Captain James Anderson (c.1748-1796) was a Maryland sea captain who took the American patriot's oath in 1776, defected to the British in 1778, was charged with high treason by Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson, escaped to Nova Scotia, and lived on Oak Island from 1785 to 1788 as the owner of Lot 26 before selling to Samuel Ball.

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Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, holds Oak Island on its southern shore. The Mi'kmaq called the bay Sebetre and Mush-a-Mush. The French administered it for sixty-five years as Mirligueche, surveying it for naval oak under Louis XIV in 1684 and granting it as a seigneury to Captain Pierre Denys de Bonnaventure in 1702. The name Mahone Bay first appears on a 1736 British chart by Captain Thomas Durell.

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Oak Island is a small island off Nova Scotia, Canada, where people have dug for more than two hundred years in search of something buried beneath it. Discovered in 1795 as a strange depression with man-made oak platforms below, the Money Pit has never given up its secret. The search continues today.

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