Treasure Hunting in Connecticut - Housatonic River-Fairfield-Hampton-Penfield Reef-Farmington River

Treasure Revealed

Sitting on a secure Bitcoin network is One and Only podcast version of 'Treasure Revealed' episodes https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/treasurerevealed Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TreasureRevealed1 Just east of the present day town of fairfield lies the site of a famous battle of 1637 1637. the colonists defeated the piqua and it was the final battle in the pequod war now the pequot war was an offensive war against the piqua tribe ordered by the general court in hartford on may 1st 1637 the pequots were originally from hudson valley in new york the mohawks also from new york and who were friendly with the pequot in earlier times sided with the colonists and i think this was the determine that determined the outcome because mohawks are very fierce warriors and they actually killed the uh sasukus which who is the chief descender the sahan during that time of piquants and um also over 600 uh members of the tribe from the fort fled but were overtaken in this town by the english this was a native american village site called ankaway this fertile valley was settled by the europeans who returned after the area was discovered by the military who went uh through here chasing the piquates to sasquatch swamp which was the final battle of the pique war this war ended in 1637. though there is a marker explaining this event the swamp uh is completely filled today but still the area is worth exploring in 1888 george hockley found five large caches of gold and silver coins all dating 1795 at the beach near penfield penfield reef this treasure is said to be from a pirate ship that landed or wrecked here in 1882 in 1931 documents were discovered that reported pirates did take cracks and buried them on the beach near penfield reef the penfield reef lighthouse constructed in 1874 is part of the national register of historic places this reef is considered one of the most treacherous areas of western long island sound and numerous shipwrecks have occurred there have have happened now so even though the chests were found there's always possibility for some spillovers for something else so do explore that area as well of course in 1658 this tag bridge tribe tribe attacked the tunxis tribes fort in farmington at little meadow on the east side on the farmington river many native american artifacts have been found here which include arrowheads war axes one pump beads and stone bottles if you enjoyed this program please subscribe like it and share it gulat fort is the site of a bloody bottle during king philip's world litis island is not really an island but during flood stages there is water all around the area creating an island so the ladies island is the side of that bottle in june 1777 the british were repulsed from the area by the colonists again i don't have to explain to you why this place is so valuable to explore blackbeard or a teach the famous pirate is said to have buried treasure in hampton in a granite wall in 1938 a man named katie c-a-d-y owned property in the horde's valley section called the jewett homestead a stranger came to his home named barney reynolds and told a strange tale he said that he was the direct descendant of the captain edward teach also known as blackbeard he said that he had a map that told of blackbeard's treasure buried here it was under a stone shaped like a horse head followed a southeast line across the road to a boulder that looked like a dog's head the map then pointed south across a brook to the fish carved on the stone which looked directly at the treasure side he would do all the work if caddy would pay for the equipment to dick carly agreed but all but all he saw was a pit dog and nothing else reynolds disappeared forever it is possible that blackbeard anchored off new london unloaded his ship and walked north on the nipmuck trail perhaps to evade pursuers cuddy's home was just off the mipmak trail a place where many paths intersected however if reynolds found the gold he certainly did not share it n --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/treasure-revealed/support