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Many small sites have been omitted, others are not distinctly 

 known at present. Clinton said there were 80 cemeteries in Pom- 

 pey. Clark was much more moderate saying, ** These places of 

 defence and burial were very numerous in the township of Pompey. 

 There are not less than 15 which have been pointed out to us and 

 which we have visited. They are scattered through several of the 

 neighboring towns." Nearly all of these are of the historic period, 

 Pompey being the early home of the Onondagas till after 1700. 

 Most of the sites in this county were described by the writer in Onon- 

 daga's centennial 



Ontario county. When first known the Senecas lived entirely 

 in what is now known as Ontario county and in a small part of 

 Monroe county, occupying several villages and having two con- 

 spicuous divisions. Tradition points to Yates county for their 

 origin and it is probable that forts in that direction may have been 

 occupied by part of the nation. 



One of the most important local maps yet issued is that prepared 

 by Gen. J. S. Clark, whose painstaking work is well known. It 

 will be found in the Early chapters of Seneca history, by Rev. Charles 

 Hawley, D. D. It gives the Seneca castles and mission sites from 

 1650 to 1750, and may be briefly summarized. In Mendon are 

 placed Sonnontouan of 1669, a^d southwest of this Totiacton of 

 1687, both near the west line of the town. In Avon is Duy-do-o-sot 

 on th€ east line, and Gah-nyuh-sas on the south. Gandachioragou 

 is at Lima, and two villages appear in the northwest corner of the 

 town. Another is toward the south Hne. Two contiguous villages 

 are near the north line of Livonia. The village in West Bloomfield 

 is southwest of the present village, and in thus locating it at first 

 the writer followed Clark. South of Victor village if. Gandagaro 

 of 1687, and just west of it the small fort of the same year. Gan- 

 dougarae of 1657 is on the north Hne of East Bloomfield, and 

 another village is in the center of the town. Honeoye of 1779 

 is at the foot of that lake, and in the north part of Bristol are the 

 burning springs visited by La Salle in 1669. Kanandaigua of 1779 

 is southwest of the present village. Another is northeast of this, 

 another on the west Hne of the town, and a fourth near the north 

 line. Onahee of 1760 is near the west line of HopeweH, with 



