Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-YorkSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-York
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Indians of North America -- New York (State); Iroquois Indians
§ 15. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to appoint
suitable persons to take the enumeration of the Indians residing on
the several reservations in this state, who shall in respect to such
reservations perform all the duties required of marshals by this
act; and shall also return the number of acres of land cultivated by
such Indians, and such other statistics as it may be in their power
to collect, and as the secretary of state in his instructions shall
prescribe; for which service they shall be paid out of the treasury
upon the warrant of the comptroller such suitable compensation, not
exceeding two dollars per day, as the secretary shall certify to be
just. All expenses incurred by the secretary of state in executing this
act shall be paid by the treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller.
[_b._] Attorneys or Agents of Indians appointed by the State.
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TRIBE. | ATTORNEY OR AGENT. | RESIDENCE.| COUNTY.
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Oneida Indians, | Spencer H. Stafford, Att’y, | Vernon, | Oneida
Seneca Indians, | Cephas R. Leland, do | Hanover, | Chautauque
Onondaga Indians, | Wm. W. Teall, Agent, | Syracuse, | Onondaga
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[_c._] Reservations
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY:
Reservation on the Allegany river,
Oil Spring reservation.
ERIE COUNTY:
Buffalo creek reservation,
Part of Cattaraugus reservation.
ALLEGANY COUNTY:
Part of Oil Spring reservation in this county.
GENESEE COUNTY:
The Tonawanda reservation is principally in this county.
ONONDAGA COUNTY:
Onondaga reservation.
NIAGARA COUNTY:
Tuscarora Indian reservation.
ONEIDA COUNTY:
Oneida reservation.
(B.)
Extracts from a Rough Diary of Notes by the way.
Such parts only of these notes and memorandums are retained,
as have been referred to, as original materials, of which
there is some particular fact or statement, which has not been
exhausted. Sometimes the note itself was chiefly of a mnemonic
character, and designed to recall further particulars entrusted
to the memory.
MEMORANDA, NEW-YORK, JULY 1.
ANTIQUITIES OF NEW-YORK.
Localities to be examined, namely:
1. POMPEY, Onondaga.
Vestiges of a town, 500 acres.
Three circular walls, or elliptical forts, 8 miles apart.
These formed a triangle, enclosing the town.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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