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This 1771 map shows the Line of Property as the boundary between the Six Nations and New York. Guy Johnson, “To His Excellency William Tryon, Esq. Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Province of New York.” New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Albany, NY.
Map of the Oneida Indian Reservation in 1810. The property granted to Angel Deferrier juts out of the western border to meet the Seneca Turnpike. The best land, to the north of Angel’s grant, remained in Oneida hands. Series A0273-78. New York State Archives Digital Collections.
Detail from “Province de New York: en 4 feuilles.” 1777. Drawn by cartographer John Montrésor, this map shows the home of Louis and Maria Denny at the Indian Castle on Schoharie Creek in the lower right-hand corner, and in the upper left, the Indian Castle of the Canajoharie Mohawks upriver from the settlement known as Timmermans. New York Public Library Digital Collections.
The first survey of the best land. The land reserved to Martinus Denny was cut out of Lot 6, which was, as noted, granted in Angel Deferrier in 1817. “A Survey of the Lands purchased of the Christian Party of Oneida Indians, the 3rd of March 1815,” A4019, vol. 14, Land Survey Field Book, MU1, Reel 16, New York State Archives, Albany, NY.
Detail of the best land crossed by the Erie Canal, the New York Central Railroad, and the Seneca Turnpike. Charles Deferrier and his sisters Sophia Loomis and Mary Cobb lived near each other on the turnpike, while Mary and her husband Nelson Cobb farmed Lot 4 along Cowaselon Creek. From Gillette’s Map of Madison Co., New York: from actual surveys, 1859, Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
By the late 1790s, the best land was in the middle of the Oneida Reservation surrounded by a grid of lots. Located on the Genesee Road was John Denny’s inn on Canaseraga Creek, Wemp’s near Cowaselon Creek, and Oneida or Kanonwalohale on Oneida Creek. Klock’s place was to the south of Wemp’s. “A Map of the Oneida Reservation including lands leased to Peter Smith,” New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections.
Detail showing the Oneida Reservation of 1840. Alongside the Oneida families of Beechtree, Doxtator, Webster, Schanandoa (Skenandoah), Cornelius, and Charles lived my Harp, Ratnour, Green, and Gregg kinfolk with my Moot and Clement relations close by. From Gillette’s Map of Madison Co., New York: from actual surveys, 1859, Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.