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from the lake. A site in the southwest corner of Fleming was a 

 site of this town at about this time," which was 1779. 



27 Cemetery of half an acre on lot 89, west of Fleming village. 

 Modern relics. 



28 Site of 10 to 15 acres at Scipioville, with recent relics. Nearly 

 level ground. There was a burial place. 



29 Clark says that 'Xonondote was an Indian town of fourteen 

 houses on the site of the present Aurora; according to (ieorge 

 Grant's journal it contained 1500 peach trees." 



30 Stockade found on Isaac Carpenter's farm near the north line 

 of lot 67 Ledyard, in 1887. Area 2 acres, with potsherds, pipes, 

 celts and broken bones and skeletons. It is a level point between two 

 ravines. There was a simple stockade 100 feet long from Payne's 

 creek on one side to a small stream on the other. 



31 On lot 68, in the town of Ledyard, is a stockade site mentioned 

 by Macauley, near Aurora. It was " 2 miles from the village in a 

 southeasterly direction, the area triangular, containing 2 acres. Tw^o 

 of its sides were defended by precipitous banks, the third by an 

 embankment and ditch. Fragments of earthen vessels and the 

 bones of animals have been found in ash pits. It is near Paynes 

 creek and the relics consist of stone articles and potsherds." 



32 A cemetery of one-half of an acre is 2 miles south of Ledyard 

 postoffice, on lot 83. The village site is one-fourth of a mile farther 

 south. Earthenware occurs. 



33 A cemetery in P. Stafford's woods, west of the road and one- 

 half of a mile north of Kings Ferry. Nothing was found wath the 

 skeletons, which were in rows. 



34 The Sterner site is a mile south of Genoa, occupying i or 2 

 acres on both sides of Salmon creek. It is on lot 17, wn'th recent 

 relics and occupied with graves. 



35 A village site is on the west side of Big Salmon creek, lot 74, 

 Venice, 2 miles south of Venice Center. The cemetery is east of 

 the creek, on a small knoll one-eighth of an acre in extent. Shell 

 gorgets and European articles are found there. The village is on 

 level land on the other side and farther south. 



36 The Indian fields commence on the Hill farm, lot 88, Scipio, 

 and extend across Venice 5 miles into Genoa, being about a mile 

 wide on the w-est side of the creek, while Myers is the only place 

 of importance on the east. Recent relics are found on almost every 

 farm, and in early days large quantities of brass were taken from 

 them. 



