<p>Rob Bean emigrates from Scotland to western Pennsylvania, where his daughter, Bet, and grandson, Beau, join him, and the enterprising family develops a thriving tea route throughout the northern colonies. With war imminent, Beau leads a raid on a British ship and finds a crate that he carries home, where its treasure astounds the Bean clan. Beau joins the army to help train and secure supplies for the troops but his exploits brand him as an outlaw. Wounded and believed dead while returning home, Beau's family must protect him by hiding their treasure. Beau travels west where he meets and befriends a young Jeff Beal. When cemetery hill claims all of the Bean clan except Beau, he leaves his beloved cove for the last time, accompanied by Jeff and carrying a mysterious sheet of numbers that holds the secret surrounding the treasure.</p>

The Baneberry Bush

Literature & Fiction

Rose, Emma Jean H.

Genre Fiction

Publishamerica Inc

<p>A story of the famed Thomas Jefferson Beale ciphers that has been aired on national TV by the news media, various programs, and can be reviewed on the Internet is given renewed attention. Three sets of numbers are in the code, and until recent years, only paper number 2 had been deciphered. However, a new story emerges in the deciphered papers 1 and 3. It is the journal of Gilbert Bean, a young Scottish minister living in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Mystery Beneath the Baneberry Bush is the story of this frontier and enterprising Bean family based on the journal. During the American Revolution, Gilbert Bean served in the Rawlings Regiment under Capt. Thomas Beal, founder of Cumberland, Maryland. Gilbert, Beau he was often called, made an effort to destroy all his personal public records, but his records from the National Archives state that he deserted. Did he desert the very cause that he was fighting for? Why was it necessary to code his journal? What is the strange "ark" Bet Bean stole from a British boat? Is there a treasure trove in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, more precious than silver and gold that will shock America?</p>

Mystery Beneath the Baneberry Bush: Based on the Thomas Jefferson Beale Cyphers

Action & Adventure

Xlibris

Xlibris US

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