A indicates the site of the fort,' which at the
time.pf my-visit, 'w^Sr.cawfd with, a luxuriant
field of
it had ever been held under any; other jurisdic-*
tion but that of , the plough.
embraces it, is owned and Occupied- by Isaac
Keeler, who remarks that, - at the time he came
to settle here, the site of the old fort was an
extensive opening in the: forest, bearing grass,
with soine clumps of wild plum treesj and a
few forest trees. On this opening, the first regiment
of militia that eVer paraded in Onondaga
county, met: It was commanded by Major De
Witt, after whom the township is now named.
About tire’.year 1810, he felled an oak, near
the site of the fort, measuring t\vo feet si jc inches
in diameter." In'recutting it for fire wood, after
' it Had been drawn to hi# door, a leaden bullet
was found, covered by* one'hundrCd and forty-
three* cortical ‘ layers. From its position, em-
• bedded as it was in the compact'woodj it was still
sofnedistance tothehe'artofthe tree. Rethinks
this tree mayhqve-dieen a sapling when the
bullet was fired. Whether this conjecture be
true or not; 0$e hundred and forty-three years
appeared have elapsed sine’e the bullet assumed-
its position. This would give A. D. 1067 as the
' In 1666, the governor of Canada concluded a
treaty with the Ofiondaga Iroquois, fas is seen
from the Paris Iloewmewts obtained by Mr. Brod-
head.s ^ O ld e n ’s history of the Five Nations,
which has been the-prihcipal source of information*
heretofore, after a brief summaryof traditionary
matter,* in the first chapter; open# with
the transactions in 1665. 'This matter is more
fu lly and satisfactorily ^stated hy Charlevoi* m
his History o f Ntvi ^France, from whom-it is presumable
Colden drew his information of the
former power and preeminence of the Adirondacks.
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^*-The $jM General c* Holland surrendered New York to
the English erbwn in 1664,.,