. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . llHH mmm. 10 Indian, the late Peter York. Besides brass articles, some bearingFrench inscriptions, a number of French coins of the period have beenfound, and sometimes human bones. A steel stamp bearing threeletters (I. H. S.) for making sacramental wafers, was found in 1848by Joseph Bourchier, and secured by Dr. Bawtree for $10, it is said,for his collection of relics. It is n
. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . llHH mmm. 10 Indian, the late Peter York. Besides brass articles, some bearingFrench inscriptions, a number of French coins of the period have beenfound, and sometimes human bones. A steel stamp bearing threeletters (I. H. S.) for making sacramental wafers, was found in 1848by Joseph Bourchier, and secured by Dr. Bawtree for $10, it is said,for his collection of relics. It is now in an English museum. A stone fortlet some distance east of this main one, just described,appears to have been an outpost for the protection of the surroundingHuron habitations. In the winter of 1649-50 there were more than ahundred such habitations containing from 6,000 to 8,000 Hurons,dving from famine and disease. As a reminder of this dreadful winter, a bonepit existed north-west of the main fort, twenty feet in diameter. This was examinedby Mr. Boyle, who estimated that the bones of 400 or 500 personshad been buried in it. For some interesting details of his examina-tion, as well as other features of the fort andnotesofsitesof00hunt
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