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,...
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Pontiac's War (section Paxton Boys)
as the Paxton Boys, so-called because they were primarily from the area around the Pennsylvania village of Paxton (or Paxtang). The Paxton Boys turned...
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suggested that the actions of the Paxton Boys inspired the Black Boys Although the Black Boys were similar to the Paxton Boys in their hostility to the colonial...
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Paxtang, Pennsylvania (section Old Paxton Church)
the Paxton Boys, a vigilante group that murdered twenty Susquehannock in the Conestoga Massacre. On December 14, 1763, more than 50 Paxton Boys rode...
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the last members were massacred by the vigilante group known as the Paxton Boys. While there are a significant number of Indigenous people alive today...
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Cumberland Boys and the Paxton Boys, the militia soon exceeded their mandate and began offensive forays against Lenape villages. The Paxton Boys' leaders...
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Growth Benjamin Franklin was critical of government indifference to the Paxton Boys massacre of the Susquehannock in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in December...
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Sara Paxton (born April 25, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She began acting at an early age, appearing in minor roles in both films and television...
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and Tennent to meet with the Scotch-Irish vigilante group known as the Paxton Boys. Scotch-Irish immigrants to Pennsylvania frequently squatted on indigenous...
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True Son's maternal White uncle. He is well known as a member of the Paxton Boys, a group notorious for having massacred a band of friendly Susquehannock...
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Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton (born January 26, 1989) is an American musician from Los Angeles. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Paxton's style draws from...
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distinguishing among hostile and friendly peoples. On December 14, 1763, the Paxton Boys, led by Matthew Smith and Capt. Lazarus Stewart, attacked Conestoga,...
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1778) was an 18th-century Pennsylvanian frontiersman, a leader of the Paxton Boys (a group of Scots-Irish militants who massacred a number of Susquehannock...
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by a settler mob known as the Paxton Boys. On December 27, 1763, thirteen days after the first massacre, the Paxton Boys broke past the sheriff and others...
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Independence Hall in Philadelphia for 63 years. However, events such as the Paxton Boys massacres of 1763 had made the legislature aware of the need for a central...
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be the oldest surviving synagogue in North America. December 14 – The Paxton Boys massacre six Conestoga Indians in their homes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania...
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eight children lived in Conestoga Town. In December of that year, the Paxton Boys, in response to raids by the Lenape and Shawnee, attacked Conestoga Town...
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met with the Paxton leaders and persuaded them to disperse. Franklin wrote a scathing attack against the racial prejudice of the Paxton Boys. "If an Indian...
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Cigar, also known as a "stogie" Conestoga Massacre, Pennsylvania by the Paxton Boys in 1763 Conestoga Traction Company, a former American regional interurban...
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Machine, Benjamin Franklin's account of the massacre and criticism of the Paxton Boys "A Disquisition Portraying the History Relative to the Enoch Brown Incident"...
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present-day Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg. He founded the Paxton Boys. Elder was born in Edinburgh, the son of Robert and Eleanor Elder. He...
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soldiers or settlers. The New York frontier had no equivalent to the Paxton Boys, a vigilante group of Scots-Irish settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier...
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Religion EP) Lower Class Brats Monster Squad The Messengers Oxblood Paxton Boys Self Destruct (Violent Affair EP, the band featured members of The Unseen...
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Proclamation of 1763. December: Conestoga Native Americans killed by the Paxton Boys. 1764 – April: The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Sugar Act and...
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Christoph Sauer 1760, Germantown Academy founded February 1764, the Paxton Boys enter Germantown but disperse after meeting with a delegation headed...
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be the oldest surviving synagogue in North America. December 14 – The Paxton Boys massacre six Conestoga Indians in their homes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania...
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authorities in Pennsylvania at the time investigated the two December 1764 Paxton Boys massacres of defenseless Conestoga communities near present-day Millersville...
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University Press, 1991) p110 Kevin Kenny, Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment (Oxford University...
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new wave of Scots-Irish immigrants who are now known locally as "The Paxton Boys" encroached on the Penn-ceded land in the back country, often doing so...
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in the 1740s, and reverted to the Proprietary Party in the 1750s. The Paxton Boys' March on Philadelphia was preventing from entering by a delegation of...
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