FLINT-LOCK RIFLE
AIRED: Season 1, Episode 10
THE DETECTIVES: Wes Cowan and Elyse Luray
THE PLACE: Mercer County Historical, Mercer, Pennsylvania
THE CASE:
Mercer County Historical Society has in its possession a late 18th century flint-lock rifle, which, according to local lore, once belonged to legendary Tory bandit Moses Doan, and was recovered after he was killed in a raid of his hideout in 1783.
The Society would like to know: was this the gun of one of the most infamous bandits operating to undermine the birth of our nation?
The History Detectives will travel west of Philadelphia, our nation 's first capital, to uncover the truth behind this myth.
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