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57 A few years since some graves were opened on lot 72, Otisco 
which contained several long stone tubes. This was near Amber 
east of Otisco lake, and several caches of flint pieces have been 
found in that vicinity. Arrowheads occur all along Nine Mile creek 
to Onondaga lake. 
58 A little north of Onondaga Hill village there was a large 
cemetery with hundreds of graves.—Clark, 2:136 
59 Half a mile south of Onondaga Valley village, on Webster’s 
mile square and on the first terrace west of Onondaga creek, was 
the stockade built for the Onondagas by Sir William Johnson in 
1756. It was 150 feet square with blockhouses on two corners. 
It was burned in 1779 but traces were found by the first settlers. 
The stone graded way to the creek remains. 
60 A village was burned a mile farther south and another beyond 
this. 
61 There are several burial places on the east side of the creek, 
where the Onondagas lived from about 1720 to 1750. ‘The relics 
are mostly recent of course. 
62 Many early articles occur near the old arsenal on the east 
side of the valley, lot 121 Onondaga. 
63 A small site on the Henderson farm, lot 161. This was an 
early hamlet having pottery and arrowheads. Lodges were farther 
south. 
64 Council house and village on the present reservation. Some 
relics appear along Onondaga creek and in South Onondaga but 
no villages. 
65 Near the east line of the reservation and on lot 13, La Fayette 
was a recent village with an orchard. This was visited by John 
Bartram in 1743 when it had 10 lodges. The graves were very 
regularly arranged.—Clark, 2:270 
66 There was a cemetery west of Butternut creek and about a 
mile south of Jamesville in the same town. Recent relics. 
67 The stockade burned at Frontenac’s invasion was on the Wat- 
kins farm a mile south of Jamesville and east of the reservoir. 
This was on lot 3, La Fayette, and the change in the town has 
occasioned much confusion. Squier quoted an account from the 
