. Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1914 Description: 169-185 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.18 Location: LCHSJL

spared. Grube was one of a small group of missionaries, of whom David Zeis-berger was the best known, who were messengers of , peace on the Colonial frontiers. These men lived their lives with the Indians and understood them perhaps better than any other men of the day. They found in the Indian nature

MASSACRE OF THE CONESTOGA INDIANS BY THE PAXTANG BOYS-A POEM By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XVIII, pp. 169-185, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster 1 County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled, "Mas- sacre of the Conestoga Indians, 1763: Incidents and Details." In this paper the

obscured behind a modern edifice. The massacre of the Conestoga Indians by Scotch-Irish settlers on the western fringes of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1763 is fertile ground for such an analysis for several reasons. Prominent among these is the fact that the murders occurred during the proprietary