Box 5
Folder 1. Treasure – Virginia
Item 2. Correspondence
Transcribed Text (OCR)
GARY MANGIACOPA ARCHIVE ============================================================ Title: B5F2I2 Slug: b5f2i2 Categories: Lost Treasure Source: https://garymangiacopraarchive.com/b5f2i2 Pages: 1 scanned, 1 extracted OCR: Google Vision API (document_text_detection) Processed: 2026-06-06 ============================================================ Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society, Incorporated Kerr Place Onancock, Virginia 23417 February 16, 1978 Mr. Gary S. Mangiacopra 7 Arlmont Street Milford, Conn. 06460 Dear Mr. Mangiacopra: In reply to your letter of February 6, 1978 I regret to advise that we have no records of a treasure discovery that occured in February 1888 by Lorenzo Mears. However I do suggest that you write to the Public Library, Accomac, Virginia 23301 and they may have some information that may be of some help to you%;B and if you you are ever on The Shore please feel free to stop in at the Public Library. I regret that we have no further information that would be of any help to you. Sincerely yours, E.S. OF VA. HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. I Forque, In John D. Fosque, Jr., President JDF/sad
And one of your videos you mentioned the state of Maryland but you have nothing listed in box 5 from the state of Maryland and it was one of Blackbeard’s places
Yes, Maryland is one of the 11 states on which there are NOT any folders in this box. The other ten states that are missing are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.