H.Poirot schrieb:Es gibt außer den üblichen Medienhypes keinen einzigen ernstzunehmenden Beweis für eine Urheberschaft von William Kidd. Ich finde zumindest keinen und auch in der Literatur wird nichts dazu erwähnt.
Irrtum !
Es ist zwar wieder nur aus wiki, aber mit den Quellenverweisen.
;)Wikipedia: Gardiners IslandPrivateer William Kidd buried treasure on the island in June 1699, having stopped there while sailing to Boston to answer charges of piracy. With the permission of the island's proprietor, he buried a chest and a box of gold and two boxes of silver (the box of gold, Kidd told Gardiner, was intended for Lord Bellomont) in a ravine between Bostwick's Point and the Manor House. For her trouble, Kidd gave Mrs. Gardiner a length of gold cloth, captured from a Moorish ship off the coast of India (a piece of which is now at the East Hampton library), and a sack of sugar. It is said that Kidd warned that, if the treasure was not there when he returned, he would kill the Gardiners, although trial testimony given by John Gardiner on July 17, 1699 makes no mention of any threats, and Kidd's conduct appears to have been quite civil.[8] Kidd was tried in Boston, and Gardiner was ordered by Governor Bellomont to deliver the treasure as evidence. The booty included gold dust, bars of silver, Spanish dollars, rubies, diamonds, candlesticks, and porringers. Gardiner kept one of the diamonds which he later gave to his daughter. A plaque on the island marks the spot where the treasure was buried.[9][10][11]
8. New England Historical and Genealogy Register, Vol. VI, pp. 72-84. A verbatim report of John Gardiner's testimony taken before a board of government commissioners at Boston.
9. Jeannette Edwards Rattray, PIRATES AND PROHIBITION from East Hampton History (1953, Country Life Press, Garden City, NY) on longislandgeneology.com, accessed January 12, 2007
10. Richard Zacks, The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd, pp. 153-159, 241, 260
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http://archive.easthamptonstar.com/ehquery/980625/hist1.htm\East