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it was densely wooded when first known to the whites. “The In- 
dians have a tradition that the family of the Antones, which is sup- 
posed to belong to the Tuscarora nation, is the seventh generation 
from the inhabitants of this fort, but of its origin they know noth- 
ing. . .No implements or utensils have been found, only 
some fragments of coarse pottery roughly ornamented.”—Squier, p. 
46. S. S. Randall says there were many Indian relics at this 
point and in the fort, as stone axes, chisels and flint arrowheads. 
The absence of such things is a curious feature of some earthworks. 
8 On the east side of the Chenango four miles south of Oxford 
on Padget’s brook, were 25 distinct old embankments adjacent to 
each other. There were also traces of graves near by, lined above 
and below with cobble stones. The upper stratum of these had 
fallen in.—Hist. mag. 1873, p. 13 
9 In the township of Greene about two miles below the bridge 
and 30 rods from the river, was a circular burial mound which was 
originally 6 feet high and 4o in diameter. It was opened in 1829 
and abundant human bones were found, and much deeper beneath 
them were others which had been burned. It was not an orderly 
burial, and the bones crumbled on being exposed. In one part 
were about 200 yellow and black jasper arrowheads, and 60 more 
in another place. “ Also a silver band or ring about two inches in 
diameter, wide but thin and with what appeared to be the remains 
of a reed pipe within it. A number of stone gouges or chisels of 
different shapes, and a piece of mica cut in the form of a heart, the 
border much decayed and the laminae separated, were also dis- 
covered.’—Wilkinson. This account is quoted by many. Much of 
the material discovered was a secondary burial. It is near the 
mouth of Geneganstlet creek. 
10 An Oneida village has been described at Chenango Forks. 
The cemetery was on the east side of Tioughnioga river, on the site 
of the present village. It is reported that crouching bodies, covered 
with stones, were found. Modern relics. 
11 “In the town of New Berlin adjacent to the Indian fields of 
Otsego county, gun barrels, stone tomahawks and human skeletons 
