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■distilling. — Doty, p. 95. It was the only recent Seneca town on the 

 east bank of the Genesee. — Morgan, p. 437. Judge Porter knew of 

 two earthworks on " Smith and Jones's flats," near Mount Morris. — 

 Squier, p. 61. Works on flats are elsewhere rare. A slide east of 

 the Genesee exposed many human bones when Mary Jemison first 

 came to the valley. 



24 " Gathsegwarohare was seven miles directly west of Kanagh- 

 saws on the east side of Canaseraga creek about two miles above its 

 confluence with the Genesee." It is at present occupied by the 

 ** Hermitage " and was the home of the Squakle Indians in 1779. — 

 Sullivan, p. 132. On the east bank of Canaseraga creek, 2 miles 

 from its exit from Groveland, Mr Crofoot reports camps on both* 

 sides of a ravine. There are early relics but no pottery. 



25 Ganasegago was at Dansville.— Morrow, p. 435. Kahuskago 

 was the door of the Six Nations, (1756) whence none before had 

 come to Fort Johnson. — Doc. hist. N.Y.y : 57. Many metallic relics 

 were found there. — Doty, p. 93. " Before the revolution^ according 

 to tradition, a battle took place on a hill a few miles distant, between 

 the Canisteo Indians and those living in this vicinity, during which 

 a chief of the latter was killed. When the whites first settled here 

 the spot where he fell was marked by a large hole dug in the earth 



•in the shape of a man with arms extended. An Indian trail led by 

 the place and the Indians on passing were always accustomed to 

 clear away the dry leaves which had blown in. This chief was 

 buried in an old Indian burying ground, which stood on the ^ite of 

 the present Lutheran church which was thickly covered with graves 

 to the extent of two or three acres. His monument consisted of a 

 large pile of small stones, gathered from time to time by the natives 

 from a hill a mile distant, who, on passing, were accustomed to take 

 one in their hand and add to the heap." — Barber, p. 250-51. Two 

 rows of parallel holes, possibly for palisades, were two miles north 

 of Dansville. — Doty, p. 79. Half a mile west of Dansville, south of 

 the Ossian road, was a fort where clay vessels and pipes, ashes, 

 skeletons and articles of stone and horn have been found. — Doty, 

 p. 75. It was west of Canaseraga creek, and fig. 88 shows Mr Doty's 

 plan. 



