It is situated upon the Susquehanna river, near the north east angle of the Great Bend, fourteen miles from the village of BLnghamton. It appears to have been a half way resting place for the Six nations, as they passed South to Wyoming or its neighbourhood; or for the tribes of the Wyoming valley as they passed north. Their path over the Oquago mountain, and also over a mountain this side, nearer the village, was worn very deep, and is still plainly

visible It (Oquago) is a beautiful vale, from three to four miles in

length, and from a mile to a mile and a half in width on both sides of the river; with an easy and nearly regular slope to the top of the hills that run parallel with the stream. IVilkinson's Annals of Binghamton,

A LETTER FROM REV. GIDEON HAWLEY

Of Marshpee CGntaining a JYarrative of his Jour7iey to

Onohoghgwage m 1753.

[1. Mass. Coll. IV.]

Jtuy-dl, 1794.

It is forty years, this day, since I was ordained a Missionary to the Indians, in tlie Old South meeting house, when the Rev. Dr. Sewall preached on the occasion, and the Rev. Mr. Prince gave the charge.

I had been in the service from Feb. 5. 0. S. 1752, and by an ecclesiastical council convened for tliat purpose, was now solemnly set apart to the work of an evangelist among the western Indians The Rev. Mr. Foxcroft and Dr. Chauncy assisted upon the occasion, and Mr. Appleton of Cambridge, with many delegates from their respective Churches.