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3 Skoiyase was a village of i8 houses at Waterloo burned in 

 1779. There were fishponds of stone. — Sullivan, p. 143. There 

 w^as a large mixed site at Waterloo on lots 2 and 4, Fayette, south 

 of the river. Early and recent relics. West of this were two small 

 sites on lot 2. 



4 A small site at the mouth of Kendig's creek, lot i, Fayette. 



5 A straggling early site on the river bank, lot 10. There was a 

 Cayuga village near there in 1750. A large site on the farm of 

 R. J. Swan is continuous with this and is on Seneca lake. Most of 

 it is on lot II. Early and recent reHcs. 



6 A small mixed site on lot 18, Fayette, on a blufif near the lake. 

 A small early site on lot 24. 



7 An early site was on the Lawrence farm, lot 99, Seneca Falls, 

 ■northwest of that village. 



8 A hamlet on Shankwiler's farm, lot 15. Burned in 1779.^ — 

 Sullivan, p. y6. This is in Fayette. 



9 Skannayutenate a small village 40 rods from the kke on the 

 south bank of Canoga creek half a mile northeast of the present 

 Canoga. Burned in 1779. A monument to Red Jacket now marks 

 his birthplace at Canoga. A town of 10 houses at the northeast 

 corner of Fayette, one and one half miles from Canoga was burned 

 in I779~. Newtown was also destroyed. It was on L. Disinger's 

 :farm by the lake a mile south of Canoga. — Sullivan, p. y6 



10 Camps are frequent near East Varick,, lot 74, Varick. 



1 1 A small site on lot 64, Romulus. Few relics. 



12 An early site toward Kendaia is on Van Vleet's farm, lot 79, 

 Romulus, four miles southwest of Romulus village and two from 

 Seneca lake. A village site on lot Gy half way between this and 

 Romulus. Abundant pottery. Kendaia was also on lot 79 and 

 was burned in 1779. It was half a mile from the lake on the north 

 side of the stream above the forks. Gen. J. S. Clark says it was 

 on the farm of Edward Van Vleet on both sides of the stream. 

 One of the tombs was particularly described. " The body was laid 

 on the surface of the earth in a shroud or garment; then a large 

 casement made very neat with boards something larger than the 

 body and about 4 foot high put over the body as it lay on the 

 €arth; and the outside and top were painted very curious with a 

 :great many colors. In eacli end of the casement was a small hole 



