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14 On Austin Wadsworth*s Big Tree farm were two early burial 

 mounds of interest. They are described in the Report of the U. S. 

 bureau of ethnology, 1890-91, p. 515. 



15 Ohagi was a Tuscarora village of 1779^ on the west side of the 

 Genesee river two or three miles north of Cuylerville. — Morgan, p. 

 434. It was a mile north of Big Tree town on the west side of the 

 river. — Doty, p. 84. A note to Sullivan's Campaign says, " Several 

 writers claim that Canawaugus on the west side and Ohadi and Big 

 Tree on the east side of Genesee river were destroyed in this cam- 

 paign. . . No villages are • mentioned in any account as exist- 

 ing on the east side of the river, nor is mention made of any portion 

 of the army being on that side. — Sullivan, p. 133 



16 Gaundowaneh or Big Tree was a Seneca village on a hill one 

 mile north of Cuylerville. — Morgan, p. 434. It was on the west side 

 of the river on the farm of E. P. Slocum in Leicester, and was the 

 last town occupied by the Senecas. — Doty, p. 85-86 



17 Deonundagaa or Little Beard's town was a Seneca village west 

 of the Genesee at Geneseo. Ga-nah-da-on-twa was another Seneca 

 village near this. — Morgan, p. 434. Genesee Castle was the great 

 village of the Senecas, between Cuylerville and the Genesee in the 

 town of Leicester. It is Chenandoanes on Evans's map of 1776, was 

 mentioned as Chenandanah in 1754 and is often called Little Beard's 

 town. Sullivan said that it had 128 houses, mostly large and ele- 

 gant. — Sullivan, p. 133. Dyu-non-dah-ga-seh, Steep Hill creek, is 

 best known as Beardstown and was in the east part of Cuylerville. 

 There was a cemetery a mile south on Hiram Jones's farm. Relics 

 are still found on the old village site. — Doty, p. 87-88. After 

 De Nonville's invasion the Senecas had a large town at the mouth of 

 Canaseraga creek. It was moved near Cuylerville and 100 years 

 ago was called Little Beard's town and Genesee Castle. — Harris, p. 



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18 Geneseo, or Chenussio, is a recent village in a way, and Gen. 

 J. S. Clark makes it the successor of the town above mentioned at 

 the mouth of the Canaseraga. — Sullivan, p. 132. Gath-she-gweh-oh, 

 a Seneca village near Williamsburg at the mouth of Canaseraga 

 creek. — Doty, p. 99. At the confluence of the Canaseraga and 



