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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  have 
  no 
  connection 
  with 
  New 
  York, 
  are 
  not 
  illustrated 
  in 
  this 
  paper. 
  

   Several 
  colonial 
  and 
  Canadian 
  medals 
  are 
  thus 
  passed 
  over. 
  

  

  The 
  medal 
  just 
  referred 
  to 
  was 
  found 
  when 
  the 
  Erie 
  canal 
  at 
  

   Oriskany 
  was 
  enlarged 
  in 
  1849. 
  Some 
  graves 
  were 
  opened, 
  contain- 
  

   ing 
  10 
  or 
  12 
  skeletons, 
  with 
  ornaments 
  and 
  medals. 
  On 
  one 
  was 
  

   a 
  head 
  of 
  George 
  1, 
  with 
  the 
  title, 
  George, 
  king 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain, 
  

   in 
  capitals. 
  On 
  the 
  reverse 
  was 
  an 
  Indian 
  behind 
  a 
  tree, 
  with 
  bow 
  

   and 
  arrow, 
  shooting 
  at 
  a 
  deer. 
  This 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  account 
  is 
  clear, 
  

   but 
  some 
  other 
  statements 
  are 
  erroneous. 
  For 
  instance, 
  a 
  medal 
  

   of 
  George 
  1 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  dated 
  in 
  1731. 
  The 
  other 
  medals 
  

   were 
  dated 
  from 
  173 
  1 
  to 
  1735. 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  later 
  Georges 
  used 
  the 
  

   same 
  design. 
  

  

  Besides 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  medals 
  from 
  the 
  lower 
  Mohawk 
  valley, 
  some- 
  

   what 
  indefinitely 
  reported, 
  Mr 
  Conover 
  described 
  one 
  from 
  the 
  

   Read 
  farm 
  in 
  Seneca, 
  which 
  was 
  taken 
  from 
  the 
  Indian 
  cemetery 
  

   there, 
  and 
  from 
  which 
  he 
  deduced 
  its 
  age. 
  He 
  described 
  it 
  as 
  " 
  a 
  

   copper 
  or 
  brass 
  medal 
  of 
  about 
  ij 
  inches 
  in 
  diameter. 
  On 
  one 
  side 
  

   of 
  this 
  medal 
  was 
  the 
  representation 
  of 
  an 
  Indian 
  with 
  a 
  bow 
  and 
  

   arrow 
  in 
  the 
  act 
  of 
  shooting 
  at 
  a 
  deer, 
  a 
  tree 
  being 
  between 
  them, 
  

   and 
  the 
  rays 
  of 
  the 
  rising 
  sun 
  being 
  alongside 
  of 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  tree. 
  

   On 
  the 
  reverse 
  was 
  a 
  medallion 
  likeness, 
  and 
  around 
  it 
  and 
  near 
  

   the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  circumference 
  the 
  words, 
  George, 
  king 
  of 
  Great 
  

   Britain. 
  As 
  the 
  reign 
  of 
  George 
  1 
  was 
  from 
  1714 
  to 
  1727, 
  and 
  

   such 
  tokens 
  were 
  only 
  presented 
  to 
  those 
  Indians 
  who 
  were 
  of 
  

   importance 
  among 
  their 
  own 
  people," 
  and 
  this 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  secured 
  

   in 
  youth, 
  he 
  inferred 
  that 
  it 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  given 
  to 
  an 
  old 
  man 
  

   who 
  was 
  buried 
  with 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  half 
  of 
  that 
  century. 
  As 
  the 
  

   medal 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  preserved 
  in 
  the 
  family, 
  the 
  conclusion 
  does 
  

   not 
  follow 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  the 
  cemetery, 
  as 
  Mr 
  Conover's 
  farther 
  

   statement 
  shows: 
  

  

  There 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  lately 
  found 
  what 
  at 
  first 
  seemed 
  a 
  small 
  lead 
  

   bullet, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  flattened, 
  but, 
  upon 
  its 
  being 
  cleaned 
  from 
  

   the 
  dirt 
  and 
  corrosion, 
  it 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  leaden 
  seal, 
  such 
  as 
  was 
  

   used 
  in 
  colonial 
  times, 
  and 
  which 
  had 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  1767 
  cut 
  on 
  its 
  face. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  above 
  account 
  Mr 
  Conover 
  should 
  have 
  said 
  the 
  obverse 
  

   had 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  king, 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  a 
  mere 
  technicality. 
  In 
  th** 
  

  

  