THE ARCIIEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK 609 



There they sleep, mostly on elevated boards, more than any other 

 savages." 



In 1677 Greenhalgh said that Oneida was " about 20 miles from 

 a small river which comes out of the hills to the southward and runs 

 into Lake Teshiroque [Oneida], about 30 miles distant from the 

 Maquaes river, which is to the northward. The town is newly 

 settled, double stockaded, but little cleared land." Twenty miles 

 should be 2 from Oneida creek. In 1696 De Vaudreuil encamped 

 on Oneida creek ''within a [French] league of the village." Next 

 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 While 

 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 General Knox's farm a mile or more south 

 (Schoolcraft, Report, p. 46-48). The truth is that there were 

 several of these stones, and some were portable. There is a tradi- 

 tion that the Oneida 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 Stockbridge in 1813. 

 The council rock was on his farm, which has been known as Prime's 

 hill. Fifty 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 one-half of an acre with an entrance through 

 the bushes on the east. In the center was a circle, 20 feet in diameter 

 and 2 feet above the general level, covered with fine coals. Within 

 a radius of 3 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 Doxtritfr at the foot of West hill (Hammond, p. 743). 



