Caledonia-Essex County VT Archives History .....From VERMONT LIFE, Fall 1952, Pages 46-49 THE LOST TREASURE Of ST. FRANCIS By Robert E. Pike, Pages 46-49 1759 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/vt/vtfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jan Jordan jnrose@webtv.net October 18, 2008, 7:46 pm Priceless treasure seized almost two centuries ago in a famed Indian Raid by Rogers' Rangers, still may lie buried in northern Vermont & New Hampshire. Here is one version of what occurred in that incredible raid & retreat of 1759. People listed: ~Major Robert Rogers, at the head of a band of colonial Rangers ~Kenneth Robert's stirring novel: "Northwest Passage". ~General Amherst ~Benjamin Bradley was one of the stoutest men of his time per Rev. Nich. Bouton, in his "History of Concord, N.H. ~Robert Pomeroy, a Ranger, and eight other rangers...The old settlers of Warren, N.H., used to tell this story about one party of the starving Rangers that came down the Passumpsic and camped on the Lower Cohos waiting for Rogers to come with provisions as he had promised ~Old Jackson Perry [aka Jack], who was born on a Vermont farm opposite the mouth of the brook in 1820, and lived there until he died in 1913, used to say that when he was a boy a man came and dug for the treasure. Tradition says that part of the treasure was buried at the mouth of Cow Brook, in North Littleton, N.H., where that stream falls into the Connecticut. But Jack believed the brook had changed its course (a phenomenon he had himself observed occurred several times in his long life) so that when the man was digging on the present south-side, he was really on the original north bank. ~Volney Blodgett barn, making a side journey to East St. Johnsbury [VT] to see where this barn was built with St. Francis loot, stood until recently. ~Lt. Stevens It is at the mouth of the Passumpsic, at Barnet, Vt., that the cowardly, Lt. Stevens came with provisions by canoe to meet the starving Rangers, but fled even as they approached, imagining they were the enemy. ~St. Francis had been a center of Indian activities for about three-quarters of a century. The French had had a mission there for three generations, and the Indians, who were composed largely of broken remnants of tribes from the English colonies...were Catholics. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/vt/caledonia/history/other/fromverm168gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vtfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb