RE: Oak Island = GUNN

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 07:35 12/10/00 -0300, you wrote:

>The recent find of the Gunn coat of arms on Oak Island has grabbed my
>attention though. Unlike the Westford Knight which would be a
>memorial to a fallen comrade, why was the Gunn coat of arms punch
>marked into the rocks and not Sinclairs', if it was his
>expedition ???
>
>All The Best,
>
>Kathleen
>
>
>         Sorry, I missed this. What recent find of the Gunn Coat of arms 
> on Oak
>Island?...this is the first I've heard of it...
>
>                                                 rob cohn
>


Very interesting, Malcolm, Rob, Tim, Marilyn, Randy and I walked (stumbled) 
all over Oak Island
in the competent hands of Dan Blenkinship, who owns half of the island and 
who has lived there for
two score years and more, and we didn't see anything which looked remotely 
like a Gunn or
Sinclair coat-of-arms.

The reason why we have the Gunn coat-of-arms at Westford is because Sir 
James Gunn died
there.  I am quite sure that there would have been more than one Gunn  and 
more than one Sinclair
with Prince Henry and, on such an expeditiuon, there would have been many 
deaths from scurvy,
dysentry, fever etc.  The panacea for every illness was treacle and 
sulphur.  It was still in use in my
youth and it may still be in use today (under some pharmaceutical disguise).

More info on the coat-of-arms, please.  I'm sure Dan and the rest of us 
will be pleased to hear about it.

Niven Sinclair




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