m 
h E. of Loyalsock creek on the 
N. side of the W. branch of Susque- 
hannah, elliptical circus or fort, 80 
yards long, and, 60 wide, ditch out- 
side, parapet inside, gateway S. lea- 
ding to the river, on which bottom 
it is. 
2. One mile N. side of Pine creek 
-on the W. branch of Susq. B. re 
mains a town, surrounded by a semi 
circular ditch outside, parapet inside 
one side straight and £00 yards long, 
the other curved. 
3* Forty rods from Tioga B. on 
the top of a hill, just at the New 
York line, oblong square fort 80 
yards long, 60 wide, ditch outside, 
parapet two feet high. Inside seve- 
ral circular holes or foundations of 
houses. 
4. On the great flats of Tioga B. 
sa circular town. 
5. At the Shawani flats near 
Wilkesbarre, remains of the Shaw- 
ani town, or earlier remains per- 
6. At the fork of Black lick and 
Conemaugh E. a square foot of two 
acres. 
■ 7. Near Milton on W. branch of 
Susq. E. a square mound of stones, 
30 feet long and broad, 8 feet high, 
with soil and trees on it. 
8. On the N. side of Nittany mt. 
on the path to Bald Eagle nest, 
a round stone mound 7 or 8 feet 
9. On Broad mt. between reading 
and Sunbury another similar stone 
mound, same height. 
91> Antiquities of East Virginia 
by Col. Mead. 
In 1824, Col. David Mead of Jes- 
samine county in Kentucky, a vene- 
rable man born in Virginia in 1744, 
communicated me some account of 
the Indians and antiquities of lower 
or Eastern Virginia. 
1. There are some small Indian 
mounds on James 9 B. near Monacan 
25 miles above Bichmond, which 
have been graves; they are of earth* 
without any stones. 
2* A few similar mounds are found 
below Bichmond, but many more 
plain Indian graves: the bodies are 
only one loot under ground. Skele- 
tons of women have been found with 
necklaces of Buck’s horn beads. 
Many arrows and broken earthen- 
ware are found in ploughing. 
3. All along the sea shore and 
banks of large rivers are found many 
large heaps of shells, oysters clams* 
muscles, scollops, & c. evidently 
made by the Indians. They are 
irregular, 2 or 3 feet thick, covered 
by a thin soil, the shells are bleach- 
ed and partly broken. The immense 
number and extent of these heaps 
indicates a large population feeding 
on shell fish, f 
92. American History. 1 
The last Indians of Virginia, by 
Col. JD. Mead. 
In 1727 the state line was run by 
Col. Byrd betweep Virginia and 
North Carolina from the sea to the 
Blue Bidge. At that time the fol- 
lowing nations existed yet. 
1. The Nottoways who had a large 
village on the Nottoway B. a branch 
of Boanoke B. and near the line. 
They attended the survey, and soon 
after many joined the Tuscaroras, 
to whom they were related by lan- 
guage, and in 1776 emigrated north 
with them. In 1820 only 27 indi- 
viduals remained occupying 7000 
acres of good land on the Nottoway 
Biver. 
2. The Meherrins. 3. The 8a- 
ponis— on rivers of the same names, 
branches of the Boanoke, near the 
Nottoways in Virginia; they were 
already reduced to a few men in 
1727^ and became extinct in 1750. 
4. The Tuscaroras dwelt yet on 
Dan B. N. Car. or 70 miles from the 
sea in 1727: they had a town till 
1766 when they sold their lands and 
went to join the Iroquois, to whom 
the main body had gone before after 
the war of 1722. 
5. Saura orSara or Cheraw, up- 
per and, lower town, 2 to#ns in N. 
Carolina 150 miles from the Tusca** 
roras; they existed yet as late as 
