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Captain William Kidd was an honest and law-abiding businessman. In 1697 he entered into a privateering contract with the British Crown and New York Governor Bellomont.
In 1699, Kidd was arrested for plundering £20,000 of gold, jewels and riches from the ships of the Great Mogul of India. He had made a deal with the King and Governor to share the riches, but they chose to hang him instead. Except for what he shared out to his crew and some loot buried on Gardner’s Island, most of Kidd’s treasure, worth in excess of $20,000,000 today remains missing. What happened to the booty? Did Kidd hide it where it has never been found? Did the Crown cover up the truth and hang Kidd to keep its secret?
More than three hundred years later, Captain Kidd’s last voyage still creates wonder and the hunt for buried treasure.
