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Onondaga interpreted this, Where they shoot. It may be but a 
variant of the other name. 
Herkimer county. Most of this county is like Hamilton. 
Though belonging to the Mohawks it was west of their earlier 
towns. Macauley says, “ Kowogconugharie-gu-harie, at present 
German Flats and Herkimer, was abandoned some time before 
Nowadaga (Indian Castle). It contained several villages. The 
largest was on the south side of the Mohawk nearly opposite the 
village of Herkimer. Its site is still discernible from the number 
of holes which they dug to bury their corn during winter. 
It extended a mile or more, as these excavations would indicate.’””— 
Macauley, p. 297. This is very positive, but there certainly seems 
a mistake of sites, as there were no Mohawk villages so far west, 
nor could the writer learn of any Iroquois remains there. The 
name used seems that of Canajoharie. 
I On the north side of South lake, one of the sources of Black 
river, 20 miles east of Boonville, was a camp yielding relics with 
a burial place near. 
2 Very early relics have been found near Mohawk village. 
3 Indian Castle in Danube was so named from the upper Indian 
castle or fort, built in 1710 on the flat just below the mouth of 
Nowadaga creek. There was a mission church there in 1768; 
it was the home of Joseph Brant and King Hendrick. 
Jefferson county. 1 A traditional fort on French creek near 
_ Clayton, taken by the Oneidas. 
2 A small burial mound opened in making the railroad to Cape 
Vincent. 
3 Many graves and camp sites were at the portage at Point 
Peninsula. 
4 Many graves were also on the Hoover farm at the head of 
Chaumont bay. 
5 A fort and cemetery at Depauville. These three were reported 
by Mr Twining. 
6 Circular mounds, with depressed centers about 30 feet across, 
are frequent on both sides of Perch lake and on Linnell’s 
island—-Howgh, p. 10. They are circular raised lodge sites 
