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Massacre of the Conestogas : on the trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17894
Author
Brubaker, John H.
Date of Publication
2010.
Call Number
974.802 B886
Responsibility
by Jack Brubaker.
ISBN
9781609490614
1609490614
Author
Brubaker, John H.
Place of Publication
Charleston, SC
Publisher
History Press,
Date of Publication
2010.
Physical Description
188 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [177]-188.
Contents
pt. 1. Telling the story -- "Drive the heathen out of the land" -- "Some hot headed ill advised persons" -- "The same spirit & frantic rage" -- "Persons of undoubted probity & veracity" -- pt. 2. Retelling the story -- "I never heard one word of it till it was just over" -- "A mighty noise and hubbub" -- "Shot, scalped, hacked, and cut to pieces" -- "One of those youthful ebullitions of wrath" -- "The innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty" -- "A zone of vicious racial violence" -- pt. 3. Killers and abettors -- "The most respectable of men" -- "They had possession and would keep it" -- "Eternal shame & reproach" -- pt. 4. Death and reconciliation -- "The remains of the victims of a terrible crime" -- "Slaughter'd, kill'd, and cut off a whole tribe" -- "Who was left to mourn for these people?"
Subjects
Paxton Boys.
Conestoga Indians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Massacres - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Race relations - History - 18th century.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 B886
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The third man: William Brown and the Paxton Boys

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18421
Author
MacMaster, Richard K.
Date of Publication
2013.
Responsibility
by Richard K. MacMasters.
Author
MacMaster, Richard K.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory.org,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
2-13 p.
Subjects
Brown, William.
Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.
Paxton Boys.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 115, number 1/2 (2013), p. 2-13Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.115
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Offscourings of the Scotch Irish

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18422
Author
MacMaster, Richard K.
Date of Publication
2013.
Responsibility
by Richard K. MacMaster.
Author
MacMaster, Richard K.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory.org,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
14-25 p.
Notes
An interpretation of "A Scene in the First Act of the New Farce. Published as a Specimen. ... Printed: in the first Year of the New Hergira Secundus, the Paxtonian Expedition." Text of play precedes the article.
Subjects
Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.
Paxton Boys.
Scots-Irish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Farces.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 115, number 1/2 (2013), p. 14-25Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.115
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