A historically inaccurate 1841 lithograph of the Paxton Boys' massacre of the Conestoga at Lancaster, Pennsylvania in December 1763.
The Paxton Boys, also known as the Paxtang Boys or the Paxton Rangers, were a mob of settlers that murdered 20 unarmed Conestoga in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in December 1763. This group of vigilantes from Lancaster and Cumberland counties formed in 1763 to defend themselves from Indigenous attacks during Pontiac's War. The Paxton Boys justified their actions by claiming that the Conestoga were colluding with the Lenape and Shawnee who were attacking Pennsylvania's frontier settlements. According to historian Kevin Kenny, the Paxton Boys were Pennsylvania's most aggressive colonists.[1]
In February 1764, the Paxton Boys marched on Philadelphia with the intent of murdering the Moravian Lenape and Mohican who had been moved to that city for their protection. However, the marchers dispersed at Germantown after meeting with a delegation headed by Benjamin Franklin. Members of the group led by Lazarus Stewart later supported settlers from Connecticut in the Wyoming Valley during the Pennamite-Yankee Wars and the Revolutionary War.
^Kenny, Kevin (2009). Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199753949.
The PaxtonBoys, also known as the Paxtang Boys or the Paxton Rangers, were a mob of settlers that murdered 20 unarmed Conestoga in Lancaster County,...
suggested that the actions of the PaxtonBoys inspired the Black Boys Although the Black Boys were similar to the PaxtonBoys in their hostility to the colonial...
the last members were massacred by the vigilante group known as the PaxtonBoys. While there are a significant number of Indigenous people alive today...
Growth Benjamin Franklin was critical of government indifference to the PaxtonBoys massacre of the Susquehannock in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in December...
1778) was an 18th-century Pennsylvanian frontiersman, a leader of the PaxtonBoys (a group of Scots-Irish militants who massacred a number of Susquehannock...
Sara Paxton is an American actress and singer. She began acting at an early age, appearing in minor roles in both films and television shows before rising...
True Son's maternal White uncle. He is well known as a member of the PaxtonBoys, a group notorious for having massacred a band of friendly Susquehannock...
and Tennent to meet with the Scotch-Irish vigilante group known as the PaxtonBoys. Scotch-Irish immigrants to Pennsylvania frequently squatted on indigenous...
be the oldest surviving synagogue in North America. December 14 – The PaxtonBoys massacre six Conestoga Indians in their homes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania...
met with the Paxton leaders and persuaded them to disperse. Franklin wrote a scathing attack against the racial prejudice of the PaxtonBoys. "If an Indian...
Cigar, also known as a "stogie" Conestoga Massacre, Pennsylvania by the PaxtonBoys in 1763 Conestoga Traction Company, a former American regional interurban...
by a settler mob known as the PaxtonBoys. On December 27, 1763, thirteen days after the first massacre, the PaxtonBoys broke past the sheriff and others...
Independence Hall in Philadelphia for 63 years. However, events such as the PaxtonBoys massacres of 1763 had made the legislature aware of the need for a central...
soldiers or settlers. The New York frontier had no equivalent to the PaxtonBoys, a vigilante group of Scots-Irish settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier...
eight children lived in Conestoga Town. In December of that year, the PaxtonBoys, in response to raids by the Lenape and Shawnee, attacked Conestoga Town...
Machine, Benjamin Franklin's account of the massacre and criticism of the PaxtonBoys "A Disquisition Portraying the History Relative to the Enoch Brown Incident"...
Proclamation of 1763. December: Conestoga Native Americans killed by the PaxtonBoys. 1764 – April: The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Sugar Act and...
be the oldest surviving synagogue in North America. December 14 – The PaxtonBoys massacre six Conestoga Indians in their homes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania...
deposits being used like paper money by the Bank of Ireland. 1764 — The PaxtonBoys — Tension over a failure to protect a frontier village from tribal aggression...
University Press, 1991) p110 Kevin Kenny, Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The PaxtonBoys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment (Oxford University...
Native Americans, angry at their pacifism, and white frontiersmen. The PaxtonBoys tried to follow them into Philadelphia for attacks, but was prevented...
Global Information