The LEGEND speaks of how it's valued at over $350,000 or altogether chance extra given the current spike inside the worth of gold and it mentions how Native Individuals knew of the story of the "Cross on the Rock" as one-handed down by their elders. Also called the misplaced treasure of Borie it's conjectured to be one of many little recognized caches of hidden wealth but to be present in America inside the middle of a timbe paradise referred to as God's Nation, Potter County, USA.
May this treasure notwithstandin exist?
Intrigued by the legend I embarked upon a journey of discovery trying to find the supply of story; definite that if it existed it was to be mine.
When this treasure was hidden, America was but an unlimited wilderness inside the 1600's. Few apart from the hardiest explorers and fur trappers had ventured additive inland than the coastal colonies. Nonetheless when Louis Frontenac arrived in 1672 Canada was not the tot colony it had been when Richelieu based the Firm of One Hundred Associates. By the efforts of Louis XIV and Colbert it had assumed the type of an organized province and Frontenac as the brand new governor wanted to create regulated parishes and commerce alternatives from Montreal to New Orleans in "New France". By armed battle Frontenac expelled English Colonists and subdued the Native Individuals claiming an unlimited territory for France which was later marked by lead plates belowground inside the floor as recognized by Celoron de Beinville and mapped by Father Pierre Bonnecamps, a "Jesuit Mathematician. The fur commerce specifically flourished creating the wealth that Frontenac wanted and the growth of "New France" was progressing quickly.
My analysis yielded that mid inside the 1680's, nearly a full century earlier than white settlers started to all occupy what's now Potter County, a small get together of French Canadians from the fur buying and merchandising institution that belonged to Louis Frontenac and Robert Cavelier left New Orleans by boat, for the return journey to Montreal. I shortly found errors inside the legend as recorded by others. I had been deceived inside the particulars of the journey; most by choice by mortal thirsty of protective the key of this treasure cache to themselves.
The unique story states [The planned route was up the Mississippi to the junction of the Ohio so up the Beautiful River, as the Indians call it, to the Allegheny so northward to the mouth of the Conewango near present day Warren. From that point, a short run would bring the expedition to Chautauqua Lake near the present day Jamestown, New York. From this point, the party could much avalanche hill incidentall of Prendergrast Creek so home free incidentall of Lake Erie into Lake Ontario and Northward to Montreal. Nearly the entire trip would be made by water, without the danger of long overland, heavy portages.]
I quickly got here to study {that a} journey down the Mississippi was a a method ticket inside the late 1600's. A folly to suppose that one power pull oodles or paddle canoes counter present for over 3000 miles once again to Montreal in an efficient method by means of a hostile and unsettled wilderness! The return journeys had been all the time completed via crusing ships from the port of New Orleans to the port of Baltimore after which by ascending the Susquehanna River in canoe to the West Department and Sinnemahonning Rivers and onward to Jamestown N.Y., up the Nice Lakes to Montreal. The rivers had been the highways of the 1600-1700's with the one trails being these of the Native Individuals; roads had but to be created in any of the inside colonies.
[And so the coureur de bois left New Orleans on oodles loaded with victuals and a number of small kegs, each of which were loaded with gold coins mud-beplastered with a thin film of gunpowder, and anchored firmly to the crude log transports by means of ropes and iron nails. The gold was to be delivered to His
Most Gracious
Majesty's Royal Governor in Montreal, (Gov. Frontenac) and the party was instructed to guard the valuable payload with their lives. Under no circumstances was it to fall into the hands of the English, the Americans nor the hated Senecas, who were always at war with the French. ]The get together made the uneventful journey crosswise the tip of Florida and up the East Coast of America to the Chesapeake Bay and started the second leg and extra arduous portion of their journey. The Susquehanna River a comparatively shallow physique of water snakes languidly by means of Pennsylvania interspersed with white water and rapids which can be recognized to bring havoc on Northward voyages relying upon the season. The hazards of ascending rapids, portaging small waterfalls and evading hostile Indians by means of Pennsylvania's Wyoming space had been effectively documented. Because the rivers narrowed avoiding Indians grew to become increasingly unattainable. Significantly outnumbered and chased by means of the wilderness the Frenchmen grew to become increasingly cautious realizing that they'd turn into the prey in rather more than a cat and mouse sport aboard the West Department River.
With place fastened and mapped by the Jesuits the annoyed Frenchmen belowground their treasure for secure protective or s the confluence of two rivers deciding that it was safer to secret it shortly and return for it with a big military pressure than to danger falling their lives and the treasure to the Seneca warfare get together. The actual spot of the treasure was marked by the Jesuits by chiseling a big cross into the rock at a lower place which it lay.
The Jesuits led by Étienne da Carheil, effectively educated as a mathematician, non secular scholar and cartographer and Father Ernest Laborde definite to remain behind to decoy and convert the savages to Christianity because the voyagers proceeded underneath cowl of darkness up the Sinnemahoning River and onto New York slip their enemies and escaping to Montreal.
Louis Frontenac was recalled once again to France shortly after his fur buying and merchandising get together arrived in Montreal; unable to get to his cash, and Cavelier died in 1687 at one of many buying and merchandising outposts that he had helped to ascertain.
Frontenac returned to Quebec inside the fall of 1689, simply after the Iroquois massacred the individuals of Lachine and simply earlier than they descended upon these of La Chesnaye. The common temper was one altogether terror and despair. Quelling the militant redmen and securing his outposts from English
squatters led
Frontenac on a army marketing campaign that lasted a number of years. Upon his triumph he instantly despatched solders to the Pennsylvania wilds to get his gold. Along with his well being declining Louis Frontenac was unable to accompany his males and on the twenty eighth of November 1698 Frontenac died on the Château St Louis. His fortune now destined to stay inside the floor.Frontenac's enemies had been fond of claiming that he used his place to make illicit income from the fur commerce. Past query he listed to some extent, notwithstandin it power be harsh to accuse him of venality or defalcation on the energy of such proof as exists. There is a robust likelihood that the king appointed him inside the expectation that he would increase his earnings from sources which lay exterior his wage. As a member of the King's Courtroom it was hoped-for that to undertake such a desolate appointment inside the new world it power go inherent that any wealth that may very well be garnered could be one's to maintain. Public opinion varies from age to age relating to the parallel which can be allowed a public servant in such issues. Underneath a democratic régime the usual could be very all different from that which has existed, for probably the most half, underneath autocracies in previous ages. Frontenac was a soul of distinction who accepted an essential put up at a small wage. We could infer that the king was prepared to permit him one matter from perquisites. In that case, his income from the fur commerce turn into a matter of diploma. As long as he saved throughout the bound of cause and decency, the federal government raised no objection. Frontenac decidedly was not a governor who pillaged the colony to feather his soulal nest. If he took income, they weren't thought extreme by anybody besides Duchesneau who was Frontenac's rival inside the King's court docket who had been snubbed for the place of Governor. The king had recalled Frontenac not as a result of he was venal, notwithstandin as a result of he was combative and returned him upon realizing that he was exactly the proper man for the job.
Native Individuals knew of the rock and conjecturing as to its significance created their legend to elucidate its existence.
Close to Keating till the railroad was intrinsic 1901, may very well be seen the "Cross on the Rock" an first-class pure marvel an ideal cross of heroic proportions sculptured on a rock aboard the river. Fortuitously a howling {photograph} of the outstanding pure curiosity is in existence because it since has sloughed away.
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