Paxton Boys
- Events
- 1
- Episodes
- 3
- Years
- 1763–1764
Every event in Historedia whose sources name Paxton Boys, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.
Events and episodes
Paxton Boys massacre Conestoga Indians in Lancaster
1763–1764Role: Perpetrators; vigilante mob of Scots-Irish Presbyterian settlers from Lancaster and Cumberland counties
- Impunity and contemporary response
No arrests occurred because of local sympathy, and despite a reward, no Paxton Boy was ever punished; Franklin's Narrative denounced the massacre.
- Dawn raid on Conestoga Town
About fifty Paxton Boys attacked Conestoga Town at daybreak on December 14, 1763, killing and scalping six Conestoga and burning the buildings.
- Lancaster workhouse massacre
On December 27, 1763, led by Smith and Stewart, the Paxton Boys broke into the Lancaster workhouse and killed, scalped, and dismembered the fourteen surviving Conestoga.
- Impunity and contemporary response
Sources
- Paxton Boys Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29