in the case of the Paxton Boys, no Black Boys were never arrested for the crimes they committed. Dissolution and legacy of the Paxton Boys Lazarus Stewart, a former leader of the Paxton Boys, was killed by Iroquois warriors in the Wyoming Massacre in 1778 during the American Revolutionary War. In the Wyoming Valley event, one of three famous massacres during many scattered Tory-Amerindian staged attacks on colonial settlements that year in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, Mohawk chief Joseph Brant led a group of Loyalists, Mohawk and other warriors against rebel colonial settlers in the area along the North Branch Susquehanna River. The raids resulted in the Sullivan Expedition the next year, which effectively broke the power of the Six Nations of the Iroquois below Canada, and forced the British administration in Canada to shelter the Amerindians who fled from the devastation caused by the expedition. Following the start of the Revolutionary War, what was left of the Paxton Boys leadership fell squarely with the patriots. Due to their experience with combat, many Paxton members were relied upon to train up other able-bodied men. As a result some Philadelphians moved north to join the loyalists to seek revenge against the Paxton Boys. In fiction Each of these books references the Paxton Boys: The Light in the Forest (1953), by Conrad Richter. Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon, includes the Lancaster Massacre. Robert J. Shade. Conestoga Winter: A Story of Border Vengeance (Forbes Road) (volume 2; 2013) includes the Lancaster Massacre. Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould. The Amish Seamstress (2013); the narrator finds out quite a bit about Amish involvement in the events of the time. Ghost River: The Fall & Rise of the Conestoga, published by the Library Company of Philadelphia. See also Black Boys Enoch Brown school massacre (July 26, 1764) List of unsolved murders Paxtang Gnadenhutten massacre Sources Taylor, Alan, American Colonies, New York: Viking Press, 2001. Engels, Jeremy. “‘Equipped for Murder’: The Paxton Boys and ‘the Spirit of Killing All Indians’ in Pennsylvania, 1763-1764.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 8, no. 3 (2005): 355–81. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41939988. Judith Ridner “Unmasking the Paxton Boys: The Material Culture of the Pamphlet War.” Early American Studies 14, no. 2 (2016): 348–76. https://www.jstor.org/stable/earlamerstud.14.2.348 Scott Paul, Gordon “The Paxton Boys and the Moravians: Terror and Faith in the Pennsylvania Backcountry.” Journal of Moravian History 14, no. 2 (2014): 119–52. https://doi.org/10.5325/jmorahist.14.2.0119. References External