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  1. Apr 9, 2019 · Who was Samuel Ball? The enigmatic Ball was a former American slave born in South Carolina in 1765. Following the end of the American Revolution, the free man relocated to...

  2. Oct 5, 2022 · Samuel Ball was an escaped slave. Black Loyalist Heritage Centre. There are certain details that are known for sure. Born in 1764 or 1765 in South Carolina, Samuel Ball spent the first 11...

  3. Dec 28, 2021 · Alas, the unfortunate truth is that if the treasure was in fact Anderson's, it was most likely discovered and taken by Samuel Ball, a former slave who purchased a huge chunk of the island...

  4. Jan 27, 2024 · Samuel Ball, a former slave who gained his freedom after serving in the Revolutionary War, is a mysterious figure in the history of Oak Island. His enormous wealth has sparked numerous theories and speculations about how he accumulated such riches during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

  5. Dec 6, 2023 · Samuel Ball was the largest landowner on Oak Island. Samuel arrived at Oak Island around 1787, according to historian Michael East. Eight years later, the legendary Money Pit of Oak Island was uncovered, and according to some unverified sources, Ball was present at the time.

  6. Sep 29, 2020 · A slave, cabbage farmer and eventually one of the richest men in Nova Scotia, the mystery of Samuel Ball may be as intriguing as anything else in the history of the Oak Island legend. Despite the...

  7. Jan 4, 2017 · Ball was a black man in an age when that made it tough to make a living in an already harsh frontier environment. But he ended up a cabbage farmer and spent a good chunk of his life living on Oak...

  8. Feb 12, 2021 · There are no known photos or etchings of an early Loyalist Black settler named Samuel Ball. That wouldn’t be so unusual if it wasn’t for the fact that Ball — a cabbage farmer who lived for decades on Oak Island — was one of the richest men in the province.

  9. Samuel Ball was an ex-slave who escaped from a North Carolina plantation in the 18th century. He fought on the side of the British during the Revolutionary War. By the time of his death, he was the largest landholder in Nova Scotia.

  10. Mar 6, 2018 · Samuel Ball was such a man. His beginnings were not the same as the farmers he shared the soil of Oak Island with. Born in South Carolina in 1765 to a very poor black family, Samuel was on the very brink of a new age for men of his comparison.

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