Re: Oak Island and the Speedy Return

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@matrix.net>]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: bruce carlyon <Bruce_Carlyon@syncsoft.com.au>
>To: 'sinclair@mids.org' <sinclair@matrix.net>
>Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 3:29 PM
>Subject: RE: Sinclair Dates
>
>
>> Can anyone answer these two questions?
>> 1. Where did Thomas Green and Gunner do there pirating, and for how
>> long?  Oak Island has a plaque with 1704 written on it.
>> Could they have written it and been in on the secret?
>> April 11. In 1705: Green hanged. Thomas Green, captain of the Worcester,
>is
>> hanged on Leith Sands with his mate and gunner,    having been found
>guilty
>> of pirating the Speedy Return..

That's an ingenious theory.  Around here somewhere I have a book about
the Company of Scotland, which I will endeavor to locate and use to look
up further information about Green and the Speedy Return.  As near as I
can recall, they never went anywhere near Nova Scotia, but it's been a
long time since I last read it.

John S. Quarterman <jsq@matrix.net>
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