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middle colonial period. Greenhalgh said that " Tiotehatton " was 

 30 miles west of Canagorah and had about 120 houses, mostly large. 

 Harris says " Tiotiakton was distant from Ganagora (the Victor 

 site) just II miles in a northwest direction. Its former site was 

 located by O. H. Marshall in 1847." The name Totiacton alludes to 

 the bend in Honeoye creek, on the west bank of which it stood. 



" It is in the town of Mendon on the northermost bend of the 

 Honeoye outlet 2 miles north of Honeoye Falls exactly 12^ miles 

 in an air line due south of the center of Rochester. The ground 

 has been under cultivation 75 years, yielding an anjuial harvest of 

 antiquities. . . . Three cemeteries have been discovered. 

 All skeletons unearthed have been found in a sitting posture facing 

 the east." Mr Sheldon found a square stockade of one-half of an 

 acre on the edge of the bluff and near the creek. It was " built of 

 logs 12 feet long, set closely together in the earth to the depth of 4 

 feet." This is a very modern style though Mr Harris thought it 

 was made just after De Nonville's invasion (Harris, p. 58, 59). 

 This was La Conception of the Jesuits, which was burned in 1687. 

 According to George S. Conover it was removed to the vicinity of 

 Canandaigua and called the second Seneca castle. It was visited by 

 La Salle, and may have been abandoned soon after (Beauchamp). 



Montgomery County 



General occupation. Montgomery county was early occupied by 

 the Mohawk after their entrance into the Mohawk valley. Investi- 

 gations of importance have been carried on here by S. L. Frey, A. G. 

 Richmond, Robert Hartley and P. M. Van Epps. The most im- 

 portant sites are those at Cayadutta near Sammonsville, which is a 

 precolonial Mohawk site, Otstungo in the town of Minden and the 

 four Mohawk castles, Cahainaga, Ganagora, Canajocha and Tionon- 

 dogue. Nearly all these towns have been described in early his- 

 torical accounts as stockaded village sites. The last named was a 

 capitol town of the Mohawks at the time of the Dutch discovery. 

 Previous to the coming of the Mohawk other ])eo])le had visited the 

 valley and made their homes there. One of these earliest sites oi 

 the stone grave people is about a mile cast of l^alatine Bridge. The 

 later villages on the Mohawk are distributed through the count v, in 

 the \al1e\- and on the hills bordering- tlie river. 



