. Onondaga, or, Reminiscences of earlier and later times [microform] being a series of historical sketches relative to Onondaga ; with notes on the several towns in the county, and Oswego. our noticefound on the farm of Isaac Jobs, which when whole, wouldhave weighed probably one hundred and fifty or two hundredpounds. The metal is very fine, and from appearance, this ar-ticle must have been of considerable value. Time and expo-sure have not changed it in the least. When found, some * Quere. May not this medal be a relic of the Zeisberger mission of 1750. T O VV N S. — P O M P E Y.—A N TIQ UIT
. Onondaga, or, Reminiscences of earlier and later times [microform] being a series of historical sketches relative to Onondaga ; with notes on the several towns in the county, and Oswego. our noticefound on the farm of Isaac Jobs, which when whole, wouldhave weighed probably one hundred and fifty or two hundredpounds. The metal is very fine, and from appearance, this ar-ticle must have been of considerable value. Time and expo-sure have not changed it in the least. When found, some * Quere. May not this medal be a relic of the Zeisberger mission of 1750. T O VV N S. — P O M P E Y.—A N TIQ UITIE S 27T twenty years since, it was broken up, and the pieces foundwere enough to make it nearly entire. On the farm of Mr. Isaac Keeler, were the remains of anancient fort and burying ground. When Mr. Keeler firstsettled here, the site of the old fort was an extensive openingof about fifty acres, bearing grass, with clumps of wild plumbtrees, and a few scattering forest trees. Mr. Keeler has leftsome of these plumb trees standing, and has cultivated them,and they yield fruit inferior to none. On this opening it issaid, was paraded the first regiment of militia that was organ-. E,ditch—B, parapet—A, mounds—C, lookout—D, pulisades. 278 ONONDAGA. ized in the county of Onondaga, commanded bj Major MosesDo Witt. This ancient remnant of a fort is on lot numberthree, township of Pompey, and was formerly owned by MosesDe Witt. At that time the outlines of this fort were distinct-ly traceable. It had been enclosed with palisades of cedar,and contained some ten acres of land. The plan was a plainparallelogram, divided across the shortest way through themiddle, by two rows of palisades running east and west. Thespace between the rows was about twelve feet. At the north-west corner was an isolated bastion and an embrasure. Whenfirst brought under cultivation by a Mr. William Bends, heplowed up many of the stumps of palisades of cedar whichhad been burned off level with the gro
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