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“Paxton Boys” Massacres

Back in the day on December 14th, 1763, a band of vigilante frontiersmen from Western Pennsylvania slaughtered six sleeping natives. After the murders, the attackers, known as the “Paxton Boys,” burned down the village of Conestoga sixty miles west of modern-day Philadelphia. Afterwards, colonial governor James Penn took fourteen survivors of the massacre into protective custody in Lancaster. Weeks later, however, on December 27th, another Paxton Boys mob broke into where they had been staying and brutally murdered them. William Henry described the bloody aftermath when he recounted seeing bodies of men, women and children “shot-scalped-hacked-and cut to pieces.” After the two horrific massacres, Penn offered a money reward for the capture of responsible parties. No one, though, was ever brought to justice for the heinous crimes.

The acts of sheer violence engendered what Benjamin Franklin, in his writings about them, called “the spirit of killing all Indians.”

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