bergen Neck as the best source of the raw materials needed, putting out a call for men in 1779. This unit was in some ways comparable to today’s private military contractors. Samuel is one of the more interesting characters associated with the island. Sadly, Platner died before the work was completed, and Ashby eventually published it in 1929. The code, named the La Formule Cipher, had allegedly been hidden behind a stone in Daniel’s house on Oak Island. It is here that we can only enter speculation. Hook Island is today known as “Sam’s Island.”. Letter Journal of Joseph Ball II, 12 January, 1743 to 3 December, 1759 and Letter Journal of Rawleigh Downman, 12 March, Samuel Ball Platner’s most popular book is A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. And could Samuel Ball have been one of the major players in such an enterprise? There has been some speculation that Samual Ball was a grenadier, based off an artefact recovered on Oak Island by metal detectorist Gary Drayton, as depicted in the History Channel’s The Curse of Oak Island. Writing on true crime, mysteries, politics, history, and more. Equally, other descendants of McInnis also dug on the island, which again would seem to stand against the theory. This chapter was written by Samuel Ball and originally published as an ETS report in 1979. Will of Samuel Ball, Oak Island, Book 1, pg.37, Dated 1 Oct. 1841, Probated 5 Jan. 1846, wit. One thing that we can be sure of, however, is that Ball’s story is perhaps one of the most underlooked aspects of the entire saga, all be it also remaining one of the most interesting. Pioneer units served as early military engineers, scouts and raiders, often working in dangerous and extreme situations under heavy enemy fire. Among his many friends, he could count on one of the treasure hunters, Anthony Vaughan who was named as executor of his will. It could be theorised that the group elected to keep the discovery secret to deter not only brigands and thieves but equally the government and possible legitimate owners of the treasure. Had the two men perhaps known each other in Shelburne, Chester and now Oak Island? Donald McInnis, who like Samuel Ball is a refugee from the American Revolutionary War, is in-fact the Daniel McInnis who will soon make the discovery of a lifetime. Not anything added to the hunt but thought it was interesting. After living in the area for a total of 23 years, Ball petitioned the government for the land promised to former slaves in 1809 and was granted four acres more on Oak Island. Executors Rev. His story is of a man who escaped a supreme injustice only to find himself amongst the terrible horrors of war, a story of a refugee to a foreign land who through sweat and toil carved a legacy. While it might seem likely that any encampment on the island by British forces would have taken place sometime between 1727 and 1760, the years of George II’s reign, we cannot rule out that the camp was from a later date and that the tag did indeed come from Samuel Ball. I am entirely self-funded and if you liked this article, please consider a donation via Patreon as a token of appreciation or directly via PayPal. Ball was one of ETS’s most active program evaluators for 10 years and directed several pacesetting studies, including a large-scale evaluation of the educational effects of Sesame Street. Ed. Given this promise of land and his release, the teenage Ball fought with the British troops during the revolution, having joined in his native South Carolina under Lord Cornwallis and then serving under General Clinton in New York. Shares went to each man involved in the cutting and collection to the wood, with all claims dependent on rank. They recanted a family legend that McInnis had, in fact, found three treasure chests in the Money Pit in 1795, keeping its discovery secret and even presenting a gold cross that had allegedly been part of the original find. Another theory, however, suggests that while the cyphers and “treasure” is legitimate, the explanation is something far less legendary than the likes of the Holy Grail and Spanish riches. While he could have purchased land cheaper on the mainland, as a black man at the turn of the 1800s, Ball might not have found as welcoming a community as the one he had settled into. For all the speculation of smuggling, finding treasures or secret riches, this is just that — speculation. Will of Samuel Ball, Oak Island, Book 1, pg.37, Dated 1 Oct. 1841, Probated 5 Jan. 1846, wit. One exciting claim surrounding the famous Oak Island “Ninety Foot Stone” and it’s alleged (but unverified) cypher is that it is a relatively simple substitution “pigpen” type cypher. Still, interestingly it’s Vaughn’s past that might lead some clues as to more illicit activities on Oak Island beyond farming and perhaps the nature of Hook Island. This blockhouse, protected by a stockade, ditches and even a subterranean entrance tunnel, was the scene of a notable skirmish in 1780 (the Battle of Bull’s Ferry) when General Washington ordered Anthony Wayne to take the blockhouse. Many researchers and enthusiasts point to the land accumulation of Ball as evidence of extreme wealth, perhaps looking through 21st-century eyes. In a Season 3 episode of the History Channel’s The Curse of Oak Island, three descendants of Daniel McInnis presented a new theory as to what happened on Oak Island, particularly about any treasure that may have been buried there. Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Samuel Ball Platner books online. In 1870, Mather Desbrisay's book, "The History of Lunenburg County", also included Samuel Ball, a Black Loyalist, oak island resident and farmer, as a co-discover of the Money Pit. If the tag was truly once the property of Ball, was it discarded at a later date to the other items found? The couple would have three children: Andrew, Samuel, and Mary. Tales of smugglers using caves and mine shafts in their activities is a story as old as that of the hidden treasure itself, but one based in truth. It is worth noting that McInnis was also in Shelburne at the same time as Ball, purchasing a lot in the town in 1784 and also moving on to Chester where Samuel Ball would also relocate. Those loyal Refugees of the Province of New-York, who are inclined to take arms, are requested to meet at La Montaign’s, now Amory’s House, on Friday next at four o’clock in the afternoon, and on Saturday, the day following, at Beat’s Tavern, Jamaica, Long-Island.”, Loyal Refugee Volunteers Recruiting Notice, New York. 2001 A Bridge of Books (Documentary short) 2000 Pleasures of Urban Decay (Documentary short) (as Samuel Ball) 1996 Rubbish (Documentary) 1996 Zimbabwe Wheel (Short) Show Producer (10 credits) Show Writer (5 credits) Show Editor (1 credit) Edit Personal Details. Zetetic Astronomy is a key work of flat-earth thought, just as Donnelly's Atlantis, the Antediluvian World is still considered required reading on the subject of Atlantis. 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