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Paxtang, Pennsylvania
Paxtang is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough is a suburb of Harrisburg and is one of the earliest colonial settlements in South Central Pennsylvania.
==History==
Paxtang dates to the 18th century when Euro-American settled at the site of the Conestoga village of “Peshtank”. Peshtank means “still waters”. Several important trails and routes crossed the area. William Penn purchased the area known as Paxtang, or Paxton. The population was 1,570 at the 2000 census.
Paxtang is the site where Presbyterian Scots-Irish frontiersmen organized the Paxton Boys, a vigilante group that murdered twenty Native Americans in the Conestoga Massacre.
On December 14, 1763, more than fifty Paxton Boys rode to the settlement near Millersville, PA, murdered six Natives, and burned their cabin. Governor John Penn placed the remaining fourteen Conestogas in protective custody in Lancaster, but the Paxton Boys broke in, killed, and mutilated all fourteen people on December 27, 1763. In January 1764, 140 Natives living peacefully in eastern Pennsylvania fled to Philadelphia for protection. The Paxton Boys marched on Philadelphia in January 1764 with about two-hundred and fifty men. British troops and Philadelphia militia prevented them from doing more violence.
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