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1766 Penn. Affidavit With Paxton Boys Content

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1766 Penn. Affidavit With Paxton Boys Content
<B>1766 Pennsylvania Affidavit With Paxton Boys Content.</B></I> Three pages, 8” x 12.5”, January 24, 1766. The Paxton Boys were a group of backcountry Scots-Irish frontiersmen from the area around the central Pennsylvania, who formed a vigilante group in response to the American Indian uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion. The Paxton Boys felt that the government of colonial Pennsylvania was negligent in providing them with protection, and so decided to take matters into their own hands committing several notable massacres and other atrocities against the peaceful Indians of the region. On December 14, 1763 a group of more than fifty Paxton Boys marched on an Indian village near Millersville, PA, murdered the six Indians they found there. This affidavit, written in the aftermath, concerns an incident in which “<I>the Company of people commonly called the Paxton Men…many of them having powder, powder Horns and Pouches and several of them guns…demanded in a very angry, outrageous, & menacing manner to know what authority he the Affirmant had to the place…</B></I>”. It would appear the Paxton Boys were trying to lay claim to the former Indian property and were attempting to gain squatter's rights by occupying the property then under Governor Penn's supervision. An important document which sheds further light on an inglorious episode in Colonial American history. Toned, with the usual folds, one small stain, else very good. <I>Ex. Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I> <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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