Transcription
Nelson Family Juvenilia
Box 1 Folder 56
Nelson brothers fragments from a story about Forest Continent - n.d.

February 9 Wieldy came came across two of Wolfs men who hoisted a white flag and came to[w]ard them they said that Wolf wanted peace that he thought they had discovered a new continent and that if Wieldy was willing they would settle it Wieldy fell in with this plan and forthwith there was peace between the t[w] armys Wolf and Wieldy returned to their ships and then building five log huts in the edge of the forest asked for volenteer to stay there while they went back to get more people they got 12 men to stay and leaving them a bountious supply of amuntion and guns besides a few pounds apiece of pork beans hard tack and coffee they set sail for Long and Round continent when they got there the war had ceased and all was peaceful and harmony between the two continents John Little the farther of the now famous William Little and Samuel Green the farther of Burt Green who were at that time presidents of L.C. and R.C. fell in with the plan of settling Forest Continent they sough[t] out Wolfs and Wieldys interests in the new discover and sent out for colonists the next year but nothing was heard of this colony and John Little and Samuel Green supposing that [page break] they had got there safely did not send out another colony for fifteen years when not hearing any thing of their colonies they fitted but an expedition and they themselves took charge sailing [illegible] east from Mountain Island but they got out of the coarse and instead of striking their colony which was where Birch Crest now is struck onto the coast of New Poplington the company being out of provisions squatted down there and went to hunting and fishing while John Little and Samuel Green went to hunt up their colony when Green & Little found their colony they found only fifty of the one hundred and 25 men left some had died of diseases and some had been killed by the Negroes a race which inhabited forest Continent and prooved very offensive to the settlers nothing had been heard of the other party which had been sent out John Little and Samuel Green then took the fifty remaining settlers and started for the coast which is now New Poplington they arrived there and found their colony thriving so hear where Cain Forth now stands was the first perminent

[Illustration of a Negro chief]

[page break] settlement made John Little and Samuel Green sold land to the settlers at 8 dollars an acre anywhere and they let them vote for president and other officers so that this settlement became rich and thriving and in five years there was 500 men women and children on the new continent which was named Forest Continent John Little lived with the colonists five years but finding him self very ill returned to Long Continent his son William was now 15 years old after Green and Little left the colony they sent their sons there to take charge of it which they did faithfully at about this time Ethan Allen

[Illustration of the building of N.P.]

A sturdy young man of about 20 years of age became president of Big Continent began to get inthuseatic over the new continent and at last in 1669 purchased a track if land which he called [page break] New Poplington after the wilderness of Poplington on Big Continent Ethan Allen started with 4 ships and 4 hundred men women and children for New Poplington may 8th 1669 they had a splendid trip and within a month the large scragly tops of the huge poplars and the tall stately mountain in the back ground which is called now Round Mountain

[Illustration of a sight from Allens ships]

When the settlers at Cain Forth found out that the land had been sold to Ethan Allen they wept