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Links between The Beale Papers and The Declaration of Independence

    The known links between these documents are the following:

• The name Thomas Jefferson Beale, although "Jefferson" does not occur in The Beale Papers. He is always referred to as Thomas J. Beale, or T.J.B.
• The C2/DOI solution
• Robert Morris was a signer of the DOI. Robert Morriss is a key figure in The Beale Papers
• The character count equivalence of the DOI signatures with the code count of C3, as described in
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An important new clue has been discovered and reported to this website by Jason Airdrie

    Dates in The Beale Papers are alternatively stated as the year only (7 times), the month and year (7 times), or the season and year (2 times). There are five instances of specific dates containing month and day. Each of these coincides with the deceased date of a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

    The odds that this coincidence is by chance is 1 in 31,528

    The dates are:

May 9

•  Letter from Beale to Morriss
•  Death of Francis Hopkinson, New Jersey
•  Death of Robert Morris, Pennsylvania

Jan 4

• Letter from Beale to Morriss
• Death of Thomas Nelson, Virginia

May 19

• Hunting party leaves St. Louis
• Death of Button Gwinnett, Georgia
• Death of Josiah Bartlett, New Hampshire

Dec 1

• Hunting party arrives in Santa Fe
• Death of Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut

Jan 5

• Letter from Beale to Morriss
• Death of Sam Huntington, Connecticut

    Summaries of each signer's life are available here:
http://ushistory.org/declaration/signers/index.htm

    Beale's letter of January 4th contains the following line:

"The papers enclosed herewith will be unintelligible without the key, which will reach you in time..."

    Dates are time.

    Finally, Robert Ward has discovered a surprising correlation between the vocabulary used in both documents. Read his analysis here in pdf format.

Comment

    This suggests that The Beale Papers are a hoax as concerns the treasure story, but that there is a solution involving the DOI. The link between the two documents is now clearly more intricate than a fake C2/DOI solution by James Ward.

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