Dec 14 2009
Subversive Historian – 12/14/09
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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 …
“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 …
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