Castine Hoard

Jean eventually fell in love with the trading post of Pentagoet, and moved there once his army duties had been complete.

Fearing the British would discover her father's stash, Jean's daughter buried the coins in a safer spot.

A path leads across the point, and from the adaptation of the shore as a landing place…Near the narrows the coins were discovered….Its situation was some twenty-five yards from the shore, and in the direct line of a beaten track through the bushes… At the termination of this path on the shore, is an indentation or landing place, well adapted for canoes, and the natural features and facilities of the spot are confirmatory of a tradition that one of the Indian routes from the peninsula to Mount Desert and Frenchman's Bay was up the Bagaduce river, and from thence across to Bluehill Bay….At the time the coins were found, Capt.

Repeated digging has laid the rock bare to the depth of several feet, and the side hill has washed away.

Also found were pine tree shilling's dating from 1652 produced by John Hull, as well as various coins from other countries.