209), filed August 27, 1806, a few abstracts from which are as follows:

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Sub-divisions of Lot 4, Romulus. Lot 1, 193 6-10 acres. "Beginning at N. W. Corner of said lot number one, and at S. W. corner of one hundred acres heretofore granted to Samuel Bear, (Act of March 27, 1799, Chap, 53 Sec. 2,) thence East along Bear's south bounds 48 chains, Land poor. Said Bear has an improvement on this lot." Lot No. 2, 60 acres. "Land indifferent. Timber, vak. An improvement and a settlement upon this lot." No. 3,66 acres. Land middling. Timber, Oak, some maple and hickory. An improvement on this lot." No. 4, 133 acres. "Land good. Timber, maple, basswood, oak, hickory, &c. An improvement on this lot made by Ephraim Bear."

The purchasers at said sale were John Watkins of No. 1, at $775; John Watkins, No. 2, $180; Lodowick Miller, No. 3, $231; Ephraim Bear, No. 4, $532; the survey 50 acres, being reserved off of the S. W. corner. When the last payments were made, some years after, the patents were issued to the purchasers of numbers 3 and 4, and to William James and Henry Wuchter, who had purchased from Watkins, for numbers 1 and 2, respectively.

On the first map embracing the military tract, published by Simeon DeWitt, the Surveyor-General, in 1802, the reservation at Scaw yace is laid down on the north side of the river, in the town of Junius, while there is none marked on the south of the river in the town of Romulus. On Burr's Atlas, published in 1829, under the supervision of the Surveyor-General, the reservation is still noted on the north side of the river in the town of Waterloo, while the village of Scawas is marked on the south side, in the town of Fayette, but the latter is evidently the settlement which had lately been made, and has no reference to any previous Indian Village.

From the foregoing it will be observed that Skoi-yase was an important place, where the Cayuga Indians caught and cured large quantities of eels. That this fish was one of their important supplies of food is corroborated from many sources, one of which it is only necessary to give. In the year 1750, Bishop Cammerhoff and Rev.

D. Zeisberger, the Moravian missionaries, left Wyoming on a tour to the Cayuga and other Indians. On arriving at the southernmost point of Lake Cayuga, they were met by a party of Indians encamped in a cave, who generously replenished their scanty stores with a supply of dried eels.

Other varieties of fish were also caught in large quantities, so that Skoi-yase was of great importance as a fishing station. The journal of George Grant says that there were "several fish ponds abounding opposite the town." These were circular enclosures of stone from thirty to forty feet in diameter, built upon the rocky bed of the stream, where the water was neither very deep or rapid, so constructed as to permit the water to pass through, but to retain the fish. The official map made by the first surveyors of Township No. 26 (Junius) and heretofore mentioned as being filed in 1790, has noted on it the "Eel Wears" in the river south of the "Cayuga Reservation at Scawyace," said weirs being north of lots 4 and 5 on the map of Township 11 (Romulus.) The manner of catching the fish is well-described by Elkanah Watson, in his journal in "Men and Times of the Revolution" September 14th, 1791, after leaving Oneida lake and entering the Onondaga river and giving a brief description of the same, he says: "These waters abound in cat-fish, salmon, bass, eel, and corporals, all very fine and fat. They are caught in eel weirs, formed by Indians thus:-Two walls of loose stones are thrown up, obliquely descending across the river, to a point, where they are taken at a small opening, in baskets or eel pots. Salmon are caught at the Oswego falls in the night, by spearing them, as they vault up the Falls, by the aid of torch lights."

These fish ponds are well remembered by the older inhabitants of Waterloo, although until lately they had little or no conception of their use. Colonel Horace F. Gustin has a distinct recollection of them and says, July 12th, 1880: "The fish ponds were there as left by the In

dians when I came to Waterloo in 1815; at that time I had no idea what they were for, and never thought of their being used as fish ponds until last summer, when General John S. Clark, who was then at Waterloo, asked me about them, when I went with him and stood upon the exact location. The remains of the fish weirs were here for years after I came to Waterloo." In a pencil sketch he has furnished the writer, and without any knowledge of what had been written by Elkanah Watson, he gives a complete and perfect draught of the weirs, as described in the extract as above taken from Mr. Watson's journal. Colonel Gustin further says that, "there were several of these fish weirs in what used to be called the rapids in the river directly opposite the present village of Waterloo, and that the wings of the weirs were built of brush and stone. The fish ponds were irregular in shape, but of a circular, sometimes rather oblong, form, from twenty to forty feet in diameter, and were built of stone, in shallow water, not very far from the shore, and with openings sufficient to let the water circulate freely, and yet retain the fish."

The sketch shows that the wings of the weirs commenced on each side in shallow water, some of them near the shore, and so shaped as to empty into the main channel, where the walls of the weirs would run down the river obliquely towards the center until they were sufficiently near together so that a basket, made for that purpose, could be held or placed at the opening, and prove a proper receptacle for catching and retaining the fish. The fish would then be thrown into the ponds, which were located on the sides of the weir, not far from the opening or end, where they could be preserved alive and taken out as wanted for use, while the eels would be killed and properly cured as was the Indian custom, in which manner they were preserved for future use.

(APPENDIX, No. 3.)

GENERAL SULLIVAN'S PICTURE.

The Portrait of General Sullivan, which appears in this work, is a faithful copy of that contained in "The Military Services and Public Life of Major-General John Sullivan of the Revolutionary Army," by Hon. Thomas C. Amory, a grand-nepbew of our hero. The truthfulness of the likeness is attested in the following letter:

19 COMMONWEALTH AVE., BOSTON, MASS.,

MY DEAR SIR:

The plate of the engraved portrait of General Sullivan in my "Military Services," was, I am sorry to say, destroyed in our great fire of 1872-and I have but few copies of the impressions taken from it, left.

The engraving made last summer for the use of your committee, at the Waterloo Centennial,-of which you sent me a copy-was a very good one, and I doubt if it can be improved upon.

The colored engraving, from which an oil painting by Otis, a pupil of Stuart, was taken, now in my possession, substantially that in my book, was pronounced by the widow of General Sullivan, as her descendants have told me, an excellent likeness. The portrait from which that engraving was taken, must have been painted between 1770 and 1776, at which last period, the engraving was made in London, as were similar likenesses of our other Revolutionary Generals-it being an object to know what the rebel leaders looked like. From the dress, when the

engraving was colored, being British in hue, (scarlet,) I have sometimes conjectured it might have been painted in 1772, when John Sullivan and Rumford, were made Majors by Governor Wentworth in New Hampshire.

About 1784, Trumbull visited New Hampshire, and when General Sullivan had but twenty minutes to devote to the purpose, made a crayon sketch of him. This was after his illness, occasioned by exposure in the New York Expedition, which had shattered his constitution. A copy of it was made by Cole for the Concord, N. H. State House, at the charge of Dr. Sullivan, a great grandson' of General Sullivan, but it never satisfied me, and when in · 1876, it was concluded to have a portrait painted for Independence Hall at Philadelphia, some of us subscribed and Mr. Staigg, one of our best portait painters, taking the portrait in my book, and Trumbull's sketch for his guide, painted with conscientious fidelity, what seemed to me, a truthful portrait of the man as he would have been, about 1780, mid-way in time between the two dates, without any covering to the head and about as much of the person as shown in your copy.

I shall look forward with great interest to your publication, covering your Centennial Celebration.

Yours faithfully,

T. C. AMORY.

Note. In the June, 1880, number of the Magazine of American History, appears an article by Mr. Amory, on the New York Indian Campaign of 1779. D. W., JR.