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Massacre of the Indians at Lancaster by the Paxton Boys in 1763, by John Wilmer, 1841.
Credit: From Events in Indian History Courtesy the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
In this 1841 print of The Paxton Boys Massacre, the artist put the Paxton Boys in nineteenth-century dress. He did, however, capture the horrible violence of the episode, when an armed mob hacked to death a party of unarmed Indian men, women, and children in the streets of Lancaster.