PAXTON BOYS. In late 1763, a posse from Paxton, Pennsylvania, frustrated by an assembly influenced by Quakers and its subsequent failure to protect frontier settlements against Pontiac's War, killed twenty peaceful Conestoga Indians in Lancaster County. They also threatened a group of Indians converted to the Moravian Brethren, who took refuge in Philadelphia. A large band of angry Paxton Boys marched on the capital to demand protection and protest the Quaker assembly. President Benjamin Franklin stepped in to negotiate the crisis, convincing the mob to return home and assuring increased protection.
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