ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK gi 
morning he crossed to the east side of the stream and destroyed the 
town. ‘The sites in the vicinity will be described under one number. 
According to Schoolcraft the Oneida stone was of syenite and 
stood on a commanding eminence in Stockbridge. The White 
stone at the spring was also known as this. This had been placed in 
a fence by Job Francis, the owner. Another noteworthy stone of 
limestone was on Gen. Knox’s farm a mile or more south.—School- 
craft. Report, p. 46-48. The truth is that there were several of these 
stones, and some were portable. There is a tradition that the 
Oneidas carried one to Wisconsin, but this is denied there. French 
describes it as a boulder of gneiss on the farm of James H. Gregg in 
Stockbridge, and now at the entrance of Utica cemetery.—French, 
p. 458. Mr Kirkland said it was a stone which a strong man could 
carry, standing by a chief’s door but sometimes placed in a tree. 
None of these seem to agree with the Council rock east of the 
creek and southeast of Munnsville. It is said to have been carried 
away piecemeal. “Thomas Rockwell settled on East hill in Stock- 
bridge in 1813. The Council rock was on his farm which has 
been known as Prime’s hill. 50 acres of this, including the council 
ground, were sold by him.” —Hammond, p. 745. Prime’s hill council 
ground in 1805 was a clearing of half an acre with an entrance 
through the bushes on.the east. In the center was a circle, 20 
feet in diameter and two feet above the general level, covered with 
fine coals. Within a radius of three miles around were many 
graves, with iron axes, brass kettles, pipes, etc—Hammond, p. 102 
“There are evidences that the whole range of high hills east of 
Oneida creek was once thickly peopled. . . Their burial grounds 
have been discovered in several places, from the south-line of the 
town (Stockbridge) to the north on this range.” The farms of 
Taylor Gregg, Ichabod Francis and William Smith are mentioned. 
The articles are mostly recent—Hammond, p. 731-33. The Council 
spring is on the farm of Mary Doxtater at the foot of West Hill.— 
Hammond, p. 743 | 
20 Under this is placed a group of sites northeast of Munnsville. 
French says there was a burial ground a mile southeast of that 
place on the hillside. There is a small one there, but the reference 
