Ep#8: The Largest Bank Robbery in Bucks County History & 1781 Zodiac Back

1/17/2024: On today's episode, Valerie relays an epic tale featuring disguises, horse theft, robbery, and espionage, as she covers the legendary Doan Gang of Bucks County and their most infamous crime. Amy Jo's 1781 Zodiac Back covers the revolutionary discovery of Uranus and the most recent Pluto in Aquarius transit - that is until NOW!

Cover Photo: Early book on the Doan Gang, by H.K. Brooke

1. Illustration featuring the Doan Gang

2. Surrender of Cornwallis. At York-town, VA Oct. 1781, by Nathaniel Currier

3. The Doan Gang Historical Marker

4. Illustration of the Murder of Moses Doan

5. Graves outside the cemetery wall

6. Replacement headstone for Abraham Doan

7. Replacement headstone for Levi Doan

8. 1781 Outer Planets

9. 1781 Chart

10. William Herschel

11. Refractive Telescope

Sources/Photo Sources

The Doan Gang Sources:

Voorhees, M. (Host). (2020, October 16). America’s Original Outlaws: The Doan Gang, Plumstead Cowboys, The American Revolution, Bucks County’s exclusive [Video Podcast Episode]. In Bucks County Bytes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIDUIDEwd9g

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doan_Outlaws

https://sites.google.com/view/doanefamilyassociation/people-places-and-things?authuser=0

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEbqvfH4ZiNq527DzvfIGb274t73YuqJ/view

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers_in_the_American_Revolution

https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/revolutionary-phl-exiled-philadelphia-quakers-during-revolution

https://archive.org/details/newgardenfriends00hilt/page/20/mode/2up

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/lifestyle/columns/2016/04/04/lavo-night-man-named-moses/17828893007/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown

https://www.newspapers.com/image/56742956/?terms=%22Moses%20Doan%22&match=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/lifestyle/2022/04/18/revolutionary-war-doan-gang-outlaws-hideout-dripping-springs-tyler-state-park-newtown/65350258007/

https://www.mercermuseum.org/doanprograms

https://www.mercermuseum.org/future-exhibits/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_(disambiguation)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QMxwtR4r0D77nEIywEU6qqltlCTyI30v7x4cYPdMEXE/edit

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/newtown-pa/notorious-doan-gang-ride-again-newtown-theatre-lecture

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/doan-gang-tombstones#:~:text=The%20Doan%20gang%20were%20the,were%20also%20renowned%20horse%20thieves.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/quakers-at-the-battle-of-guilford-courthouse.htm#_ftnref9

The Doan Gang Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doan_Outlaws#/media/File:Doan3.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doan_Outlaws#/media/File:The_Doans_Gang_Front_Book_Cover_From_Annals_Of_The_Revolution_Or_A_History_Of_The_Doans_By_H.K._Brooke_1843.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doan_Outlaws#/media/File:The_Doans_Gang_Illustration_From_Annals_Of_The_Revolution_Or_A_History_Of_The_Doans_By_H.K._Brooke_Title_Page_1843.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown#/media/File:Surrender-of-cornwallis-at-york-town-va-oct-1781-by-nathaniel-currier.jpg

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/doan-gang-tombstones#:~:text=The%20Doan%20gang%20were%20the,were%20also%20renowned%20horse%20thieves.

1781 Zodiac Back Sources:

https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/uranus-is-a-smelly-planet-video/wviz-spot-on-science/ 

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=598202578&rlz=1CAACGA_enUS1071US1071&sxsrf=ACQVn0-MT0erssnEOGSQ8gkeIvGeevRA7A:1705171434267&q=uranus+astrology&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwiFk_vMgtuDAxX1GjQIHXmtDTcQ0pQJegQIChAB&biw=1187&bih=512&dpr=1.15#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4dbdbba4,vid:3U1Sms16nVQ,st:0

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/uranus-101/

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/space/article/mission-to-uranus

https://www.reddit.com/r/astrology/comments/glmw0a/starting_to_think_that_linmanuel_miranda_is_the/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_and_Psyche

https://cosmosandpsyche.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/introductiontoastrology1.pdf

https://www.astrologyuniversity.com/richard-tarnas-on-saturn-vs-uranus/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_Sigourney_1827/The_Georgian_Planet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Museum_of_Astronomy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus

https://www.windows2universe.org/the_universe/uts/timeline.html

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/uranus-first-planet-discovered-telescope#:~:text=When%20Uranus%2C%20the%20seventh%20planet,visible%20to%20the%20naked%20eye.

https://www.reddit.com/r/astrology/comments/glmw0a/starting_to_think_that_linmanuel_miranda_is_the/

https://youtu.be/ccFpPBTsykk?si=V8-0nJmcQs_dAVu0

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/uranus-first-planet-discovered-telescope

https://www.astro.com/astrology/in_futureshock_e.htm

https://www.catherineurban.com/blog/pluto-in-aquarius-part-ii-a-historical-evalutation-of-prior-pluto-in-aquarius-eras 

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEcat5/LE1701-1800.html

https://www.astro.com/swisseph/ae/1700/ae_1781d.pdf

1781 Zodiac Back Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel#/media/File:William_Herschel01.jpg

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/telescopes/en/