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Walter Bates, Sherrif of Kings Co., Initials carved into a foundation stone of the old Sunday School, now a part of fire-place at Anglican Church Hall. The old Sunday School may have been the oldest building in The Village when it was torn down.







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Walter Bate's Book about the famous prisoner, Henry More Smith. Henry was to be hanged, on doubtful evidence, for stealing a horse. He escaped more than once, acted out and won a pardon, thus escaping the noose that was used most readily in Kingston in those days.


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Henry More Smith

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Scan10625.jpg true story picture by geraldean_2008In the 1970's, classes were conducted at Macdonald Consolidated School in the basement, behind the furnace room, at the site of Henry's dungeon.

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