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Mohawk Stories -

Lewis Ketchum (March 1917) says that it is more than 100 years since the Mohawk fighting stopped.

The older Indians used to tell him as he went in the woods where certain things happened, here a hunter killed, there a family, there a pitched battle. Among these places is Kocheesuk (meaning "end of a river" where they caught eels,) either above or below Sparmook Lake, where two women & a baby were killed; Sculp Rock, on Passadumkeag where a Mohawk Chief was shot by a woman. He was asleep on a rock in the middle of the river, resting away from flies. The rest of his band had been killed in an attack on Oldtown & he was trying to get home alone. Truman Libby says that they took him ashore & buried him head down [two underlined] with a great rock between his legs so that he would go down to Purgatory. This seems wholly probable. Old Big Thunder used to say that in old times a chief was buried standing [one underlined] up, a warrior sitting & a common