I NEW-YORK STATE COLLECTION. 



65. Bakk tkay or platteh. 



66. Splint basket. Two varieties. 



67. A quantity of White cohn. The New- York Indians cultivate this 



variety of corn principally, which is knpwn, I believe, as the 

 Tusearora. They put it up and preserve it in bunches. 



FROM SAMUEL G. EDDY, OF STILLWATEE. 



68. Cakd of INDIAN AE.RowHEADs(17), found in immediate vicinity of the 



battle ground at Bemis's Heights, Saratoga county. Arrowheads 

 of similar materials and construction are to be found, after the 

 spring rains, on all the plowed lands between Stillwater village 

 and Wilber's basin, a distance equal to five miles. 



69. Cannon balls(2), found on the battle ground at Bemis's heights. 



70. Caed of military buttons(5), with the roman numerals XX distinct- 



ly visible on the faces. These buttons were worn by a soldier or 

 soldiers of the 20th regiment of Hamilton's brigade in Bur- 

 goyne's army. The 9th, 20th, 21st, and 62d regiments were that 

 portion of Burgoyne's army which was engaged in the bloody 

 conflict at " Freeman's Cottage," Bemis's Heights, on the 19th 

 day of September 1777. These buttons, together with human 

 bones, a large pocket knife, belt buckle, pewter spoon, and a 

 stick of healing salve, were plowed up in the month of October 

 1849, within the grounds enclosed by the British intrenchments. 



71. Lead balls and Ikon geape-shot (13 in all), found on the Freeman 



farm in the year 1848. 



72. A Spanish silver coin (pistareen), dated 1721. This coin, together 



with two others of the same date and denomination, three Spa- 

 nish milled quarter-dollars, twelve guineas and two half joes 

 (in all about eighty dollars), were plowed up by Mr. Ebenezer 

 Leggett, in the fall of 1849, within the British intrenchments, 

 and near the celebrated Freeman Cottage. 



73. Piece of the plank on which Gen. Peazer died. This gallant oflicer 



was mortally wounded on the seventh of October 1777, about 

 two miles west of the Hudson river, by a rifleman of Colonel 

 Morgan's company. He was brought frofji the field of battle and 

 taken to the " Smith House" (then used as a British hospital), 

 which was situated on the Whitehall jturppjikfi gome six miles 



