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it was densely wooded when first known to the whites. " The In- 

 dians have a tradition that the family of the Antones, which is sup- 

 posed to belong to the Tuscarora nation, is the seventh generation 

 from the inhabitants of this fort, but of its origin they know noth- 

 ing. . . No implements or utensils have been found, only 

 «ome fragments of coarse pottery roughly ornamented." — Squier, p. 

 46. S. S. Randall says there were many Indian relics at this 

 point and in the fort, as stone axes, chisels and flint arrowheads. 

 The absence of such things is a curious feature of some earthworks. 



8 On the east side of the Chenango four miles south of Oxford 

 on Padgetts brook, were 25 distinct old embankments adjacent to 

 each other. There were also traces of graves near by, lined above 

 and below with cobble stones. The upper stratum of these had 

 fallen in.- — Hist. mag. 1873, P- ^3 



9 In the township of Greene about two miles below the bridge 

 and 30 rods from the river, was a circular burial mound which was 

 originally 6 feet high and 40 in diameter. It was opened in 1829 

 and abundant human bones were found, and much deeper beneath 

 them were others which had been burned. It was not an orderly 

 burial, and the bones crumbled on being exposed. In one part 

 were about 200 yellow and black jasper arrowheads, and 60 more 

 in another place. " Also a silver band or ring about two inches in 

 diameter, wide but thin and with what appeared to be the remains 

 of a reed pipe within it. A number of stone gouges or chisels of 

 different shapes, and a piece of mica cut in the form of a heart, the 

 border much decayed and the laminae separated, were also dis- 

 covered."^'— 'Wilkinson. This account is quoted by many. Much of 

 the material discovered was a secondary burial. It is near the 

 mouth of Geneganstlet creek. 



10 An Oneida village has been described at Chenango Forks. 

 The cemetery was on the east side of Tioughnioga river, on the site 

 of the present village. It is reported that crouching bodies, covered 

 with stones, were found. Modern relics. 



11 "In the town of New Berlin adjacent to the Indian fields of 

 Otsego county, gun barrels, stone tomahawks and human skeletons 



