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Black Rock ledger

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Black Rock ledger

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First Introduced

"The Constant"

Owned by

Charles Widmore

Found by

Tovard Hanso

Used by

Charles Widmore

The Black Rock ledger was the journal of the first mate of the Black Rock sailing vessel. It is a thick, worn leatherbound volume with yellowed pages and the word "LEDGER" gilt on the spine.

To the outside world, the ledger is the only surviving artifact of the final voyage of the Black Rock, which was thought to be lost at sea following its departure from Portsmouth, England, March 22, 1845 on a purported trading mission to the Kingdom of Siam. The ledger was discovered in 1852 among the artifacts of pirates on Île Sainte-Marie, an island off the coast of Madagascar that at the time was a notorious pirate haven. It eventually came to be owned by Tovard Hanso.

The contents of the ledger were never made public and were unknown to anyone outside the Hanso family, until the ledger was sold at a Southfield's auction in 1996 as lot #23 42. The ledger sold for £380,000 to bidder #755, Charles Widmore. ("The Constant")

Trivia

This journal is referenced by Oscar Talbot in Chapter 5 of the Find 815 ARG. Talbot was working for a branch of the Widmore Corporation, and says that his employers had the journal.