I saw a notice from Joseph Sackett in the N-Y Gazette Revived: about 11 
years ago Johannes Closson had told him that he had found a mine on 
Sackett's property in Orange County; they agreed on terms for opening 
it, but Closson died.  He told his widow that "he had found a Mine, and 
that he dug very shallow, and could heave it out by Bushels, but he 
covered it up carefully; and that it was near a Spring, and not far 
from a Brook" and an elderly Dutch man said that Closson had said that 
if he lived seven years "he should be a Gentleman."  Sackett offered 
£300 to anyone who knows where the mine is, or a choice of several 
partnership arrangements]
	N-Y Gazette Revived, August 3, 1752, p. 3, col. 1

Did the poor man ever find his mine?

What the mine produced is not specified.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern 
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

"We have seen the best of our time.  Machinations, hollowness, 
treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our 
graves."  King Lear, Act 1, scene 2 (Gloucester speaking).