. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. ving the spectator a little in doubt of the characterof the old, well-kept building, flanked by modern structuresfor the sheriffs offices. The jail was begun at the same timewith the court-house, the legislature appropriating sixteenJiundred pounds for their completion in 1774. Of the jail it issaid: Under the date of October 26, 1775, the Tryon County Revolu-tionary Committee inquired of Sir John Johnson whether he pre-tended a prerogative to the courthouse and jail, and would hinderor interrupt the committee to make use of the same public ho
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. ving the spectator a little in doubt of the characterof the old, well-kept building, flanked by modern structuresfor the sheriffs offices. The jail was begun at the same timewith the court-house, the legislature appropriating sixteenJiundred pounds for their completion in 1774. Of the jail it issaid: Under the date of October 26, 1775, the Tryon County Revolu-tionary Committee inquired of Sir John Johnson whether he pre-tended a prerogative to the courthouse and jail, and would hinderor interrupt the committee to make use of the same public houses toour want and service in the common cause. Sir John in replyclaimed the buildings as his property until he had been refunded^jTyoo which Sir William had advanced toward their Committee at the same time respecting the claim, fitted up aprivate house as a prison, and sent some convicts to Albany andHartford for safe keeping. Congress, however, was informed thatSir William had conveyed the buildings to the county, and the jail. z> o THE NEV, O UBLIC LIBRARY, ASTOa, LENOX ANDI T I L O t N ,= ..• ,-j f 1 a 1 I (J iv^. Johnstown, New York 209 was used as a fort by the patriots during the Revolution, beingfortified with palisades and block houses. Of the early taverns of Johnstown the most noted werethe Gilbert Tices Inn, formerly on William Street, the BlackHorse Tavern, on the corner of William and MontgomeryStreets, now known as the Younglove Homestead, and UnionHall, at the junction of East Main and East State Streets, or,as it was called in earlier years, in the angle of the Tribes Hilland Fondasbush roads. They were frontier inns and were attimes scenes of lawlessness and brawls between hunters andtrappers, and the Indians and half-breeds, who frequentedthem to exchange their stock of furs and drink deep in theproceeds. Shortly after the war, Gilbert Tices Inn on Wil-liam Street was kept by a Frenchman named Jean Baptiste deFonclaire, who was a ve
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