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THE INDIAN OCCUPANCY 



cabins, and when in 1750 Peter Kalm visited the Frontier, he 

 saw there a village of two hundred Senecas, who were employed 

 as porters on the portage road from Dewiston to a point above 

 the Falls. 



During the last half of the eighteenth century the Senecas 

 established several villages along the Niagara Frontier. In 1758, 

 Pouchot, who at that time was strengthening Fort Niagara, made 

 a map of the Frontier. On it he marked a village at the bend of 

 a stream which he called the R. au Bois Blanc. This is Tona- 



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wanda Creek, and the village occupies the site of, and is perhaps 

 identical with the present Tonawanda Indian village. Guy 

 Johnson, on a map which he made in 1771, located three small 

 villages on the trail between Dewiston and Geneseo. One of 

 these is identical with the Tonawanda village already mentioned. 

 The others can not be identified. One of them may have been 

 the site at Falkirk, and this is most probably true. The other 

 may have been either the fortified site at the head of the Gulf 

 west of Iyockport, or the one at Oakfield. 



It was not until after 1779 that the Senecas occupied the 

 Niagara Frontier in any large numbers. During the Revolution 



