In December 1763, the “Paxton Boys,” a vigilante group of white settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier, killed and scalped six Conestoga Indians living under the colonial government’s protection on a contested tract of land. Two weeks later, the vigilantes rode into neighboring Lancaster and shot, scalped, and dismembered 14 more Conestoga—three elderly men, three women, […]
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