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Paxton Boys
The Paxton Boys were a group of backcountry Scots-Irish frontiersmen from the area around the central Pennsylvania village of Paxtang (Paxton), near present day Harrisburg, 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, dominated by Quaker pacifists, was negligent in providing them with protection, and so decided to take matters into their own hands.
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