Editing William Kidd (section)

==Mythology and legend==
The belief that Kidd had left [[buried treasure]] contributed greatly to the growth of his legend. The 1701 [[Broadside (music)|broadside]] song "Captain Kid's Farewell to the Seas, or, the Famous Pirate's Lament" lists "Two hundred bars of gold, and [[Rixdollar|rix dollars]] manifold, we seized uncontrolled".<ref name=CompleteWords/><ref>The genealogy of the historic tune can also be found at ''davidkidd.net''.</ref>

It also inspired numerous treasure hunts conducted on [[Oak Island]] in Nova Scotia; in [[Suffolk County, New York|Suffolk County]], [[Long Island]] in New York where [[Gardiner's Island]] is located; [[Charles Island, Connecticut|Charles Island]] in Milford, [[Connecticut]]; the [[Thimble Islands]] in [[Connecticut]] and [[Norwalk Islands#Cockenoe Island|Cockenoe Island]] in [[Westport, Connecticut]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://blog.ctnews.com/kantor/2011/04/27/cockenoe-island-farm-distillery-power-plant-buried-treasure/|title = Cockenoe Island: Farm? Distillery? Power plant? Buried Treasure?|date = 27 April 2011|access-date = 25 July 2013|first = Matt|last = Kanaga|archive-date = 24 July 2013|archive-url = https://archive.today/20130724235748/http://blog.ctnews.com/kantor/2011/04/27/cockenoe-island-farm-distillery-power-plant-buried-treasure/|url-status = dead}}</ref>

Kidd was also alleged to have buried treasure on the [[Rahway River]] in New Jersey across the [[Arthur Kill]] from Staten Island.<ref>
According to recently resurfaced 19th-century lore, Kidd buried treasure in the Rahway area, alongside the body of one of his men he had just murdered. The location was said to on the southern banks of the [[Rahway River]] at a spot called Price's or Post's Woods, said to be midway between Rahway and the [[Arthur Kill]].  The murder and burial of treasure was witnessed secretly from a tree, allegedly, by a Lenape chieftain known as Ra-wa-rah who is the namesake of the city of [[Rahway]], as Ra-wa-rah returned from a fishing journey.https://rennamedia.com/buried-treasure-on-the-banks-of-the-rahway-river/</ref>

Captain Kidd did bury a small cache of treasure on [[Gardiners Island]] off the eastern coast of Long Island, New York, in a spot known as Cherry Tree Field. Governor Bellomont reportedly had it found and sent to England to be used as evidence against Kidd in his trial.<ref>{{cite book| title =The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd| first =Richard| last =Zacks| publisher =Hyperion| isbn =0786884517| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=8bu7WAHrd9kC&q=pirate+hunter&pg=PA241 |  access-date =14 December 2007| year =2002 | pages = 241–243 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| author = Ralph Delahaye Paine| title = The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, Etc., which are Sought for to this Day| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tmFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA304| year = 1911| publisher = Heinemann| page = 304 }}</ref>

Some time in the 1690s, Kidd visited [[Block Island]] where he was supplied with provisions by Mrs. Mercy (Sands) Raymond, daughter of the mariner James Sands. It was said that before he departed, Kidd asked Mrs. Raymond to hold out her apron, which he then filled with gold and jewels as payment for her hospitality. After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to northern [[New London, Connecticut]] (later Montville), where she purchased much land. The Raymond family was said by family acquaintances to have been "enriched by the apron".<ref>{{cite book |title=History of New London, Connecticut |url=https://archive.org/details/historynewlondo00caulgoog |last=Caulkins |first=Frances Manwaring |year=1852 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historynewlondo00caulgoog/page/n293 293] }}</ref>

On [[Grand Manan]] in the [[Bay of Fundy]], as early as 1875, there were searches on the west side of the island for treasure allegedly buried by Kidd during his time as a [[privateer]].<ref name="Money Cove">{{cite web|title= Grand Manan – Captain Kidd's Money Cove|url=http://pennystockjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/grand-manan-captain-kidds-money-cove.html |website=pennystockjournal.blogspot.co.uk|publisher=Penny Stock Journal|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> For nearly 200 years, this remote area of the island has been called "Money Cove".

In 1983, [[Cork Graham]] and Richard Knight searched for Captain Kidd's buried treasure off the [[Vietnam]]ese island of [[Phú Quốc]]. Knight and Graham were caught, convicted of [[Illegal entry|illegally landing]] on Vietnamese territory, and each assessed a $10,000 [[fine (penalty)|fine]]. They were imprisoned for 11 months until they paid the fine.<ref name="Post12may">{{cite news|title=Tracking Captain Kidd's Treasure Puts Pair in Vietnamese Captivity|last=Branigin|first=William|date=12 May 1984|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>