{"id":498,"date":"2017-05-09T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/?page_id=498"},"modified":"2022-09-18T04:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T04:05:17","slug":"mahone-bay-oak-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/atlantean\/maritime-puzzles\/mahone-bay-treasures\/mahone-bay-oak-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the American Revolutionary War start in 17th C Acadia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Private triangle mercantilism<\/strong><br><em>A smuggler&#8217;s entrep\u00f4t during the Ancien R\u00e9gime? <\/em><br><em><a href=\"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/05\/Verwer_Sailboats_at_sea-1-e1494326354686.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-304 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/05\/Verwer_Sailboats_at_sea-1-1024x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"441\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>The puzzle:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><em>Lime was available for sale in 17th C Boston: And yet there were no known local deposits until 1697. Limeslake and whitewash [both gypsum (lower value substitute); and limestone whitewash)] are high demand staples and higher demand, high status luxury items.<\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Hypothesis: <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><em>The &#8220;treasure&#8221; of Acadia is gypsum and limestone deposits. Colonial supplies of limeslake and whitewash [both gypsum (lower value substitute); and limestone whitewash)] are scarce, taxed &amp; controlled in New England and Placentia (Newfoundland). With British colonists substituting the lowest quality oyster shell whitewash in such quantity that harvesting is restricted to protect the oyster fishery. <\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Subordinate Hypotheses:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>The original idea:<\/strong> <em>The &#8220;treasure&#8221; of Mahone Bay &amp; Oak Island is lime and gypsum sold in lime-bereft 17th Century Boston.&nbsp; <\/em>Acadia has 17th-18th century kiln works and some of the evidence may be submerged. <em>Mi&#8217;kmaq, Dry Fishery traders and Acadian partners burnt the lime. Influential intermediaries smuggled untaxed lime into New England as a luxury product until 1697; whilst continuing to smuggle it as a private staple tradable in Acadia, and Placentia (Newfoundland), and every private &#8216;trade triangle&#8217;.<\/em><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Testing:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Sample deposits: <\/strong><em>Obtain samples across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, and Rhode Island** to compare with 17th C building plasters in Boston, MA.<\/em><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Bring aboard industrial and marine trade archaeologist with 17th C expertise, to develop hypothesized locations of shore-side works.<\/strong> <em>This derived from proposal to calculate sea-level rise, reverse-engineered back to the 17th century. Idea: Archaeological markers been drowned by the 0.4m-1.4 meter (m) average sea-level rise, post-1604. This process is happening with current sea level rise, such as is being recorded at the Fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island.<br><\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Did the revolutionary ideas of English colonists originate from the Acadia trade?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Acadians were famously disdainful<\/strong> <em>of the distant French King and his corrupt bureaucracy.<\/em><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>New Englanders<\/strong>: <em>Harvested the roots of American revolutionary thinking during the private Acadian trade.<\/em><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>With all this private trade:<\/strong> <em>Circumventing French and English Lords Proprietors and Royal tax collectors, did American colonial <\/em>tax-independence-mindededness <em>get rooted in the diked marshlands of Port Royal, and Beaubassin, and Grand Pr\u00e9?<\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"928\" height=\"696\" class=\"wp-image-2101\" src=\"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/boston-market-timeline-to-1697.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/boston-market-timeline-to-1697.png 928w, https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/boston-market-timeline-to-1697-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/boston-market-timeline-to-1697-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>** There is an anomalous report concerning a deposit in Rhode Island.<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Larger image of timeline: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/boston-market-timeline-to-1697.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Sailing Fleet Image: <\/strong>Public Domain<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private triangle mercantilismA smuggler&#8217;s entrep\u00f4t during the Ancien R\u00e9gime? &nbsp; The puzzle:&nbsp; Lime was available for sale in 17th C &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":169,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498\/revisions\/2762"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}