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Diver discovers shipwreck cluster in Lake Michigan [victims of Mormon pirates off Beaver Island]
Crescent News ^
| November 11, 2014
| Associated Press
Posted on 11/11/2014 2:24:31 PM PST by Alex Murphy
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Richardson believes one of his other discoveries, the largest of the Skillagalee wreck sites with the greatest amount of artifacts present, is the wreck of the 150-foot brig Julia Dean. The captain blamed the ship's 1855 sinking on Beaver Island pirates. The three other wrecks remain unidentified.The community of avowed Mormons led by James J. Strang on the Beaver Island in Lake Michagan broke up soon after Strangs death at the hands of disenchanted followers in 1856. The ambush and killing of Strang followed a punishment of 79 lashes meted out against a follower whod been caught in bed with another followers wife. From published accounts of the islands history, we know that Strang, who reportedly struggled with Brigham Young for control of the LDS Church following the death of Joseph Smith, moved with a group of followers from Nauvoo, Ill., to Voree, Wis., and finally Beaver Island in the late 1840s. There, Strang declared himself King of the Kingdom of God on Earth and presided over a community of up to 230 devotees, imposing strict rules of behavior that included an edict that all women wear bloomers instead of dresses and that all men take up polygamy.
-- from the thread James Strang, "King of the Kingdom of God on Earth" The New York Times reported on people in the area around Saugutuck, Mich., "thrown into the most intense excitement by the operations of a gang of marauders, who are reported to be Mormons from Beaver Island"....Beaver Island is located toward the north end of Lake Michigan between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan, and it has its own bizarre history. In the 1850s, James Jesse Strang crowned himself the king of the island and declared it a separate country from the United States. Strang was eventually assassinated.
-- from the thread Arrrr! Real Pirates Once Sailed On Lake Michigan [and avast! They be Mormons!]
To: Alex Murphy
Beaver Island is where I’m going when the zombie apocalypse hits.
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:31:11 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Alex Murphy
Strang was eventually assassinated. I guess he wasn't faithful enough,.................
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:31:41 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:33:02 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Alex Murphy
” imposing strict rules of behavior that included an edict that all women wear bloomers instead of dresses “
So he wasn’t all bad! Eh? 8^)
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:33:09 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Alex Murphy
Hmmm didn’t know two things: #1 that coral reefs were possible in lake Michigan, and #2 that there were pirates in Lake Michigan.
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:33:36 PM PST
by
JSDude1
To: Alex Murphy
Today’s PSA: Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19.
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:33:56 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Red Badger
The whole story of the failed kingdom is actually pretty interesting. Seems that they opened fire on a tavern with a cannon.
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:34:39 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: cripplecreek
SAVE THE BEER!...................................
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:36:10 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Alex Murphy
Very informative and interesting-I’d have thought “Mormon pirates” was an oxymoron...
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:38:48 PM PST
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: Texan5
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:41:14 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Alex Murphy
Heh heh... Saugutuck, Mich... more like Sausagetuck. It’s the Providence of the North.
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:43:08 PM PST
by
Mathews
(Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
To: Texan5
"Id have thought Mormon pirates was an oxymoron..."Mormons did pretty much the same thing on land. They raided the wagon trains.
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:44:05 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Alex Murphy
On July 4, 1850, a drunken mob of fishermen vowed to kill the "Mormons" or drive them out, only to be awed into submission when Strang fired a cannon (which he had secretly acquired) at them.
HOLY CRAP They got a cannon!
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:48:06 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Alex Murphy
with island names like Fox and Beaver, some cartographer was a little pre-verted.
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:53:29 PM PST
by
llevrok
(I fear the US government more than I do al Qaeda)
To: Texan5
I figured they find a giant pile of bicycles.
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posted on
11/11/2014 2:57:32 PM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: Alex Murphy
[victims of Mormon pirates off Beaver Island]
Well, there's a headline for the ages.
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posted on
11/11/2014 3:01:14 PM PST
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
To: JSDude1
Article said reefs, no mention of coral.
The reefs were four feet deep, the trailerable boat I’m building is going to have a three foot draft. I’m headed that way some day:)
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Fortified to keep the Ducks away (Oregon joke)
To: JSDude1
There were pirates up and down the Mississippi who preyed mostly on the riverboats.
I read a fiction book in grade school set on the Mississippi, about a gunsmith who was working to develop and improve breech-loading firearms to help repel the pirates.
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posted on
11/11/2014 3:07:29 PM PST
by
meadsjn
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