324 THE INDIAN OCCUPANCY 



NIAGARA. 



* Site No. 51. Site on Cayuga Island, on property occupied by 

 Mr. Rils. Some refuse heaps occur and a few notched points 

 are found. 



Reported by Mr. Houghton. 



Burial Place No. 52. Burial place on Goat Island. Mentioned 

 without details by Hon. Peter A. Porter in his "Niagara, an 

 Aboriginal Center of Trade' ' . 



PENDLETON. 



Burial Place No. 53. Burial place said to be on the property of 

 W. C. Briggs, in School District No. 4. 

 Reported by Miss Lena Aikin. 



PORTER. 



Site No. 54. During the early years of the American Revolution 

 the country about Fort Niagara was the camping ground of 

 large numbers of Indians, mostly Iroquois. In 1777 there 

 were 2,300 drawing supplies from the fort. In the winter 

 of 1779 the crowds of refugees fleeing from their devas- 

 tated homes in Central New York increased this number to 

 5036, (1). 



Site No. 55. O-ni-a-ga-ra, a Seneca village, existed at Youngs- 

 town as early as 1650, (2). 



ROYALTON. 



Ossuary at Orangeport. 



SOMERSET. 



Nothing reported. 



WHEATFIELD. 



A "Circular mound" on Tonawanda Island", (3). 



Burial Place No. 56. An ossuary on "Tonawanda Island", the 

 present White's Island, was described by E. G. Squier, (4). 



i. F. H. Severance, Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier, P. 57. 



2. Iy. H. Morgan, League of the Iroquois, P. 97, Vol. 2, and Col. Doc. 

 Relating to Hist, of N. Y., Vol. 9, P. 885. 



3. O. Turner, Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase, P. 34. 



4. E. G. Squier, Aboriginal Monuments of New York, P. 67. 



