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Public Gaol at Colonial Williamsburg (614 words)
The Public Gaol's most celebrated occupants were 15 henchmen of the pirate Blackbeard, caught in 1718, and the infamous Henry "Hair Buyer" Hamilton, lieutenant governor of British Detroit, captured in 1779.
Gaol fever--probably typhus--broke out from time to time, and the unheated cells often were overcrowded.
The original Gaol was 20 by 30 feet with two cells, an exercise yard, and lodgings for keeper John Redwood.
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