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While waiting for the verdict on my application to the Daughters of the American Revolution, I returned to Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Having had the opportunity to previously view my 5x great-grandfather’s coat, ledger and pistol privately, it was now part of a new exhibition there, “The Doan Gang: Outlaws of the Revolution.”

While verifying that Colonel Augustine Willett is my 5x great-grandfather and that he was in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, an unbelievable discovery was made. I am not using the word “unbelievable” for effect, months later I am still in awe. The Colonel’s pistol, ledger from the tavern he owned, as well as his uniform coat are at the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

A stone with the inscription "1775 M," possibly carved by the infamous outlaw Moses Doan, has been recovered from Buckingham Cave, ending a search that millions of television viewers witnessed on a recent episode of the Discovery Channel's Expedition Unknown.

The exploration of Buckingham Cave featured in a recent episode of Discovery Channel’s Expedition Unknown yielded two new discoveries related to the infamous Doan Gang, a group of loyalists active during the Revolutionary War, writes Katherine Cressman for the Bucks County Courier Times.