09-19-2010, 10:28 AM
and this is the Cape Cod- Barnstable County original oldest wooden jail ("gaol") in America. circa 1690!
The jail was a holding cell for the usual 18th-and-19th-century ne'er-do-wells, but its most notorious prisoners were buccaneers from the pirate ship, Whydah, which sank in 1717.
there have been reports of apparitions and voices, the usual ghostly stuff.
" Miss Holway brought Mr. Cataldo to the ancient barn to show him what she had found inside the building. He was thrown back and amazed when Miss Holway showed him a solid plank that framed the small cell of the Old Gaol, there were engravings hidden away for nearly three centuries done by a prisoner who had spent time in the crude, inhospitable lockup. There on the wooden plank was the following:
"W. Bartlett 13d October 1698 and 27d he was let out"
Whydah
![[Image: whydah.jpg]](http://www.all-things-conflict-resolution-and-adr.com/images/whydah.jpg)
![[Image: EXH6.jpg]](http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/pirates/photos/EXH6.jpg)
![[Image: 3695651208_93a5902335.jpg?v=0]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2463/3695651208_93a5902335.jpg?v=0)
The jail was a holding cell for the usual 18th-and-19th-century ne'er-do-wells, but its most notorious prisoners were buccaneers from the pirate ship, Whydah, which sank in 1717.
there have been reports of apparitions and voices, the usual ghostly stuff.
" Miss Holway brought Mr. Cataldo to the ancient barn to show him what she had found inside the building. He was thrown back and amazed when Miss Holway showed him a solid plank that framed the small cell of the Old Gaol, there were engravings hidden away for nearly three centuries done by a prisoner who had spent time in the crude, inhospitable lockup. There on the wooden plank was the following:
"W. Bartlett 13d October 1698 and 27d he was let out"
Whydah