£100,000 TREASURE AFTER 100 YEARS
After nearly 100 years, stocks worth .£lOO.OOO have been romantically discovered in New York hidden between the pages of a copy of the "Faerie Queene," which has been passed, with other inherited possessions, from one family to another, and never opened. Tho treasure might conceivably have remained there for another century had not Mr. 11. S. Enyart, a genealogist, obtained from Dr. William Pierce Seymour. of Troy. New York, permission to look through his collection of family papers and heirlooms in quest of the history of another family wholly unrelated. While displacing the old faded volume of tho "Faerie Queene” he opened it. and from its pages there fell a certificate for 67 shares of stock of New York City Bank. Dated August 19, 1823, the certificate belonged to Thomas 'Williams, greatgrandfather <f the physician’s late wife. At tho time of purchase it was worth ,£2O a share.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 310, 24 September 1921, Page 5
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153£100,000 TREASURE AFTER 100 YEARS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 310, 24 September 1921, Page 5
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