On,- „r two additional feels may 1»; added to
the .preceding:'statistics , in tins eonnection.
■ I found three -saw mills, with twenty-one
s a n g s o f saws, o n th e Alleghany reservation, and
also two council housdS and two public school?,.
eonstituting>phUc property,:belonging exclusively
to ffiis reservation, which were valued'
by the appraisers, under the treaty of m 2 , at
$8 2T9. | | |
- bft ttie eattaraugus reservation, dhejeis the
c « e oW l: house, and farms e om ^ te d
with the schools, being of th* in'
dians, and not the missionary s©emty,,whie
were valued together, h y jh e -same appraisers,
at <13 214 50
ThorCiis-oh the Buffalo greeh r e ^ iW p f
saw mill; valued at $404.75, a-ehurch W M
. «nally at au-expense of *1,700, valued at *1,-
*!oo, and acuuncil house, valued at Wp-malung
a total amount of public property, including aU
the preceding, of *13,113.25. ' . _ ,
. The total amount of private valuations on the
Buffalo mid Tonawamla reservations, under the
treaty 6f 1848, was not exactly: ascertained, hut
it is about $80,000. This is en taely je n e e a
property and funds- Its payment to individuals,
in the sums awarded,- is based on
to Cattaraugus and Alleghany, agreeably to
terms of the compromise treaty of 1842. .
1 The Onondagas possess one saw mill, well
built, and in good repair, which is of some value
to them, and might be rendered more so, under
a proper system of management.
vlt may? he well here to notice the fact, that
there are yet remaining in the state, some vestiges'
0f the Algohquin race, who, under various
distinctive names, occupied the southern portion
;pf the state at the era of its discovery and
colonization, As the language of the census
act referred to such Indians only as lived on the
reservations, I did not feel it- to he within the
scope of my appointment to search out and visit
these scattered individuals, although I should
have been gratified to make this inquiry. It is
helieved .that theynre^comprised by about twenty
of the SMnecock tribe, who yet haunt the inlets
and; more desolate portions of Xong Island,
and by a" very few lingering members of the
ancient Mohegafis, who, under the sobriquet of
Stockbridges, yet remain in Oneida county.
The hulk of this j>eopl;e, so long the object of
missionary care, migrated to the banks of Fox
river and Winnebago lake, in Wisconsin, about
1822. They were followed to that portion of
the west, about the same time, or soon after,
by the small consolidated hand of Nanticokes,
Narragansetts, and other early coast tribes, who,
in concentrating in the Oriskany valley, after
the close of the revolutionary war, dropped their
respective languages, learned English, and assumed
th®;namc of Brothertons. Both these
migrated .tribes were in an advanced state of
semi-civilization, and %ere good farmers’ and
herdsmen at the era of their removal.