Perhaps the treasure hasn't been found in NC because, as local lore has it, it was found by the Creque family on Norman Island in the British Virgin Islands well over a century ago. The island lies in Blackbeard's (Edward Teach, alias Edward Thatch, perhaps originally Edward Drummond) old stomping ground, the Sir Francis Drake Channel. Blackbeard, as is well known, was a notorious English pirate who had a short reign of terror in the Caribbean Sea between 1716 and 1718. The entire area of the US and British Virgin Islands was a haven for privateers, buccaneers and pirates because the archipelago afforded them not only the protection of hidden bays and inlets with ample lookout stations at the tops of the many high hills but also the protection of various crowns at war with the treasure bearing Spaniards. St. Thomas itself was virtually a free port with the Danish governors operating in collusion with the brigands. Norman Island lies across the SFD channel, a short distance from Dead Chest Cay, south of Tortola and was the inspiration that the Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson used when he penned Treasure Island and is only.

So the local legend has it.

"They usually blew their money on women, booze, and gambling."

The rest they just wasted.

Arrrrr

so there isnt buired treasure in South Carolina :(