the white people, and not the Indians who had given me the land, and
compelled him to pay over all the money which he had retained on my
account.

My land derived its name, Gardow, from a hill that is within its limits,
which is called in the Seneca language Kau-tam. Kautam when interpreted
signifies up and down, or down and up, and is applied to a hill that you
will ascend and descend in passing it; or to a valley. It has been said
that Gardow was the name of my husband Hiokatoo, and that my land derived
its name from him; that however was a mistake, for the old man always
considered Gardow a nickname, and was uniformly offended when called by it.

About three hundred acres of my land, when I first saw it, was open flats,
lying on the Genesee River, which it is supposed was cleared by a race of
inhabitants who preceded the first Indian settlements in this part of the
country. The Indians are confident that many parts of this country were
settled and for a number of years occupied by people of whom their fathers
never had any tradition, as they never had seen them. Whence those people
originated, and whither they went, I have never heard one of our oldest
and wisest Indians pretend to guess. When I first came to Genishau, the
bank of Fall Brook had just slid off and exposed a large number of human
bones, which the Indians said were buried there long before their fathers
ever saw the place; and that they did not know what kind of people they
were. It however was and is believed by our people, that they were not
Indians.

My flats were extremely fertile; but needed more labor than my daughters
and myself were able to perform, to produce a sufficient quantity of grain
and other necessary productions of the earth, for the consumption of our
family. The land had lain uncultivated so long that it was thickly covered