Missing Rhode Island Treasure

By Howard M. Duffy
From page 13 of the September, 1976 issue of Lost Treasure
Copyright © 1976 Lost Treasure, Inc. all rights reserved

Nearly 300 years ago, Capt. Thomas Tew, a noted privateer turned pirate, retired to a life of ease at Newport, Rhode Island. He had accumulated a considerable fortune which was well hidden from prying eyes.

In his "Directory of Buried or Sunken Treasures and Lost Mines of the United States," Thomas Penfield stated that Tew's booty was worth in the neighborhood of $100,000. Today, its increased value can only be guessed at.

Old shipmates, however, lured Tew out of retirement for just one more voyage from which Tew never returned to enjoy his fortune secreted somewhere in or about Newport. To this day the old pirate's loot has never been recovered.


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