Talk:Paxton Boys

message: Removed reference to pacifist Quaker government, since Quakers had withdrawn from the Pennsylvania Assembly seven years earlier (in 1756)Aal3 15:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Delete content not covered in article - what Paxton Boys or frontier people thought about subsidies to Indians, or "savage Presbyterians". Does not appear in body.Parkwells (talk) 22:36, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lede

message: In reference to the above discussion, I am surprised no one here has Googled and found this very accessible, very readable transcript of The Apology of the Paxton Volunteers on the Pennsylvania Historical Society's website. This is the pamphlet that Franklin agreed to have read before the colonial assembly when he and some of the other Philadelphia elite met with the Paxton Boys at Germantown. (TL;DR version: "We had no choice but to massacre defenseless Conestoga and Susquehannock because they kept doing the same thing to us, and those liberal do-good Quaker elite weenies in Philly kept being nicer to them than they ever were to us!" It conveniently leaves out that at least some of the Paxton settlers were in violation of treaties that the Pennsylvania government had long honored ... honestly, the whole thing would not be too far out of place on certain conservative websites today)
It is, to be sure, a primary source, but it is one that would definitely provide the context mentioned above. Certainly the article, and its readers, would benefit from hearing the Paxtons' own words and voice in some places. Daniel Case (talk) 16:48, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: ''The Apology of the Paxton Volunteers''

message: The "see also" link to Paxtang may be misleading, as it references only the little present-day borough of Paxtang, while the "Paxton" of the Paxton Boys refers to the territory of Paxton/Peshtank that covered much of what is today Dauphin County, including Upper, Middle and Lower Paxton townships. user: PurpleChez.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.118.65.34 (talk) 14:44, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paxtang 

message: I’ve heard that the site in Lancaster City was behind the old courthouse.  I don’t see any markers commemorating this location.  Is it the unnamed little park behind the building?  This event should be moved front and center in the Cities history.   Teach it in school. 163.123.172.164 (talk) 02:19, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commemorate location. 

message: — Assignment last updated by Fpradojr (talk) 07:16, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Early American History Graduate Seminar

message: This section needs serious work. Use of the word "massacre" when describing the Battle of Wyoming is misleading since it suggests non-combatants were killed. The section claims three famous "massacres" by Tory/Amerindian forces. Wyoming and Cherry Valley Massacre are two of the three but what is the third? "Tory" is outdated and somewhat derogatory. Loyalist is better. Not sure why Brant is mentioned since any connection to the Paxton Boys is tenuous at best. Brant wasn't at the Battle of Wyoming, and although he was at Cherry Valley, he wasn't in charge and tried to prevent civilian deaths. The Sullivan Expedition was a "well-organized failure." The Iroquois were driven from their homes but raids on frontier settlements continued throughout 1780 and 1781.
Not only does the second paragraph lack a badly needed citation, but the first sentence is awkwardly written and its meaning unclear. If the writer is suggesting that former Paxton Boys became Patriot leaders, then examples with citations are needed. Griffin's Sword (talk) 19:18, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This section has now been replaced with two new sections: Pennamite-Yankee War and Revolutionary War. As the identity of most of the Paxton Boys is not known, the role they played in later events is also not known, apart from Lazurus Stewart's participation in the Pennamite-Yankee War and the Revolutionary War. The main legacy of the Paxton Boys is that their actions emboldened others to commit atrocities against the indigenous population. Griffin's Sword (talk) 13:19, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dissolution and Legacy of the Paxton Boys 

message: Someone made a few changes to this quote without indicating that they had altered the original. I restored the original text using the Google Books copy of A Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians, adding brackets where necessary for new material.
However, the original text had two instances of a word now considered to be highly offensive. I believe the previous editor(s) changed these instances for that reason, but they incorrectly used the plural "women", whereas a parenthetical insertion in the Narrative makes clear that only one woman, Will Sock's wife, is being referred to.
In light of this, I did not restore the original word but replaced it with "wife" in brackets. 2600:100A:B10D:8765:0:53:B136:B601 (talk) 21:51, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language in William Henry quote