User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 947: A Small Step Forward and a Lucky Break/@comment-25654036-20190628134149/@comment-2600:1702:3C50:A6E0:64EC:4238:DE3A:F6B6-20190702225526

Blackbeard probably assumed that Whitebeard's crew would have a better chance of finding that fruit then anyone else. Doflamingo I think was given his fruit by Trebol and Tesoro apparently got his from the Doflamingo family although they never actually intended to see that fruit leave their hands. I cannot tell for sure if Trebol and Tesoro knew the powers of the fruits that they would get or not, but they each hit the jackpot in the powers they received. I cannot tell how many other fruits were gained using these connections outside of the fruit that Law uses and Ace's fruit. We don't know when the devil fruit users in each respective antagonist group got the fruit that they now use.