[Ancesthntr]

“ Ingots like these are not forgotten by those who buried it. They retrieved it looong ago.”
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This was my first thought. Unless it was a very unusual set of circumstances, like several involved had a falling out and killed each other and the remaining one or two were killed in battle shortly thereafter, then the gold is long gone.

You want to find out where it went? Look to families that hadvsudden, unexplained, wealth starting within a year or sold of when this went missing, and concentrate on families of those with some connection to the transport of the gold - but that’s a very long shot, as this was 160 or so years ago and the records were likely very incomplete then, and few of them survived (and, perhaps, there might have even been an effort to hide or destroy those records).

[RedMonqey]

You want to find out where it went? Look to families that had sudden, unexplained, wealth starting within a year or sold of when this went missing

As you said, records would be hard to establish and the guilty long dead. Still I doubt any gold hoard will be found. If this really happened, it probably was "discovered' long ago.

I saw an show where the premise was 'finding Jesse James gold" I bought into the premise until the guy leading the search said his metal detector beeped a large deposit of metal at an certain depth.(a few feet) They dug. And dug. Then brought in a backhoe. They went down nearly twenty feet and that's when I threw up my hands. No bank robber on the run is going to dig a hole that deep in the middle of nowhere, and hide a bagful of loot. No friggin' way. to The Oak Island money pit was more plausible than this!!