Huron-St. Lawrence Iroquois Relations in the Terminal Prehistoric ...

36 ONTARIO ARCHAEOLOGY NO. 44data set out here supports a conclusion that thishypothesis may be extended to explain, in part, thedisappearance of the St. Lawrence Iroquois inJefferson County, New York.AcknowledgementsI am deeply indebted to the Reverend Earl Sidler forhaving shared unstintingly with me over the lasttwenty years his detailed knowledge of JeffersonCounty archaeology. My perceptions of JeffersonCounty have been greatly enhanced by his havingmade available to me the unrestricted use of hislibrary, the results of his fieldwork and the long-lostcollections he has painstakingly brought to light. Ithank him too for the private tours he con-ducted overthe countryside to show me the sites. I wish to expressparticular thanks to Jack Carter of Clayton, New York,who for more than twenty years has shared with me hisknowledge of Jefferson County archaeology, hislibrary, and his archaeological collection. I thank hiswife Helen for the gracious manner in which shealways made Margaret and I welcome. I express myappreciation to Arthur Einhorn of Lowville, NewYork, who, while Curator, Lyons Falls Museum, obtaineda number of private collections for study and formy use of Museum facilities to assist me. I thankMerill Waters (deceased) of Watertown, New York,for his having made his collection available to me forstudy. I appreciate the assistance provided by theJefferson County Historical Society by making theirlibrary and collections available to me from time totime over a very long period, since 1949, and morerecently the courtesies ex-tended by MargaretShaeffer, Director of the Society Museum, Laura L.Scharer, Registrar Researcher and Elaine Norton,Museum Secretary. I thank Carol Johnson for havingtyped and proof-read this and other works.References CitedAnonymousn.d.Mandeville. Unpublished paper on a Iroquois site on the Richelieu River.Beauchamp, William M.1886 The Aborigines: Traces of a People LongSince Departed. Transactions of the JeffersonCounty Historical Society at Watertown,New' York, 1886-1887.1889 The Origin and Early Life of the NewYork Iroquois. Transactions of the OneidaHistorical Society at Utica, 1887-1889.1892 The Iroquois Trail or Foot-Prints of the SixNations in Customs, Traditions, andHistory. H.C. Beauchamp, Fayetteville,New York.1894 The Origin of the Iroquois. AmericanAntiquarian and Oriental Journal 16(2).1898 Earthenware of the New York Aborigines.New York State Museum Bulletin No. 22.1900 Aboriginal Occupation of New York. NewYork State Museum Bulletin No. 32.1902 Horn and Bone Implements of the NewYork Indians. New York State MuseumBulletin No. 50.Biggar, Henry P. (editor)1924 Voyages of Jacques Cartier. Public Archivesof Canada Publication 11. Ottawa.Boyle, David1891 Pottery. Fourth Annual Report of theCanadian Institute, (Session of 1890-91).An Appendix to the Report of theMinister of Education, Ontario. Toronto.1906 Notes on Some Specimens. Annual ArchaeologicalReport Ontario for 1905. Appendixto the Report of the Minister ofEducation. Toronto.Burger, Marjorie K., and Peter P. Pratt1973 SUNY-Oswego Excavations in OntarioRelating to the Disappearance of the St.Lawrence Iroquois. Eastern States ArchaeologicalFederation, Bulletin No. 32.Cline, M.G., and R.L. Marshall1977 Soils of New York Landscapes. PhysicalSciences, Agronomy 6, Bulletin 119. NewYork State College of Agriculture and LifeSciences, Cornell University.Dawson, Sir John William1860 Notes on Aboriginal AntiquitiesRecently Discovered in the Island ofMontreal. Canadian Naturalist andGeologist and Proceedings of the NaturalHistory Society of Montreal (volume 5).Reprinted in Cartier's Hochelaga and theDawson Site, by James F. Pendergast andBruce G. Trigger, McGill-QueensUniversity Press, 1972.1861 Additional Notes on the Aboriginal Antiquitiesfound at Montreal. CanadianNaturalist and Geologist and Proceedingsof the Natural History Society of Montreal(volume 6). Reprinted in Cartier'sHochelaga and the Dawson Site, by JamesF. Pendergast and Bruce G. Trigger,McGill-Queens University Press, 1972.Donaldson, William S.1958 Research Guide to Pottery Sequences inOntario. Research Guide No. 2, PublicationNo. 5, Ontario Archaeological Society.Emerson, Edgar C.1898 Our County and its People: A DescriptiveWork on Jefferson County, New York.Boston History Company. Boston.