Terrors of the Sea- Samuel Bellamy

Author:	drgdlg
Location:	Lakemont, GA (United States) [MapQuest] [Yahoo! Maps] [Google Maps]
Plant Date:	April 1, 2005
Clue Last Updated:	June 15, 2005
Status:	active (Last found: Sep 12, 2009)

Samual Bellamy, later to be called "Black Bellamy", was known to be one of the most active freebooters. As legend has it that he was a young English sailor, who traveled to the new world colonies to seek his fortune. He found a wealthy sponsor to finance an expedition South, to search for sunken Spanish treasure. This proved to be unsuccessful, and Bellamy returned home empty-handed, and married.

He soon however, left his wife and family behind in a town near Canterbury to sail the seas once more. As many notorious pirates before him, Bellamy served as an apprentice with Benjamin Hornigold, who was known for his generosity to prisoners, and reluctance to plunder English ships. Bellamy was elected as captain when Hornigold was deposed.

Bellamy proved to be a most successful pirate, mainly in the West Indies. He was known to entertain his crew with flowery orations, of which he considered himself quite the master. The concerned for the well-being of his prisoners, but he favored his crew’s well-being above all else, not to evoke any sinister feelings among them.

His growing carrier came to an abrupt end in April 1717, off Cape Cod, when his fleet was hit by an intense storm, completely capsizing and destroying his ship, the Whydah. Two men survived this tragedy, one disappeared in history, while the other, Thomas Davis, lived on to pass down the intense account of the shipwreck to Cape Cod folklore.

*This biography was taken from http://www.piratesinfo.com/biography/biography.php?article_id=28

CLUES:

About 60 feet from the pool that the Falls on Bad Branch empty into, there is a rock about 5.5 feet long that you can stand on and have a beautiful view of the falls. About 4 feet to the left of that rock is a tree that has a lot of moss near it's base. Samuel Bellamy resides just behind this tree in the fallen log. Please rehide well and make sure he is not visable from ANY direction.

NOTE: To do this stamp as a true represtation, you will need black ink.

Hike Length: 0.4 miles