ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK IO3 



Canajoharie with an area of several acres and contains recent 

 articles. 



5 A recent village site in Jonas Rice's woods two miles east of 

 Stone Arabia. 



6 About six miles northeast of Palatine Bridge 40 or 50 large 

 caches are closely grouped in England's woods. Lodge sites are 

 near, with early and recent articles. 



7 Small recent village on the old Frey farm one and one half 

 miles west of Palatine Bridge. 



8 Recent village on Dewandalied's farm two miles north of the 

 same place. 



9 A curious cemetery fully described by S. L.^ Frey in the 

 American naturalist for 1879, P- 637-44. It was explored by him 

 and A. G. Richmond in 1878. Copper and shell beads were 

 found and several stone tubes. The graves were all lined with 

 flat stones and in several graves large stones were placed above. 

 This is a mile east of Palatine Bridge. Prehistoric camps on the 

 river flats and ridge at Palatine Bridge and for two miles east. 



10 A small village two miles northeast of Palatine Bridge on 

 the Sitterly farm. Coarse flints and rude pestles. 



11 A village at Schenck's gulf four miles east of Palatine Bridge 

 and two miles from the river. Perhaps the Canagara of 1723. 



12 Another near Yost's station three miles east of last. 



13 A prehistoric site four miles north of Yost's. 



14 In 1667 Gandawague was the nearest Mohawk village to the 

 Mahikans, sometimes called Mohegans, who attacked it in 1669. 

 Gen. J. S. Clark placed it north of the Mohawk on a high plateau 

 on the west bank of Cayadutta ci-eek and north of the road to 

 Stone Arabia. Relics are found. L. H. Morgan said that Gano- 

 wauga was a small village north of the river at Fonda. 



15 There was a recent village at Tribeshill. 



16 P. M. Van Epps reported a cache of 100 flints in a bed 

 of ashes in Amsterdam. They were of the usual cache pattern 

 and he knew of similar finds. This was near the east line of the 

 town and one and one half miles north of the river. 



17 There was an early work in the town of Minden four miles 

 south of Fort Plain on the Otstungo creek, a branch of the 



