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6. Piece of the Plank on which Gen. Frazer died. This gallant 



officer was mortally wounded on the 7th of October, 1777, 

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

 Col. Morgan's company. He was brought from the field of 

 battle and taken to the " Smith house," (then used as a 

 British hospital) which was situated on the Whitehall turn- 

 pike, some six miles north of the present village of Still- 

 water, and expired about eight o'clock A. M., the following 

 day. By his own request, he was buried, in the great re- 

 doubt 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 1844, and the plank on which General 

 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. 



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



the camp of Lord Balcarras, (who was one of the com- 

 manding officers in Burgoyne's army) at Bemis' Heights, 

 seventy-one years after the battle of October 7, 1777. 



8. A bomb shell. This was one of the trophies taken at Bemis' 



Heights in October, 1777. The following spring several 

 bateaux were loaded with shells, cannon balls, fee, for 

 shipment to Albany, one of which sunk at Stillwater village, 

 a short distance above the falls, in the Hudson river. During 

 the season of low water the past summer, many of these 

 shells and balls were dug from the bed of the river, one of 

 which is the one now presented to the State Collection. The 

 greater part of them I have in my collection of revolu- 

 tionary relics. 



From E. A. Baldwin, of Lysander, January 15, 1849. 

 Stone skinning chisel. Found in Lysander, Oswego county. 



From A. C. Hascy, of Albany. 

 Indian arrow head Found in Watervliet, Albany county. 



From David Emery, Esq. 

 Stone pestle, used in pounding maize. Found at the head of Cayuga 

 lake, Tompkins county, by Henry Hungerford. 



