636 XKW YORK STATK ,\irSEl'.\[ 



31 Camp sites exien(lin<^- all thn)U<^"h Marcy to Dcerfield on tlie 

 terrace north of the river. All bnt one are earl}-. One is midway/ 

 and none had i:)ottery. Articles rude. 



32 Burial i)lace near Hamilton College where skeletons were ex- 

 humed. The middle one lay in an opposite direction to the others 

 and had a metallic cross on the breast (Jones, ]). 829). 



^^ After the revolution the Oneidas left (Jriskany and part cam;.- 

 to the ]\Iile square in Augusta, which had long before been occupiefl 

 by them (Jones, p. 96). 



34 Burial site west of Deansville at McMallins Corners. 



35 Near Oriskany creek on both sides in ^Marshall and Kirkland 

 lived 400 Brotherton Indians, mostlv near Deansville (Jones, p. 



247)- _ 



36 Village site on the Lumbard property near Clinton. This i^ 

 called the " Indian lot." 



37 Village site near Clinton on the McConnell estate. 



38 Burial place of whites and Indians west of Fort Bull and south 

 of the canal. 



39 Village site on Oriskany creek just northeast of Deans\ille. 



Onondaga County 



General occupation. Onondaga county contains perhaps more 

 abundant traces of aboriginal occupation than any other in the State, 

 a fact that was noted by Squier. 



At the time of the discovery the Onondaga Indians had their 

 villages here. The county indeed now covers a principal portion of 

 the Onondaga country and was the center of the Iroquois confed- 

 eracy. For about 100 years the Onondagas had their towns on the 

 hills bordering the valley of Limestone creek, later shifting to th.e 

 banks of the Butternut and then came down into the Onondaga 

 valley where most of them resided in the middle of the eighteenth 

 century. Numerous traces of their village sites are scattered through 

 the townships of I'abius. Pompey and Lafayette, with others north- 

 ward through ( )non(laga to Oneida lake and westward into the 

 towns of Elbridge. \'an Buren and Lysander. The hilltop fortili- 

 cations and village sites here do not diiTer materially from those in 

 other ])arts of the Irocpiois region in the Stale. Idle most important 

 research in the county has been conducted by the Rev. W. ^t. Beau- 

 champ, who has made detailed observations of the many sites that 

 have come to his notice. Most of the (lescri])tions of sites in this 

 county are 1)\ his pen. 



