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league distant from the said village of Gannagaro, together with 

 all lands in their vicinity" , "conquered in his Majesty's name" 

 after planting in "all the said Villages and Forts his said 

 Majesty's Arms", and having caused to be "proclaimed in aloud 

 voice, Vive le Roi." (*l) This formal act of possession was 

 signed in Totiakton by the King's Attorney, by the Rev. Father 

 Vaillant, S. J., and the officers of the army. 



The fatigue of forest warfare combined with the ill effects of 

 an unlimited diet of green corn and roast pig, brought the expe- 

 dition to an abrupt end. On the 24th of July the army returned 

 to the stockade at Irondequoit and presently embarked for Nia- 

 gara, which the Governor had planned to fortify, leaving the 

 panic-stricken, homeless and infuriated Senecas to return to 

 their country. 



That they did return is certain. That they never rebuilt the 

 four great villages is equally certain. There can be little doubt 

 that parties revisited the ruins of their homes and remained about 

 the graves of their dead. The great communities seem to have 

 split, that of Totiakto, for a time possibly settling on what is now 

 the Dann Farm at Honeoj'-e Falls, and later drifting southward 

 up the Genesee River, occupying site after site in Indian fashion 

 until it was once more ousted from its village at Geneseo by Sul- 

 livan's army in 1779. The other great community, that of 

 Gandagora with Gandougarae, evidently moved eastward, and 

 occupied site after site until their main villages were destroyed 

 by Sullivan in 1779 at Geneva and Canandaigua. 



Archeology of the Senecas of the Period 

 from 1655 to 1687. 



The Seneca towns described by the Jesuits and Greenhalgh, 

 and destroyed by Governor Denonville were situated in the val- 

 leys of Honeoye Creek and Mud Creek, in what are now Ontario 

 County, Monroe County and Livingston County, New York. (*2) 

 In these valleys is a group of village sites, remarkable for their large 

 size, the immense number of articles found on them, and for the 

 fact that they seem to mark a continuous movement of a large 

 group of people just at their emergence from the Stone Age. 



*i Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. N Y., Vol. IX, p. 334. 

 *2 Map of sites facing title page. 



