From the October 28, 2020, Buffalo (NY) Rising "Haunted History: Old County Hall is at the center of Buffalo's most dramatic moments" by Daniel Lendzian.
THE WAR OF 1812
The Old County Hall is the site where Colonel Cyrenius Chapin surrendered the village of Buffalo to the British on December 10, 1813, to British Lieutenant General Gordon Drummond after American Brigadier General George McClure abandoned the village saying, "They may all be destroyed, and I don't care how soon." (Nice guy.)
Drummond rejected Chapin's authority to surrender and proceeded to burn the village in retaliation for the American burning of the British settlement Newark (Niagara-On-the-Lake) and previously having burned the Canadian provincial capital of York (now Toronto).
Much business is still done at the building today, especially in the basement. Accordingly, every so many years there will be many people down there waiting for appointments and they will all come running up the stairs saying they had seen something that scared them.
They described apparitions as human bodies missing limbs. Was the County Hall a burying ground?
Like Boo!! --Brock-Perry
