Massacre of the Conestogas: On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County Quilt extended family

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Gives martyr accounts from the time of the Apostles until 1660

The West Conestoga congregation probably took form between 1734 and 1740 in Lancaster County

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Massacre of the Conestogas: On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County Quilt extended familyOn two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty women, children, and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the culminating tragedies in a series of traded atrocities between European settlers and native tribes. Paperback. The History Press Arcadia, 2010. 188 pages.