anyone have any info on the doans brothers 1788 to 1796 these brothers are said to have been outlaws robbing the british army as well as early settlers of my area. rumor has it the stashed 14 large srong boxes of gold/silver in the bucks county area near or around a place called haycock mountain.
yeah I've read just about everything printed on this one. Actually they cached saddle bags of gold somewhere along their escape route from Newtown. The most likely spot was along rte 113 on a well-known farm. However they had a cave in Ralph Stover park in a really cool place the locals call the "Gorge". It is horseshoe shaped gorge that mountain climbers like to practice on. The cave entrance requires scaling down a straight drop about 30 feet or so. It was perfect for outlaws. Kids were always trying to get to cave and explore it. Many fell from this sheer straight down drop and were injured. So the park closed the entrance with a rather large boulder. even now every year people are still falling in this general area and having to be air lifted by helicoptor. Most of them are rock-climbers.
It's off Worman road and Dark Hallow Rd.
The big question about the Doanes is this - did the one brother who fled to canada retrieve the cache when he returned to the area briefly and was asking locals specific questions about local landmarks. he returned to one area in particular and stared at a building for the longest time. Soon after he left town
and returned to Canada.
$100,000 in gold coins would be well worth the search. Good luck!
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I've lived in Bucks County for my entire life, born and raised here. I grew up hearing stories of the Doanes. The general consensus is that they were rabid Tories, or British Loyalists. This was unusual in this area, because most of the settlers were either Dutch (thus often Rebels) or Quakers (thus pacifists). The stories I heard pretty much agreed that they stole from the populace and turned the goods over to the British. They are well known to have spied for the British as well. The Newtown treasury money was never recovered, but it's thought again that it was given to the British. Haycock Mountain is now covered in $1M++ homes. Trust me, those owners don't want people digging.
As for the brother that returned from Canada, he came back to file a lawsuit to collect a debt from a former neighbor (it was under $100, tells you how well off he was!). When he was recognized as a Doane, his court case was dismissed and he was essentially run out of town.
I've lived in Bucks County for my entire life, born and raised here. I grew up hearing stories of the Doanes. The general consensus is that they were rabid Tories, or British Loyalists. This was unusual in this area, because most of the settlers were either Dutch (thus often Rebels) or Quakers (thus pacifists). The stories I heard pretty much agreed that they stole from the populace and turned the goods over to the British. They are well known to have spied for the British as well. The Newtown treasury money was never recovered, but it's thought again that it was given to the British. Haycock Mountain is now covered in $1M++ homes. Trust me, those owners don't want people digging.
As for the brother that returned from Canada, he came back to file a lawsuit to collect a debt from a former neighbor (it was under $100, tells you how well off he was!). When he was recognized as a Doane, his court case was dismissed and he was essentially run out of town.
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