Who were the Paxton Boys?

Question

Who were the Paxton Boys?

Answer 1

They were frontiersmen from Pennsylvania.  After the American Indian uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion the Paxtons formed a vigilante group to take revenge on the Indians.  They murdered many innocent people.

Answer 2

attack by Pennsylvania frontiersmen upon an Indian settlement that occurred in December 1763 during the Pontiac Indian uprising. About 57 drunken rangers from Paxton, Pa., slaughtered 20 innocent and defenseless Conestoga Indians near Lancaster, Pa. Governor John Penn thereupon issued proclamations ordering the local magistrates to arrest and try those men involved in the massacre. Since the residents of that frontier area were sympathetic to the actions of the Paxton Boys, however, no prosecutions were undertaken.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Wars and Battles

Paxton Boys

1763-1764

The village of Paxton (Paxtang), a few miles east of Harrisburg in eastern Pennsylvania, became a hotbed of racial and political unrest during Pontiac's Rebellion.

A group of Paxton men took matters into their own hands in December 1763 and raided a small settlement of Conestoga Indians in Lancaster County. The frontiersmen's fury was misplaced, however, since those natives had long lived in peace with their neighbors and had not participated in any way in the current uprising. Six Indians were killed in the attack and 14 taken captive; all of the prisoners were murdered several weeks later.

News of these events prompted Governor John Penn to issue warrants for the arrest of the perpetrators, but sympathetic frontiersmen refused to assist in bringing the Paxton Boys to justice.

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