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of animals had been found there enveloped in ashes." It is on- 

 R. Stewart's farm, lot 68, Ledyard, and also on Payne's creek. Part 

 of the ditch remains. There are stone relics and earthenware but 

 no graves appear on either of these two sites. 



25 A cemetery of half an acre is two miles south of Ledyard post- 

 office, on lot 83. The village site is a quarter of a mile farther 

 south. Earthenware occurs. 



26 A cemetery in P. Stafford's woods, west of the road and half 

 a mile north of Kings Ferry. Nothing was found with the skele- 

 tons^ which were in rows. 



27 The Sterner site is a mile south of Genoa, occupying one or 

 two acres on both sides of Salmon creek. It is on lot 17, with 

 recent relics and occupied with graves. 



28 A village sites is on the west side of Big Salmon creek, lot 74, 

 Venice, two 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. 



29 The Indian fields commence on the Hull farm, lot 88, ScipTo, 

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

 wide on the west side of the creek, while Myers is the only place 

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

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

 them. 



30 A stockade has been reported on a site of 10 or 12 acres east 

 of Myers station, but not definitely. The village was south of the 

 creek^ on lot 97, Venice. The cemetery is east of the railroad on 

 a sandy knoll. Early and recent relics. French mentions the fort 

 east of the creek. 



31 A site of two or three acres in Locke, half or three fourths 

 of a mile west of Milan, is usually reported as a stockade, but Mr 

 Adams in his hasty examination found no traces of this. It em- 

 braces a space in the woods on a point between two streams. Such 

 positions were rarely without defense. Earthenware is found. — 

 Child, Directory, 1867-68, says that " Traces of an Indian burial 

 ground are still visible^ covering about two acres of ground between 



