ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK I5t 
2 “On Big island two miles above Cochecton was an extensive 
burial place of which traces are occasionally plowed up at the pre- 
sent day.”—French, p. 644 
3 Indian cemetery and village near Burlingham.—Schoonmaker, 
p. 40. Abandoned Oct. 4, 1663. Near the county line. 
Tioga county. For nearly all the sites along the Susquehanna 
thanks are due A. F. Barrott of Owego. Le Roy J. Tappan of 
Newark Valley furnished several on Owego creek. 
1 A site of two acres on Peter Caryl’s farm northwest of Candor 
and on Catatonk creek. Pottery and stone articles. 7 
2 Camps on G. H. Thomas’s farm west of creek half way between 
Weltonville and West Newark. Early relics. 
3 Camp on west bank of Owego creek two miles north of Newark 
Valley. 
4 Camp a mile north of the same place on both sides of the 
creek. Many fireplaces and early relics. Long occupation. 
5 Mr Tappan reported many mounds near Newark Valley which 
he hoped to explore. Fine relics were found five miles from there. 
6 Mound one mile south of Newark Valley near the east bank 
of Owego creek with early relics in and around it. 
7 Early camps on Luke Fleming’s farm east of Flemingville and 
on the south bank of East Owego creek. Potstone dish and 
earthenware. 
8 Camps on George Burt’s farm north of Catatonk and east of 
Catatonk creek. Pottery and early relics. In the Historical gazet- 
teer of Tioga county it is stated that the Onondagas had a fort on 
this creek at the settlement of Candor. ‘This may be doubted. 
g There was a cemetery on the lands of J. Platt and C. F, John- 
son in the town of Tioga on the top of the cliffs on the west bank 
of Owego creek.—Gay, p. 476 . 
10 Hamlet on John Fleming’s farm south of Flemingville and 
east of the creek. Abundant pottery. 
11 Camps on Bert Farnham’s farm north of Scandlesville and 
east of the creek. Early relics and pottery. Camps on land of 
James Nelson south of Scandlesville and in forks of Catatonk and 
Owego creeks. Early relics. Old cemetery on George Brown’s 
land southwest of the same place. Pottery and shells. 
