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14 On Austin Wadsworth’s Big Tree farm were two early burial 
mounds of interest. ‘They are described in the Report of the U. S. 
bureau of ethnology, 1890-91, p. 515. 
15 Ohagi was a Tuscarora village of 1779, on the west side of the 
Genesee river two or three miles north of Cuylerville—MMorgan, p. 
434. It was a mile north of Big Tree town on the west side of the 
river—Doty, p. 84. A note to Sullivan’s Campaign says, “ Several 
writers claim that Canawaugus on the west side and Ohadi and Big 
Tree on the east side of Genesee river were destroyed in this cam- 
paign. . . No villages are mentioned in any account as exist- 
ing on the east side of the river, nor is mention made of any portion 
of the army being on that side-—Sullivan, p. 133 
16 Gaundowaneh or Big Tree was a Seneca village on a hill one 
mile north of Cuylerville—Morgan, p. 434. It was on the west side 
of the river on the farm of E. P. Slocum in Leicester, and was the 
last town occupied by the Senecas.—Doty, p. 85-86 
17 Deonundagaa or Little Beard’s town was a Seneca village west 
of the Genesee at Geneseo. Ga-nah-da-on-twa was another Seneca 
village near this—Morgan, p. 434. Genesee Castle was the great 
village of the Senecas, between Cuylerville and the Genesee in the 
town of Leicester. It is Chenandoanes on Evans’s map of 1776, was 
mentioned as Chenandanah in 1754 and is often called Little Beard’s 
town. Sullivan said that it had 128 houses, mostly large and ele- 
gant.—Sullivan, p. 133. Dyu-non-dah-ga-seh, Steep Hill creek, is 
best known as Beardstown and was in the east part of Cuylerville. 
There was a cemetery a mile south on Hiram Jones’s farm. Relics 
are still found on the old village site—Doty, p. 87-88. After 
De Nonville’s invasion the Senecas had a large town at the mouth of 
Canaseraga creek. It was moved near Cuylerville and 100 years 
ago was called Little Beard’s town and Genesee Castle.—Harris, p. 
33 ; 
18 Geneseo, or Chenussio, is a recent village in a way, and Gen. 
J. S. Clark makes it the successor of the town above mentioned at 
the mouth of the Canaseraga.—Sullivan, p. 132. Gath-she-gweh-oh, 
a Seneca village near Williamsburg at the mouth of Canaseraga 
creek.—Doty, p. 99. At the confluence of the Canaseraga and 
