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31 Camp sites extending all through Marcy to Deerfield on the 

 terrace north of the river. All but one are earl}-. One is midway 

 and none had pottery. Articles rude. 



32 Burial place near Hamilton College where skeletons were ex- 

 humed. The- middle one lay in an opposite 'direction to the others 

 and had a metallic cross on the breast (Jones, p. 829). 



33 After the revolution the Oneidas left Oriskany and part came 

 to the Mile square in Augusta, which had long before been occupied 

 by them (Jones, p. 96). 



34 Burial site west of Deansville at McMallins Corners. 



35 Near Oriskany creek on both sides in Marshall and Kirkland 

 lived 400 Brotherton Indians, mostly near Deansville (Jones, p. 



247)- 



36 Village site on the Lumbar d property near Clinton. This is 

 called the " Indian lot." 



37 Village site near Clinton on the McConnell estate. 



38 Burial place of whites and Indians west of Fort Bull and south 

 of the canal. 



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39 Village site on Oriskany creek just northeast of Deansville. 



Onondaga County 



General occupation. Onondaga county contains perhaps more 

 abundant traces of aboriginal occupation than any other in the State, 

 a fact that was noted by Squier. 



At the time of the discovery the Onondaga Indians had their 

 villages here. The county indeed now covers a principal portion of 

 the Onondaga country and was the center of the Iroquois confed- 

 eracy. For about TOO years the Onondagas had their towns on the 

 hills bordering the valley of Limestone creek, later shifting to the 

 banks of the Butternut and then came down into the Onondaga 

 valley where most of them resided in the middle of the eighteenth 

 century. Numerous traces of their village sites are scattered through 

 the townships of Fabius, Pompey and Lafayette, with others north- 

 ward through Onondaga to Oneida lake and westward into the 

 towns of Elbridge, Van Burcn and Lysander. The hilltop fortifi- 

 cations and village sites here do not differ materially from those in 

 other parts of the Iroquois region in the State. The most important 

 research in the county has been conducted by the Rev. W. M. Beau- 

 champ, who has made detailed observations of the many sites that 

 have come to his notice. Most of the descriptions of sites in this 

 county are by his pen. 



