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Avas a stockade on a high bluff at a bend of the stream, perhaps the 

 one built by Sir William Johnson for the Tuscaroras, this being then 

 ■called Tuscarora creek. The Turtle tree was there. 



3 A trail from Oneida to Chittenango crossed the creek a little 

 above the turnpike bridge and passed by an old stockade and 

 orchard on Col. Sage's farm near Chittenango village. — Clark, 

 1 1384. The farm was once known as the Moyer and later as the 

 Osgood farm. — Hammond, p. 602. Perhaps the Zeniing^ of Zeis- 

 "berger. 



4 A cemetery north of Cazenovia lake and. two miles east of Oran, 

 on the Hitchcock farm. Recent articles. There are lodge sites 

 also. 



5 Many small camps at the head of Cazenovia lake and many 

 signs of recent tillage. 



6 The plan of the stockade west of Cazenovia village in Clark's 

 ■Onondaga and copied by Squier, is too large and wide. Fig. 60 by 

 the writer represents the actual form, It is on the Hunt farm and 

 is on a narrow ridge between two deep ravines. It was occupied 

 -not far from 1600 but no European articles have been found. A 

 "barbed bone fishhook suggests some knowledge of Europeans. 

 Pottery with human forms and faces as ornaments, and some 

 peculiar clay pipes are among the relics. The post holes across the 

 ridge at either end from north to south are yet (1898) distinct. The 

 east line is about 330 feet long and the length from east to west 

 about 790 feet, rapidly descending the ridge. Nearly midway the 

 width is about 100 feet. There is one gate near the northeast 

 <:orner and two at the west end. The total area is about four and 

 one half acres. There are caches at the west end. 



7 Lodges and relics occur near the village at the foot of Caze- 

 novia lake and there was a fish weir in the outlet. There are also 

 confused stories of a fort in the village. 



8 L. W. Ledyard reported a fort on the Swetland farm about 

 four miles southwest of Cazenovia village whence he had a fine 

 grooved stone. He could give no farther account of it, but it has 

 since been reported to the writer as a circular earthwork four miles 



