RELICS. / 



north of the present village of Stillwater, and expired ahout 

 eight o'clock a. M. the following day. By his own request, he 

 was huried in the great redoubt on the hill, at six o'clock in the 

 evening of the same day on which he expired. The Smith house 

 was taken down in the year 1845, and the plank on which Gen. 

 Frazer died, and of which the piece presented to the State 

 Cabinet is a portion, was preserved by the proprietor for the 

 antiquarians of his country. 



74. Piece of a soldier's blanket, dug up, with human bones, near the 



camp of Lord Balcarras (who was one of the commanding of- 

 ficers in Burgoyne's army), at Bemis's heights, seventy-one 

 years after the battle of October 7, 1777. 



75. A bomb shell. This was one of the trophies taken at Bemis's heights 



in October 1777. The following spring, several batteaux were 

 loaded with shells, cannon balls, etc. for shipment to Albany, 

 one of which was sunk at Stillwater village, a short distance 

 above the falls, in the Hudson river. During the season of low 

 water in the summer of 1848, many of these shells and balls 

 were dug from the bed of the river, one of which is the one here 

 presented to the State Collection. 



FROM ASA FITCH, OF SALEM. 



76 & 77. Sword and Bayonet, which belonged to Burgoyne's army. 



Thomas Whiteside, one of the Cambridge (Washington 

 county) militiamen, in service at Saratoga at the time of Bur- 

 goyne's surrender, on his return home, brought the above arti- 

 cles : they have been preserved in his family ever since, and 

 were given to the State Collection by his son Thomas C. White- 

 side. 



78. Indian axe, found at Fort Miller. From John Pattison. 



79. Part of an Indian spearhead (made of subhyaline quartz), found at 



Fort Miller. From John Pattison. 



80 & 81. Indian spearheads. Salem. 



82 & 83. Indian arrowheads. Salem. 



84. Relics of the Battle at Wallomsac (N. Y.), commonly called " Ben- 

 nington Battle." Within the fortification thrown up by Colonel 

 Baum, a single oak tree was left standing. The piece of wood 

 presented to the State Cabinet, is from the decaying stump of 



