Paxton Boys
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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 vigi
1841 lithograph depicting the Paxton Boys' massacre of the Conestoga at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in December 1763
A stone memorial stands at the location of the original Conestoga Indian town.
Pennsylvania Associators assemble after news of the Paxton Boys marching on Philadelphia, published 1764.
Pontiac's War
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Pontiac's War was launched in 1763 by a confederation of Native Americans who were dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War. Warriors from numerous
Paxton Boys
…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…
In a famous council on April 27, 1763, Pontiac urged listeners to rise up against the British (19th century engraving by Alfred Bobbett)
The policies of General Jeffery Amherst, a British hero of the Seven Years' War, helped to provoke Pontiac's War (Portrait of Jeffery Amherst by Joshua Reynolds, 1765).
Pontiac takes up the war hatchet