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reservation tract. There are indications of three occupations on 

 Squawkie hill and the area embrac^ed covers lots 132, 33, 16, 17, 30, 

 31, 131, 29, 15, 19, 28 and 18. Mr Crofoot calls this the largest 

 group of camp sites in the Genesee valley and remarks that the area 

 includes the earliest as well as the latest remains of the Indians in the 

 Genesee valley. On the White property just overlooking the Genesee 

 there are two groups of mounds. The larger mound situated the 

 greatest distance from the river bank was opened by Mr White and 

 several skeletons uncovered. These were stone grave burials and 

 contained copper axes, a fine platform pipe, three gouges and twenty 

 finely chipped spearheads. The smaller mounds are in a group of 

 three arranged in the form of a triangle and situated not far from 

 Mr White's residence. The northmost mound contained a stone 

 grave burial yielding 84 native pearl beads, 740 discoid shell beads 

 and a platforin pipe, one of the finest ever found in the Genesee 

 valley. In the village surrounding the mounds there have been 

 found slate objects, notched flints, drills, scrapers, bell pestles, gouges 

 and many rough stone objects. ^lodern burials are found north of 

 the mounds and across a small brook that takes its rise in a spring. 

 (Figure 79.) 



55 Spring, known as the White Woman's spring and supposed to 

 have been used by Mary Jemison, situated on the northeast side of 

 Squawkie hill at the foot and in a gully formed by Parker creek. A 

 slab of stone was found here having on it hieroglyphics. 



56 A stockaded fort in lots 129 and 134, Leicester. This fort was 

 situated on the Horatio Jones farm east of the road to Jones bridge 

 and on the west side of the Genesee. There was an earlier road to 

 the south known as the Old River Ford road. 



57 Village site on lots 114 and 115 situated on a portion of Little 

 Beards town but of a much earlier period. Celt objects and cere- 

 monials are found, but no clay pottery. 



58 Village site in Leicester, lot 134 subsection 11. This is on the 

 old Horatio Jones farm on the west side of the river and about a 

 iiiile south of Jones bridge. Flints, bone and shell implements, 

 celts and clay pottery have been found. Mr Crofoot opened one 

 grave containing a skeleton in a good state of preservation, but the 

 only article found with it was a stone bead. 



59 Village site of the modern Seneca period, known as village of 

 Big Tree, in Leicester on lots 11 1 and 112. Fine celts, iron axes, 

 po'tery and fragments of brass are found. 



60 Village site on lot in, Leicester, and on the property of the 

 Sterling Salt Companx . This is near the village of Big Tree. Mr 



