If you wanted to remain within the wormhole, since it's so delightfully swampy all around* you could wend your way back further and keep bumping into intriguing hard items. Perchance a mitten, a fork, bodies left behind by the Continental army. Per George Washington himself, General John Sullivan had orders to kill countless Seneca, who were living here in 1779 and had been for centuries.
Seneca territory
If you allow that there might be something to psychometry, do wiggle your digits through a box of my father's arrowheads, collected over decades. We used to stay in the car, he'd go off hunting through just-turned fields. Amazing what would turn up. Tools, beads, pottery, pipes.
My father always knew that something would turn up.
In the end, it was to my life's advantage that the formerly English would drift into the massive amount of western New York territory of the Phelps-Gorham purchase, then the Holland Purchase. Oh boy, land! New England Osbornes were crowded in Connecticut. They would find their way west.
Sullivan Campaign in Livingston County
* There is a Muck Road in the heart of South Lima. Look it up. How would you like to say you live on Muck Road in South Lima, New York?
