A shorter installment this time, looking at the clash between Scots Irish frontiersmen, American Indians, and Quaker leadership in Pennsylvania Colony, culminating in the Conestoga Massacre and the Paxton Boys Uprising.
Below I include a map and links to my reading list.
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Reading list:
Franklin, Benjamin. 1764. “A Narrative of the Late Massacres.”
Kenny, Kevin. 2009. Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment. New York: Oxford University Press.
Olson, Alison. "The Pamphlet War over the Paxton Boys." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 123, no. 1/2 (1999): 31-55.
Vaughan, Alden T. "FRONTIER BANDITTI AND THE INDIANS: THE PAXTON BOYS'LEGACY, 1763–1775." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 51, no. 1 (1984): 1-29.
Collective Violence in American History 4: The Paxton Boys