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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians

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To: marcos who wrote (782)	11/25/2002 6:42:28 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 1293

I may be off-line for a day or two, but I'll get to this history discussion when I can. That Doan site is still down, but I pulled an excerpt out of the Google cache. Here's a telling peek at the type of folks who settled Canada... <sg> Later that evening Moses unveiled to his followers what their principal source of income would prove to be for several years: stealing horses in Bucks County, driving them into Philadelphia and selling them to the British. That and the periodic robbery of Whig tax collectors and wealthy Whig citizens became the modus operandi of the Doans. Yet even in their thievery they held to a strange sense of humor. The horse of Joseph Sackett, was stolen by the Doans three different times, keeping it for their own use for nine months the first time and for three months the second. Each time when they no longer needed the horse, they returned it at night to Sackett's pasture. Years later in Canada, Joseph Doan said that they had stolen Sackett's horse for the pure fun of it and did so only to let him and his neighbors know that it could be done. In fact, the surest way to be robbed by the Doans was to let it pass at the local tavern that you were too well protected to ever become their victim. from... THE DOANS in Bucks County The Life and Times of the Plumstead Cowboys peterprints.com On genealogy research: Much to my surprise lots of my ancestors were pioneers who show up in regional histories and biographies. So I'm finding plenty of anecdotal stuff with Google by doing boolean searches on names and places. Also found some helpful marriage and census records by searching on +place +"lastname, firstname".

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