Smith (surname only)

Events

1

Episodes

3

Years

1763–1764

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Smith (surname only), 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

1. Paxton Boys massacre Conestoga Indians in Lancaster

   1763–1764

   Role: Identity unresolved; named in the supplied passage only by surname as a leader of the December 27, 1763 workhouse attack

   1. 1December 1763 – 1764 · Lancaster CountyImpunity 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.

   2. 2December 14, 1763 · Conestoga TownDawn 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.

   3. 3December 27, 1763 · Lancaster workhouse (jail)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.

Sources

1. Paxton Boys Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29