GCV58G Billy Bowlegs' Hidden Dubloons (Traditional Cache) in Alabama, United States created by The Teer Gang

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Hidden : 3/30/2006

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Billy Bowlegs' Hidden Dubloons

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This is located in a community cemetery and is a CITO site, so please help the local community keep the area clean.
William Rogers aka "Billy Bowlegs" was one of Lafittes men. Many books have been written about this pirate. He was rumored to have been married to a Choctaw Indian. He is buried in Mary Esther, Florida near an air base. Around 1910 treasure hunters smashed into his grave and found 2 pots of gold buried in his grave and located an unusual looking tree in the cemetery, which when hit with an axe, poured out silver dollars. He was with the privateer Jean Lafitte in New Orleans and helped Prophet Sam Jones fight the Seminole wars in Florida. When Sam Jones took his tribe deeper into the Everglades and never surrendered to the U.S. government or made a treaty with them, Billy took several hundred thousand dollars in spanish dubloons and hid them in a tree in this area. Har, Matey it is your quest to locate his hidden cache of dubloons.