An English army officer of noble birth by the name of Moses Follensby was believed to have buried about $400,000 in the Adirondack Mountains. In 1820, he built a log cabin on the pond that now bares his name, Follensby Pond. (Two other bodies of water also bare his name: Follensby Clear Pond just west of upper Saranec Lake, and Follensby Jr. Pond about 8 miles north of the same lake.) One October day, he was found near death and mumbling by two sportsmen fishing near his cabin. Before dying, he revealed to them the location of a chest hidden under a large stone. It contained a British uniform coat, a package of letters, a gold scabbard decorated with jewels and impressed with a coronet, gold and gem inlaid toilet articles, and two pistols mounted in silver.
Further examination of his belongings, revealed that he had buried the $400,000 nearby his log cabin, supposedly located just a few miles southwest of Tupper Lake in Franklin County.
The site of the cabin is lost in the dust of time but it is known that he lived near the pond, on his property which was supposedly located near Follensby Road, two miles southeast of Tupper Lake near routes 3 and 30.
Treasure Dave and myself took a crack at this Treasure about twelve years ago with no success.I still think about this site every so often, now it's your turn ...
Has anybody heard of the lost Spanish treasure left in the Adirondacks by Joseph Bonaparte, former King of Spain and older brother to Napoleon? Lake Bonaparte and the Bonaparte State Forest in Lewis County, were named after him. He owned 150,000 acres in Lewis County and lived there from 1828 - 1838.
ReplyDeleteI have not .. But it sounds like a good reason for a backpacking trip with your metal detector !
DeleteWell it's 2013 , I think this treasure will be gone forever due to the sale of a huge track of land and Follensby was part of the tract..
ReplyDeleteAlso if a newer mapping program will show alot of NEW homes/camps etc being built around the whole "Pond/Lake"...and the worst part is that a few of spots I want to search ,are now people's privite land...A TRUE BUMMER....
But its nice to SWIM and LOOK underwater...
RXP
You might want to see if you can get permission to hunt any of the areas being cleared ? ..
Delete& you never know .. maybe Old Mr Follensby sank his treasure in the pond ???