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without. The two gateways were 5 feet wide and large stones pro- 

 tected the wall on either side of these. The principal gate was at 

 the southeast and the smaller one at the northwest comer. An 

 ancient cemetery was nearly a mile southeast of this fort, " where 

 human skeletons of unusually large size were found in mounds of 

 earth." The character of the " mounds " is uncertain. 



Steuben county. But few notes could be secured in this county 

 and some of these are indefinite. Some unlocated Delaware towns 

 destroyed in 1764 may have been here. At that time there was a 

 town of 30 good houses on the Cayuga branch with four villages 

 and another at Canisteo. — Doc. hist. N. Y. 7:625 



Except as specified the following notes are from M. F. Roberts's 

 Historical gazetteer and directory of Steuben county, 1891. 



1 When Avoca was first settled, there were 50 Indian huts on 

 the Haskins farm. Early relics occur there. Frorn 50 to 100 huts 

 were on the flat below Abram Towner's house. These numbers 

 are certainly too high. Location indefinite on the map. 



2 There are small camps and arrowheads at Hammondsport. 



3 At the settlement there were two square stockades of an acre 

 each at Canisteo, one being on the bank of the river in the neck 

 of a defile opening into the valley on the east. In early documents 

 Canisteo is described as a village made up of stragglers in 1762 

 and as a Delaware town of 60 houses in 1764. The stockade had 

 a bank. The other similar work was at an opening into the valley 

 from the south on Col. Bill's creek. 



4 Gen. J. S. Clark thought the tory settlement mentioned in Sul- 

 livan's campaign was at Painted Post. Many relics have been 

 found in that vicinity and there are some large sites. An eflfort 

 by the writer to obtain information on these, from local collectors 

 was not successful. 



5 A Monsey town called Assinisink was near the confluence of 

 the Canisteo and Tioga rivers in 1764. On the Pennsylvania his- 

 torical map it is placed at the forks in the town of Erwin. 



6 As late as 1804 there were temporary camps along the north 

 bank of the river in Cameron. Location indefinite. 



7 Ward E. Bryan reports that he has found many relics along 

 Post creek which reaches the Chemung at Corning. On the east 

 side of the creek there, a dike was cut through a site having arrow- 

 heads and pottery. 



